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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting October 20, 2016: Walking Back to Waterloo: The Costume Dramas and Psychedelic Tragedies of the Brothers Gibb

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Bee Gees  With All Nations (International Anthem)   Favoriting Odessa  1969    0:01:58 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Odessa (City on the Black Sea)   Favoriting Odessa  1969  vocal: Robin  0:04:04 (Pop-up)
  Odessa (promotional spot)   Odessa (Special Edition)      0:11:14 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Another Cold and Windy Day (Coke Spot)   Favoriting       0:11:50 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Walking Back to Waterloo   Favoriting Trafalgar  1971    0:12:56 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
 
[Sonoton] - SON 195 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsicord Soli & Underscores Vol.3 (arranged by Norman Candler) 
 
 
0:16:41 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Turn of the Century   Favoriting Bee Gees' 1st  1967  vocal: Barry & Robin  0:29:09 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You   Favoriting Bee Gees' 1st  1967  vocal: Barry & Robin  0:31:21 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  New York Mining Disaster 1941   Favoriting Bee Gees' 1st  1967  vocal: Robin  0:34:35 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  To Love Somebody   Favoriting Bee Gees' 1st  1967  vocal: Barry  0:36:18 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  I Can't See Nobody   Favoriting To Love Somebody  1969    0:39:30 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  House of Lords   Favoriting Bee Gees' 1st (Bonus material)  1967  vocal: Robin  0:42:39 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  The Battle of the Blue and Grey   Favoriting The Battle of the Blue and Grey / The Three Kisses of Love  1963    0:45:23 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  I Was a Lover, A Leader of Men   Favoriting The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs  1965  vocal: Barry  0:47:19 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Mr. Wallor's Wailing Wall   Favoriting Bee Gees' 1st (Bonus material)  1967  vocal: Robin  0:50:42 (Pop-up)
Dara Puspita  To Love Somebody   Favoriting A Go Go  1967    0:53:32 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Bee Gees 
Melody Fair (Instrumental)   Favoriting
Melody (OST) 
1970 
 
0:56:13 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  I Started A Joke   Favoriting Idea  1968  vocal: Robin  1:10:51 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  I Am The World   Favoriting Spicks and Specks / I Am The World  1966  vocal: Robin  1:12:55 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  World   Favoriting Horizontal  1968  vocal: Barry & Robin  1:16:00 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  And The Sun Will Shine   Favoriting Horizontal  1968  vocal: Robin  1:18:22 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Barker of the U.F.O.   Favoriting Massachussetts / Barker of the U.F.O.  1967  vocal: Barry  1:22:37 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Sir Geoffrey Saved the World   Favoriting Horizontal (bonus)  1968  vocal: Barry & Robin  1:23:40 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  The Earnest of Being George   Favoriting Horizontal  1968  vocal: Barry  1:25:50 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  I've Gotta Get a Message to You   Favoriting Idea  1968  vocal: Robin & Barry  1:28:33 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Completely Unoriginal   Favoriting Idea (bonus)  1968  vocal: Robin & Barry  1:31:11 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Deeply, Deeply Me   Favoriting Horizontal (bonus)  1968  vocal: Robin  1:33:52 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Down to Earth   Favoriting Idea  1968  vocal: Robin  1:36:44 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Morning-Noon & Night 
I've Gotta Get a Message to You   Favoriting
45 
 
 
1:39:06 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Black Diamond   Favoriting Odessa  1969  vocal: Robin  1:50:10 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Edison   Favoriting Odessa  1969  vocal: Robin & Barry  1:52:49 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Lamplight   Favoriting Odessa  1969  vocal: Robin  1:55:59 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Sound of Love   Favoriting Odessa  1969  vocal: Barry  2:00:30 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Seven Seas Symphony   Favoriting Odessa  1969    2:03:37 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Never Say Never Again   Favoriting Odessa  1969  vocal: Barry  2:07:42 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Sketches for Odessa   Favoriting Odessa (Special Edition)  1969    2:10:58 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  The British Opera   Favoriting Odessa  1969    2:11:32 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Lion in Winter   Favoriting Trafalgar  1971  vocal: Robin & Barry  2:14:51 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Dvorak 
 
