Top 5 most bearable Eagles songs:
1. One Of These Nights
2. Take It To The Limit
3. Take It Easy
4. In The City
5. Try And Love Again
Top 5 most unspeakably, earstabbingly awful Eagles songs:
1. New Kid In Town
2. Life In The Fast Lane
3. Heartache Tonight
4. Lyin' Eyes
5. Hotel California
While I like some of the One of These Nights stuff, I tend to be more sympathetic towards the early material, since no one takes that shit seriously. I'm completely indifferent towards Tequila Sunrise and Desperado, and I even somewhat enjoy Take It Easy at like 7 AM when I'm so tired I could drive off the road at a moment's notice. That period of Eagles music is the perennial soundtrack to barbeques and shitty Mexican restaurants, and I'm OK with that.
In contrast, there are rags that actually consider Hotel fucking California to be a great album and, having heard it in full, I am assured that it is not. In fact, New Kid In Town and Life In The Fast Lane are, respectively, the most irredeemably dull and most inane songs I hear on the radio on a fairly regular basis. I can't believe something so horrible could become a "classic," but that's how things go sometimes.