what do you think?

singing drummers? That shit's so lame.

'Boys of Summer' is the only exception. That song kicks ass.

The Eagles embodied everything that was wrong with rock'n'roll prior to the advent of Punk Rock.

Forgive the lateness of my reply. The Eagles suck soft rock ass.

"New Kid in Town" is about how the only record anybody likes is a band's first album; to the best of my knowledge it is the first commercially successful song to decry player-hating.

Bernie Leadon's pretty cool, though.

* They made terrible albums, but very nifty, laid back singles.
* They were the apex of the SoCal crop (quick, besides the Eagles and Linda Rondstadt, who made anything worth remembering from that scene. Didn't think you could.)
* Their Greatest Hits is an amusing record with lots of nifty things on it. Like the Soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever it has all the cream of the crop from that dismal time period and genre. (read: SoCal Snoozer Rock | DeFunkified Disco, respectively.)
* At the same time, the songs on Their Greatest Hits are plaid incessently on the Classic Rock stations, so it might be unnessessary to buy the record.

* They made terrible albums, but very nifty, laid back singles.
* They were the apex of the SoCal crop (quick, besides the Eagles and Linda Rondstadt, who made anything worth remembering from that scene. Didn't think you could.)
* Their Greatest Hits is an amusing record with lots of nifty things on it. Like the Soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever it has all the cream of the crop from that dismal time period and genre. (read: SoCal Snoozer Rock | DeFunkified Disco, respectively.)
* At the same time, the songs on Their Greatest Hits are plaid incessently on the Classic Rock stations, so it might be unnessessary to buy the record.

eagles make me wanna punch stuff (in the bad way of that feeling)
Hmmm..."peaceful easy feeling" makes one have violent hard feelings. Who woulda thunk it?

haha custos are there any opinions you hold which didn't come from spin/trouser press/120 minutes?

The Byrds/Burritos/Gene Clark/Clarence White/Emmylou Harris/Dillards et al axis made the ONLY stuff worth remembering from that scene. All the other good stuff was from Texas (Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zant, etc.)...

Glen Frey & Linda Ronstadt put on the sugar-coating to what had been an ernest, earthy and organic musical uprising.. and subsequently got all the best Peruvian flake out of the deal. Poco got a couple lines as well...

Search: "Somebody's Baby," plus everything he wrote for Nico.
Destroy (violently): "The Load Out"/"Stay," and everything else, really.

SoCal by way of Upstate NY = Steely Dan.

Shit, I think I'd take the fucking Doobie Brothers over the Eagles.

Upstate New York (Annandale-on-Hudson) by way of Queens and North Jersey.

1) They wrote "Desperado," so later on wee Sheila Behman could sing a heart-breaking version of it (on the Langley Schools Music Project album).
2) They did "Journey of the Sorceror" which was the theme of the BBC radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

That is all that comes to mind.

This is true.

I don't have any use for the Eagles, but I can definitely think of worse bands and bands that more symbolize everything that was wrong with the music industry. Some of the Joe Walsh tunes are tolerable - like when they're played in public, I don't have to seek shelter from them... If I had to choose (and I don't) I'd take the Eagles over Journey, no question.

And in five years when critics start liking the Eagles, don't pretend you always thought they were cool. (Cuz they weren't. Stick to your convictions is what I mean. When the pro-Eagles revisionist zealot critics come, shoot 'em with a gun. And if they show their faces.. we'll laugh!)