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

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.

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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.

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 ...

lool

Did Stills not get an invite to that asshole salon?

Too big of an asshole.

he was at the bar

meanwhile James Taylor is cashing his asshole chips on the road

Stills: Hey, what about me?
A bunch of assholes: Oh, sorry, your invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. Are you still in Buffalo Springfield?
Stills: No, that band broke up years ago.
Assholes: Oh, that explains why it got returned, then.
Stills: So, wait, you knew I didn't get an invitation?
Assholes: No. We never sent you one. Collective mea culpa.
Stills: You assholes.

James Taylor, sitting in a canoe, strumming his guitar and humming a song: "mmm, hmm-hmm, something about assholes, hmm-mm, mmmm ...." (sets down guitar and does drugs)

Irving Azoff: I'm charging $500 a head for you to witness the once in A lifetime reunion of assholes.

Parking is free.

$20 service charge and $3 facilities charge per ticket.

Jann Wenner: I would like to induct all of you into the Rock N Rol Hall of Assholes-er Fame

JD Southern: Hey dudes, I brought nachos!

Gotta get ray "women can't rock" manzarek in there