Okay, I love HOTEL CALIFORNIA

[MrScorpio]

Always have, always will

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Hotel Califorina? Not familiar with that one.

:P

[MrScorpio]

2. Want to become familiar with it?

Cause I can show you

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Silly goose.

I was picking on your spelling. One of my favorites songs as well. My band used to play it back in the day.

[MrScorpio]

7. Apparently it's a common Typo

190,000 hits on Google

[Reciprocity]

5. The Hotel California

Paris, France

[MrScorpio]

9. You can check out any time you like

But you can never leave

[Reciprocity]

12. Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air....

What the hell is a “colitas”?

[MrScorpio]

14. marijuana buds

Or, so I heard

[Reciprocity]

16. Thanks for the info.

Now somewhere back in time I seem to remember someone saying the song also had something to do with Jim Morrison?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

21. Damn, I always thought they said Colitis

like farts.

j/k... colitas is a desert flower

[Hissyspit]

38. Sort of...

From Wikipedia:

" According to Don Henley, the line "warm smell of colitas" refers to colitas, which are a desert flower with a warm, heady smell. However, the plant with the nearest spelling is coleus, which has no distinct aroma.

According to Irving Azoff (Eagles management),

...during the writing of the song “Hotel California,” by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, the word “colitas” was translated for them by their Mexican-American road manager as “little buds.”
Colitas is little tails, but here the author is referring to “colas,” the tip of a marijuana branch, where it is more potent and with more sap — said to be the best part of the leaves.<2> "

[knowbody0]

4. puts me in a trance as well

B-)

[MrScorpio]

11. Especially the dual guitar solo

[Elidor]

6. Good for you!

I like it, too. I never could figure out how to play it properly on a 12-string, but it's a great song. The only sour note in the whole thing is the young, coke-snorting Eagles bemoaning the decadence of LA.

[jpgray]

8. Ever since I played the harmonized solo in eighth grade I've hated it

It was for the anniversary of our drummer's parents.

[Zomby Woof]

10. I do too

From the gypsyesque guitar and bass drum intro, the the fading dueling guitars of Walsh and Felder... it brings back fond memories of the mid-70's summers and how I longed for my home state when I was overseas...

[MrScorpio]

13. I bet you sing along everytime you hear it

I do

[Zomby Woof]

15. Yep

Although my voice is deep, so hitting Henley's highs requires some adjustments. :-)

When the song came out, I was 9, and so the lyrical subtext was a bit above me... to my young mind, it was just like some episode of the Twilight Zone, which was closer to the original meaning than I could have imagined I suppose, considering the surealism of the SoCal music scene as it was caught up in waves of cocaine and tequila all those years ago...

[ForrestGump]

17. Me, too. I don't

care what anyone else says.

And, thanks to your posting lyrics to it lately, it's been going around in my head for what seems like weeks. :P

I watched Hotel Rwanda (first time I've seen it) in the wee hours this morning and, sure enough, not only did "Hotel California" intrude on the soundtrack at times but so did a retitled version, "Hotel Rwanda." Much more of this and I'll begin to hate the song.

[MrScorpio]

18. It's a timeless song

Here it is 30 years later and I'm still digging on it.

A lot of 70's music is like that for me

I'm just trying to spread the love

[crim son]

19. Yes, it's a timeless song.

Alas it's been played so often that the beauty of the music and lyrics has become dulled. Not sure what is the solution to this problem!

[MrScorpio]

20. Lay off for a while and then come back to it

I'm back right now for a while

[crim son]

23. Good suggestion.

Sometines we hear a message too often, and it loses meaning.

[Aristus]

22. Mr. Scorpio, can you help me out with an image of the inside photo

from "Hotel California"? I can't find one on Google Images to save my life!

[MrScorpio]

25. Is this it?

[Aristus]

26. I don't know; I've never seen it. I heard it was shot in a courtyard

with a shadowy figure on a balcony looking over the scene. That doesn't look like it.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

24. Same here.

Flame away, but I lurve the Eagles!

[Floogeldy]

27. It is haunting.

I must admit, however, I am tempted to be sick of it.

[Lindsey]

28. One of my favorite albums of all time...

there are so many Eagle haters here that it really surprises me. Hotel Ca. has many excellent tunes.

[MrScorpio]

29. Agreed

It's truly good music

[Floogeldy]

41. Easy, now.

Would you believe me if I told you that I know the lyrics to every song on that album by heart, every vocal harmony part, every chord pattern, and every guitar solo? It's true.

Also, my band recorded an album in the same studio Eagles used to record their rhythm tracks for The Long Run. We got to hear their protection copy of "Those Shoes" sans vocals. We spent hours playing on the ping pong table they left behind. How could I hate them?

:)

[dysfunctional press]

30. so- is the song about a cancer ward or what?

anyone?

[MrScorpio]

32. There are so many theories out there, it boggles the mind

So I just concentrate on the killer groove

[pokerfan]

36. I always interpreted it as a metaphor for addiction

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_001

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1121

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. My dear MrScorpio.......

I too love it.......Everything about it!

Wonderful song!

:hug:

[MrScorpio]

33. That's why you're cool, Peggy Love

The coolest one there is

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. ......

I do not deserve this much sweetness from you, my dear MrScorpio......

[donheld]

35. Okay, I hate HOTEL CALIFORNIA

Always have, always will
:puke:

[Hissyspit]

37. Dear GOD, it has been overplayed.

I like it o.k. myself, but jeez...

I'm talking about the song, not the album.

[MrScorpio]

39. Do what I do

Turn OFF your radio

Then I play it ONLY when I want to hear it

[Hissyspit]

40. You are correct, of course.

Except for the times when I am trapped into hearing it in public places, which is OFTEN.

Funny, how, when the album first came out, "New Kid In Town" was played to DEATH. Now you hardly ever hear it.

I like "Try and Love Again" and "The Last Resort."

[acmavm]

42. Love the song, and that was the best album they ever made.

[KatyMan]

43. Legend I've heard says the cover shot is

the Beverly Hills Hotel, which was also used on an Eric Clapton album cover, 461 Ocean Boulevard


could be wrong, tho...they don't look very similar

[underpants]

44. The "steely knives" part is an homage to Steely Dan

The eagles explained this in the liner notes to their latest greatest hits album. Steely Dan had a song with the lyric "Put on the Eagles so the neighbors won't hear" which was from Fagan fighting with and old girlfriend and how they used to crank up the Eagles so their neighbors couldn't hear them. The Eagles wanted to return the favor.

[jpgray]

45. They're both paradoxically bland and nasty enough to deserve each other

:P