NewCC0045: The Eagles
- Their Greatest Hits (1971 - 1975) (76): *****
- Hotel California (76): *****
- The Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (82): ****
- Selected Works: 1972 - 1999 (00): ****
- The Long Run (79): *** 1/2
- One of These Nights (75): *** 1/2
- The Eagles (72): ***
- On the Border (74): ***
- Eagles Live (80): ***
- Hell Freezes Over (94): ***
- Desperado (73): ** 1/2
This is a new entry in an up-dated series I'm calling the New Critical Consensus. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever
les, don't some critics (including yourself) consider Desperado superior to Hotel California? Interesting how lowly rated it is...
Johnny Waco
Once I did, but I don't any longer. I heard it again recently after not listening to it for quite a long while.
Not to overgeneralize, but for the most part, most of the American critics favor Hotel, while the English critics go nuts over Desperado.
Desperado is that funny kind of album that sounds so good when your young and frankly a bit silly when your older, as far as I can tell. There's a concept there, and perhaps how much you buy that concept determines your enjoyment of the album.
Then again, maybe last time I heard I was simply in a bad mood. I'll have to track my friend down and borrow it again.
Still some great singles, though...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs