What Is The Best Bee Gees Song?, Part 2 - with Special Guest Andrew Mon Hughes

This is Part 2 of the “Best Bee Gees Song” episode. If you haven’t done so yet, you could check out Part 1 first. In part 1, featuring the first half of this “List Rate Rank” episode, Felicia and I build our Top 10 list and I reveal the Top 10 list that was voted on by you the fans. On this episode, Felicia and I welcome our guest expert Andrew Mon Hughes, who will help us rank our lists 10-1. In addition to being an avid fan and collector, Andrew has worked on and contributed to several books, tv shows, and albums about the Bee Gees. The first installment of his latest book series, Bee Gees Decades, is scheduled to be released in October of 2021. This first book will feature information and stories about every single song from the Bee Gees in the decade of the 1960s. Find them on Facebook by searching for “Bee Gees Decades” and follow them on Twitter and Instagram on @BeeGeesDecades. I’m ridiculously excited to hear some of the never-before-heard stories he has discovered.

It’s an almost impossible task, narrowing down a career that spanned multiple decades, with albums of songs from different musical styles and genres. And in these episodes, we’re talking about JUST the 22 studio albums of the Bee Gees proper. So not taking into consideration solo albums, work with other artists, and unreleased material, we’re still looking at over THREE HUNDRED songs.

And, let’s not forget, enjoying music is a personal and subjective thing. One person’s ‘best’ is going to be different than another’s. AND THAT’S OK. It’s an opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions. ‘Best’ could mean ‘favorite,’ it could mean ‘most weeks at #1,’ it could mean ‘best selling,’ it could be ‘most culturally significant.” It could mean a number of things, and they’re all right. The point of this podcast is not to cause fights or disagreements, it’s merely to start discussions about the songs we love and why we love them. So please, if you disagree with what someone on this podcast says, don’t take it personally.

Thanks for listening to this two-part mega-episode of Bee Gees And Me. What did you think of our lists? After everything, I stand firm with my claim that my picks 5-4-3 could have gone either way. It really changes day by day. And I can’t believe I lost this episode! Maybe I should have picked different songs. Oh well. It was fun to go through the exercise, to get Felicia to listen to the Bee Gees and convert new fans, and to get a chance to talk with Andrew Morn Hughes. This episode is about an hour long, and it’s been edited down. He and I talked for over three hours that day. Felicia signed off and Andrew and I just kept going, trading stories and talking about the music for hours. And all this was last year before “Bee Gees And Me” launched, so it was a great experience that helped me decide to start doing this podcast and to do more stuff on my YouTube channel.

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