Reviews (page 4 of 15)
Kinda boring album
Some great song on the front end, but the back end definitely dragged out a bit.
70's rock, hotel california and life in the fast lane are pretty good but everything is squarely mid
wow an album where i actually know some of the songs. iconic 10/10.
Good listening to the album, I think most of plays come from hell freezes over
Just not a fan.
Was Don Henly the one who said this was essential? Or just some guy who stopped living past the 70's?
This album opens with the two worst songs ever written, back-to-fucking-back. I'll save everybody a lot of time and just stop there.
very sick guitars and catchy songs
Somehow this album has grown off of me since I've listened to it, and honestly, I'm not sure why I was so generous with it in the first place. I distinctly remember hating the fact that there was a reprise for a song that had just played. I remember how much of a slog it was to listen to this whole thing. I remember thinking about how every song was more boring and uninspired than the last. I guess the title track was just that good 😔
bellissimi testi anche se ho ascoltato mentre disegnato.. ho apprezzato molto victim for love, try and love again, e hotel california. sound che mi ricorda il country, ma comunque molto orecchiabile.
A classic. Although the whole album was not available on Youtube Music.
Some classics in here that I really enjoyed and some songs that I found less interesting. I liked some of the slower songs that I hadn't heard before, but some of them dragged a bit. There are songs in here that I'm always going to sing along to if I hear them, but I don't think I will relisten to the full album. Fav song: Hotel California Least fav: The Last Resort
Really good, not quite as perfect as eagles by eagles but still enjoyable. Specific rating - 4.4 Fav song - try and love again Least fav -wasted time (reprise)
I like it, Hotel California especially is iconic. But I don't understand what made it one of the best selling albums of all time, why did more people buy this than Rumours or any Beatles album?? Find the slow songs quite underwhelming. Favourite song: Hotel California Least: The Last Resort
Funny this should come on the heels of the Byrds. This is the follow-up, imitation, watered-down version of what they were doing. To huge commercial success, while the Byrds are still relatively unheralded.
Starts off with an all time classic that never gets old but fails to reach those heights again. Still a good album though.
waiting for hotel alabama
Rock on, dads.
3.5; it was a pretty good album and the single was amazing
10/10 Try and Love Again my favorite and new song of this álbum
Para escucharlo tomando un vinito y cocinando pastas a la luz de la vela con la lluvia de fondo. Increíble.
Clásico álbum, melodic rock, but only one classic here
A title track é muito boa, o resto é ok mas sem graça. Em geral me passa a impressão de música genérica americana e meio ultrapassada. Nada tão terrível mas não me da vontade de escutar de novo. Não é minha praia
Title track is iconic, but Victim of Love and The Last Resort are peak
MEH. (Big meh.) I think Dimery is confused because the album has the same name as the first song. Just because the latter is good doesn't mean you have to hear it in context. It's the lead track ffs. You definitely need to hear the title track, and prob Life In The Fast Lane. Leave the rest on the table.
I think it’s maybe a little overhyped. it’s definitely good, but i think Eagles spanned too many genres. they should’ve stuck to a classic sound. i love Don Henley.
A classic album. I remember my mother used to listen to it. The guitar work is especially impressive, combining precision with a bluesy feel, though it can feel a bit slow at times. Life in the Fast Lane is my favorite track.
1. Hotel California 6 2. New Kid in Town 6 3. Life in the Fast Lane 7.2 4. Wasted Time 7.6 5. Wasted Time (Reprise) 5 6. Victim of Love 5.5 7, Pretty Maids All in a Row 5 8. Try and Love Again 6.8 9. The Last Resort 5
love the first song obviously but the rest was not really my vibe, still okay tho
Thoroughly enjoyed. I put off listening this album for such a long time because of the false notion that it would be a bore. I was pleasantly surprised, I don’t really have anything bad to say about it
No. 390/1001 Hotel California 5/5 New Kid in Town 4/5 Life in the Fast Lane 4/5 Wasted Time 3/5 Victim of Love 4/5 Pretty Maids All in a Row 4/5 Try and Love Again 3/5 The Last Resort 4/5 Average: 3,88 Didn't know any song aside from Hotel California beforehand. Overall the album was better than expected.
Love this
I will never knowingly listen to this album again. One of the things I have learned from my 1001 journey so far is that I have a particularly strong reserve supply of dislike for music that takes itself too seriously. It might be a stretch, but I think it is perfectly plausible that a band or artist could make music with a similar aesthetic to Eagles that I could like, but this album gets it all wrong for me. Eagles and their supporters think this is music that matters when in reality it’s vacuous, vanilla, disposable pop. I am a fan of plenty of disposable pop, and I may give high scores to some that turn up on this list, but Hotel California is very boring and that is a crime against pop music.
es muy setentero, descubri que frank ocean sampleo una song
Disco histórico con mucha calidad en arreglos y sonidos. Un rock un poco añejo para mi gusto pero muy logrado
The bologna and american cheese on white bread of rock n roll
Por dios que temazo Hotel California, el unico tema del disco que conocia. No destaco ninguna cancion igualmente las primeras son una maravilla y victims of love esta muy bueno. Me permitio conocer One of These Nights que es un albumazo tambien. Bien Eagles no lo tenia mucho
I have always been a big fan of this band, and still am. I bought this album when it came out, when I was a freshman in college…I pretty much wore it out. I don’t think that there’s a bad song on the album. This one is five stars for me.
C'était sûr qu'il y serait, celui-là. Qu'est-ce que j'en pense ? Pas grand-chose, honnêtement, je trouve que c'est un peu de l'eau tiède. Il y a de jolies mélodies, tout ça, mais ça me paraît aussi très insipide. Je trouve que ça manque de tripes, de tension... La chanson titre est très bien, rien à redire, mais écouter un album entier de ça ? Pas foufou, mais pas horrible non plus. PS : c'est fou de voir à quel point les avis sont partagés, je vous beaucoup de très bonnes notes et de très mauvaises notes, mais peu de 3.
I came a lil, 1 or 2 skips
Strong start, downhill from there. Too many long songs back to back
Good tbf. Would give a 3.5 but 4 is too generous. Started off w a banger and finishes nicely, yacht rock ahh
Pretty good.
Hotel California es un temazo que merece la fama qué tiene. Me gustó el álbum pero es muy gringo, no se como explicarlo. No lo siento tan conectado. 1. Hotel California 2. Life in the fast line 3. Pretty maids all in a row 5/10
Bänger 3,5
Classic
Muchas vibes de los guardianes de las galaxias. Me imagino en los 80s en mi descapotable rojo, con mis botas cafés y mi casetera, voy en camino a buscar a mi amiga rubia para ir al cine. le doy un 7/10, todas las canciones del álbum son buenas, ideales para ponerlas de fondo en un día relajado, pero no son de mi gusto específicamente muy country para mi, solo por eso le quite 3 puntos, pero de manera objetiva es muy buen álbum.
Good tunes, only knew the big single but other tracks are decent too.
I thought the album wouldn’t live up to Hotel California. I was right.
There’s a reason it’s so well known, yk?
Second album proposé après ‘eagles’ que j’avais peu apprécié (noté 2/5 - globalement ennuyeux). Ce second album contient ´hotel california’, tube que je connais et apprécie beaucoup ! Il contient quelques autres morceaux intéressants (´life in the fast lane’ par exemple), mais aussi d’autres plus lents et/ou mous que j’ai moins appréciés. Il ne rejoindra pas ma collection, mais je l’écouterais probablement de nouveau. =>3/5
Favourite Track: Hotel California or New Kid in Town
“I had a rough night and I hate the fucking Eagles, man!” I don’t hate the Eagles but I can’t hear a single note of their music without that quote popping in my head. I think this is the best Eagles studio album, but it’s hard for me to say it’s some masterpiece. The title track is iconic, of course, but in my humblest opinion it drags a bit at times even though it’s a modest 43 minutes long. Outside of Hotel California and Life In The Fast Lane, it’s the softest of soft rock and often walks a fine line of beautiful and cheesy. I think The Eagles were a tremendous band who wrote a handful of amazing songs, but something about the production of their studio records hasn’t aged well in my opinion — outside of Don Henley’s incredible singing. I think that’s why they’re a band best consumed live (the first half of Hell Freezes Over slaps) or via their greatest hits album or playlist.
Perfecto
Top 5 most overrated band of all time - and they ain't 5. I cannot in good conscious give it less than a 3 on intangibles and hits alone. Sigh.
Amazing album. Great songs, amazing harmonies.
2 stars Ok the title track is a good song. I want to hate on it, but it’s good. The rest of the album is cheesy listening music. I can’t dig it and I would never listen to this for fun.
Hotel California (the song) is obviously great, Wasted Time (Reprise) and Try and Love Again are unexpectedly good, everything else is a reminder that rock music mythology is mostly just good marketing.
nice album.
Este álbum me acompañó toda mi mañana de mandados, se sintió como un abrazo al corazoncito. Hotel California también siempre tendrá un espacio especial en mi corazón. Muy buen álbum!
why do people hate the eagles? what the fark is wrong with them? this was incredible!! poignant lyrics and showcases why the eagles were EVERYWHERE in the 70s. people just love to hate i fear. Fav Song: New Kid in Town Least Fav: Wasted Time (Reprise)
Leuke Americana, dankzij het meesterwerk een hele extra ster!
een album da begint me een vn de beste gitaarsolo's aller tijden kan alleen maar banger zijn
Спасибо пацанам, что спасли Фродо и Сэма с Роковой горы, не понимаю почему Чувак их так не любит
Не фанат группы, но тут конечно сильная первая половина альбома, сплошные хиты, причем долгожители. После репризы уже послабее, как будто пустые песни. Но до легендарного статуса контента хватило
Too american, too soft
2 песни мне нравятся, остальное дефолтный дэд рок, не фанат такого.
Лучшая песня: Hotel California Худшая: хз Неожиданно понравилось, думал, что кроме Отеля Калифорнии все остальное будет кантри-пургой
ну норм, но без восторга, опять 3.5, но в этот раз ближе к 4м
Увидела в рилсах видео с взрослым владельцем магазина виниловых пластинок где-то в Англии, и он очень вдохновенно рассказывал про старые альбомы, будто я вещаю о Charli xcx. Так что решила вернуться к марафону, все же не зря старая музыка так вдохновляет людей на протяжении уже всей своей жизни. Что касается конкретно этого альбома Eagles, неожиданно понравилось: главный хит мне запомнился, конечно, еще с детства. Но и остальные треки очень хорошо зашли под утреннюю прогулку и послеобеденный рабочий муд. Особо отмечу Life in the Fast Line и Wasted Time
Great! Really fun and nice even though the title track is overplayed.
My tracklist review didn’t get saved so basic thoughts: -Tale of two halves, first half is very solid and the back half starts to falter a bit. - definitely encapsulates a cultural moment in the 70s, showing the darker side of the newly established rock star status. - Best tracks: Hotel California, New Kid In Town, Life In The Fast Lane, Wasted Time, Try And Love Again -Worst track: The Last Resort
I’ve never listened to the whole album before. Pretty good, would definitely fall into “easy listening” in my mind.
Começa com pedrada já. Música bem única e famosa. A letra encaixando na melodia é muito boa nessa música, a segunda voz numa parte também. As outras músicas nem parece a mesma banda, não conhecia Eagles direito kkkk. Achei o álbum ok, de boa, nada me chamou muita atenção, mas foi interessante analisar Hotel California com mais atenção.
Mmm...soft California country-inflected rock. With the exception of the opening title track this is pretty turgid soft rock. Not for me.
Nice
This album is DEFINITELY heaven
"New Kid in Town" was good, but this album was a 3 in my mind with the first 3 tracks; they're a classic rock band and "Hotel California" has been played so much that it's difficult to engage with it with any enthusiasm. But hearing the strings at 1:48 and pianos in "Wasted Time" pushed it to a 4, it felt like one of those deeply inspired musical moments that gave me immediate goosebumps. From there it maintained my expectations of it, with more of that classic rock sound.
