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2. The Bee Gees Could Have Been Prog Rock Gods

Before they were getting their incredible falsettos all up into the Disco era, the Bee Gees were actually a pretty solid progressive rock band in the late 60s. You read that correctly. Barry and Robin Gibb were precursors to Rush in the prog rock canon. 1969's Odessa, one of the most forgotten and underrated albums of the decade, places the Gibb Brothers somewhere between the genres of The Allman Brothers and The Moody Blues. It's a little bit of the folk/roots rock that The Band helped perfect a few years earlier, but it also contains some weird, atmospheric rock that would make Jefferson Airplane proud.

This album also drew comparisons to another bunch of up-and-comers, The Beatles, thanks to a song called "Melody Fair," which featured uncannily similar vocal harmonies and a little bit of "Strawberry Fields Forever" in the melody. But all in all, critics received Odessa as an epic, double album of sweet, symphonic rock.

Then Saturday Night Fever happened and ruined their whole career trajectory.