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Parker McKelway's avatar

To me, everything that people want to hear in Hotel California is really on their next album, the generally hated The Long Run. I think it's their best thematically -- it captures a band at the end of its rope, with a dark and nihilistic view of everything they previously celebrated. It foreshadows the icy cocaine blues of the '80s, cut with a chaser of Miami Vice cool, it rocks more than Hotel California and on the best song, "King of Hollywood," Henley and Frey see both Harvey Weinstein and a certain freshly minted felon coming on a slow train 'round the bend. Check it out.

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Robert C. Gilbert's avatar

Your description of 'The Long Run' has me intrigued for sure.

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