Bee Gees: A Kick in the Head Is Worth Eight in the Pants 1973 (Unreleased Album)

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Bee Gees: A Kick in the Head Is Worth Eight in the Pant 1973 (Unreleased Album)

Between the recording of their Life in a Tin Can and Mr. Natural albums, the Bee Gees cut an entire album in Hollywood titled A Kick in the Head Is Worth Eight in the Pants, working with musical arranger Jimmie Haskell. Although a couple of songs ("Elisa" and "Wouldn't I Be Someone") did come out on a single in mid 1973, the group was dissatisfied with the result and decided to cancel the release. This bootleg presents all ten tracks from the shelved LP in their original running order.
It's not one of the Bee Gees' major works, but it's not too obvious why they decided to withhold it from the public. These are amiable, tuneful songs in the group's usual mildly bittersweet, introspective early style, though perhaps the production was a little too lushly laidback for its own good. The arrangements sometimes fall just short of early Barry Manilow territory, albeit with much better songs and singing. But others, like the winsome "Losers and Lovers," have a far more forceful edge. With its steel guitar and strings, "Home Again Rivers" skirts countrypolitan music; "Castles in the Air," with its Badfingerstyle slide guitar and dramatic keyboardbased melody, is perhaps the strongest track; and "It Doesn't Matter Much to Me" would be redone shortly afterward by the band in a faster arrangement. The four numbers that might have been recorded as B-sides rather than album tracks are similar to those that would have definitely been on the LP, the most interesting of them being "Dear Mr. Kissinger," in which the Bee Gees' relatively seldomvoiced social consciousness rears it head. For those who have little or no use for the group's subsequent souldisco phase, it's the last hurrah for the classic early Bee Gees sound.

01. A Lonely Violin
02. Losers And Lovers
03. Home Again Rivers
04. Dear Mr. Kissinger
05. Jesus In Heaven
06. Harry's Gate
07. Rocky L.A.
08. Castles In The Air
09. Where Is Your Sister?
10. Life, Am I Wasting My Time?

Bonus Tracks
Midnight Special 1973 US TV Broadcast
11. Money (With Jerry Lee Lewis)
12. Alexanders Ragtime Band
13. Beatles Medley :
Hey Jude (With Wilson Pickett)
If I Fell
I Need You
I'll Be Back
This Boy
She Love's You
14. Bye Bye Blackbird

http://rapidshare.com/files/16375131/bg_akith.rar

[IowaSurfer]

Thanx a bunch, do you have the 14th Beatles Medley???

It goes from:
13. Hey Jude
14.Bye Bye Blackbird

????? wondering if you had complete?

[itsjustme2.0]

The post was complete. The tracklist/tag was a little off but if you listened to it you'd have found it complete. I corrected the tracklist on the post but the tag on track 13 will be off.

[IowaSurfer]

I was going by the ALBUMCOVER "BACK"... not the set list

I see what it is now:

12. Alexanders Ragtime Band (5:17)
is only 1:22 sec. the rest of # 12
Hey Jude (With Wilson Pickett)

No biggy, according to album cover, track 12
should have been split is all...

Thanx for post...

[binky2]

Thanks! My wife will enjoy this one!

[beatlenut]

Hi iv'e, been hanging around and taking stuff that you have posted so i would just like to stop and holler a great big thank's all of the music you have posted is just wonderful and i would just like to let you know it's greatly appreciated.

[Tatonka]

Thank You!!!

[Maiden_Man]

Wow, thax!!!

[maccafan076]

This forum really does have everything. I'm a fan of the earlier Bee Gees & was searching around for this one. Thanks for sharing.

[1stmetatron]

Thanks for this one!

[cargomobile]

want that one!!! Thanks a lot!