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Readers' Best Opening Lyrics: No. 14

"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair"
--Eagles' 'Hotel California'



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TheLady

HC's opening lyrics should have been the number 1 period.

January 01 2011 at 12:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LisaLisa

This song always makes me think of the movie The Shining. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
mwa ha ha

March 02 2010 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bill

This song is THE quintessential Eagles song of the 70's, along with In The City, well this is strictly MY opinion anyway and YES, the Eagles were one of the great bands of the 70's, along with Styx, ELP, ELO (even though I think they were a lip synch band in concert), Elton John. I could go on and on.

January 17 2010 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
leeloodallas31

so great!! i uimaginemyself on a motorbike in the sunsett lol

May 25 2009 at 10:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mlbassrythem

this song for some reason relaxes me.

September 08 2008 at 1:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kacie

rocketdream34 i looked it up on wikipedia...and im not saying its a 100% sure thing but it said: The song is generally understood to be an allegory about hedonism and self-destruction in the Southern California music industry of the late 1970s; Don Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles"[2] and later reiterated "[i]t's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about."[3] it then says that the band has denied all accounts of it being about a satanic church

August 12 2008 at 3:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

Also lets not forget , "he was a hardheaded man , he was bruttaly hansome , and she was terminally pretty." Life In The Fastlane.

March 26 2008 at 4:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joe

Dan you dipshit moron, the Eagles couldn't carry Led Zeppelin's mic stands.

December 12 2007 at 6:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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antrrman

You are full of S--T, Joe

December 27 2008 at 4:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jul

They never confirmed where it was about, BUT if the cover picture on the album has anything to do with it, it's an insane asylum in Camarillo Ca. the pic was taken from the back side of the building. The place was shut down a long time ago and people who live in the area still say it's haunted.

December 08 2007 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christy

The Californian Hotel (well within hearing range of our Mission's bell) is in danger of being demolished! This is the haunted hotel from which there is a warm smell of clematis (at least there was before the developers took over).

October 24 2007 at 6:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply