Which was your first Eagles album?

[UndertheWire]

I have a feeling I paid £2.14 for Desperado back in 1973. According to an online inflation calculator, that's equivalent to £25.47 today. 43 years later, I could buy a CD box set with the first 6 studio albums for £14.68 ie £2.44 each.

Suddenly, it makes sense how rock stars became rich in the 70s and why it's so much harder now.

[DJ]

I'm old I had the very first Eagles album. Ha!

[Jonny Come Lately]

So glad to hear everyone's enjoying this thread! I love hearing about which albums people started out with.

Interestingly, at the time of writing this, three albums are standing out by far as the most frequent 'starting points':
Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (1971-75) - 13 votes
Eagles - 12 votes
Hotel California - 11 votes

All of these have at least double the number of votes that the other options have received.

I have to say I'm a little surprised that no one who has voted so far started with One Of These Nights. I wasn't shocked that few of the voters first heard the less successful Desperado and On The Border albums, whereas OOTN was a number one album and had three hit songs. There is nothing wrong with that at all of course, it's just slightly different to what I had expected (if you'd asked me before doing this which 1970s album would have been the least common starting point, it would have been one of the two I mentioned). This view was probably heavily influenced by my own experiences - my parents own two Eagles CDs, these being OOTN and HC, so those were the first two I heard.