Do you have a favorite Eagles song?

[ailsagirl]

These are my top favorites

Already Gone
Take it to the Limit
Hotel California (love the guitar duet at the end)
I Can't Tell You Why
One of These Nights
Take it Easy

There are others but these are my current favorites

[Zoonart]

1. That's easy!

FLY EAGLES FLY!!!!
Sorry...I hijacked your thread.

[mvd]

17. Lol, good one!

I am with you.

As for the actual band, I would say "Hotel California."

[Tree-Hugger]

56. +1 nt

[FM123]

2. All of the above AND Peaceful Easy Feeling

[PJMcK]

3. No (n/t)

[ms liberty]

4. Seven Bridges Road. n/t

[ailsagirl]

18. LOVE their harmonies

Too bad the band itself was anything but harmonious

[Moostache]

5. Desperado ... has a sickening resonnance lately...it's always felt like a song of loss

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
You've been out ridin' fences
For so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you've got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones
That you can't get

Desperado
Oh, you ain't getting no younger
Your pain and your hunger
They're driving you home
And freedom, oh, freedom
Well that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
And you're losing all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away...

Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
(let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late

[ailsagirl]

20. To be honest, I know only Linda Ronstadt's version

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It's a sad song

Thanks for the link!

[Botany]

81. God how I love her take on that song

[MuseRider]

57. I heard an amazing Irish mens group

sing this a few years ago. It was voted their favorite ever song from the USA and they sang it beautifully.

I have always thought it was about drugs, maybe something like heroin or could be alcohol. I do not know their history well but I did love listening to them. I loved Randy Meisner's voice. I wish that had worked out better.

I recently downloaded one of their greatest hits albums so I could listen to my fav's, too many to mention. Maybe Take It to the Limit and I don't know why, I just love it and Take it Easy.

I saw them as the lead up band to the Doobie Brothers.

[ailsagirl]

71. There was something sweet and appealing about Randy

And that voice!!! So pure and soaring!!

[CentralMass]

80. It's one of my favorites.

[MontanaMama]

6. There's so many!

Witchy Woman

The Last Resort - a heart breaker.
https://vimeo.com/174933967

[ailsagirl]

21. Thanks for posting!

[wendyb-NC]

7. Hotel California

[ailsagirl]

22. You know, that is a rather disturbing song-- the lyrics, I mean

Not that I think the song is "evil" or anything like that-- just rather ummm... nightmarish

But fantastically well-crafted, I might add (Henley was an English Lit major, after all)

Despite the "nightmarish" aspect, I'm still drawn to it

[lastlib]

34. I've read that some of the lyrics are references to the Manson murders...

"We haven't had that spirit here since 1969. And still those voices are calling from far away..."
"They stabbed it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the Beast."

Don't know if it's true, but certainly provocative to ponder.

[shanny]

8. The Last Resort

"...call someplace Paradise, kiss it good-bye."

[unblock]

9. +1

[NotASurfer]

15. Yes!

Oddly there is a town of Paradise in CA

Doubt it had anything to do with the lyrics but it's in the remote-bible-thumping-Trumpers part of the state, unintentional fit I suppose

[shanny]

26. iirc the verses refer to Aspen, Malibu and Lahaina...

Never lived in any of those places, but did live in several that were similar and yeah, they be gone now....

[lastlib]

35. "Who will provide the Grand Design?..."

"What is yours, and what is mine?
There is no more new frontier
We have got to make it here.
We satisfy our endless needs,
And justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny,
And in the name of God."

[LisaM]

77. I love those lyrics.

That album is very, very underappreciated.

[unblock]

10. wasted time

[ailsagirl]

23. Yes-- sad, too

[nmgaucho]

11. Pretty Maids all in a Row w Joe Walsh

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[mpcamb]

45. Joe Walsh - Ordinary Average Guy

Not exactly Eagles, since it's from a '91 solo album, but the lyrics always make me laugh.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

12. Life In The Fast Lane

Just because of those killer, flubby, overdriven Tweed Deluxe tones in the intro (and Joe Walsh's lead work as well).

Aside from that, not much of an Eagles fan. Huge Joe Walsh fan, though.

[lunasun]

58. Everything said above - same

^^^^

[msongs]

13. new kid in town for its exquisite harmony and guitar play nt

[logosoco]

14. Hotel California came on Pandora JUST as I got in the lounge!

But that is not really my favorite one!

