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

This one's also got that famous last chorus truck driver gear change. Whereas its usual for a key change of a semitone or a tone, this one leaps by something like a fourth.

http://www.gearchange.org/descriptions/The%20Eagles%20-%20Already%20Gone.html

i can't believe that's a website!! kudos!

Hahaha

Wolff, Jonathan Seinfeld Theme

I know that website's been referenced here before, but if you try searching for "trucker" and "Gear", all you get is references to a certain other old thread.

fuck washing a trucker

I was always amused at how Queen would make such a big deal about putting "no computers/synthesizers used" on their albums and then open up The Game with the most over the top Oberheim synth ever on "Play The Game." Of course Frey sings this, he's annoyed at not rocking out. Cal Jam live clip is great.

Pleased that gearchange.org exists!

Aside: the past two times I've gone to the grocery store, I've heard the Eagles on the background music ("Take It Easy" and "Heartache Tonight")

that key change is indeed a fourth -- from G to C -- which isn't all that weird really. the slightly weird, and kinda cool, thing is that they modulate a fourth while sitting on the fourth of the original key, which basically means they modulate by not changing the chord at all. the IV of the original key becomes the I of the new key. that's a common old-school classical technique, as opposed to the abrupt let's-just-switch-keys-here-for-the-hell-of-it technique that's more common in the truckdriving gear-changing school of pop.

I was always amused at how Queen would make such a big deal about putting "no computers/synthesizers used" on their albums

I think that was because their vocal pitch accuracy was thought by some to be the work of synthesizers. It was more to set the record straight rather than to take a stance against synths.

So when they finally used an Oberheim on "The Game", they had to formally announce it in the liners

ALREADY GONE
GLENN: I got a tape of the song from Jack Tempchin in my mailbox at 1740 La Fontaine Ct., the house in Coldwater Canyon where I lived for 16 years. James Cagney’s brother, Ed, had once owned the house, and it still holds a lot of memories for me. James Cagney, in his later years, sometimes used the house as a hideaway and went there to play the piano and relax. In earlier years, the Cagneys held great parties in that bungalow. A lot of music happened there.

“Already Gone,” though, arrived in the mail. Jack was a songwriter we liked who was from San Diego, and he’d already written “Peaceful Easy Feeling.” “Already Gone” was one of the first songs we’d later do when we switched producers and started recording in Los Angeles. I had a very strained relationship with Glyn Johns. I think he got along better with all the other guys in the band. He was so intimidating, I was always afraid to be forthright and tell him what I thought. He was a taskmaster, and that was probably good for a young band, but the great thing for me about this song and record is that I left England behind and had a much more positive energy in the recording studio. The “all right, nighty-night” at the end of the song was sort of typical of the spontaneous feeling we wanted on our records. It was at this time that we changed producers and started working with Bill Szymczyk. I was much more comfortable in the studio with Bill, and he was more than willing to let everyone stretch a bit. “Already Gone” — that’s me being happier; that’s me being free.

From the Crowe Very Best of... interview. I don't think I ever noticed that "all right..." bit 'til it was pointed out here.

http://i.imgur.com/kxsr4PV.png

If that swimming pool could talk...

Casa de Chug

iirc, there's a story in To The Limit about Cagney himself showed Frey around the house when he was preparing to buy it.

Just one Yankee Doolin Dalton chugging with another.

"so the master bath's over here...now what combo are you with again, kid? the Beach Boys?"

"Hey Frey, wanna grapefruit?"

The “all right, nighty-night” at the end of the song was sort of typical of the spontaneous feeling we wanted on our records.

Haha, that's the dopiest fuckin' part of the song.

Endearingly so, though.

"All right, Chug All Night" almost scans.

this is the album that Glyn Johns produced after Desperado. I really like it. I'm a fan of those dudes. I was a fan of Mcguinness Flint.

http://eil.com/images/main/Gallagher+%26+Lyle+-+The+Last+Cowboy+-+LP+RECORD-296790.jpg

Didn't know they had MS Paint back in those days.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/31/9f/8a/319f8af6f670b72460bd19e953ab4a96.jpg

"You Never Cry Like A Lover"

http://www.theuncool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/rs196.jpg

http://youtu.be/OXhc4JqQN8U

lead guitar (uncredited) by Bernie Leadon

None more yacht. Roach looking überrelaxed there.

this song might...grow on you. if you play it more than once.

