This song can be said to be the masterpiece of the eagles in the best state and the best combination. Hotel California topped the charts for eight consecutive weeks on 1977, and the special feature of the song is the double guitar effect of Don Feld and joe walsh.
Ranked 1 1 among the 100 greatest English songs selected by Rolling Stone magazine.
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California Hotel (Eagle Hotel)
On the dark desert highway. Driving on a dark desert highway.
The cool wind blew through my hair. The cool wind blew through my hair.
The warm smell of colitas. The warm smell of colitas. (note: the word colitas is controversial, and some people translate it into marijuana by imagining the context)
Rise in the air. It is in the air.
It's far ahead Looking up into the distance,
I see a faint light. I saw a faint light. From this sentence, it can be understood as the feeling after taking drugs.
My head became heavy. My vision has blurred. My head is getting heavier and my vision is blurred. (Symptoms of drug abuse)
I had to stop for the night. I had to stop for the night.
She stood at the door. She stood at the door waiting for me. (the temptation of drugs)
I heard the bell of the mission. I heard the church bells in the distance. It can be understood as a wake-up call, that is, the conscience in my heart is shouting. But I still can't resist the temptation. )
I said to myself. I muttered to myself.
This may be heaven or hell. This may be heaven or hell. (paradise and hell of drugs)
Then she lit a candle. She lit the candle. (lighting marijuana)
She showed me the way. Show me the way. (leading to dreams)
There was a voice down the corridor. There were bursts of voices from the depths of the corridor.
I think I heard them say. I vaguely heard them say ...
Welcome to California Hotel! Welcome to California Hotel! (the temptation of drugs)
Such a lovely place! What a beautiful place!
What a lovely face! What a lovely face! ! (Drugs make people feel intimate)
There are enough rooms in the California hotel! This is the California hotel that always welcomes guests!
Any time of the year. Any time of the year.
You can find it here! You can find the room you need here. Drugs can always meet your needs.
Her mind is twisted by Tiffany, and her heart is twisted by jewelry. (Indulge after taking drugs! )
She bought Mercedes-Benz bends. She owns a luxury Mercedes-Benz. (the satisfaction of owning! )
She has many beautiful boys. She has many beautiful boys. Drugs are so popular! )
She called it a friend. She called them friends. Drugs are friends! )
They are dancing in the yard. They are dancing in the yard.
Sweet summer sweat. Sweet summer, sweet sweat.
Some dances are to commemorate! Someone is dancing for memories!
Some dances are to forget! Someone is dancing, begging to forget! (the purpose of drug abuse! )
So I called the captain. So I called the foreman.
"Please bring my wine." Please give me some wine.
He said, "We don't have this spirit here." He said: We don't serve spirits here anymore.
Since 1969.
Although the sound came from a distance. Those words still came from far away. (it can still be understood as auditory hallucination)
Wake up in the middle of the night Wake you up at midnight. (Afraid of this indulgence)
Just listen to them.-Just listen to them. ...
They are staying at the California Hotel. They're partying at the California hotel.
What a surprise! Everything is amazing!
Bring your alibi. Give you an excuse to come here and fall.
The mirror on the ceiling. A mirror embedded in the ceiling.
Pink champagne on ice. Pink champagne soaked in ice.
She said, "We are all just prisoners here-but she said we are all prisoners here.
Our own equipment. " But we are all willing to be in debt for our desires here.
In the master's room. In the master's bedroom.
They got together for the banquet. They get together to enjoy the feast of desire.
They stabbed each other with steel knives. (inner struggle)
But they just can't kill the beast. But they can't kill the devil in their hearts!
The last thing I remember. The last thing I remember is-
I ran to the door. I ran as fast as I could to the gate.
I must find my way back. I must find my way when I come.
Go back to my old place. Back to my old place.
"Relax," said the night watchman. The night watchman told me to relax.
"Our program is to receive. We will naturally be tempted (we just accept it as usual).
You can check out at any time. You can finish the bill at any time.
But you can never leave! "But you can never get rid of it! Never leave drugs! )
What exactly does California Hotel mean? Where is it?
Some people think that the California hotel in the song does exist, and there are three versions: hotel, drug rehabilitation center and mental hospital.
Those who think this hotel really exists can find everything they need in Todos Santos, a small town in southern California. The town is next to the desert of the Southern California Highway. There is a hotel in town with a similar record cover. Not far from the hotel is a church, and the bell rings in the middle of the night. This hotel once had a secret sex trade.
The hotel owner claimed that this was the "California Hotel" in the song, but in the history of the town, the name change of the hotel only happened in the 1980s after the song became popular. In the late 1990s, several newspapers began to publish the true story of "Hotel California", which finally caused the songwriter don henley to formally deny that members of the Eagles had never been here.
The song itself hints at drugs several times, which is also the source of the statement that the California Hotel was originally a drug rehabilitation center. According to this statement: California Hotel is a voluntary drug rehabilitation center beside the highway in Southern California, and the experience of the Hawks taking drugs in hospital is the source of the lyrics.
At the beginning of the lyrics, Coritas suggested that top-heavy feeling is the characteristic of smoking marijuana. "Lighting a candle" is a common expression of drug abuse, and dancing in the backyard is an uncontrollable epileptic seizure after drug abuse.
