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

when i worked overnights at the supermarket in connecticut in the early 90's the classic rock station I95 refused to play Nirvana or any other grunge and would just play Kiss's "Domino" over and over.

Haha.

I used to work with this guy who drove me nuts. Loved Classic Rock. Hated "grunge". "Why's it all gotta sound different? I don't care if it sounds the same, rock and roll was good 20 years ago and it's good today."

And, because he enjoyed music that "sounds the same", his favorite all-time classic rock and roll band was ......

.....

...

THE RAMONES.

Like I said, dude drove me nuts with his weird logic.

I was such a huge kiss fan when I was 7. I had the cards, the magazines, the marvel comic special (still remember the panel where Paul shoots "pure hate" at the bad guy from his eye.) It took almost a year for me to actually hear their music. God what a disappointment. This was supposed to be music made by demons and spacemen, this lame boogie shit?

I think it wasn't until Soul Discharge that I actually heard music that sounded like kiss should have..,

Lol "soul discharge" how gross!

Soul Discharge, swayin' to the music....

on the bootleg cover above, Leadon looks like he's contemplating jumping overboard

frey and the unseen head of henley look like they're debating whether or not to push him.

What KISS should've sounded like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2zIsnuAlw

oh sorry no embeds dang my bad.

I've listened to way too much Classic Rock Radio in my time, and the only Kiss songs I've heard with any regularity down here are "Rock'n'Roll All Night" and "Beth" (with the former appearing in three versions: the original, the Alive take, and the 80s remix). When it's 'deep cut' time, they'll drag out "Love Gun", "Detroit Rock City" or "Lick It Up". It's kind of amazing to think that at the time they were on the same popularity level as Zep, the Eagles etc. and now you'll hear two or three ZZ Top or Bad Company songs for every Kiss number on the air.

"Good Day In Hell": I like this, even singled it out for praise over on the other thread. Admittedly it's not that far removed from the anonymous Frey-sparked barband boogies of the first two albums, but what sets this apart is it's slightly more refined. Felder's slide is better. There's no pointless coda. I even detect a bit of an Outlaw Country influence (a Waylon cover would have killed). It's filler, but better filler.

Only Kiss I've ever heard on "classic rock" radio was "Rock 'n' Roll All Night." And that's on three different stations in the northeast and two in the midwest. I remember hearing "Detroit Rock City" and "Beth" when they were new, and "Lick It Up" was all over MTV for some reason.

Kiss - too dumb for classic rock radio.

i had so much fun one night watching different live video clips of gene's "famous" blood bass solos during Kiss shows. there is nothing like watching someone who had never learned how to play the bass play the bass for 30 years. so bizarre. on the other hand, some of them are inadvertent Boredoms-level dementia noise solos.

Haha, otm re: Boredoms.

Jon Lewis, my brother. I was a huge kiss fan as a kid, too. Card carrying member of the Kiss Army, Kiss lunchbox, plastic Paul Stanley mask/smock for Halloween K-2nd grade, Kiss COLORFORMS ffs. I had Mormon cousins who refused to enter my bedroom because of my Kiss posters. Went to my long-suffering grandparents' house to watch Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park because they could pick up NBC and we couldn't.

Terrible music, but great marketing to appeal to weirdo kids who liked demons and spacemen.

I think Kiss was to me what NKTOB was or Justin Bieber is to some kids, which just makes me smdh at all of us, really.

man phantom of the park, the night that aired was a BIG FUCKING DEAL.

when i do my eagles fanfic there's gonna be an awesome moment where Frey is like "how about a dose of... PURE HATE" and the death beams fly out of his eyes

LOL

It was SUCH a big fucking deal! Sometimes I think I will never be that excited about anything again and it makes me a little sad. But the again if I got that excited about something now, I'd probably have a heart attack.

things that could make me that excited again

about to see Scott Walker perform live
waiting on delivery of a rly nice guitar
being on a plane to new zealand
getting hired to write comic book scripts for a living again

It may be obvious, but I don't immediately get this?

http://i.snag.gy/6OTFS.jpg

He had a chainsaw he'd bring on tour w him for fucking up hotel rooms. It was a gift to him from Azoff.

Walsh was Pharaoh Sanders to Keith Moon's John Coltrane of fucking up hotel rooms.

