Topic: Eagles Lyrics "Hotel California"

[ufatip365]

"Hotel California"


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On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain,
"Please bring me my wine"
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine"
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! "

[frankie]

Google Translate suggests a few changes, by way of Latvian, Urdu, Danish, Maori, Basque, Scots Gaelic and Spanish:

On the way to the dark, my car was cold
The heat of colitis marks the air
I saw a clear light at a distance
When I get up, I look up
I finished my night
He stopped the door.
I heard a call
And I think of myself
"In heaven or in hell"
And when he told the candles, he showed me the way
The language is in Ariman
I think I heard ...

Welcome to California
It's a good place (just a good place)
This is a good view
Many in California
Each year (one year)
You can find here

Tiffany is Merced and Mercedes
He was a beautiful and beautiful boy, and he took it
How do you dance in the garden in the garden dancing?
Dances are forgotten

Then I called the boss
Give me my wine
He said: "It is not in the nineteenth century."
And when they heard those voices,
Get up at midnight
To hear your story ...

Welcome to California
It's a good place (just a good place)
This is a good view
They live in a hotel in California
It's amazing (it's amazing)
Take your letter

Front axle
Black flows on ice
He said: "We seek here with our"
Hero
You will get the app
They end with a sharp sword,
But animals do not kill alone

I remembered the last one
Making the door
I talked to the wolf
Do not
"Know him," said the man.
We want it.
You can register at any time
But you can not leave "

[Stuart]

Chinese:

https://lineday.co/eagles-hotel-california-lyrics-translation/

I went through it and it's actually a pretty good literal translation, but it was done by (a) human(s), after all. S/he/they even got colitas correct and wrote a note: 註: colitas 在西班牙文中指尾巴，用來戲稱大麻. "In Spanish it refers to the tail, but is slang usage for marijuana."

[waxwing]

Well dang! I was perfectly happy with my Mondegreen: "warm smell of coitus". Now it's spoilt. 'Course I never really listened to much more than the first few lines.

Wax

[Johnm]

Believe it or not, this inexplicable topic started in the Country Blues Lyrics board (huh?) before I moved it over here.  On a completely unrelated note, iTunes yesterday identified an Emry Arthur song on the new JSP Clarence Ashley set, "The Bootleggers Lullaby", as the "The Bootlegger's Library".  I'm still cracking up over that one.
All best,
Johnm

[TenBrook]

John,
To keep the completely unrelated note going, I have said Clarence Ashley set and sure enough it's got 'The Bootlegger's Library' on it. I'm sure this subject must have come up at some point but I've noticed some other comments around track, album, artist names for ripped CDs before and thought it was worth noting that much of the erroneous or just annoying track data is due to user entered content working in conjunction with some algorithms (all coming from a Nielsen owned company called Gracenotes). It's possible for the label to submit the correct details but it seems they often don't and so when importing CDs I get all kinds of annoying things back, my biggest peeve is with JSP sets and others where there are multiple artists but whoever first submitted the track names attributes every track to the main artist, or worse puts 'Charlie Poolie with the Georgia Crackers' (this is a real life example from the 'You Ain't Talkin to Me' set, where the person who submitted the track details, instead of listing it as a compilation, attributed all the non-Charlie Poole tracks to 'Charlie Poole with...X' such that I at times get tricked into thinking Charlie recorded with people he did not.). Anyway, it's something that's been annoying me alone in my own mind for a long time and now here it is externalized. I'm assuming it's easier now for small labels to submit their own Gracenotes data prior to releasing a CD so this kind of thing happens less in the future but who knows...

Here's a good blog article on how gracenotes works:
http://bigfishmedia.typepad.com/thedigitallowdown/2009/05/the-magic-of-gracenote.html


And a relevant quote:
"Gracenote technology makes it possible for anyone to update their database.  In the above example, I was able to enter in the information for someone else's album.  (I won't go into all the protections that Gracenote has against false or malicious data entry.  Trust me, they have a lot of safeguards.)  Then this information is made available to Gracenote's worldwide network of subscribed services (of which my satellite radio is one).  This means that every time someone puts in that CD, the artist, album and track info will display."

