What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library



Follow up to the smash debut. Could they do it? Hell yes! Much better. Not chart wise where it stalled at a paltry #41, but a much better album for me. An album about the old west, done in style. The best track being the title, where it doesn't get any better, but the singles were Tequila Sunrise and Outlaw Man which were both huge flops. They shoulda asked me. Henley basically took over here with credits on most of the tracks. Two tracks don't fit on here at all with the overall laid back feel, Twenty One and Out Of Control. Other than those, just marvelous. I did not grade the last 2 tracks, which are reprises.


I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Twenty One

Best Track - Desperado

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time
The sky won�t snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late


1) Doolin Dalton - ***
2) Twenty One - * - live
YouTube - Eagles - Twenty One Live
3) Out Of Control - ** - live
YouTube - Eagles - Out of Control Live
4) Tequila Sunrise - *** - live
YouTube - The Eagles . Tequila Sunrise - De Vliegermolen, Voorburg, March 1973
5) Desperado - *** - live
YouTube - [Live] Eagles - Desperado
6) Certain Kind Of Fool - *** - live
YouTube - The Eagles - Certain kind of fool.wmv
7) Outlaw Man - ** - live
YouTube - The Eagles - Outlaw Man Live
8) Saturday Night - *** - live
YouTube - Eagles - Saturday Night Live
9) Bitter Creek - **
10) Doolin Dalton (reprise)
11) Desperado (reprise)

3's - 5
2's - 3
1's - 1

Rating - 2.4