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

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

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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

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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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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

kind of a weird one, structurally. it's basically six verses (including the instrumental break, which is played over a single verse) interrupted by two unrelated bridges.

lyrically, i'm thrown by the pronoun switch from "he" to "i."

that second bridge ("take another shot of courage") is a dead ringer for neil young: the changes, melody, the vocal, everything.

"Tequila Sunrise" is probably on the better side of their ubiquitous radio songs. Has a nice morning-after feel, reinforced in context appearing after "OoC", which ironically promised a rougher ride on the 'morrow. The Latin guitar in break forecasts the feel of "New Kid In Town" (which I prefer to this one). Perhaps best of all--as already pointed out by Scott--is the length. Even though there was nothing clocking in over 5 minutes on the first album, alot of the songs wore out their welcome with another minute or so to go. Figuring in the later epics the Eagles later uncorked, something with this much brevity is refreshing indeed.

frey, in general, seems like the weak link in the chain but would there have been an eagles without him? he just seems like such an unlikely rock star. like in an alternate universe he runs a shabby nightclub and does too much coke and hits on the waitresses every day until they quit. and he loses all his money and has to close his club and gets work from the local mob running numbers and he lives and dies alone. massive coronary. on the toilet. scratch tickets and beer cans littering the bathroom floor. seems so much more likely than the rock & roll hall of fame. inducted by jimmy buffett at that. wait, how is jimmy buffett a multi-millionaire again? okay, i better stop...

but i think frey's voice works really really well on this particular song. and the way the full-band harmonies rise up and wrap around his lead, almost as if to protect it, is kind of perfect.

he does sound good on this! and i think he was a leader in the band. obviously. he was one of the last men standing. so, he definitely had a big role in the direction the band went in. they obviously didn't immerse themselves in extended banjo breakdowns. and as i noted long long ago on this thread, the frey and henley bands pre-eagles sounded amazingly like the eagles. as early as 1969. dudes had a vision. just such unlikely visionaries for some reason.

Frey also has some kind of will-to-power ambition streak going... Weakest musician and singer and obnoxious to be around, but critical in the day-to-day hustle of the 70s music biz.

definitely

did they have a scary manager or strongman? how do you do that much coke and also be aware of the day to day music biz hustle? i guess i gotta give these guys credit for stamina.

i will watch that doc when i get a chance. maybe it'll show up on netflix.

i always figured the really smart people were the ones who didn't do tons of drugs. and made good money.

although i guess they were so huge maybe it didn't really matter what they did. worked for fleetwood mac.

sad to read that linda ronstadt had to write that memoir because she needs the money. she made all her money touring. since her biggest hits weren't her songs.

their manager was Azoff, between him and Frey it's like Godzilla + Mechagodzilla. And then add some sporadic Geffen into the mix and you know for a fact that no-one will ever find out where the bodies are buried

(xp) they had an extremely scary manager/strongman!

and, it appears, "obnoxious to be around" was a crucial skill for surviving in this band. their manager/strongman had a bit of a surplus in that area.