Originally Posted by
Steven43
Agree with everything you wrote except for the fact that I like the Eagles a lot more than you do. I think all of their studio albums are good.
When I was a kid we would take long summer car trips in our station wagon to visit relatives in Southern California (Costa Mesa, Van Nuys, Burbank, Hollywood, etc.) and the South (Natchez and Drew in Mississippi as well as Atlanta and Nashville). On these trips we’d listen to music on 8-track tapes, including the Eagles Greatest Hits, Hotel California, One of These Nights, and Desperado. I know every note of every song on these albums. And I later bought their other studio albums on LP and got to know them quite well, also.
And yeah, Steely Dan is better. They’re much more inventive and diverse, and just have better, more interesting songs overall. The albums Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, Aja, Can’t Buy a Thrill, The Royal Scam, and Katy Lied are all very good-to-excellent. If you don’t know all of them thoroughly then I suggest you get busy listening!