A Good Day In Hell - The Official ILM Track-By-Track EAGLES Listening Thread

i dunno, seems kinda typical stuff to me. but i listen to way too many country rock records.

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.

living in a river of darkness beneath a neon light

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

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...

... Buckingham/Nicks naked under another ...

I kind of like this song. Ive never heard it before.

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.

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

I BELIEVE WE COULD CHUG ALL NIGHT
I BELIEVE WE COULD HUG ALL NIGHT

*falls down on the floor laughing*

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.

haha yeah I can see why jeez louise

the Dutch were apparently very big fans

FLying Burrito Bros were massive there

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.

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.

I can't do this and the Elton thing at the same time

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.

hee hee hee

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

Hahaha OTM.

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

dare i say, bud scoppa not otm

has he *heard* other music? do we know for sure?

"FLying Burrito Bros were massive there"

this is true! and everything byrds. that one gene clark album only came out in holland.

I believe we could bug tonight
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4TwrnXluxjM/T6XkAujoWuI/AAAAAAAABII/B6ahF5gkjvw/s200/Orkin+Man.jpg
can someone photoshop glenn frey's mug on the orkin man pls

It's not already?

"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, August 22, 2013 1:21 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This explains a lot. Friend/former one-time bandmate did a duo record with Janet Bean (from Eleventh Dream Day and Freakwater) of Gram Parsons covers that was commissioned by a Dutch label (and only released in Holland).

Maybe move this thread to De Subjectivisten?

"Chug All Night" is the more faceless side of the band. Steppenwolf comparison upthread OTM--it also brings to mind ZZ Top (for some reason I flash on "Move Me On Down The Line" while listening to this) and Seger of the period. Joe Walsh could have done this in his sleep. Very much a 'First Album' song; you can also tell why Glyn Johns was so against them trying to really rock out.

this reminds me of when you see a classic rock cover band at a bar and they sneak one original into the setlist

Glen Frey's snarling rhythm guitar is featured on these two, as it is on "Nightingale"; it's worth paying special attention to.

LMAO

if this was literally like the only rock song you'd ever heard in your entire life, i guess....

grisso c'mon man this isn't even on the same planet as ZZ Top

zz top? seger? noooooooooo wtf grisso why u braek heart

In this case I think Glyn Johns echo is passive-aggressive because it seriously sounds like they're playing in a bar with a wooden floor for like 2 people

I was just pointing out what it reminded me of--of course those guys did it better!

It's kinda funny that ten years later ZZ Top put out "Leila" which like halfway between LA: Light Album and The Long Run.

I can't do this and the Elton thing at the same time

The sheer superstar level of dudes like Elton John in the '70s put the Eagles to shame, no? Like, weren't there many months with multiple Elton albums in the top 10?

plus, elton was huge everywhere. don't know if that's true of eagles. eagles were huge here, but maybe not everywhere in the world.

and speaking of mellow and Holland, i'll never forget when maria told me about living in the Netherlands and how nobody knew who James Taylor was there. we just live in a humongous bubble here. maria's cousin married the only non-musical taylor boy.

(that's the kind of thing i never forget. people's birthdays i'm not so good at remembering.)

I've been trying to find the line between U.S. and Australia with sunny successor. She knew the Eagles growing up, but not Styx.

Imagine saying "Domo aragoto Mr. Roboto" to an English-speaking person over 35 and them replying with "The fuck did you just say?" It was magic.

Yeah Mr Veg gets a huge kick out of that too. Did Sunny know Journey? I didn't really know them either

i used to love to watch the paul hogan show when i was a kid even though i had no idea who they were making fun of. rolf harris jokes and the like.

i remember hoges showing his butt on latenight tv once

http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/yahoo-serious-film-festival-simpsons.jpg

"Those are all real words, but that sign makes no sense."

No Journey. No Boston either.

I can't do this and the Elton thing at the same time

I meant I can't willfully force myself to listen to this much crap in one day. at some point I have to listen to something I know I'm going to actually enjoy

This is only a track a day commitment tho.

yeah but I just listened to 25 Elton John songs in a row

this is the thread that i deserve