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2000 Great Songs #1308: Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You

I have great affection for those late 60s Bee Gees albums, when they were trying to feel their way through Beatles -derived British Invasion pop and gentle psychedelia and more baroque pop experiments. One's enjoyment of them ultimately turns on what you think of the Bee Gees as vocalists--I'm kinda mixed, which is why we're seeing them make their first appearance here in the 1300s--but  the music is often lovely and fascinating (even apart from its curiosity value given the marked contrast from the later disco hits which made them a very different act). Their most deliberately psychedelic track, and certainly their strangest, was "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You," off their 1967 debut, Bee Gees' 1st . They pivot back and forth between unexpected Gregorian chants and gentle, trippy jangle, finally breaking out their trademark brotherly harmonies on the earworm chorus. (That chorus has such a distinctive melodic hook I'm pretty confident it w...

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