Tracks
- Take It Easy
- Witchy Woman
- Chug All Night
- Most of Us Are Sad
- Nightingale
- Train Leaves Here This Morning
- Take the Devil
- Earlybird
- Peaceful Easy Feeling
- Tryin'
Eagles is a feel-good album. The music is country rock. The Eagles' kind of country rock is different from Gram Parsons' country rock. Parsons' country rock is rock that wants to be country; with the Eagles, it's the other way round.
Rock music has never claimed any moral high ground, despite at times being a platform for political and social commentary. Most of the time it straddles between nonsense and hedonism. With this album, there's an added element of individualism bordering on narcissism, which is clearly prevalent on Take It Easy and Earlybird.
This album is quite good. Although the music is good, it's a bit generic-sounding. The most adventurous songs are the country ones. I don't think it's a particularly exciting album. It doesn't hurt to listen to it, but nothing is lost if it never gets heard. The only reason I'd think it deserves to be on the 1001 Albums list is because of the deluge of crap AOR that follows in its wake.
All the songs are fine. The stand outs are: Take It Easy, Witchy Woman, Chug All Night, Train Leaves Here This Morning, Earlybird, Peaceful Easy Feeling and Tryin'.
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
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