Uploaded by MsGenkidesuka on Jun 9, 2011
The Last Resort is a song originally written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, which tells about how man inevitably destroys the places he finds beautiful.
In a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone, Henley said: "The Last Resort, on Hotel California, is still one of my favorite songs... That's because I care more about the environment than about writing songs about drugs or love affairs or excesses of any kind. The gist of the song was that when we find something good, we destroy it by our presence — by the very fact that man is the only animal on earth that is capable of destroying his environment. The environment is the reason I got into politics: to try to do something about what I saw as the complete destruction of most of the resources that we have left. We have mortgaged our future for gain and greed."
It is an important and elegiac song, being the last song on the album Hotel California and effectively the last statement by the band and reflects on the end of the American dream of the frontier.
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My favorite Eagles song. Great video.
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Everyone could do with listening to this song. Beautiful.
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I love playing this on piano and singing along xD
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it's very beautiful even it's long . i wont get tired of listening this .
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@Hacksaw139 same here
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@h82lose4 thats awesome. i requested this song be played when i pass too.
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@nigelf11 I guess length is a problem.......
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Truly inspired songwriting, have played this and played so many times but never get tired of it.
And the world limps on !!!!
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"We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God."
Read it as a sentence and not as a lyric. Still the greatest Eagles song ever...
1 month ago 2
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the eagles at their very best, best track off the hotel california album by miles,if only radio stations would play it more often
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As a kid I grew up with my dad playing this song. It's far from time yet, but if he dies, I will play this at his funeral.
h82lose4 2 months ago 5
Ponca native american took me fishing in Oklahoma. Government built road over sacred burial grounds so we took a 8 mile detour. It hit me like a hammer. They are our brothers.
goodthing52 4 months ago 5