Fun read, as always! If you want to hear the best version of Hello, It's Me, check this out: https://youtu.be/mvtJC0ykIAg?si=48F-UVWcEdFeP10b. As for the Eagles, I don't hate all their stuff, but the 70s radio saturation certainly means I need not hear them ever again. (See also: Fleetwood Mac.) But my main problem with them is they just got so smug!
True, they probably have been a bit overplayed through the years. Maybe their sound clashed with “real” country and “real” rock and roll of the times as well?
I also probably have a bias as my guitar teacher used “The Complete Eagles Songbook” to teach me to read music when I was 7!
Regarding Fela - show me a human being who isn't flawed. That isn't to overlook some of his very problematic views - but the one thing we can't deny the man is he never backed down nor shied away from his battles with the Nigerian Government, and they were scared shitless of his Art and the influence he had on the youth. They found him so dangerous they unleashed unspeakable violence on him, his mother, his wives, his band, and his compound.
I can't think of many artists that come even remotely close to the political defiance and revolutionary nature of Fela's music on his Government (and other African nation's governments). It makes the '60s Counterculture/Anti-Vietnam movement and even Rage Against The Machine's anger seem very tame.
On a side note - here's an article I wrote on Fela a few months back:
Fun read, as always! If you want to hear the best version of Hello, It's Me, check this out: https://youtu.be/mvtJC0ykIAg?si=48F-UVWcEdFeP10b. As for the Eagles, I don't hate all their stuff, but the 70s radio saturation certainly means I need not hear them ever again. (See also: Fleetwood Mac.) But my main problem with them is they just got so smug!
True, they probably have been a bit overplayed through the years. Maybe their sound clashed with “real” country and “real” rock and roll of the times as well?
I also probably have a bias as my guitar teacher used “The Complete Eagles Songbook” to teach me to read music when I was 7!
I enjoy the Eagles. My husband is in the haters group except for the song “Best of My Love,” which he loves as a breakup song.
Is this all an enduring fad from the Big Lebowski? For how often it’s quoted by Eagles haters, it’s possible!
It very well could be! My parents teased me for buying Eagles CD’s growing up, but they have otherwise good music taste
I definitely agree with you about Rundgren. There's a lot more to him than many people who dismiss him think.
Absolutely. I think the memes are all good fun but I’d hate his talent to be overlooked because of them. I was guilty of that until now
Regarding Fela - show me a human being who isn't flawed. That isn't to overlook some of his very problematic views - but the one thing we can't deny the man is he never backed down nor shied away from his battles with the Nigerian Government, and they were scared shitless of his Art and the influence he had on the youth. They found him so dangerous they unleashed unspeakable violence on him, his mother, his wives, his band, and his compound.
I can't think of many artists that come even remotely close to the political defiance and revolutionary nature of Fela's music on his Government (and other African nation's governments). It makes the '60s Counterculture/Anti-Vietnam movement and even Rage Against The Machine's anger seem very tame.
On a side note - here's an article I wrote on Fela a few months back:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-141807620