Eagles Song Survivor: The Long Run

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Originally Posted by UK TimFan

Although voting hasn't yet finished, I think I'm going to start :weep:, and I probably won't stop before Christmas.
Tim can rock with the best of them when he's given the chance. As those of us who've seen and heard 'Parachute' live will testify.

(Though I suppose most of you must love him in a way because he did make final two. :))

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I absolutely love Timmy and if ICTYW was competing for the win against any other song except Heartache Tonight it would have my vote in a hot second. But HA is pretty much my favorite Eagles song so what choice do I have? :rofl:

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Originally Posted by sodascouts

As much as I love I Can't Tell You Why with its smoky vocals, great melodic interplay, and those slow, sensual guitar solos...

I cast my vote (to no one's surprise) for the awesomeness that is known as

HEARTACHE TONIGHT!

Because I am pressed for time, I'm going to copy and paste my description from the "Celebration of the Long Run" thread to explain why it should win:

Here we have the highlight of The Long Run which is right up there with the Eagles' best work. This song showed they could still pull it out. What's not to like about it? Glenn's vocal is off the chain - no wonder he won a freaking Grammy for it! The way he growls "Heartache Tonight" and belts out that chorus, the way he sings that "We can beat around the bushes" segment, even his whoops at the end.... they all exude vitality and energy; it's the way he sings the entire song. It's downright exciting to listen to it. It makes you wanna crank the volume up and rock out, singing along at the top of your lungs. The catchy guitar riffs, the way the guitar starts up, then backs off and sneaks back in as you move towards the chorus at which point it comes back full blast, the part where the music drops out and the vocals go acapella with just the beat, the use of the handclaps... everything about this song works. To this day it's a showstopper that brings the house down. To put it simply: Heartache Tonight ROCKS MY WORLD!!

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What she said!!!

I've said this before - I don't have a single favorite Eagles song. However, this song is always near the top of the list for me. Therefore, to quote Soda further ...

I cast my vote for the awesomeness that is

HEARTACHE TONIGHT!!!

Well, the tribe has spoken and it's time to announce the winner of The Long Run Survivor. Let's all congratulate our top vote getter...

HEARTACHE TONIGHT

Votes
Heartache Tonight - 15
I Can't Tell You Why - 7

Vote Breakdown
Heartache Tonight - WalshFan88
Heartache Tonight - Prettymaid
Heartache Tonight - pueblo47
Heartache Tonight - Eve
Heartache Tonight - AzEaglesFan
Heartache Tonight - Peekaboo
Heartache Tonight - Glennsallnighter
Heartache Tonight - Koala
Heartache Tonight - tequila girl
Heartache Tonight - sodascouts
Heartache Tonight - Brooke
Heartache Tonight - eaglesvet
Heartache Tonight - luvthelighthouse
Heartache Tonight - Wildthyme
Heartache Tonight - Ive always been a dreamer
I Can't Tell You Why - whitcap
I Can't Tell You Why - timfan
I Can't Tell You Why - EagleLady
I Can't Tell You Why - Troubadour
I Can't Tell You Why - EaglesFanatic
I Can't Tell You Why - UK TimFan
I Can't Tell You Why - TimothyBFan


Songs eliminated:
The Disco Strangler 09/26
Teenage Jail 09/28
The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks 9/30
The Sad Café 10/3
King of Hollywood 10/5
Those Shoes 10/7
In the City 10/9
The Long Run 10/11
I Can't Tell You Why 10/13

Congrats, Heartache Tonight!

To celebrate, watch a video of the Eagles rocking this song!

Heartache Tonight (Christchurch 1995)
Download .mpg (50 megs)
Download .wmv (11 megs)

Or listen to them doing it in Osaka, Japan in 1979:



Thanks to everyone who participated for making this a Survivor for the history books!

And more video fun!

This will undoubtedly be taken down soon, so enjoy it while you can!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpPu80vWuw[/ame]

Awwww Congratulations to Heartache Tonight and well done too to a very worthy runner up!

Love the vids. Do we have it from Dublin in 92?

Not that I can find on the internet - sorry!

Congrats to Heartache Tonight :-(

Congratulations to Heartache Tonight and to the runner-up, I Can't Tell You Why. For some reason I feel like ICTYW was the underdog to The Long Run, and I like rooting for the underdog. Here's to a fun and interesting game! :soda:

Congratulations to Heartache Tonight!!!

Just in case I didn't make myself clear before, I absolutely LOVE this song. :wink: To me, it is definitely one of the top five songs in the band's entire catalog - just a cut above most of the rest. Nothing against the other songs, but I honestly would have been shocked if it had not won this game. I really do love The Long Run and I Can't Tell You Why as well, but my guess is The Long Run would not have won this game against Heartache Tonight either. All you have to do is listen to the audience's reaction at a live show to see how much most people love this song.

