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Guilty pleasure or just a deuced good song? Desperado - The Eagles

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BwOXlGbW6Q&w=700]  It first appeared on the 1973 album Desperado, and has later appeared on numerous compilation albums although it was not a single.

William Ruhlmann of Allmusic described the song as one of the band's best, saying that it showed the strength of Henley's and Frey's co-writing, but also called it a "painfully slow ballad."