{"id":2057,"date":"2016-06-16T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:58:32","slug":"eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From my understanding, it’s just “Eagles”, not “The Eagles”. Remember how in the 80s, the woman in charge of the LEGO Company put little messages in every box, asking consumers to say “LEGO bricks and toys” instead of “LEGOs”? Yeah. Good luck.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I fudged a bit on panel 3; if I’d actually had the Urban Cowboy<\/em> soundtrack, I would have known the title wasn’t “Lion Eyes”. I heard it on the radio, just like “Witchy Woman”, “Hotel California”, “Desperado”, and all the other Eagles tunes I can’t stand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We talk a lot of shit about the Eagles, because truthfully, they’re an American institution. They nursed our country through quaalude withdrawal. Someday science will reveal healing properties within songs like “Tequila Sunrise”, subliminal harmonies that soothe hangovers and nullify negative impulses. Any opinion I have of the Eagles is pretty much irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glenn Frey, co-lead singer, passed away earlier this year, effectively closing the book on the Eagles. Frey was a great sport. Mojo Nixon had a single called “Don Henley Must Die”, which both Frey and Henley thought was a larf. Frey brought a crisp edge to the vocal harmony; I always forget about “Heartache Tonight”, which has the same kind of snap as Billy Joel’s “Still Rock ‘N Roll To Me”. Seriously; when a band becomes this popular, you totally lose sight of the reasons why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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