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Key Information
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| Artist: |
The Bee Gees |
| Record Label: |
ZYX Records (USA) |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Release Date: |
February 10, 2003 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Three Kisses of Love 2. Could It Be 3. Claustrophobia 4. Every Day I Have to Cry Some 5. Wine & Women 6. Second Hand People 7. You Wouldn't Know 8. Glasshouse 9. Turn Around Look at Me 10. Spick & Specs 11. Mondays Rain 12. I Am the World 13. Big Chance 14. How Many Birds 15. Battle Fo the Blue & Grey 16. Follow the Wind |
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Recorded in Australia between 1963 and 1966. American release. Don't be misled by by the front cover photograph of a latter-day, post-megahit Bee Gees gathered around a microphone; this album collects material from the opposite end of the Gibb brothers' timeline. Long before such songs as "Please Read Me" and "To Love Somebody" made them international stars, the Bee Gees were working out their pop-rock moves in their native Australia, releasing single after single of late-'50s/early-'60s-sounding material inspired not only by the Beatles but by the Beatles' own inspirations (a version of Arthur Alexander's "Every Day I Have To Cry Some" is included here). The Bee Gees' early Australian recordings are collected more extensively elsewhere, but CLAUSTROPHOBIA includes a good portion of the most important cuts from those early days. There's the roots acknowledgement of the aforementioned Alexander tune, the title song, "Spicks and Specks" (the band's first breakthrough hit) and much more. The absence of line... |
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