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Old 08-16-2013, 07:54 PM
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[Read the To the Limit article that is mentioned here: http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...2&id=349&c=11]

From a list of 11 reasons the Eagles are over-rated in Business Insider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/11-re...errated-2013-8

4) To this day, the Eagles keep getting schooled by Fleetwood Mac.

In Rolling Stone's annual readers poll from 1977, Mac beat out the Eagles for artist of the year and band of the year. As Marc Eliot writes in "To The Limit": "The British-American group would always have a broader if less intense following. Quite simply, the presence of Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie was what separated the men from the boys ... If Mac also 'aged' more gracefully, it was because the music it made came from the real-life drama of its romantic relationships, while the songs of the Eagles seemed by comparison to come from loners, not-so-young men acting like teenage boys still on the sexual make."


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/11-re...#ixzz2cBQlf51W
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