Review the Hotel California

8/4/2007

Still vaguely remember, when the color center high school when he learned the guitar often practice the Hotel California, of course, how to level, I can not remember it:) Looking back carefully, listened to in high school in California before the hotel, but do not remember the first time I hear it the exact time. I used to read when the computer inside the songs are loaded WINAMP, then shuffle. Just play to the Hawks on the song a classic. I like it more precise because of the lyrics. Many people have tried to analyze the meanings of the Hotel California, in fact, their own understanding of it is secondary, important point to bring it to each person is different and imagination, which is like "a world where a gravel , a wild flower in a paradise. " I am not keen to mysticism, but I think Hotel California itself is trying to include mysticism in the inside. Followed a consistent pattern of religious and natural point of view I am afraid it is difficult to explain this song, it seems, Eagles and Hotel California from the human life we are more likely to cause the angle of resonance.

It is said that "Hotel California" is a real hotel, which is located in California, BAJA, near Santa Barbara in a Cabo San Lucas to La Paz on the highway between the seaside. Rather, in the Southern California desert next to the highway, Todos Santos (todos santos) There is a small town like this album cover of the hotel, the hotel is not far from the church bells will be heard at night, and this Hotels in the past is that there are covert sex. Some people say that Hotel California is the name of a mental hospital, there is a saying in Southern California Hotel California is a voluntary drug Highway Institute, Eagles players who admitted drug use and the creation of the experience is the source of the lyrics.

I think Hotel California is a lot of songs implied drug use. First of all "lit up a candle" is a phrase commonly used drug, followed by the lyrics of the most controversial is the Warm smell of colitas understanding. colitas not an English word. The argument is now widely interpreted to do Spanish, Southern California and Mexico neighbors, so often mixed in spoken Spanish. colitas the most frequent word is Mexican and Spanish restaurant where the menu. cola in the Spanish middle tail (tail), colitas is plural, meaning many small tail (little tails). In the seventies, marijuana bud bud has been dubbed the small tail, so here colitas refers to marijuana should be hidden. colas-the tip of a marijuana branch, slang is a branch of the branch tip that marijuana is the most potent marijuana most essential part of good quality marijuana. This is the Eagles' economic man Irving Azoff say, is said to be a Mexican-American translator to the composer's. I have also seen a guy in BC, Canada, a tragic but very interesting to say: when not far from the Hotel California a fireworks factory explosion, there is a small town from the Greek Colitas who called Wurn Snell, have been blown. Don Henley was asked a man to see what survived, the other describes that: Wurn Snell of Colitas... Rising up through the air. . .

In addition there is a disagreement about "her" description. tiffany is a literal meaning of the veil, Tiffany as capital, is well known works of art in France. It has two meanings, one Tiffany jewelry, hot in the world are gathering items; Another implication is Tiffany art glass, glass products which has developed into a genre. The meaning of the word is the source of two two French named Tiffany. Here, Tiffany glass is meant to take. Melted by the fire side of the glass while blowing turn, left spin natural cooling traces. This is a lyricist was carried out in the wordplay, as the following ink Sidi Mercedes-Benz, not with the original trademark Mercedes Benz, the Benz into bends, it is to twist and bend are bending the meaning, which is very similar to the Chinese in the antithesis even each other, here is used to describe "her" spiritual distortions.

Lyrics of other interesting places include: mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice, "the top mirror in the ceiling, pink champagne soaked in ice," This is Hollywood in the erosion and pornography behalf of the lens.

Describe the entire surface is a drug addict story experience, in fact, the drug extended chains woven into their lives of ordinary people. Indulgence, dissipation, seduction, confession, wake up, like a scene of life melodrama, the story from here.

Unique in the Southern California desert, I travel alone in a dark highway, the cool breeze blowing hair, nose, smell is pervasive fragrant warmth of marijuana intoxication. Found not far from the rise slightly in front of the lights, smoked marijuana, the confused, and blurred vision also seems to go where the rest under the bar. She stood in front of the hotel, I vaguely heard the distant church bells. There may be heaven, hell probably is. I thought to myself. Ignore it, or into the rest.

