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

Reminds me of Jayhawks, at their most Burrito-ish.

Yeah Gene Clark parts of Hotel California are heartbreaking, you can tell Hoskyns really loves his music the most

Such a tragedy, and he doesn't even have the Gram Parsons/Chilton/etc cult that he deserves

that's Bernie on lead vocals!

LOVE this so much.

there's a tone to Bernie's voice that reminds me a lot of Marty Robbins. Really rich in the low notes, and he hits those really pretty high notes.

What did he do after the Eagles?

piss off Glenn Frey

Played a lot of bluegrass and became a Nashville session guy.

xpost lol Alfred

just for reference:

Dillard & Clark - Train Leaves Here This Morning

didn't know that was a single for D&C, or that The Eagles covered it.

Imagining alt-timeline Eagles w/Gene Clark. He dies much sooner there.

Yeah Gene Clark parts of Hotel California are heartbreaking, you can tell Hoskyns really loves his music the most

Such a tragedy, and he doesn't even have the Gram Parsons/Chilton/etc cult that he deserves

― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually Gene Clark does have quite a cult following (and not just on ILM), if not quite as big as Gram's or Alex's

Gene never had the US Indie following those guys had. Europe was another matter.

i am all the cult gene needs! ivo turned me on to him in the 80's. thanks, ivo!

bought this today. listening now. so far so smooth. 1977. glyn johns produced.

http://img5.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/a0/7c/far_side_cafe/folder/1487945/img_1487945_47654944_2?1181883408

killer drum sound. tarfumes might want to pick it up.

oops.

http://www.rockandrollcollection.com/images/eagles/eagles_LP_1670.jpg

Interesting! I will check that out. I dug Leadon in the Burritos, and so far he's the best thing about the Eagles.

This isn't technically an Eagles song.

...

Dude, it's the Eagles singin' and playin' on it! Also, more Eagles (one) had a hand in writing it than in writing "Peaceful Easy Feeling" (zero).

It could only be more Eagles if the lyric was amended to "the train chugs out this mornin'"

o/t but <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamTAp1W4Mc

who is michael georgiades?

my favorite song on that gene album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXuuJ9aZswA

i think i would die for that album. like, if some country decided to go to war against No Other i think i would pick up a gun and fight until i couldn't fight anymore.

and hey remember links and not embeds if you can remember. thanks, the management (you do realize we will be here for months...)

practice link (fingers crossed this is right!)

http://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=oPghGSOrHFk

"Take The Devil"

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa377/asusundevils/Randy-Meisner-and-his-twins.jpg

http://youtu.be/9kJiXvoWQHI

the first Randy-written song! how exciting...

sorry for the sound. its really hard sometimes to find an eagles youtube with good sound. their fans aren't that picky i guess. sometimes there will be three crappy vids that all come from the same horrible MP3 or whatever.

anyway, he wrote this about Don I think.

i think we can safely say that this song begins and then it ends.

Train Leaves Here This Morning: Grateful Dead
Take the Devil: Bon Jovi

also, the YouTube for Train Leaves Here This Morning shows the album track listing and I was like, "Nightingale? I don't remember that. Did Scott skip one?" and went back to check and LOLOLOL

Wooo that song is bad but also I forgot how it even went the second it was over so it's kind of ultimately neutral I guess.

― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Saturday, August 24, 2013 7:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Using the drunk stepfather deep cuts metric, I can completely envision my stepfather five beers in smoking a joint and really, really enjoying Take the Devil.

This is some of the most convincing rocking I've heard the Eagles do, and it's still 3rd-rate Crazy Horse.

it's funny how much more accomplished "train leaves here this morning" sounds than its predecessor on the album. imagine listening to this record without seeing the writing credits.

"take the devil" is....fine.

i found it pretty boring and the singing was anguished.

btw let it be clear that the only eagles songs i have ever heard are the radio singles.

i found it pretty boring and the singing was anguished.

― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, August 26, 2013

lethal combo

This one's pretty good. It suits them to stay away from the upper registers, which is a problem for a band whose appeal is largely based on vocal harmonising. When whoever's singing here heads upwards, the effect is not good.

The drumming's good again, but everything needs to be a bit rougher. "...3rd-rate Crazy Horse" is otm, see the opening of Cowgirl for what you can really do with so few elements. Would love to hear Neil take this on actually, the basic song is pretty good but he'd do so much better with the solos.

The all-triplets outro is confusing me, because it's crap yet normally I really love triplets.

the trouble is Meisner's voice. He's got a dull guitarist's voice.

i think he sounds a lot better on some other songs but yeah not as good on this one

Cannot help but LOL @ how this reads on YouTube: "Take the Devil by The Eagles"

But yeah, this is dull as shit, like "Wanted Dead or Alive" crossed with "Turn the Page". The first song in our survey that I've actually disliked.

ooh take the devil is really dull

blink and you miss it kinda song. how many filler tracks have we had? 3? chug, nightingale, and this one.

the gene clark/dillard cover is the first one i think i would go back to (as far as stuff that was "new" to me and non-hit single)

its a great song. even eagles couldn't kill it with their steely knives.

when they recorded that glyn johns said ah! finally something i can work with!

he didn't really say that. but i'd like to think he said that.

wtf is that Gene Clark version of Train upthread...? that is different from the one on Fantastic Expedition of DIllard and Clark. Is it some No Other outtake (why would they have re-recorded that for that album?)

asks a member of the Gene Clark Cult Fanclub

xxxp

The aura of Neil is strong within this one. Another one of those bar band "Here's an original..." kind of numbers. You know what does this so much better? The first Crazy Horse solo album.

i love that crazy horse album. good stuff.

it's kinda sad danny whitten never got to really develop as a songwriter...some of those like "look at all the things" and assuming he wrote "c'mon baby let's go downtown", could have been really impressive stuff