Glenn Frey once told Cameron Crowe that "the only difference between boring and laid-back is a million dollars." At this point, unfortunately, Eagles were only thousand-aires. So, "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" shares the style – but not the attitude, wit, gumption, looseness or humor – of the old ' 60s frat-rock band ? and the Mysterians. In this case, it was for the college fraternity-party circuit in Austin, where Henley's pre-Eagles band Shiloh used to play on weekends before he found fame. Even a scalding turn on the slide from Joe Walsh can't get things back on track as Henley un-ironically calls out others for "all this bitching, moaning, pitching a fit." Still, it had been almost 15 years since the Eagles had last released a single, so "Get Over It" reached the Top 40 anyway.Ĭlearly exhausted, both creatively and spiritually, Henley did what many people do: He got nostalgic. Seemingly prone to bad moods, Henley returned to Eagles with a glum song that draws out the worst of those tendencies. So Johns quickly finished "Nightingale," and it sounds just like that – a slapped-together also-ran. So, I had little faith in trying again." Undeterred, Geffen then moved to set up his own post-production session. The performance of the song by the band never came close to being good enough after several attempts.
"Although I agreed that another song from Henley would be great," producer Glyn Johns said in his 2014 memoir Sound Man, "it had not worked out. All they had left over, however, was a poor attempt at this Jackson Browne track. This was never supposed to be on the album, but Asylum label head David Geffen wanted one more Don Henley vocal. Souther - the easygoing country-rocker who helped compose signature Eagles songs like "Best of My Love," "Victim of Love" and "New Kid in Town" - was involved with such a plodding, flaccid throwaway. It's still difficult to believe that J.D. Irritating musically, unfocused lyrically and featuring a squiggly synthesizer solo(!) by Glenn Frey, this somehow ended up as the B-side to his galloping chart-topper "Heartache Tonight." That's the definition of Eagles yin and Eagles yang. McNally also composed Rod Stewart's hit "The Motown Song," which sounds like neither of those other tracks. By the time they finally got around to recording it, however, Henley had already released a cover of McNally's "For My Wedding" on his 2000 solo album Inside Job – making it clear that this was really just a rewrite of the same tune. This mawkish Larry John McNally track had been floating about since the Eagles first got together in advance of 1994's Hell Freezes Over. The Eagles actually covered Hank Williams Jr. "The Disco Strangler" might have driven Eagles fans to their own murderous deeds had it not mercifully started to fade at about the 2:30 mark.
Henley, and he was being kind, dismissed the results as " smarmy cocktail music."Ĭo-credited to Frey, Henley and Don Felder, this one sounds like Henley at his most dour – only this time with a disco bass line! As Henley uses his gravelly tenor to once again skewer people who would dare go out to have a good time, this painfully obvious theme can only settle into an unmusical ever-revolving riff. Instead, Leadon shared writing duties on this slow-death elegy with live-in girlfriend Patti Davis – daughter of future President Ronald Reagan, who had all but disowned her for cohabitating with the Eagles cofounder. So you might have expected one of his last moments with Eagles to be representative of that rootsy history. See where the rest ended up in the below list of Eagles Songs Ranked Worst to Best.Īway from Eagles, Leadon has been a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Reprises and repeated instrumental elements from 1973's Desperado and 1976's Hotel California were left off. So, "I Dreamed There Was No War," a short Frey instrumental from Long Road Out of Eden is included, because it stood on its own. We focused on full-fledged songs, not interludes or box-set extras. They revived a holiday classic and still found time for a cowboy-themed playdate along the way. Their songs sorted through the collective hangover following the '60s, explored the contours of modern love and took up environmental causes. Rootsy early sounds gave way to more straightforward rock and R&B influences. That didn't stop the Eagles' music from changing and growing, even on such a short timeline.
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