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BLC: The Eagles vs. The Cure

HahnSolo May 10 2006 02:44 PM

The Eagles lineup: Take it to the Limit I Can't Tell You Why One of These Nights Life in the Fast Lane The Long Run Seven Bridges Road (live) Take it Easy Already Gone Lyin' Eyes Hotel California All found on The Very Best of... [url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B0000CD5FR/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/104-0289805-6085507?%5Fencoding=UTF8#disc_1[/url]

Edgy DC May 10 2006 03:14 PM

Why Can't I Be You? I Can't Tell You Why

metirish May 10 2006 05:33 PM

Why can't I be you" "Close to Me" "Friday I'm in Love" "In Between days" "Fascination Street" "Lovesong" "Boy's Don't Cry" "Pictures of You" "Just Like Heaven" "Love Cats" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005R09Z/sr=1-2/qid=1147296664/ref=sr_1_2/103-0707128-4323009?%5Fencoding=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002H3O/qid=1147296742/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-0707128-4323009?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

Willets Point May 10 2006 05:38 PM

Eagles are goin' down.

HahnSolo May 10 2006 10:20 PM

They're Already Gone?

sharpie May 10 2006 10:34 PM

We gettin' pictures?

metirish May 10 2006 10:36 PM

NOt for nout but the Cure deserve a win, they are a great band...

Edgy DC May 10 2006 11:00 PM

vs. "Take it to the Limit" vs. "Why Can't I be you?" "I Can't Tell You Why" vs. "Close to Me" "One of These Nights" vs. "Friday I'm in Love" "Life in the Fast Lane" vs. "In Between days" "The Long Run" vs. "Fascination Street" "Seven Bridges Road (live)" vs. "Lovesong" "Take it Easy" vs. "Boy's Don't Cry" "Already Gone" vs. "Pictures of You" "Lyin' Eyes" vs. "Just Like Heaven" "Hotel California" vs. "Love Cats"

Willets Point May 10 2006 11:21 PM

"Take it to the Limit" vs. "Why Can't I be you?" The Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why" vs. "Close to Me" The Cure "One of These Nights" vs. "Friday I'm in Love" The Cure "Life in the Fast Lane" vs. "In Between days" The Cure "The Long Run" vs. "Fascination Street" The Cure "Seven Bridges Road (live)" vs. "Lovesong" The Eagles "Take it Easy" vs. "Boy's Don't Cry" The Cure "Already Gone" vs. "Pictures of You" The Cure "Lyin' Eyes" vs. "Just Like Heaven" The Eagles "Hotel California" vs. "Love Cats" Tie The Eagles 3.5:6.5 The Cure

Edgy DC May 11 2006 09:35 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on May 11 2006 11:17 AM

"Take it to the Limit" vs. "Why Can't I Be You?" Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why" vs. "Close to Me" Cure. It took the latecoming Timothy B. Scmitt to give the Eagles soul, but he's up against a really unique song here. "One of These Nights" vs. "Friday I'm in Love" Cure. I don't like "Friday" nearly as much as Ms. Edgy but the funky guitar and falsetto harmony bridge of "OoTN" just makes me feel seventies awkward. "Life in the Fast Lane" vs. "In Between days" Cure. "The Long Run" vs. "Fascination Street" Cure. "Street" takes too long getting anything interesting going beyond the bass riff, then, once it does, it wraps things too fast because dammit, it's the single, and every other song on this record is eight minutes. "Long Run" sounds too much like Don Henley told Joe Walsh to give him all his leftover riffs from "Life's Been Good." Narrow victory to the Cure here. "Seven Bridges Road (live)" vs. "Lovesong" Cure. "Take it Easy" vs. "Boy's Don't Cry" Cure. "Already Gone" vs. "Pictures of You" Cure. "Pics" rules. "Lyin' Eyes" vs. "Just Like Heaven" Cure. Hard to beat. "Hotel California" vs. "Love Cats" Cure. I wonder if I can hear "Hotel" anymore. I'm a bigtime Eagles apologist. I can talk about them had a young Glynnis Johns producing their first 2.5 albums when he already had the best resume in rock, having already worked with the Beatles, Stones, Zep, and the Who; how they nonetheless resisted him, and wanted to rock while he envisioned them as a harmony act, a countrified Beach Boys; how Henley's vision of California is misinterpreted completely and is a deep, cutting, cautionary dissection, that cuts to the heart of not just California, but the darkness of the American spirit and of human yearnings, both fleshly and supernal. I'll defend them until right up until about ten seconds after they fired Don Felder. What was that about? And I fully acknowledge the Cure's flaws, their whininess, their histrionic-ness, their effeteness, their self-indulgence, their wrecklessly Pied-Pipering their followers toward a cliff of despair. And yet I adore the Cure a whole lot more than the Eagles, and I award them a 9-1 win. The Eagles just can't break my heart.

