I just dropped in.....

[Danno]

There's surely some truth to herd mentality. But have you ever considered that one of the reasons that joke landed so well is because there are a LOT of people (me among them) who found the Eagles pretty annoying. I never said I hate the Eagles before Lebowski, but I sure AF said I don't like the Eagles.

[The AD]

Then I grew up. And impregnated Maude.

Bea Arthur? Wait, I thought her daughter was Adrienne Barbeau?

[bobz]

There's surely some truth to herd mentality. But have you ever considered that one of the reasons that joke landed so well is because there are a LOT of people (me among them) who found the Eagles pretty annoying. I never said I hate the Eagles before Lebowski, but I sure AF said I don't like the Eagles.

Heh, considered. I can't say I disliked them, but given the Eagles' enormous commercial success, I'd say they were overrated and (again) overplayed, which I admit is part of what works in the Lebowski joke.


And thanks to KQ for the OP fine cover version of a great song. Just Dropped In was part of the soundtrack for my kid's birth video, many years ago.

[Core Shot]

You were never “the Dude”


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No one is the dude. Just using it as a metaphor for being a child free unmarried ski bum.

Okay, I was a tad hyperbolic; hating the Eagles, pre-Lebowski, had occurred to some. And there was the whole punk movement, which broadly rejected the over-polished style that the Eagles were a fine example of.

Eh. Try listening to Peaceful Easy Feeling with fresh ears, trying to ignore that the music already lives in your head. It isn't so bad. Not groundbreaking, but not every song needs to be a Born To Run or Blitzkrieg Bop. Whatever, it was overplayed, that's all. I have no interest in listening to my Beatles albums any more, either, and the Beatles were awesome.

Fuck Springsteen. He sucks too. Talented. But can’t listen myself.

But the ramones rock.

Fair point made above about peaceful easy feeling and the irony.

[JimmyCarter]

In this thread, humorless dorks rush to defend the honor of the band with the best selling album of all time.

[Core Shot]

In this thread, humorless dorks rush to defend the honor of the band with the best selling album of all time.

There’s also some irony in Kenny Rogers.

The rest of his career was lame.

[sb]

[MagnificentUnicorn]

In this thread, humorless dorks rush to defend the honor of the band with the best selling album of all time.

Reading comprehension fail. I wasn’t defending the Eagles I was pointing out pop culture herd mentality.


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[JimmyCarter]

Reading comprehension fail. I wasn’t defending the Eagles I was pointing out pop culture herd mentality.


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The eagles ARE pop culture herd mentality. Safe music by talented musicians. Raging against the newly commercialized world through the lens of old hippie boomer nostalgia, while simultaneously being the first to break the $100 per ticket barrier!

It was hip to hate them way before Lebowski.
From 1972:
“The music, the lyrics, and the distribution machine are all suave and synthetic. Brilliant stuff--but false.

The Eagles are the ultimate in California dreaming, a fantasy of fulfillment that has been made real only in the hip upper-middle-class suburbs of Marin County and the Los Angeles canyons.”

[MagnificentUnicorn]

That doesn’t really sound like hate, it sounds like a critique. I agree with it though. The pop culture use of Big Lebowski quotes is the same. Yes I love the movie.

And again you missed the point

I would say that the Mamas and the Papas were the ultimate California Dreaming, but that’s just my opinion, man.


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[JimmyCarter]

That doesn’t really sound like hate, it sounds like a critique. I agree with it though. The pop culture use of Big Lebowski quotes is the same. Yes I love the movie.

And again you missed the point

I would say that the Mamas and the Papas were the ultimate California Dreaming, but that’s just my opinion, man.


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Your first statement

I know it’s popular to say that since that movie came out but no one ever really said that prior to the Big Lebowski.

Is easily disproven.

So your remaining comment:

You could probably substitute any popular band from the past 60 years and people would parrot the movie line.

is that popular sentiment is directed by popular quotes, and not the other way around? It didn’t increase the hate of the eagles, it just provided a succinct method for expressing it.

