If you were to drive over Bee Gees mountain, the summit would be identified with a You Should Be Dancing sign. Behind and below were the quaint hamlets of To Love Somebody, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and I Started A Joke. Straight ahead and just over the hill is the Saturday Night Fever momument, and a small theater that shows Sgt Peppers on a continuous loop (remember, folks, Peter Frampton's in it too!), followed by a sharp descent through the villages of Tragedy and Too Much Heaven, before ending up in the wasteland of The Woman In You (along with the video...in you).
It's hard not to dance to You Should Be Dancing, but you should also be listening closely. Maurice Gibb's bass is totally amazing. He also arranged the horns, which are like a cross between the sports themes of Johnny Pearson's Heavy Action and Bill Conti's Gonna Fly Now. Dancing certainly requires athleticism, just look at John Travolta there in the video! And check out Andy Gibb on stage with the other three, that's cool. Wow, it's a fantastic tune!
I thought the lyric was what you doin in your bed at night. Like, you shouldn't be sleeping, you should be out at some nightclub with your swinging neighbors. The actual lyric is what you doin on your back. Huh? I hear more than one syllable. There's a delay. They mean the same things anyhow, right? nudge nudge. Listen to Barry at 1:58 - goes right on to the dawn...2:00 - yeahhhh. lol.
I never hated disco. It was mostly the conformity of the dance moves, kind of like that country line dancing achy breaky heart stuff. It looked weird...heck, I was too young anyhow, not much frame of reference. Considering the first album I ever bought was Muskrat Love, I was not one to judge. I eventually learned to hide my love away for disco, especially after I Want You To Want Me and My Sharona came on the scene and blew my little mind. Hey Mark, you're getting too old for that Village People stuff, you should be listening to Van Halen.
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