Lets keep this really simple. If you want the hits this is the collection for you. With the exception of their own interpretation of songs they wrote, were hits for others, every song is simply wonderful. The reviewer that said the sound quality was bad must have gotten a bootleg or something mine sounds spectacular. This is a great span of great melodies, harmonies and vocals, great writing/lyrics from one of the greatest groups around.

I was disappointed by new versions of Islands in the Stream and Heartbreaker versions that appear on this CD. I was hoping to hear the originals with Dionne Warwick and Dolly Parton.

The Bee Gees, inducted as a group into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1997, were one of those acts with little middle ground insofar as music fans were concerned: they were either loved or were reviled.

One thing is certain though, as both songwriters and performers they knew what the masses liked in their heyday, which ran from mid-1967 to 1979, putting 34 songs into the North American Billboard Pop Hot 100, with eight cross-overs to the R&B and 17 to the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts in that period, in addition to three more that made only the AC charts or the Hot 100 "Bubble Under" listings. They even managed to get one onto the Country charts (1978's Rest Your Love On Me. a # 39 Country as the flip of the # 1 Hot 100 Too Much Heaven - unfortunately, that B-side is not here).

After 1979 they added another nine to the Hot 100 from 1981 to 1997, one more R&B cross-over in 1983, and 10 more AC entries, including three that made only those charts or the "Bubble Under" list.

Here you get, with excellent sound reproduction, 23 of those Hot 100 hits registered between 1967 and 1979, three (tracks 12, 13 and 16 on Disc 2 that charted in 1987, 1989 and 1997) and one featuring Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb from 1980. In terms of the "best" in the period covered this fills the bill as nine were # 1 Hot 100 hits and, with one exception (Don't Forget To Remember which was a # 73 Hot 100 in 1969), all the rest were Top 40.

Significant missing hits, and perhaps better selections in place of the several album cuts and failed North American singles included, are: My World - a # 16 Hot 100 /# 19 AC in 1972); Alive (a # 20 AC/# 34 Hot 100 in late 1972/early 1973); Boogie Child (# 12 Hot 100 in 1977); and Edge Of The Universe (# 26 Hot 100/# 43 AC in 1977).

The insert contains brief liner notes and several more photos of the brothers at various stages of their lives, but no proper discography in terms of label/album details and chart performances.

What can I say? They are the Bee Gees afterall. Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb have been making great music for five decades and they are still a force in the music business in the 21st century. Although Maurice left us way too soon, I know that Barry and Robin will still continue to write great music for themselves and others. Barry Gibb is not just a song writer he is a poet. His lyrics make sense and they touch your heart. When most think of the Bee Gees they think Disco and Saturday Night Fever...how wrong they are just to limit this dynamic group to that era. I am only 38 years old and it wasn't until I turned 30 that I truly discovered who this group was and what they had done. They have forever changed the landscape of music. In one word, the Brothers Gibb are amazing.

Who doesn't remember the upbeat disco music as John Travolta dances to "More Than a Woman"?? This CD evokes memories of the 1960's when The Brothers Gibb sang "Lonely Days," the 1970's when they sang "Nights on Broadway," and the next three decades when they performed in concerts such as One Night Only. This CD includes the very best songs of the Bee Gees and is guaranteed to uplift anyone's spirits!