"I held a party and nobody came", says one
of the songs on this excellent album. That
really sums up the To Whom It May Concern
album. The Bee Gees were getting back to
what they do best, and clearly enjoying it,
but the album was largely ignored. That is a
big shame.
This is the first album in the early 1970s
when the Bee Gees really found their feet
again.
They managed to fit it all on this disc:
unforgettable melodies, new ideas, wonderful
harmonies, some surprising solos, some
genuinely bizarre humour and some very
serious experimentation.
The album spawned a UK hit, the truly
splendorous 'Run To Me', although it did not
dominate the singles charts in the way that
many of their 1960s recordings did. And then
the album was forgotten. But there could
have been more hits from this collection had
the public not seemingly started to grow
tired of the three brothers and moved on to
new artists. 'Sea of Smiling
Faces' is at least as good as 'Run To Me',
as is 'Alive'. The Bee Gees rock out on 'Bad
Bad Dreams' and harmonise together
beautifully in 'We Lost The Road'. 'Paper
Mache Cabbages and Kings' defies
categorisation or explanation, and I am not
going to go into what happened to poor old
Jimmy in that song, but it's a great track
nonetheless. Maurice's 'token' track is the
pleasant 'You Know It's For You', a piece of
early 1970s fluff that sounds quite dated
now. But in 'Sweet Song Of Summer', in which
Maurice experiments with the Moog
Synthesiser, the Bee Gees create a
disturbing piece of music that ends the
album on a high.
Overall, this is a great album, and one that
should definitely be explored.
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Where to Buy
Buy CD (released 2004)
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