Who are better? BeeGees or B. Springsteen & E Street Band ?
 

Aloha !

Just recently I was part of an interesting discussion with someone from this board who claims Springsteen is the better one of the two groups as she hates the BeeGees. I can't see why though.

The BeeGees have had more hits, they stand for an era and have never written a patriotic song like "Born In The U.K." or "The Thames". They have a way better idea of what a good song is as well. Further on, they have never collaborated wth big artists like Celine Dion either. So what do you think? Do you agree with me and think that Springsteen and his backup band is terribly overrated?

Please vote because this poll is of great importance to my stay at Kathleen's place.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Hmmm . . . more fall-out from that Bee Gees discussion over dinner, huh?

Seb, I still have that video of you on my phone completeley rocking out to "You Should Be Dancing" While going 189km/hr on the Canadian Highways... ohhh man..

And Seb, while I Love Bruce, I do indeed think he is increadibly overrated on this board. Everyone here thinks he's the bees knees and one of the best songwriters ever. Which I completely disagree with. Not knocking Bruce though, still love his music. So therefore I will not vote because I do think Bruce is highly overrated, but I do think he is better than the Beegees.

If I were a gay 70's cheese ball who still wore flares I'd vote for the Bee Gees. But alas I am not.




Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuce!

Thank you - I'd accuse Seb of drinking too much at dinner, but he doesn't even drink. Too bad he doesn't even have an excuse for such bad taste in music :p

Yup Terri - fallout from dinner :D

Yup - 70's cheese LOL

There's something about how Bruce Springsteen uses incredibly evocative, poetic lyrics to tap into just about every aspect of life and tell spellbinding, greatly moving stories, without ever (well, almost) losing sense of what makes great music or compromising his artistic integrity that I just can't fuckin' stand. Bring on the faggy 70s disco anthems, wooo!!!!

How can anybody even compare;

The night fever, night fever: we know how to do it.
Gimme the night fever, night fever: we know how to show it.
In the heat of our love, don't need no help for us to make it.
Gimme just enough takin’ us to the mornin'.
I got fire in my mind. I get higher in my walkin',
And I'm glowin' in the dark; I give you warnin'.

to

The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death
Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest
Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor head back
You make sure my pretty baby is sittin' right there on my lap
They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my soul'd be hurled
They wanted to know why I did what I did
Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world

I mean, come on! Read that "good" bullshit! What a cunt! The Bee Gees sing about the real important, touching things in life, such as boogying and its ilk. Hauntingly blunt lyrical portraits of a man's execution? What a pile of shit. I wanna partaaaaaaaaaay damnit!

Yes! x ∞∞∞∞∞∞

Ice

Both of them are great in their respective spheres.

Trying to compare them is like comparing Pink Floyd to Enigma. Both are brilliant at what they do but completely different.

btw I find it quite ironic how many people here are saying the BeeGees are nothing but a cheesy disco act while we're discussing how annoying it is that people think Bruce is a red neck Nugent wannabe when all they've heard is Born in the USA and Dancing in the Dark...

I voted no because Bruce is terrific, but like Jim says, it's apples and oranges. The Bee Gees were never supposed to be a Springsteen type artist anymore than Springsteen is a disco act. And lyrics aren't the only aspect of music, nor are they the most important aspect for most genres.

I agree with Jim on apples and oranges. The Bee Gees get more flack than they deserve due to their disco-lesser-peers that dragged the whole genre down and the Bee Gees along with it. They deserve credit for actually being good at what they did. Now that I think about it, both the Bee Gees and Def Leppard were top shelf for their respective ruling periods and both suffered unfairly in the aftermath.

And Ferret... randomly grabbing Night Fever to serve up in comparison to Nebraska is like someone using We Got It Going On in the same manner. They are both songs that serve a particular purpose rather than representative of what the band is all about.

"In the event of something happening to me,
there is something I would like you all to see.
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew.

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

I keep straining my ears to hear a sound.
Maybe someone is digging underground,
or have they given up and all gone home to bed,
thinking those who once existed must be dead."

The Bee Gees didn't just boogie and that song isn't even obscure.

Yeah but, y'know, I was totally joking for fuck's sake.

I actually quite like 60s Bee Gees psychedelic rock stuff/

OK - to be perfectly fair and honest - I can't stand disco in any of it's permutations. I just plain fcukin hate it. So yes, the Bee Gees get lumped into that category.

However I didn't hate the original (mid to late 60s) Bee Gees at all.

The trick here for solving your anti disco stance is to get a strobe light and take groovy drugs.

If the Hotel Ridgewood goes disco, I'm taking my business elsewhere! ;)

We can run away together Terri - and leave the rest of 'em here with their disco (and their strobelights) LOL

I actually took groovy drugs at the time and I HATED disco when it first debuted. Time has not softened my stance one whit. I was always a rock and roll person with a bit of pop thrown in.

DAMMIT! I should have known you'd field me with that response. Then I suggest Seb's method..... stone cold sobriety.

Ouch - now that would be painful. Disco with no cushion - ugh LOL.

In all honesty - I used to like to skate to disco because it just worked, beat wise. Musically however - well - I've already shared my opinion.

I'm on some funky drugs right now and I'm still listening to Bruce rather than the Bee Gees tbh. I'm possibly immune.

Good man :D

Ummmmm...Bruce. Seb, you need to start drinking if you honestly think the Bee Gees are better. Bruce is kind of timeless, while the Bee Gees, not so much.