really love this rmx of one of these nights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvOdt0wZmE
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
Here's my favorite version:
http://youtube/watch?v=WczItlE0kLg
― pplains, Thursday, 21 February 2013 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://t.co/nYwnxsTO
Take it to the Limit, no contest
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 21 February 2013 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
that Jimmy Michaels mix is great. where are the acapella vocals from?
― Plasmon, Thursday, 21 February 2013 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
voted "one of these nights' -- i'll always go for the shameless disco crossover if there is one.
― johnny hit and run paul lynde (get bent), Thursday, 21 February 2013 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:51 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ this.
The Eagles couldn't rock out convincingly (or at all, really), and this hits the perfect sweet spot between their failed rock and their failed pseudo-Flying Burrito Brothers attempts. Also, the best vocals in their oeuvre.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
the irony of this comp being so hugely popular is how many of the biggest or best songs came later -- i may do a poll of other stuff after this thread runs its course. of these, i'm voting for "One of These Nights" narrowly over "Take It To The Limit."
― some dude, Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Pre-emptive vote here for "New Kid In Town."
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
many of the biggest or best songs came later
The recent David Geffen bio on PBS had an interesting bit on this. The WEA beancounters were sure it was too soon in The Eagles' career for a best of, and tried to talk Geffen out of his plan.
― Nataly Dawn's echoey swamp sound (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
The big Eagles/Rolling Stone feud of the late '70s still makes me laugh (adjudicated over a softball game, I think). Do pop stars ever feud with specific publications any more? If they do, does anyone notice? Has the feel of a When We Were Kings situation on both sides.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
How do I vote for "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Well, first we need publications.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
As a Britisher I recognise none of these song titles.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
No softball game in 2013--Twitter feud, of course.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
I am pretty sure there have been band feuds with Pichfork... I mean, there had to be, right?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
arguably there are more artist/publication feuds in the twitter era -- lupe fiasco crying "boycott spin" because of a blog post in his timeline, etc.
― some dude, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
One Of These Nights. Never occurred to me that it was a shameless pitch for disco, but yeah, could be right. The AOR Disco aesthetic makes a little more sense now, thanks.
I actually went to see them a few years back, at someone else's behest - One Of These Nights was the absolute banker tune they just had to play to make the experience to be worthwhile. I got there early enough I thought, but for some reason the fuckers took the stage at 7pm sharp, and OOTN was what I could just about hear booming out as I got to within earshot of the stadium.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
As stated above, OoTN is the ne plus ultra of RAWK acts going disco
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNGNLo8K6Fk
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Never occurred to me that it was a shameless pitch for disco,
it's no Disco Strangler
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Miss You is surely the sine qua non of rock -> disco
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Incredible that Hotel California isn't on this. There can't be a more defining song not on a proper Greatest Hits set.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
It wasn't recorded or released when this came out.
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
For that, you want this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Eagles_greatest_vol_2.jpg
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Ha!
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, they'd gone disco by 1975?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
I meant that OoTN is actually good, unlike KISS and Rod's disco sexploits
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
I never know whether to capitalise the T
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'd take the Kiss song over "Miss You," Rod's song too. The Kiss is definitely the most amusingly anomalous. (That they'd do a disco song, I mean, not that they'd do something crass or shameless.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'll 2nd Phil D.'s comments about the Eagles above. But, anyway, tough to pick here, yet "One of These Nights" gets my vote. Also like "Best of My Love" and "Take It To The Limit". I think this album has made Jack Tempchin a very rich man.
― jetfan, Friday, 22 February 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
"Lyin Eyes" is very underrated as douchy-singer-songwriter-dude cover material imo...
― theStalePrince, Friday, 22 February 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
I was tempted to vote for Tequila Sunrise probably because it was a relatively minor hit and hasn't been so overplayed. But I'll go with A-list Eagles and vote for Take It To The Limit.
― that's not my post, Friday, 22 February 2013 07:03 (eleven years ago) link
It's amazing how the Greatest Hits package overwhelmed any interest in the underlying albums. I must have heard the hits hundreds of times from the 70s onwards without being at all curious about other songs from the same era. Well, one exception I tumbled to much later. I would have voted for this if it had been included:
http://youtu.be/iv-fjv1bbXI
― that's not my post, Friday, 22 February 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-fjv1bbXI
Waits' original is amazing but I think the Eagles harmonies are a worthy add.
― that's not my post, Friday, 22 February 2013 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
First mention/vote for "Already Gone?" The only one on that list I would actually turn UP if I heard it on the radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4cYRxFCko
― Nataly Dawn's echoey swamp sound (Dan Peterson), Friday, 22 February 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
These are such great songs though. I cant've heard them on the reg since I was in the habit of being driven around by my dad - i.e. for about three-quarters of my life - yet just that list of titles got me humming those choruses instantly.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
the perfect sweet spot between their failed rock and their failed pseudo-Flying Burrito Brothers attempts.
lol @ "failed" rock
When released in September 1979, The Long Run debuted at #2 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart and a week later hit #1 dethroning Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. It was the last #1 album of the 1970s, and reigned for eight weeks in the #1 slot. "The Long Run" has sold more than seven million copies to date in the US alone
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 22 February 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's rare that a more disgusting batch of songs were assembled on one album, but my vote is "Take It Easy."
I'd vote for "The Long Run" if we polled the second comp.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
My parents' record collection was enough of an influence to me growing up that I cannot help but like most of these, despite probably containing as much misogyny-per-lyric as a Nickelback record.
Went with "Desperado."
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
this is a pretty happenin' greatest hits. if you can overlook overexposure and the fact that they were written by henley and frey, some really great tunes.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 February 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
i'm with Dan - "Already Gone" is: 1) not overplayed and B) a rocker and helps make OtB a pretty damn fine alblum
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Friday, 22 February 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItlY6oIfRVg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 February 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Exactly. Their pitiful attempts to rock out weren't gratingly unpleasant or anything, but certainly laughable.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 22 February 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
There is not a single bad song on this album. Fuck the haters.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 22 February 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
i really don't care for best of my love but like the rest
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 23 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I hope Mr. Snrub wasn't Being sarcastic. Because he's right.
― jetfan, Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
zzzzzzzzzz
― :C (crüt), Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
To my ears, the Eagles are a remarkably inconsistent band capable of greatness. About 1/4 of all Eagles songs are absolutely beautiful. A little overproduced, perhaps, but still written and executed well enough to rank with the best songs of the 1970s. The other 3/4 aren't anything to write home about but I usually won't change the radio station to avoid them..
That said, this isn't a particularly strong Eagles record for me. Only "Tequila Sunrise" and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" really hit home like "Hotel California" and "Doolin Dalton" or "Desperado."
― Jak, Saturday, 23 February 2013 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 25 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Still say In The City stuck out like a sore thumb as the coda for The Warriors.
"Yo, we just survived a hyper conceptual run for our lives from candy colored ultraviolet street gangs, from one end of this post-Ford metropolis to the other, and now the sun is finally coming up? Let's lay on some Joe Walsh and THROW DOWN."
― pplains, Monday, 25 February 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
(Almost said "Let's lay on some Joe Walsh and JAM," but didn't want it to look like I was making a music pun.)
― pplains, Monday, 25 February 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
no surprise balls and I agree. I've made my peace with their influence on country and I can enjoy a few of these tunes now, but, god, they remain one of the few bands I have no problem being Robespierre and condemning to the guillotine because their personal lives are sufficiently generous and ecumenical to fellow human beings. Fortunately these songs often reflect these attitudes, so hate is easy.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
*INSUFFICIENTLY
The best freelance assignment of my life: reviewing the Eagles's 2003 show, a three-hour Ringling Bros extravaganza during which every member got solo terms and Glenn Frey, cokehead, made a crack about never trusting women with credit cards.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure what to go with here. It ain't "Desperado", though, yuck.
― brimstead, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
the gaudiness of "Take it to the limit" has really grown on me over the years.
― brimstead, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
that thing milks its refrain like nothing this side of "Hey Jude"
― luaka boppa flame (some dude), Monday, 25 February 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
You can spend all your time making money.You can spend all your money making time.
Now that's deep, man.
― pplains, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
dude that's the Frey-Henley life.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neY7D4aCW_Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfPWstSOsw
― balls, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
is xgau's initial takedown of the eagles his most famous long review? definitely got under henley's skin, can remember reading an interview w/ him in the late 80s/early 90s still seething over 'ny critics' that hated the eagles but loved - get this - the ny dolls! he said this mockingly, as if history had clearly vindicated him.
― balls, Sunday, February 24, 2013 7:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
As you and Sun4r pointed out, yeah, nothing on Henley's radar would suggest otherwise. "But Don, the Dolls influenced the Replacements!" "[derisive snort]" "[coke snort]"
I haven't made my peace with the Eagles (other than "Take It To The Limit"), and don't know if I ever will. The main sticking point is that the insanely rigid drumming. To his credit, Don must have some notion of his deficiencies in this area, since he got Keltner and Porcaro to play most of the drums on his solo records.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
or programmed them
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
I've softened, but I'm not handing them any Elia Kazan awards either.