 
 
 
2:18:32 (Pop-up)
Robin Gibb  Down Came the Sun   Favoriting Robin's Reign  1970    2:27:44 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  I.O.I.O.   Favoriting Cucumber Castle  1970  without Robin  2:29:40 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Lonely Days   Favoriting Two Years On  1970    2:32:28 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Trafalgar   Favoriting Trafalgar  1971  vocal: Maurice!  2:36:03 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Paper Mache, Cabbages & Kings   Favoriting To Whom it May Concern  1972    2:39:48 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Sweet Song of Summer   Favoriting To Whom it May Concern  1972    2:44:51 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Castle in the Air   Favoriting A Kick in the Head is Worth Eight in the Pants  1972  never-released LP  2:50:12 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
 
[Sonoton] - SON 195 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsicord Soli & Underscores Vol.3 (arranged by Norman Candler) 
 
 
2:58:55 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  With All Nations (Demo)   Favoriting Odessa (Special Edition)  1969    2:59:17 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:43pm
Flash Strap:

Let's get our epaulets on and listen to some masterpiece theater
  6:56pm
Ed:

Greetings Evan!
Avatar 6:59pm
Flash Strap:

Ahoy Ed!
Avatar 7:00pm
ndbob:

evening Evan, Ed, everyone!
  7:01pm
Ed:

Bob!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Evening Bob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
melinda:

hi everyone!
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Welcome Melinda!
  7:04pm
Ed:

HI Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
melinda:

A Bee Gees show, how exciting! Unfortunately I'll have to duck out for an hour at some point, but, archives later.
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

How are we all feeling? Up to a big old night of Gibbs?
  7:07pm
Ed:

Feeling great, you actually opened my eyes to early Bee Gees a while back with Sweet Song of Summer
Avatar 7:07pm
just julia:

YES! i have waited for this day!
Avatar 7:08pm
ndbob:

Hi Melinda! and Julia!
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

Ed: SO glad!

JustJulia my friend I'm so glad you're here! This day would be false without you
Avatar 7:11pm
ndbob:

I remember taking a while making up my mind re buying Odessa - but I did
Avatar 7:13pm
just julia:

such a sad coke jingle! everything is bittersweet with these boys, i can't get enough of it
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

same here, Bob. I couldn't get into at first, and it was a real moment of just deciding to listen to it until it clicked, which it did of course
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

the saddest coke jingle imaginable. coke brings momentary pleasure to an agonized life – and that's the best we can hope for
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
melinda:

I love what you just said about BeeGees vs. Rothko.
Avatar 7:25pm
ndbob:

@Evan I couldn't resist the cover though
Avatar 7:29pm
Carmichael:

Heya Flash. Ii I just love the Odessa album!
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

It's irresistible!
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Carm! Me too!
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

I love that it's Robin doing the Gregorian parts
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

also, the harmonies on the chorus are just INSANE
Avatar 7:33pm
Flash Strap:

ALSO, huge mellotron sounds on this album. One of the ultimate mellotron LPs
Avatar 7:35pm
northguineahills:

I've only heard the band Catherine's (90s indie/grunge on TVT recs) of Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You. It's actually rather decent.
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

Hi NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
melinda:

To Love Somebody is such a great song.
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

one of the best. Nina Simone's version is even better than this one, but only barely (which is amazing in and of itself)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
melinda:

I heard the Nina Simone version first. I love that one too.
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

GOD her delivery
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

This song is hilarious
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
melinda:

They sound really different here. For a minute I thought the show was down and we'd switched over to the GTDR stream.
Avatar 7:48pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, they're like 14 or something there, and really going for an Everly Brothers sound. Their early stuff is all over the place
Avatar 7:48pm
ndbob:

I remember when Bee Gees First came out there was some controversy when Richard Goldstein in the NY Times said it was better than Sgt. Pepper
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

there's nothing on it as good or brilliant as Day in the Life, but I think it's sort of a better album, myself. Sort of
Avatar 7:53pm
ndbob:

@Evan I think it holds up a lot better overall
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
melinda:

I like every version I've heard of To Love Somebody, thus far.
Avatar 7:55pm
just julia:

love hearing these sweet somebody/nobody covers
Avatar 7:55pm
ndbob:

i agree Melinda
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
melinda:

I don't have that Nina Simone album, but I think those songs are all on a compilation I have that also includes a great version of Randy Newman's I Think It's Gonna Rain Today.
Avatar 8:00pm
ndbob:

weirdly enough the first version of I Think It's Gonna Rain Today was by Julius LaRosa
Avatar 8:02pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Evan - catch the rest later!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
melinda:

@Bob: interesting! never heard of him.
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

see ya bob!
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

Robin's voice – seriously now – is so incredibly versatile and not of this earth. one of my very favorite singers
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hey over here !
...Yeah - being born in Nov.'63 - you would hear this evocative weirdo stuff on the radio in the HitParade. Another world - yaknow?
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

plus, i mean, look at this guy: i1.mirror.co.uk...
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there, Rev. Rab!
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

"And The Sun Will Shine" was performed by Robin in a single take, with him ad-libbing a great deal of the lyrics
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
melinda:

Great photo! I had an uncle who sort of looked like young Robin, in the 70s. Sans hat.
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

he has such an amazing face, it completely entrances me
Avatar 8:28pm
hyde:

phew. made it.
Avatar 8:28pm
Flash Strap:

HYDE, welcome old bean!
Avatar 8:29pm
just julia:

the harmonies on "hold on!" - i could cry, this song moves me so.
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

"it's only her love that keeps me wearing this dirt"

!
Avatar 8:30pm
just julia:

!!!
Avatar 8:34pm
Flash Strap:

crazy vocals on this one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
melinda:

This is amazing.
Avatar 8:36pm
hyde:

i'm not too well versed in this early Bee Gees stuff. the gf has a bunch of these records, but i've never really delved into them that much. as a rock child of the late seventies/early eighties, i mostly had bad Bee Gees vibes that kept me away from them for years...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Little Danny:

Hi Flash and everyone!
Avatar 8:38pm
hyde:

LD!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Little Danny:

The Bee Gees. I know this this 45. Morning, Noon and Night!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Little Danny:

Haha, thanks Evan
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Compares favorably for instance to Lou Reed riffing on 'Andy's Chest'. Robin Gibb over Lou...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Little Danny:

Hyde!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...electric chair like Nick Cave in 'Mercy Seat'...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Little Danny:

Totally agree on the VU vibe. "I Close My Eyes" and "Red Chair Fadeaway" also have similar vibes
Avatar 8:50pm
Flash Strap:

LD! I was just thinkin' about you brother
Avatar 8:50pm
Flash Strap:

love that 45, LD, love it to death
Avatar 8:51pm
Flash Strap:

THAT is a fearless vocal performance
Avatar 8:51pm
northguineahills:

@Hyde: I myself never considered the Bee Gees until the last few years, as I always associated them w/ corporate disco, but even then I dug the vocals.... That said, I always found Robin Gibb's "Worse Girl In Town" remind me of 2005ish Animal Collective for some reason...
Avatar 8:54pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, it completely baffles me how we've got cultural amnesia about the Bee Gees' first decade of music... but they were a total revelation to me at a certain point, and it was like, whoa why did no one tell me about this?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Little Danny:

Goddamn I love the Bee Gees
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

I mean, they were totally competitive to the Beatles and Stones. They were huge
Avatar 8:55pm
northguineahills:

