Eagles the worst band ever?

The bands that spawned the Eagles - the Flying Buttito Brothers, Poco, the James Gang, were all arguably better (in some ways) than the Eagles. I think suspending TO really helped, however.

the OP is dead on, the eagles are effing horrible, quite possibly the worst. I'd rather hear "Mr. Roboto" 50 times before "Lyin Eyes" once.

Fellas, Yes is a very very good prog rock band that is on par the likes of Genesis and King Crimson.FragileClose to the EdgeYessongs90125

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Neck-and-neck with The Eagles:

Journey (not even awesomely bad--just bad)

Styx

Reo Speedwagon

Yes

ELP

Loverboy

Each of these groups got obscenely rich peddling crap to willing teenagers.

Agree with REO, ELP, and Yes. I'm gonna see Loverboy in a few weeks. I hope Mike Reno wears his headband.

Eagles blow harder than Katrina and Rita combined and "Hotel California" is the most overplayed idiotic POS on the radio ever. Sorry Seinfeld losers but "Desperado" and the rest suck too. Even Joe Walsh couldn't save the Eagles. The masses never learn which is why in addition to still having the fuggin Eagles we now have Matchbox 20/Rob Thomas and Train.

Y'all are just plain prejudiced. The Eagles were great when Owens and McNabb were both healthy. You are correct that they suck today, but they are only a few players short of contention in a weak NFC.

Jouney was completely awful. There were the biggest band on the planet back when I was in hs in the year 1983. Goddamn they were awful. I can recall they had a new album out and on the way back from a track meet someone had a tape player and played "seperate ways" like 7 times in a row.

And remember that godawful song "Faithfull" and the horrible video about all the miseries multi-million dollar making rock stars endure living life on the road?

I loved years later when "Beavis and Butthead" would make fun of there videos. But 10 years before all the teenagers with the jean-jackets, the wallets with the chains attached, and the baseball style concert shirts loved Journey. Especially the chicks.

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Jouney was completely awful. There were the biggest band on the planet back when I was in hs in the year 1983. Goddamn they were awful. I can recall they had a new album out and on the way back from a track meet someone had a tape player and played "seperate ways" like 7 times in a row.

And remember that godawful song "Faithfull" and the horrible video about all the miseries multi-million dollar making rock stars endure living life on the road?

I loved years later when "Beavis and Butthead" would make fun of there videos. But 10 years before all the teenagers with the jean-jackets, the wallets with the chains attached, and the baseball style concert shirts loved Journey. Especially the chicks.

And Steve Perry agonized over his mustache in that video.

But howzabout Steve Perry's solo song and video "Oh, Sheri." I'm not one to blaspheme, but OH MY GOD!!

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Remember too that they've been around for >30 years.

Let's see how Ludacris, Snoop Dog, Anthrax, Korn and the like hold up 30 years from today.

I'm not saying that any of the rest are necessarily better than the Eagles because they won't last as long, but the Stones and Aerosmith have been around for longer and they've been pretty mediocre for most of that time. Longevity means they've been able to hit the lowest common denominator of popular taste more consistently than others.

Yeah but 30 years of medioicre Stones albums are better than any number of bands out there at their peak.

Actually the Stones last album is their best in decades-probably at least as good as "Some Girls"

Tyrone Shoelaces wrote:

Jouney was completely awful. There were the biggest band on the planet back when I was in hs in the year 1983. Goddamn they were awful. I can recall they had a new album out and on the way back from a track meet someone had a tape player and played "seperate ways" like 7 times in a row.

And remember that godawful song "Faithfull" and the horrible video about all the miseries multi-million dollar making rock stars endure living life on the road?

I loved years later when "Beavis and Butthead" would make fun of there videos. But 10 years before all the teenagers with the jean-jackets, the wallets with the chains attached, and the baseball style concert shirts loved Journey. Especially the chicks.

I was in HS at the same time. My GF senior year was hot, but she was a rabid Journey fan. In the fall of '82 she begged me to go to a concert with her and two other couples. At first I agreed, but about two weeks before the concert i backed out. It caused a huge fight that eventually broke us up (though we got back together later). Somehow she respected my decision to retain my self respect and be a man.

I just couldn't bring myself to actually be seen at a Journey concert. Neil Schoen with that stupid freakin' perm.

A few weeks after the Journey concert, The Who came to the Worcester Centrum and I went with three of my buddies. I was a man again.

Neil has a natural 'fro A hole. You beeyatches think styx and journey are bad? What the hell about Sammy Hagar era Van Halen.

Don't Stop Believeing

I used to detest Van Haggar (Diamond Dave is still the best) but I've come around since then. They were still way better than Journey and the rest.

Ah yes! The first of about three more "Who final farewell tours" to come. I went to the 82 Who show in Cleveland.

Never met a female Who fan.

My advice is to tread lightly at the Who concerts, but try to get up as close to the stage as possible if you must.

I still like "owner of a lonely heart"

But I don't know any other Yes song.

Poor taste but I like your style! My dad went to the 79 concert right after Cincinnati. He gave me a shirt but infortuneately I wore it out and was trashed years ago.

I loved the Who. Keith Moon was Hawt.

I would have to say the Eagles were kind of like a combination of John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band and the worst of Bob Seger. And "the worst of Bob Seger" is like saying "the worst shit sandwich in a big pile of shit sandwiches", i.e. the best of Bob Seger is pretty sorry stuff too. (By the way, anyone remember the Bob Seger classic "Shakedown" or something like that--on some movie soundtrack like Beverly Hills Cop II. I'd rather listen to Joe Walsh take a dump.)

So anyway, Eagles = Bob Seger + John Cafferty + a dash of Garth Brooks. Not a great recipe for success. There is a long history of great sales achievements by bands lacking in talent (hootie and the goatblowers, N Sync, even Milli Vanilli probably sold a couple of million albums) but nobody has done so much with so little like the Eagles. 30 trillion albums and no good songs. They stand around onstage and try to bore the crowd to death, and the crowd just loves it! "Oh please guys, you gotta do ANOTHER reunion tour, PLEASE! PLEASE play "Them Shoes" next!"

I've had a rough night, and I hate the f***ing Eagles, man...