Hotel California

meh

imagine being a kid and finding a beetle. you take it back to your room and get a pair of tweezers and a magnifying glass. you have no idea what makes a beetle tick so you start pulling it apart. you get its wings, legs, antennae, head, torso, etc. all laid out. then for the next week you go do the same for other bugs ,but find out the butterfly has far more intricate wing design, the stick-bug has superior leg structure, even the fly has more unique eyes. hotel california is that first beetle. every single piece of it is done far better somewhere else. it is an amalgamation of rock mediocrity and it only seems special in the light of it being the first thing you were exposed to. ive jokingly maintained for a long time that hotel california is my least favorite song ever. it probably isnt really (it truly is listenable unlike the metal albums ive heard on this list) but it does represent a lot of what i hate about rock music. sappy, soulless ballads and horrendous rockers, all containing the worlds most vapid lyricism. these songs have no interesting melodies. he harmonies are no where near CSN. they do have occasionally good guitar progressions but it's not like robbie basho or john fahey or something. it's just a progression that i can think "huh, thatd sound cool to strum". this music is the opposite of transcendtal, it is a degression of what rock music can be.

I usually try to keep an open mind about albums but I genuinely hate this one. The vocals,the backing instruments,all of it is practically unlistenable to me.

Big bowl of nope.

Not fantastic. Never a big fan of Eagles.

I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man

Turgid Seventies rock.

dad rock pero del aburrido, el single es el album, deberias dejar de escuchar tras la primera canción

Absolutely not.

Heard this too many times.

Incredibly bland, incredibly middle of the road, if you're a music fan theres nothing here you wont find done better in a hundred other places Not unlistenable as it gets the basic building blocks of solos, songwriting etc right...just forgettable, overproduced and boring. Can't really understand why it's still in the zeitgeist at all - avoid unless you can't

Holy mother of god that sucked. Try and Love Again was the closest to some level of quality and soul, rest of the album felt like trying to take a fly out of a soup with tweezers

i hate the eagles

HATER POST: Maaaan fuck the Eagles, I’m sorry, fuck Eagles because the band is as grammatically stupid as the music is boring. Hotel California mystifies me of how people could tolerate that slog for so many years. How do you make a guitar solo sound so fucking tedious!? I looked up some lyrics out of curiosity and the explanation given on Genius through an interview with Don Henley only reinforced my hatred. Dude sounds like a grade A asshat. Rest of the album sucks too, life in the fast lane blows, new kid in town blows, the other tracks aren’t even memorable enough to list. I imagine the record label made them double up on Wasted Time as a warning to consumers much like a parental advisory sticker.

Fuck the Eagles, man.

There are a lot of 70s schlock rock bands that sound like each other and are hard to tell apart. Some of them I've listened to for this list. All of them I've kept an open mind. One or two of them, I actually enjoyed! Honestly! The Eagles are just bad. I almost wish they blended into the crowd. I couldn't make it through an entire song on this album. Even at their peak they are just plain insufferable.

The drumming is particularly annoying, especially the left-right panning.

It's just so dreadfully bland.

No. Fuck the Eagles. And James Taylor. https://www.theringer.com/music/2021/5/5/22420083/the-eagles-glen-frey-don-henley-50-years

no thank you

I don't mind the eponymous track, but unfortunately it was Codeine 1 - Eagles 0. I dozed most of the way through it. Became fully conscious during the last song and thought it should have bèen used as advert theme music for some Christian Evangelist TV channel. Very ordinary. Fuck knows why they are so big. 1

something about the eagles annoy the shit out of me. it's music that i only like when driving at night in the desert. outside of that it does not fuck

Bad

Never liked this album, and maybe this is dramatic but I really struggled getting through it this time. Don Henley always annoyed me, and I'm sick of these songs. One and a half. Fave track: The Last Resort

Trúi ekki að ég hafi klárað hana. Alltaf þegar ég hélt að versta lagið væri komið, þá byrjaði næsta……..

Vá hvað þetta er leiðinlegt! Veit enga plötu sem byrjar á þremur jafnleiðinlegum lögum og svo versnar það bara. Hef komist ágætlega í gegnum lífið án þess að þurfa að hlusta á þessa plötu og það er ekki að fara að breytast. Skammastu þín algóritmi fyrir að gera mér þetta.

fuck the eagles

Dad rock is still dadding.

I hate it

'Hotel California' and 'Life In The Fast Lane' have a certain nostalgic value and I suppose could be considered guilty (nearly) pleasures. The rest of this mawkish nonsense is music for people who find Steely Dan just a little bit too dangerous.

Juuh ilman nimikkobiisiä tää olis lähellä listan huonointa levyä. Nimikko on minusta oikeasti kova klassikko ja hyvät ajattomat teemat jne. Ja pitkään kelasin, että annan 2/5 vaan sen takia, mutta herran jestas viimeistään The Last Resort on niin tuskallista kamaa, että 1/5 on ansaittu.

I hate Eagles

I really don't like the eagles

Pure rubbish. I couldn't put myself through this bittersweet nonsense. I listened to a bit of each song and found each one nauseating.