Former Stones manager Allen Klein owns the rights to it," Burnett says. "He wanted $150,000." Burnett begged Klein to just come down and watch an early cut of Lebowski. "It got to the part where the Dude says, 'I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!' Klein stands up and says, 'That's it, you can have the song!' That was beautiful." For the record, Burnett agrees with the Dude ("[The Eagles] sort of single-handedly destroyed that whole scene that was brewing back then," he says), but the line infuriated Glenn Frey. "I ran into [Frey] and he gave me some shit," Jeff Bridges says. "I can't remember what he said exactly, but my anus tightened a bit."

[MagnificentUnicorn]

So you’re basically saying what I’m saying with more verbosity and some anecdotes. Thanks for helping


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[JimmyCarter]

So you’re basically saying what I’m saying with more verbosity and some anecdotes. Thanks for helping


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You said the opposite.

[XXX-er]

You were never “the Dude” ]

I am the Walrus

[Iowagriz]

I'd rather listen to the Eagles vs watch the Big Lebowski. I don't get the infatuation with it.

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[bobz]

(Not intending to feed what's turning into a tedious thrash, thanks jimmycarter as always, but...) Worth keeping in mind that, in addition to dissing the Eagles in the taxi scene, The Big Lebowski soundtrack prominently includes a pretty good (though, granted, probably not everybody's cup of tea) Eagles cover, the Gypsy Kings version of Hotel California.

[The AD]

There’s also some irony in Kenny Rogers.

The rest of his career was lame.

I will not have you disparage "Ruby," sir!

[JimmyCarter]

(Not intending to feed what's turning into a tedious thrash, thanks jimmycarter as always, but...) Worth keeping in mind that, in addition to dissing the Eagles in the taxi scene, The Big Lebowski soundtrack prominently includes a pretty good (though, granted, probably not everybody's cup of tea) Eagles cover, the Gypsy Kings version of Hotel California.

Dropping accusations of tedium while writing yet another self-indulgent novella of a post.

[XXX-er]

No one is the dude. Just using it as a metaphor for being a child free unmarried ski bum. .

obviuosly your not a golfer

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

The Gipsy Kings suck.

[XXX-er]

GF told me about being lost in the desert in a rented beetle on rough roads, banging on the door of the Hotel California at 2 in the am. Pregnant with 1st daughter not feeling well some hemorrhaging so she goes to the local MD who sez you gotta rest. So She is stuck at the Hotel California, all she was able to do is lay by the pool for 3 days and she sez " I remember those mission bells "

i think its a true story

[Danno]

I'd rather listen to the Eagles vs watch the Big Lebowski. I don't get the infatuation with it.

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Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

[The AD]

GF told me about being lost in the desert in a rented beetle on rough roads, banging on the door of the Hotel California at 2 in the am. Pregnant with 1st daughter not feeling well some hemorrhaging so she goes to the local MD who sez you gotta rest. So She is stuck at the Hotel California, all she was able to do is lay by the pool for 3 days and she sez " I remember those mission bells "

i think its a true story

I don't know. Sounds a bit Tiffany twisted.

[XXX-er]

I'd rather listen to the Eagles vs watch the Big Lebowski. I don't get the infatuation with it.

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I supose i don't get what you don't get but I assume you don't really dig watching a slacker fumble his way thru life and usually its yer type A people who express this feeling, btw these are the people who would have been shot by their own troops in Nam where there were no rules

look at the cast of characters lots of names who could & have carried their own projects as the leading character but they all wanted to work with the Cohen brothers, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Ben gazzara and of course the dude, so the acting is great

So watch it a few times and you start to notice subtle jokes and lines you missed the other times, writing is great the jokes/ humor is all really good, the Cohen brothers don't ad lib any lines so its all scripted all the time, they might shoot a scene twice with different dialogue and chose which later

so if yer a fan of the Cohen bros the Big Lebowski is considered their best movie

[chicken feathers]

your money is being held by a kid named Larry Sellers