HBO presents the BeeGees Conspiracy

[OldJourno]

Nice little special about the group on tonight. The question: How come they didn't stay popular forever?
I've bought their records, starting with a greatest hits compilation released maybe in 1968 or around there and following through to the disco era and an album or two after Saturday Night Fever.
The special pointed to a "disco sucks" sentiment spreading across the country that led to the downward spiral of the group's popularity.
The answer is much less complicated. Like every other band I've ever followed, the basic problem was that their music started to suck and people stopped buying it.

 

[Champakian]

Bands tend to turn out the same crap that made them rich in the first place.
They just get lazy. Music starts coming in second to their new and exciting lifestyle.
Drugs, booze, women, swimming pools, movie stars compared to the hard work in the studio.

 

[Saint Peter]

The band and music genre never appealed to me. Disco was flat and plastic. The BeeGee vocals were ice picks in my ears.

 

[Tim2run]

They had some good stuff, but then they were fairly old for rock&roll when they finally hit the big time (they had the one hit way back and then disco brought them back) they just kind of faded away as the fad died out.

 

[bellisarius]

They (bands in general) just start to run dry musically and/or lyrically. More than a few get hooked up with some crappy producer who's chasing the 'sound' (gimmick really. Wah-wah pedals, voice boxes, etc.) on the latest hit so the band starts sounding like a "me to" band. I know of no bands, and very few artists, that just keep chugging along. Bob Dylan being one of the few exceptions.

 

[Jada59]

I like some of their stuff, but some is hard to listen to. If you listen to their really early stuff, when all but Barry were kids, they really could harmonize!

 

[rockcasbah]

The disco era bg’s were hugely popular with girls.

I hated the saturday night fever soundtrack album’s music, but loved its panty removing properties.

 

[horrorotic]

Disco was a fad, the Beegees went all in on it and because of the crazy success of Saturday Night Fever became the poster boys for it.

When it faded in the early eighties, so did they. Its not complicated especially when it seems they didn't try to evolve from the disco era.

I understand why a fad runs its course, but remember my father telling me they were having events where people showed up to start a bonfire with disco albums...seriously, isn't that a little over the top? If you had the album didn't it mean you bought it?

 

[horrorotic]

They had some good stuff, but then they were fairly old for rock&roll when they finally hit the big time (they had the one hit way back and then disco brought them back) they just kind of faded away as the fad died out.

Interesting comment about too old for rock and roll. I agree with it for that time period, but look at now...AC/DC just came out with a new album, no one ever quits anymore and many should.

 

[LLCox]

Nasal music doesn't last long.

 

[renard_ruse]

Nasal music doesn't last long.

Even Green Day ran its course.

 

[horrorotic]

Nasal music doesn't last long.

Maroon 5 should be on their way out soon then...I hope.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

The disco era bg’s were hugely popular with girls.

I hated the saturday night fever soundtrack album’s music, but loved its panty removing properties.

Fuck, you're old as dirt. Hahahahahaha!

Maroon 5 should be on their way out soon then...I hope.

From your mouth to God's ears.

They had some good stuff

No, they didn't but your taste in music sucks so there's that.

 

[Tim2run]

Interesting comment about too old for rock and roll. I agree with it for that time period, but look at now...AC/DC just came out with a new album, no one ever quits anymore and many should.

That might be because they don't really make rock&roll anymore and there is still a market for it. I listen to country now because the new country is so much closer to the rock&roll I grew up with than any of the stuff now being passed off as rock. At best, it's pop that makes the BeeGees look amazingly relevant even today. It's no surprise AC/DC is still selling, they have no competition in their genre. Heck, Metallica can still sell albums too...

Rock didn't die as much as its audience did.

 

[FataMorgana]

The disco era bg’s were hugely popular with girls.

I hated the saturday night fever soundtrack album’s music, but loved its panty removing properties.

They shit themselves in horror?

 

[FataMorgana]

Never liked the Bee Gees, the helium voiced hairy marys.

 

[Tim2run]

So...,






... how do you feel about Michael Jackson?

 

[FataMorgana]

So...,






... how do you feel about Michael Jackson?

Me? He was okay. Did some good stuff but not my taste. Undecided on the paedo thing.

 

[Tim2run]

Then your dislike was not really aimed at "the helium voiced hairy marys..."







Of course, an alternative theory is that a lot of people are afraid to speak ill of Michael for fear of being labeled with the R-word. Personally I dislike pretty much all of his helium-voiced music.

 

[rockcasbah]

They shit themselves in horror?

You're a kinky bitch.