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What Makes This Deep Cut by The Bee Gees a MASTERPIECE? - REVIEW + BREAKDOWN

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Odessa is the sixth studio album by the Bee Gees, a double vinyl LP released on 30 March 1969, initially in an opulent red flocked cover with gold lettering. Despite reaching the UK Top Ten and the US Top 20, the album was not particularly well-received, though now is regarded by many as the most significant of the group's Sixties albums. An ambitious project, originally intended as a concept album on the loss of a fictional ship in 1899, it created tension and disagreements in the band regarding the work's direction; finally, a dispute over which song to release as a single led to Robin Gibb temporarily leaving the group.
The album was reissued as a single disc in September 1976 when interest was revived in the Bee Gees' career. Since then the album has gained increasing critical acclaim. It was reissued again in January 2009, as a deluxe three-disc set, and is included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
"Odessa (City on the Black Sea)" is a song by the English rock band the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb in 1968 and released in early 1969. The song opened the album of the same name. The song was recorded twice. The first version of the song (without the orchestra) was later to appear on Sketches for Odessa and has a duration to 6:40. The song was about the survivor of a shipwreck, and was originally intended to form the basis of the whole album. Musically it was dominated by strings and acoustic guitar. It was originally proposed to be the first single of the album.

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@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

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@MARILYNNEWTONGIBB Год назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOVING THE GIBB BROTHERS

@truvakaplan2376 2 месяца назад

Please listen to my own piano version of this song. RU-vid: Truva Kaplan Odessa. I also cover Melody Fair and First of May.

@truvakaplan2376 2 месяца назад

Please watch my own version of this song on piano: RU-vid: Truva Kaplan Odessa.

@truvakaplan2376 2 месяца назад

Then watch my versions of Melody Fair and First of May.

@truvakaplan2376 2 месяца назад

Every single calendar year I play First of May on the First of Every May.

@rbaruah8790 Год назад

These brothers are peerless they are incomparable ...... thanks for what you are doing......

@allisons3663 Год назад

I met a guy that worked in the music business, Arista Records at the time, and he said many people he knew preferred "Odessa" over The Beatles' "White Album". "Odessa" has at least 5 genres of music and all done so well. Barry once said that the album wasn't completely finished, which is why it has a rawer feel than most Bee Gees' albums.

@morganleigh2960 Год назад

Love Robin's voice and the harmonies. The artistry of the song transports me. One of their best.

@joemcdonald7798 Год назад

Still blows me away after all these years. I was 19 when this album came out and this song still is as stunning to me as it was then. When I saw them in Boston in 1974 during their waning period, I called out for Odessa , and they actually played it . I love your posts and thankyou for sharing my same thoughts on this incredible Masterpeace

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Can’t believe they played it! That must’ve been amazing.

@peltmj Год назад

Love Robin’s voice,but their harmony is outstanding!! They were one-of-a-kind composers with such imaginations!!❤️🎶

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Agreed! Nothing like the 3 of them huddled around a mic. 🎤

@Scuderia_Fan Год назад

I agree, many people would really love their work once they dive into their catalog. It's real music made with amazing talent.

@juergen404 Год назад

So rare that someone has a closer look at "Odessa" (album and song). I love that album.

@debbysuedettloff8171 Год назад

Robin.... just pure Magic. His songs were so sublime!

@willow_wise Год назад

I love their versitility - there is a Bee Gee song for every mood. I think this song is genius. Great analysis!

@susanevanko3982 Год назад

We are so lucky as fans to have 5 decades of their music to listen to! This is beautiful and yes, Robin's voice is so ethereal and haunting. Just beautiful. However, have to correct you on one bit of commentary -- the Bee Gees were never into any kind of hard drugs. While many other bands famously did a lot of drugs, Barry insists again and again in interviews that they never did anything worse that smoke weed. Thanks for presenting this to us and the breakdown. What a song, what harmonies - their talent was unbelievable and they don't get enough credit!

