During the late 60s all, or at least many, roads led to southern California, and Eagles (not there's officially no 'the' in the name) was one of the destinations.
It was not a band formed with modest intentions. Glenn Frey had already sung on a national hit (Bob Seger's 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man') when he came west from Detroit, and Don Henley's Shiloh had an album produced by Kenny Rogers. The met Bernie Leadon, late of the Flying Burrito Brothers, while all of them played in Linda Ronstadt's 1970-71 backing band, while Randy Meisner was a veteran of Poco and Ricky Nelson's Stone Canyon Band. It was a supergroup of sorts, with a universe of great collaborators such as Jackson Browne, JD Souther and Jack Tempchin, and one that certainly flew to super, and superlative, heights.
Over the course of two tenures and seven (mostly multi-platinum_ studio albums, the Eagles have sold more than 150 million records worldwide, while Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) has been locked for years in a battle for best-selling album of all time with Michael Jackson's Thriller. The accolades run from six Grammy Awards to inductions into the Rock and Roll and Vocal Group Hall of Fames to a Kennedy Center Honor. And more importantly, Eagles are the first name mentioned in any discussion of California or country-rock.
Frey's death shortly after David Bowie's during January of 2016 seemed to ground Eagles for good, but the group has taken flight again this year with Frey's son Deacon and Vince Gill in place, a newly recorded version of Dan Fogelberg's 'Part Of The Plan' for a tribute album and tour dates that look likely to keep the group airborne for an undetermined while longer...
Here’s a list of the 15 best Eagles songs to date.
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15. The Eagles - 'Doolin-Dalton'
Rock Band 2 Songs
The opening track from Eagles' second album, inspired by the Doolin-Dalton gang in late 19th century Oklahoma, was a linch-pin reprised twice on the Desperado album's second side, setting up a quasi-concept that was more successful in the individual songs than across the entire body of work.
14. The Eagles - 'Peaceful Easy Feeling'
Like so many Eagles' songs in their canon, this Tempchin track is a prototype what the group does so well -- easygoing melodies with rich harmonies and an organic lushness that gets you humming along practically before the first verse is over.
13. The Eagles - 'Seven Bridges Road'
Speaking about what Eagles do so well, this live take of the Steve Young tune is all about the harmonies, executed mostly a capella and jaw-droppingly tight and smooth.
12. The Eagles - 'Tequila Sunrise'
One of the first Henley-Frey songwriting collaborations for Eagles, 'Tequila Sunrise' is a scene-setter in every sense, although its mellow countenance actually feels more like dusk than dawn.
11. The Eagles - 'Heartache Tonight'
Assisted by Bob Seger on both songwriting and uncredited backing vocals, the Grammy Award-winning single from The Long Run has those darn fine harmonies yet again alongside some hot slide guitar playing by Joe Walsh.
10. The Eagles - 'How Long'
This latter-day single, from 2007's Long Road Out Of Eden, has a vintage feel, and for good reason; The group actually performed the JD Southern anti-war song live during the '70s and rediscovered it more than three decades later -- and made it sound like no time had passed at all.
9. The Eagles - 'Already Gone'
Eagles' rendition of this Tempchin tune is a hootin', hollerin' anthem that gave Frey and then-new Don Felder plenty of room to let their guitars scream a little bit.
8. The Eagles - 'Best Of My Love'
Far more sugar than saccharine, the Henley-sung ballad gave Eagles its first No. 1 single and has kept listeners swooning, rightfully, or more than 40 years.
7. The Eagles - 'Lyin' Eyes'
A little supposition about women cheating on their husbands while Frey and Henley were hanging out at Dan Tana's in Los Angeles gave birth to this majestic ballad, whose rich chorus harmonies make the lyrical indictment sound like a deceptive pat on the back.
6. The Eagles - 'I Can't Tell You Why'
Timothy B. Schmit's finest moment is a soulful, moody slow jam whose tension is cut by his pure high tenor and what may be -- with apologies to 'Hotel California' -- the most transportive guitar solo in Eagles' repertoire.
5. The Eagles - 'Take It To The Limit'
Give the other bass player some; Randy Meisner shines on paean to purpose and determination, thrilling with his own brand of jaw-dropping falsetto and an Eagles song -- co-written with Henley and Frey -- that stands up even without the vocal fireworks.
4. The Eagles - 'Life In The Fast Lane'
Eagles' best out-and-out rocker, bar none, and the finest moment from the Joe Walsh-Don Felder guitar tandem save for, oh, that other one...
3. The Eagles - 'Take It Easy'
The take-off point, a Frey-Browne collaboration that put a corner in Winslow, Ariz. on the map and made us all long for the kind of 'world of trouble' the singer was having.
2. The Eagles - 'Desperado'
The Henley showcase from the album of the same name boasts a desolate, tumbleweeds-rolling-in-the-sunset ambience that makes a genuinely cinematic impact.
1. The Eagles - 'Hotel California'
An unbeatable champion of a song, an aural movie that checks off all the boxes -- evocative lyrics, social commentary, surrealistic circumstances and that ferocious guitar jam, which resides comfortably in the epic pantheon of epics alongside 'Stairway To Heaven' and 'Free Bird.'