The Eagles are just the worst. So talented, and still so awful. I'd rather listen to my cat meowing for food.
Nice job was done in this release. But damn wdym frank should pay every time performing American Wedding?
no puedo creer que conocia la mayoria de las canciones y nunca habia escuchado el album completo!! es muy bueno y tiene mas sentido asi me genera nostalgia de algo que no vivi
discaço absurdo
This is the musical equivalent of plain mayonnaise on white bread
great music
After the obviously classic opener, it all becomes a little uninteresting. The album is front-loaded with the better melodies then sort of slips off a cliff. 2.5
Un des albums les plus vendus de tous les temps. J'ai entendu tellement souvent Hotel California à la radio que j'en suis blasé et je ne l'aime pas tant, surtout que je en viens pas de cette époque. Ça m'a tout de même permis d'en découvrir un peu plus sur eux et j'ai pu faire de belles découvertes comme Life in the fast lane et Victim of love. Pas assez pour un 4 toutefois.
This is solidly ... fine. I am biased because I find Don Henley repulsive but I can still stomach the album enough to give it a 3.5
First, fuck the Eagles for leaving the most famous songs off some streaming platforms. Found a bootleg though. Some of the Eagles biggest hits are here, album is a classic for a reason. They're a huge band. The title song is still a powerful and enigmatic tune. New Kid in Town is always a song I have enjoyed. Life in the Fast Lane is ok. Wasted Time is painfully dull. The Last Resort is especially awful. Aside from the two openers, this album sorta sucks. But those two songs do a lot of heavy lifting. The Eagles are unexciting, but the production is excellent and clean. You can see why they are popular despite the lack of creativity, the execution is very high level.
Het hotel had een prachtige locatie, maar de service, het eten, en de kamer zelf zijn niet om van te spreken. Bij ontvangst moesten we eerst nog 40 minuten wachten, ondanks dat we na inchecktijd bij de balie aankwamen. Verder was de receptioniste akelig nukkig. Het ontbijt was gelimiteerd tot driedaagse oude pudding en brood, eieren die een dag van tevoren gekookt waren en nu grijs eigeel hadden, en jus d'orange waarvan ik nog steeds niet zeker ben of dat nou van sinaasappels gemaakt was. Al om al was de ervaring buiten het oud en vertrouwde 'Hotel California' zeer teleurstellend.
3.5
Ok
are you allowed to do a reprise of a song that immediately came before it? guess it makes more sense if you consider the format. kind of peters out at the end. solid. joe walsh is the best part of the band.
Top Songs: Hotel California Wasted Time
Some of these songs had decent bass lines. Nothing that really grabbed my attention. I dropped a straight razor into my finger halfway through which was fun.
Rocky, souly, vibey Favs: “Hotel California” and “New Kid in Town”
Nice album to listen to on my birthday but it doesn’t hold up to the promise of the title song.
“Hotel California” is a 5/5 to me — overplayed, sure, whatever. “Life in the Fast Lane” feels too commercial-core to me at this point. The rest exists.
Didn't enjoy a single song.
Buen disco
Bonito álbum
A grudging 3 because it's not entirely unenjoyable but the overall impression is an audio brochure for a west coast euthanasia centre
Temas con historia y pasion, amor de los 70s que todavia pega en los 2020s. Es para escucharlo de una sin cortes y con un dispositivo que permita escuchar esos fondos. Mezcla de rock y sinfonia unica como solo Eagles podria hacerlo, para escucharlo un y mil veces mas.
I HATE HOTEL CALIFORNIA!!! Idk why but I find it so grating and irritating. I hate their faux reggae delivery and rhythm too, it’s so corny to me. The rest of the music was fine, I didn’t really have such strong feelings about any of it. It’s pleasant enough background music because it’s like white noise—nothing noticeable enough about it to be either interesting or irritating.
Quite frustrating technical difficulties listening to this. I tried to check out, but I couldn't leave?
What I could listen to was good
This is one of the best albums, I think, to come out of a band. I think that this is a no-skip album, worthy of its praise. There are some softer tracks mixed into this record, which I think work really well. Wasted Time (Reprise) is a beautiful filler to split the first and second half of the album. There is a clear difference between the first and second half of this record, but unlike a lot of others, this doesn't make you want to turn it off after the first five tracks. Favourites: New Kid in Town Life in the Fast Lane Wasted Time (Reprise) Hotel California
Classic
Excellent start to finish
Hotel California and Life in the Fast Lane are both excellent, the rest I didn't really care for.
I have this unfortunate habit of listening to an album, absolutely loving it, then not picking it up for years. Yeah, this is one of those albums. I forgot about the album tracks that are so good like Wasted Time and Pretty Maids All In a Row. Everyone knows Hotel California, but that’s only the tip of a very deep iceberg. 5 stars
Fucking hate the Eagles
Title track is obviously an all-timer. One of the most memorable songs ever written. The rest is less so. But still smooth fun. (3.5 stars)
One of my dad's favorites. And I can clearly tell why. What a banger.
70s rock at its finest. Tight band, fun songs, and lots of nostalgia. 4.3.
This was perfectly decent. A bit samey past the title track. But damn, the people in the comments sure have opinions! 6/10 Pretty Good
I've been a hater of this album for so long but it has some gas. For whatever reason, this trope of songwriting really does do it for me. It's likely the musicianship and harmonies but even then it's like wow where did that chord change come from so often (positive). Hotel California is an overplayed mess but it's a great song; in a vacuum of not hearing it 24million times I can fully see why this is one of the best songs ever written. New Kid in Town is beautifully written and fun, SICK harmonies, sick chords. Life in the fast lane is good and silly; what would we be without Cars the movie as a culture. I might just really like Joe Walsh, he writes such interesting guitar parts and the Eagles are only better with him. Wasted time didn't do a lot for me, victim of love picked it up a little bit but mainly Joe Walsh again. I'd be remised to not note that I sort of forgot I was listening to the album at this point as one song folded into the next. Other than the occasional Joe Walsh lick the rest does nothing for me. Maybe "they" were always right and this an album that starts off strong as hell and just fades out to nothing.
