At no point on the twenty-eighth Bee Gees studio album does Barry Gibb really unleash that falsetto — what former producer Arif Mardin called his method of "screaming in tune." This Is Where I Came In is a little light on the Brothers Gibb's trademark keening harmonies. The toothsome threesome does, however, winningly assume the mantle of boy-band elder statesmen. Each Gibb stakes out a portion of the album for his own: The Eurodisco "Embrace" is Robin's own version of Cher's "Believe," while Maurice evokes the Beach Boys on "Walking on Air." As ever, though, Barry is the Bee Gee MVP. The blow-dried love-song bard makes like Noel Coward on "Technicolor Dreams" and sounds like he rediscovered cocaine on the frantic "Voice in the Wilderness." He powers through terrific ballads such as "The Extra Mile" and "Loose Talk Costs Lives" like he's been doing them since Max Martin was in nursery school. Which, of course, he has.

“The Pretender”

This song wasn't part of the planned track listing for 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and was put together in a day. "It happened after we recorded a lot of stuff," said Dave Grohl. Yet it ended up as the album opener and the lead single. Grohl called it "a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." The singer hinted at the lyrics' political overtones: "Everyone's been f---ed over before and I think a lot of people feel f---ed over right now and they're not getting what they were promised."