Album
Cucumber Castle
1970 · Pop
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
Cucumber Castle is a Pop album by Bee Gees, originally released in 1970. On Gatefold: 87 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
Likely the most ignored Bee Gees album—and named after a tune on the trio’s 1967 debut—1970’s <i>Cucumber Castle</i> brims with the band’s classic pre–<i>Saturday Night Fever</i> sound: autumnal pop-psych and finely wrought strings mixing with unironic lyrics and lost-love melancholia. While both “Then You Left Me” and the gospel-hued “Bury Me Down by the River” are the sonic equivalents of hearts breaking, the sugary power of “I.O.I.O.” might be that year’s best pop song, upheld by Barry Gibb’s Lennon-tinged vocals and Maurice Gibb’s McCartney-ish bass lines. Contrastingly, the country-ish “Sweetheart” and the ironic “The Lord” hum like the young Aussies wrote them after a string of cold November nights spent in London clubs listening to Louvin Brothers covers. This album dropped after the group's 1969 double-LP doozy <i>Odessa</i>. The brothers Gibb had had enough of each other by then and all but split up, which might explain the eyebrow-raising King Arthurian suits of armor on the album’s cover. In fact, Robin Gibb is no-show here, but you’d hardly notice.
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Tracklist
- 1If I Only Had My Mind on Something Else2:33
- 2I.O.I.O.2:55
- 3Then You Left Me3:11
- 4The Lord2:18
- 5I Was the Child3:13
- 6I Lay Down and Die3:33
- 7Sweetheart3:09
- 8Bury Me down by the River3:24
- 9My Thing2:18
- 10The Chance of Love2:27
- 11Turning Tide3:09
- 12Don't Forget to Remember3:27
Sound DNA
- Pop
- Traditional Pop
- lush
- melancholic
- cinematic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Barry GibbLEAD GUITAR, GUITAR LEAD VOCALS LEAD VOCALS, GUITAR
- Maurice GibbPIANO, BASS GUITAR, ORGAN, MELLOTRON, VOCALS PIANO, BASS GUITAR, ORGAN, MELLOTRON, VOCALS, COMPOSED BY PIANO, BASS, GUITAR, ORGAN, MELLOTRON, VOCALS
- Colin PetersenDRUMS
- P.P. ArnoldBACKING VOCALS
- Terry CoxDRUMS
- Vince MelouneyGUITAR
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 87 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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