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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 18:28:50 GMT -5
Didn't help that they put Seinfeld characters in a trance, resulting in the death of a patient.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jan 16, 2017 18:29:42 GMT -5
They didn't Take It To The Limit, enough  What if they took it to the limit ... one more time? |
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Post by chazraps on Jan 16, 2017 18:39:02 GMT -5
yet they are never referenced in the same level as say Kiss,Elvis, and The Rolling Stones. KISS still tour, The Stones still tour, Elvis impersonators are inescapable. While KISS and The Stones made the transition into the video era of the 80s, where pop culture shifted, The Eagles made their marks in that decade for their solo material. As a result, you have the same commercial entity acknowledged in 3-4 different assortments. In the years since, they have had their MASSIVE pop culture moments. Their reunited HELL FREEZES OVER tour was absolutely everywhere. They just has so much as viable as solo artists by that point that when it came time for nostalgia to anoint the symbols, each of The Eagles had too much going on individually to make that everybody-knows logo point-of-reference. |
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Post by Raskovnik on Jan 16, 2017 19:31:22 GMT -5
All of the moms that made them so popular have probably passed away, like mine.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Jan 17, 2017 0:41:20 GMT -5
This reminds me of one of my favorite Weekend Update paradoxical bits (paraphrased) :
"Last year, The Spice Girls sold 23 million albums ... name one person you know who owns one."
Everyone watching: minds blown because it's true
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jan 17, 2017 4:28:16 GMT -5
There's nothing distinctive about them, I think; a lot of pop culture references rely on recognition without context. Taking the extreme example of Elvis from your post; Elvis's image has been recreated so many times that "Elvis impersonator" is not only a job people have, but you can point to an Elvis impersonator and pick them out as someone who is pretending to be him. There are movies about Elvis impersonators. That's how iconic his look is. The Eagles was a band that had good fundamentals and some catchy tunes, but absolutely nothing to stick out visually. The Rolling Stones may not have a single specific "look", but Mick Jagger's face is distinctive enough, and if not then the way he moves is at least easy to visually replicate. And you'll notice that the visual references to those bands often wildly overshadow the references to their actual music. Not to say there aren't any, but you're more likely to hear about Keith Richards snorting his father's ashes in a show than you would be to hear Wild Horses.
When you don't have that visual hook, you get left with the brute force style of referencing that you see in Seltzerberg movies, and that's just terrible.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 17, 2017 6:31:23 GMT -5
because they were the original mediocre soccer-mom rock band. NOBODY started a band after listening to The Eagles.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Jan 17, 2017 7:25:56 GMT -5
It's odd they're basically a retroactive super group, loads of talent.
Maybe it's just a case of a band that put out a lot of great music in an era where there was a lot of other great music.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 17, 2017 7:53:00 GMT -5
This makes me think of Paul Stanley talking about Kiss being approached for a comic book and they had transcended rock and roll at that, he wasn't necessarily cutting on them I don't think, but he did say "This wasn't Marvel presents the Eagles, this was cool"
The Eagles are kinda like CCR, they were no frills and made great music, and in the 80s you always saw commercials for CCR albums, it's just that through time, almost every artist gets whittled down to two hits and if they just have songs and that's it, well, that's it.
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Post by Hurbster on Jan 17, 2017 8:19:41 GMT -5
How big were they internationally ?
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jan 17, 2017 9:45:44 GMT -5
Probably a combination of being a bunch of technicians with no showmen, so they never really had the rockstar rep of Gene Simmons or Keith Richards, and generally being stuck with the label of "country" even long after they stopped being country, which limits your star power potential to about a 3rd of one nation.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 20:00:49 GMT -5
Eagles aside, Don Henley's solo work was great. And BTW, we're a couple days away from the one-year anniversary of Glenn Frey's death. I can't stand The Eagles, but there are handful of Don Henley songs I don't mind. The Boys of Summer is pretty great. I never even knew Don Henley was the dude from the Eagles until this post. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 20:03:10 GMT -5
This reminds me of one of my favorite Weekend Update paradoxical bits (paraphrased) : "Last year, The Spice Girls sold 23 million albums ... name one person you know who owns one." Everyone watching: minds blown because it's true I feel this way about the Foo Fighters. They are one of the biggest bands on the planet, but I haven't met a Foo Fighters fan since like 1997. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 23:32:26 GMT -5
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jan 18, 2017 0:26:59 GMT -5
Eagles aside, Don Henley Joe Walsh's solo work was great. Fixed for my tastes |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 18, 2017 2:21:42 GMT -5
Elvis, the Beatles and KISS had everything from action figures to hairspray marketed under their names. The Stones and the Who created controversy with every step they took. Zeppelin and Sabbath created and defined genres. And all had larger-than-life members who embraced the celebrity aspect of their lives.
The Eagles were just a really talented band that did none of that.
Also, since the '80s, as implied by posts above like the Big Lebowski and Seinfeld ones, they've had a huge turn in cultural reverence, becoming the band everyone now "cant stand."
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 18, 2017 12:47:49 GMT -5
This reminds me of one of my favorite Weekend Update paradoxical bits (paraphrased) : "Last year, The Spice Girls sold 23 million albums ... name one person you know who owns one." Everyone watching: minds blown because it's true A kinda updated version of that I heard was "the movie Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time... name 4 supporting characters." Everyone that the person asked couldn't answer that question I feel this way about the Foo Fighters. They are one of the biggest bands on the planet, but I haven't met a Foo Fighters fan since like 1997. Hi. |
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