Rate Your Music: 3.14 out of 5!
Was I ever glad when these guys came back! And good on Power 94½ for adding this record in a timely manner - which is more than I can say for some other pop stations.
Sometimes, a previously big musical artist will go so long without any major successes that people start ridiculing them as just a remnant of the past that will never stage a comeback. But when people hear their music again, they realize they were actually a pretty good act after all. I think that's sort of what happened with the Bee Gees. In the late 1980s, we dug up our old Bee Gees records so we could ponder just how far back in the past the band was. It actually hadn't been that long since their peak. The equivalent now would be to dig up music from the mid-2010s, which actually seems futuristic to the graying population of today. Yet, as we were listening to our Bee Gees discs, we decided they were actually still a pretty good group.
We also unearthed an order form included with a Bee Gees album where you could order a Bee Gees poster with "a striking yellow background."
Music, TV, and other pop culture of the late '80s was often stale and trite. It got to the point where some of it literally made me angry. I thought the Bee Gees were far more exciting than most of what was going on then.
So "One" came at the perfect time!
About a year after "One", a weird battle cry emerged among some of my pals: "One, one, do it again!" It sounded like a mash-up of the chorus of this song with that of a Kinks lost hit. I have no idea what the hell it was supposed to mean. This saying also had variations that were even sillier and made even less sense.
It's also unfortunate that late '70s nostalgia never has gotten the respect it deserves.
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