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Agreed! Well said. And yes - pills, booze, and weed 😉 meanwhile bands like Chicago were doing psychedelics and cocaine…

@susieq9801 Год назад

@@TheMusicKingdom - Barry said he tried cocaine once but hated it. He was a pot smoker. Robin got hooked on amphetamines and was hospitalized several times from exhaustion because he went obsessively night and day writing and performing without sleep. He became extremely skinny because it is a stimulant. All three took amphetamines to keep awake and work but he was the one who briefly got hooked. Then he stopped drinking completely, became a teetotaler, stopped smoking, put on some weight and became a vegan, very conscious of his health. Unfortunately he developed a volvulus (the same thing that killed his twin) and then in a weakened condition from that surgery succumbed to cancer which was prevalent on his father's side. None of them used any heavy duty drugs except Andy. Amphetamines, although widely prescribed in the 60's and 70's for weight control and alertness for shift workers, can also be deadly if overused. I was actually PRESCRIBED it in the 70's because I worked 12 hour night shifts. I hated it and stopped after 2 weeks. It made me hyper, reckless and crazy! From Odessa I love "Black Diamond".

@pennymcneela7095 Год назад

This just shows the purity of their voices. I would fine this tune very tranquil.. Love it.

@joemcdonald7798 Год назад

So nice to hear someone else's passion for this Master "peace". That cello sequence was played by Paul Buckmaster who went on to record beautiful scores for Early Elton John sessions. You did an excellent review. Thankyou for posting

@rachelgoodson9506 Год назад

I love this song and Robin’s voice. It plays a little movie in my mind when I hear it

@singluna888 Год назад

True talent knows no bounds. Always brilliant.

@VoyagerInTime Год назад

Truly, the Bee Gees caught my attention in 1970 when they reformed as a group, after Robin's departure. So ...... Familiar with their entire line of work I have to admit Odessa with its brilliant title track is just outstanding. Also give a listen to 'Lamplight' ! Absolutely brilliant.... I fancy their R & B period as well, like Mr Natural, Main Course, Children of the World, Saturday Night Fever and Spirits Having Flown. All with gems .... Yet the Bee Gees are so much more ... All those different kind of styles from the psychedelic like Bee Gees First.... So many brilliant songs, like 'Alone' Their music, wittiness and personalities have accompanied me along my life's path with so much appreciation and joy ⚜️

@scomti7057 Год назад

Thank you for reacting to older songs by the Bee Gees. I have never heard of this song. I love Robin's beautiful voice! It is so clear!

@bahmananvari9354 Год назад

Thank you for what you are doing to show the depth and breath of bee gees music.

@kori2287 Год назад

What a nice surprise! Second reaction I think of this masterpiece, so well done! 👍 Love how they kept experimenting, paving their way to the well known chameleonic career. The bonus of this song is having Robin saying my real name 😍

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Chameleonic is a perfect way of describing them!

@buckeyeclayfan Год назад

Just discovered your channel: A+. I am ashamed to say I have not heard this album yet, but will very soon! I love your appreciation of Robin's stunning voice. The Bee Gees were on long voyages on ships in their youth; when they immigrated from England to Australia and then back to England later. I heard an interview where Barry said on the way back, the ship was in a hurricane. Might have inspired this concept album. I am all in, have loved this group for 55 years since I first heard Words.

@ScottPothan Год назад

Fascinating review and articulate personal and passionate as always Francis. Having lived the Bee Gees growing up in real-time in Sydney in the 1960’s they followed me in my own life to London and then New York just getting more and more massive each decade : a soundtrack to my own more diminutive life. So my thoughts on your thoughts from one in a parallel realm to the Bee Gees. This album Odessa was really Robin creatively branching out. It was also a direct response to the Beatles and psychedelic rock: which frankly they entirely invented. Procul Harum, Cream and Pink Floyd perhaps followed this lead too, but really, the endless mind numbing heavy rock was Rolling Stones driven and utterly dominant at the time. So my point is probably your own: this was niche and it was actually narrative rock opera which didn’t really evolve as a cult until Freddy Mercury and Michael Jackson decades later. Honestly it also anticipates trance. It was an exceptional album for these major musicological reasons. Sheer historical innovation - and bravery.

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

VERY well said!

@scenesroland3424 Год назад

great breakdown, this song had very quickly become one of my favs by the brothers since discovering them myself. this is definitely one of those robin masterpieces that you just get absolutely swept away in - i loveee how he sings the verses like they’re memories or something similar, so eerie but strangely peaceful from a man lost at sea! cant wait to see more from you, thanks!

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Very well said!

