Disc 1
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. You Should Be Dancing ~ The Bee Gees |  |
| 2. Stayin' Alive ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 3. Jive Talkin' ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 4. Nights on Broadway ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 5. Tragedy ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 6. Night Fever ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 7. More Than a Woman ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 8. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 9. Spirits Having Flown ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 10. If I Can't Have You ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 11. Boggie Child ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 12. Love You Inside Out ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 13. You Win Again ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 14. One ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 15. Secret Love ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 16. Alone ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 17. Still Waters (Run Deep) ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 18. This is Where I Came In ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 19. Spicks and Specks ~ The Bee Gees | | Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. How Deep is Your Love ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 2. To Love Somebody ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 3. Words ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 4. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 5. Too Much Heaven ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 6. Emotion ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 7. Lonely Days ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 8. Run to Me ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 9. Love So Right ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 10. For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 11. I've Gotta Get a Message to You ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 12. New York Mining Disaster 1941 ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 13. Massachusetts ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 14. I Started a Joke ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 15. World ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 16. First of May ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 17. Holiday ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 18. Don't Forget to Remember ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 19. Islands in the Stream - (live) ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 20. Heartbreaker - (live) ~ The Bee Gees | |
| 21. Guilty - (live) ~ The Bee Gees | |
2 CD+DVD set. The DVD, available exclusively in this Deluxe Edition, offers a treasury of unreleased videos, spanning the Bee Gees' entirecareer with previously unreleased television appearances, live performances, and promo videos. The Deluxe Edition comes packaged in an 8-panel softpak with a 20 page booklet and an O-Card. The Ultimate Bee Gees is a double-disc career retrospective featuring the group's many hits and chart-topping singles, performances of a selection of hit songs they wrote for others, and liner notes by Tim Rice. Tim Rice's liner notes accompanying The Ultimate Bee Gees puts the group's extravagant popularity into perspective. 'Within this package is a collection of performances and songs that very few practitioners of popular music of the past could match for quality, originality, and emotion. It's the singing, the harmonies, the arrangements, the sound, the rivalry, the love, the intelligence, the determination, but above all it's the songs.'
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Audio Remasterer: Dan Hersch. | | Functioning as something of a replacement for the 2001 collection Their Greatest Hits: The Record, The Ultimate Bee Gees covers much of the same ground as that double-disc set, albeit in not quite so linear a fashion. The Record marched through its 40 tracks chronologically, opening with the stately baroque Beatlesque pop of the '60s and then winding through the '70s, whereas this opens with the bright, fabulous blast of "You Should Be Dancing" and remains in their late-'70s heyday for a while before fast-forwarding to such latter-day adult contemporary hits as "One." We don't get to "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" and "I Started a Joke" until halfway through the second disc, and this jumbled, almost haphazard sequencing is a little disconcerting since it appears to follow no true rhyme or reason. Nevertheless, scattershot is still plenty entertaining when the music is as good as this, and this does have all the Bee Gees' big hits, plus live versions of songs they gave to others, so it's a good, swift way to get all this stuff at once -- at least for those who don't already have The Record or some other Bee Gees hits collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 11/03/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 52135 | | Label : Rhino Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 3 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227984779 |
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