hotel california

cyb3r.god3 · Post by **cyb3r.god3** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:50 pm

who knows what this song is actually about
right know i think its about addiction

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:16 pm

It's about this...Hotel...called California...that is really friendly and accomodating.

Haha. Yeah, addiction sounds like a good theory.
Yeah, I'd go with that. Lines like, "And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’" and "But they just can’t kill the beast" would suggest an addiction of some sort...

Maybe something to do with sex? I get the feeling of a brothel, with the repetition of the woman throughout and the description of "Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice"...

GAMER

fauvem · Post by **fauvem** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:40 am

I don't know the song, so I can't answer.

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:52 am

thats a good qestion, I'm not really sure what its really about.. hmmmm

cyb3r.god3 · Post by **cyb3r.god3** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:33 am

it started form "the warm smell of cloitas" which is "little buds' in mexican or spanish

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:31 am

Ahhh...Yeah, I'd go with addiction. Maybe just addiction in general though?

GAMER

cyb3r.god3 · Post by **cyb3r.god3** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:37 am

it "relaz said the night man, we are programmed to recieve, you can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave"
is what throws it out the window

(edit) and "they stab it with their steely knives and they just cant kill the beast", is directed at steely dan as an insult.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:00 pm

Steely Dan?

I took the stabbing of the beast...To be the attempts to break the habit...but they just can't kill it?

GAMER

cyb3r.god3 · Post by **cyb3r.god3** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:54 pm

apparently they said that because of a line in one of steely dans song
so they said it as"you cant stop us steely dan"

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:05 am

Who is Steely Dan?? :S

GAMER

Vangar · Post by **Vangar** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:07 am

I've got the Reel Big Fish cover of the song, and i still don't know what it's about.

JKSM · Post by **JKSM** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:01 pm

There had been different views over the years:
Urban Legends
Someone's research [One finding was baskmasking in the song (hidden message when played backwards)]
Wikipedia -> "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California_(song)"