Poll--The Weakest Link: The Eagles 'Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975' 1st Round

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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,503
    Take It To The Limit
    Alright, I found the weak spot; Take it to the Limit. I could do without that one.  
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Best Of My Love
    Take It Easy & Already Gone voters...

    Like... come on, man. Did your parents not hug you enough as a child? How did you get to be the way you have become? Share. So we can all learn something.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,981
    Best Of My Love
    Good band,  great Greatest Hits,  and the original pressings are tremendous (and dirt cheap, at 38x platinum). 

    I grew up in Cleveland, which is a good rock town obviously.  WMMS used to do a Rock n Roll 500 every year for the Cleveland 500 IRL race,  fan vote. For whatever reason,  Already Gone was always in the top 5. So I have to predict that will be the winner. 
  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    Best Of My Love
    rgambs said:
    brianlux said:
    Well now, this is an interesting poll choice for me.  In general, looking at the band's entire career, the Eagles to me are a careerist middle of the road band that appeals to a lower common denominator.  I don't have, and never will have any of their albums.*  But all that said, I cannot deny that some of theirs best songs are ones that I like... dare I say it?... a lot.  This one will get tough if the handful that really work for me are still in the running in the last few rounds. 

    * I also want to point out that my comments about music, bluntly honest as they are at times, are not meant to offend anyone's tastes.  To me there is no "bad music", although there might be bad motives for making music.  And I respect everyone's taste in music.  I will never say, "You suck because you love The Eagles".    If you love Nickleback, good for you.  If you think MDC was an important hard-core band, good for you and me.
    Undeniably "middle of the road" music.  To me, Eagles are what pop music SHOULD be!  I say the same thing for Bob Seeger, Doobie Brothers and Randy Newman.  They made high quality, broad appeal music, not because they wanted to be pop stars and make a gazillion bucks, but because middle of the road music was just genuine to them.  Nothing wrong with that in my book, but I'm not very experimentally inclined.
    See, I've always thought of bands like The Eagles, Doobie Bros, Bob Seeger, John Mellencamp, George Thorogood, Bryan Adams, etc as Rock & Roll. They aren't in one of the hard rock, prog rock, jam band, etc type categories. They are just pure Rock & Roll - they've got the blues in the songs but they are light and just what 50's type Rock and Roll would be when it had grown up.  I don't see them as Pop, Randy Newman for sure and KC & the Sunshine Band, Bo Donaldson, The Carpenters, definitely Pop for that time period. 

    But it doesn't matter what genre it's shoved into. Music is music. We like what we like. 

    I always thought that this music came out when I was in high school, at least Hotel California, but it was much earlier. I guess I just discovered the albums in high school. I like the Eagles. Don't love them, but definitely know probably most of their songs. Gotta listen to the album, I know them all but need to listen to find my loser. 
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    Best Of My Love
    bootlegger10 said:
    How could someone vote for Desperado on the first round?  There are monsters on this board roaming amongst us.
    As of 9:42pm EST time on 4/28/19, there are three confirmed monsters on this board.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,787
    One Of These Nights
    bootlegger10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    How could someone vote for Desperado on the first round?  There are monsters on this board roaming amongst us.
    As of 9:42pm EST time on 4/28/19, there are three confirmed monsters on this board.
    Now tell me this, what's wrong with monsters?

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Desperado
    bootlegger10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    How could someone vote for Desperado on the first round?  There are monsters on this board roaming amongst us.
    As of 9:42pm EST time on 4/28/19, there are three confirmed monsters on this board.
    I'm out there, and I'm loving every minute of it!

