Bee Gees' 1st
by Bee Gees

This album wasn’t really the Bee Gees’ First - two albums with the three Gibb brothers had been previously released in Australia. “The Bee Gees 1st” was their first internationally released album, and the first to come out after their return to Britain.
Musically it’s one of their most succesfull early albums. There is a great basic approach that ofter was lost on their following albums, where the ballads often suffered from heavy orchestration.

Moreover the songwriting on this album is consistently of high standards. Three of their finest singles “New York Mining Disaster”, “Holiday” and “To Love Somebody” is featured here along with other great tracks like “Red Chair Fade Away”, “I Can’t See Nobody” and “Cucumber Castle”. In fact, there are no throwaways on the albums, and the Bee Gees really do sound like a band on this album.

On the new digitally remastered version the sound is crystal-clear, and it a great pleasure to listen to these old songs again. The second CD features alternate versions of many of the songs, and several are at least as good as the originally released versions. I especially like “One Minute Woman” - which has only the basic band instrumentation. A couple of the previously unreleased songs are quite good too - “Gilbert Street” is one.

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De todos los discos de los Bee Gees, este es el que contiene un mayor número de mis canciones favoritas.

It seems many of those visiting this site were first introduced to the Bee Gees from their disco days. This album charted in the Top Ten in both the U.K. and the U.S. in 1967. A few of us are still around that remember the group as they burst on to the scene during the Summer of Love. The group is not in the tainted RRHOF for "Stayin' Alive" By the time the band scored their first #1 single "Massachusetts", released on their next LP "Horizontal", the lads had been at it for 10 years.

Before the high pitched squeals, the Bee Gees had some great, pretty songs.

Most people are familiar with the Bee Gees from the seventies and Saturday Night Fever. This album is very different but it is a very good debut and completely different from the songs of the seventies.

From ffudnebbuh 11/30/2011 12:46 | #31739

Holiday is a great song.

I´g giving this such a high rating mainly because of the song Holiday, which is one of my absolute favourites.

I think the reason the Bee Gees are overlooked as a really great band because of their later disco work, but I would rate this album with other psychedelic greats like the Zombies' Odessey & Oracle. And work like 1st combined with their disco chart busters like Stayin' Alive and How Deep is Your Love show how truly talented they really were as a band.

Also, this is not actually their first album; it;s actually their third.

A pop masterpiece! Proof that the Bee Gees could do something other than disco. Every song is great, and this is definitely one of the best 60s pop albums I've heard.

This is a very, very good album! The Bee Gees were thought of as a disco band, but their first album is psychedelic pop, and really is a fine album! Not to be missed!