Artist	Song
The Hollies	Carrie-Anne
from The Hollies' Greatest Hits (2002)
ABBA	Dancing Queen
from ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits (2008)
Electric Light Orchestra	Can't Get It Out of My Head
from ELO's Greatest Hits (1986)
Leo Sayer	You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
from The Very Best of Leo Sayer (2005)
America	I Need You
from America's Greatest Hits - History (2005)
Bread	It Don't Matter to Me
from The Best of Bread (2005)
Marmalade	Reflections of My Life
from Reflections of My Life (Original Recordings) (2011)
Scritti Politti	Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
from Cupid & Psyche 85 (2005)
New Edition	Mr. Telephone Man
from The Millennium Collection: Best of New Edition (2005)
Raspberries	Don't Want to Say Goodbye
from Greatest (2005)
The Lemon Pipers	Green Tambourine
from Green Tambourine - The Best of The Lemon Pipers (2001)
Donna Summer	Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
from On the Radio - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 & 2 (1987)
The Monkees	The Poster
from The Birds, the Bees, & the Monkees (2004)
Herman's Hermits	Here Comes the Star
from Herman's Hermits Retrospective (2005)
Status Quo	Black Veils of Melancholy
from The Complete Pye Collection (2009)

Comment:

Because the Gibbs' various careers span four decades (and even more styles), our Similar Sounds songs bear only the faintest resemblance to one another, even though they all sound like Bee Gees. In the lighter-than-air psych-pop of 1967's "Carrie Anne," the Hollies' Graham Nash plucks notes out of the stratosphere, stacking them on top of harmonies so tight they seem spot-welded. ABBA's "Dancing Queen" distills disco's twinkling lights, twittering strings, and twirling ladies into four minutes of uninhibited Eurojoy. And a 30-piece string section cradles Jeff Lynne's heartsick vocals like a velveteen hammock in "Can't Get It Out Of My Head," a down-tempo ballad of unrequited love from Electric Light Orchestra's breakthrough album, [i]Eldorado[/i]. As you explore further, you'll realize that our Similar Sounds assembles its portrait like a mosaic — each piece, from Elton John to Donna Summer, represents only the tiniest fraction of a very complex Bee Gees picture.

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