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

i have never actually listened to randy's solo albums. i've seen them, but never played them. i'd probably like them.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Randy_Meisner_-_Randy_Meisner.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Randy_Meisner_-_One_More_Song.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Randy_Meisner_-_Randy_Meisner_%281982%29.jpg

this is a sleepy little number. harmless i guess. i like randy's voice. the lyrics are.....weird.

Hey, Zylon. GET OVER IT.

The eclecticism continues. I really like this, to my surprise - I'd never go for such a dirge normally. It struck me as quite hymnlike at first, though I hear the country now. It's quite protestant in its plainness. The instrumentation is refined and the harmonies are lovely, and it resists the temptation to big up too much - a lesser band would've choired it up or done something horrid. Instead this is nice.

Pickin Up the Pieces reminds me of

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-byrds/album-the-notorious-byrd-brothers.jpg

(I know it's probably apocryphal, but that doesn't stop me.)

i love pickin' up the pieces. one of the great post-byrds albums. lots of people who love byrds have never heard it. its up there for me with byrds and the grape and the buffalo.

that's a horse

sure looks like david crosby to me.

In the doc Meisner looks 100 years older than his former bandmates.

I actually like this. It's pretty and... sad. Agree that the lyrics are weird probably because they are missing a line about sex and skin conditions, but even in their weirdness and clumsiness they are wistful in melancholy way.

in an early morning reverie imagining golden smog covered "most of us are sad" too on their first EP

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, August 23, 2013 11:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That is OTM. I would probably listen to that a lot.

http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/deliverin/MEISNER/Images/RMeisner2007.jpg

This is pretty, but the monotony of the vocal melody/phrasing doesn't work for me. I guess it is supposed to have a hymn-like quality, but it seems more like a nice country song gone wrong.

It's a chuggerly little song but I just like it rather than chug it.

reminds me a little of Big Star!

Ha, I was just thinking that! Kinda like "Try Again."

if it had more echo and sounded generally more fucked up it could be a sister lovers track.

I'm glad you two have the weekend to think about what you just said.

especially that guitar break at about 2:16 with the harmonies behind it.

ha! i know but its kinda true!

come on that guitar solo! its totes bigstarian.

Are we not doing songs on the weekends too? C'mon, we neeeeed sweet Eagles tunage on Saturday and Sunday

i'll do weekends. i'm at work on saturday so i always have time. and sunday i'm just sleepy and lazy in the morning so again plenty of time. it ain't brain surgery.

i swear if ivo had put this song on a this mortal coil album in the 80's the eagles would have more love from indie rockers.

If there were ever a perfect song to be sung by a ruthless drug kingpin in his private karaoke lair...

the production/sound/harmonies are great

but the melody and song itself are really pedestrian and not great

the main "Most....of...us.....are sad" part is really lame IMO, stilted and not good phrasing

like a lot of eagles songs it succeeds in reminding me of songs/artists i like way more than the eagles

but yeah i mean the band could make records, they sound good, but they generally sound really good/pro so i'm not inclined to give them that much credit for that

yeah the overall feel is v nice, randy has a lovely voice imo
and I like the sound of the guitar -- is it mixed with a keyboard or is that a specific type of guitar that sounds like that?

but the song sorta sounds like a low-budget christmas carol or a nursery rhyme. it's a bit of a plodder. but certainly a nice palate cleanser after all that chugging *burp*

yeah he's got a nice voice

just saying i mean these guys are pros! but lots of bands in the 70s were pros, records sounded good then, people could play and sing, so i'm saying we can't endlessly give them credit for being real polished and good at playing, you can't compare it to how records sound like shit now

Are we not doing songs on the weekends too? C'mon, we neeeeed sweet Eagles tunage on Saturday and Sunday

Really, this thread should be active exclusively on the weekends.

Another very "first album" song, in the sense that they're just beginning to mine something that'll soon pay off in AM/FM Gold.

show of hands, how many of us are sad

beat me to it - this sounds like the sort of thing that could make the cut only on their first album, made before they knew they'd become huge. Likable enough but forgetable, not exactly loaded with hooks.

Horse on the Notorious Byrd Brothers coincidental btw, just happened to stick his head out before the picture was taken. McGuinn said had he thought in advance about it representing the departed Crosby, he would have has the had the horse facing the other way....

x2 re: Pickin' Up The Pieces

at least they didn't turn david crosby into a dog! i still can't believe they turned the poor guy into a dog...

Having never met either, I assume Crosby is a dick and Meisner isn't.

notorious bryd bros. is such a great album

last Buffalo Springfield album cover a weird one too - they couldn't get the band all together at the same time, so an unrelated photo of Neil was sort of pasted on next to the rest of the group.

yeah what's with those mellow guys they have more problems than anyone when it comes to working with each other.

they all know stephen stills. that's their first mistake.

all of these bands had no clear leader and lots of songwriters, which caused contention

Speaking of lots of songwriters, this track reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdRgdiSizFE

notorious bryd bros. is such a great album

So so so great. Top 5 sixties rock lp IMO. Maybe better than forever changes or village green.

@veg the guitar is going through a rotating Leslie speaker giving it that keyboardy tone and it's the best thing about this really bad song.

yeah it sounds really cool!

fyi this doesn't even rate in the universe of bad Eagles songs. there's SO much worse ahead of us.

Randy Meisner's old man crazy long mullett hair is awesome

yeah what's with those mellow guys they have more problems than anyone when it comes to working with each other.

― scott seward, Friday, August 23, 2013 12:18 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought the whole "Long night at Wrong Beach" thing was hilarious. "Three more songs and I'm gonna kick your ass"? Fuck, the Who or the Kinks wouldn't wait for three songs, or three seconds. They'd just start beating the shit out of each other on stage.

Meisner always had the worst hair in The Eagles, which is some achievement

henley's fro is something else, growing up with 90's floppy hair henley I had no idea that's what his hair looked like

yeah what's with those mellow guys they have more problems than anyone when it comes to working with each other.

Starts with D and ends with Rugs.

money, coke, and suitcases full of valium

Suitcases full of assholes.

Gross.