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On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell,
And I was thinking to myself,
'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find in here
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes-benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty-nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
we're livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
but you can never leave!
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell,
And I was thinking to myself,
'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find in here
Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes-benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty-nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
we're livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
but you can never leave!
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 04:40 jim1964 wrote: pretty good version of a song that's been played to death, although I really like the way the Gipsy Kings cover it. Ahh, must be a Castro inspired plot to cross-subsidise those pesky folk in the mountains between France & Spain. Go Joe Walsh, love ya work. The smoker you are the player you get. |
| GeorgeMWoods | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 08:26 If I never hear this song again it'll be too soon. |
| dwlangham (Nowhere to be found) | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 08:25 It's no longer worth commenting on this song except to say that it makes me wish I had never heard it before. |
| Spiderwoman (Lake Chelan, North Central Washington) | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 08:25 Gosh darn KZEL. Overplayed this. Over and over and over and over and |
| justin4kick (The Netherlands) | Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 03:02 Hey people. Tip you before it's too late: Yardbirds wit Heart Full Of Soul is under the PSD-button right now! |
| jim1964 (1379 miles to Wall Drug) | Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 21:07 pretty good version of a song that's been played to death, although I really like the way the Gipsy Kings cover it. |
| bam23 (Berkeley) | Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 20:59 dwlangham wrote:  Give it a rest already. Twice in a week? A song that does not lack for airplay everywhere else? Please.But where are you listening that gives you this reaction? I go long months without hearing this. Maybe you should turn off the radio! |
| DJ_BellsEye | Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 16:18 Upon initial bongo beats, I had no idea what this was... I consulted the playlist to check out the artist of the last song- Mumford & Sons, when I saw that this was Hotel California, live and acoustic. Wish I had waited just a few more seconds for the melody to reveal itself bc it would have been an even sweeter surprise. This is almost godlike. Makes me wish I was there. |
| scraig (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 16:17 You have to hit PSD twice to make this go away. I think I had every note and lyric memorized by the time I was 13. Now, it's just simply DONE. |
| jared_w | Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 16:13 Not bad, but The Dude is not pleased. |
| oldsinger (Wexford, PA) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 13:10 I'm pretty amazed about how this cut is polarizing the commentary. I'm on the positive side, but there are a lot of 1's. |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 13:09 helgigermany wrote: best version for me! DITTO Crawled all the way to London see them on their tour ... Grab that comment all you Haters ... |
| dwlangham (Nowhere to be found) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 13:08 Give it a rest already. Twice in a week? A song that does not lack for airplay everywhere else? Please. |
| dwlangham (Nowhere to be found) | Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 08:58 dwlangham wrote: What? Hell freezes over, all right, hearing this on RP. For fuck's sake. I was looking through the comments and found my own words echoing what I was thinking as this song was getting started. For fuck's sake already. (Oh, and this came on after FUCKING MUMFUCK AND SONS. Not a sequence.) |
| BazH | Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 08:57 Have to agree the Eagles are pretty boring, Hotel California was better because of Joe Walsh. |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...near the netherlands) | Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 04:59  |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 20:06 genell wrote: Hotel California? Seriously? I just get pictures of a tragic guy with a guitar and a drum machine at the local beer joint.  |
| Stranglersfan (Revelstoke, B.C.) | Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 16:34 I did not like it 3O yrs ago, and I still dont. |
| kurt_from_kanada (carleton place ontario) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 12:25 kurt_from_kanada wrote: No .No. No. No. No. Not ever. |
| kurt_from_kanada (carleton place ontario) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 12:24 kurt_from_kanada wrote: No. No .No. |
| kurt_from_kanada (carleton place ontario) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 12:23 oldsaxon wrote: One day, maybe, Bill will play the original cut...wouldn't that be nice? Huh? Wouldn't it? No. |
| Saire (Perth, Australia) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 11:53 Nice to hear this one at 3am while feeding my baby. Thanks Bill! :) |
| funkyalfonso (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 11:53 I was always glad that the Eagles came out with this song as it's lame, tired and boring style of music caused a backlash that created PUNK. They did us all a big favour. |
| genell | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 11:53 Hotel California? Seriously? I just get pictures of a tragic guy with a guitar and a drum machine at the local beer joint. |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 11:52 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: Awsome version! best version for me! |
