Happy 45th Desperado! My absolute favourite Eagles album
Happy 45th Desperado! My absolute favourite Eagles album
Happy birthday, Desperado! I love this album. May I suggest this to the admins for our next survivor game? *hint hint*
Happy birthday desperado! Top 3 Eagles album to me. I like all the songs a lot (besides twenty one). Tells a great story and it’s balanced throughout.
The only Eagles album on which I like every song (even Out of Control, barely)
Happy 45th anniversary to my second favorite Eagles album ...
DESPERADO!!!
To me, this album has grown better with time. I never gained a full appreciation for it until about 10 - 15 years ago when I bought my Eagles box set and listened to it intently after many years. This album is one of the band's most influential pieces of work and they have performed every song on it live. I love the line that Glenn used about it in the Under the Covers DVD when looking at some old photos - "This isn't history, it's evidence". And Soda, also love your celebration banner - in the same DVD, Don describes how cool it was to ride down Sunset Blvd. and see themselves on a billboard.
"People don't run out of dreams: People just run out of time ..."
Glenn Frey 11/06/1948 - 01/18/2016
I was just scanning this thread (which is very interesting if I must say so myself) and was reminded of a little 'game' we used to do several years ago. Since we aren't going to do a Survivor game for Desperado yet, I thought it may be something interesting to revive, especially for some of our newer members.
If you go back to pages 10 - 13 in this thread, you will see how this all worked. I'll go ahead and repost the beginning post here. If you want to post your list, I'll recalulate the results and post them in about a week. For older members who already contributed, you can repost your list if you like, but I won't include them in the final compilation.
So here goes - I'm going to recap how this works for those folks who may be new to this ...
This isn’t exactly a game, but more like a poll with no other purpose than to be an exercise of fun. I’m going to list all the songs on the album and ask folks to rank them in the order that they like the songs from favorite to least favorite. I’ll give folks a week to post their list in this thread, and then I’ll calculate the results so you can see how close your list is to the combined results.
I’ll calculate the lists like this. There are 10 songs on the album, so I’ll assign a point value of 10 points to the song that each person lists in 1st place, 9 points for the 2nd place song, and so on until the last place song gets 1 point as follows:
Song 1 – 10 points
Song 2 – 9 points
Song 3 – 8 points
Song 4 – 7 points
Song 5 – 6 points
Song 6 – 5 points
Song 7 – 4 points
Song 8 – 3 points
Song 9 – 2 points
Song 10 – 1 point
For example, Person A puts the song ‘ABC’ in 3rd place so it gets 8 points; Person B puts ‘ABC’ in 5th place so it gets 6 points; and Person C puts ‘ABC’ in 6th place so it gets 5 points. So all total, the song ‘ABC’ gets 19 points. Then, Person A puts the song ‘XYZ’ in 1st place so it gets 10 points; Person B puts ‘XYZ’ in 4th place so it gets 7 points; and Person C puts ‘XYZ’ in 2nd place so it gets 9 points. So all total, the song ‘XYZ’ gets 26 points.
After I calculate the combined scores from everyone’s list, I’ll post the list in the order of which songs had the highest points to the lowest. You will be able to see how close your list comes to the “master” list. If others post a list after a week, I’ll update it with their scores. So here we go – the songs for the Desperado album are as follows:
Doolin-Dalton
Twenty-One
Out of Control
Tequila Sunrise
Desperado
Certain Kind of Fool
Outlaw Man
Saturday Night
Bitter Creek
Doolin-Dalton/Desperado Reprise
Now, list these songs in the order of your most favorite to least favorite.
"People don't run out of dreams: People just run out of time ..."
Glenn Frey 11/06/1948 - 01/18/2016
Good idea. Here's my list from most favorite to least favorite.
1. Desperado
2. Doolin-Dalton/Desperado Reprise
3. Doolin-Dalton
4. Tequila Sunrise
5. Saturday Night
6. Outlaw Man
7. Certain Kind Of Fool
8. Out of Control
9. Twenty-One
10. Bitter Creek
Brothers for life. RIP Glenn
I'm not sure I believe in fate, but I know that crossing paths with Glenn Lewis Frey in 1970 changed my life forever, and it eventually had an impact on the lives of millions of other people all over the planet. It will be very strange going forward in a world without him in it. But, I will be grateful, every day, that he was in my life. Rest in peace, my brother. You did what you set out to do, and then some." -Don Henley
Good idea for a game! This is hard, I love this album, but here's my list:
1. Desperado
2. Tequila Sunrise
3. Saturday Night
4. Outlaw Man
5. Doolin Dalton
6. Doolin Dalton/Desperado Reprise
7. Out of Control
8. Twenty-One
9. Bitter Creek
10. Certain Kind of Fool
Last edited by groupie2686; 04-19-2018 at 10:26 AM.
By my count there's 11 songs on this album. My ranking:
1. Doolin-Dalton (instrumental)
2. Doolin Dalton/Desperado (reprise)
3. Doolin-Dalton
4. Saturday Night
5. Certain Kind of Fool
6. Twenty-One
7. Bitter Creek
8. Desperado
9. Tequila Sunrise
10. Outlaw Man
11. Out of Control