This kind of voluntary drug rehabilitation center is mainly for the middle class, between sanatorium and drug rehabilitation center, and promiscuity is a normal phenomenon after the middle class debauchery in the 1970 s. Drug addiction allows you to recover in a certain period of time and leave the drug rehabilitation center, but you can never get rid of the shadow of repeating the same mistakes. This is the portrayal of "you can check out for a while, but you can never leave".
The strangeness of lyrics may be the source of the statement of mental hospital. The related hints in the lyrics are: there are always auditory hallucinations of distant voices; Heaven and hell refer to some demonic evil human nature and angelic pure unconsciousness among mental patients; In the backyard, the patient danced like a demon; The distortion of the mind is the straight language of mental illness; The prisoner of his own thoughts is also a code word; A psychotic illusion that you want to kill the devil but you can't kill him. Of course, mental illness and drugs are the same. You can feel normal for the time being, but you can't guarantee that you will be normal in the future, and you will never leave that shadow.
The 1970s was a time when horror films were popular in movies, and this lyric was just the story frame. A lonely man on a remote desert road, a beautiful woman holding a candle in front of the door, a mysterious foreman in a bar, a demon dance in the backyard, a demon who wants to kill but can't kill, even if it's over, someone always reminds me behind the scenes of the sequel's ending. These always make the lyrics have a ghostly feeling, and in horror movies, mental hospitals are often the main background places.
Compared with the on-site search, the logo of California Hotel is obviously more convincing. But what does this symbol mean? There are at least three views: music, life in Los Angeles and American society.
The 1960s was a period of free creation in American music, and the popularity of rock music became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the 1960s. However, its grand occasion also brought the eyes of businessmen with infinite greed. Drug abuse and promiscuity became almost the same depraved road that every rocker walked in the 1970s, and money and pleasure became the new image of rock music in the 1970s.
Eagle, two musicians, saw this fact, but there was nothing they could do.
Musicians have regarded this addicted life as the normal state of the music industry, and rock musicians always have beautiful faces and beautiful places around them. They always forgive themselves for external doubts: relax, we are naturally easy to be tempted. The music industry can't kill the devil of money, even if some individuals can temporarily end it, they will never get rid of it.
1969 Woodstock Music Festival is considered as the peak of rock music. Spirit also means spirit. The lyrics imply that after Woodstock, no matter how beautiful it looks, the rock spirit no longer exists.
People who think this song symbolizes American society understand 1969 in this way: 1969 is the last year of the 1960s, and there has been no such spirit since 1969, which means the spirit of freedom, peace and equality in the 1960s.
However, when the United States entered the 1970s, it encountered the Middle East oil crisis, the failure of the Vietnam War and the Nixon Watergate incident. Overnight, America's mental outlook changed from struggling youth to vulgar and decadent middle age.
There was a stanley kubrick two or three years ago.
A movie "Eyes Wide shut" was filmed, and the audience who saw this movie can find a lot of plot content similar to lyrics in this movie. It is also the same drug abuse, the same bohemian, the same devil worship complex, and the same shadow that cannot be shaken off. This film is like an interpretation of this song, telling the unbearable state of American society.
The story of Los Angeles is the answer given by the Eagles themselves after numerous questions. Although songs, like novels, have to be explained by the audience after leaving the author, don henley explained it this way: "We are a group of young people from middle-class backgrounds in midwestern States, and the California Hotel is our understanding of the upper class in Los Angeles. It can be seen as a symbol of the United States, which always pursues a luxurious life, not just about California and Beverly Hills. " (One of the richest communities in Los Angeles)
("We are all middle-class children from the Midwest," Henry said of the Eagles. "'Hotel California' is our interpretation of upper-class life in Los Angeles. This was originally a metaphor for the United States, because this country's excesses are well known. This doesn't just mean California or Beverly Hills. ")
Hotel California has attracted many questions and criticisms since its publication. Although no one dares to boast that his understanding is correct, the obvious hints of drug abuse, sexual promiscuity and cults in the lyrics have aroused the dissatisfaction of moral guards and have been resisted by religious groups in many States in the United States. However, the classic guitar melody, strange and inexplicable lyrics and touching sadness in the song Hotel California make this song forever mysterious and become people's favorite.
Hotel California is recognized as the theme song of Satanism. In addition to saying that the lyrics involve supernatural things, some people say that if the song is played backwards, there will be many words of "Satan". Another habit of Satanists is that they like to read words backwards and listen to songs backwards. Satanism is a religion that worships Satan. The most controversial and creepy thing about Satanism is that believers often hold sacrificial ceremonies in worship ceremonies. More "polite", only killing animals such as cats and dogs. As for what is even more terrible, it is a "living sacrifice." This killing of living people in order to show their loyalty to Satan has never stopped since the beginning of Satanism, and it has intensified at the end of the 20th century. Some young Christians, in particular, are used to taking drugs at black mass ceremonies and playing deafening heavy metal music. Once they go crazy, they will become no different from animals. In addition to killing and offering sacrifices, Satanists also engage in erotic activities such as sexual hybridization, thus attracting many pedophiles and perverted eroticism.