Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (US), UDCD 680
Style: Pop, Ballads
Country: England
Time: 47:34
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 278 Mb
Trafalgar's
"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" was the Bee Gee's first number one
single. Despite this chart success, this record doesn't rate as highly
as some of their other albums of this period due to somewhat lackluster
material. * * *
- Jim Worbois, The All-Music Guide to Rock, 1995.
The
Bee Gees had spent some years in the wilderness before Trafalgar, but
the quality of the album more than made up for the wait. Recorded
between January and April 1971, it revealed the Brothers Gibb truly
working together in harmony again.
A few things had changed in the
re-formed band. They were now much more pedantic about their songwriting
credits, and Robin -- having proved himself during the two-year split
with the magnificent Robin's Reign -- exercised his right to do nothing
but sing, so half the album does not feature him at all.
Bad news
first: "Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself" pays too much homage to "While
My Guitar Gently Weeps," while Robin's funeral Edwardian parlor song
"Dearest" is horrendous. But the rest is pure lush pop brilliance.
Maurice's two solo compositions show him finally coming out as a truly
great songwriter. "Lion in Winter" is infectiously experimental -- much
of it is just drums, and the rhythm expands epically at the end. The
usual bizarrely maudlin lyrics are in evidence in spades: "Now I feel as
good as if I were dead" is a gem, but "Somebody crown the clown with
the red balloon" takes the trophy. And the hits kept coming, "How Can
You Mend A Broken Heart" providing a U.S. No. 1.
The cover was the
usual early 1970s Bee Gees strangeness, the group enacting the death of
Nelson in the gatefold, new member Geoff Bridgeford reading a Beezer
comic. The lads' dad, Hugh, is in the picture because, apparently, he
was "just there."
- David Nichols, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 2005.
(superseventies.com/spbeegees2.html?no_redirect=true)
01. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (04:00)
02. Israel (03:46)
03. The Greatest Man In The World (04:20)
04. It's Just The Way (02:36)
05. Remembering (04:04)
06. Somebody Stop The Music (03:34)
07. Trafalgar (03:55)
08. Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself (05:27)
09. When Do I (04:00)
10. Dearest (03:54)
11. Lion In Winter (04:03)
12. Walking Back To Waterloo (03:50)
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