Eagles Album Survivor

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Originally Posted by eaglesvet

I was reminded of a point I had made to Mike some time ago.

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That is an interesting thought you picked up on EV. I can't relate to it myself. I've never "grown" into the download market place when it comes to music. I just can't imagine an artist that I like coming out with a new recording (not just a group of songs) and me NOT buying the entire kit and kaboodle.

I have downloaded from Amazon.Com a couple of songs that were about a thousand years old without buying the entire album, but that was a special situation...a birthday and we were putting together a group of songs that the honnoree wanted and couldn't find them anywhere else.

But day to day, there is too much serendipity involved in albums just as EaglesVet implied.

:applause: Hotel California!!

EV- I knew when I got on here this morning that I would find that HC had won this game, and you are all right in saying it is really a win/win situation (actually that could be said of any of the albums). I had every intention of saying almost the exact thing you said. I'm not trying to create excuses here, BUT-let's face it-times have changed and the record buying public is basically no longer! I really feel that most of the people that bought the cd or album (or both like some :-?-umm not mentioning any names! LOL) were already Eagles fans and just happy to see anything new. That's not to say that there haven't been new fans that just found them due to this album but I think the majority who actually bought it already knew and liked them anyways. Some might have even bought it out of curiosity to see if they could still do it. At the very affordable price of $11.88, it was accessible to almost anyone who would want it. People just don't buy albums/cds much anymore. Much easier to set down at the computer and get it instantaneously.

That being said --I would of been happy seeing any of these albums win--but would of been OVERJOYED had it been LROOE! :lol:

The last few posts have made me extremely nostalgic! Oh, to go back to the time when you bought a new album, were so excited that you couldn't even wait until you got home - you would tear the plastic off in the car and look at everything, while the smell of the cardboard wafted up to your nose...
Then you would get home and immediatley play it as you scanned the lyrics to every song, reading who contributed what to what song...

:| :sad: :ack::cry::weep:

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Originally Posted by Prettymaid

The last few posts have made me extremely nostalgic! Oh, to go back to the time when you bought a new album, were so excited that you couldn't even wait until you got home - you would tear the plastic off in the car and look at everything, while the smell of the cardboard wafted up to your nose...
Then you would get home and immediatley play it as you scanned the lyrics to every song, reading who contributed what to what song...

:| :sad: :ack::cry::weep:

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:weep::weep: Thanks PM for depressing me!!! I know EXACTLY what you mean! That's why I still do it every chance I get with old albums-only thing is, sometimes instead of the "smell of the cardboard", I get the smell of mustiness! :-? but still love the HUGE pictures and liner notes!!

I need to start a campaign~~

BRING BACK VINYL!!!!

Sidenote: We saw the weather forecast here for the weekend and Larry made the comment that we might have to pull out the patio speakers and hook up Saturday night! Spring is close and Vinyl on the Patio again!!! :yay::yay:

We're just like our parents were - trying to tell us of things that were better the way they were, instead of improving technoligically. We didn't pay any attention to them, and kids aren't going to pay any attention to us! :headshake:

Well, to make you guys feel better, at least the sound quality has improved. Digital downloads are about as close to the studio masters as you're gonna get, provided they're high quality.

First of all ...

Congratulations to Hotel California!

It is a well-deserved win. However, as I have said before, for me there is no BAD Eagles album. Everyone of them is enjoyable in its own way. But, IMHO, I think the iconic status that Hotel California has achieved over the years sets it a little bit apart from the others.

As far as the nostalgia discussion - y'all are depressing me too, now. :lol: But, I really do remember the importance of the album covers back 'in the day'. As you all have said, I remember spending hours back then going over the covers inch-by-inch because it was mostly all we had. We didn't even have MTV back then, much less the Internet. Aside from the album covers, the only exposure Eagles fans got were rare magazine or radio interviews. TV appearances were almost non-existent. Of course, there were the live shows, but I was too poor to come up with $10 or $15 to buy a ticket.

Now talking about depressed - OMG - I'm old! :depressed:

Aww Dreamer you are not old :)

I say bring on the next Survivor game because this one is bringing me down talking about all the "old" stuff!! :rofl: I'm sympathizing with everyone here--The Good Ol' Days!-I'm feeling a wee bit old myself right now!

But look at all the things we got to experience growing up 'in the day'. We may feel old but we're very lucky!

PM,

I grew up in "the day". I pretty much Survived it. Honestly, there is very little that I would change...certainly would I not wish to have missed the experience of the Birth of the kind of music most everyone on this Forum anyway LOVES!

I worked my way through Transistor Radios, through Record Players, through 45 and 33-1/3 platters, through Component Stereos, through Reel to Reel tape recorders, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, VHS and DVDs, through the birth of Midi on computers on into the MP3 music formats and into the MP3 players...yes, the mini-disc recorder/players too.

There was none of it I didn't like. Well, saying I liked 8-track is stretching it a little <LOL>

But as some of you know, experiencing "first hand" what many will only be able to witness as "history" is something that I'll always cherish. Somehow, I really believe that the 70's and late 60's will be remembered just like the Roaring 20's are remembered today. It's been a special time.

I'm not too far behind ya Mike! And yes, the cultural changes that went on in the sixties and seventies, especially musically, make me happy that I grew up when I did.

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Originally Posted by Prettymaid

The last few posts have made me extremely nostalgic! Oh, to go back to the time when you bought a new album, were so excited that you couldn't even wait until you got home - you would tear the plastic off in the car and look at everything, while the smell of the cardboard wafted up to your nose...
Then you would get home and immediatley play it as you scanned the lyrics to every song, reading who contributed what to what song...

:| :sad: :ack::cry::weep:

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I went through all of that when I bought the LROOE CD, until the last part, where there were no contributions listed, and that is something that still jars with me.

But as far as buying music from iTunes I do it all the time. I have found that I've gone back and bought albums which I had on vinyl but never bought the CD (an example is Jackson Browne's Lives In The Balance; another is Van Morrison's Inarticulate Speech of the Heart). So I don't have hard copies of those albums but I do have the songs.

In Australia in the 70s the Eagles were virtually inaccessible, even on TV. I never saw the video of HC until the end of 1978 when the top pop music program finally showed it after having been bombarded with endless requests for it for two years (what did they show instead? Fleetwood Mac, Boz Scaggs, Peter Frampton, Abba and the Bee Gees, much as I love the Bee Gees. I never became the sort of Fleetwood Mac fan that Soda did because here they were completely over-exposed). So the Eagles were this huge mystery unlike anyone else, which was why I waited with increasing impatience for The Long Run.

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Originally Posted by Freypower

In Australia in the 70s the Eagles were virtually inaccessible, even on TV. I never saw the video of HC until the end of 1978 when the top pop music program finally showed it after having been bombarded with endless requests for it for two years (what did they show instead? Fleetwood Mac, Boz Scaggs, Peter Frampton, Abba and the Bee Gees, much as I love the Bee Gees. I never became the sort of Fleetwood Mac fan that Soda did because here they were completely over-exposed). So the Eagles were this huge mystery unlike anyone else, which was why I waited with increasing impatience for The Long Run.

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FP-I feel your pain! This kinda reminds me of myself in the late 70's wanting to see or hear anything by Sweet!! Here in the states they were basically nonexistent and I craved them!!

BTW~WOW-Boz Scaggs huh? I love him!!