Funk 50
03-01-2015, 11:05 AM
There's been quite a bit of discussion about the Eagles ability to rock on various topics. I didn't buy any Eagles albums until I I'd purchased all Walsh's albums. I was surprised how lame, Life In The Fast Lane sounded in comparison to Joe's solo albums, despite having the same producer. Maybe being placed between New Kid In Town and Wasted Time had something to do with it.
The Eagles have actually produced a rock album. Eagles Selected Works (The Fast Lane). Named after the definitive Eagles rocker that I thought sounded so lame. IMHO, despite including some of the greatest Eagles tracks, it's the worst Eagles CD.
Disc three: The Fast Lane
01 One of These Nights (Intro) – 1:59
02 One of These Nights – 4:49
03 Disco Strangler" – 2:45
04 Heartache Tonight – 4:25
05 Hotel California – 6:29
06 Born to Boogie (out-take from The Long Run Sessions) – 2:16
07 In the City – 3:44
08 Get Over It" – 3:29
09 King of Hollywood – 6:25
10 Too Many Hands – 4:40
11 Life in the Fast Lane – 4:44
12 The Long Run – 3:41
13 Long Run Leftovers – 3:02
14 The Last Resort – 7:29
15 Random Victims, Part 3 – 9:42
Given that it's required to include the Eagles best up-tempo tracks it'd be more of a challenge to make it worse rather than better.
Major Negatives:
One of These Nights (Intro)
I'm not a fan of Felder's official "One Of These Nights" intro so I was really looking forward to hearing an alternative. The actual track isn't just disappointing it's annoying. How can you start a rock album with an un-listenable radio extract. This isn't even good enough to be a secret track at the end of the CD. It's not just the worst Eagles opening track, it is the worst Eagles track full stop.
The Last Resort
Whether it's a rock song or not is debatable but it's certainly not "Fast Lane " material, even in the Eagles catalog. Again it's not something you'd want to listen to if you feel like rocking.
Born to Boogie
This was even lame on the Soul Pole LP. It's inclusion is an insult to tracks that didn't make Selected Works like Good Day In Hell (Felder Factor?) and Journey Of The Sorcerer.
Long Run Leftovers & Random Victims, Part 3
I'd be mildly interested in a full disc of unfinished Leftovers but a couple of medley's, again completely out of place, is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Disc Strangler
Should've been a Long Run Leftover, even if it made the album a track shorter.
Quite a few Long Run outtakes were finished and released on solo albums. The Eagles could have included those or re-recorded versions of them, on "The Fast Lane" or some pre-Szymczyk rockers that didn't make, "The Early Years" disc, or one or two of of the solo tracks, the Eagles had performed live, hundreds of times, by the time the Selected Works CD came out. Even soundcheck versions of those tracks would have been an improvement to some of what went on that disc.
The fact that there isn't any new material on Selected Works may show just how toxic Felder's presence in the band had become.
Selected Works was re-released in 2013, probably just to get rid of old, unsold stock but by that time, with the addition of the Long Road Out Of Eden tracks, The Eagles probably had enough decent rock songs to make an Eagles compilation that you could stick on the player and rock out to.
If you were making your own, or already have an Eagles Rocking Compilation disc or playlist, What would/did you put on it?
The Eagles have actually produced a rock album. Eagles Selected Works (The Fast Lane). Named after the definitive Eagles rocker that I thought sounded so lame. IMHO, despite including some of the greatest Eagles tracks, it's the worst Eagles CD.
Disc three: The Fast Lane
01 One of These Nights (Intro) – 1:59
02 One of These Nights – 4:49
03 Disco Strangler" – 2:45
04 Heartache Tonight – 4:25
05 Hotel California – 6:29
06 Born to Boogie (out-take from The Long Run Sessions) – 2:16
07 In the City – 3:44
08 Get Over It" – 3:29
09 King of Hollywood – 6:25
10 Too Many Hands – 4:40
11 Life in the Fast Lane – 4:44
12 The Long Run – 3:41
13 Long Run Leftovers – 3:02
14 The Last Resort – 7:29
15 Random Victims, Part 3 – 9:42
Given that it's required to include the Eagles best up-tempo tracks it'd be more of a challenge to make it worse rather than better.
Major Negatives:
One of These Nights (Intro)
I'm not a fan of Felder's official "One Of These Nights" intro so I was really looking forward to hearing an alternative. The actual track isn't just disappointing it's annoying. How can you start a rock album with an un-listenable radio extract. This isn't even good enough to be a secret track at the end of the CD. It's not just the worst Eagles opening track, it is the worst Eagles track full stop.
The Last Resort
Whether it's a rock song or not is debatable but it's certainly not "Fast Lane " material, even in the Eagles catalog. Again it's not something you'd want to listen to if you feel like rocking.
Born to Boogie
This was even lame on the Soul Pole LP. It's inclusion is an insult to tracks that didn't make Selected Works like Good Day In Hell (Felder Factor?) and Journey Of The Sorcerer.
Long Run Leftovers & Random Victims, Part 3
I'd be mildly interested in a full disc of unfinished Leftovers but a couple of medley's, again completely out of place, is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Disc Strangler
Should've been a Long Run Leftover, even if it made the album a track shorter.
Quite a few Long Run outtakes were finished and released on solo albums. The Eagles could have included those or re-recorded versions of them, on "The Fast Lane" or some pre-Szymczyk rockers that didn't make, "The Early Years" disc, or one or two of of the solo tracks, the Eagles had performed live, hundreds of times, by the time the Selected Works CD came out. Even soundcheck versions of those tracks would have been an improvement to some of what went on that disc.
The fact that there isn't any new material on Selected Works may show just how toxic Felder's presence in the band had become.
Selected Works was re-released in 2013, probably just to get rid of old, unsold stock but by that time, with the addition of the Long Road Out Of Eden tracks, The Eagles probably had enough decent rock songs to make an Eagles compilation that you could stick on the player and rock out to.
If you were making your own, or already have an Eagles Rocking Compilation disc or playlist, What would/did you put on it?