@joemcdonald7798 Год назад

First of May was the only single released from this album, with B side being Robin's " Lamplight ". The groups breakup came when Barry's song was chosen over Robin's for the A side, and radio airplay

@amymarckel420 Год назад

This is on my list of songs for when I want to encourage (or force 😉) someone to listen to their music from the pre disco era. I was listening to it in my car just yesterday! 😊👍🏼

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Force is the better word! 😉

@stevenk.1333 Год назад

You forgot about the album cover when you were giving out the ratings. The original album cover had a Red Velvet covering. Another original idea. Maybe that will give it a higher rating for you to consider. My favorite song in the album is "Lamplight". Good review Francis.

@pamelathompson1216 5 месяцев назад

Robin had such an amazing talent in singing and writing....Breath control is unbelievable...Robin was so gracious in his role within the BeeGees! I admire him very much as an artist=musician....delivering the message...Knowing what has happened in Odessa, currently, makes this especially poignant....Just beautiful!

@hollyadlerin Год назад

Beautiful! I wouldn't have found this gem on my own. I definitely need to listen through the whole album. Thank you for this great introduction. The overall feel of this song is truly exquisite. ✨😍 I love the storytelling especially. Like you said it's hard to find songs at this creative level nowadays, not that they don't exist of course.

@georgetattam3475 Год назад

I give you a 9 for the review. I would have given you a 10 if you didn't skip parts of the song! :). This piece is up there with my very favourite songs of all time.

@nonickname687 Год назад

Since you gave this song such high scores (Thank you for it; I'm a Bee Gees fan since many years, and I love this album) I recommend you the album "The Titanic Requiem" Robin created together with his son Robin-John. When Odessa is the first "attempt" of writing classical music, The Titanic Requiem is in my opinion the perfection of it. I promise it's worth to have a listen into it!

@BassMisteress101 Год назад

I definitely feel like the album is just as great as other Baroque Pop classics of the era such as Love's "Forever Changes", Small Faces' "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake", and The Zombies' "Odessey and Oracle". Was fortunate to get a copy of the UK first pressing and "Black Diamond" is one of my favourite songs from them. I must say though that "Lamplight" was the song Robin wanted to be the single not the title track, but that song is also pretty lengthy for a single in those days and while I prefer it to Barry's "First of May", I suppose it makes more sense to have Barry's be the single since it has a story that seems to be more relatable to the average public.

@cardbordbox13ilovethebeege63 Год назад

Woah thx for introducing me to this- I love discovering new Bee Gees songs and this one blew me away

@gaylaliles4095 Год назад

Not my fav but it does prove their genius to create music in any genre. It is definitely a Robin idea with the melancholic tones.

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Well said.

@rebeccamcvey8600 Год назад

Listen to When Do I and Dearest from Trafalgar.😊

@ndetrixhe 11 месяцев назад

Robin’s voice! I didn’t appreciate it back in the day, but remember listening to him singing Massachusetts on the school run in the UK.

@albahidalgo8912 Год назад

Amazing how far his mind wandered.

@cathyopthof8136 2 месяца назад

Odessa truly is such a great, great, double album. There are other albums I love soooo much, that no one has ever heard of! They were absolutely the greatest geniuses.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@cathyopthof8136 2 месяца назад

Never a better voice in the world than Robins...and never will be. But they all fabulous!❤❤❤

@indy_go_blue6048 Год назад

Many younger people have no idea that by the time the Bee Gees went disco they already had over a half-dozen very well recieved albums. They lost me with the disco; I wasn't into it at all (but would rather listen to 100 hours of it vs 1 minute of (c)rap and I really disliked Barry's persistent falsetto (still do.) I'll agree that this album is a masterpiece; it's the last album I bought before going into the Navy in 1969 and for that it'll always hold a special place in my heart. RIP Robin, Maurice and Andy.

@bartalinigibb Год назад

19:09 I agree👌👏👏👏👏

@LizzieRD Год назад

Wow. That last part has echoes of the old soviet songs. Perhaps purposefully since Odessa was a part of the USSR at the time this was created. Ps For a great Robin song, Dont fall in love with me

@TheMusicKingdom Год назад

Excellent Robin song.

@LizzieRD Год назад

@@TheMusicKingdom i dont like to mention another group in a Bee Gees appreciation chat, but can't help myself. Here is a soulful song by the Australian group, the Teskey Brorhers. They are something special: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IhgxZ8tmBxU.html Or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lBFZNVxG86o.html If you prefer a live performance, try Hold Me, at the Forum. You wont be disappointed

@susieq9801 Год назад

@@TheMusicKingdom - Robin said he based this on an old Russian silent movie about a mutiny and its disastrous results. I often wonder if this was the start of his interest in Titanic and the Requiem he wrote for the anniversary of it's sinking.

