after listening to everything, I still mostly just love Take It Easy. Everything else is pretty good too, I’m not opposed. It’s consistent, inoffensive, enjoyable stuff. I don’t honestly care all that much about it, though. It’s good, I don’t mean to crap on it. I like it, it’s well done and all that, I can see the appeal. It just doesn’t grab me, by and large. I like the vibe of the first album pretty good. The second album, Desperado, I care the least about. The next four are pretty well put together, I can see why they were successful. Hotel California I do think is the best album– I’m still not particularly drawn to it, but I can’t deny that it has a realness and a presence to it. The Long Run is also good; in some ways I almost like it better than Hotel California. I think in the end it feels just a little more canned in a way I can’t articulate well, but it’s legit. Their 2007 album, Long Road Out of Eden, I actually think is pretty solid, except that it’s an hour and a half and it just keeps going, it doesn’t earn its time.
All things told, I can see the appeal. I do really love Take It Easy. Sometimes when there’s an individual song I love from a band and I listen to the band and it doesn’t match up it makes me disappointed because I was hoping to tap into more of what I loved in that song. I think some of that probably happened here, but if anything I think what I really felt is an affirmation and solidifying of my appreciation for Take It Easy. Like, no, it’s not just that I like the Eagles, I really like that song, it’s a good song. The rest is good, the rest has a place, but at the end of the day it doesn’t make me think, it doesn’t make me curious, it doesn’t make me feel, and it’s not pleasant enough in the pure listening of it for me to say much more than “yeah, pretty good”: B
Eagles complete, now listening to: Sam Means
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