Pretty iconic album, heard many of the songs many, many times. The one’s I hadn’t heard before, were surprisingly good.
obviously love hotel california and i used to love new kid in town in high school for some reason but it turns out those are the only good songs on the album.
Classic
Rock classic, dont have much else to say
Bleh. The best way I could think to describe this was music that is perfectly fit for daytime radio. Seems like great music to slow dance to on your backyard patio while white wine drunk with a gross sunburn. I understand it’s popularity but it’s not for appeal.
Mit ihrem fünften Studioalbum schufen die US-amerikanischen Eagles 1976 ein Werk, das bis heute zu den meistverkauften Alben der Musikgeschichte zählt. Aufgenommen zwischen März und Oktober desselben Jahres in den Criteria Studios in Miami sowie in den Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles – produziert von Bill Szymczyk –, veröffentlichte Asylum Records das Album am 8. Dezember 1976. Der Klang bewegt sich im Classic- und Country Rock, vollzieht aber bewusst eine Abkehr vom reinen Country-Sound der frühen Eagles-Jahre hin zu einer härteren, gitarrenbetonten Ausrichtung. Musikalisch ist das Album von bemerkenswerter Dichte: Der Titeltrack Hotel California – mit dem legendären Gitarrenduett von Don Felder und Joe Walsh – wurde 1978 mit dem Grammy für die Aufnahme des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Daneben etablierten sich New Kid in Town und Life in the Fast Lane als eigenständige Klassiker. Was das Album trägt, ist jedoch nicht nur handwerkliche Brillanz, sondern ein konzeptueller Unterton: die Schattenseiten des amerikanischen Traums, verkleidet in makellose Harmonien und polierte Produktion – ein Widerspruch, der bis heute fasziniert. Joe Walsh, der hier zum ersten Mal als Gitarrist mitwirkte, verlieh der Band eine neue Energie, während Bassist Randy Meisner das letzte Mal auf einem Eagles-Studioalbum zu hören ist. Diese Besetzung, in einem kurzen, goldenen Moment vereint, erzeugte eine Spannung, die kein späteres Eagles-Album mehr ganz einlösen sollte. Hotel California ist kein Album, das man beschreibt – es ist eines, das man kennt, bevor man es das erste Mal zu Ende gehört hat.
me gusto, es un clasico pero tiene temones, me gusta que tenga temas largos
new kid in town is so fuckin beautiful it's pissing me off
Front heavy for sure, but the second half of the album is pretty good too. This is about as good as their debut album, but the guitars might be a bit better on this one.
I was 7 when this album came out and I thought the lyrics were amazing! Killing beasts? Cool ! 50 years later it just all sounds so cheesey. And I could be wrong, but I'm not.
Solid hits. You can't really go wrong with this album. Even the more obscure tracks are solid. I mean, yeah, it's country adjacent rock, but it's good. My Rating: 4/5
Just a great album. An awesome band at the top of their game. Not much else to say.
yt musıcde albumum yarısı yoktu rezıl uygulama 💔
Despite a general aversion to the genre, I've always liked the title track. It has a pretty killer bass line, the guitar is a little over-clean, but cool, and the lyrics are memorable. A classic song for a reason. The rest of this album is kind of trash though. Decent bass lines here and there, but the singing on every other song annoys the hell out of me. When they go full proto-yacht rock like "New Kid in Town" I find it intolerable. Tough one to rate, but one great song does not make a great album. 2 stars
I may be a Dad, but 60s Dad Rock is never going to be my thing. This is pretty good as it goes.
West coast dad rock at its finest
Fkn h8 eagles
An iconic Album. But I don't know if I like because it good or because of just nostalgia. That is why this album gets a 3
Boring after the first three songs.
I had a good childhood, I heard this album a lot back then... But this album doesn't make me feel nostalgic, it just annoys me. Maybe that means something deeper about my childhood, or maybe it just means the Eagles are boring.
sometime around the year 2000 I was sleeping over at my best friend Tyler's house, spending all night talking to girls from school on yahoo messenger until their parents sent them to bed and then, having nothing else to do in the small hours of the night, Tyler played me the song Hotel California. He presented it as if he was bringing a cursed, sinister presence into my life. It was a bit like our stupid little version of playing with a oujia board. Who knows what would have happened in my life if I had done something else that night? There's no way to know and given everything in my life I guess I just have to say thanks and 5 stars to fucking Hotel California
-be the eagles -create one of the all time greatest songs with one of the all time greatest guitar solos -pump out 8 other tracks that are the most plain, middling, easy listening rock ever -profit Now I understand why the dude hates the fucking eagles, man. I too would be pissed if I heard hotel California on the radio and felt compelled to buy the album, only to be horribly disappointed by every track proceeding the title track
A classic, great stuff with OK stuff
Life in the Fast lane
Classic. Didn't realize some of the bangers on this record.
It’s a classic, but it’s pretty plodding toward the end
its good but also really boring
Hotel California is such a classic song, I was surprised that I recognized a lot of the other songs on the album that I didn’t realize that the Eagles played also.
Amazing album, forever classic, Hotel California has to be one of the greatest songs of all time. The production, the lyrics, everything’s amazing, 10/10
VANILLA
Absolutely fine.
Such a good album, surely the best opening and title track of all time? Hotel California is the ultimate story song, it’s so good, each part intertwining and keeping you engaged. Then following that the rest of the album stays on par, beautiful songs. Eagles get shat on quite a lot and perhaps often rightly so, but this album is great. Maybe they don’t always deserve it. 4.0/5.0 Best Song: Hotel California
What can you say about it, they are american rock distilled, very american, very rock. They have some GODDAMN harmonies and they are a lot of fun, but i still feel like i can't ever truly say i love the eagles. There is always something that doesn't fully align with me. Best Track: Hotel California obvs
Five
bem top visse hotel calioca
The title track Hotel California is an amazing all time classic. It's iconic guitar solo is one of the best ever, and the overall song is an amazing vibe, that can always be whipped out anywhere from campfires to stadiums. The second song new kid in town, while not as catchy or fast, is still a lyrical masterpiece with great instrumentation. Life in the Fast Lane feels like it reaches a bit closer to the band's country rock roots, with some disco elements to it. The entire album is an essentially perfect rock record, with it's six stringed guitars, powerful vocals, and even a full orchestra in the reprise.
A nice soft rock album. Favorite track: 'New Kid in Town'.
It's a fine album, if a bit boring. Hotel California is a boomer staple but a pretty good song still. The 2 songs after that are pretty good too and after that it gets a bit boring. It's just kind of overplayed AOR stuff, hard to really hate on but not the type of music I'd pick out myself. Insert the dude quote here.
Makes me want to drink shit beer in a red flannel shirt on the porch of my farm house. Man I fucking love Eagles
the hell was that
I don’t love this album as much as the self titled album, but it’s still a fantastic classic.
A masterpiece! The Last Resort is my favorite Eagles song and Hotel California is in the top 5. New Kid in Town, Life in the Fast Lane, Wasted Time - all great. I’ve always liked the Joe Walsh song Pretty Maids All in a Row as well. 5 stars!
10/10 !! mein altes zimmer :(
Pretty good. Better than eagles eagles but still a 3. 3.4 rounding down to 3. They’re just an overrated, mid band.
Real MOR sounds. Inoffensive but not particularly noteworthy. Majority rules means this is popular but not with me.
We've all heard the title track. It opens the record and it's a totally fine soft rock song. It mostly just goes down from there. There's nothing else on this that's particularly interesting.
Just dudes being guys, but with overly long guitar solos. This was fine. I think the Eagles are at their best when they’re leaning more towards a slow ballad, but even then it’s a little too generic for me.
First two tracks are perfect. Middle section drags on a bit. Last two tracks are great. Kitschy but has tasteful palette of the 1970s.
She got the Mercedes Benz “UGH”. Sequencing and flow sucks, but some good tracks. 1. The last resort 2. Try and love 3. Wasted time (reprise)
It was OK. Interlude was one of the best moments of the album. 57/100
If you ask anyone on the street to name songs from Hotel California, most likely the title track is the only one they’ll be able to name you. This is due to the fact that this song was overplayed to death on the radio at the time. For 1976, I don’t find this album to be adding anything special to the canon in musical history besides the title track. Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Ramones just to name a few from 1976 had much better projects that made much more of an impact imo. The opening track Hotel California has a great melody and fantastic guitar solo. It’s a classic for a reason. However, I think it should have been released as a single as it is too good of a song and the rest of the record doesn’t live up to it. My thoughts on this project is that I can’t help but feel that this records popularity is only due to the opening track being played over and over into people’s psyche that has contributed to its popularity. It is lyrically lacklustre, riffs are not that memorable and artistic choices lack depth. The ballads are so lacklustre. They lack heart and soul. For example, why do we have a Wasted Time (Reprise)? Does it add anything to the album experience or to the song right before it? I’m not too sure one can say anything impactful about these choices. However, I will say that the album has a strong finish with its 2 last songs. Try And Love Again is a GEM. Probably my favourite cut on the album. The hook is very rewarding and the guitar riffs are tasteful and everything is such a vibe. The Last Resort is also really good. The slide guitar and overall production with the strings and piano and everything makes it very compelling. I wish the rest of the album followed suit. Overall, there are much better records of the time that I’d much rather spend time with than this one. Hotel California 85 New Kid In Town 30 Life In The Fast Lane 40 Wasted Time 20 Wasted Time (Reprise) 10 Victime Of Love 20 Pretty Maids All In a Row 20 Try and Love Again 95 The Last Resort 90 Rating 45/100
reminds me of being on the dock with my parents and their friends but doesn’t do anything for me beyond that tbqh
Eagles just seem to be a band that all you need is their Best Of album. This had two songs that I’m a fan of with HC and Life in the Fast Lane but the remaining songs come close to sucking.
Man, I hate how much I enjoyed this album. The title - even after having heard it a million times, still love the guitar work, the harmonies, the epic build. And "New Kid In Town" is a cool song with some great guitar work, as is "Life in the Fast Lane". The ballads can induce eye rolls, but overall great stuff from a band that a guy like me should hate. "The Last Resort" is an insufferable and pompous, overproduced closer, so I'll round down my 3.5
lowk had some bangers. i felt it in my bones fs,
only one good songs and far too overplayed
"Hotel California" ja "Life in the Fast Lane" siin plaadil, uskumatud lood ikka. Eagles on super kuulamine neile, kes soovivad oma sõpradega pille kokku mängida. Iga instrument täidab siin oma väikest osa ja panustab bändi üldisesse kõlasse, kuid igaüks saab mingi hetk särada ka. Eagles on roki üks etalone, super vokaalid ka. 4.2/5
It's fine
Will struggle to listen to this without thinking of Yacht Rock. Overplayed? Overlistened? The opening track is a banger, love the bass - stays on the same simple melody but it flits beautifully in and out of the drums. The aolo is almost too iconic to objectively judge, but beautifully clean and laid out. Why the Carribean feel drum fills give it a more californian sense i dont know, but they do. My question for thie album is how can it have groove, swng, funky elements, etc but still sounds like the whitest music ever. Shit there are even disco elements in there. Its a good album.
This album made me feel about my current episode in life. The voice of the main singer is mesmerising and the guitar soars you up to the clouds. Only negatives is that the album lacks narrative and cohesion
I cant believe how the title track can be one of my favorite songs of all time yet the rest is so weak. The first few are ok but the second half is just nothing.
I always wondered, do people that make unimaginative art enjoy it? Not the process of producing. Making art can be enjoyable no matter what the end product turns out to be. I mean do they think they made something of value? I wouldn’t blame someone like an AO3 user for the quality of their writing being subpar. That’s not the point. The process is the point. They do it for fun and share their passion with the others. But what about the people that make art professionally? I just can’t imagine making art without trying to invent something. Just copying the things you already experienced and barely putting any of your own input can’t be fun, right? Do they only do it for the money? But how do you even get into art if that’s your only incentive? Doesn’t every artist want to create something of their own? Or do they actually don’t think that they make something insanely derivative, and the result we see is them putting their all into it? That’s what the Eagles make me think about. Their music isn’t offensive or hard to listen to in any way. It’s just… nothing. I hear absolutely no artistry, no passion in it at all. It’s rock that sounds like… rock. You can listen and enjoy it a little, but it’s not something that’s gonna stay with you. A line from a random song of theirs isn’t going to randomly appear in your head at some point in the future for you to go, “Damn, that’s a nice songs, I gotta listen to it again” (I guess apart from Hotel California itself—that songs is pretty catchy and iconic for a reason). There are so many better options in music. But at the same time, I can’t definitively answer if what’s they’re making is just a simple cash grab, like I can with a lot of big pop artists and their armadas of writers and producers. What if they actually like this inoffensive, basic dad rock, so that’s what they make? I know I don't particularly care for it, but I'm obviously not the ultimate arbiter of what's good—nobody is.
When I was about 15, my dad and I were visiting family in Adelaide. One afternoon he took me on a drive through the hills, on our way to the picturesque town of Hahndorf. We had the radio on, and the DJ - Sheridan Stewart, a name that remains lodged in my memory to this day - was buzzing with excitement because she was soon to play a song by The Eagles that hadn't been aired on that station for years. For at least an hour she built up a strong anticipation for this deep cut 70's track, as though it was a secret she was about to let the whole city in on. Then it finally played. The song was The Last Resort, the closing track of Hotel California, and for 7 minutes and 24 seconds I remained transfixed. My music-hungry teenage mind soaked up every word, every chord, every note of Henley's silky, emotive voice. For this song alone, and for the memory of hearing it for the first time in that small but perfect moment, Hotel California earns my highest score. That's not even counting the eight other masterpieces that make the album what it is.
Great song
Somewhat of a fan
hotel california is great...the rest? fine
I just hate the Eagles, man.
The Eagles aren't bad but I'll forever have issue with them for their greatest hits being the fifth best selling album of all time, and this one the sixth. Hotel California is an interesting song. If you heard it for the first time today it would grab you. They're doing little wrong but this is not the sixth best album of all time. I know sales doesn't mean best, but like, more people bought this than the population of Canada. What?
I dont care for the music of the Eagles. I can't place my finger on it, but it's like wearing a slightly itchy piece of clothing or something. I realized that Wasted Time (reprise) was my favorite track. I guess the thing that bothers me are the vocals, the guitar throughout the album I find enjoyable. I also wish it was either more country or more rock, but it exists somewhere oddly in the middle.
My first album and it's one I have listened to countless times before. I'm pretty sure my parents owned this in the '70s and I owned it on CD in the '90s. I checked out but apparently I can never leave.
I listened to this this album a decent amount in middle school - being at the mercy of whatever cassettes my parents had lying around. Thing is, I'm no longer prepubescent. I have my own money to buy music and ... well, I ain't reaching for this, thx. Not to say it isn't a competently composed and well performed body of work. It's fine. Fun to sing along with but not much else. Other reviewers have called this album boring...and I can't refute that. If you have a mature pallet, "soft-rock" is bland as hell. It's not this album, it's the entire genre. Not really sure why this one is on this list except that it's popular. It gets a solid "meh" from me.
Listened to before. Good album with some bangers. Hotel California hits
Lots of really enjoyable songs. Won't ever be unhappy listening to this.
Third album I ever owned. Probably could karaoke the entire album.
Meh...
Easy listenin'
Better than the other Eagles album I was forced to listen to. The music is more sophisticated with some nice orchestral pieces. They're not trying to be country any more, just pure 100% unadulterated adult contemporary. I can smell the Lysol in the air as I am reminded of dusting an unused piano while 98.1 echoes through the background, it's 1990 and nothing I clean is clean enough. They're talented, they've improved a lot since their debut album but they're excruciatingly boring. 100% better than their debut which brings this rating up to a blistering 2.
This is like easy listening, yacht rock and country all wrapped into one. I don't like any of those things. Hotel California is a bit of a bop, though.
Try to Love Again
Shit
I love the Eagles and I don’t care who knows it
Dober dober
The type of music I would expect to hear at a beach bar. I’m not really phased by it one way or the other. It’s just kind of there.
This album is honestly really boring. The title song is great, everything else is beyond mediocre.
3/5
(41/100)
That was pretty...I actually prefer the songs that aren't played on the radio all the time. New Kid in Town and Life in the Fast Lane I always change when they come on the radio. Hotel California (the song) will be a classic forever though.
Eagles выпустили «Hotel California» в 1977 году и фактически подвели итог целой эпохи. Альбом звучит как красивая ловушка: глянцевый калифорнийский рок снаружи и холодный, почти циничный взгляд на американскую мечту внутри. Деньги, наркотики, слава и пустота за всем этим — Eagles упаковали весь этот коктейль в восемь треков с такими аранжировками, что альбом до сих пор не звучит устаревшим. Больше 32 миллионов проданных копий, «Грэмми» за лучшую запись года и гитарное соло, которое знает каждый — даже те, кто не знает, что знает.
Ik ben een simpel menneke: Ik vind de grootste hit het leukst. De rest van het album is ook wel goed, maar ik sta niet juichen op de banken. Eigenlijk heb ik niks ontdekt wat ik bij dat andere album van ze nog niet had opgemerkt. 4 sterren voor dit album ook.
Loved it
Hotel California - 4/5 New Kid in Town - 2.5/5 Life in the Fast Lane - 3/5 Wasted Time - 2/5 Wasted Time (Reprise) - 2.5/5 Victim of Love - 2.5/5 Pretty Maids All in a Row - 2/5 Try and Love Again - 2.5/5 The Last Resort - 2/5 When I had watched The Big Lebowski for the first time, the joke where he tells the cab driver to turn off the Eagles and gets kicked out went right over my head because I had only known the Eagles from their song "Hotel California" and thought "surely they can't be that bad, right?" Reader, they were in fact that bad. Hotel California raises this by a star alone but the rest of the songs were just so incredibly boring Overall: 2/5 Favorite: Hotel California
👍🏻
Love it 4/5
Mein Favorit Gitarrensolo
A lot of classics on this one. On the strength of Hotel California alone, this has to be better than average. That said, the Eagles are great, but a little vanilla. Remember liking them more when I was younger.
Mej
Best Song: Hotel California I have a real conundrum going with this album. For one, I think the song Hotel California is a great song. On the other hand, Don Henley's voice is like tent spikes being hammered into my ears. Even when I was young, like 7 or 8, I remember hearing "Boys of Summer" and thinking I didn't like the sound of his voice. Nothing has changed there. But musically this is a really good album and Joe Walsh is cool. Hence, the conundrum I am in. Also, the second half the album isn't nearly as strong as the first half. I am giving this a 3/5 in spite of Henley, not because of him! If the whole album was just Hotel California the song, it would have gotten a 4.
Banger, feels like I'm on a great adventure while tuning into this one. Road tripping is the vibe of the album. Gonna listen again, good Rock at my ears. Its hard to think this album was recorded 50 years from now! "Hotel California" tops the album for sure no doubt, as an opening track, and we also got "new kid in town", "wasted time" and "try and love again". Really loved the vibe and the whole experience
137/1001 I don’t play this one much. I do enjoy it quite a bit though. A couple of stinkers but lots to love between that big opener and epic closer. 8/10
Hotel California ist a banger the Rest is mid.
Miren, podrá tener buenas canciones como la canción homónima y New Kid In Town, pero apartir de ahí el álbum va en un declive que podría considerar como una montaña rusa.
I'm not a huge Eagles fan, but this album is really good. I had not listened to it for a number of years, but I really enjoyed it. It's definitely in the 4-5 star range.
One epic song, others are average
Nothing of value beyond Hotel California
Me gusto más de lo que esperaba. Le tenía cierto prejuicio a este álbum, especialmente por su canción principal, cabe recalcar que dicho prejuicio no tiene ni pies ni cabeza en fundamentación. Que grato es cuando te cambian de parecer de una forma tan fácil. 7.5/10.
Meh
1970s with a girl... hard to screw that up.
Amazing! The first song sets the tone
Fav- victim of love 3.5/5
Sadly the Big Lebowski joke has already been made. Anyways, hate is a strong word, but I don't care about the fucking Eagles, man.
One of my favs, it being on this list is obvious.
Hotel California, the first track, is one of the greatest songs ever. The rest of the album is mostly trash. I did not enjoy this.
Pretty boring tbf
Bohemian drug fueled hippy soft rock teasing beauty with temptation, anger, drugs, speed, and jealousy turning itself into big pile of poopy
i love this album
Great overall sound with some absolute bangers.
I hate the fucking Eagles
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I mean one of the goats.
it was good but not my style, i guess
Great classic rock, some of the greatest solos ever and a mid 70s hopeful feeling in the near the end songs
Very much Dad Rock with cheesy lyrics. Not much for me here, though the music is unoffensive.
this and a blunt 🇨🇦
Always been against the eagles. Guitar wankery with no real substance.
Såå tråkig rock. Svag tvåa.
Förutom totelspåret, Life in the Fast Lane och Victim of Love är det jävligt segt asså. Försökte lyssna på texterna men orkar inte.
Livsfarligt att börja så starkt. Man blir besviken direkt efter. Andra bangers: Life in the fast lane, Victim of love. Resten trök. Svag 3a
Haha jag njöt. Den första skivan från Eagles var ju större bjääring. Märktes att det bara var massa studiomusiker och back up band till typ linda ronstadt som helt plötsligt bara satts ihop - ingen själ som kinks skulle sagt! Här har dom ju ändå hittat något. Mycket trevlig lyssning trots att jag hoppade över Hotel California. Men ah, på det stora hela så är dom riktigt överskattade.
var jag verkligen tvungen att lyssna på det där
Har lyssnat på denna en gång tidigare. Den gången förändrades mitt liv. Sen dess har det bara gått uppåt! Men kunde det verkligen stämma? Något kändes fel här, något måste vara fel här. Är det kanske ryssen son lyckats framställa sömnpiller i formen av ljudvågor? Är det jag som bara är för ung och skön att se på? Har jag fel? Hahah. Nä, jag hade rätt och mycket riktigt slog mitt liv i botten igen. Om än bara för 43 minuter (av den längsta sorten!). Ska man gå efter kriteriet "vill jag lyssna på det igen?" så är svaret ett rungande: Nej! Sätt hellre på Malcolm Maclaren, eller varför inte G. Love?
With this album, I officially begin my journey to 1001 albums you must hear before you die. Before that, I had no idea about this album, except, of course, the song Hotel California (I'm so in love with California, God). Before listening to the album, I read the reviews and realized that many people called the album boring, so I didn't expect anything AT all. And because I didn't have any expectations from this album, it seemed very good to me. New kid in town is just a great song for me. I don't know why so many artists use Johnny's name and what his allegory is, if there is one, but it's funny, I love that name (Johnny Depp, call me). In general, the album is not bad, pleasant in sound, wonderful vocals. I don't really know anything about the discography and biography of the band, just as a listener, I'll rate 7.5
2.0 stars I can respect the craft, the musicianship, and the cultural impact of this record, but it ultimately left me pretty bored. “Hotel California” is undeniably a great song...the bass line, the structure, and the narrative atmosphere absolutely hold up, but the rest of the album feels overly polished and emotionally boxed in. Everything is precise, clean, and radio-ready, but rarely exploratory or surprising. It was a rather bland listening experience. Favorite tracks: Hotel California, Pretty Maids All in a Row
4.5/5
amazing title track but the rest is well lets say okay. 3.75
cool album, feels like it either is the blueprint for rock music of that time or it followed the pre existing blueprint. it's quality music but i doubt i will come back to it that much, feels like "just rock music" 6/10
9/10
Dad rock made album. Not bloody bad.
Fuck you man you don’t like my music get your own fucking cab!
I just don’t care to F with these guys. Their music does nothing for me.
Dad rock that I don't hate actually. I wasn't alive at the time to understand why people hate the Eagles. I love the ballads. The titular track is an amazing story. Lots of high points here, even though it's not something I'd normally listen to.
decent
This is perfectly fine. Hotel California itself is a great song, but the Gypsy Kings cover is better, so how high can I rate this? This is a great album to listen to when you don't need to pay too much attention to it. It's good.