Note the line about tearing out the walls in hotels in "Life's Been Good".

it's his least appealing trait to me, pretty fucking infantile

Ahhhhh, right.

http://gawker.com/woman-stabs-roommate-for-refusing-to-stop-listening-to-1335462841

"Best Of My Love"

http://images.45cat.com/the-eagles-usa-best-of-my-love-asylum-2.jpg

http://youtu.be/z_M_27ciAKI

best song on the album if you ask me. its so good you wonder what the hell happened.

sad that my picture didn't show up. damn internet.

here's another one.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0812/eagles_facial_b_g_mp_576.jpg

i mean its understated and tasteful and the arrangement fits so well and its performed in a no big deal way and its just really pretty and it flows nicely. i guess we should give all the cedit to souther. because almost everything else on this album doesn't fit that description.

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The setting is gorgeous. Insofar as I've a problem with it at all, it's with Henley's singing. Normally I want him on vocals, but not here - feels like it could've done with somebody cleaner for once to have everything bed down just so.

thought that pic was Randy Newman for a sec

you would not BELIEVE the ad i had to sit through to listen to this song in order to give it some kind of second chance
and even so, i'll say that it's among the least offensive hits
but i would much rather hear linda ronstadt singing it because don henley makes me sick

He had a chainsaw he'd bring on tour w him for fucking up hotel rooms. It was a gift to him from Azoff.

e.g. http://vimeo.com/64433918

http://images.45cat.com/the-eagles-best-of-my-love-1974-s.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FWL0iuI.jpg

Haha, fuck that guy. Just wanted to see if I could break his amazing hotlinking security.

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good job!

i love this... especially compared to the terrible stuff that got us here.

If this album had just this track and the first three, it'd make a blinding EP. The middle stretch is extraordinary in its shitness.

http://i.imgur.com/IkBLyCT.jpg

Thanks, Scott.

Sorry, but this Henley -esque display of sensitivity makes me puke.

This is another one that's really fun to sing.

This is obviously better than most Eagles tracks, but I am listening with great trepidation, knowing it's going to be stuck in my head for the next several hours ... it's hard to convey just how overplayed this track was on 70s radio

This was the single that REALLY blew them up, right?

I was listening to this song when one of my coworkers called me and I answered the phone by crooning the chorus to her so thanks for helping to improve my working relationships, Eagles!

Normally I want him on vocals, but not here - feels like it could've done with somebody cleaner for once to have everything bed down just so.

this.

and, yeah, this was their real pop breakthrough, their first #1. they had only barely scratched the top 10 before this with "witchy woman," which got to #9.

Aside from the the Xmas song, every single from here up to "Seven Bridges Road" went top ten (and that one went Top 25 while the former hit Top 20).

"The Best of My Love": This has been sonic wallpaper to me for so long. Upon actually listening to it with some care, it's a pleasant, well-crafted tune; you really get a sense of their influence on late '70s-early '80s Mainstream Country. Very Urban Cowboy, and JD Souther as well. You can probably still score his 70s stuff (three solo albums and two SHF Band lps) on vinyl for a worthwhile $5-10 bucks total.

Crowe:

THE BEST OF MY LOVE
DON: A lot of the lyrics were actually written in Dan Tana’s at a booth we liked to sit in, on the front side of the bar area. J.D. Souther wrote the bridge and it was perfect. That was the period when there were all these great-looking girls who didn’t really want to have anything to do with us. We were just scruffy new kids who had no calling card. We could be cocky at times — which was really just a front — but we weren’t very sophisticated or confident. We were typical, frustrated, young men. We wanted the girls to like us, but we had all the immature emotions that young men have — jealousy, envy, frustration, lust, insecurity, and the lot. At the same time, however, we were also becoming quite adept at brushing off girls who showed any interest in us. “If you want to be with me, I can’t possibly give you the time of day. I want that girl over there who couldn’t care less if I live or die.” Hence the line in “Desperado”: “You only want the ones that you can’t get.” We knew ourselves even then. Even in our immaturity we had some insight into our flawed little characters [rueful laughter]. Shaw was right — “Youth is wasted on the young.”

GLENN: I was playing acoustic guitar one afternoon in Laurel Canyon, and I was trying to figure out a tuning that Joni Mitchell had shown me a couple of days earlier. I got lost and ended up with the guitar tuning for what would later turn out to be “The Best of My Love.”