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

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

yeah, No Other outtake Shakey xxp. makes a good end for that rec too

Gypsies, tramps and thieves - oh wait...

Jesus, i put on a Poco album when i got home and it was like listening to Gentle Giant or Yes after all this Eagles music. The dizzying complexities of Poco! for real, it was like night and day.

This is sooooo Prog compared to the Eagles:

http://youtu.be/dbHDvTgkxpo

i love that album. i really love poco. even if they turn future members of the eagles into dogs.

poco is like flying, i love listening to them & being caught up in the airiness

i've championed poco every chance i get on ilm. Just about everything they did in their first decade is grate, and remains underappreciated by fans and critics alike.

What kind of animal did they replace Timothy B. Schmidt with?

http://cdn.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hipster-llama-l.jpg

lol

haha

Look at us, baby. up all night.
Tearin' our llama part.

http://www.poconut.org/resources/photos/large/bart_1354376323.jpg

this don felder interview is like if al gore had become a rock star.

http://youtu.be/L86z-BUBp4A

i forgot about the whole felder/leadon/stills/petty thing in florida. don gave tom petty guitar lessons. i read all that in the tom petty interview book and forgot all about it. felder and stills were in a band. leadon replaced stills in the band. here's a boring 60's garage rock song by felder and leadon:

http://youtu.be/U2v2xWHKqsk

Here's some less boring '60s garage songs by the Mushrooms from Deee-troit, featuring Glenn Frey (and songwriting by Bob Seger):

http://youtu.be/rTweniDDDTY

http://youtu.be/sejypeDSfv8

I wonder why the latter track wasn't on Friday At The Hideout?

"Earlybird"

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/whitcap/BLeadonBorderShoot-1.jpg

http://youtu.be/VLItXksv4WU

fun with the birds and the banjo and all, but more filler if you ask me.

The intro is kind of startling after where we've been, and tbf is very nice. The tune is by-numbers though, and the harmonies I'm now sick of. But it's short, and length is important.

A bunch of rich dudes talking down my life as a corporate drone though, that's pretty nice. I never get tired of that. It does make me wonder where I've gone wrong liking my life; would it really be better if I did kick off to a life of pure leisure? Not sure it would, I'd get bored. Identifying that life with the eagle is a bit egotistical though, I don't like that.

are eagles early birds?

"someone get REALLY drunk and listen to chug all night and tell us how it sounds. for science. i ain't doing it."

challenge accepted!

A bunch of rich dudes talking down my life as a corporate drone though

Were they technically rich dudes at this point? I wonder when they actually got rich.

wow, that wasn't very good.

funny, cause fuck the haters, the eagles are freakin awesome if you ask me. and drunk me was totally feelin "most of us are sad." but, really, it sounded way more generic and/or derivative than i would have expected

wait, we aren't allowed to talk about songs that arent the daily eagles song? sorry, i'm drunk.

nightingale: ok, if i saw them live performing their new album right after this album came out, i'd probably think "oh and then there was this one song in the middle of the set that was like, not bad, except all of a sudden it had this kinda cool breakdown with those wicked 3 part harmonies and stuff. man, that band rocked!"

I like this one! Like being relative in that I will probably never seek this song out to listen to, but I enjoyed it. It gave me a nice road trip on a sunny day with the windows open and a gentle buzz kind of feeling. And come to think of it, the time in my life when I would get high and take road trips is the time in my life when I would listen to these lyrics and think, "Yeah, man, I'm not going to be scratching just to get through. I'm going to be reading books and playing crazy music just for fun!" *slaps travel-sized jimbe* So points for nostalgia and banjo, points off for dumb lyrics and mentioning the band's name in such a clumsy context.

take the devil:

ok, it's filler. but as far as filler goes, it's pretty decent filler. none of these have made me want to jump out of my armchair and yank the needle out of the groove and put on something else yet.

train leaves here:

and if they keep throwing out deep cuts like this, i'll continue to sit through decent filler in between the awesome

earlybird: i can really hear the peyote influence on this one.

earlybird is another killer intro followed by a disappointing song

^ this is the key thing to take away from this album, other than the big hits

I think I dig early bird. This goes in the first album keepers pile. Lyrics are lol and sorta remind me of the mr show bit about 'stayin' in bed all day/like an eagle hunting preyyyyy'

It has a thesis at least. Eagles seem to be at their best when there's some palpable thesis in the song.

Wait, when did we start playing Three Dog Night tunes on here?

hmmm, three dog night a good candidate for a thread like this...

another huge band that sold a zillion records and everyone knows "one", "joy to the world", and a few others but meanwhile there is like 7 or 8 albums worth of stuff that people don't know so well.

ha, well let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Can't put my finger on it, but there's something very "LIAR" about that last one.

Three Dog Night earned 13 gold albums and recorded 21 consecutive Billboard Top 40 hits, seven of which went gold

!!!

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DON HENLEY WAS A BULLFROG

it all comes back to Hoyt Axton, the true Rasputin of Hollywood.

I liked this! Good groove, the opening is sample-worthy.

Ha! When I put this on in my early-morning haze my first thought, I kid you not, was 'Little Fluffy Clouds'