they had enough sense to hire joe walsh, who provided comic relief when glen and don were snorting coke in their hottubs.
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:02 (twenty years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
that SNL uses them as a butt of jokes=I am right
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
― rumple, Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
I think they're pretty decent. I never turn them off when they come on classic rock radio. Well, except for "Take It To the Limit". I really just think it is not a very good song, it's just very sluggish and bathetic.
But The Long Run is a fantastic album, especially the second side - it's pretty flawless. I'd always loved "The Long Run" and "Heartache Tonight" from growing up with 'em, and then during a high school summer break trip to Florida a buddy brought the Long Run cassette. We played it constantly. Wow - "In the City" is great, I love Joe Walsh. Woah - "Those Shoes"! Eric B. sampled that cut! Wow - "The Greeks Don't Want no Freaks" - that's a pretty funny song!!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
Not liking the Eagles makes me a robot? I don't like Steely Dan either....what does that make me?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― Telephonething, Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 November 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm agreeing with JBR lately that In The City is a standout awesome song among many duds.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 11 July 2008 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"Those Shoes" and "Disco STrangler" are superbly fuckwithable sample-sources. (But they'll surely sue your ass if you ever try to deprive 'em of royalties.)
I still may check out On The Border or Desperado next time I find 'em for a buck.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 11 July 2008 07:18 (fifteen years ago) link
amazing how the 70s era east coast rock crit hate for these dudes had such a long lasting influence. i don't own any of their records but it's funny how i rarely change the station when their tunes come on my car radio, i think that is the best context for their stuff.
― velko, Friday, 11 July 2008 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link
James Gang's "Rides Again" album is so, so awesome.
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 11 July 2008 09:59 (fifteen years ago) link
There comes a point once or twice a year where it's somehow the right time to listen to the Eagles. It's right time for the peaceful, easy feeling.
Also, Joe Walsh did a song called 'I like big tits'.
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 11 July 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
"Never Let Her Slip Away" followed by "Heartache Tonight" to thread.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 July 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
They harmonize well. I only like a few of their songs. What really bugs me about this band are their fans("The f---g Eagles, dude!") and their inflated self-image (from reading interviews with the band).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 11 July 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Not to mention Radio 2's unending fixation of them as the apex of all popular music.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 July 2008 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
whereas in reality they were the Bachman-Turner Overdrive to the Burritos' Guess Who.
How could the Eagles possibly be the apex of all popular music?!?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 11 July 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
. . . maybe the nadir.
what's with the eagles hate?
i've noticed that lately, my dislike of all things played to death on the radio, has now been replaced with nostalgia for things i simply don't hear much living overseas (eagles, boston, van halen etc) which gives me a new understanding of why everybody likes this stuff in the first place. i mean, nostalgia (usually for middle american soundtrack to drunken tailgate parties and fumbling teenager sex after the high school football game, but whatever) plays such a big part in the continuing popularity of your classic rock fodder, now i think i'm beginning to finally get it.
anyway, charitable thoughts towards the eagles:
good songs! what on earth are you guys dismissing all those fantastic tunes for? great harmonies what's wrong with their lyrics? if you can't relate you can't relate, but really, i don't think that makes them sucky, i think most of their lyrics are very well writen, and work perfectly at what they're trying to get accross the afore-mentioned 27-gazillion-selling best of album doesn't have a weak song on it pisses off trendier-than-though critic types, and hipsters in general
granted, i can see how having to listen to them constantly on classic rock radio at the job site or whatever might turn anyone off.
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 08:22 (fifteen years ago) link
"Desperado" is a GREAT album!
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 09:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Then I am a sucker for most anyone with that kind of wonderful vocal harmonies. Surely, they were not Queen or ELO, but they were still great at that bit.
Whenever they attempted to "rock out" they usually failed though.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link
They make the worst Flying Burrito Bros. songs sound a bit less worse.
― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link
They were friends with Warren Zevon.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
They pissed off David Crosby
― Tom D., Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Then I am a sucker for most anyone with that kind of wonderful vocal harmonies
They did have great vocal harmonies, I admit.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 26 August 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember reading that Bernie Leadon was a big reason for the harmonies. He whipped the others in shape, vocally speaking, and worked on the arrangements. That said, they're good harmonies, but they've got nothing on the Dillards!
― QuantumNoise, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
They played the only bluegrass songs I ever heard at a Yes show. What they were doing opening for Yes I'm not too sure.
― ellaguru, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 18:03 (fifteen 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