{"id":24324,"date":"2021-06-11T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24324"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:44:15","slug":"yeah-the-bee-gees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/yeah-the-bee-gees\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, The Bee Gees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bee Gees - Nights On Broadway 1975 (High Quality, Midnight Special)\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShJ5XdzKz98?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure where or how to start this rant, but \u2014 well, let me just call all of RTH out (yes, including me) for being a bunch of bullshit rockist pansies.\u00a0How is it possible that in the 15 years or so that we\u2019ve been bloviating about music we\u2019ve never stopped to acknowledge how truly amazing the Bee Gees were?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And look \u2014 before any of you start yammering about their output in the &#8217;60s, or their silly-psych concept albums, or any other rockist justification for liking the band \u2014 let\u2019s just call a spade a spade: during the second half of the 1970s, the Bee Gees\u2019 batting average for crafting powerful, moving, era-defining, ethnic ghetto-busting pop music was literally close to 1.000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7lbFycezCo8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife and I had to spend a lot of time on the highway over the last few days for work reasons that are too boring to get into here.\u00a0Because my shoulder is still pretty jacked up, my wife had to do all of the driving \u2014 and that meant she got to choose what we listened to as we trundled down the highway.\u00a0For a while, I was able to sneak shit that I wanted to hear on the rental car stereo, but it didn\u2019t take long for her to start making specific demands \u2014 and the last one, made in the interest of staying awake and alert, was \u201cplay something you can dance and sing along to.\u201d\u00a0Enter the Bee Gees. I found a pretty generic greatest hits package on Amazon Music, and pressed play.\u00a0A full hour later, I was shocked by the fact that we hadn\u2019t exited the 1970s yet, and each and every tune we\u2019d heard was aces. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boogie Child\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSDepPxIIrg?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And let me be clear:\u00a0 sure, these tunes are danceable. Yes, they\u2019re catchy.\u00a0They do make you feel happy. But they\u2019re stealth vehicles for some of the densest Kentonism in pop music. I\u2019m not smart enough to describe the music theory going on behind \u201cNights On Broadway,\u201d or \u201cHow Deep Is Your Love,\u201d or about a dozen other songs that owned the charts 45 years ago, but their music was some seriously brainy shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let\u2019s give it up for the Bee Gees, shall we? And please do so without referencing their 1960s output.\u00a0That stuff is occasionally excellent, but we need to face the truth here: the Bee Gees made pop music great in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure where or how to start this rant, but \u2014 well, let me just call all of RTH out (yes, including me) for being a bunch of bullshit rockist pansies.\u00a0How is it possible that in the 15 years or so that we\u2019ve been bloviating about music we\u2019ve never stopped to acknowledge how truly amazing <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/yeah-the-bee-gees\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}