Last Sight Of Land - Bee & Flower

Advantages: Accurately replicates the summer of love
Disadvantages: Accurately replicates the summer of love

...as if it was recorded in 1965 and I was very suprised to find out that it hadn't been. And then I gave up looking... Until an advert appeared on TV... Sure Deodorant (I think)... And Chicken Payback. I launched myself of the settee and checked one of those 'Music Off The Adverts' sites. Soon I knew who had created the song and which album it was on. So a swift look around the internet music sites (HMV - £4.49 - And free P&P! - Cheapest I found ***UPDATE*** HMV have now hiked this up to £8!) and the album landed on the doormat. So what are The Bees all about? The band are all from the Isle of Wight and this album was recorded at the famous Abbey Road studios in London (another band named after insects recorded there). It sounds as if they have specifically recorded on technology from that earlier period to get a more authentic sound ('Homage' comes... Read review

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Advantages: 30 plus years of hits; no "Chain Reaction"
Disadvantages: Lots of rubbish ballads that girls and wimps will like

...Warwick, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers benefited from the Bee Gees' keen ear for a daytime radio tune with HEARTBREAKER and ISLANDS IN THE STREAM respectively (the latter a duet between Parton and Rogers that was expertly paraphrased by Pras for Ghetto Superstar in 1998). Luckily, they never recorded their most famous product, the awful Chain Reaction and it's thumping sub-Motown fails to appear here. Result! All of which brings us on to the last handful of tracks in the Bee Gees' twilight chart years. 1987's YOU WIN AGAIN was their last number one and was recorded in a similar environment to Jive Talkin' (when the public had thought that the band were finishedand actually stands as a very good tune to this day with it's whispered verses, rousing chorus and bizarre synthesized trumpet solo near the end making it sound like a middle... Read review

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Advantages: Good album
Disadvantages: None

...'t last and eventually they changed it to The Bee Gees, which later in their music career they dropped the 'The' part and stuck with just Bee Gees. Unfortunately in 2003, Maurice Gibb died after a short illness but left behind a legacy with the Bee Gees that has yet to be beaten. ~~THE ALBUM~~ The album contains twelve tracks, one of which is their hit single from the album titled 'Alone'. The album was released in 1997 by Polydor Limited; the album insert contains the lyrics to the tracks so that you can sing along as well as various photographs of the brothers. ~~THE TRACKS~~ The tracks on this album are as follows, I added in parts of the song to give you a sense of what the singer's feeling. Alone -------- This track is their hit single and is about how the singer's had a love for someone but it has ended and he... Read review

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