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

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.

has Henley had surgery?

Are the archives of Musician mag online anywhere? I read it religiously as a young nerd and briefly tricked myself into liking shit like dire straits etc bc of it.

they cannot get surgery to make them less assholey

otm. And if they could, they wouldn't.

They cannot get surgery to make them into assholes.

I can't make my face into an asshole.

I suppose that would be form of ostomy?

self-sodomy

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

Getting ahead of ourselves, but I like the wiki entry on Good Day in Hell:

For the recording of the song, session guitarist Don Felder was called upon to perform the slide guitar. Although slide guitar on two other songs on the album (the bluegrass "Midnight Flyer" and the mid-tempo "Is It True") were performed by Glenn Frey, the Eagles' new producer Bill Szymczyk wanted to get a more experienced slide guitarist to record on "Good Day in Hell".

So that finishing touch of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz is basically what brought Felder on board.

shit like dire straits

Come on man. I was thinking DS would make for a pretty good track-by-track thread themselves.

You guys are getting out of hand.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/12a131d95fbda5ececa74d2f2df8697b/tumblr_mta8e76VGq1qzykw5o1_500.jpg

Hard to understand....what a hell of a man

i think my worst case scenario for another listening thread would be, like, mr. bungle. or the collected works of mike patton. i wouldn't last a week.

I should have said "shit like dire straits' brothers in arms"

i will always love the first side of Making Movies. perfect album side. i saw them on the brothers in arms tour snd i was so stoned i fell asleep.

making movies is all great until it manages to completely bin it coming around the final corner

it sounds like a subpar Chris Bell song

very very otm

i've just been assuming all along that the next listening thread will be the doobie brothers.

but that would be enjoyable! at least for me it would be.

is that against the rules?

haha, i'm listening to a loudon wainwright album right now and he calls bob geldof BOB GELDORF. "even bob geldorf looks alarmingly thing..."

that doesn't have anything to do with the doobie brothers though.

http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/doobiebust1dfsdg.jpg

no, no rules. but this thread is kinda the only way i would ever listen to all the eagles. i would (and sometimes do) listen to the doobies for pleasure.

god, i still remember how scared i was when the doobies saw rerun's tape recorder.

the four albums after One Step Closer might be kinda rough though. i've never listened to them.

i think it would be perfectly fair, for official thread purposes, and possibly for real-life purposes too, to discount any album released after the one called farewell tour. not to mention after the tour of the same name.

that doobie episode is all-time

I haven't seen that episode since I was a kid. It was much later that I finally said to myself, "Wait a minute, the Doobie Brothers?"

Just the premise that there was a lucrative market for audience-recorded bootleg Doobies is pretty hilarious.

"Dude, on 'Fool,' Simmons does this crazy solo! WAY better than Santa Monica '79!"