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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream
Very interesting review thread!
I always underestimated the 70s because of all the disco hype in that decade, but now diving more into it, I actually have more 70s albums than any other decade's.
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The thing for me is that the Bee Gees came out with Saturday Night Fever and I think that disco was kind of fading out at that time. When SNF took off, it changed everything - for the worse. While the Bee Gees themselves made some great disco records, a lot of disco from '78 onward really was light fare. Even downright annoying (Do I hear Village People, or Rick Dee And His Cast Of Idiot's "Disco Duck" anybody?) to the point of being utterly unbearable. Record companies, I've heard, wouldn't release a song unless it had 78 beats per minute by and large. Disco fever was a serious pain in the tush for a lot of people back then!
I find it funny that from the Bee Gees recordings - Main Course through Spirit's Having Flown - the Bee Gees were in top form. Heck, Barry Gibb even wrote songs for other artists that were big hits (Barbara Streisand, Dion Warwick, Andy Gibb, Frankie Valley) at the time. The Bee Gees were above reproach, IMHO. It's the disco movement that followed their unprecedented success that was inexcusable. Boy, people didn't really forgive them here in North America until around '89 when "One" was a smash hit.
Now they're considered legends, basically. And I think the title is well deserved. Now if Leo Sayer would only stop smirking, giggling and suffering meltdowns on talk shows and reality programs we could all just move on and be happy.