From USA Today

The Bee Gees are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a pair of special releases
to honor the singing siblings. A four-disc box set, Mythology,features a disc spotlighting each Gibb brother, including one dedicated to Andy, who was not part of the group but worked with his brothers, Barry, Robin, and Maurice.

The Ultimate Bee Gees: The 50th Anniversary Collection is a two-disc set of the group's hits along with their performances of songs they wrote for others. A deluxe edition includes a DVD of previously unreleased footage. Both sets will be released November 3.

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Note: the Ultimate Bee Gees compilation is still scheduled for November 3, 2009, and has its own separate discussion thread here. The Mythology box set, below, has been pushed back to November 16, 2010. — Linda

Product Description
The package contains four discs, each spotlighting a different Gibb brother, including one dedicated to Andy. The songs were hand picked by Barry, Robin and Maurice's widow Yvonne (with a helping hand from their children Adam and Samantha), along with Andy's daughter Peta. With a 60 page booklet of personal photographs and liner notes penned by the band themselves, this 81 track decade spanning collection is the ultimate collectors item and contains two previously unreleased Maurice Gibb tracks and one previously unreleased Andy Gibb recording.

CD 1: Barry
01 Spirits (Having Flown)
02 You Win Again
03 Jive Talkin'
04 To Love Somebody
05 Tragedy
06 Too Much Heaven
07 First Of May
08 More Than A Woman
09 Love So Right
10 Night Fever
11 Words
12 Don't Forget To Remember
13 If I Can't Have You
14 Alone
15 Heartbreaker
16 How Deep Is Your Love
17 Love You Inside And Out
18 Stayin' Alive
19 Barker Of The UFO
20 Swan Song
21 Spicks And Specks

CD 2: Robin
01 I Am The World
02 New York Mining Disaster
03 I Can't See Nobody
04 Holiday
05 Massachusetts
06 Sir Geoffrey Saved The World
07 And The Sun Will Shine
08 The Singer Sang His Song
09 I've Gotta Get A Message To You
10 I Started A Joke
11 Odessa
12 Saved By The Bell
13 My World
14 Run To Me
15 Love Me
16 Juliet
17 The Longest Night
18 Fallen Angel
19 Rings Around The Moon
20 Embrace
21 Islands In The Stream

CD 3: Maurice
01 Man In The Middle
02 Closer Than Close
03 Dimensions
04 House Of Shame
05 Suddenly
06 Railroad
07 Overnight
08 It's Just The Way
09 Lay It On Me
10 Trafalgar
11 Omega Man
12 Walking On Air
13 Country Woman
14 Angel Of Mercy
15 Above And Beyond
16 Hold Her In Your Hand
17 You Know It's For You
18 Wildflower
19 On Time
20 The Bridge

CD 4: Andy
01 Shadow Dancing
02 I Just Want To Be Your Everything
03 (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
04 An Everlasting Love
05 Desire
06 (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away
07 Flowing Rivers
08 Words And Music
09 I Can't Help It - With Olivia Newton-John
10 Time Is Time
11 Me (Without You)
12 After Dark
13 Warm Ride
14 Too Many Looks In Your Eyes
15 Man On Fire
16 Arrow Through The Heart
17 Starlight
18 Dance To The Light Of The Morning
19 In The End

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Both are interesting. The 2CD set for the songs they wrote for others. They have not been released much before, I don't think.

The previous box was good enough for me. Ditto the 2 CD The Record.

While I'll reserve judgment on the 2-disc set until I know the "previously unreleased" content on the DVD, I couldn't be more excited about the box set; this looks like a nice companion/upgrade to the TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GIBB box. But, boy, this is turning into quite the costly fall for box sets: Woodstock, Big Star, Rod, LA Nuggets & now the Bee Gees, all from Rhino. Then throw in the Beatles box sets, and this is the most exciting period for these kinds of collections in a long, long while.

Now is it too much to ask that Rhino continue the studio album reissues for the Bee Gees....?!?

Yes, apparently. Those should have come WAY before the boxes and compilations...or WAY after.

Very cool cover art.

Rick A.

It never made sense to me to release a comp and a boxed set on the same day, so this makes sense to me.

Rhino has now posted the track list:

Disc One (Barry)
Spirits (Having Flown)
You Win Again
Jive Talkin'
To Love Somebody
Tragedy
Too Much Heaven
First Of May
More Than A Woman
Love So Right
Night Fever
Words
Don't Forget To Remember
If I Can't Have You
Alone
Heartbreaker
How Deep Is Your Love
Love You Inside And Out
Stayin' Alive
Barker Of The UFO
Swan Song
Spicks And Specks

Disc Two (Robin)
I Am The World
New York Mining Disaster
I Can't See Nobody
Holiday
Massachusetts
Sir Geoffrey Saved The World
And The Sun Will Shine
The Singer Sang His Song
I've Gotta Get A Message To You
I Started A Joke
Odessa
Saved By The Bell
My World
Run To Me
Love Me
Juliet
The Longest Night
Fallen Angel
Rings Around The Moon
Embrace
Islands In The Stream

Disc Three (Maurice)
Man In The Middle
Closer Than Close
Dimensions
House Of Shame
Suddenly
Railroad
Overnight
It's Just The Way
Lay It On Me
Trafalgar
Omega Man
Walking On Air
Country Woman
Angel Of Mercy
Above And Beyond
Hold Her In Your Hand
You Know It's For You
Wildflower
On Time
The Bridge

Disc Four (Andy)
Shadow Dancing
I Just Want To Be Your Everything
(Love Is) Thicker Than Water
An Everlasting Love
Desire
(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away
Flowing Rivers
Words And Music
I Can't Help It (With Olivia Newton-John)
Time Is Time
Me (Without You)
After Dark
Warm Ride
Too Many Looks In Your Eyes
Man On Fire
Arrow Through The Heart
Starlight
Dance To The Light Of The Morning
In The End

Disc 4 all-Andy? Interesting move. But what the hell is it with "All I Have to Do Is Dream" which was his last charting single? It's not on any of Andy Gibb's compilations. Does it have something to do with singing partner Victoria Principal?

Very most likely.

Rick A.

I really hate when these comps go for feel instead of chronology. "Too Much Heaven" into "First of May"??? I hear that train a-comin'...

Both of these new Bee Gees sets are a little strange. Because their music has changed so much over the years, it really should be ingested chronologically. I have the original "Tales From the Brothers Gibb" and my only complaint is that is loses steam with the live tracks on disc 4. Remove those and add the more current stuff and you have a perfect set in my opinion.

A whole disc of Maurice? Yikes. "On Time" is a lost gem, but I see his disc as just taking away space for more good Barry & Robin tracks.

Total agreement. They obviously must have heard how great Kiss' Ikons set went over and decided to go the same 1-disc-per-member route!

i have the first box, it's track listing is excellent.

i doubt i'll ever get this one.

You may not have to since the release is in limbo.

Bump: this has been pushed all the way back to November 16th, and is now going to be a holiday season release.

Barry & Robin were on Jimmy Fallon Tuesday and Fallon had a copy of it and it was called the Bee Gees Anthology, not Mythology if I'm not mistaken. Looked like a book when Fallon opened it up.

They didn't say anything about a more sensible release date, did they? Seems kinda weird Fallon would have even a mock-up of a product not due out for another eight months...

Barry Gibb said it was still due in November.

Bump: added finalised product image to the first post. It's a book-style design, as James described above, but is still called Mythology.

It should be called, "Flogging a Dead Horse".

I scored a copy of the new box set during today's Jimbo Lunch, so it looks like the November street date is solid.