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

lol is crockett cruising that dj twink?

o wait that's a different one up there. ILM BEHOLD YR NEW GOD: http://youtu.be/XqFy3y0GW58

vinyl!!

OMG GUYS - http://youtu.be/0HByh60JAlc

i want an hour and a half of this

PAL

Don Johnson returned the favor by asking the Eagles to play on Heartbeat.

heartbeat video plays pretty great is you view it as a short musical film filling us in on gus fring's mysterious past

also hilarious: when crockett hits those high notes and when crockett just drops some kid he's saving over a wall

When I was a kid, I had a monster truck video that had a bunch of 'music videos' set to footage of monster truck and related stuff (motorcross, tractor pulls, demolition derbies etc.). Among the tracks were "Manic Mechanic" by ZZ Top, "Slippin' and Slidin'" by Willy & The Poorboys (Honeydrippers knock-off w/Paul Rodgers) & "Better In The USA" by Mr. Frey. Sadly, none of it is on youtube.

haha, i remember those weird fake music videos nearly every entity would come up w/ - disney had them (i think the disney channel even had a show called 'disney rocks' or whatever that was just old donald duck shorts chopped up and vaguely matched up to various motown songs. the nba would put out videos of just highlights that we'd just watch over and over w/ similar half assed 'music videos', watched this one the other night - http://youtu.be/ospDD4fXeYE. somehow have ZERO memories of those pepsi ads or of 'better in the usa' period.

jesus man we're always on the same wavelength. I associate "Private Eyes," "Every Breath You Take," and "Mickey" with those Disney montages.

I'd rather listen to "The Warrior" than most anything by the Eagles. Ditto for the Pepsi jingle.

Xpost In his singles book, Dave Marsh claimed the Disney vid for "Uptight" to be one of the best and most effective videos he'd seen. It starred Donald Duck.

i used to HATE those disney music videos so much, i can remember we had this 'music class' in fifth grade and the teacher would get sick of hearing us play frere jacques w/ our recorders or whatever and be like 'alright kids yall want to watch some music videos' and i'd be like 'GOD YES' and then it'd be some disney rocks garbage and i'd be like 'the fuck is this, put on some ratt'. i think for like the first two years 30% of the videos they'd show on vh1 were like stock footage montage videos for old ccr and young rascals and turtles hits. it outraged me then (maybe my earliest budding of corny indie fuxxor, coinciding w/ the onset of puberty), now i find it hilarious and charming and seek out crap like this on youtube - http://youtu.be/Kc-ixsyq9mk .

xpost lol -

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One of the greatest music videos I've ever seen was a Disney cartoon featuring Donald Duck in a jealous rage because Daisy was being wooed by some mallard Lothario. Set to "Uptight," the video winds up with Donald in a total spitting frenzy as Daisy and her new beau enter a tunnel of love. What makes it so exciting isn't Donald's lunacy but the wildness of Stevie's music, the pure surge of magical Motown mechanics: cutting guitar, rolling bass, and thundering drums augmented by braying brass. Stevie, all of fifteen years old, sputters almost as incoherently as Donald. It took me about fifteen years to figure out that he was singing "Got empty pockets, you see, I'm a poor man's son," because he sings the whole line as if it was one word. And he pushes that hard for almost the whole song; there are other lines here that will never be translated, because he might as well be speaking in tongues that only he and that adrenalin addict playing drums could ever hope to comprehend.
On the other hand, some things require no translation. Like that nasty little Donald-like laugh--"Ah ha ha, hah"----Stevie cuts loose at the end. It perfectly prefigures Johnny Rotten at the beginning of "Anarchy in the U.K."
Stevie does want some things to be understood, so he slows down just enough to let his motto slide home: "She says no one is better than I / And I know, I'm just an average guy." Like hell.

http://youtu.be/GPYaunB79dA

That actually is good. Especially like the synching of the music and the exploding phone booth.

Also: lol "Production Manager David Fudge"

hahahaha amazing essay

i think for like the first two years 30% of the videos they'd show on vh1 were like stock footage montage videos for old ccr and young rascals and turtles hits

Don't forget the "new videos" for old songs w/actors, models, and a vague storyline. Behold this Mad Max meets Brazil meets Michelob ad clip for "Wishing Well" by Free (which--and scott will back me up on this--owns over any track in this threads official listening rotation):

http://youtu.be/eKy_puDDnRk

YES!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/ozeagle/Solo%20Years/RockHard.jpg

Frey: "Hard Rock in the 70s, Rock Hard in the 80s"

wow that Free song doesn't sound like it's from 1972....sounds kinda 80s, esp. the riff with the insistent keyboard....

Nothing about that Pepsi ad seemed familiar, but as soon as that DJ dropped that can of Pepsi onto the turntable, it all came back with a vengeance.

Also remember Donald Duck videos to "Do You Love Me" and "Expressway to Your Heart". Good times, thanks for the memories, Glenn, Don and Donald.

crazy to think that some weird 'new video' for an old free track (not even an ACTIVE band at the time! it's not like aerosmith making a 'sweet emotion' vid to promote a box set and serve as a stopgap promotion of the brand) had a much larger budget than say the video for 'blurred lines'. sheena easton looking babe is kinda smoking.

gotta get me a dump truck woman

yeah that free thing is nuts. were they really that hard up for videos?

It might have been a cash-in on The Firm gravytrain...

"Dad, tell us about the 80s!"

"Glenn Frey shilled for Pepsi, and there was a Firm gravytrain."

"Were there Osmonds?"

"Some."

"Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental)"

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http://youtu.be/3BQkz0qxo1k

This is great, I like the way the bassline shifts around. Nice use of stereo too, keeping the backing on the two channels entirely separate. Otherwise it might be entirely standard for banjo music for all I know - the only other track I know is Foggy Mountain Breakdown and it's quite like this - but it's fast, moves around a lot, tonally, and I like it. So much more alive than yesterday's rubbish.

Whatever happened to the reprise? you can still find 'em on hip-hop records, but they ain't around like they used to be.

nice little track

by my calculations 48 seconds of an eagles concert is worth about a buck fifty.

Nice. Wish there was a little more, but as we will see tomorrow, they had to get back to rocking.

"Outlaw Man"

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http://youtu.be/_y3tFxtze98

i like the david blue original of this a lot more. and i really like the david blue album that its on.

http://youtu.be/yI8lfbx2FKc

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Amazing, this is pure Neil Young to me, even more than the other Neil Young one. It's neater and slicker but there's much less character in the vocals. Again the guitars sound great, but I'd rather be hearing Neil play. And a Neil lyric too, not this outlaw theme.

Can you key me in on the outlaw thing actually? I mean we like a bad boy too, but a big part of it is that they supposedly only hurt their own. Not the case for the guys I've been reading about thanks to this album.

Very weird they chose this one as a single over "Desperado," esp. as "Tequila Sunrise" had pretty much stiffed. & hearing this in sequence, you're really starting to reach the limits of the concept: okay, guys, you're outlaws, jesus, enough.

doesn't hold up well when A/B to the original: the way Frey spits out "man" in the chorus doesn't work for me. Some odd Glyn Johns choices, too: why are the cymbals mixed so loud? first E's track in a while I recall have so much keyboard on.

last line in English: first Eagles track in a while to have so much keyboard on it, if i recall

to be fair, i had a REALLY hard time finding a decent youtube audio track. there were a bunch and almost all of them seemed to come from the same bad digital source. very hissy and tinny. so, you'd have to check a better quality rip or the cd or vinyl for what it actually sounds like.

Eagles are rock and roll posers. Yeah I said it. This is the real thing. This is the original artist. Yeah I said it. Pay your hundred dollar plus tickets so you can brag about seeing the Eagales

Some odd Glyn Johns choices, too: why are the cymbals mixed so loud?

Yeah, that's definitely not Glyn's style at all. Might've been Henley's choice, given that the main reason for splitting from Glyn was so Henley could have more control over the drum mix.

Glenn Frey is in the backup vocal mix on the David Blue version too (i think - he's credited with backup vocals on the album, but it's not broken down song by song). Produced by Graham Nash btw.

I was away for the last two days; "Doolin-Dalton Instrumental" - they really should've put a banjo reprise on all their albums, like a 48-second frenzied banjo version of Hotel California. "Certain Kind of Fool" - the Eagles should have replaced Meisner with a dog, too.

Since we started this record I have constantly had a weird eagles-petty conflation going through my head

They were doolin
Doolin dalton
Down in Dixie
On a Sunday mornin'

I think that's just Nash doing the harmonies on the David Blue version.

Anyway the Eagles: I see they changed the lyrics to make it more cowboy (dropping "'56 Chevrolet" for "Santa Fe") and the Johns production is certainly more full-bodied. Frey gives a fine 'in character' vocal. Blue is more casual, with a stoner cool fitting the timeline of his lyrics, whereas Frey comes off like a gunfighter living off more a perceived reputation than any real accomplishments.

My parents have this weird Warner Bros. 2 lp set called Heavy Metal from '74. Supposedly a review of their hard rock/metal roster of the time (which is served by including "Iron Man", "Smoke On The Water" and the censored "Kick Out The Jams"), it also features less rockin' stuff from rockin' bands ("D'yer Maker", "Cindy Incidentally") and popular hits of the day ("Ride Captain Ride", "Right Place, Wrong Time") and what would become rarities (a Bolin-era James Gang track, the extended 'Stephen Stills Sex Sounds' version of "Bluebird"). The Eagles are represented by "Outlaw Man", which is sandwiched between "Domino" and "Starship Trooper".

Here's the discogs page for that album.

Fun Fact: "Outlaw Man" is the only single from the band's heyday that never made it to any of their comps, which means David Blue (or whomever it is that controls his publishing) has never benefited from as much royalty-wise as he could have.

david blue died pretty young.

and to tie everything here together neatly, one of the last things he did before he died was appear in human highway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Humanhighwaystill06.jpg

Human Freyway

"Saturday Night"

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http://youtu.be/PC2YG2WSrtE