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No one in Eagles<\/a> was going to be satisfied with making merely passable rock and roll.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although their songs are a lot more laid-back than nearly every hard rock band that was out at the time, it was impossible not to sing along to their tunes whenever they came on the radio, whether if that was in their prime in the 1970s or whenever \u2018Take it Easy\u2019 blares out of a car stereo. The band weren\u2019t going to settle for anything less than perfection, but there\u2019s almost a scientific middle ground where all their greatest hits can be found.<\/p>\n Granted, it\u2019s not like science is going to be judging the preciseness of their harmonies or anything. If that were the case, bands like The Beach Boys and Queen may have them beat by a few miles. The metric that\u2019s being judged here is how well they hold up next to the singles of the time, and even by that logic, the California rockers already had a wealth of great tracks to choose from.<\/p>\n \u2018Take It Easy\u2019 was only the tip of the iceberg, and when looking at everything from their ballads to their rock and roll classics, there was always going to be a little something for everybody when picking up one of their records. Then again, the most perfect Eagles song was never going to be an obscure deep cut or a bootleg of a fantastic show that they had circa 1975 or anything.<\/p>\n The true peak of their powers came when all of them were working together, but even by that logic, a song like \u2018Hotel California\u2019 is a beautiful contradiction. They had written epic tunes before, but the fact that they managed to get a song that\u2019s over six minutes to the top of the charts is unheard of in the pop market. And it helps that the song actually earned that spot with no problem at all.<\/p>\n When looking at the charts more objectively<\/a>, the album Hotel California is already revered in the band\u2019s catalogue, but the song itself has transcended what any traditional hit is meant to be. Compared to their massive smashes like \u2018Tequila Sunrise\u2019 or even \u2018Desperado\u2019, \u2018Hotel California\u2019 is far beyond anything that they have ever done, being ranked at #2 most popular song of the year it was released and #72 in the greatest singles ever released.<\/p>\n But what about \u2018Hotel California\u2019 makes it so memorable? Sure, there are the harmonies that everyone dwells on, but there\u2019s more to it than Don Henley\u2019s soulful voice soaring above everything. All the pieces are there for a classic Eagles song, but the true power it has is the fact that every single member of the group has a chance to shine in some respect.<\/p>\n While Glenn Frey and Henley should get a lion\u2019s share of the credit for creating this Twilight Zone scenario of an imaginary hotel that steals your artistic soul, the rest of the backing track is damn near flawless by their standards. Randy Meisner anchors everything to the ground with his basslines, and while Don Felder and Joe Walsh already have beautiful guitar fills throughout the piece, their dueling solos at the very end is the most perfect ear candy that ever turned up on an Eagles project.<\/p>\n All of them were only focused on making the best record that they could, but \u2018Hotel California\u2019 has transformed into a song that defies categorisation. Most of Eagles\u2019 greatest songs could be enjoyed with a margarita in your hand on a beach, but over six minutes of music, they created a tune that could take its place next to \u2018Stairway to Heaven<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018American Pie\u2019 as one of the greatest epic pieces in rock history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Alamy) Sat 20 September 2025 18:15, UK No one in Eagles was going to be satisfied with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[21210,77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-439272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115238401824749996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}