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