are not the very best songs of the Beegees, i.e. this one, 'stayin alive', 'tragedy', 'night fever''jive talkin',

1/ simply better on every level measurable than all the obscurer-than-thine 'underground disco' classics that your Brit/Euro (disco)noisseurs and (discog)noscenti types drool over and cough up cash for?

2/ almost,nearly, as epic/superhuman/eerie specimens of out-of-body bodymusic as the Michael Jackson of "Rock With You/Don't Stop/Lovely One/Shake Your Body"?


Got zero interest in the Sixties Brothers Gibb of Odessa etc though

sometimes i think this is the greatest era of music

was analogue-era recording ever better?








see by the late Seventies production is getting ever so slightly... wispy, maybe

but still golden age

love Hot Chocolate, but think i prefer the Stories's version, with the Rod-like rasp in the vocal...

an 11 minute mentasm to burn Owen's brain to a blissed crisp

Thamesmead: 21st Century Town from Chocolate Films on Vimeo.

movie-within-a-doc stars Veruca Salt!!!

[via Toys and Techniques]

my mum sang these incessantly when i was a child

i only thought to look who done them just now

the Sinatra LP we had in the house was this one



simply one of the greatest pop records albums ever

every vocal curl and arrangement twist is engraved in my heart













Frank is just... better than Elvis, isn't he?