[Stuart]

...On a completely unrelated note, iTunes yesterday identified an Emry Arthur song on the new JSP Clarence Ashley set, "The Bootleggers Lullaby", as the "The Bootlegger's Library".  I'm still cracking up over that one.
All best,
Johnm

It's "The Bootlegger's Lullaby" in the "Appalachian Stompdown" set. My guess is that whoever entered the info into iTunes and then submitted it to the Gracenote CD Database that iTunes utilizes to "Get The CD Track Names" probably just made a typo. If he or she was copying off of the back of the JSP box it would be pretty easy to do as the song titles pretty much run together and it's easy for eye fatigue to set in.

From what I can tell, a lot of the content of the Gracenote CDDB is unpaid volunteer work, so I guess we can't be overly critical, although some of the mistakes are systemic across a CD or set and require numerous corrections.

"the Bootlegger's Library" sounds like it has the potential to be a hit. Now all we need are the lyrics set to music.

As Always,

Stuart

Your post came in while I was writing this Lew, but I decided to leave it unchanged.

[TenBrook]

Stuart,
Great minds think alike. I was going to note that I shouldn't complain too much because, after all, some one else is saving me the trouble of typing in all the track names, etc. and so as you note I shouldn't be too critical. I guess I just wish I could peek over the shoulder of the people who have a habit of attributing tracks to the main artist in the set instead of setting it up as a compilation, but that's fairly rare. And of course, I'm lucky to be able to complain about such a trivial thing in a world with much much worse to worry about.

'Bootlegger's Library' would also be a good topic for a differently themed message board. Here's a book that would be sure to be found on the shelves:
https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Spirits-Chronicle-Plantation-Appalachians/dp/0914875027

Lew

[Johnm]

Hi guys,
I enjoy complaining too much when I shouldn't, and it's particularly fun when you can't do anything about it.  In this instance and the ones you've named, I make my internal complaint and then just edit the incorrect title, attribution, whatever, right on the iTunes page.
All best,
John

[banjochris]

I've entered full track information for various albums many times in Gracenote. What mystifies me are people who produce CDs not doing that for themselves the moment they have a CD in hand. It was certainly the first thing I did when our Sausage Grinder CD came in; there's nothing special about submitting a new CD, you just enter the info in your own iTunes and submit.

[Stuart]

"Complaining about complaining" --probably "meta-complaining" or some other highfalutin modern day malady. 

But in all seriousness, there's complaining and then there's complaining: legitimate complaining. When I loaded the JSP set "Memphis Shakedown - More Jug Band Classics" into iTunes, it was a real mess. The track names and artist's names were reversed, there was little or no consistency between info for the discs in the set, and by the time I was finished correcting everything, I would have been better off just starting from scratch and entering all the info myself, something I've done on occasion. That's an extreme and rare example, but it's happened more than once or twice.

Thanks for the links re: "The Bootlegger's Library," Lew. I'm going to have to check the libraries to see if they have any of the titles.

You're right: We shouldn't complain given all that we have to be thankful for, but still--we were all brought up being taught to "Do it right or don't do it at all" and "Take your time and do it right." Thus, a little more attention to detail is in order when doing even these trivial tasks, if only because it saves others the time and effort they have to spend  correcting our mistakes.

[alyoung]

Maybe there's something I'm not getting, but why are the lyrics to the Eagles' Hotel California taking up space on a country blues board?

[Stuart]

The mods left it up and a few of us decided to have a little fun with it. It could have just as easily been scrubbed. You know the old saying, "All play and no play makes Jack a dull boy." And as is sometimes the case, we drifted a bit from the original focus, if, in fact, there ever was one. 

[David Kaatz]

You know the old saying, "All play and no play makes Jack a dull boy." And as is sometimes the case, we drifted a bit from the original focus, if, in fact, there ever was one. 

Boy, I agree, and I think you have really drifted from the original focus of that quote, Stuart!
 

[Stuart]

Many a truth is said in jest, Dave--Assorted nonsense statements and various non sequiturs included. 

[Rivers]

Maybe there's something I'm not getting, but why are the lyrics to the Eagles' Hotel California taking up space on a country blues board?

Cheryl and I used to do an accordion/guitar kiwi version of it with the line: "Welcome to the Burger King, Mount Wellington..."