I like this one. It achieves that rare feat of a concept album track being able to both set up a narrative and push the story ahead within a 3:30 run time. The "Better keep on movin'" part reminds be of the Derek & The Dominoes version of "Little Wing".
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 August 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Never heard this album (apart from the singles) all the way through. Henley's vocals on this reminds me of Rod Stewart a little. Was ready to launch into a Two Minute Hate, but it's a good song.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/4vX9v-RF9Es/hqdefault.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
ha, everyone was so ready to hate. hey, this song is good!
― scott seward, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
i was looking forward to this album tbrr
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
i was talking to this great guy i know - he's a musician who performs under the name Dredd Foole - and i asked him what his earliest memories of the eagles were. what he thought of them at the time. and i kinda figured he would wrinkle his nose and all that, but he said that Desperado was an album that really meant a lot to him at the time. that album and Carney by Leon Russell. those albums fit his mood/frame of mind at that moment. it made me want to play them both.
― scott seward, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
My favourite Eagles record fwiw
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
(I used to have that first Dredd Foole album!)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Missing two pages (stupid Googlebooks), but here's Grace Lichtenstein's essay on the Desperado lp from Stranded
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
I had the first dredd foole and the din album too!
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
I like that essay; stoked for the album now
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
This is decent, but it kind of makes me think that, in their heart of hearts, they really wanted to be the west coast Band.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
I had the Dredd Foole and the Din album too. Downloaded it to hear it again a few months ago, in fact.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 31 August 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
I was 12 or 13 the first time I heard this album, my dad or step-mother owned a copy.
This track felt portentous, like the opening scenes of a grown-up Western. I'd seen "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" but but this seemed darker and meaner: Bill Dalton is not buying either God's will or the law books, he's cussing, he's clearly a serious outlaw. His sidekick appears out of nowhere and joins up like one of the Magnificent Seven. They ride out. To be continued!
At this point I was totally on-board. I loved how the album cover looked like the Time-Life "Old West" books I was getting in the mail:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Thecowboys.jpg
― Brad C., Saturday, 31 August 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Don't get the love for this one; find it rather dull and unspectacular country-rock, especially for an album opener.
― Lee626, Saturday, 31 August 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Wow, the Time-Life "Old West" series!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kZDZ4eXXk
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 1 September 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
http://img0.etsystatic.com/001/0/5863214/il_570xN.352465900_mckg.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 September 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
in the 70's there were Osmonds...and lots of cowboys.
and Osmonds dressed as cowboys. obviously. from time to time anyway.
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 September 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
[osmondscrazyhorses.jpg] haha xpost
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 1 September 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
Well they were a little bit country iirc
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 1 September 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
The story of the Desperado artwork:
http://youtu.be/lcTTdwv1Xp4
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 September 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
"Twenty-One"
http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Henry-Diltz-Eagles-Gunfire.jpg
http://youtu.be/k-L_sxkI9xY
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 September 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Digging this. Maybe because it reminds me of the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Christine's Tune." But so far, my favorite/least-annoying Eagles harmony singing.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 1 September 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
pretty much "Son of Earlybird" but fine enough (Leadon's main lyrical theme of the time was "being young and a slacker is great, man"---hell, there are worse themes).
― col, Sunday, 1 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
The subtitle “Musical Memoir” signals what Ms. Ronstadt’s book is about, but also what it’s not about — the hedonistic excesses of the pop star’s life. She sidesteps the rampant drug use, though in conversation she acknowledged, “I tried everything,” including cocaine, which she did to such excess that she needed to have her nose cauterized, twice. For Ms. Ronstadt, who was often the only woman on the bus and in the hotel, those were not always happy times. “All the men chased girls,” she said. “They were good guys,” she reflected. “Well, no they weren’t. They were cowboys. They were gunslingers.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/arts/music/linda-ronstadt-discusses-her-memoir-and-parkinsons.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
I keep hearing songs like this and going, Really? The best-selling American band of all time?
But then I look at the list, see that ABBA even beats them and go, Damn, American bands. Get with it.
The BeatlesMichael Jackson,MadonnaLed Zeppelin,Elton JohnPink FloydMariah CareyCeline Dion,AC/DCWhitney HoustonThe Rolling StonesQueenABBAEagles
― pplains, Sunday, 1 September 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
Doolin Dalton is nice and I like 21, I'm a sucker for banjo ..not a bad start
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
The Eagles have the best-selling album in the US, but Thriller still trounces it in the rest of the world.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
Best selling album in the U.S. that's not a compilation by an American band : Rumours
Best selling album in the U.S. that's not a compilation by a full-blooded American band: Appetite for Destruction
Best selling album in the U.S. that's not a compilation by a full-blooded American band not from California: Boston
― pplains, Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Nice one. A cool step back from "Doolin'"'s cinematic panorama. Who's on dobro?
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Bernie.
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 September 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac is an American band?
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 1 September 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
the restrictive clauses are confusing
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 September 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
I think of them as more of a multinational, the result of a series of well-planned mergers.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 1 September 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
They are not coming to your town, nor will they help you party down.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 1 September 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
loool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 September 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
That's why I had to add "full-blooded" to the next one. Thank God it wasn't Foreigner.
― pplains, Sunday, 1 September 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
I wasn't aware until this week that Desperado and its singles sold relatively poorly upon its release. Unless there's some deep cuts I'm unaware of (and of course, there are many), I think they gave up this banjo-y stuff once they made it huge.
― Lee626, Sunday, 1 September 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
It's going to be weird doing a concept album day-by-day. What'm I supposed to say about Twenty-One? It's a banjo-led ditty that doesn't sound like The Eagles. I'd never listen to it if we weren't doing this thread. It's ... I don't know what it is.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 September 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
Xpost Actually there's banjo stuff as long as Leadon was in the band.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 September 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link
makes sense
― Lee626, Sunday, 1 September 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
I had this silly image in my head of Bernie Leadon just constantly walking around playing banjo the whole time he's in the Eagles, it's just that they only decided to mike him every now and then
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 September 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
so far, this is my fave deep cut. it moves, it's got some banjo, and, well, the competition from the other deep cuts isn't all that strong.
― that's not my post, Monday, 2 September 2013 06:04 (ten years ago) link
You have to be 21 if you want to chug all night.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 September 2013 06:06 (ten years ago) link
Makes me wish this was on Desperado.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 September 2013 08:48 (ten years ago) link
"Out Of Control"
http://i.imgur.com/MmliVkD.jpg
http://youtu.be/g23Qj9iUgOA
― scott seward, Monday, 2 September 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
This is rubbish. What are they thinking, putting this average bar band boogie third up on their big concept album?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 September 2013 13:25 (ten years ago) link
reminds me a little of Slade.
― scott seward, Monday, 2 September 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link