Seven Bridges Road would be most likely the one! I like their music! It was very much in the sound track of my life.

[red dog 1]

16. Peaceful Easy Feeling & Take It Easy

(They are my co-favorites)

[ailsagirl]

19. Love Randy Meisner's HIGH voice, esp in Take it to the Limit

How did he do that, anyway??

[shanny]

27. He made a solo album that I have also...

amazing voice

[ailsagirl]

32. I guess he can't really sing anymore

[FiveGoodMen]

40. Also great on Try and Love Again

[Jakes Progress]

62. Exactly. I actually

stopped some time back on my way to Southern California. I had my friend in the truck take my picture while I was "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona". I waited for a while for a flat-bed Ford, but one never showed up.

[gratuitous]

24. One I didn't care for at first, but it has grown on me over the decades

The Long Run.

[Dulcinea]

25. Take It to the Limit

"...If it all fell to pieces tomorrow/Would you still be mine?"

I also like Seven Bridges Road.

[ailsagirl]

44. Wonderful song-- I've been playing it to death

[doc03]

28. That's easy none of them nt

[ghostsinthemachine]

29. Bitter Creek

Loved it.

[Ohiogal]

30. I've always liked "The Best of My Love" from On The Border

[lastlib]

82. the most passionate slow dance I ever had was to that song.......

it was at one of their concerts on the "Hell Freezes Over" tour, in the aisle between the seat rows. (I never even knew the girl's name, but I kept her from splitting her head open on the concrete--twice. Both times, I caught her falling over the back of the stadium seats when the one she was standing on folded up under her. She made it a very interesting night, even beyond the great show and great music!)

[Chipper Chat]

31. Take It Easy

Still haven't visited Winslow Arizona however.

[ailsagirl]

33. :)

[Kali]

36. Peaceful Easy Feeling for sentimental reasons

Desperado

actually pretty much anything BEFORE Hotel California

[area51]

37. I'm partial to Hotel California.

I love the guitar work in this '94 version.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30pss5

[Dave Starsky]

38. Never cared for the Eagles, really, BUT...

They sound FANTASTIC when you're stoned!

I listened to Lyin' Eyes once under the influence of a few bong hits and thought that it was the greatest fucking song ever written or performed. It nearly brought me to tears, it was so awesome.

I believe that also explains the popularity of The Grateful Dead.

[ailsagirl]

39. Interesting...

Maybe I'll try that

[Beausoleil]

41. Desperado

My first concert was in June of 1972; the Eagles opened for Jethro Tull.

I'd never heard a live electric guitar before and I was blown away. Of course Desperado hadn't been released yet but Take it Easy, Witchy Woman and Peaceful Easy Feeling were all fantastic live. This was the Eagles first tour.

Then Tull came on and blew the place apart with Aqualung and Locomotive Breath.

I saw the Eagles again in 76 after Joe joined. With Linda Ronstadt.

Good times.

[ailsagirl]

42. That really must have been something

Thanks for sharing!!

[LisaM]

78. I love the song.

Back on the late 70s, my friend Pam and I often treated the good citizens of Ann Arbor to a live version as well walked home from the bar in the falling snow and if I could turn back the clock to then and there, I would.

[KG]

43. get out of my cab

[mulsh]

46. someone has to do this...

[link:

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I didn't hate the Eagles until I saw theHistory of the Eagles parts 1 & 2. Maybe it was watching both parts in one evening or the flaming and embarrassing egos of Glen and Don.

Naw, I've never cared much for their music. And you can see how that has effected their over all success and popularity.

Now Joe Walsh...

[ailsagirl]

47. I read Felder's Book Heaven and Hell...

and was really turned off by the arrogance and greed of Henley & Frey. And their pettiness and spite.

I think it's their older music I like the best, e.g., Already Gone

Such a buoyant song! Their latter songs seemed increasingly dark to me

[Docreed2003]

51. Hahahahahahaha....glad there are like minded folks here

I came to post the same, just because I love that movie so much

[NightWatcher]

48. Which one is the shortest?

[ailsagirl]

49. I completely understand

I'm just sort of enjoying a personal renascence of Eagles' songs, which is what made me start this thread in the first place.

[NightWatcher]

50. I was just being snarky.

I never had an Eagles phase and by the time I came into music Hotel California was already overplayed. I did have huge Led Zeppelin and even a Rush phase in middle school before grunge came along in 1989.

[ailsagirl]

63. I did like Led Zeppelin but tired of them after too long

My favorite (main) vocalist continues to be Roger Daltrey

Unfortunately or fortunately, I'm too old for grunge

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

52. I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!

[Hoyt]

53. Liked most of their stuff up until Bernie Leadon left. After that,

not so much.

[mr_lebowski]

54. Not sure its' my FAVORITE, but since nobodies named Randy's "Try and Love Again"

I'll put that one first. I never much listened to it back in the 70's (it was mostly Side One of Hotel California) ... so didn't as sick of it as most other Eagles.

Other Faves:
The Sad Cafe
The Last Resort
Life In The Fast Lane

Oh, and try listening to Desperado and Wasted Time when you're in the middle of kicking sometime ... they'll take on a whole new impact and meaning I can promise ya that ...

[DinahMoeHum]

55. Sorry, just too many to pick.

Believe it or not, various country music artists did a whole compilation album of Eagles songs back in 1993, titled Common Thread - The Songs Of The Eagles.
The CD went 3X platinum in sales and won the Country Music Association (CMA) Album Of The Year in 1994.

My particular favorite was Alan Jackson's version of Tequila Sunrise:

[muntrv]

59. The Long Run.

[Liberal Veteran]

60. Wasted Time

Well baby, there you stand
With your little head, down in your hand
Oh, my God, you can't believe it's happening again
Your baby's gone, and you're all alone
And it looks like the end

And you're back out on the street
And you're tryin' to remember
How do you start it over
You don't know if you can
You don't care much for a stranger's touch
But you can't hold your man

You never thought you'd be alone
This far down the line
And I know what's been on your mind
You're afraid it's all been wasted time

The autumn leaves have got you thinking
About the first time that you fell
You didn't love the boy too much, no, no
You just loved the boy to well, farewell

So you live day to day
And you dream about tomorrow, oh
And the hours go by like minutes
And the shadows come to stay
So you take a little something
To make them go away
I could have done so many things, baby
If I could only stop my mind
From wonderin' what I left behind
And from worrying 'bout this wasted time

Ooh, another love has come and gone
Ooh, and the years keep rushing on
I remember what you told me before you went out on your own
Sometimes to keep it together, we got to leave it alone

So you can get on with your search, baby
And I can get on with mine
And maybe someday we will find
That it wasn't really wasted time

[3catwoman3]

61. So many to choose from.

Make mine "Lyin' Eyes."

[ailsagirl]

64. I like that one too, only it's a rather long song!

Six minutes or something

Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone broke down those barriers (among many others), though some of the radio stations (probably the AM ones) played only the short version, as I recall

Let's face it-- he revolutionized the whole rock scene

[3catwoman3]

66. Did you know he has an album of...

...Christmas songs -

[ailsagirl]

67. Really? Dylan?

I guess it's not that surprising since he did embrace born-again Christianity, but that was a long time ago.

Interesting to find that out-- that man never fails to surprise me!

[3catwoman3]

68. Yup - Dylan. 2009.

Here you go - https://www.thenation.com/article/bob-dylans-christmas-album-joke/

[ailsagirl]

69. Thanks for the link!

BTW, cats and books are very high on my must have list, too!!

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

65. I like so many of their songs

If I had to pick one, it'd be "Hotel California".

[Shrek]

70. "In the City"

Takes me back to the end of The Warriors which is one of my guilty pleasures from the 70s.

[egduj]

72. Hotel California as performed by the Gipsy Kings

[Upthevibe]

73. I'm a big Eagles fan so I have many favorites....

Desperado, Ole' 55 (written by Tom Waits but on their On The Border album), Hotel California, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Already Gone, Try and Love Again, My Man (yeah, I love On The Border), You Never Cry Like a Lover, Is it True, and most of their hits.....

[Upthevibe]

74. Is that the version that's in The Big Lebowski? n/t

[Generic Brad]

75. Get Over It

I know it’s sarcastic, but I have to confess it is a catchy tune.

[TomSlick]

79. My love for Get Over It is my dirty little secret.

It's at least sarcastic. It should be the theme song of every right ring politician in the country. Nevertheless, I still love it.

[LisaM]

76. Wasted Time.

I love that song.