Willets Point May 11 2006 09:45 AM

Bizaro world: I'm more generous to the Eagles than Edgy. Next I'm going to get Glavine pajamas.

Edgy DC May 11 2006 09:56 AM

"I Can't Tell You Why" and "The Long Run" almost earned ties. Really, it's not about being ungenerous to the "Eagles," but about being gaga for the Cure.

ScarletKnight41 May 11 2006 12:46 PM

"Take it to the Limit" vs. "Why Can't I be you?" - The Cure "I Can't Tell You Why" vs. "Close to Me" - The Eagles "One of These Nights" vs. "Friday I'm in Love" - The Cure "Life in the Fast Lane" vs. "In Between days" - The Cure "The Long Run" vs. "Fascination Street" - The Eagles "Seven Bridges Road (live)" vs. "Lovesong" - The Cure "Take it Easy" vs. "Boy's Don't Cry" - The Eagles "Already Gone" vs. "Pictures of You" - The Cure "Lyin' Eyes" vs. "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure "Hotel California" vs. "Love Cats" - The Cure The Cure - 7 The Eagles - 3

HahnSolo May 12 2006 09:25 AM

"Take it to the Limit" vs. "Why Can't I be you?" - EAGLES "I Can't Tell You Why" vs. "Close to Me" - EAGLES "One of These Nights" vs. "Friday I'm in Love" - CURE "Life in the Fast Lane" vs. "In Between days" - TIE "The Long Run" vs. "Fascination Street" - EAGLES "Seven Bridges Road (live)" vs. "Lovesong" - CURE "Take it Easy" vs. "Boy's Don't Cry" - EAGLES "Already Gone" vs. "Pictures of You" - EAGLES "Lyin' Eyes" vs. "Just Like Heaven" - CURE "Hotel California" vs. "Love Cats" - EAGLES Eagles 6.5, Cure 3.5

Edgy DC May 12 2006 10:46 AM

Y'all know these bands. More votes are deserved.

sharpie May 12 2006 11:40 AM

I know the Eagles and I voted in the last Cure matchup only because it was mostly clips vs. clips. I don't know the Cure songs well enough, however, to vote vs. the Eagles and I think Eagles fans are probably breathing a sigh of relief over that.

Gwreck May 12 2006 01:29 PM

"Take it to the Limit" vs. "Why Can't I be you?" - Cure "I Can't Tell You Why" vs. "Close to Me" - Cure "One of These Nights" vs. "Friday I'm in Love" - Cure "Life in the Fast Lane" vs. "In Between days" - Eagles, possibly their best song. "The Long Run" vs. "Fascination Street" - Eagles "Seven Bridges Road (live)" vs. "Lovesong" - Cure "Take it Easy" vs. "Boy's Don't Cry" - Eagles "Already Gone" vs. "Pictures of You" - Tough matchup. Eagles "Lyin' Eyes" vs. "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure, easily. "Hotel California" vs. "Love Cats" - The guitar solo isn't bad but the song was never that good, even the first 100,000 times you heard it. Cure Cure wins, 6-4. I actually like a good deal of the Eagles' songs but wow it's tough to be objective when I hate Don Henley and Glenn Frey with a burning passion. F*ck them, their manager Irving Azoff and their bandmates for their greed. No chance in hell they'll ever take responsibility for breaking the $100 ticket barrier for a national tour and pricing themselves out of the reach of most music fans.

Edgy DC May 12 2006 01:41 PM

And they fired Don Felder. What was that about?

seawolf17 May 12 2006 01:48 PM

"Take it to the Limit" vs. "Why Can't I be you?" - Cure "I Can't Tell You Why" vs. "Close to Me" - Cure "One of These Nights" vs. "Friday I'm in Love" - Cure "Life in the Fast Lane" vs. "In Between days" - Cure "The Long Run" vs. "Fascination Street" - Cure "Seven Bridges Road (live)" vs. "Lovesong" - Eagles "Take it Easy" vs. "Boy's Don't Cry" - Eagles "Already Gone" vs. "Pictures of You" - Cure "Lyin' Eyes" vs. "Just Like Heaven" - Cure "Hotel California" vs. "Love Cats" - Eagles 80s Goth Pop 7, 70s Boring Boring Boring Rock 3.

