Music Debate #101: The Eagles

[Webhead123 | 687]

Lyin' Eyes, Take it Easy and Take it to the Limit are some personal favorites of mine. I'm not a super-fan of the Eagles but I can't deny some of their music is timeless.

[Ferris Bueller | 495]

9 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

The Beatles 

I got lucky and avoided them. Dallas had a radio station when I was in HS, nothing but Beatles and covers. It was around the time they did the anthology album. I did not like them. 

Now, I'll hear a song here and there they did I enjoy, but it's always like a B-side, something they did early, or an album that never gets air time.

[a3quit4s | 4,127]

5/10 for me. Hotel California is really good but I can't think of another song of theirs I like. Witchy woman? The fact that I have to think this hard is immediate removal from like a 7 or above. In an era or truly great music The Eagles are mediocre. 

Except Joe Walsh. Play that guitar my man. 

[captmorgandrinker | 1,650]

16 hours ago, Ferris Bueller said:

What is a band I liked in High School but can't seem to stand to listen to now.

Led Zeppelin

[Tabonga | 2,345]

7 for me.

I could pretty much take them or leave them - except for the Desperado lp.   For some reason several of the cuts* on that one struck a chord with me that most of their other stuff just didn't.

*Doolin Dalton, Tequila Sunrise, Desperado, Outlaw Man, Doolin Dalton/Desperado Reprise, Bitter Creek (everytime I hear this one I think of a forgettable western called Branded (with Chuck Conners) that was centered on a fictional battle called Bitter Creek).

 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,593]

The Big Lebowski callbacks just keep coming

[Hammerfestus | 3,891]

Do you see what happens Larry?

[a3quit4s | 4,127]

44 minutes ago, Hammerfestus said:

Do you see what happens Larry?

OVER THE LINE

[G-type | 2,539]

Penn Jillette once told a story about being at a David Allan Coe show, and when the audience wasn't giving them the response Coe felt was due, he turned on them and said “Fuck you. All you deserve is the Eagles.” He then had the whole band play the Eagles for half an hour, while the audience threw beer bottles at them and screamed.

[SpoonMan Abrams X | 697]

Grew up with the Eagles being played regularly. A bit of nostalgia maybe but 8/10 easy for me

On 5/18/2021 at 8:21 AM, JamesRobot said:

The one exception for me is Hotel California.  There's some kinda magic with that song.  I remember lifting the needle on my dad's album and playing it over and over again as a kid.

It's arguably one of the greatest songs ever made, on it's own might give it a 10. It is pretty great.