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

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!"

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

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM, one of the worst album closers ever.

as for "Is It True", i'll take a mediocre, forgettable Meisner track over the more cloying and annoying work of Frey, Henley, or i'm finding, Jackson Browne

Doobie's might be useful for me -- I only just recently found out that China Grove was called China Grove, I had no idea what the song was called or even what it was about except that it was a lot WHOA OH OH, WHOAAAAOOOHH

I tried to sing it on rockband at a party a while ago and failed out of it because the whole time I was like, WAIT THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING?!

that's nothing i just discovered that "Brown Sugar" is about slavery! via the miley cyrus thread. i had no idea what the words were other than the chorus.

God, yes, that is a horrrrrible song that should really never be played on the radio again.

It actually makes me a little sick to my stomach, especially since I uncritically rocked out to it for many, many years (albeit without knowing all of the lyrics, but I knew enough that I should have been like, "Hey... wait a minute...").

let's forget about that for now. i don't want to bring the thread down. look, funny picture!

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lol

sorry, you are right! Glenn looks like an angry orc.

I can't imagine a sentient human sexing Glenn Frey.

red hair/white beard looks amazing

amazingly awful
they both look like asshole old men on vacation

his wife and kids are all really normal and nice looking. judging from google pictures.

the one guy in that Eagles documentary who looks better now than he did in the 70s is Azoff

"Is It True?": Very AM GOLD. Discreetly catchy. Seems like Frey was taking his slide cues from George Harrison, except he gradually gets more showboaty. Once again another track that would be better without the coda--just a dramatic cut @ like 2:26-ish.

huh i was all prepared to hate "Is It True?" but i like it...slide guitar is good and someone who said AM lite rock Chris Bell is pretty right on....

RE: Mr. "i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night"

I seem to recall that some Musician articles are on Rockbackpages.com, the work of Barney Hoskyns, who as noted upthread wrote the book that many of you guys like but that I find to repetitive and unnecessary in light of of his Waiting for the Sun book of 1997.

Funny that you mention Dire straits. Musician mag from the late '80s to the mid 90s was run by EIC Bill Flanagan. I was an intern there in the early 90s, and I suspect I made a fatal mistake in saying that I thought CSN fucking sucks, but that I liked Neil Young. He raised his eyebrows and said "what about "'through my sails'?" "Uh that's okay." But my fate was sealed in his eyes. He was the one who did the interview was Glyn Johns I mentioned earlier.

Flanagan's a smart fellow, great writer, etc etc. But make no mistake: his success then and since at VH1.com is down to being a courtier to GREAT MEN OF ROCK like Henley, Knopfler, Springsteen and above all Bono. If the artist was famous and hewed to the template of baby-boomer notions of oracular, literary significance, then Flanagan was all in. His tastes or rather his tendency to buddy up to those guys doomed Musician. Hilariously, he stumped for Jesus Jones in 1991: Nirvana sailed right over his head.

I really loved his U2 book

Thanks for the background Veronica. That jibes with my memories of the mag. My readership of it was abt 1985-88. Sometimes there was stuff like Curt Kirkwood talking abt his gtr technique, and unless my brain is playing tricks on me I first read abt the Fall in there circa late 85. Stuff like the Blue Nile too...

i remember the blue nile review, i think. i think that's what made me buy the first album. that would have been 1984 though.

I really loved his U2 book

― Ismael Klata,

I've said it in U2 threads but besides being a superb piece of reporting with worrisome ethics (he parties hard with the band) it's an unusually literate time and place narrative: Bosnia unraveling, Nirvan's impact on MTV, a little something called the information superhighway in its larval state, and Bono's Fly glasses.

...and all this prior to hell freezing over because the Eagles got back together to have higher seat prices than U2, Stones etc.

I was a heavy Musician reader in that 80s time frame too... Peter Buck had a regular column for a year or so. One great one was Buck going on about how critics should stop writing about R.E.M. because The Replacements were the greatest band in the universe. Musician was pretty sympathetic to the college rock scene. Considine's "Rock Short Takes" was the greatest. I would Kickstarter the hell out of it if he could write those again on Twitter.

How dumb is it that I want to spend the next 4 years reading all the issues of Option and Musician I read during those 4 years.

i would love to come across a stash of options. i never see them. i should ssk byron c. if i see him if he has a spare stash. i need to get some old FE mags from him when i see him. those are fun to read too. i didn't really read them much at the time. would read musician too.

hell, i'd read old copies of tower records magazines.

I loved Pulse! Got to do a couple of those back page comics in there when Marc Weidenbaum was editing.

Would hella wreck some old FEs too. Skot get all these together and start a xtian science reading room in back of your store with a couch.

i got a couch back there but i gotta get all the records out of there first.