okay, i remembered how to do youtube links like that. i should probably do youtubes like that from now on? yes? no? so that this thread doesn't become impossible.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
so you guys keep talking about "In The City," so when I went to Spotify to see what the fuss was I realized I've heard this thing on AOR radio for years.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
This is a terrible song.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
Opening chord sequence reminds me of We're Going Wrong by Cream. Otherwise this sounds pretty generic really.
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
i was totally on board with this song and enjoying how well recorded the drums are (i could even hear the bass clearly) until "i believe we can chug all night" and then i started laughinglike actual hahahaha laughing
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
The band is loose and the groove is right
this song doesn't sound very loose or groovy at all ... needs to swing more
not sufficiently laid back, two point deduction
― Brad C., Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
first person to have a poignant story that involves hearing this song when they were a kid wins a prize.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
Almost sounds like Heart for the first few seconds. I mean, before any vocals appear. LL otm re: drums (no one can fuck with Glyn Johns). This is the best-produced Eagles song I've heard. Too bad its an irredeemable piece of whiny-ass reductive shit.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
I have a personal category of songs that are more or less songs I thought were parodies/commercials when I first heard them but are actually sincerely recorded songs (The Doctor by The Doobie Brothers (sure it was a Dr. Pepper jingle) and All Summer Long by Kid Rock (thought it was a MI tourism board commercial) are prime examples) and if I didn't already know this was real, I am pretty sure I would have thought it was a joke, chug all night/hug all night is just so stupid.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
kinda critic-proof. there should have been a choice hair metal cover of it. but other than that Dutch group doing it, there are absolutely no cover versions on Youtube. and believe me that says a LOT. there is only one clip of the actual song on Youtube. and someone put it up 2 months ago, so maybe Frey goes around yanking all videos of this song as fast as he can.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
this is rough
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
i was just thinking about how someone said on the other thread that old-ilx would never do something like this and i was trying to imagine marcello and mark s. debating "chug all night".
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STH7AxNmUY4
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
I like the introduction, I was expecting* it to unfold like The Stooges for a bit but better-recorded. The verses are better for keeping that urgency, but the vocals sadly don't keep up with it. Frey(?) really needed to cut loose here, scream a bit**. The oo-oos that appear in the second verse are too polite.
The guitar breaks are nice, and sound fantastic. I really like the 'no woman ever do what you do' bit, the bass rolls nicely. I can imagine Steppenwolf laying down this sorta thing.
The chorus is a disgrace though. The sentiment is fine - who among you hasn't wanted to chug all night? - despite the clumsy music/act of love parallel. No, the problem is the sheer laziness of the inner bar band here. That I-IV-I-IV progression*** and wall-of-backing-vox, cutting out on the punchline, we've heard it millions of times before.
FFS: 'gonna do a little chuggin', gonna do a little huggin'? I take it all back.
* not really** scratch that, he does cut loose in the main guitar solo and it doesn't work. Henley should've sung this, he's raspier.*** I'm making that up, mostly
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
I think this is tied with "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" for worst Eagles song...except that the music is pretty good. I hate Frey's vocals (there's a lot of cracking and deliberately ugly notes, and obviously the lyrics are mind-crushingly stupid), but the backing track is great. With better lyrics and a different singer, this could have been a '70s AOR classic.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
I like the introduction, I was expecting* it to unfold like The Stooges for a bit but better-recorded.
I recall reading some account of early John Cougar Mellencamp where he claimed to have been in a band that covered the Stooges, but I just can't believe it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
Someone tell Robin Thicke we figured out what rhymes with hug.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
"I can imagine Steppenwolf laying down this sorta thing."
steppenwolf from this era some of my fave steppenwolf. especially the albums Slow Flux and Skullduggery. two good ones from that time period:
"Black Pit"
http://youtu.be/i9PfrbScLi0
"Gang War Blues"
http://youtu.be/IszBXYDXWm4
but the actual year that the Eagles debut came out, 1972, saw the release of John Kay's solo album where he did a really good version of Richard Farina's anti-imperialism epic "Bold Marauder".
http://youtu.be/BhUkjeMDADg
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
which is just a way to point out that John Kay and Steppenwolf in the early 70's had WAY more on their minds than the Eagles did. and that's saying something.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Early '70s Steppenwolf albums are amazing. I love "Gang War Blues." But pretty much every Steppenwolf album right up to Skullduggery is great.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
"Chug All Night" mostly makes me think of this guy.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Not the worst Eagles song in the world. I can hear in my mind a million bar bands butchering it.
― pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Make them stop!
if you bought this album new and these were the first three songs you heard, i think you'd be pretty confused as to what exactly this band is--so far they've done prototypical country rock, soulful/citified pop-rock, and hacky bar band shit.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
i dunno, seems kinda typical stuff to me. but i listen to way too many country rock records.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
feel like in another era frey and henley would have been brill building or tin pan alley dudes. or own a shady little label where they would rip off r&b performers left and right. or despots in the mesopotamian empire.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
living in a river of darkness beneath a neon light
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
xp yeah that may be true! i feel like this is less coherent than i thought it would be but you would know much better than me
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
feel like in another era frey and henley would have been brill building or tin pan alley dudes.
Frey and Henley at one desk, Fagan/Becker at another...
― pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
... Buckingham/Nicks naked under another ...
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
I kind of like this song. Ive never heard it before.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
it would take all my superpowers to think of something interesting to say about this song. again, the intro is really promising. even when the first lines of the song creep out of frey's mouth you COULD conceivably be in for something good. and it sounds fine, but the production does nothing for me really. a zillion 4th tier country rock albums of the time had production that sounded as good as that.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
the verses sound like a band in a garage just fucking around like 'hey what about this song'...in an ideal world instead of playing the whole song the drummer trails off after a verse and then they all just kinda stand around until Frey says, 'yeah I guess it wasn't that good' and they go try something else
but hey
the chorus is ok.
god the harmonies are not...very...good. or unnecessary. or something. like riding around with a dude singing along in his car but he's a beat behind so he comes in late
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
I BELIEVE WE COULD CHUG ALL NIGHTI BELIEVE WE COULD HUG ALL NIGHT
*falls down on the floor laughing*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
I BELIEVE WE COULD PUG ALL NIGHT
don't quote me on this but i think the two songs with solo frey songwriting credits on the first album are the first and last songs that he wrote solo. he's no dummy. or maybe they didn't allow him to write alone after this song.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
haha yeah I can see why jeez louise
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
the Dutch were apparently very big fans
FLying Burrito Bros were massive there
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
xgau:Actually, the protagonist of "Take It Easy" doesn't plan to make his stand alone. He craves female companionship--but please, no one who will stone him or own him or bewitch him or tie him down or let him down or do anything much but chug all night.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
bud scoppa:"Tryin'" and "Chug All Night" aren't great songs in themselves, but the Eagles use them as frames to hang their rock & roll licks on, and the controlled explosiveness of the performances makes them among the most exciting songs here. Glen Frey's snarling rhythm guitar is featured on these two, as it is on "Nightingale"; it's worth paying special attention to.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
I can't do this and the Elton thing at the same time
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
So this must be what it's like to hear an Eagles song for the first time.
WE'RE UP ALL NIGHT TO GET CHUGGING.
― pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
hee hee hee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
It's almost like Frey is a failed advertising dude who became a musician, and he's just using up his terrible slogans in his songs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Hahaha OTM.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
but the Eagles use them as frames to hang their rock & roll licks on, and the controlled explosiveness of the performances makes them among the most exciting songs here.
jesus
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
dare i say, bud scoppa not otm
has he *heard* other music? do we know for sure?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
"FLying Burrito Bros were massive there"
this is true! and everything byrds. that one gene clark album only came out in holland.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I believe we could bug tonighthttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4TwrnXluxjM/T6XkAujoWuI/AAAAAAAABII/B6ahF5gkjvw/s200/Orkin+Man.jpgcan someone photoshop glenn frey's mug on the orkin man pls
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link