Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees has died. The Bee Gees have a certain place in my heart as a production team. The Neptunes of Soft-Rock, coralling disparate A-list MOR folk instead of celebrity rappers.There is a queerly intense Bee-Gee-isity they brought to tracks like Dionne Warwick's Heartbreaker (which has a kind of Numanoid windswept glamour- perhaps Post-punk's only mainstream disco ballad), Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's Islands in the Stream and Barbara Streisand's What kind of Fool. Real junk of course. However you'd be hard pushed to come up with case for Diana Ross's Chain Reaction.
Posted by Woebot at January 13, 2003 12:54 PM