Hey, Zylon. GET OVER IT.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
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.)
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:25 (ten years ago) link
that's a horse
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
sure looks like david crosby to me.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
In the doc Meisner looks 100 years older than his former bandmates.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Friday, 23 August 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/deliverin/MEISNER/Images/RMeisner2007.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Brad C., Friday, 23 August 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
It's a chuggerly little song but I just like it rather than chug it.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
reminds me a little of Big Star!
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I was just thinking that! Kinda like "Try Again."
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
if it had more echo and sounded generally more fucked up it could be a sister lovers track.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
I'm glad you two have the weekend to think about what you just said.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
especially that guitar break at about 2:16 with the harmonies behind it.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
ha! i know but its kinda true!
come on that guitar solo! its totes bigstarian.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Are we not doing songs on the weekends too? C'mon, we neeeeed sweet Eagles tunage on Saturday and Sunday
― some dude, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
If there were ever a perfect song to be sung by a ruthless drug kingpin in his private karaoke lair...
― The Bridges of Witchy Woman (Eazy), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah the overall feel is v nice, randy has a lovely voice imoand 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*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
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
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 August 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Really, this thread should be active exclusively on the weekends.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
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.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
show of hands, how many of us are sad
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
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
― Lee626, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
at least they didn't turn david crosby into a dog! i still can't believe they turned the poor guy into a dog...
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Having never met either, I assume Crosby is a dick and Meisner isn't.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
notorious bryd bros. is such a great album
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Lee626, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
yeah what's with those mellow guys they have more problems than anyone when it comes to working with each other.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
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
― Lee626, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of lots of songwriters, this track reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdRgdiSizFE
― Brad C., Friday, 23 August 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
So so so great. Top 5 sixties rock lp IMO. Maybe better than forever changes or village green.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
@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.
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah it sounds really cool!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
fyi this doesn't even rate in the universe of bad Eagles songs. there's SO much worse ahead of us.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Randy Meisner's old man crazy long mullett hair is awesome
― 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.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
Meisner always had the worst hair in The Eagles, which is some achievement
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Starts with D and ends with Rugs.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
money, coke, and suitcases full of valium
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
Suitcases full of assholes.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
Gross.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Frey: Hey, do you offer an asshole discount?Henley: Yeah, me too!Crosby: Can I get one also? By the way, you are a jerk.Henley: You are a bigger jerk!Frey: I'm not a jerk at all, but if I were a jerk, I'd be a bigger jerk than either of you, and better, too!Henley: That's because you work harder at it.Frey: Damn right! I've earned the right to be a jerk! When you put in the hours like I have, you get to be as big of a jerk as you want.Henley: Fine, be a big jerk, then.Frey: So you admit it? Then I deserve more money.Henley: Jerk.Crosby: Hey, has anyone seen my suitcase?Frey to Henley, softly, gesturing to Crosby: What an asshole ...Henley: Totally.
Guys in Steely Dan to Warren Zevon and Randy Newman: What a bunch of jerks. We should write a mean song about them.Zevon: What did you say about me? (does drugs) I'm going to write a song about you assholes!
Buckingham: Did someone say asshole?
Newman: I'm not going to say a goddamn thing ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link