For a Beatle-crazed boy who had exhausted available content, the Bee Gees were but a short hop away, and not just in the record bins. Their greatest hits albums of 60s and 70s stuff scratched an itch for tunefulness and harmonies I couldn’t find elsewhere. Some cuts, like “Lonely Days,” boasted Beatlesque structural innovations that …
As I sat in my cab today, listening to “Stayin’ Alive” at crushing volume and appreciating that delicious bass line which seems to have a life and a manifesto of its’ own, I realized the BeeGees and disco by extension have enjoyed a dramatic reversal in my level of artistic appreciation. In that brief two- …