Just when you think things can’t get any worse… isn’t that life in a nutshell? Sure as hell felt that way last week around here so it’s ironic that Bud’s week isnt’ going all that well either.
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We return to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” again today, this time tapping into the title track rather appropriately. Oh the horror! Is Bud going to be stuck in Hell? Is his soul going to end up on eBay so the Devil can pay the heating bill? So many questions and so little time until tomorrow when I try to answer those questions. No, it is not a dream or a really whacked out hallucination from wacky-backy. I’m not that easy… but I can be had…
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Discussion (31) ¬
I know it is a classic but I remember as a kid hating this song. I wasn’t into those epic songs.
Yeah Bearman, HUGE overkill by commercial radio as always, but I still love hearing it just for the guitar interaction & riff/solo trade-offs between Joe Walsh & Don Felder. Killer stuff that to me still sounds great almost 35 years (egads, has it really been that long?!!…) later.
Disagree. Spent large portion of youth listening to epic-length music (which H.C. ain’t, not by a long chalk).
Does *everyone* under the age of 30 suffer from ADD? When did you all start buying into the old Decca maxim “three minutes per song”? Is it an iPod thing?
Azathoth on a bike.
Very nice transporter FX in panel 3 there, Byron.
H.C. theme was revisited by Genesis in an even more epic two-parter Home By the Sea. You can find it on the album “Genesis” (the one that made them popular in the US and from which a string of less-good singles was drawn). I believe it is available on CD and, if you really must squash the shit out of it, download. Of course, you don’t get the album art then, but to be honest the album art has been iffy on Genesis albums since Hacket left the lineup.
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In case I don’t get to stick my eyeballs in here again before it’s all over, I wish everyone here at 1977 (even the ones with ADD) a Happy New Year. Don’t drink and drive (you’ll only get booze all over the naugahide).
2010 is the year we all get rich and famous, right?
List of long songs at
http://www.amiright.com/names/super-long-pop-songs/a.shtml
Just looking at 7 minute plus songs My ADD self likes (in a quick perusal)
Pictures of You – The Cure
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
Freebird – Leonard Skynyrd
Blue Monday – New Order
Purple Rain- Prince
Won’t get fooled again – Who
Living for the City – Stevie Wonder
Captain Jack – Billy Joel
Money for Nothing – Dire Straights
November Rain – Guns N Roses
Paradise By The Dashboard Light,- Meat Loaf
Roundabout – Yes
Us and Them – Pink Floyd
Ones I don’t
Hotel California – eagles
American Pie – Don McLean
Nights in White Satin – Moody Blues
Stairway to Heaven – Zeppelin
Just like movies, they can be long but they have to grab me. The last four never did anything for me.
Yeah, I agree with Bearman a bit there. I got so burnt out on ‘Hotel California’ because of classic rock radio. And it’s not because it’s an epic tune, and I’m certainly not under 30, lol. Some classic rock songs, unfortunately, I’d be happy to never hear again, like Dream On, Zep’s Rock and Roll, Born to be Wild. Oh well… 🙂
Oh, hell!
Liz Hurley, we hardly knew ya… 🙂
Superlative work as always, with a special Cookie of Merit for panel 3.
And a very happy new year to you!
p.s. Budette’s expression in the final panel is soooo very Sam Beckett. ‘Oh boy…’
So, that shimmering light really was Hell. I wonder if Bud heard the mission bell.
Hey Byron, there’s a great classic rock web radio station – 3wk Classic Underground Radio. I really dig it – it sends me back to my late 60’s thru mid 70’s radio days when we had a free-form AOR station here in Albuquerque. 3wk concentrates on a roughly 10 year period between say ’66 to ’75, with occasional forays earlier or later. They also play most everything off of vinyl… the way it was meant to be heard. It’s rare that you’ll hear anything that was played on radio much at all, let alone on today’s commercial classic rock stations. Give it a listen!