― pplains, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
obligatoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_kCR5yQpY0
― balls, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
ohh man "Heartache Tonight." Eagles Greatest Hits Vol. 2 is so much better song for song than this one.
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 February 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going with "Tequila Sunrise". So light and breezy compared to the others.
― brimstead, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
Couldn't find a clip of "Life in the Fast Lane" at the Fast Times at Ridgemont High prom...
― clemenza, Monday, 25 February 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
Totally enjoying reading this thread backwards. Looking forward to seeing entropy reverse itself and the softening positions reorganize themselves back into full on hate.
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 February 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
didn't want to admit how solid Building The Perfect Beast was when I got a copy a few years ago.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait, this is a new poll. Never mind./roseannerosannadanna
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 February 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
"Heartache Tonight" by far my least favorite of their singleshave mellowed quite a bit on these dudes, probably because of east coast-> west coast migrationwould rank these songs
"One of These Nights" "Peaceful Easy Feeling""Tequila Sunrise" "Lyin' Eyes" "Best of My Love" "Take It to the Limit""Already Gone""Take It Easy" "Desperado" "Witchy Woman"
― buzza, Monday, 25 February 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_zwLsSBT4/URlrqK0hkVI/AAAAAAAAGwQ/bhF_54n1QAo/s640/eagles.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 25 February 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_XEwgfmDk
― buzza, Monday, 25 February 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
which reminds me i've done a similar mellowing on billy joel
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 25 February 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
don't ask me why aero
― balls, Monday, 25 February 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
"When you ask for a backstage pass to come and see Joe Perry, give me some advance notice so I won't have to be there."
After my sister and her friends would listen to this and then Rod Stewart's A Night On The Town I would ritually cleanse my record player by putting on "This Boy" - I guess this means I was some kind of proto-Sinister kid./flashback_from_wayback
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 February 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
Reminder that thing in the 90s that album of the (Canadian?) grammar school kids singing the famous rock songs and one kid sang "Desperado"? Which in theory was supposed to redeem the song for those who didn't like it but instead has ultimately added yet another layer of unpleasantness.
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 February 2013 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
Take it to the lemming one more time.
― Aimless, Monday, 25 February 2013 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 25 February 2013 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't Don Henley get up on stage once and sing that with Mojo? Maybe at The Hole In The Wall in Austin?
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 February 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
every star that shines in the back of the bus is just waiting for his cover to be blown
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 25 February 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
(xp) Yes he did. Supposedly Mojo was impressed with how nice he was and also how he had "balls the size of church bells."
Apparently out of respect, he never does the song anymore, substituting Phil Collins for the former Eagle.
Which I think we can mostly all get behind.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 25 February 2013 06:12 (eleven years ago) link
Phil Collins must die?Can't let him get back together with Glen Frey?
Maybe could work in a Miami Vice context.
― pplains, Monday, 25 February 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
Can't let him get back together with those Genesis guys...?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 25 February 2013 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
But I take it that the Eagles' influence has been huge on a generation or two of country music, and probably also on lots of pop music that doesn't necessarily mean anything to me.
I used to sometimes use "Take It Easy" in class as an example of 'the moment where music on the radio began to sound more like it does today'.
Anyway, I'm voting for "Witchy Woman".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 25 February 2013 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
That was my #2 pick.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa... I'd like to hear this elaborated on. Or the concept spun off as the headline of a new thread.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
production (particularly the piano) on One Of These Nights is a sumptuous thing.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 August 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
lol this thread started a few months before the listening thread that destroyed many lives
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 August 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
I survived with my love of "one of these nights" "I can't tell you why" and "in the city" intact.
(And journey of the sorcerer obv)
― Corn on the macabre (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 August 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
the music for "One Of These Nights" is partly based on The Spinners' "I'll Be Around" - so obvious once you listen for it. lyrically it's pretty much the opposite tho... musically it sounds soft and soothing but the lyrics are heart of darkness emptiness. but oh the thrill of the chase &...
― Paul, Thursday, 13 August 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
not that they didn't have it all on a platter (=emptiness in their case)
― Paul, Thursday, 13 August 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
Renegade Soundwave wrote a song about Cocaine Sex, The Eagles lived it...
― Paul, Thursday, 13 August 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link