― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
"Dirty Laundry," not to be pedantic, is Henley SOLO, not The Eagles. But, calling it Punk Rock is a bad call.....decrying the media for hounding celebrities and stirring up gossip is hardly punk.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Boyer, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
What does this have to do with their music, though? (I never said I'd wannna invite them over to my house for DINNER for crissakes....Well, maybe I'd invite Joe Walsh. He'd be FUN to eat with!)
ps) They rock harder than most metal (and punk) bands, by the way.
― chuck, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
Also, there was a pretty funny Onion story based on 'Take it Easy'
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
No, not that, just that your response was soooo patently "Alex in NYC." It's cool, though... it was funny!
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
the eagles were even more robotic than kraftwerk or their progeny, FWIW.
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
I was thinking of a way to lambast their whole aesthetic. It's not just their style that bugs me (which it does), but their music doesn't really speak to me. I can't really empathize with "Life in the Fast Lane" or any of that shit. Also, their little morality tales lamenting the hollow shenanigans of Californian celebrity culture rings a bit false when you examine their own excesses.
They rock harder than most metal (and punk) bands, by the way.
Seems like you've been partaking in a bit too much of the "warm smell of colitas", Chuck my friend.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
*By "Christians" I don't mean all Christians, just the kind who get their information about rock'n'roll from pamphlets distributed at church youth group conferences. One of my friends in college had one of these pamphlets, and it remains one of my favorite pieces of music criticism. I wish I had stolen it from him.
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:53 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
workin on the dreams he planned to try,the days go by....
Metal and punk bands tend to sound LOUDER than the Eagles. But to rock HARD, you need a rhythm section, Alex. (And right, Motorhead and AC/DC and the County Bishops and Guns N Roses and Turbonegro and Nazareth and etc etc etc have rhythm sections. I didn't say the Eagles rock harder than ALL metal and punk bands. Just MOST of them.)
Anyway, I think you proved what I've always suspected: People hate the Eagles because of what the Eagles supposedly STOOD for. But I don't CARE what they stood for. I care about their SONGS.
― chuck, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
you could also say that about KISS and Ted Nugent ...
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
As far as satanic - man, I don't know but the gatefold to Hotel California is downright creepy. That sort of sepia washed-out photo of all those people staring back at you; and what's that guy doing up there on the terrace?!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:10 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link
... which sounds like a Teamsters' wet dream!
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
Did I suggest otherwise?
I think their music is staid, trite, lifeless, dull, banal and unexceptional. Walsh added a bit to their arsenal, but not enough to save them from inspiring lethal ennui.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link
Well, I think their music is staid, trite, lifeless, dull, banal and unexceptional. Walsh added a bit to their arsenal, but not enough to save them from inspiring lethal ennui.
Ha! The Christian youth pamphlet cited that very gatefold. It claimed the guy on the terrace was Anton LaVey and that the whole song was about the founding of the Satanic Church. (Also cited as servants of the dark lord, for reasons that now escape me, were Olivia Newton-John, the Bee Gees and Fleetwood Mac. Oh, Fleetwood Mac was because Stevie Nicks is a witch.)
I like "Boys of Summer" better than any Eagles song, but I give most of the credit for that to Mike Campbell. OK, the lyrics aren't bad, in a self-important aging Baby Boomer way. The Eagles themselves...they were an OK singles band, right? "Heartache Tonight" is pretty great. "Lyin' Eyes" is nice. I can live a long, long time without ever hearing "7 Bridges Road" again, tho.
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:16 (twenty years ago) link
the 1978 eagles = the 2003 phillies (jim thome = baseball's joe walsh. both thome and walsh are connected to cleveland, so the comparison fits!)
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
Ah, but unlike Nugent, they don't look like they are thisclose to keeling over.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
The Eagles: Destroy by Fire Bombing or with Thermonuclear Devices?
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:21 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I had meant to second Ben Boyer on the Langley "Desperado" - it was easily the best thing about that record, which I generally didn't care for.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:43 (twenty years ago) link
I think it's impossible NOT to factor in what 'they stood for' when you make an estimate of a band's career -- it's part of the whole Eagles package, same as their clothes, their album covers, etc.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
sure ... or #6, since the housemartins aren't indefensible at all!
― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
Felder's book is pretty hilarious.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/Image/eagles08.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Eagles - Get Over It lyricsI turn on the tube and what do I seeA whole lotta people cryin' "Don't blame me"They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody elseSpend all their time feelin' sorry for themselvesVictim of this, victim of thatYour momma's too thin; your daddy's too fat
Funny but kind of damaging to the Eagles' legacy. They did it to themselves by stooping to that level.
― i just like barbecue rib, whatever (u s steel), Saturday, 18 September 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
You gotta let somebody love you
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 18 September 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Alsohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JowmXbaGSoU
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 18 September 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
f--k the eagles.
good harmonies, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 18 September 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I think The Eagles are great but the fact that they have come up with poo like this makes me suspicious of them.
― i just like barbecue rib, whatever (u s steel), Saturday, 18 September 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/q-a-don-henley-opens-up-about-the-history-of-the-eagles-at-sundance-20130120/1000x600/130120-don-henley-600-1358703786.jpg
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-don-henley-opens-up-about-the-history-of-the-eagles-at-sundance-20130120
― buzza, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
^^would watch
― timellison, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I hate the Eagles but I kinda want to see that.
― Influential Acid Jazz Pioneer (crüt), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 07:01 (eleven years ago) link
Somje of them had interesting pre-band histories like Gene Clark affiliations etc. 1st lp isn't quite as bad schlock as later stuff, and there are some decent live sets from around that time apparently.
paved the way for punk? Even if they were one of the things it was reacting to.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 07:39 (eleven years ago) link
did some good backing vocals on other people's records is about as generous as i can get
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/dam/assets/130116134311-chip-kelly2-single-image-cut.jpg
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://upperwetside.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/joe-walsh.jpg
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
did they inject New York strippers into their faces?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Don Henley is now David Bowie.
https://twitter.com/extranapkins/status/234520243924516864
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlOSWRZ4bl0
― buzza, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
Beastie Boys sampling "Those Shoes" on "High Plains Drifter" effing rules.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
The interludes on their forthcoming live album have titles.
https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/eagles-live-from-the-forum-mmxviii-preview-take-it-easy/
2. Joe Walsh: “How ya doin?”5. Don Henley: “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen”9. Timothy B. Schmit: “Hey, everybody, that’s Joe Walsh”12. Don Henley: “Just want to thank all of you…”14. Deacon Frey: “Hello, everybody…”19. Vince Gill: “How about a nice hand for California, man…”24. Joe Walsh: “Is everybody OK?”
― StanM, Friday, 16 October 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
Bonus track: Don Henley: “Well, yeah”
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link