I enjoyed the slower paced songs on this album more than the higher tempo ones. I think the vocals and instruments really shine in those songs. Overall pretty good album, great recommendation cuz I def wouldn’t have given it a chance just cuz rock isn’t my main genre of music.
classic
love
8/10
that's an interesting one i suppose it's some nostalgia emerging while listening to the record. It's nice. I even vibe with hotel california. Maybe it was just the right moment for it, but i liked it.
Top 3: 1. Hotel California 2. Victim of Love 3. Life in the Fast Lane Least Favourite: Try and Love Again
Not worth the effort of putting the songs in order and finding them.
So many hits on this album. Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, Take it Easy, Witchy Woman. Funk #49. This is an album I listened to growing up. My dad called it traveling music and we would jam it on road trips.
A great album that even without the title track stands up pretty well. Well crafted songs that I enjoyed revisiting.
I hate the fucken eagles man (I don’t but the quote fits)
10/10
Hotel California is just one of the best albums ever created, and the song of the same name is just one of the best songs ever created. I think this album doesn't have (m)any imperfections, from an objective standpoint. I like it.
not my thing but undeniably good
Like the title song, everything else is so... Dad. I am not old enough for this shit.
- Hotel California - Classic, great guitar solo, everyone knows this song. - New kid in town - Not what I expected honestly. Very chill. I honestly love it. Reminds me of a Frank Sinatra song oddly. - Life in the fast lane - Forgetable, not a fun listen. Decent guitar break - Wasted time - I liked it
Memories of high school for some tracks. Others I didn't remember at all -- those were a little too much easy listening for me.
This is not something I previously would have jumped to listen to…BUT this was really good. Not too long. Soundscape and melody choices were so interesting i was engaged the entire time. I’ve listened to another Eagles track on here this is by far my favourite so far. Fav songs: Hotel California - what an opening, New Kid in town and try and love again overall: 8.5/10
I can't really objectively assess the title track on here because it suffered from almost daily radio play on classic rock stations for many years of my life that I spent working in places that constantly had the radio on. The thing I kind of hate about it is really specific which is that when they say the "Ho-tel Cal-i-fornia" it has this kind of Harry Nilsson style 'Lime in De co-co-nut' stye affect that irritates me. I also don't really like the million voice vocal harmony. And then every time I hear life in the fast lane I just hear Don Henley doing Dirty Laundry later on with like the same sort of raspy up and down sprechgesang or whatever it is. I don't need to justify all of the small insignificant reasons I don't like this album it's not important. I listened all the way through just to make sure I wasn't missing any hidden gems. I wouldn't say that it's a gem but I did kind of like 'Try and Love Again' as far as a sappy 70s powerpop kind of song. I'm a sucker for that stuff. So that is the silver lining here.
3.5/5
Really nothing interesting aside from Hotel California and Life In The Fast Lane. I never understood why the Eagles got so big, they are pretty boring. They had a good song which became a huge hit and that's it for me.
This is obviously good. Hotel california is a classic, i found the patches of strings beautifully done and there was variety from strings up to some decent hard rock which surprised me. I cant say anything bad about this apart from i think music has moved on in better and more interesting ways. A top notch tike capsule, but the only people listening to this were around when it was first released.
I was amazed at the number of hits on this album. This shit was all over the airways in the eighties. Trouble is, I don’t think this held up very well. My favorite quote from the book states, “In many ways, Hotel California was everything that punk rock came to destroy glassy perfect production, harmonized guitar solos and “themes.” I couldn’t agree more. There isn’t anything particularly bad about this music, but there is also not anything particularly memorable or interesting.
Opening with Hotel California I was primed to rate it 4/5. From there it was all a little bit middle of the road dad rock
Great start, very average afterwards.
The highs are high, but there is a lot of plain stuff here
A classic
Great album, started listening to The Eagles in high school. Loved them then and appreciate them even more now.
an amazing album from start to finish.
Not a big fan of this group. At least the two albums that have listened to. This is overall ok…background music. With the exception of the first and last track everything else is just ok.
Started out good. Enjoyed hearing Grandpa sing along.
É um bom álbum, mas com exceção das 2 primeiras musicas, as outtas faixas nao sao tao marcantes assim
100% certified classic
Eat bat, prick https://youtu.be/qcb-K8k-OAE
3,5
Excellent
Haven't listened past Hotel California before. Should've stopped there.
Not my fave, i don’t have any nostalgia for this kind of music and listening fresh it’s not doing anything super interesting imo. Not bad but thats kinda all there is to say.
Breaking news: woman with American Studies degree loves Americana. In other news: water is wet. I fear I’m going to be in enemy territory here but I really love this album, in no small part thanks to the opening three-track run that has deeply shaped me. Look I get it, you either love or hate Hotel California but I think it does exactly what it needs to do, which is create a creepy atmosphere that really takes hold of 6-year-old Emily, trapped in the car in the wee hours of the morning, en route to Melbourne. It perfectly establishes the exploration of American excess and American decay that is the rest of the album. New Kid in Town hits me right in the chest every single time I hear it. There’s just !something! about the timbre of “Johnny-come-lately / the new kid in town / will she still love you / when you’re not around?” that makes me want to cry. And Life in the Fast Lane is maybe some of the most fun I’ve had with a song. It’s so sexy!!! Brutally handsome? Terminally pretty?? Good in bed!!! I could listen to it on repeat for hours and never get bored. The opening run is enough for me to give this album five stars but I genuinely did enjoy the rest of it, even Wasted Time (Reprise), which really felt like a movie score just snuck in there for the hell of it.
I don’t know if I’d ever heard Hotel California (the song) in full before but I found it so underwhelming. One of the most famous songs of all time???? The rest of the album was also unremarkable to me
Knowing only Hotel California (the worst of the classic 70s epic rock songs), I went in thinking the Eagles were a naff 70s rock band. I stand corrected. They’re much worse than just being naff. How these people became one of the best selling bands of all time is beyond me.
lowkey sick with it