Rock Band is a 2007 music video game developed by Harmonix and distributed by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. The game is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Wiigame consoles. Rock Band is based on Harmonix' previous success with the Guitar Hero series of video games in which players used a guitar-shaped controller to simulate playing rock music. Rock Band expands on the concept by adding a drum and microphone peripheral, allowing up to four players to participate in the game, playing lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals. The gameplay in Rock Band is comparable to that in Guitar Hero along with elements from Harmonix' Karaoke Revolution.
Rock Band for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 and 3 shipped with 58 songs on disk, while the Wii version, released at a later date, contained 5 additional songs that were released as downloadable content for the game. The European version of the game also includes 9 additional songs that have since been released as downloadable content for other regions. The player can expand their music library on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions by purchasing new songs offered on a weekly basis through the consoles' respective store systems. A full list of downloadable songs is available. For the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of Rock Band, Harmonix has created Rock Band Track Packs that contain a selection of the downloadable content already offered.
With Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players can export a majority of songs from the Rock Band soundtrack to their console's storage device by purchasing a 'transfer license'.[1][2] Additionally, certain songs rated as 'Family Friendly' by Harmonix are playable in Lego Rock Band. 'Enter Sandman', 'Moonson', 'Paranoid' and 'Run to the Hills' cannot be exported to any other game in the series. The original recording of 'Run to the Hills' was made available as a downloadable single and also in Iron Maiden Pack 01 on June 9, 2009.[3] While initially not exportable to Rock Band 3, 'Black Hole Sun' and 'Dani California' were made available via a patch released on November 8, 2011.[4] On the European version, 'Hier Kommt Alex' & 'Rock 'n' Roll Star' can be exported to Rock Band 2 but not Rock Band 3.[5] Exports of the Rock Band soundtrack (with the above exclusions) into Rock Band 4, for those that have already exported them into Rock Band 2 or 3, was enabled in January 2016.[6]
Main setlist
Players can play Rock Band alone through a Career mode for lead guitar, drums, and vocals, earning in-game money for their character to purchase new outfits and instruments. Each of the 45 songs[7][8] has a different difficulty ranking for each instrument part, as well as a total band difficulty. There are a total of nine difficulties, or tiers. In career mode each song in a tier must be successfully completed to move onto the next and unlock the songs in that tier. This tier system is also used for rating the difficulty of the song (the 'Band' tier) and its separate instrumental parts for downloadable content even though the songs are not used to unlock new songs in career mode. Once songs are unlocked, they may be played in any mode, including Quickplay, and multiplayer (competitive and co-operative modes) off- or online. Each instrument part in each song can be played at one of four difficulty levels, which include Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert.
Rock Band Soundtrack
Song titles listed in bold utilize master recordings.
Song title | Artist | Decade | Genre | Exportable | Family Friendly |
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'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' | Jet | 2000s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Ballroom Blitz' | Sweet | 1970s | Glam | Yes | Yes |
'Black Hole Sun' | Soundgarden | 1990s | Rock | Yes[4] | No |
'Blitzkrieg Bop' | Ramones | 1970s | Punk | Yes | Yes |
'Celebrity Skin' | Hole | 1990s | Pop/Rock | Yes | No |
'Cherub Rock' | Smashing Pumpkins | 1990s | Alternative | Yes | Yes |
'Creep' | Radiohead | 1990s | Alternative | Yes | No |
'Dani California' | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2000s | Rock | Yes[4] | No |
'Dead on Arrival' | Fall Out Boy | 2000s | Emo | Yes | Yes |
'Detroit Rock City' | Kiss | 1970s | Classic Rock | Yes | No |
'(Don't Fear) The Reaper' | Blue Öyster Cult | 1970s | Classic Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Electric Version' | The New Pornographers | 2000s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Enter Sandman' | Metallica | 1990s | Metal | No | No |
'Epic' | Faith No More | 1980s | Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Flirtin' with Disaster' | Molly Hatchet | 1970s | Southern Rock | Yes | No |
'Foreplay/Long Time' | Boston | 1970s | Classic Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Gimme Shelter' | The Rolling Stones | 1960s | Classic Rock | Yes | No |
'Go with the Flow' | Queens of the Stone Age | 2000s | Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Green Grass and High Tides' | The Outlaws | 1970s | Southern Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Here It Goes Again' | OK Go | 2000s | Pop/Rock | Yes | No |
'Highway Star' | Deep Purple | 1970s | Classic Rock | Yes | No |
'I Think I'm Paranoid' | Garbage | 1990s | Pop/Rock | Yes | No |
'In Bloom' | Nirvana | 1990s | Grunge | Yes | No |
'Learn to Fly' | Foo Fighters | 1990s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Main Offender' | The Hives | 2000s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Maps' | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2000s | Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Mississippi Queen' | Mountain | 1970s | Southern Rock | Yes | No |
'Next to You' | The Police | 1970s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Orange Crush' | R.E.M. | 1980s | Alternative | Yes | No |
'Paranoid' | Black Sabbath | 1970s | Metal | No | No |
'Reptilia' | The Strokes | 2000s | Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Run to the Hills' | Iron Maiden | 1980s | Metal | No | No |
'Sabotage' | Beastie Boys | 1990s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Say It Ain't So' | Weezer | 1990s | Alternative | Yes | No |
'Should I Stay or Should I Go' | The Clash | 1980s | Punk | Yes | No |
'Suffragette City' | David Bowie | 1970s | Glam | Yes | Yes |
'The Hand That Feeds' | Nine Inch Nails | 2000s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Tom Sawyer' | Rush | 1980s | Progressive | Yes | Yes |
'Train Kept A-Rollin' | Aerosmith | 1970s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Vasoline' | Stone Temple Pilots | 1990s | Alternative | Yes | No |
'Wanted Dead or Alive' | Bon Jovi | 1980s | Rock | Yes | Yes |
'Wave of Mutilation' | Pixies | 1980s | Alternative | Yes | No |
'Welcome Home' | Coheed and Cambria | 2000s | Progressive | Yes | No |
'When You Were Young' | The Killers | 2000s | Alternative | Yes | No |
'Won't Get Fooled Again' | The Who | 1970s | Classic Rock | Yes | Yes |
Bonus songs
A total of 13 bonus songs can also be unlocked through the game's Career mode.[8][9] The bonus setlist consists of bands formed by Harmonix employees as well as local bands from near Harmonix's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts or from Boston. The exceptions are Flyleaf, Crooked X, and Mother Hips. 'Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld' comes from the titular fictional band featured in the comedy show South Park.
