Their Greatest Hits: The Record专辑介绍
*市面上绝版已久,比吉斯历年最畅销的精选辑之一,现由华纳重新发行!
*双CD按照创作年代、依序收录横跨5个世代(1966-2001)的42首经典钜作,包括:
15首最最脍炙人口的冠军单曲+4首为此精选而全新录制的原创作名曲!
比吉斯其他精选作品从未收录过的【两小无猜】电影主题曲「Melody Fair」!
团员罗宾的首支个人单曲「Saved By The Bell」+团员巴瑞与歌后芭芭拉史翠珊的深情对唱曲「Guilty」!
三副足以驾驭真、假音歌唱技巧的嗓子,三个跨越类型音乐创作极限的灵魂,一个默契绝佳的超级乐团-比吉斯合唱团,他们平了连创6首冠军曲、在同一周内拥有5首Top10单曲,那几乎难以超越的披头四纪录,他们刷新了美国唱片市场单周销售突破百万张的纪录,他们定义了「迪斯可」这个流行舞曲文化,他们横扫葛莱美奖5座大奖….这些都是比吉斯合唱团在1975-1979年短短的5年间所创造的辉煌成就。
在英国出生、澳洲的布里斯班长大的巴瑞、罗宾与莫里斯吉布三兄弟在青少年时期开始,就以纯熟的流行音乐创作与演唱技巧深获瞩目,他们在唱作旅程中一路嚐试了流行、民谣、节奏蓝调、舞曲、电子乐等不同类型的音乐,同时也展现了他们源於手足之情的和谐重唱歌声魅力。回首超过50年的歌唱岁月,比吉斯合唱团的历年单曲在全世界各国拿下60个排行冠军,并缔造全球逾2亿张的专辑销售纪录,他们赢得了包括终身成就奖与传奇奖在内的9座葛莱美奖,还有来自於全美音乐奖、全英音乐奖等世界各地的10座终身成就奖,入列「摇滚名人殿堂」与「词曲创作名人殿堂」。
此“Their Greatest Hits The Record”双CD精选,特别按照创作年代,依序收录了比吉斯合唱团自1967-2001年跨越5个世代的音乐生涯中,最具代表性的经典作品,除了网罗「Jive Talkin’」、「You Should Be Dancing」、「How Deep Is Your Love」、「Stayin’ Alive」、「Night Fever」、「Too Much Heaven」、「Tragedy」和「Love You Inside Out」…等15首比吉斯合唱团音乐生涯最脍炙人口的冠军单曲外,还收录了4首比吉斯合唱团原先为Samantha Sang、Dionne Warwick、Kenny Rogers与Dolly Parton深情对唱,以及Celine Dion等人所创作,因此精选辑而特别於2001全新录制的名曲「Emotion」、「Heartbreaker」、「Islands In The Stream」与「Immortality」,以及比吉斯其他精选作品从未收录的【两小无猜】电影主题曲「Melody Fair」…等,再加上特别於CD2的最後回到最初的开始而收录的1966年首支澳洲冠军曲「Spicks And Specks」,共计42首的不朽名作,一网打尽!
Their Greatest Hits: The Record is the career retrospective greatest hits album by the Bee Gees, released on UTV Records and Polydor in November 2001 as HDCD. The album includes 40 tracks spanning over 35 years of music. Four of the songs were new recordings of classic Gibb compositions originally recorded by other artists, including "Emotion" (Samantha Sang), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick), "Islands in the Stream" (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton), and "Immortality" (Celine Dion). It also features the Barry Gibb duet with Barbra Streisand, "Guilty", which originally appeared on Streisand's 1980 album of the same name. It is currently out of print and has been supplanted by another compilation, The Ultimate Bee Gees.
The album peaked at No. 5 twice in the UK, the first time upon its release in 2001 and again in January 2003 (following the death of Maurice Gibb). It has since been certified triple platinum by the BPI for sales of over 900,000 copies.
In the US, the album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 49. It spent a total of 40 weeks on the chart and was certified platinum by the RIAA in February 2002 for sales of over one million copies there.
There are two bonus songs on the Japanese release, "Melody Fair" and "My World". Also there are two bonus songs on the UK release, "Jumbo" and "My World". Copies sold at the American retailer Target included a bonus disc entitled 5 Live Recordings.