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

xpost...and the interior of a '55 GM product is as big as a small studio apartment.

I like to think of the '55 as being some long-gone marque, like this:

http://www.adclassix.com/images/55packard400fourhundredcoup.jpg

“Ol’ 55″ was so Southern California, and yet there was some Detroit in it as well. It was that car thing

In other words, any part of the United States where people drive cars on a regular basis.

FACT: Don Henley's dad ran an auto parts store.

This is boring. I like steel pedal but this is the first time I've thought the guitars sound bad.

xp I love that the band think they're providing subtext, but there's no subtext. They're all surface.

I just want you all to know I was not involved.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/drunk_woman_attacks_roommate_with_knife_for_listening_to_the_eagles

When police talked to the victim, he said he had been listening to The Eagles when Bader told him that she did not want to hear the classic rock band's songs. So the man told her to shut up, the report states.

Bader responded by allegedly getting a 14-inch serrated bread knife and swung it at the man repeatedly, the report states. The victim wrestled the knife away from Bader, but she came back with another knife before the victim could run and lock himself in the bathroom.

The victim said he and Bader used to date, but said while the relationship had ended they still lived together, the report states.

According to Bader, the victim was choking her which led to her getting a knife. However, officers did not see any hand prints on Bader and the neighbor corroborated the victim's story. Officers noted in the report that everyone was intoxicated at the time of the assault.

The report did not details which Eagles songs were being played.

It was "Chug All Night".

everyone was intoxicated at the time of the assault

YOU DON'T SAY

Wait a minute ...

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/190gqnxor5wyfjpg/original.jpg

http://www.glidemagazine.com/glide/wp-content/uploads/legacy/joe%20walsh%20pub%20pic%202012%2002b.jpg

if it was "James Dean," automatic acquittal

You guys'll be begging for "James Dean" once we roll around to "Get Over It" (pending the thread or any of us make it that far).

come on, don't remind us of that. it's like knowing you've gotta have a colonoscopy in a few months

FIELD REPORT: heard "hotel california" two times today on two different stations (one classic rock, the other one of those "all the hits you love from the 70s, 80s, and 90s" stations)
both times i recognized it within 3 seconds

omg I have a FIELD REPORT too: heard 'Desperado', courtesy of a busker at the local farmer's market

There's a guy in the River Market with a big Casio keyboard and some PA speakers. He does a full-on version of "Hotel California" except instead of a dueling guitar solo, he just lets the chk-bk-bok-ka beat roll for about four minutes before leaning into the mic to sing "On a dark, desert highway...." again. It's like some Andy Kaufman routine.

When you hear this dude's version, you can definitely get the sense of what "Mexican Reggae" sounds like.

I have not heard a single eagles track in the wild since we started this thread tbh

apologies in advance for the icecream van following you around playing 'Chug All Night' 24/7

Flipping radio stations on way to work, heard take it to the limit

toward the end of this thread the dementia will set in and people will be posting: SAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND SANG EAGLES SONGS ALL DAY.

No man, what happens at the end of this thread is we all start writing Eagles fanfic.

the only question i have is whose chest sparkles: Frey or Henley

Not a sighting as such, more 'too much time on this thread', but earlier i was driving behind a van with licence no. EA61... and I thought of you guys. The company was something like 'Dean Simmons Engineering' too.

I heard some crap soft rock song on the radio, so I figured, hmm, I wonder, just maybe ...

And yes, go figure, it turned out to be the Eagles. "New Kid in Town." Sucked.

"Is It True?"

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/whitcap/Randy11-2.jpg

http://youtu.be/Rd1TIX__yOc

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............

yeah, that tune ain't no good. In my view, he didn't have any good songs until the next rekkid, which is one of the greatest they ever done. Spose I'm partial to songs sung by eagles bassists.

Should the eagles be accorded greater reconsideration in light of the fact that surely Jim derogatis dislikes them intensely?

Nah

The eagles are making me punk again

We should track by track Sham 69 or TSOL next

y'know what? randy was the dreamiest looking Eagle in the 1970s. These days, though? hoo boy…

This isn't just bad, it's amateurish. Sounds like something that woulda come out of a Berklee songwriting class.

there was also an interview in Musician magazine in '89, I think, where Glyn Johns bullshits about various acts he worked with. He went into great detail about the Eagles, and corroborated much of Henley and Frey's complaints. He also says that Randy took him aside and said, "Glyn, why can't our records sound like MoTown?" To which he reacted much in the same manner as when Don said "make me sound like Bonham."

The funny thing is, Szymczyk got them even farther away from any Motown or Bonham sounds. As far as possible, in fact.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............

― scott seward, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:15 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I listened to this earlier but nothing stuck, except the 'Freebird' intro. This has become quite a lull, I thought they'd cracked it round the turn of these last two albums, but no.

Frey's slide guitar on this track is the perfect finishing touch of zzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... something about that sound triggers soft rock sensors deep in my brain

is side 2 of "on the border" the single worst sequence of Eagles music? even poor Randy's bass fills on the chorus sound anemic. "She's really leeeaavin'": no fool she.

man we were really high on this album for a minute there. we almost forgot who we were dealing with.

y'know what? randy was the dreamiest looking Eagle in the 1970s.
i was about to say the same thing -- he was so cute, and this song is boring but doesn't come preloaded with that overwhelming feeling of I HATE THIS PERSON so i guess i kinda like it? it sounds like a subpar Chris Bell song.

Randy's okay. He's no David Gilmour.

oof, i have such a crush on early 70's david gilmour. hubba hubba.

hi dere...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llnk21dAQD1qkrfyeo1_500.jpg

gilmour is supernaturally hot
randy is cute!

well, was

These days, though? hoo boy…

tbf, his Eagles songs and solo career didn't generate the kind of royalties that would enable him to get the massive facial reconstructive surgeries that Frey and Henley got.

oof, i have such a crush on early 70's david gilmour. hubba hubba.

― scott seward, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:04 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God, seriously.

earnestly saggy randy >>>> gross mean frey and henley
they cannot get surgery to make them less assholey

he looks friendly and affable!
http://www.rockhistorybook.com/Images/title_pic_large/eagles_randy_meisner.jpg

Put a swastika tattoo on his neck and he's Jack from Breaking Bad.

good point
really i'm not particularly committed to randy, he's just not as thoroughly repulsive as the other eagles

Coming off the last two tracks, I rather enjoyed this one. Idk.