Living Eyes [Import]

Bee Gees | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Import [Generic]
• ASIN: B00004THIL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Alive! Living Eyes is Alive!, December 11, 2003

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kristin724 "kristin724" (New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Eyes (Audio CD)

To start off describing this album, can I tell you how much my heart skipped a beat when I found this record at a thrift shop? (Actually it turned out it was the empty sleeve, but anyway!) Perhaps more so the Bee Gees `lost album' than their unreleased A Kick In The Head is Worth Eight In The Pants, It took me four months to download this shrouded rarity of an album.

Released in 1981, Living Eyes was mostly dismissed by fans and critics. Everyone seemed tired of the Bee Gees music, and more interested their legal and personal matters. Living Eyes is a sweet poetic song, but the album's title track barely made the charts. The release quickly faded away, and Living Eyes fell into the diamond in the rough category.

He's A Liar is the second track on the album, but was mistakenly the first single. Perhaps the brothers went the opposite extreme in trying to change their sound. This one reminds me of the chase scene at the end of the original Terminator, and it has a big 2 in my play count column. Ahem. Moving on.

Paradise should have been the single. This album is less on the Barry solo falsetto fest and more of the classic lyrics and harmonies that made the brothers. Barry and Robin sound excellent here. Again my marker, even my mom likes this one!

By golly if you don't sing along to at least one part of Don't Fall In Love With Me, you aren't human. The first Robin track on the album has you hooked from its opening orchestral revving through Robin's staple whail fest. The lyrics are excellent and Robin's voice seems stronger than when we last heard it. This song should be called Paradox, because you can't help falling in love with it.

Soldiers is in the style of the brothers story type song, but it's falsetto tone can seem at odds with its rough soldier lyrics. Still, it's got a great interlude that I just love singing along to. On it's own it's a good song, but placing it after Don't Fall In Love With Me, Soldiers can seem like a let down. Besides, not everybody can sing high enough to sing along to it

I Still Love You is another very strong outing by Robin. Sharing part of the lead with Maurice, some days I don't know which hooks you more. I Still Love You or Don't Fall In Love With Me? The lyrics and emotion this album are top notch, perhaps even higher than the latter stages of what became commercially driven `Fever'.

Wait a minute? What is this? Is that Brother Mo I hear? It is, folks. Maurice's Wildflower was his best song prior to Walking on Air, in my opinion. It's easy country feel and sound are excellent. I'm running out of adjectives to describe this album!

Despite the renewed vigor of Robin and Maurice, Barry was not to be out done. Nothing Could Be Good should be right behind Guilty when people think of the Barry love song. It's a bit of a nod to the old days, with a step up.

Crying Everyday, however, is the jawdropper of the album for me. Robin turned on a dime from his Quaver self to 80s Dance King. Crying Everyday is a sign of the music that was to come, plus it has the ballad lyrics and harmonies we expect. The Bee Gees exceed one's expectations this album.

The final song on Living Eyes is Be Who You Are. Barry delivers and orchestral and vocal and lyrical and everything masterpiece. Masterpiece may be a good word to describe this album. Living Eyes represents each brother and each Gibb style, yet it is smooth and flows perfectly. Two years after Fever, the brothers showed their musical know how, and it still works today, perhaps better than `Fever'. A must in your collection. Not for its rarity but because its so damn good.

You want it? Email me. 80) Happy Holidays everyone.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, but sadly overlooked..., August 16, 2002

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Caitlin (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Eyes (Audio CD)

Living Eyes:

Following the disco backlash of 1980, the Bee Gees were looking for a new sound. Desperately trying to escape the "Saturday Night Fever" syndrome, they created "Living Eyes". Topping "Saturday Night Fever" and the #1 smash follow up, "Spirits Having Flown" proved to be a difficult task. Unfortunately, "Living Eyes" failed to pull the brothers out of the shadows of the "fever". Just because radio, most fans and the public did not embrace this album, doesn't mean that there aren't some fantastic songs contained in it. Like a lot of post-fever, underrated Bee Gees albums, "Living Eyes" was a gem that was entirely overlooked. I love this album. I think it's one of the best that the Brothers have ever done, but I just don't think that the world was ready for such a drastic difference from their sounds of the 70's. The title track, "Living Eyes" is a wonderful harmony ballad. The brothers' signature three part harmonies are as impeccable, and brilliant as ever. "Paradise" is another fantastic ballad, while "Don't Fall in Love with Me" proves to be one of Robin's finest leads ever. Maurice's EXCELLENT "Wildflower" will always remain a favorite off of this album. Barry's beautiful, "Nothing Could Be Good" and vocally exceptional, "Be Who You Are" are both very memorable tracks. Robin's "Crying Everyday" is a great, up-tempo song that is very easy listen too. Although "Living Eyes" didn't produce the success after "Fever" that the Bee Gees were looking for, it is still a great album, and will always remain a favorite of mine.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Bee Gees finest!, January 1, 2002

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Thomas and James Griffiths (Napier,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Eyes (Audio CD)

After the previous huge success of "Spirits having flown" and "Saturday night fever",Living Eyes was one of the most confident albums the brothers Gibb ever made.Sadly the world was in a post Disco era and this album never got the recognition that it deserved.Wildflower is Mo's best song ever,"Be who you are" is Barry's most dramatic."Cryin every day" is Robins masterpiece.You will not be disappionted in this underestimated album.A must for a true fan.
Not to mention these boys have just been awarded CBE's.