The "full sensory experience" of song description, as Felder said, is intentional, as is the choice to have the song take place in California: a place nearly mythologized for its idyllic beauty and cabal of Hollywood celebrity.
Another masterpiece, but for different reasons is the Beach Boys 'Good Vibrations' song.
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As described in Song Facts, it was written based on a series of chord progressions that guitarist Don Felder wrote on the beach. Hotel California is quite a composition, saying so much between the lines with such elegance. "Hotel California" won 1977's Grammy for Record of the Year. The main focus song warn young audience Read More.But closer Stones. The album was also their first to be made without Bernie Leadon, who had given the band much of its country flavor, and with rock guitarist Joe Walsh. Hotel California a warning young people drug addiction, This a small theme poem. Don came up with. As the song progresses, and the singer encounters stranger characters and situations, the song's sense of entrapment grows and grows. The Eagles took 18 months between their fourth and fifth albums, reportedly spending eight months in the studio recording Hotel California. The thematic material the pressures of superstardom and buying into the rockstar lifestyle is credited largely to Henley. The dreamy, acoustic opening segues into a sliding, dark bass that invites the listener to dream of contrasting worlds: what is seen, and what is real. Its lyrically vivid descriptions of pink champagne, shimmering lights, dark desert highways, and voices in the night conjure images of a journey that is superficially glamorous, but hides something lurking and insidious. As Don Henley mentioned in the fantastic documentary History of the Eagles, the Hotel California is a metaphor for the decadent lifestyle of California, specifically in the late 70s as well as the myth of the American Dream found in the sunny utopia of California. "Hotel California" by the Eagles has inspired more than its fair share of theories and discussion since its release in 1976. You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave