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During the late 1960s all — or at the very least lots of — roadways caused Southern California, and also the Eagles was just one of the locations.
It was not a band created with small objectives. Glenn Frey had actually currently sung on a nationwide hit (Bob Seger’s “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man”) when he came west from Detroit, and also Don Henley‘s Shiloh had an album produced by Kenny Rogers. They met Bernie Leadon, late of the Flying Burrito Brothers, while all of them played in Linda Ronstadt’s 1970-71 support band, while Randy Meisner was an expert of Poco and also Ricky Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band. It was a supergroup of types, with a universe of terrific partners such as Jackson Browne, JD Souther and also Jack Tempchin, and also one that definitely flew to very, and also outstanding, elevations.
Over the program of 2 periods and also 7 (primarily multi-platinum) workshop cds, the Eagles have actually marketed greater than 150 million documents worldwide, while Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) has actually been secured for several years in a fight for very successful cd of perpetuity with Michael Jackson‘s Thriller. The awards range from 6 Grammy Awards to inductions right into the Rock & Roll and also Vocal Group Hall of Fames to a Kennedy Center Honor. And extra significantly, Eagles are the given name discussed in any kind of conversation of California or nation rock.
Frey’s fatality in January 2016 can have based the Eagles completely, yet the team flew once more with Frey’s child Deacon and also Vince Gill in position for trip days that are readied to conclude later on this year with The Long Goodbye Tour. (Meisner, that left the team in 1977, after the previous year’s Hotel California cd, died in July 2023 at age 77.)
Here are our selections for the 15 ideal Eagles tune to day.
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“Doolin-Dalton” (Desperado, 1973)
The opening up track from Eagles’ 2nd cd, motivated by the Doolin-Dalton gang in late-19th-century Oklahoma, was a cornerstone repeated two times on the Desperado cd’s 2nd side, establishing a quasi-concept that was extra effective in the specific tracks than throughout the whole body of job.
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“Peaceful Easy Feeling” (Eagles, 1972)
Like numerous tracks in their canon, this Tempchin track is a model wherefore the team does so well: relaxed tunes with abundant consistencies and also a natural lushness that obtains you humming along virtually prior to the initial knowledgeable mores than.
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“Seven Bridges Road” (Eagles Live, 1980)
Speaking regarding what Eagles do so well, this real-time take of the Steve Young song is everything about the consistencies, carried out primarily a cappella and also jaw-droppingly limited and also smooth.
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“Tequila Sunrise” (Desperado, 1973)
One of the initial Henley-Frey songwriting partnerships for Eagles, “Tequila Sunrise” is a scene-setter in every feeling, although its smooth sanction in fact really feels even more like sunset than dawn.
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“Heartache Tonight” (The Long Run, 1979)
Assisted by Bob Seger on both songwriting and also anonymous support vocals, the Grammy Award-winning and also Hot 100-topping solitary from The Long Run has those darn great consistencies yet once more, along with some warm slide guitar having fun by Joe Walsh.
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“How Long” (Long Road Out of Eden, 2007)
This solitary, from 2007’s Long Road Out of Eden, has a classic feeling, and also completely factor: The team in fact did the JD Souther anti-war tune live throughout the ’70s and also discovered it greater than 3 years later on — and also made it seem like no time at all had actually passed in all.
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“Already Gone” (On the Border, 1974)
The Eagles’ performance of this Tempchin song is a hootin’, hollerin’ anthem that offered Frey and also then-new participant Don Felder a lot of area to allow their guitars shriek a little.
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“Best of My Love” (On the Border, 1974)
Far extra sugar than sentimental, the Henley-sung ballad offered Eagles its initial No. 1 Hot 100 solitary and also has actually maintained audiences swooning, truly, for virtually half a century.
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“Lyin’ Eyes” (One of These Nights, 1975)
A little supposition regarding ladies ripping off on their spouses while Frey and also Henley were hanging out at Dan Tana’s in Los Angeles brought to life this marvelous ballad, whose abundant carolers consistencies make the lyrical charge seem like a deceitful rub on the back.
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“I Can’t Tell You Why” (The Long Run, 1979)
Timothy B. Schmit’s finest minute is an emotional, irritable sluggish jam whose stress is reduced by his pure high tone and also what might be — with apologies to “Hotel California” — one of the most transportive guitar solo in the Eagles’ collection.
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“Take It to the Limit” (One of These Nights, 1975)
Give the various other bass gamer some: Randy Meisner radiates on this praise to objective and also resolution, delighting with his very own brand name of jaw-dropping falsetto and also an Eagles tune — co-written with Henley and also Frey — that stands also without the singing fireworks.
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“Life in the Fast Lane” (Hotel California, 1976)
Eagles’ ideal out-and also-out rocker, bar none, and the finest minute from the Joe Walsh-Don Felder guitar tandem conserve for, oh, that one…
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“Take It Easy” (Eagles, 1972)
The liftoff factor, a Frey-Browne cooperation that placed an edge in Winslow, Ariz. on the map and also made all of us wish for the type of “world of trouble” the vocalist was having.
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“Desperado” (Desperado, 1973)
The Henley display from the cd of the exact same name flaunts a barren, tumbleweeds-rolling-in-the-sunset environment that makes a really motion picture influence.
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“Hotel California” (Hotel California, 1976)
An irresistible champ of a tune, an acoustic motion picture that marks off all packages — expressive verses, social discourse, modernistic situations which savage guitar jam, which lives conveniently in the pantheon of legendaries along with “Stairway to Heaven” and also “Free Bird.”