| oufason | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 11:51 The orginal version of this song is one of only a couple of songs I hate. (probably because it was so over played) But I love this version. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 11:51 One day, maybe, Bill will play the original cut...wouldn't that be nice? Huh? Wouldn't it? |
| Mojo_LA (Los Angeles) | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 08:21 Too soon. Maybe in another 20 years. :) |
| lathyris (Houston, TX) | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 08:14 I find the audience applause at the beginning to be rather humorous. Did they seriously not realize that the gentle acoustic guitar generally following the Hotel California chord progression wasn't leading the way to. . .Hotel California? |
| Bakaretsu (South Burlington. VT) | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 08:14 overplayed. and the only eagles song the radios play. great song but so tired of it now |
| dwlangham (Nowhere to be found) | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 08:12 What? Hell freezes over, all right, hearing this on RP. For fuck's sake. |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88') | Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 00:27 Awsome version! |
| wintergaard | Posted: Sep 21, 2012 - 19:40 I love Radio Paradise for the variety and exposure to songs and artists I might not otherwise hear. However this song just sets my teeth on edge. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Sep 21, 2012 - 19:38 Jimmy Page's sunburst 1959 Gibson Les Paul, better known as his "Number 1" was originally owned by Joe Walsh and was sold to Page in 1969 Aside from that, I've had drinks at the original "Hotel California". One of the seven which claim to be the inspiration for the Album name, that is. |
| Biscobret (Vashon, WA) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 17:06 Toke wrote: Well spoken Andy_B too many negatives I'm reading makes me wonder what the hell they are tuning in for, to knock and all time classic like this is just showing a very narrow appreciation of music. I call them pidgeon hole listeners and blinkered to boot. Nope - not at all - I LOVE the variety here - that's why I listen - but this song? Really? I will admit that The Eagles penned some amazing tunes - Don Henly is a FANTASTIC songwriter - Hell, I'll listen to Boys of Summer, even as overplayed as that is - but if he's gonna play an Eagles tune, there are much better ones that are sorely UNDERPLAYED. No pidgeon (or spell-check, apparantly) here. |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:12 Andy_B wrote: HC may have been heavily played in it's heyday (even by me when I was riding the air chair and we've all heard it a gazillion times) but it still stands the test of time. A 9 hovering near 10. A classic that can never really be overplayed. Well spoken Andy_B too many negatives I'm reading makes me wonder what the hell they are tuning in for, to knock and all time classic like this is just showing a very narrow appreciation of music. I call them pidgeon hole listeners and blinkered to boot. |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:04 PopKombo wrote: Possibly the best rock song ever written. Right behind "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Feelings" |
| mcdonna (Corvallis, Oregon) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:03 Must confess ... every time the refrain comes around it is really hard for me to keep from joining in ... "welcome to the Hotel California."  |
| Biscobret (Vashon, WA) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:03 Really, RP?? Hotel California?? I don't give a rats ass how good a song is — or not — there is no reason to play something THIS overplayed! Even people who claim to never listen to the radio have heard this song too many times - in an elevator, in the grocery store, at the dentist, etc etc etc etc etc ad nauseam! |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:03 jhorton wrote: Too long by about seven minutes....Thank god elevator rides are short. Then go play elevator rides while the rest of sit back and enjoy... |
| hayduke2 (Southampton, NY) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:01 poo-poo mute time |
| miahfost (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:00 It is really too much to ask anyone to listen to the regular version of this dreck let alone the "live" version. |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 12:00 I remember rushing down the record shop to by this on first release ... managed to see them in London at the 02 simply amazing and this Album is one of my all time favs. Thanks Bill, brings back some lovely memories |
| JIan (Phoenix, AZ, USA) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 11:57 anotherlistener wrote: Ahh...Joe Walsh greatly improved this band. Absolutely!!  |
| anotherlistener (outside Bawlmer) | Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 08:13 Ahh...Joe Walsh greatly improved this band. |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 08:07 AndyJ wrote: Some Music has simply been overplayed. I like the song, message and the acoustic version. Just wish it had not been played so much for so many decades.... Still, RP puts it into a context that makes it pleasant... Thank You for HUMANS choosing the music... Robot Radio is music for Robots... True, for ages I reached for the "off" button as soon as this song came on, but now I just laugh and realize the context. |
| mineralBOB (Germany/Saxony) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 02:04 stunix wrote: good question! |
| jhorton (Trailer Park on Cape Cod) | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 15:48 Too long by about seven minutes....Thank god elevator rides are short. |
| PopKombo (Up Against the San Gabriels) | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 15:44 Possibly the best rock song ever written. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 10:00 kosaelin wrote: i absolutely prefer the original version. but still a nice song I haven't heard that version aired since nineteen ninety six. |