Comments on: Top 5: Back on the Road With the Eagles http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/top-5-back-on-the-road-with-the-eagles/ Our Top 40 Past . . . in the Present Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jb http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/top-5-back-on-the-road-with-the-eagles/#comment-2953 jb Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:00:51 +0000 http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/top-5-back-on-the-road-with-the-eagles/#comment-2953 Rolling Stone observed the peculiarity of the Eagles encouraging involvement in world-saving (in songs like "Do Something") and criticizing corporatism ("The Long Road out of Eden"), but selling the album exclusively at Walmart. "Somebody" definitely has that "You Belong to the City" vibe, doesn't it? Rolling Stone observed the peculiarity of the Eagles encouraging involvement in world-saving (in songs like “Do Something”) and criticizing corporatism (“The Long Road out of Eden”), but selling the album exclusively at Walmart.

“Somebody” definitely has that “You Belong to the City” vibe, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Jason http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/top-5-back-on-the-road-with-the-eagles/#comment-2952 Jason Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:16:45 +0000 http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/top-5-back-on-the-road-with-the-eagles/#comment-2952 "The songs tend to sound more like each guy’s solo work than they sound like Eagles tunes." You hit the nail right on the head. That's exactly the feeling I got as well. I've listened to the set about four times now, and it does get better with every listen. A few notes: 1) "Do Something," no matter how many times I listen, is awful. It's the gentlest song ever written about getting up off your ass. What's amusing is that it's the absolute antithesis of "I Don't Want To Hear Anymore." (And I'm with you...that one's growing on me, but this is the only place I'll ever admit it.) 2) "Somebody" was clearly rejected from Miami Vice. 3) "I Love To Watch A Woman Dance" is a lot more enjoyable if you picture Frey as a perverted stalker. “The songs tend to sound more like each guy’s solo work than they sound like Eagles tunes.”

You hit the nail right on the head. That’s exactly the feeling I got as well. I’ve listened to the set about four times now, and it does get better with every listen. A few notes:

1) “Do Something,” no matter how many times I listen, is awful. It’s the gentlest song ever written about getting up off your ass. What’s amusing is that it’s the absolute antithesis of “I Don’t Want To Hear Anymore.” (And I’m with you…that one’s growing on me, but this is the only place I’ll ever admit it.)

2) “Somebody” was clearly rejected from Miami Vice.

3) “I Love To Watch A Woman Dance” is a lot more enjoyable if you picture Frey as a perverted stalker.

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