HahnSolo May 12 2006 02:23 PM

Other than The Long Run, did Felder miss any other albums? He returned for Hell Freezes Over tour, right?

Edgy DC May 12 2006 02:28 PM

Yup. Although he wasn't quite original. He joined during the sessions for the third album in 1974. He was brought in to lay down a slide guitar track and the band fell in love with him. He was fired after the "Hell Freezes Over" tour, I suspect because he's not a frontman on anything, making him disposable, and they were being greedy, replacing him with a salaryman guitarist who doesn't get paid as an equal partner. Lawsuits are flying around, but I don't know the particulars. I"m just guessing. Those $100 tickets are about 900% more than I'm willing to pay to see the Eagles.

Edgy DC May 12 2006 02:34 PM

The Eagles are members of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, which is a pretty good honor for acts that don't get props in the Band Ladder Challenge --- some acts being both bands and vocal groups, but some being merely one or the other. Inductees fo the Vocal Group Hall of Fame: Abba (2002) Alabama (2004) The American Quartet (2004) The Ames Brothers (1998) The Andrews Sisters (1998) The Association (2003) The Bangles (2000) The Beach Boys (1998) The Beatles (2004) The Bee Gees (2001) Ben E. King & the Drifters (2000) The Boswell Sisters (1998) The Cadillacs (2004) The Chordettes (2001) The Chantels (2002) The Charioteers (2003) The Clovers (2002) The Coasters (1999) The Commodores (2003) The Crests (2004) Crosby, Stills & Nash (1998) Danny & the Juniors (2003) The Dells (2004) The Diamonds (2004) Dion & the Belmonts (2000) Dixie Hummingbirds (2000) The Delta Rhythm Boys (1999) The Doobie Brothers (2004) Eagles (2001) Earth Wind & Fire (2003) The Everly Brothers (2004) Fifth Dimension (2002) The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (1998) The Five Keys (2002) The Five Satins (2003) The Flamingos (2000) The Four Aces (2001) The Four Freshmen (2001) The Four Knights (2002) The Four Lads (2003) The Four Seasons (1999) The Four Tops (1999) The Four Tunes (2004) Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (2000) Gladys Knight & The Pips (2001) The Golden Gate Quartet (1998) Hank Ballard & the Midnighters (1999) The Harptones (2002) The Impressions (2003) The Ink Spots (1999) The Isley Brothers (2003) The Jackson 5 (1999) Jay & the Americans (2002) The Jordanaires (2004) The Kingston Trio (2000) The Lennon Sisters (2001) The Lettermen (2001) Little Anthony & the Imperials (1999) The Mamas & the Papas (2000) Manhattan Transfer (1998) Martha & the Vandellas (2003) The Marcels (2002) The Marvelettes (2004) The McGuire Sisters (2001) The Merry Macs (2003) The Mills Brothers (1998) The Modernaires (1999) The Moonglows (1999) The Oak Ridge Boys (2001) The O'Jays (2004) The Original Drifters (1998) The Peerless Quartet (2003) The Penguins (2004) Peter, Paul and Mary (1999) The Pied Pipers (2001) The Platters (1998) The Ravens (1998) The Revelers (1999) The Ronettes (2004) The Shirelles (2002) The Skylarks (2000) The Skyliners (2002) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (2001) Sonny Til and the Orioles (1998) The Soul Stirrers (2000) The Spinners (1999) The Stylistics (2004) The Supremes (1998) The Swan Silvertones (2002) The Temptations (1999) Three Dog Night (2000) The Tokens (2004) The Vogues (2001) The Weavers (2001) The Whispers (2003) Visit the next time you're in Sharon, PA.

seawolf17 May 12 2006 02:44 PM

What Sharon and I do in our spare time is none of your business, bucko.

sharpie May 12 2006 02:49 PM

The Beatles were voted in two years after Abba and three years after the Eagles.

Edgy DC May 12 2006 02:58 PM

I noticed. It can be argued that the Beatles were a superior act but not necessariy a superior vocal group to those two others, but that's a pretty tough argument to make. My guess is that a group's induction is a higher priority in a given year if somebody from the group is willing to show in Sharon.

sharpie May 13 2006 02:21 PM

Eagles are taken to the limit and lose to the Cure 39-21.

metirish May 13 2006 02:23 PM

WOW, I am so happy for my boys first win.

HahnSolo May 13 2006 06:43 PM

Irish, I didn't realize I challenged two of your bands. Congrats on the split!

Edgy DC May 13 2006 11:10 PM

Band I defend despite not actually being a fan or owning any of their records: Eagles, Hootie, Hanson.