She ordered a candle, I lead the way in front, seems to open the corridor came the sound bursts, probably said: Welcome to the Hotel California, What a beautiful place, ah, is full of pretty faces. Hotel California has plenty of room when you want to come can. She psychological distortions, but it is very rich, driving luxury Mercedes, with her ​​so-called friends, handsome boy who dance in the courtyard. Fragrant perspiration dripping, their crazy dancing, it was to recall what some people want to forget. I told the foreman to get me some wine, he said no since 1969 not to sell spirits up. . . From a distance they sounded familiar voice woke me up at night: Welcome to the Hotel California, What a beautiful place, ah, is full of pretty faces. Where they enjoy life, enjoy the carnival, and more amazing things, ah, can give you an excuse for corruption. Trimmed with mirrors on the ceiling, Pink champagne ice Jin Zhao, she said, but we are all just prisoners here to stay voluntarily. They enjoy the feast master bedroom, blades cut the food, but can not kill the heart of the devil.

I remember the last thing, I ran to the door, I am looking for to when the road. Night watchman said to me, do not panic, we just received in accordance with routine, you can checkout any time, but you can never leave. . . .
Literally, whether it is drugs or mental illness, you can heal at a certain time to leave, but it can never get rid of that repeating the shadow of the old track, which is "You can check out a moment, but you will never leave," the portrayal. In fact, it's far more than to express such.

Mysticism and religion from the perspective of the seventies was the popular horror movie when the lyrics and this is the story of this frame tick box. Remote lonely desert road one big, big candle in front of the palm of beauty, the mystery of the bar foreman, called backyard magic dance, intended to kill always kill the demon, even if the ending was always there to remind the sequel to the back end. The overall total, so the lyrics have a ghost dense feeling, and in the horror film, a mental hospital more often is the main place of the background.

Following the resolution of a symbol is reproduced on the network.

Hotel California is a virtual means of a symbol is clearly more convincing. This symbol has at least the music industry, live in Los Angeles, three versions of American society.

American music of the sixties is a period of creative freedom, sixties rock and roll became popular ideas of freedom and a symbol of rebellion, but has also brought its grand infinite greedy businessman's eyes. Drug use and promiscuous hand almost every rock in the seventies to go with a fall of the road, money and pleasure to become a rock music in the 1970s a new image. The eagle with the orchestra for the musicians to see the fact, but could do nothing. Musicians have to look into the life of this indulgence is the norm in the music industry, rock and roll musicians were always around full of pretty faces and beautiful places. For the doubts, they are always self-forgiveness: take it easy Well, we are naturally easy to be tempted. Music industry has been unable to kill this monster money, even if some individuals can temporarily end, but you will never get rid of. 1969 伍德斯多克 (woodstock), is considered the pinnacle of rock and roll party. while the spirit of the Italian spirit, lyrics hinted at 伍德斯多克, regardless of whether appear more beautiful, the spirit of rock and roll no longer exists.

That the song is a symbol of American society so that people understood one thousand nine hundred sixty-nine: one thousand nine hundred sixty-nine is the last year of the sixties, said that since one thousand nine hundred sixty-nine will have no kind of spirit, and refers to the American sixties freedom, peace, the spirit of equality. However, the United States into the seventies, met in the Middle East oil crisis, the defeat of the Vietnam War, Nixon's Watergate and so on. Just one night, the United States from the spirit of young people into a struggle vulgar and decadent middle age. Two or three years ago, a stanley kubrick the filming of a "big eye-opener" (eye wide open), the audience saw the film in the film content can be found with this song many quite similar to the plot content. Fall is the same drug is the same dissolute sexual promiscuity, but also thanks to the magic feeling the same, have the same can not escape the shadow. The film is like an explanation of the song, that has been stricken about the state of American society.

Los Angeles said that the Eagles asked himself many times in people after an answer, although songs like fiction, the author after leaving the listener to interpret, Don Henley is this explanation: "We are a group from the background of the western states of the middle class young people, Los Angeles, California hotel is our understanding of high society and it can be seen as extravagant life is always seeking a symbol of the United States, not just on the mountains of California and Bi Lihua (Los Angeles One of the most wealthy area). "