IFLTS: 'In My Own Time,' Bee Gees

Posted on Feb 13th 2007 2:51PM by Gaylord Fields
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'In My Own Time,' Bee Gees
From 1967's 'Bee Gees' 1st'

Being the unabashed Beatles freak I am, the 215 or so songs that make up the Fab Four's officially acknowledged canon aren't nearly enough to quell my Beatlemania. And when my wish is specifically, "If only 'Revolver' had been a 15-song album instead of the paltry 14 those chintzy moptops foisted upon us," that's when I'm glad the Brothers Gibb, freshly repatriated from Australia to their native Britain on a Yellow Submarine, broke off choice bits 'n' pieces of 'Taxman,' 'Rain' and 'Doctor Robert' to craft the even-Beatlier-than-the-real-thing 'In My Own Time.' This Frankensong has all the hallmarks of the subgenre known as Fake Beatles, Mid-Period: lazy lysergic Lennon-oid vocals, burbling bass, stream-of-semiconsciousness lyrics and enough hooks to snag a school of tuna. But the Bee Gees also instill it with stop-time weirdness and other off-center quirks to elevate the song from mere pastiche. If Beatle were a language, Barry, Robin and Maurice could be advanced instructors at Berlitz.

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