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I Can't Tell You Why

HahnSolo May 23 2007 01:04 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 23 2007 01:08 PM

since I am the resident Eagles apologist here, but New York Magazine can. [url]http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/05/why_the_eagles_are_the_best_ba.html[/url] Fixed

Edgy DC May 23 2007 01:06 PM

Page not found. Rockin' Doc also flies with the Eagles.

HahnSolo May 23 2007 01:08 PM

I fixed the link.

metirish May 23 2007 01:09 PM

I stopped after the headline... 32 Reasons Why the Eagles Are the Best Band in the Universe

Benjamin Grimm May 23 2007 01:09 PM

I've been living in the Philadelphia area too long. It took me longer than it should have to realize that this wasn't about TO's former team.

Willets Point May 23 2007 01:13 PM

Must. Restrain. Myself.

Edgy DC May 23 2007 01:20 PM

I think a misunderstood song is a reflection both on those delivering it and those listening to it. I like "I Can't Tell You Why" and "Take It to the Limit" and I think they should have let their bass players do more siinging. They brought the soul to the house.

HahnSolo May 23 2007 01:25 PM

Have you heard Frey try to sing "Take it to the Limit"? He can't hit the high notes. That song should have been retired by the band once Randy Meissner left.

Willets Point May 23 2007 01:28 PM

Edgy DC wrote: I like "I Can't Tell You Why" and "Take It to the Limit" and I think they should have let their bass players do more siinging. They brought the soul to the house. Actually, I like those two songs, probably for the same reasons. The other Eagles songs I like are "Seven Bridges Road" for the harmony and "Desperado" when sung by that girl in the movie In America.

cooby May 23 2007 01:33 PM

I like the Eagles too; my favorite is "Wasted Time"

TransMonk May 23 2007 01:56 PM

If the title of this article were changed to 32 Reasons Why the Eagles Are NOT the Best Band in the Universe and everything else stayed the same it would still make sense to me. I'd like the Eagles a lot more if they all would have stopped making music once the '70s were over. The solo careers of Don Henley, Glen Frey, Timothy B Schmidt and to a lesser extent Joe Walsh cheapened anything great the Eagles did in the '70s as a band. And Hell freezing over broke it.

Edgy DC May 23 2007 02:01 PM

Really? I think what cheapened the Eagle legacy was the larger-than-lifeness of "Hotel Cali." It made them a love 'em/hate 'em choice when without that song, it's "Eagles? Yeah, sure, whatever."

Johnny Dickshot May 23 2007 02:26 PM

They should have quit after Hotel Cally and at least be able to say they went out big. "The Long Run" sucked bhmc on its own merits but as a follow up to "Hotel" it sucked longer, hairier moose cocks.

Kid Carsey May 23 2007 02:35 PM

I ain't reading the article, but I Can't Tell You Why is a good song. I didn't even know it was an Eagles song until I saw the long haired bass player singing it on Hell Freezes Over at a party sometime back.

TransMonk May 23 2007 02:57 PM

="Edgy DC"]Really? I think what cheapened the Eagle legacy was the larger-than-lifeness of "Hotel Cali." It made them a love 'em/hate 'em choice when without that song, it's "Eagles? Yeah, sure, whatever." To an extent that certainly added to it...but the Eagles were pretty larger than life before Hotel California. One Of These Nights and the Greatest Hits album that they released before Hotel California were both #1 albums. I would agree that Hotel California allowed Henley to embark on a fairly massive solo career...which in turn allowed Hotel California to keep selling until it became one of the top selling albums of all time. I guess where I was coming from was that in the '70s they had a signature sound and a unique image from all of the other "Yacht Rockers" that were dominating the Adult Contemp./Pop charts of the time. As a combined musical and songwriting force I think they put together a decent body of work. But I think their solo careers uncovered some of their individual songwriting flaws and shortcomings in talent. Not that they didn't keep selling tons and tons of records.

Edgy DC May 23 2007 05:03 PM

For the record, I'm dissin' "Hotel California," the single, not the album.

iramets May 23 2007 07:27 PM

I spent a week moping over the breakup of my first real relationship, singing "The Best of My Love" repetitively in my head and (to my roommates' frustration) aloud. The Eagles will always rule!

Batty31 May 24 2007 09:50 AM

I still have vivid memories of "In the City" playing over the final scenes and closing credits of the movie The Warriors.

Edgy DC May 31 2007 09:57 AM

HahnSolo wrote: Have you heard Frey try to sing "Take it to the Limit"? He can't hit the high notes. That song should have been retired by the band once Randy Meissner left. I was inexplicably thinking of this post while hunting down some lunch today. Why the heck don't they give the vocal to Timothy B.? He's got the range (or at least hadit, and presumably still has more range than Frey), and he occupies the Meissner chair. Sort of like KISS letting Eric Carr sing "Beth."

Batty31 May 31 2007 11:39 AM

Hmmm. I am a huge fan of Peter Criss (even saw his solo tour). When I first heard Eric was going to sing "Beth", I was outraged. Then once it was released, I was ok with it. I felt Eric did the song justice.

Johnny Dickshot May 31 2007 11:42 AM

="Batty31"] When I first heard Eric was going to sing "Beth", I was outraged. Then once it was released, I was ok with it. I felt Eric did the song justice. Which couldn't be expected considering Carr and Criss were not only different drummers, but different species.

Edgy DC May 31 2007 11:45 AM

Both members of the Extraneous Ultimate Double-Consonant Club, though.

Batty31 May 31 2007 12:01 PM

Ahh...but Peter's real last name is Criscuola. And Eric Carr's real name was Paul Charles Caravello.

Edgy DC May 31 2007 12:07 PM

Exactly. Both adopted the affectation to join the club. I posted as Big Trainn for a while and it got me nowhere.

seawolf17 May 31 2007 12:10 PM

So did this guy, because he thought it would look cool on his baseball card.