my teacher said.. the song was for a satanic church... and if you listen to the song reversed.. you will hear.. i love marijuana...
WHAT DO YOU THINK..??
2006-10-24 01:21:27 · 19 answers · asked by ninja_14 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
It is about an insane asylum. You check in, but you can never leave.. The people he talks to are all other personalities within his head.
2006-10-24 01:24:35 · answer #1 · answered by dbqdawg 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The truth proves far less satisfying than the myriad rumors that have sprung up around this song.
Hotel California is an allegory about hedonism and greed in Southern California in the 1970s. At the time of its release, the Eagles were riding high in the music world, experiencing material success on a frightening level. Though they thoroughly enjoyed the money, drugs, and women fame threw their way, they were disquieted by it all and sought to pour that sense of unease into their music and to warn others about the dark underside of such adulation.
In a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song "sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in the music business in particular." In another interview that same year, he referred to it as being about a "loss of innocence."
The album has as its underlying theme the corruption of impressionable rock stars by the decadent Los Angeles music industry. The celebrated title track presents California as a gilded prison the artist freely enters only to discover that he cannot later escape.
The real Hotel California is not a place; it is a metaphor for the west coast music industry and its effect on the talented but unworldy musicians who find themselves ensnared in its glittering web.
2006-10-24 08:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by irish_yankee51 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's about drugs, a warning. Hotel California is the drug house and the Beast is the drug, they are saying that when you start drugs you will never be able to fully stop (just can't kill the beast) and in the part where he is running through the hallways trying to find a way out of the hotel, he is trying to fight off needing the drug, (you can visit any time you like, but you can never leave) and the beautiful woman is symbolizing the person who got him into drugs in the first place, they make it look like an exiting and sexy thing when really they are just as trapped as you are.
2006-10-27 16:05:36 · answer #3 · answered by Aquila 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ROTFLMAO!!!
That's a good one....
That song was weird enough all on its own without some goofy rumor being attached.
Let's see... the Beatles White album, Paul is Dead, right? The cover of the Abbey Road album proved it and when you play the songs backwards, didn't they clearly state that the walrus was Paul? Rumor and strange, drug-induced haze of goofiness.
I don't think Satanic churches necessarily promote the use of marijuana anyway :)
2006-10-24 08:25:05 · answer #4 · answered by thegirlwholovedbrains 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol. How could it have been about anything else? Obviously the guy went to hell. As for the marijuana thing, I've listened to it several times and the greatest urge I've had is to light up a cinnamon stick.
It was a big thing back then to hide subliminal messages in songs. I suppose we could blame musicians for the downfall of society, but I think the blame falls elsewhere.
2006-10-24 08:29:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hon, don't believe everything you hear. And that goes DOUBLY for your teacher, who really should know enough to check sources!
Please go to www.snopes.com and key hotel california into the search engine (sorry, couldn't figure how to send you the link proper).
You may want to send your teacher to Snopes, also. In fact, suggest you challenge him/her to verify the story! "Put up or shut up....or get the facts straight before opening mouth."
Snopes happens to be an extremely reliable site for checking urban legends and rumors of all sorts. You'll typically find the origins or appearances of rumors/tales (when known), a backstory, and a list of other references.
This is the first site I check whenever a story sounds weird....ON OCCASION, though, an oddball tale verifies as true! (I nearly had hysterics when reading about the "master/slave" terminology bit in computers being a no-no in Los Angeles.... key slave into the searchbox, if you don't believe me)
"Buy the truth, and sell it not...."
2006-10-24 08:38:00 · answer #6 · answered by samiracat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't remember which one of the Eagles it was, but they visited a satanic church that was run by Anton LaVey. This guy created the Satanic Bible, and was a pretty nasty nut!! Drugs and sex were encouraged, so it doesn't suprise me about the back masking (playing it backwards). Hope that helps.
2006-10-24 09:15:03 · answer #7 · answered by bichonbeauty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The topic of subliminal messages in the mass media is so hotly contested that no one can particularly prove or disprove it.
But in any case, listening to Hotel California backwards gives me the creeps.
2006-10-24 08:36:58 · answer #8 · answered by L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a metaphore for drugs. But many people see different things. But one of the first lines, "warm smell of colitias" colitias are a mexican form of pot.
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2006-10-24 08:30:37 · answer #9 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...........
There are certain people who go fishing for satanic references in rock music and can find satanic references in just about any rock song.
2006-10-24 08:39:11 · answer #10 · answered by xox_bass_player_xox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