One thing I forgot to post earlier is about how much my young niece and nephew love the song. Whenever it plays when we are riding in my car, my 5-year old niece thinks Glenn is singing "There's going to be a party tonight". It makes her 8-year old brother really mad that she keeps messing the song up when she is rocking out to it. :lol:

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Originally Posted by EagleLady

Congrats to Heartache Tonight :-(

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EL, I love your enthusiasm! :lol: I thought ICTYW should have won, but Heartache Tonight is a great song too! Congrats HT :applause:

Congratulations to Heartache Tonight

Congrats to Heartache Tonight!!! Tho it's not the song I voted for, it was still a win/win for me!! It was my 2nd and as I said from the get go, I really didn't care which of those 2 songs won. LOVE them both!!

CONGRATS TO HEARTACHE TONIGHT! :rockguitar::band::guitar:

Love it, love it, love it! Well done! Any of the last three could have won for me, but HT is my favorite from this album. We made it come out right! :wink:

Thanks for a fun game once again, Soda and Dreamer! :thumbsup:

Congratulations to Heartache Tonight!

I was just cleaning out some stuff and found my few brief notes I took for this game. Never even looked at them because I knew exactly how I wanted it to go down.

Here's what they say....

Those Shoes-love the tune. Wonder if they had someone in mind when it was written. Love the way the line "You want someone to talk to. They just want to get their hands on you." is said.

In The City-Tho the harmony is good, I find it a bit boring.

The Long Run-Each voice is so distinctive. Can pick out each voice and who it belongs to. Was he thinking of a certain debutante in Houston? Love the way "Long, long, long, long" keeps getting lower and lower at the end.

I Can't Tell You Why-Tim's voice is amazing...emotional and soulful. I remember the first time I heard it, I was "lost" in it. Sells it with the emotion in his voice. Remember realizing that my favorite song on the album was sung by that beautiful new bass player!

The Sad Cafe-Love the words and Don's voice. The Distinctive voices again. Love when can make out who each voice belongs to.

Heartache Tonight-Love the beginning, "Someone's gonna hurt someone before the night is thru". Grabs you right from the top! Love every word of this song. The Don't want the night to end feeling here.

Teenage Jail-All I can think of is, "what were they thinking".

King Of Hollywood-The sexy voice of Don helps sell this. You can feel the "sleaze" of this guy. Glenn and Don's voices mesh so well. Tho redundant, how can anyone hear "We gonna take care of ..." and not want to melt.

Disco Strangler-Not as bad as some people make it out to be. Some of the phrases..."And Rome is burning but that's alright"... WHAT?

Greeks Don't Want No Freaks-What the heck? "Half hour later, you were barfing all over your girlfriend's shoes." Seriously? How drunk/high were Glenn & Don when they wrote it? I remember I use to love the line, "found her in the bushes with the boys in the band." Yeah--- I wish!!! :lol:

LOL! That line you picked out in Disco Strangler is the only one I like.

"He's the filddler in your darkest night - and Rome is burning, but that's alright."

It refers to the old legend that the Roman emperor Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. I almost made that one of our Survivor immunity questions, in fact.

If the song is presenting the disco phenomenon as strangling rock'n'roll, one could interpret the "Rome is burning" reference as a metaphor for the blithe lack of concern about the obliteration of good music from the consciousness of the disco-lovin' populace. Just guessing. If I'm right, though, it was very cleverly done. I give "Disco Strangler" props for that, and that alone. lol

I'm so very happy that Heartache Tonight won!!! One of my favorite parts of the song is around the 2:40 mark when Glenn sings "Somebody" and at the 2:55 mark when he sings "Everybody". I often rewind those parts because I just LOVE his voice right there. There's something about the way he sings those two words that just makes me melt every time. Glenn's voice throughout the song is superb and for me this song goes down as one of Glenn's best on lead vocals.

I'd also like to give ICTYW a big round of applause. Although I'm partial to the rockers this song is one of the best of all of the Eagles ballads and it held strong against one of their best rocking out songs. :applause: :thumbsup:

Congratulations to Heartache Tonight.

I had two songs in mind to win for the final round. In the City (my first pick) and Heartache Tonight. Since ITC didn't win, I'm glad Heartache Tonight did. :)

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Originally Posted by WalshFan88

Congratulations to Heartache Tonight.

I had two songs in mind to win for the final round. In the City (my first pick) and Heartache Tonight. Since ITC didn't win, I'm glad Heartache Tonight did. :)

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Yeah WF88, some people just can't appreciate the finer things in life! :wink:

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Originally Posted by Prettymaid

Yeah WF88, some people just can't appreciate the finer things in life! :wink:

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:D In the City is great, definitely one of my favorites and my favorite from that album.

Just a quick note of congratulations to this wonderful, superb song. I haven't read the whole thread yet but I just had to say I am so glad it won so thanks to everyone who voted for it. :yay:

I hopped online, glimpsed your name, and thought I was seeing things!

WELCOME BACK, JULIE!!!

We've missed you.

Thanks Lou!

If I had played my elimination order would have been:

Teenage Jail
The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks
The Disco Strangler
The Long Run
In The City
I Can't Tell You Why
Those Shoes
The Sad Cafe
King Of Hollywood
Heartache Tonight

I wish I shared the enthusiasm for ITC & TLR but I am afraid I don't, whereas I worship KOH & see Sad Cafe as very underrated.

So glad you're back, FP! Dreamer and I were just saying at lunch how much we missed you and that we hoped you'd be back soon. Looks like our wish was granted!