The Bee Gees, or: How I Stopped Worrying About Life and Learned to Love Disco

Monsters of Folk? Seriously? You guys are monsters of nothing but putting me to sleep. So, I guess, now that I think about it, the name works.

Jimi Hendrix was a monster guitar player. So was Stevie Ray Vaughn and so is Slash. Ginger Baker is a monster drummer. So was Keith Moon. AC/DC is a monster rock band. Kool and the Gang was a monster funk band.

And the BeeGees were the Monsters of Disco. Man, those dudes were out of their heads with weird ideas and talents. And check out those smiles:


Dynamite.

"Nights on Broadway" is my fave, and "Stayin' Alive" is simply one of the best-sounding songs of all time! It's so freakin' tight and slinky and sexy. You can just see Travolta in that suit and that dumb-ass grin on his face STRUTTING down the street.

Seriously, I love the Bee Gees. Even the weird early folkie-Ren-faire stuff like "I Started a Joke" and "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You" is killer, but songs like "Jive Talkin'," "More Than a Woman," "Stayin' Alive," and "Night Fever"... Dude. So good. So hot.

The Friggin' Bee Gees, man.