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

Ned Doheny admitted in HC that Geffen was checking him out.

"a true power ballad is ballady enough to get you out on the dancefloor for a slow dance with a girl at a junior high dance but then rocks hard enough at a certain point to make going through the motions of slow dancing seem really awkward"

journey and reo rule this land.

and that scorpions song.

stiiiiiiiiiiiiiilll loving youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?

Cuz you know it's youuuuu baaaabe
Whenever I get weary and I've haaaad enough

linda ronstadt was amazing. i love her voice. would listen to 2 disc capitol thing.

still loving you is so great. would have loved to hear linda ronstadt sing it.

it's a badass power ballad for sure

UNLIKE DESPERADO

i forgot about that doheny song title "i get it up for love". says it all.

totally. scorps kick ass on that song and still melt hearts.

I'm pretty sure we played "Desperado" as a slow dance at my school.

Eagles were big up there. It was even our mascot.

Ned Doheny s/t is terrific, haven't heard Hard Candy yet.

You all nailed it - Camaro blarability is the key measure of power balladry.

speaking of eagles friends always loved windmills by rick roberts. henley on drums/backing vox:

http://youtu.be/lRElZswFQMo

also good:

http://youtu.be/YrKU00PaMPU

Is it just me, or does the string section hold onto certain notes on the outro way past their sell-by date?

well there's one moment -- the second to last chord of the song -- where the strings are doing a graceful ritard while the piano impatiently anticipates the chord, so if anything it's not the strings holding on for too long but the piano letting go too soon. but it's a cool effect!

in 2005, when I still received everything Rhino put out, they sent me the box of all the Eagles records. So I became familiar with 'em in a way that I never would have if I had to spend money on 'em, etc etc (that's hardly anyone's concern now)…

The Long Run is far away my favorite, and I expect to contribute to this hugely entertaining thread as soon as it gets to records I like/ have something to say about.

But in light of where the thread is now, may I refer you all to the first ILM thread I ever started. To me in 2006, "desperado" is like a Ray Charles song. so was "new York State of Mind."

TS: "Desperado" vs. "New York State of Mind"

My god Hell Freezes Over rode the top ten in '94-'95 for six months.

"Certain Kind Of Fool"

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

http://youtu.be/JPsB__7MemQ

IT'S RANDY'S TIME TO SHINE!

playing this on the front porch just now i suddenly got embarrassed and turned it down in case anyone walked by...

oh god i think my neighbor heard me i didn't see them there in front of their house...

"turn up the eagles the neighbours are listening"!!

BONUS 1980 SOLO RANDY VIDEO!!!!

http://youtu.be/k3jFaDmC1t0

This so strange, it's like an amalgam of all the artists The Eagles would've been aspiring to - the intro is pure Joni, it goes sort of uninspired Neil in the chorus, there're CS&N and power leads in there - and yet it doesn't sound like The Eagles at all.

It's pretty terrible in truth. More boilerplate r'n'r. The solo is very good and I like the oo-oos; the dual guitar at the end not so much; the bass is okay; the drum roll at the end is plain weird. What the hell is the story? Some kind of lame moralising, why are they glamorising outlaws then moving onto this.

The vocal is a bit horrible but at least it's got a tense kind of urgency to it. How's that, is it all fifths? Reminds me of the pleading in the Beatles' Dr Robert, though that was for effect, rather than the adolescent whine that this basically is.

i dare you to remember what it sounds like five minutes after you play it.

"They say that he was craaaazy,
The kind that no lady should meet
He ran out to the ciiiity
and wandered around in the street "

this is pretty dire. I guess it's sorta clever that the second verse could be about a guy buying/practicing a guitar as much as it's (apparently) him becoming a gunslinger, in keeping with the "rock stars are the new outlaws" crackpot theme of the LP. Otherwise, ugh. I thought Meisner was a better singer than this.

agree there's a Neil Young feel to the chorus, but like eighth-generation Neil Young.

I disagree, I think it's quite memorable because of the vocal. But still rubbish though. Crappy lyrics too - "he was a poor boy, raised in a small family" - not going for the telling detail at all there.

i like the chord progression. everything else could use some work. still better than at least half of the first lp.

haha the vocals sound weird...like in a different key?

some of the verse reminds me of if Styx was country rock

its really clunky. kind of ahead of its time though for 1973. by 1978 there would be a zillion AOR bands writing songs like this.

guys like this. they took inspiration from randy.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20120622/290732554815.jpg

fyi: that EP by The Deal sells for a ton if you ever see it. 200 dollar record.

why?

Sounds really familiar. Like did Cher do a cover of this?

the intro sounds REALLY familiar. like its a song i should know. another song.

The vocals remind me a little of Chris Bell on "I Am The Cosmos": he's at the top of his range (but not really, as we'd see in "Take It To The Limit"), and straining just a little. It works with Bell, not as much with Meisner.

Verse reminds me of the Motels' "Only the Lonely" ("They say that he was craaaazyy"/"It's like I toooolllld you")

Sounds kinda unfinished, like Meisner was pushing the guys to do a drawn-out ending and Henley was like, "Nope, you're done."

"why?"

beats me. i sell a lot of stuff like that to italy for some reason. private press/tiny label AOR stuff in general always good to sell. 70's and early 80's.

huh...that's so weird...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9nq6Dml4PA

^this band later featured a super young Dave Ellefson from Megadeth

The Litterer Band were a big AOR band in nothern Iowa in the late 70s and early to mid 80s...though they sorta retooled as a hair metal band like a lot of those bands did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgDNtXNUXg

the intro sounds REALLY familiar. like its a song i should know. another song

Carey by Joni Mitchell?

amazing that afterwards one song stays here and the other goes there

it's a no embeds thred m@tt

oops if anyone is a mod they can take it out

oh before i forget we need a group vote. coming up is a 48 second instrumental on the Desperado album and i need to know whether i should pair it with the next actual song or do we just talk about a 48 second instrumental tomorrow. i'll leave it up to you guys.

48-second instrumental please

Listening to this and Joni back-to-back has sledgehammered home The Eagles' fundamental averageness, I need as much of a break as thread concept can give me.

Friday would be the perfect day for me to enjoy a 48-second Eagles song.

I'm on board with reprises getting their own days in the sun too.

another vote for the miniature instrumental (& the reprise)

I'm down with 48 seconds

Ditto

A Certain Kind of Fool is almost good. I like the plaintive, strained singing on the verses. But not quite. This is miles above Frey filler though.