With the death of Glenn Frey last week, I dug out this 2-CD set of the Eagles greatest hits that came out in 2003. The Eagles dominated the 1970s. They started as Linda Ronstadt’s back-up band. But, they graduated to Greater Things. The Eagles broke up in 1980 but reunited for the profitable Hell Freezes Over album and tour. Glenn Frey had a solo career but his best work was with the Eagles. What’s your favorite song of the Eagles?
TRACK LIST:
Disc 1
Take It Easy
Witchy Woman
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Desperado
Tequila Sunrise
Doolin-Dalton
Already Gone
The Best of My Love
James Dean
Ol’ ’55
Midnight Flyer
On the Border
Lyin’ Eyes
One of These Nights
Take It to the Limit
After the Thrill Is Gone
Hotel California
Disc 2
Life in the Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Victim of Love
The Last Resort
New Kid in Town
Please Come Home for Christmas
Heartache Tonight
The Sad Café
I Can’t Tell You Why
The Long Run
In the City
Those Shoes
Seven Bridges Road
Love Will Keep Us Alive
Get Over It
Hole in the World
Tough choice, but I lean towards I Can’t Tell You Why.
Bob, “I Can’t Tell You Why” gets played a lot on our local Oldies radio station.
It’s hard to choose because I love their pre- breakup stuff (I really didn’t listen to much of their later songs), but NEW KID IN TOWN and TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT are two of my favorites.
Deb, “Take It to the Limit” was one of the Eagles best selling songs.
I like harmony, so one of my favorites is “Seven Bridges Road.”
Bill, we rarely hear harmony on contemporary music radio stations today.
Take it easy, their first song is the one that comes to my mind – and then of course Hotel California.
Though I must confess I preferred more the R&B stuff …
Wolf, “Take It Easy” was written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey. I’m a big fan of R&B and disco, too.
I do like Take It to the Limit, among many others. But as a huge Don Henley fan, one solo I listen to repeatedly is Wasted Time. As Glenn Frey rightly said, the man can sing anything.
But no way is this Forgotten Music.
Jeff, my students didn’t know who Glenn Frey or the Eagles were when I mentioned in my MARKETING class that Glenn Frey had died. They’re forgotten by the youth of America. But we geezers still remember.
Take it Easy & Peaceful Easy Feeling are my 2 faves. Peaceful . . . was written by a local writer, Jack Tempchin. I’m told I met him years and years ago, but don’t remember. They had an anniversary of it at a mexican fast food place, where he wrote it, several years ago. I heard about it too late to go.
Maggie, lots of people like “Peaceful Easy Feeling.” That type of song just isn’t played on the radio anymore unless it’s an Oldies station.
Love the Eagles so, of course, I’m mourning Glenn Frey.
WKLH in Milwaukee has a great program on Sunday mornings (one of the few left after massive changes in format last year) – Steve Palec’s Rock and Roll Roots.
Last week it was devoted to Glenn Frey, the week before to David Bowie. Although none of us are getting any younger, I hope the memorial programs are few and farther between.
Beth, one of my friends who is a big fan of music from the Sixties and Seventies told me that over the next 10 years, most of our Rock & Roll heroes (and heroines) will die. That comment bummed me out for an entire day. He’s right, of course.
George, probably some/many of the listeners/fans here and all over the world will also be dead in ten years – I’ll be 73 soon (hopefully), but of course don’t know how long I’ll live.
My wife (who is 71) and I were so lucky to see and hear at least some of our favourites live in concerts during those 9 years that we’ve been together:
Eric Clapton (who turned 70), Steve Winwood (not much younger) and Johnny Winter in one of his last concerts in Germany before he died in Switzerland. But of course there were many artists/groups which we didn’t have a chance to experience live …
Even when I was much younger I was too much occupied in business to visit many concerts – and as a student in the 60s I just didn’t have the money.
Luckily there are some younger artists which we also enjoy.
Of course, as long as we live we have our DVDs …
PS and OT:
I used to be envious of you guys in the USA – there were so many great concerts by my favourite artists to visit – until I realised that for most people say living on the East Coast it’s no mean feat and expensive too to get to a concert in San Francisco or Vegas or Austin – and vice versa of course …
Question to everybody here:
Would you fly/drive a thousand miles or more just for a concert?
Wolf, I’m at the point where Travel is torture for me. Lugging all my sleep apnea equipment, medications, etc. makes Travel no fun for me. My range for a concert would be 100 miles (that would include Toronto). Otherwise, I’ll watch the concert on the Blu-ray.
Chrissie Hynde (of the Pretenders) said that when promoting her recent autobiography; and, sadly, it’s undoubtedly true.
I posted this in the wrong place , but that quote is from Chrissie Hynde.
I like ’em all, really, though that first album still blows my mind with the great stuff on it. I especially like Desperado, Doolin’ Daltons, Peaceful, Easy Feeling and Take It Easy. But the Hotel California album is superb too. They all are. I bought the vinyl as it came out, now have all the CDs and a massive playlist with all of the songs that I listen to on random play. I’ve heard all these songs so many times I can easily hear them in my head just by the mention of the names. The Eagles were by far my favorite music group of the 70s and 80s.
I’m surprised your students didn’t know who The Eagles were, but when I think of it, I guess it was their grandparents or parents music. Still…
Rick, my students are firmly grounded in the Present. Many would know who the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are, but groups like the Eagles and Crosby, Stills & Nash would be strangers to them.
Which means they don’t give a s**t about anything older than they are. That doesn’t bode well for the world.
Rick, just to show you how bad things are, none of our students majoring in Business Administration are NOT required to take any history courses. In fact, we have no History Department. These students have no concept of the Past.
George, re apnoea:
I also suffer from this, or actually I don’t, having used my CPAP machine for almost 15 years. Now I use a “sleep cube” and a mask by Resmed – very comfortable, without any problems.
And those machines (the first one was bigger than a laptop) have accompanied me also to the USA – no problem.
I also like Tequila Sunrise.
Jackie likes the song they wrote after 9/11, There’s a Hole in the World Tonight. She also likes the Christmas song.
Jeff, “Hole in the World” was an exclusive song only available initially on the BEST BUY version of their hits album. Later, the song was included in several compilation CDs.
We did get that version.
Wolf, I’m 65 and back in the mid 60’s when I was in high school, there was a company that put on “dances” at our community concourse. I put up posters at my school and got free tickets. I saw the buffalo springfield and cream. Boy do I wish I’d saved a poster or 2, though I’m fairly certain they wouldn’t have been by Stanley Mouse. the dances were about $2 to attend, and no one danced, just listened. It was amazing. I also saw the Beatles at their first show at the Hollywood Bowl. I was in the nosebleed section. I went with a neighbor who was the son of country music singer Ferlin Husky. My mom and a friend of hers drove us and hung around someplace. Good times.
Wow!
Cream and the Beatles live …
Thanks for the memories, Maggie!
Living in Southern Germany I had not too many nto see the “Big Names”
, only when we went to London later in the 70s regularly – I still remember seeing the two albino brothers:
Johnny and Edgar Winter at the London Roundhouse – another famous venue.
But the USA were much too expensive – only when the $ lost much of its value in the 80s could we think of travelling there …