This Is Where I Came In - Bee Gees

100: In Wayne's World, Mike Myers famously said that "Led Zeppelin didn't write songs everyone liked. They left that to the Bee Gees". However, that couldn't be further from the truth upon hearing This Is Where I Came In. The song is quite unlike anything else in the Bee Gees entire back catalogue and is all the better for it. Released in 2001 to very little fanfare, it has gone on to divide opinion amongst music fans everywhere. Throughout their career, perhaps the Bee Gees' greatest quality has been their ability to adapt to the changes to pop music, yet this was arguably their last great work before the tragic death of Maurice Gibb in 2003. It is ...  Read the complete review

The Brothers Gibb are, of course, pop’s original bad boys, taken to Australia by their parents in their late fifties to protect them from their progressive juvenile delinquency. Indeed, Clive Anderson’s experience should teach us that any criticism of the Bee Gees should be undertaken with caution. Just as well then, that it’s easy to find good things to say about the fruits of their 35-year-long career, as boybands continuing to establish careers based on their cast-offs. On this 14-track album, the Bee Gees forego their more funky instincts in favour of more heartfelt songs. Though the sentiment of songs like ‘Wedding Day’ ...  Read the complete review

As soon as I saw it in Our Price I knew I'd have to buy the album straight away and get my opinion on here as quickly as possible. The reason being that news of any brand new Bee Gees material is guaranteed to prompt at least 50 opinons and I want mine to be read a couple of times! Not flippin' likely! The news of a new Bee Gees album is going to create less of a buzz than a dead bee that never really got the hang of buzzing anyway. Despite being as sceptical as the next person about the cultural importance of the "Brothers Gibb" in modern society, I have to admit that being brought up by a pair of Bee Gees fanatics has left me with a distant ...  Read the complete review