@lindajames978 Год назад

Amazing when you think that the last 2 years of Robin's life he along with Rj his youngest sin wrote a classical Requim for the Titanic

@truvakaplan2376 2 месяца назад

This has been a favorite album since elementary school. I am so encouraged that younger people are discovering it in the twenties! I always found it strange that the song is about the Baltic Sea, but the title refers to the Black Sea.

@RabbiSteve1 2 месяца назад

Great deep dive in every way. I totally agree with you. I bought this album as a cut-out for $1 back in 1973 on vinyl and loved it (and loved that crushed velvet cover). It blew me away. And I made every friend listen to it, because even then, it was an underrated and mostly unknown album. It did not sell well (hence why I was able to buy it as a $1 cut-out).

@leenahbean 2 месяца назад

I’m really enjoying this!! Thanks!!

@susieq9801 Год назад

The production abilities back then were certainly VERY limited compared to today's technology and almost any clown can create something unusual. Was it "muddy" on purpose? Was the vocal perhaps lacking in variety but....I mean, the guy was supposed to be lost at sea and floating on an iceberg that he hopes won't melt! I doubt he would be joyously singing like a bird, but quite depressed. Robin's voice was a gift from the angels. Remember this creativity came from guys who left school at 13, couldn't spell and couldn't read music.

@francisxray9900 Год назад

But why not saying to listen to the whole album? Many very good songs to hear! Own it since it was to get. When I play the song 'Odessa', I always continue with 'Marley Purt Drive'. It's a here and there thing, so on the one side we have stunning beautiful leadvocals of Robin, awaking deep emotions which makes you sit down quiet. Opens the ears for the instrumentation as well and there it is, a cello and a spanish-guitar, bringin' in strong elements to level up the mood. And then go to 'Marley Purt Drive' and you'll stand up from your seat so there's a completely different scene coming along. Here, the chestvoice of Barry shines and he puts you out of oceangrounds, up to a sort of roadmovie, makin' your sunday. Often, I contnue with 'Suddenly', so Maurice is askin' there what's to tell by lookin' at him. Glorious bros. Gibb!

@kevindobson3701 Год назад

Can you please react to the Bee gees album masterpiece tiled One From 1989 Please

@ivanjordanov8381 11 месяцев назад

Amazing! What a masterpiece!

@rebeccamcvey8600 Год назад

Listen to Hudson's Fallen Wind, FarmerFredinand Hudson, I've Been Hurt, , Cold Be My Days,E erything Is How You See Me, Most of My LifeGive Me A Smile, Down Came The Sun, It's Obly Make Believe, All's Well ThT Ends Well from Saved By The Bell: The Collected Works of Robin Gibb 1968-1970.

@bartalinigibb Год назад

I loved all Robin's solo albuns.

@charles2241 9 месяцев назад

Out of their old stuff, I think I liked the Trafalgar song better, but hearing this now, I'm not too sure, because this is just great - so haunting. I think I like the background sound better than the singing strangely enough. I guess it's because Robin has sang this way so many other places, but this background sound is superb. Love that piano for the very small amount is seems to be used.

@videosfaby8859 9 месяцев назад

It's such an amazing song 💗

@bartalinigibb Год назад

My eternal idols. The most better singers and songwriters of my life's soundtrack. Odessa is a magical trip across the Galaxy.

@cathyopthof8136 2 месяца назад

But, you have to admit The First Of May was gorgeous!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@Melodramaqueen-qc4qt 5 месяцев назад

Robin ❤

@carlkaufman2429 10 месяцев назад

I find this song haunting. BTW i find it funny that the song is called Odessa (City on the Black Sea). So why is he floating on an iceberg in the Baltic Sea. That's a whole other place. Whatever. Love this song.

@user-xp5wd5fq3t 8 месяцев назад

Одесса-это название морского порта,и название города...есть клип на эту песню,и там хорошо отражена действительность тяжелого труда моряков......но Одесса находится у Черного моря.....Есть и Балтийское море,оно севернее,ближе к северу...там тоже корабли выходили в море на лов рыбы...труд был монотонный,тяжелый....