Main Course Music

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This album contains significant musical advancements in the career of the Bee Gees in 1975. There's a new kind of beat and rhythm by the group, more of a funky, driving kind of beat, not quite disco (Jive Talkin', Nights On Broadway, Winds Of Change). This style would advance onto the next album, as would the updated pop-ballad sounds (Fanny, Baby As You Turn Away, Edge Of The Universe). Less emphasized but not forgotten are the traditional Bee Gees-type ballads, and country-and-western (Songbird, Country Lanes, Come On Over). The 'silly song' tunes would be dropped after this album (All This Making Love).

Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, the Bee Gees, were looking for a new direction after 1972. While they had some big sellers in the U.S. in 1970-71 (Lonely Days, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart), their U.K. success at that time was minimal. It seemed that the sounds of pop music were changing, leaving them behind. But what kind of sound could they capture that would put them back on again? It wasn't readily apparent: they made another two albums between 1972 and 1974 before Main Course. During that whole time, they tried different styles and musical approaches. This redesigning culminated in Main Course, released in Spring, 1975.

Absolutely recommended -- and it's at a good price!