Song title | Artist | Decade | Genre | Family Friendly |
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'29 Fingers' | The Konks | 2000s | Rock | Yes |
'Blood Doll' | Anarchy Club | 2000s | Rock | No |
'Brainpower' | Freezepop | 2000s | Rock | No |
'Can't Let Go' | Death of the Cool | 2000s | Rock | Yes |
'Day Late, Dollar Short' | The Acro-Brats | 2000s | Rock | No |
'I Get By' | Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives | 2000s | Rock | Yes |
'I'm So Sick' | Flyleaf | 2000s | Alternative | No |
'Nightmare' | Crooked X | 2000s | Metal | Yes |
'Outside' | Tribe | 1990s | Rock | Yes |
'Pleasure (Pleasure)' | Bang Camaro | 2000s | Rock | Yes |
'Seven' | Vagiant | 2000s | Rock | No |
'Time We Had' | The Mother Hips | 2000s | Rock | Yes |
'Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld' | Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld | 2000s | Rock | No |
Wii version
The Wii version of Rock Band features 5 additional songs originally released as downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game.[10]
Song title | Artist | Decade | Genre | Family Friendly |
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'Dirty Little Secret' | The All American Rejects | 2000s | Emo | Yes |
'Don't Look Back in Anger' | Oasis | 1990s | Rock | Yes |
'Roam' | The B-52's | 1980s | Pop/Rock | Yes |
'Rockaway Beach' | Ramones | 1970s | Punk | Yes |
'Roxanne' | The Police | 1970s | Pop/Rock | No |
European version
The European version of Rock Band features 9 additional songs not available on the North American disc. These bonus songs include English, German, and French vocals.[11] These songs were released as downloadable content in the North American market on May 20, 2008.[12]
Song title | Artist | Language | Decade | Genre | Exportable | Family Friendly |
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'Beetlebum' | Blur | English | 1990s | Alternative | Yes | No |
'Countdown to Insanity' | H-Blockx | English | 2000s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Hier Kommt Alex' | Die Toten Hosen | German | 1980s | Punk | Rock Band 2 only | No |
'Hysteria' | Muse | English | 2000s | Alternative | Yes | Yes |
'Manu Chao' | Les Wampas | French | 2000s | Punk | Yes | No |
'Monsoon' | Tokio Hotel | English | 2000s | Glam | No | Yes |
'New Wave' | Pleymo | French | 2000s | Metal | Yes | No |
'Perfekte Welle' | Juli | German | 2000s | Rock | Yes | No |
'Rock 'n' Roll Star' | Oasis | English | 1990s | Rock | Rock Band 2 only | Yes |
Rock Band 1 Song List In Order
External links
- Official Rock Band series song list – Additional information for all songs featured in the Rock Band series.
References
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- ^'Iron Maiden DLC'. Harmonix. 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
- ^ abc'New Rock Band 3 Patch Adds Back In Chili Pepper, Soundgarden Rock Band Exports'. Rock Band Aide. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
- ^'How do I export Rock Band songs for use in Rock Band 3 or other Rock Band games?'. Harmonix. Archived from the original on 2011-05-29. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^Nunneley, Stephany (2016-01-14). 'PS4 players in North America can now export Rock Band 1 content to Rock Band 4'. VG247. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
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- ^ abGoldstein, Hilary (2007-10-26). 'Rock Band: The Complete Licensed Track List'. IGN. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
- ^'Rock Band and the Lords of the Underworld'. IGN.
- ^'Rock Band Wii 'bonus songs' already released on 360/PS3'. Joystiq.
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- ^'DLC Week of May 20th'. 2008-05-16. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2008-05-16.