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Originally Posted by shunlvswx
Teenage Jail?
And The Long Run, which I am pretty much alone on this board in disliking.
'Lovable infectiousness' of Lyin' Eyes. Please.
As for the 'Jewish' article that sounds like a parody. I don't know why Glenn's name is used given that he is barely mentioned in it.
I'm still waiting for some intelligent revision of the band's & especially Glenn's music.
I'd love to teach a course analyzing Eagles music! Sadly, I don't think it would go over too well at the college. However, I do insert the Eagles into my classes often. In my business writing class, I wrote a sample "scope of work" memo. For the content, I framed it as the Eagles writing a memo to Walmart regarding the scope of work and timetable for the recording of Long Road Out of Eden. I had written the sample memo before Glenn died. It was a little hard to pass it out and use it as a sample, honestly, but I do so anyway.
But I digress! It really is crazy what people can read into songs if they try hard enough.
Jack Tempchin has given a new interview where he talks about songwriting. Most of it is familar, but it's nice to read the good stuff again. I'm posting this extract because it's such a contrast to a lot of the comments we see about the band.
http://bestclassicbands.com/glenn-fr...iting-2-19-16/Quote:
It’s not a bad way to make a living, especially when one has mailbox money coming in from many (many) millions of Eagles albums. Tempchin resists stating a number when asked how much those two covers made him. “I earned enough to have a good living,” he does say. “Probably not as much as a doctor or lawyer. But great for me. I didn’t buy a yacht. I don’t need fancy cars.
“And because The Eagles and particularly my friend Glenn Frey are some of the few guys that I’ve met in life that are stand-up guys, I never had any trouble getting paid or getting credited for anything.” he adds. “They were just fantastic about that. Unlike a lot of the stories in the music business. They enabled me to just write songs my whole life and not to have other jobs.”
I fear we'll be waiting a long time, unless Soda writes the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
Talk about a dream job! Maybe I will someday. I know more about the Eagles than that guy just from reading copious interviews.
The Classic Rock History list isn't bad, but it is a bit perplexing. I love The Long Run album, and really like Teenage Jail, but there's no way I'd agree with it being the seventh best (!) Eagles song of all time. I'd actually agree with most of their comments about Jail having a cool, unique sound, but I felt their praise would have been better reserved for Those Shoes, which I think is a better song and has harmonised talk box guitars - how much more unique can you get?Quote:
Originally Posted by shunlvswx
I love the title track from The Long Run too (apart from anything else, I think all of the Eagles shine on it), but I disagree that it sounds 'carefree' - part of what I love about it is the confidence and swagger of the song. This is different from sounding carefree, which I'd use to describe some of the lighter songs from the debut album (Nightingale and Earlybird).
I was delighted to see Doolin-Dalton, I song I adore, in the top three, but in this case I'm afraid the author's comments make me wonder if he's actually listened to the whole Desperado album - once again the Doolin-Dalton/Desperado (Reprise) is just casually written off, as if it is no more important the 50-second banjo instrumental between CKOF and Outlaw Man, when I personally feel it stands as one of their greatest songs.
Having said all this though, I'm reasonably happy with most of the list itself. It's especially nice to see PMAIAR get some recognition, and I wouldn't argue too much with most of the other choices I haven't mentioned. I thought their point about Take It Easy being unusual in being such a strong first release was good too, although I think it would still stand up when compared to bands who were also very good from the beginning (I'd suggest Lynyrd Skynyrd, but Boston could perhaps also be used) rather than Dylan or Bowie obscurities. Also, as someone who doesn't like Don't Stop Believin' much (sorry Journey fans!) I didn't mind their contrast of Desperado with that song.
Having looked through some of their 'Best songs', I noticed they also recently did a Neil Young Top 10 which I read to see how much I agreed with it - I'd say that was a good list on the whole apart from the classics such as After The Gold Rush and Thrasher there were a few other excellent inclusions (I absolutely love Unknown Legend from Harvest Moon) but also a couple I would not agree with - Motion Pictures is a pretty good song, but IMO definitely not better than Ambulance Blues from the same album (On The Beach).
The 'Secret Jewish History' article can perhaps be best described as... different. I doubt many of the things actually suggested actually would have even occurred to the Eagles at the time. funny thing is it I think it would have been interesting to do it with a band which has Jewish members, like KISS or Rush. On the plus side, at least it was original!
Great article!
http://classicrock.teamrock.com/feat...-to-the-eagles
Thanks MT - I think I had seen that article before because I vaguely remember vehemently disagreeing with the writer's assessment of On the Border. He puts it in the "Avoid" category and I say WTF is he thinking? :shrug:
It's interesting how the albums are rated in this article. Since I've honestly never heard all of their albums except for Eden, Desporado and Greatest Hits, does the majority agree to avoid "On The Border"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Momma Tee
I'm surprised they included solo albums.
On the Border isn't their strongest album but the Eagles have never put out any album one should avoid. Their level of skill means that even the "weakest" of their albums is better than the best of most bands. I don't even think OTB is the weakest, by the way.
Can an album which contains "Already Gone," "The Best of My Love," "James Dean," and "Ol'55" be an album to AVOID? No!