?>{"id":983,"date":"2013-02-27T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:51:30","slug":"hot-106-10-hotel-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Hot 106 #10: Hotel California"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Hot 106<\/a>\u00a0is a list of 106 \u201cclassic rock\u201d songs that should be banned from radio airplay forever. In an effort to be fair, and to flaunt their musical\u00a0snobbishness,\u00a0Kent<\/a>\u00a0and Jen have tasked themselves with finding replacements for the overplayed tunes.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The granddaddy of all overplayed classic rock songs, “Hotel California”, gets a lifetime ban this week.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kent: “The Bomber”, The James Gang<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

First things first: Imma brush my shoulders off because I was hatin’ on The Eagles before The Dude made it cool. I’m sure bands like The Eagles and Bread are great for some. If the most delicious sandwich in the world was eagle meat on bread, I probably wouldn’t eat it out of principle, and I am a food addict.<\/p>\n

This dismissing of The Eagles is a wonderful opportunity to introduce the Classic Rock Radio crowd to Eagle alumnus Joe Walsh’s previous and most-rocking band, The James Gang. The album Rides Again<\/em> rocks throughout, and some CRR listeners probably get “Funk #49” tossed to them every once in a while, but the album’s masterpiece, “The Bomber”, needs to replace “Hotel California”. Only a half-minute longer than “Hotel California”, the three-titled-sections prog-rockiness of “The Bomber” rules so hard, in that brilliant Captain Beyond way, that once you hear Walsh playing music like this you’ll do something you thought not possible: hate The Eagles worse<\/em>.<\/p>\n