    Back in the 80s when I was blonde and had hair down to my ass (ah, long-gone are those days), I was at my salon for an appointment.  Saw Don Henley walking by but didn't recognize who he was at the time - just that he was pretty damned good-looking.  We smiled at each other, I had an "aha" moment, and this chick was on cloud 9 for the rest of the day :)
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,075
    edited April 2019
    Tequila Sunrise
    I like a lot of the Eagles songs and will listen when I hear one come on. That being said I can't think of a time when I've really gone out of my way to put one on myself.  they've never been songs that i would choose for certain moments or moods.  good solid rock/pop/country songs but not anything earth shattering other than Hotel California.  And using a greatest hits record for this is going to make this really difficult to choose each round.
  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Best Of My Love
    hedonist said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    How could someone vote for Desperado on the first round?  There are monsters on this board roaming amongst us.
    As of 9:42pm EST time on 4/28/19, there are three confirmed monsters on this board.
    I'm out there, and I'm loving every minute of it!

    Back in the 80s when I was blonde and had hair down to my ass (ah, long-gone are those days), I was at my salon for an appointment.  Saw Don Henley walking by but didn't recognize who he was at the time - just that he was pretty damned good-looking.  We smiled at each other, I had an "aha" moment, and this chick was on cloud 9 for the rest of the day :)
    Don Henley? More like Don Heavenly. 

    See the source image
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Desperado
    I'm with The Dude regarding the Eagles.  Mom & Dad Rock 101.
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,965
    Best Of My Love
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I'm with The Dude regarding the Eagles.  Mom & Dad Rock 101.
    We just voted on Bill Frigging Joel!  ;)

    The Eagles are Pantera compared to that.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • ed243421
    ed243421 Posts: 7,756
    Peaceful, Easy Feeling
    The eagles are like Thanos. Half the people hate em, half the people like em.


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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Desperado
    F Me In The Brain said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I'm with The Dude regarding the Eagles.  Mom & Dad Rock 101.
    We just voted on Bill Frigging Joel!  ;)

    The Eagles are Pantera compared to that.
    I'd rather listen to the worst Billy Joel song than the best Eagles song (is there even such a thing) any day!
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,965
    Best Of My Love
    HesCalledDyer said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I'm with The Dude regarding the Eagles.  Mom & Dad Rock 101.
    We just voted on Bill Frigging Joel!  ;)

    The Eagles are Pantera compared to that.
    I'd rather listen to the worst Billy Joel song than the best Eagles song (is there even such a thing) any day!
    Ha.
    I can listen to them both, however that does not change the fact that it is old fogie music. 
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,877
    Best Of My Love
    I'll be sitting this one out too as I can't stand the Eagles...
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,877
    Best Of My Love
    I only voted to see the results but I don't like the song so that is a fair assessment from me.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Take It Easy
    Nothing in the entire catalogues of the Eagles and each member's side work equals some of the cringey crud that Joel did.
    Uptown Girl?
    Keeping the Faith?
    The Longest Time?
    Yuck lol

    80's Joel doo-wop sucks!  Play something from Strangers, man!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,965
    Best Of My Love
    rgambs said:
    Nothing in the entire catalogues of the Eagles and each member's side work equals some of the cringey crud that Joel did.
    Uptown Girl?
    Keeping the Faith?
    The Longest Time?
    Yuck lol

    80's Joel doo-wop sucks!  Play something from Strangers, man!

    This is horrific


    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,877
    Best Of My Love
    rgambs said:
    Nothing in the entire catalogues of the Eagles and each member's side work equals some of the cringey crud that Joel did.
    Uptown Girl?
    Keeping the Faith?
    The Longest Time?
    Yuck lol

    80's Joel doo-wop sucks!  Play something from Strangers, man!
    Longest Time is a great song.  I like doo wop too though...
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,981
    Best Of My Love
    F Me In The Brain said:
    rgambs said:
    Nothing in the entire catalogues of the Eagles and each member's side work equals some of the cringey crud that Joel did.
    Uptown Girl?
    Keeping the Faith?
    The Longest Time?
    Yuck lol

    80's Joel doo-wop sucks!  Play something from Strangers, man!

    This is horrific


    Also not on the album.  
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