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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:37 pm | |
| Sounds like that Billy Joel song. _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:37 pm | |
| Quite liking this one.
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:38 pm | |
| This song is informed by a powerfully important historical narrative.
Skewering utopian pipe dreams.
'Manifest Destiny'.
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:39 pm | |
| - Nightjar wrote:
- This song is informed by a powerfully important historical narrative.
Skewering utopian pipe dreams.
'Manifest Destiny'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny 
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:42 pm | |
| I like the string synths.
Others at the time criticised Don Henley for using them instead of strings.
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:42 pm | |
| Kiss It Goodbye! 
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:42 pm | |
| - Nightjar wrote:
- Nightjar wrote:
- This song is informed by a powerfully important historical narrative.
Skewering utopian pipe dreams.
'Manifest Destiny'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
Sim City 1860!
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:43 pm | |
| This is glorious.
It's like both the sunset and California sinking into the sea...
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:44 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:45 pm | |
| It is over. Apart from the first two tracks and the final one, it offered little that interested me. Generally, everything needed to be faster and less produced. Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:45 pm | |
| I shall give it 3 stars. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:46 pm | |
| - Fangirl Three wrote:
Sim City 1860! I wonder if that's Providence on the far right? 
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:49 pm | |
| It's probably NYC in truth.
Manhattan Island with the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the East River to its right.
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:54 pm | |
| I like it.
For me, it's slightly better than OOTN.
It does sag a bit in the middle, but HC and the last three songs are beezer.
Infinitely unfashionable and largely derided...
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:55 pm | |
| I've become quite good at recognising different NY bridges thanks to Netflix, and I believe that is the Brooklyn Bridge, yes.  Constructed 1870-1883, and the painting is from 1872, so it checks out.
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:56 pm | |
| Ultimately I would prefer to listen to OOTN than this album.
Though I'd probably prefer to watch a film incorporating the Brooklyn Bridge to either.
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| | Subject: Re: Eagles - Hotel California (1976) Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:07 pm | |
| Votee! 
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