My excuse is that the disco Bee Gees were already a thing when I was one years old/
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- yeah - all the early 60s radio hits ('Massachusetts') - always loved them
...& then discovered the '1st' album - which is so great. But 'Odessa' I've only heard about! So this is great...
Avatar 8:57pm
hyde:

@ngh haha, my excuse is they were a thing when i was fifteen
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
coelacanth:

greetings Evan and explorers
Avatar 9:01pm
Flash Strap:

piano on this track is so heavy

Hi C!
Avatar 9:02pm
hyde:

this one is great
Avatar 9:04pm
Flash Strap:

@RR: so glad to be able to play it for you, friend!
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

I think the instrumentals on this album are so crucial, so glad no one talked them out of using them
Avatar 9:06pm
hyde:

but really, what's ever better than a failed concept album
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
coelacanth:

i don't think i've ever heard "odessa". that last track was great.
...i did miss my favorite though. ("i started a joke".)
Avatar 9:07pm
hyde:

i need a copy of this LP
Avatar 9:09pm
northguineahills:

Actually, I had a roommate who was really into this period of the Beegees and played them a lot, but unfortunately, I wasn't into pop music back then (right after college).
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

it's so nice to have a good vinyl copy of it, since it's all in velvet, but I have always found them to be a little muddy and usually prefer to listen to my digital copies (remastered, inevitably)

some later LP pressings have neither the velvet nor the full tracklist, so beware
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

Key line in this song is "I declared war on Spain"
Avatar 9:11pm
northguineahills:

@Flash: Sounds like something McKinley would say.
Avatar 9:13pm
Flash Strap:

I think it's part of their general Nelson fetish
Avatar 9:13pm
hyde:

ha, apparently the significant other has a velvet copy of Odessa. but the LP's are packed!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The year of 'Tommy' & 'Abbey Road'...
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

This too is a jaw-dropping Robin performance, when he takes the late choruses particularly
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

AMAZING art for this one: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:30pm
Flash Strap:

for this one too: 4.bp.blogspot.com...
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

@hyde: congratulations! nothing like that feeling; "I want this... Oh wait, I already have it!"
Avatar 9:32pm
northguineahills:

Crap, crap, crap, gonna go get the rest of this set later, thanks Flash!
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

see ya later, NGH! great to have you with us while we did!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
coelacanth:

here's the first bee gees song i ever heard. my parents bought the 45. the whole family was into it.
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

It's so cool!
Avatar 9:35pm
junglepete:

I like that it went from plaintive to celebratory at the end there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
coelacanth:

big Lennon influence on that last part. that's probably why we all loved it.
Avatar 9:36pm
Flash Strap:

Junglepete! welcome comrade
Avatar 9:37pm
junglepete:

Thanks Flash Strap!—Better late than never.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...not one bit less eccentric or dramatic than earliest Bowie...
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

oh, indeed
Avatar 9:43pm
Flash Strap:

this song is just totally bugnuts crazy. it's scary, sort of
Avatar 9:46pm
junglepete:

The spooky end to "Paper Mache" segues nicely into this.
Avatar 9:48pm
Flash Strap:

I've been so jazzed about the Bee Gees tonight I was sort of derelict in my duties concerning fundraising, but look where else can you hear a guy just play 3 hours of his favorite Bee Gees songs? Donate to WFMU today, be a hero
Avatar 9:48pm
Flash Strap:

i agree, JP!
Avatar 9:57pm
hyde:

thanks Flash! can't wait to get into the stuff i missed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
coelacanth:

here to express another in a series of unpopular opinions... i haven't researched it a great deal but, i think Maurice was my favorite vocalist of the Gibbs brothers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
coelacanth:

...and i'll leave now as the rotten tomatoes start flying toward me!
...Thanks Evan!
Avatar 10:01pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all! goodnight with love and don't forget to support WFMU if you are at all able
Avatar 10:01pm
Flash Strap:

you're good, C. He was brilliant and invaluable, his vocals, lead or not, are everywhere
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