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

Henley's drumming is surprisingly lively. But this is basically a 2nd-rate "Fool for the City" or "Rock & Roll Band" (the Boston song).

Sounds like a tape of my college-era band rehearsing - we could never all agree when to end the song and everyone wanted to get in the last lick.

I was kinda liking this album until this song....

Glenn Frey takes another dump midway through the 1st side of an Eagles record.

― col, Monday, September 2, 2013 9:37 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beautifully put.

the first two songs on this record might actually get you thinking that there's a whole record of reasonably enjoyable music ahead of you, and then this song is like no way man you're still just listening to the eagles.

chug or go home!

down here we all chug

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Xpost lol

You'll chug too

reminds me a little of Slade.

Scott otm. "Out Ov Controll" anyone? It stands to reason the Eagles would soak up some Glam influence recording in London in '72-3. Of course Slade Did This Stuff Better.

Don't hate this. At worst, I'm as indifferent to it as I've been to all of the non-singles we've covered so far 'cept "Doolin Dalton" (which I like!) and "Take the Devil" (which sucks).

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with a better voice and a better hook, "out of control" could be a mid-'70s wings album cut.

but not better playing

with a better voice and a better hook, "out of control" could be a mid-'70s wings album cut.

Youch.

Spotify: "You listened to the Eagles this week. Want to try Dr. Hook?"

I got that recommendation yesterday too, though with no mention of the Eagles

Next: daily track-by-track Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show oeuvre walkthrough and discussion

i bought this record for 3 bucks yesterday and pretty much everything on it is better than everything we have listened to so far. and the don nix production seriously gives glyn a run for his money. sounds amazing.

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also got a pristine u.k. pressing of journeys from gospel oak by ian matthews for 3 bucks (so sad that his records sell for nothing these days) and god that album is beautiful and what a sound! also mostly better than what we've heard. everyone should hear that album. and its even more applicable to eagles. same time period. gene clark song. etc.

there's a Fairport & related ballot poll coming up! Matthews alone has made about 30 albums

yeah, you don't need all 30. the first 10 will do.

actually you only need nine of them. the 3 southern comfort albums, the plainsong album, and the solo albums up to and including Some Days You Eat The Bear. some days you eat the bear has tom waits, gene clark, and steely dan covers.

I've had all of those on my emusic save list for like 6 years now. When will I finally buy them arrrgh.

xp I only have one of each. I like Fairport's cover of "Tried So Hard" better than Gene's though so must check out Eat The Bear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyx8koGcaUE

valley hi album has a kinda eagles-centric track-listing:

Keep On Sailing" (Ian Matthews) - 4:42
"Old Man at the Mill" (Traditional) - 2:30
"Shady Lies" (Richard Thompson) - 3:54
"These Days" (Jackson Browne) - 4:23
"Leaving Alone" (Ian Matthews) - 3:34
"Seven Bridges Road" (Steve Young) - 4:05
"Save Your Sorrows" (Ian Matthews) - 2:22
"What Are You Waiting For" (Randy Newman) - 4:18
"Propinquity" (Michael Nesmith) - 2:51
"Blue Blue Day" (Don Gibson) - 3:15

and i didn't even know that the eagles covered seven bridges road until 2 second ago! ha, so even more eagles-centric than i thought.

I think the Eagles picked 7BR up from Matthews.

Wow this song is a turd

my local classic rock station plays the Eagles 7BR all the time, def one of my fav tracks by them.

Am I the first person to ever use the phrase "a poor man's Chug All Night"?

yes, it is almost certain that you are

I think Don Henley dropped that zing a time or two.

"Tequila Sunrise"

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http://youtu.be/ws-YqUcD0LY

short and sweet. i really do miss songs that are under 3 minutes long.

Just caught up with a ~rockin 4fer~. I'm down with everything on this lp so far except for the abominable OOC. TS is just lovely and it's a good thing it comes right after OOC to salve some of the Frey hate brought on by the latter.

This is lovely, the steel guitar and harmonies are the standout sounds for me, with the sigh in the coda the best thing of all. All guitars sound exquisite as usual. I don't like the percussion so much though; the hi-hat is as silly and overload as anything I'd play myself, and whatever the most prominent drum noise is (woodblock?), I could live without that.

It slips over like warm honey though, not really my thing. I daresay it's a wonderful oasis in context though, going by Out Of Control anyway, but it doesn't move me.

in my mind "Tequila Sunrise" is far more oppressive than the song actually is. Well-played (Leadon as usual is tops, but Henley's also really solid here), mercifully concise, with probably Frey's most humane vocal. It's enough to forgive a quasi-cowboy song inspired by a popular LA drink and all of the myriad dreadful bar-band covers of it (& Eagles performances) in the four decades since its release.

Chug is absolutely > OOC. At least if you stripped out the vocal on chug you'd have a decent track.

i dig tequila sunrise

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^^ love this movie

movie and song are p good imo

This song still puts me to sleep.

Tequila Sunrise makes me think of that thing Travolta said on Inside The Actors Studio, about researching heroin when he played Vincent Vega; ie an addict told him to recreate the feeling of a heroin high without shooting heroin drink a bottle of tequila and go lie down in a hot bath.

this song sounds like a bottle of tequila in a hot bath

Hmm, I'm thinking the bathwater is lukewarm, bit of a soapfilm on the surface.

I mean, it's not exactly "Deep Blue Day".

So... nauseating? xp

I like this song fine. It evokes a sad wistfulness that may come from the song or may come from how I felt once long ago when I heard the song, but it's pretty, especially the steel guitar.

I think this is the Eagles album that really captured my stepfather's devotion since he is a sucker for US Wild West mythology, so it's nice to listen to the tracks from that perspective.

Nice 12-string on the bridge. Lyric about a lonely guy drinking said spirit, hanging at a bar at night whilst working a dull day job, having a woman hit on him, still getting nowhere, watching the sun come up, bringing another day just like the last one.

Kinda like this one more than I realized.

Surprisingly good Frey vocal. I like this track ... it's soporific but that fits the lyrical content.

By this point in the album, any hope of continuity for the Doolin-Dalton storyline is already gone (I envision my 12-year-old self getting bored, reading a comic book).

I watched most of that Eagles doc last night. The first half hour has some hilarious Spinal Tap moments, including Frey's attempt to explain the Old West armed robbery = playing in a soft rock band concept. No one comes across as pleasant or interesting, except maybe Leadon. I should have bailed on it earlier than I did.

Woke up with horrible Eagles earworms, why am I doing this to myself?

tequila sunrise is way better than i remembered