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ROCK/POP LEGENDS MY RATING 50 STARS AWESOME
I found myself wanting a collection of BEE GEE hits, after the untimely death of Maurice. One disc is much better than the other, but the oldies are indeed goodies and I'm glad I bought it.
If you love the Bee Gees then this is a MUST BUY. Love this CD.
However, the biggest complaint with this set is undeniably its VOLUME LEVEL. It is tough, tough, tough to quibble with the music here. "How Deep Is Your Love", "Love So Right" and "Love You Inside Out" are more than just guilty pleasures, they're great tunes. The new recordings of Gibb brother-penned tunes that were hits for others could *easily* be jettisoned in favor of the above mentioned tunes. Give me tape hiss and natural volume peaks anyday over this. The comp could be a little more expansive, giving us better and needed insight into the early and pre-1975 Bee Gees, such as "Mr.
The dynamic range is literally compressed away, with excessive noise reduction applied to eliminate the resulting increased hiss. "I've Gotta Get a Message to You", "Lonely Days" and "To Love Somebody" are essential listening. In a futile effort to keep with industry "standards", the alleged mastering engineer raises the volume to ridiculous and unnecessarily loud levels. Natural" and "Morning of My Life". Not huge hits, but then not everything here is either. All of this overprocessing kills the "breath" in the mixes and life in the performances, resulting in a very unspectacular, one-dimensional listening experience.
This music deserves better.
What's not to love. This is the Bee Gee's. You know, the 3 brothers Gibb that are masters of harmony. Nothing ever sounded so sweet to the ears.
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