SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER SOUNDTRACK CAN KEEP COLLECTING DUST IN THE CUPBOARD ONCE YOU LISTEN TO THIS BABY

Four buck toothed young boys from Cribb Island on the northside of Brisbane back in the early 1960's were not exactly conquering
the music world material. 

From the most humblest of beginnings
after their parents emmigrated out to Australia from England, the Gibb brothers would have appeared to be just like a myriad amount of other wannabes who wanted to be rock stars and pop stars like their late 1950's idols. 

Of course as we know the Gibb brothers are best known for their Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack, and disco is just not my thing at all. 

They greatly improved on their Saturday Night Fever material when playing the same songs live, I do have to grant the boys that, but all in all, from a completely artistic perspective, I do think it was a critical error in judgement by the Bee Gees to have ever sold out on their R&B roots and agree to record the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. 

My point is that any amount of bands could have recorded the same disco tracks and
sounded exactly the same, the whole nature of disco from its contrived inception was to concoct a generic genre of music which was distinctively lacking in individuality and any substance. 

Apart from a few of the Bee Gee tracks on Saturday Night Fever and the radio staple BORN TO BE ALIVE by Belgian singer Patrick Hernandez, I really and truly loathe disco muse with a passion, not quite as fake-o as say Milli Vanilli but not far off. 

One of my favourite Bee Gees tunes in a more R&B bracket is their 1971 gem LONELY DAYS, which sounded even better when the band performed it live in concert. 

The song has a quirky structure, with a very accentuated chorus. I am not a musician, only a writer, so I cant say with any qualification what makes the song special other than to say it is a wonderfully uplifting song with soul which was always lacking with disco music.