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

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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...