I would take a sledgehammer to any songs by the Eagles in a heartbeat (although I like Joe Walsh on his own and with James Gang). I also would take a sledgehammer to Peter Gabriel (and the rest of Genitals, er, Genesis). See what I did there?
I’m taking a musical sledgehammer to almost everything in my collection now. I can see my end in sight, so I am listening to everything I can before I go one last time, and my listening list is about 3 years long played 24/7 at the moment. I don’t know where I’ll take it if I finish it.
Same here. I feel so strongly about it that I’ll go so far to say I also dislike anybody that likes the Eagles. ( or any other corporate/yacht rock )
I don’t care for Genesis either but at least their stuff isn’t/wasn’t force fed to us by every “classic rock” station whose reason for being is to cater to people who wish it was 1977 forever.
I’m thirding this. I hate the Eagles. Smug, self-serious, cocaine-fuled dreck. I don’t dismiss anyone out of hand if they’ve got a copy of Greatest Hits on their CD shelf, but if the rest of that shelf is Steely Dan and the Doobies I’ll make a break for it.
As one who played their songs on the radio, I found them rather boring, especially their early years when they sounded like a Neil Young knockoff. Joe Walsh gave them a harder kick but as a group placing albums on the charts, they were burned-out by 1979. I always thought of them as a quintessential 70s band, and once Pop music began to shift to other sounds in the 1980s, I thought they would be forgotten. Thus, I was mystified by their tremendously popular tour later on. Nostalgia sells, I guess.
And if I never again hear “Hotel California,” I’ll die happy.
When I was 10-12 years old in the early 70s, I loved Seasons in the Sun (not that I had taste or sophistication). I’ll still listen to it now every so often, only out of nostalgia, like a lot of songs of that era that are truly awful: Hues Corporation Rock the Boat, LIPPS Inc Funkytown, Afternoon Delight, etc. Today, they’re fun, only because they take me back to a time in my life that consisted of little more than playing Little League baseball, riding my bike with my friends, and Saturday morning cartoons.
Only people who live near Philadelphia can appreciate this, but a few years ago I was watching the annual Mummer’s parade on TV, and a string band made Funky Town the basis of their whole routine. It was fabulous.
I think “Rock the Boat” is extraordinary for being a disco song that actually shifts meters. When was the last disco song you heard like that? Silver, Platinum & Gold’s “I’ve Got A Thing” is in 6 to the bar, and those are the only two I can think of that aren’t straight 4 to the floor.
