I'd have had my hand thwacked with a ruler if I'd presented that in primary school.
Like most of their early songs, colourful melodically, great orch pop arrangement, a great analogue sound plus the unique brotherly vocal blend but... gaping lyrical emptiness... which would be funny if it weren't so categorically crap.
"Everything happening"? Like what?
According to the Bee Gees... town criers, men wearing spats and big wide hats, horseless carriages, people passing buy and tandems.
The reference to Brass Era automobiles places it as the 19th to 20th century "turn" at which point Town Criers had been out of business for at least a hundred years.
"Lots of things to do on a bicycle made for two"? Like what? This isn't divulged.
Then there are the wide hats and spats and more people "passing by" and... that's your lot.
"Everything Happening"? Whatever that might have been, don't come here for enlightenment.
@forlornus a pity you see this song so simply. It creates a timeless image of looking back, the images used, the music....the whole album, The Bee Gees 1st, was a masterpiece for its time, and every song is totally etched in my musical brain. It was indeed an inspirations for my own song writing many years later....and it paid well!
One must open up their imagination when listening, not nitpick when everything is not logical....that is not a writer's intent.
@forlornus a pity you see this song so simply. It creates a timeless image of looking back, the images used, the music....the whole album, The Bee Gees 1st, was a masterpiece for its time, and every song is totally etched in my musical brain. It was indeed an inspirations for my own song writing many years later....and it paid well!
One must open up their imagination when listening, not nitpick when everything is not logical....that is not a writer's intent.
I'd have had my hand thwacked with a ruler if I'd presented that in primary school. Like most of their early songs, colourful melodically, great orch pop arrangement, a great analogue sound plus the unique brotherly vocal blend but... gaping lyrical emptiness... which would be funny if it weren't so categorically crap.
"Everything happening"? Like what? According to the Bee Gees... town criers, men wearing spats and big wide hats, horseless carriages, people passing buy and tandems.
The reference to Brass Era automobiles places it as the 19th to 20th century "turn" at which point Town Criers had been out of business for at least a hundred years.
"Lots of things to do on a bicycle made for two"? Like what? This isn't divulged.
Then there are the wide hats and spats and more people "passing by" and... that's your lot. "Everything Happening"? Whatever that might have been, don't come here for enlightenment.
@forlornus a pity you see this song so simply. It creates a timeless image of looking back, the images used, the music....the whole album, The Bee Gees 1st, was a masterpiece for its time, and every song is totally etched in my musical brain. It was indeed an inspirations for my own song writing many years later....and it paid well! One must open up their imagination when listening, not nitpick when everything is not logical....that is not a writer's intent.
@forlornus a pity you see this song so simply. It creates a timeless image of looking back, the images used, the music....the whole album, The Bee Gees 1st, was a masterpiece for its time, and every song is totally etched in my musical brain. It was indeed an inspirations for my own song writing many years later....and it paid well! One must open up their imagination when listening, not nitpick when everything is not logical....that is not a writer's intent.