The best-selling album of all time in the United States: The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) poll

man balls its way cool you're making your peace with the Eagles but I highly doubt I will ever come to a point in my life where I will respond to Heartache Tonight with anything but pure hateful derision

'crazy little thing called love' and 'another one bites the dust' i'm sliding around in the back seat of my paternal grandmother's car. 'queen of hearts' i'm in the front seat of my maternal grandmother's car. she made me wear a seat belt.

i think it kinda helps that i almost never ever hear them anymore. which was not true for the longest time (which reminds me i've done a similar mellowing on billy joel). mind you i still get outraged when the atlanta oldies/classic rock station ('the river') plays them insanely too much. i think i've probably gotten more pleasure out of yelling out 'ALRIGHT HERE WE GO "LEATHER AND LACE"! "LEATHER AND LACE"!' any time a couple goes onstage at karaoke than i have from actually listening to the eagles ("in the city" which doesn't count anyway excepted obv).

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."

(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.)

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.

*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.

Not sure what to go with here. It ain't "Desperado", though, yuck.

the gaudiness of "Take it to the limit" has really grown on me over the years.

that thing milks its refrain like nothing this side of "Hey Jude"

You can spend all your time making money.
You can spend all your money making time.

Now that's deep, man.

dude that's the Frey-Henley life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neY7D4aCW_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfPWstSOsw

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.

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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.

or programmed them

I've softened, but I'm not handing them any Elia Kazan awards either.

obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_kCR5yQpY0

ohh man "Heartache Tonight." Eagles Greatest Hits Vol. 2 is so much better song for song than this one.

I'm going with "Tequila Sunrise". So light and breezy compared to the others.

Couldn't find a clip of "Life in the Fast Lane" at the Fast Times at Ridgemont High prom...

Totally enjoying reading this thread backwards. Looking forward to seeing entropy reverse itself and the softening positions reorganize themselves back into full on hate.

didn't want to admit how solid Building The Perfect Beast was when I got a copy a few years ago.

Oh wait, this is a new poll. Never mind./roseannerosannadanna

"Heartache Tonight" by far my least favorite of their singles
have mellowed quite a bit on these dudes, probably because of east coast-> west coast migration
would 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"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw_zwLsSBT4/URlrqK0hkVI/AAAAAAAAGwQ/bhF_54n1QAo/s640/eagles.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_XEwgfmDk

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.

don't ask me why aero

"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

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.

Take it to the lemming one more time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU

Didn't Don Henley get up on stage once and sing that with Mojo? Maybe at The Hole In The Wall in Austin?

every star that shines in the back of the bus is just waiting for his cover to be blown

(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.

Phil Collins must die?
Can't let him get back together with Glen Frey?

Maybe could work in a Miami Vice context.

Can't let him get back together with those Genesis guys...?

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".

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That was my #2 pick.

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'.

Whoa... I'd like to hear this elaborated on. Or the concept spun off as the headline of a new thread.

production (particularly the piano) on One Of These Nights is a sumptuous thing.

lol this thread started a few months before the listening thread that destroyed many lives

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)

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 &...

not that they didn't have it all on a platter (=emptiness in their case)

Renegade Soundwave wrote a song about Cocaine Sex, The Eagles lived it...