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    Default Eagles Song Survivor: Non-Studio Album Songs

    Time for the Non-Studio Album Song Survivor! If you're new, for a basic overview of the game, see this post: Survivor Overview

    I'm going to list the songs competing in the game here. Vote for the song that you feel should be eliminated from the list. The song that gets the most votes will be taken off of the list (or, in the language of Survivor, "Voted off of the island.") Each round, one more song will get axed, until there's only one left. Remember: you're voting for your LEAST favorite, not your favorite.

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    GAME OVER!


    The winner is:

    Seven Bridges Road


    Songs Eliminated:
    Funky New Year 6/15
    All Night Long 6/17
    Please Come Home for Christmas 6/19
    Get You in the Mood 6/21
    Love Will Keep Us Alive 6/23
    One Day at a Time 6/25
    The Girl from Yesterday 6/27
    Life’s Been Good 6/29
    Learn To Be Still 7/1
    Hole in the World 7/3
    Get Over It 7/5


    Thanks for playing and hope everyone enjoyed the game.

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    Glenn Frey 11/06/1948 - 01/18/2016

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    I Vote get you in the mood. Glenn was just not an accomplished songwriter and it shows in the song.

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    Default Re: Eagles Song Survivor: Non-Studio Album Songs

    Quote Originally Posted by YoungEaglesFan View Post
    I Vote get you in the mood. Glenn was just not an accomplished songwriter and it shows in the song.
    I hope you mean he wasn't accomplished at the time he wrote it. He was young. He had to learn. It's a lot better than a couple of other tracks which were on the first album, in my view.

    I think this will be a hard game for me because I suspect my opinions will be very different from others.

    Here goes:

    Please Come Home For Christmas.

    (I am still getting gaps of two lines when I type paragraphs. It's annoying. Oh well).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freypower View Post
    I hope you mean he wasn't accomplished at the time he wrote it. He was young. He had to learn. It's a lot better than a couple of other tracks which were on the first album, in my view.

    I think this will be a hard game for me because I suspect my opinions will be very different from others.

    Here goes:

    Please Come Home For Christmas.

    (I am still getting gaps of two lines when I type paragraphs. It's annoying. Oh well).
    Oh of course. I should have clarified. I think it’s the worst song out of all the Glenn sung or written songs on the album but we can disagree on that

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    Default Re: Eagles Song Survivor: Non-Studio Album Songs

    OK, yeah, GYIM is... not his best work.


    But I'm voting for LBG just because it's a solo song, essentially, so I think it should go before the true Eagles stuff.

    I cast my vote for Life's Been Good.

    Always in our hearts, Never forgotten

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    My vote is for One Day At A Time, not really and Eagles song to me. It was either this or Life's Been Good, but its such a fun song I will leave it for now.

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    Okay - I want to make a few comments in defense of Get You in the Mood. Now, I am not going to pretend that it’s a great song, but, IMO, it is better than Funky New Year. The lyrics in both songs leave a lot to be desired, but, to me, at least, Get You in the Mood has a pretty decent melody and I actually like the chorus. I think the music is pretty good as well. I’ve said before it’s hard for me to believe that the same four men who wrote Heartache Tonight are responsible for Funky New Year – ‘my hair hurts’ … I mean really? The melody and music don’t have a whole lot going for them either. And, to think, by the time FNY was written, these men were supposedly seasoned songwriters. Maybe my hair will start hurting too if I don’t stop scratching my head because, to me, it is clearly the worst song in this game. lol I’m going to withhold my vote for now, but if I can help eliminate Funky New Year, then I’m so there.

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    Learn To Be Still
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    I will just say I think Life's Been Good is much better as an Eagles song than a Joe solo song. I don't even listen to the original anymore. The dueling guitars with Felder, the harmonies, all of it. The fun they had playing it on stage. Both during the Christchurch HFO concert and the F1 DVD, Glenn has a ball playing that song and really cracks up and Joe with his camera hat. I loved it.

    Life's Been Good describes Glenn, Don, and Tim as much as it does Joe. They all were hard partiers and loved trashing rooms. To me it's the band's theme song.

    For me, the version on Eagles Live makes the original on But Seriously Folks unlistenable. It's that much better. So while it might not win, I'd hate to see it go right out of the gate. It's a great Eagles song, unofficially.
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    Wow. I love Get You in the Mood. The way it starts off with those lone guitar notes and the ascending bass riff really sets the “mood” of the song. Glenn’s voice is hot and sultry and that bluesy guitar solo is killer. Are these his finest lyrics? No, but he was still finding his way. I think it’s a pretty solid effort and I can’t imagine it going before some of the others on the list.

    Ok, here’s my rather controversial choice: Love Will Keep Us Alive.

    Sorry, Timothy, I love your voice but I do not care for this song. It wasn’t written by an Eagle and it doesn’t sound like an Eagles song. Any band could have recorded it. I’m aware it was a hit on the AC charts but I don’t think that says much other than “we’re turning in our rock cred card and have arrived in Middle-Aged Snoozeville.”

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Timothy himself rues the day he ever presented the song to the band cause now he’s stuck with it for perpetuity.

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