what the meaning was to the song, Hotel California, sang by the Eagles? Right answer gets chosen as best....
2006-09-16 09:16:14 · 7 answers · asked by ? 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
try this link to wikipedia's page about hotel california by the eagles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California
2006-09-16 09:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by somegirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is that there is no true meaning to this song. The Eagles were impressed by the way that Steely Dan could make what they described as "junk sculpture" songs where they took weird disjointed lyrics, combined them with great music, and turned out hits. In fact, this song evolved in the reverse style of song making, with the great guitar parts of Don Felder laid down first, and then lyrics added later.
Although "HC" has many disctinct images and unusual twists of phrases, there is no meaning behind it other than to decribe a fictional place in the desert that Henly/Frey may have visited on a drug-induced head trip and not in their cars. It also skewers the decadence and opulence in which every southern Californian was living, or attempting to live at that moment in the late seventies.
The rest of the album does this as well, with songs like "Life In The Fast Lane," "New Kid In Town," and, in my opinion, their best-ever song, "Last Resort." Listen to this album as a time-capsule of the seventies and not for a dark meaning behind the title song.
2006-09-16 16:20:27 · answer #2 · answered by UgottaBkiddinMe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of all the opinions out there about this song i tend to agree with this one myself.
The simple answer is that there is no true meaning to this song. The Eagles were impressed by the way that Steely Dan could make what they described as "junk sculpture" songs where they took weird disjointed lyrics, combined them with great music, and turned out hits. In fact, this song evolved in the reverse style of song making, with the great guitar parts of Don Felder laid down first, and then lyrics added later.
Although "HC" has many disctinct images and unusual twists of phrases, there is no meaning behind it other than to decribe a fictional place in the desert that Henley/Frey may have visited on a drug-induced head trip and not in their cars. It also skewers the decadence and opulence in which every southern Californian was living, or attempting to live at that moment in the late seventies.
The rest of the album does this as well, with songs like "Life In The Fast Lane," "New Kid In Town," and, in my opinion, their best-ever song, "Last Resort." Listen to this album as a time-capsule of the seventies and not for a dark meaning behind the title song.
2006-09-16 16:27:42 · answer #3 · answered by jon michael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mental Assylum
2006-09-16 16:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by stickinthemud 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to the hotel California you can search the beast but you can't find it. Compare the beast in the Hotel California like a phantom and you can't find the exit of the hotel, they only way you can find it's the dead!
2006-09-16 16:40:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-16 16:23:38 · answer #6 · answered by monkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was voted 38th best album of all time.
It was about loss of innocence,drugs,death,danger,temptation,fame,shallow relationships,divorce and loss of love.
Eagles members desribed it as a metaphor for the perceived decline of America into materialism and decadence.(see album)
2006-09-16 16:27:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