Randy a surefire winner of the "dress like Gram Parsons" contest. my god, Frey is at his most dirtbaggiest in that shot.

Hack off the drawn-out ending, add an unexpected upward modulation in the bridge, and this would be a Badfinger song. And that's never a bad thing.

speaking of Parsons, "Smile Like a Lover" has a bit of GP in the verses, no? Godawful lyric: smug and stupid in equal measures. Henley's by far their best singer, but even he's floundering at times here.

That's.. an interesting graphic design for Rolling Stone.

http://i.imgur.com/6HmKXrR.jpg

Title lyric WTF? I'm leaving because I can't make you cryenough?

Like the "i was hoping you were the one" midsection though, and the various guitar licks throughout.

I'm playing this very quietly because I don't want my co-workers to make fun of me ... it sounds pretty good. I'm sure it's enhanced by my inability to make out the lyrics, though there's clearly something disturbing going on there. Points off for the lame ending.

It's an unusual soundscape for these guys - I'm picking up Zeppelin at their most pop/rock, but mostly Elton in its showiness, especially the intro. Even the close harmonies aren't quite as aquiline as usual. There's probably someone else it sounds exactly like, but it's not my usual territory.

The solo is completely marvellous, again. The whole middle section is pretty great actually.

Crosby at 1:55 for the win:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GANjDKnIv3M

i like how he says boring after the yawn in case we didn't get it, thanks dave.

Harsh coming from Crosby. I think I'm likely to ever want to hear CSN less than even the Eagles. Because they're boring. Yawn. That means I was bored.

i like csn but i don't own any of their records and the only related stuff i own is the crosby hippie-fest album and the two nash solo albums. the 2 nash solo albums are two of my favorite records of the 70's. i mean i can always play a csn album in my store if i need to hear one. i was playing simon & garfunkel yesterday. beautiful early stereo pressings. sounded amazing. don't need to own them though. the normal stuff i can hear anytime i leave in the store. i do think the crosby album is overrated by hepcats. or whoever revived its rep. mojo magazine? who can remember? i'd much rather listen to early 70's airplane and affiliated records these days. they need some reviving. they did so much great stuff before they built that city. where is the love for grace's Manhole album? or Sunfighter! man, there's a record.

i only have deja vu but I love listening to that when I'm in the right mood

I like "Just a Song Before I Go" because it's 1:56 long.

Tarfumes otm re:Badfinger resemblance. The coda has got to go. I imagine they knew that too, but put it on as some sort of 'spontaneous' left turn instead of working it up as it's own song (the thing is catchy). Nice solo.

the 2 nash solo albums are two of my favorite records of the 70's.

Mojo, Uncut & the like should be all over the 2nd Nash album (Wild Tales), as it's basically Nash backed by the Time Fades Away band (minus Neil & Jack).

i'd much rather listen to early 70's airplane and affiliated records these days. they need some reviving. they did so much great stuff before they built that city. where is the love for grace's Manhole album? or Sunfighter! man, there's a record.

Everybody knows Baron Von Tollbooth... is Where It's At!

listening to all this eagles is making me real fuckin' salty about all this jive bellbottom shit

hate this song

lol

I think On The Border is their best LP - most of the tunes are pretty solid, as long as you can handle the cheese factor (esp James Dean), it's enjoyable.

I'm not sure about it being their best but I definitely dig it, if I hold my breath through the corny parts

Getting a strong George Harrison vibe off the lead-that-isn't-the-solo - sound like they were mining The End for that one, especially set against the piano. The second half is what makes the song though - the section from 1:51 is magnificent.

"Midnight Flyer"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eagles1974tarmac.jpg

http://youtu.be/Yt-ruDNndvI

i don't have time to talk now, but i just wanted to mention that this song was written by Paul Kraft and here is the track-listing to Paul's 1986 album Warnings!:

A1 Linda Lovelace (Come Sit On My Face)
A2 I've Got You On My Conscience (But At Least You're Off My Back)
A3 She's My Bedroom Woman (I'm Her Livin' Room Man)
A4 Two Wild And Crazy Guys
Vocals – Lewis Anderson
A5 V.D. Ain't Nothin' To Clap About
B1 It's Me Again, Margaret
Producer – Ray Baker
B2 Positively Bob Dylan Revisited
B3 Dropkick Me, Jesus
B4 My Eight-Legged Friends
B5 You've Already Got A Pussy (Why Try To Make One Out Of Me)