Re: Eagles Album Survivor
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Originally Posted by
WalshFan88
I've never been able to tire of something I love or anything for that matter. The overplaying/burnt out/tired of/etc thing never affected me. In fact hearing those songs all the time over and over just makes me want to listen to them more.
But I've never been able to tire of any overplayed song. Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama, All Right Now, etc. Bring it on I say! Can't get enough of those radio hits. :D
You're killing me!!!! Ugh!!! It drives me crazy!! With so much good music in rock n roll, even if I like a song, I do NOT want to hear it over and over and over and over and over....... Hotel California has gotten to the point where I turn the radio station when it plays, as I do with Stairway To Heaven and a few others from my favorite bands. That's not to say that I don't go through stages where I will listen frequently to a song or album but it's a temporary thing and then I move on.
Congratulations to Hotel California! A great album and well deserving!! It didn't become an icon in Rock n Roll for no reason!!! :thumbsup:
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TimothyBFan
You're killing me!!!! Ugh!!! It drives me crazy!! With so much good music in rock n roll, even if I like a song, I do NOT want to hear it over and over and over and over and over....... Hotel California has gotten to the point where I turn the radio station when it plays, as I do with Stairway To Heaven and a few others from my favorite bands. That's not to say that I don't go through stages where I will listen frequently to a song or album but it's a temporary thing and then I move on.
Congratulations to Hotel California! A great album and well deserving!! It didn't become an icon in Rock n Roll for no reason!!! :thumbsup:
Yeah there is a lot of good music in Rock, I agree, but none comes close to Hotel California (the song or the album, the song in this case). It truly is the best rock n' roll song out there. I will never burn out on it and I can't even stomach the thought of changing the station on a song that means so much to me. It has become the song that I feel is my life's theme song and the album is certainly the soundtrack of my life. But I cannot tire of something I love so much. Hotel California is one of those timeless masterpieces that never gets old and I can't get enough of. The solos on the end are amazing too and I love listening to Walsh and Felder duke it out. My favorite version is the recorded version but I also like the version on Eagles Live. I don't particularly care for the acoustic version on HFO though. It's too tame for me and I miss the electric solos. I want the original masterpiece.
Re: Eagles Album Survivor
I do think it's interesting that many hardcores don't list Hotel California as their favorite Eagles album. Perhaps it's because we focus on more than just the hits and popular sentiment.
Re: Eagles Album Survivor
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Originally Posted by
sodascouts
However, I do think it's interesting that many hardcores don't list Hotel California as their favorite Eagles album. Perhaps it's because we focus on more than just the hits and popular sentiment.
Ouch!
No really, I would definitely consider myself an Eagles hardcore fan and definitely an expert in the HC era Eagles in particular and HC is definitely my favorite. I think it has great song after great song, the fact they are hits aside. I also think sentiment means a lot to people and it certainly does to me. If it meant something to you or it was your favorite, you'd put it first on your list regardless of the quality or ranking of musicality. I find that HC is not only a musical masterpiece as I have said but the highest quality Eagles album not just in guitar parts (which I obviously am attracted to being a musician myself) but in lyrics and songwriting and overall composition. They just sound like great songs. There isn't a bad song on the album. Can't say the same for some of the others.
My whole thing on hits is that if a CLASSIC ROCK song is a hit, then it has to be a great song. There are no bad songs that are radio or otherwise hits. If a song is popular or a hit, it must be a good song musically. And if a song is high in the charts, it has to be that it is a great musical song and has great lyrics/musical parts/etc. Now obviously with modern music that is no longer true but for the GENRE of music we are talking about, it is true IMO.
I am admittedly attracted to hit songs. Deep Tracks/Obscure Songs don't do much for me I'm afraid. There is a reason they are deep tracks and not hits IMO! :hilarious: There are very few obscure songs that are truly great IME. When I listen to music, I want to hear Hotel California, Sweet Home Alabama, Walk This Way, You Shook Me All Night Long, etc. NOT Doolin-Dalton, All I Can Do Is Write About It, F.I.N.E, Bad Boy Boogie, etc.
Re: Eagles Album Survivor
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My whole thing on hits is that if a song is a hit, then it has to be a great song. There are no bad songs that are radio or otherwise hits. If a song is popular or a hit, it must be a good song musically. And if a song is high in the charts, it has to be that it is a great musical song and has great lyrics/musical parts/etc.
I totally disagree with this statement. Are you serious? You've never heard a really crap song that was a hit on the radio??? I can name at least 20, right off the top of my head
Re: Eagles Album Survivor
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Topkat
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I totally disagree with this statement. Are you serious? You've never heard a really crap song that was a hit on the radio??? I can name at least 20, right off the top of my head
Not from the 70s classic rock, no. All of the classic rock hits were amazing songs. Currently yes definitely but it is of my opinion that all modern current music pretty much sucks. :rofl: I'm a strictly 60s/70s/80s guy. So when I talk about hits - I'm talking 70s stuff. All of the 70s hits were great amazing tunes. All Right Now, Free Bird, Hotel California, Free Ride, Walk This Way, I could go on and on. I NEVER change the channel on a classic rock radio station. It is of my opinion that all Classic Rock from the 70s is amazing/perfect and that there are no bad Classic Rock songs. That is all I listen to - Classic Rock from 70s/80s and some 60s. I'm a purist in that regard. I want to hear the hits of the 70s and some 80s. That's my kind of music. New music since 1989 turns me off. I don't even bother listening to new music because whenever I do it makes me want to vomit profusely. :rofl: So yes all new songs on the radio do and can definitely suck. But not Classic Rock 70s hits. I love all of them. It's all I listen to. I'm picky. :D
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Walshfan88, I still have to disagree with you, there were plenty of crummy hit songs in the 70's. One that comes to mind is a song that a guy who sat behind me in school & kept singing in my ear "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" I still hate that song!!
Oh, & what about all that Disco Crap, that was the 70's also. You are only listening to a Classic rock station, but the 70's had loads of bad music that were big radio hits.
Re: Eagles Album Survivor
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Topkat
Walshfan88, I still have to disagree with you, there were plenty of crummy hit songs in the 70's. One that comes to mind is a song that a guy who sat behind me in school & kept singing in my ear "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" I still hate that song!!
Oh, & what about all that Disco Crap, that was the 70's also. You are only listening to a Classic rock station, but the 70's had loads of bad music that were big radio hits.
70s Disco isn't Classic Rock though! :D I'm talking about 70's Classic Rock. There might be others outside of the genre but as far as 70s rock ("Classic Rock") there are no bad songs and I love all of the 70s classic rock hits/songs.
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Quote Walshfan88
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My whole thing on hits is that if a song is a hit, then it has to be a great song. There are no bad songs that are radio or otherwise hits. If a song is popular or a hit, it must be a good song musically. And if a song is high in the charts, it has to be that it is a great musical song and has great lyrics/musical parts/etc.
This is your statement. I'm not going to argue this anymore, but what you said here, is not really what you are saying now! I was commenting on this quote. Peace out, baby............