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

The eagles didn't return to singles juggernaut status til "Best of My Love"

I once asked my dad for a list of songs he liked so I could make him a mix tape. (He was always complaining about how my mom retained custody of his kids and his records, not necessarily in that order.)

All I remember from that last was

BEST OF MY LOVE - The Eagles
BEST OF MY LOVE - The Emotions (not the same song!)

I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm trying to save up my valuable Eagles anecdotes, especially for when Don Felder enters the picture.

i'm the same way, if publix is offering it i eat it

― balls

man do you like their fried chicken? I love Publix fried chicken.

this thread is delivering so regularly re quality anecdotes & lols & things to think baout, I think I might actually make it through their entire discography

the only problem with staying for the entire discography is having to look at that cackling frey and, um, what do you even call that expression on henley's face, every time.. if only ILM had a way to switch out top-of-the-page photos every so often.

IT'S CALLED BOOKMARKING.

Sorry. Nothing against you FCC. But I don't have to see the OP every time, I don't have to worry about YouTubes, IT'S GREAT.

NO OFFENSE TAKEN, THANK YOU! i'm just lazy, that's all. but i will try to come to my senses.

THIS OLD THREAD STILL LOOKS THE SAME

I just assume everybody that was even marginally famous between 74 and maybe 87 has done coke

And Frey's explanation of Tequila Sunrise is some amazing real life Spinal Tap

bookmarking a good idea. i wanted to keep the embeds to a minimum in case anyone was crazy enough to open the whole thread and look at it. it would be possible if its just links and pictures.

Anyone crazy enough to open this thread ~period~ deserves what they get.

sometimes i'm afraid ilx will explode someday cuzzs that facebook thread i started:

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"cuzza"

which isn't actually a word.

You definitely tapped into some collective hate with that thread.

"Desperado"

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0812/eagles_desperado_g_mp_576.jpg

http://youtu.be/iDNtqy0zjJA

every youtube clip of this song i listened to sounds terrible. including this one. so, sorry for the sound quality. even the ones labeled HD and REMASTERED. most of them seem to come from the same source? do people just copy other people's youtubes to make their own? i guess they do.

nice linda ronstadt live version from 1977.

http://youtu.be/oAK5Ids7l5g

i still think that langley schools music project version might be my favorite though. so poignant.

langley schools version is kinda the justification for the eagles

don't like the johnny cash cov tho', doesn't seem like the right song for him at all

This is flawless of course. Why on earth did they not release it as a single though? Was that a trend at the time, holding the best thing back for the album, like Gimme Shelter or Stairway to Heaven?

yeah, this is on another level from the rest of the album. Lyric in the second bridge is one of Henley and Frey's finest: pure prairie depression.

langley schools version definitely my fave also

http://www.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-07-at-11.15.11-AM.png

warren zevon, who ran in the same circles as the eagles and who was equally capable of parodying them and paying them homage, wrote and recorded two songs with desperado in the title: "desperadoes under the eaves" and "gorilla, you're a desperado." it's pretty clear, i think, that both titles are directed at henley, frey and company, though the two songs are very different. but i never noticed until today how much "desperado" itself sounds like a zevon song, musically, lyrically, delivery, everything. zevon was a detail guy and may have felt moved to make the lyrics a bit more place-specific or person-specific, but otherwise, if you told me wrote this, i'd believe you. a great song.

Sending this one out to VG. Not a loser was lonesome in this place!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47FDEfT9DY

"Frank and Jesse James" off Zevon's first LP also seems like an outtake from Desperado.

henley sings on 'gorilla you're a desperado' right?

I recall the Grace Lichtenstein re: "Desperado" in "Stranded" is pretty good.

Ooo I have a childhood anecdote about this one: my father dragged me along with him to visit one of his sundry girlfriends and after getting me set up with some crayons and coloring books in the kitchen, they adjourned to the living room where the girlfriend put on Desperado and said to my father, "This song reminds me of you." I have a very distinct memory of rolling my eyes.

Anyway, I like this one, too, but definitely not for the same reason.

I live the bit about how over time the desperado will become bleached of all feeling, less human.

Love the bit*

Maybe I'm livin it too

henley sings on 'gorilla you're a desperado' right?

henley, j.d. souther and jackson browne. browne sings on "desperadoes under the eaves" too.

Girlfriend was right about that part, at least. xp

Freedom as loss of self/progressive neurasthenia

lol carl

One of my two fave Eagles tracks (it'll be a while before we're at the other one). Corny as hell, but effectively and rather nakedly so; it'll be a long while before its bleached of all feeling for me.

if ever there was an eagles song destined to be sung at talent shows and karaoke night or just about anywhere its this one. its great if you can hit high notes like linda ronstadt but you can be a pretty limited singer range-wise and still pull it off. just make a sad face and look like you're gonna cry. you can sing it softly. or you can go big.

Desperados Under the Eaves is beyond great. Desperado... not quite there.

Starting to feel like I'm the only one here whose appreciation of the Eagles works its way backward from The Long Run.

The cowboy shit annoys the hell out of me. These guys weren't exactly Marty Robbins.

No I'm with you on that. The % if tracks I like per album goes up with the more rockin aor albums.

But the cowboy shit has its moments!

Would've loved to have seen an exiled Bernie Leadon listening to "Hotel California" for the first time and going, "But where are the banjos?"

The cowboy shit annoys the hell out of me. These guys weren't exactly Marty Robbins.

Or Bing Crosby for that matter. Faux cowboy stuff is fine by me btw.

Such a fine line. It's why Uncle Tupelo could pull it off and Whiskeytown couldn't. It's much easier for me to picture Kid Rock as a cowboy than Don effin' Henley.

I didn't think I hated this song, but after listening to it again, yeah, I do. It's the moment when the Eagles finally realize they will never, ever be the Band, so hey, let's dress up like them!
http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/band_mfbp_back.jpg

The song seems to be about this realization: they've resigned themselves to their fate as slick L.A. studio flumpfers, and their strengths were in writing shitty faux-soundtrack music for slick, painless cowboy movies that they imagined themselves starring in.

and they got haircuts!

Tarfumes on the mark. May have been bigger egos in The Band too, but they pulled it off.

Just closed my eyes and did a search for Don Henley Robbie Robertson, and hey look, it's a Scorsese soundtrack.

soooo many groups wanted to be The Band! (in the BBC documentary based on the Hoskyns bk, David Crosby makes a point of saying how terrifying it was to have The Band watching em from the side of the stage during their second ever gig (at Woodstock))

http://www.bb-ochiai.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/sholo.jpg

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/longbranchpennywhistlecover.jpg

guess don didn't want to cowboy up for the shiloh cover shot.