I hate the eagles

Yet more evidence that the only way to listen to the Eagles is with a greatest hits collection because one amazing song and two okay ones doesn't make for a good record when the rest are audio abominations.

This is so god awful.

I find a guilty pleasure in some of the songs I've heard by The Eagles, Hotel California is not one of them. Having been playing drums in a classic rock cover band for over a decade now, I can't express the burnout I have over this album. There is not a single track on this particular record that brings me any joy.

Fuck the eagles. Boring as shit

This album stinks

Made it a few minutes into the opener, basically yacht rock for your dad when he’s in a dinghy on holiday.

Dry as a fucking bone.

"I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man." - The Dude

I fail to find what anyone enjoys on this record. I have to be thankful that this shitty arena rock inspired early punks to tear it all down.

Can’t believe we doubled up on the Eagles. Again, really not a fan.

Slog x 2. Brutal.

I hate the eagles this validates my whole world view with it's awfulness

Sounds like Cars soundtrack, favorite was one of the last ones, the beginning sounded like Don’t Forget by Demi uhh definitely American af 4/10

Not crazy about this record. There was some interesting lead guitar work, and obviously the title track Hotel California is a bit of a monster. But it kind of feels like they had a great single and released a whole record around it. The second half of the album is... not good.

Obligatory Lebowski

Nope, this album made me miserable today. Its just so bloody dull and does nothing for me.

boring and they pulled most of the songs from YT

Enjoyed the title track, but after that.... zzzzz

I hate to say this but it's giving me Jimmy Buffett vibes. New Kid in Town is cringe. I think this music is deeply not for me, but great for car commercials? Idk. Wasted time is ok. The reprise is better because there is no vocal. Victim of love also cringe. Weirdly kind of enjoyed Try to Love Again, sort of a sweet lyric and melody, but the bar is low. The Last Resort is reasonable. Lyrics decent. Would not listen to this again.

Ow did not like this at all, get hotel calitwatnia but the rest was painful.

Not a fan

Marginally more engaging than the last Eagles album, but nah. After committing to listening to 2 Eagles albums, I still only vaguely like 2 Eagles songs, and they both kick off their respective albums. Plus I prefer the Gipsy Kings version of one. Pass.

The sound of a generation trying to cling to their rebellious youth while plundering the planet and rigging the markets to enrich themselves at the expense of future generation. Boomer drivel.

Meh, two good songs.

Seminal fluid. ubiquitous claptrap. catchy like syphilis.

I've had a long day and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man

Terrible album that was torture to get through

Not my cup of tea at all. Slow and uninspiring. I can’t stand the title track and it went downhill from there

Fuck the eagles

I wish I could give it less than one star.

I hate the fucking Eagles man... but solo Joe Walsh is fine...

To quote The Dude, "I f*ckin hate The Eagles."

Je n’ai jamais aimé ce band. Le texte de Hôtel California est bien, mais l’ensemble me tape sués nerfs. Le reste de l’album fait un peu danse sociale. Une chance qu’il y a « Life in the fast lane ».

Drôle d'album. Hotel California, je ne suis plus capable de l'entendre. J'ai probablement déjà aimé New Kid In Town étant jeune, vraiment jeune. Aujourd'hui je déteste cette chanson. Je ne comprends pas ce que Life in the Fast Lane fait sur cet album. Elle ne cadre tellement pas avec le reste. C'est la chanson que je préfère. Pas sûr de comprendre pourquoi tout d'un coup, il y a un orchestre pour Wasted Time (Reprise).

Ergh. I don't know. Shit. Hotel California is massive I guess. Got bored instantly. If it was a footballer it would be Romelu Lukaku trying to escape Chelsea, but way less interesting.

Painfully bland, only managed about 5 songs. Nnnneeeexxxxxxttttttt.

Fuck this band. Fuck that song. Fuck this album.

Would give it a zero if I could

Not listening to that garbage on my birthday

un pedazo humeante de mierda. tiene 2 rolas chidas, lo demás es basura.

It's so bland compared to their contemporaries and inspirations: none of the politics of CCR, none of the of the romantic complications of Fleetwood Mac, none of the creativity of Steely Dan- just rock ballad after rock ballad

I've listened to too much Eagles growing up on the radio to really enjoy them anymore, but gave this a spin anyway. I can't say that these aren't good songs, but Don Henley's voice is a little too syrupy for my taste and the music is too sweet and smooth to be interesting to listed to. I know. I should like the Eagles. I just don't

it was all glenn fry junk.

Most songs blocked in YouTube Music. The Dude was right ... Fuck the Eagles

nope, never need to hear this again.

26X Platinum! What an odd duck I must be! I could barely tolerate the first three (hit) songs back in the day (the title track had a good guitar solo) but the rest is unlistenable. So commercial. Bad 70s rock.

Naaaaa

Sorry, no.

For the first time, I am abstaining from listening to this album and giving it 1 star

Right up my ally. This album was unknown to me because it came out before my teenage alternative rock years. I probably wouldn't have listened to it because of the language anyway though.

i love it

Un chinito pecando.