Originally Posted by
UndertheWire
Now for Don Felder.
His Eagles songs:
Visions (co-written with Don Henley)
Too Many Hands (co-written with Randy Meisner)
Hotel California (co-written with Don Henley and Glenn Frey)
Victim of Love (co-written with Don Henley and Glenn Frey)
The Disco Strangler (co-written with Henley-Frey)
Those Shoes (co-written with Henley Frey)
I don't think there's much doubt that Don F came up with the main musical ideas for all these songs but his contribution to the lyrics is more questionable.
I would guess that "Visions" has Felder lyrics with a polish from Henley. It's unlike anything else I've heard from Henley and is more like a few songs from Felder's Airborne album. Lyrically, I think it's the worst Eagle track. I hate those "Girl, you drive me wild" kind of songs.
In his book, Felder writes about the ideas being thrown around for Victim of Love, so it seems he played a part in the lyric-writing sessions with Frey, Henley and Souther.
When I listened to Airborne, I was surprised because the lyrics were not as bad as I had expected. However, some of them are creepy and sexist and just yuk. I'm going to guess that Don was just giving his audiences what he thought they wanted rather than writing from his heart. There's a nice song written for his wife about how they're going to grow old together. Overall, I've heard successful groups with worse lyrics but they're not up to "Eagles standard".
I haven't listened to much of the new album.