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

that is one long damn outro/fadeout. 90 seconds plus!

Yeah I thought it was flabby at first but there's quite a lot going on in there - high harmonies, disco guitars and such

My favorite Eagles track. Love this song. It gets stuck in my head for days and I don't mind it being there at all.

it's a super-groovy catchy song...that kiiiinda sounds like it's sung by a stalker

i think I'll use this to build my case that Henley was the Zodiac killer

but in all seriousness it's pretty fantastic. I love singing along to the high parts

Another of their best tracks, and unlike BOML, Henley's lead vocal sounds ideal for this song. I've heard this for three decades and never noticed the R&B/disco-ness of it (or what sounds like Bee Gees influence, though as mentioned earlier this (very) slightly predates their disco/falsetto phase).

Yeah, there was a thread a few months back about when rock went disco, and I'd never thought about it that way either 'til then

best intro ever in the history of intros.

― scott seward, Saturday, September 21, 2013 7:44 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One reason I always hated this song is because the beginning sounded like a lazy rip of "Come Together." Listening again, they're not that similar, but I can't get excited about this song. The groove is alright, and even at his worst Henley's singing doesn't annoy me, but it's just so stiff. This is probably the first thing I'd reach for if someone asked what stiff playing sounds like.

basically when i HEAR that intro i think its the best intro ever. always sounds very cool to me. i love how the whole thing sounds.

yeah, it's a great headphones song, lotsa layers

cannot deal with this song

:(

now and forever

"Too Many Hands"

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/1209/play_g_felder_gb1_576.jpg

http://youtu.be/YIq1RDwvRSM

tablas by Don Henley

Fake Randy kinda my favorite Eagle.

http://www.gambling911.com/gambling-news/randy-meisner-imposter-still-conning-super-bowl-vegas-020409.html

http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-04-29/news/fake-it-to-the-limit/

This feels like a Skynyrd rip, but I can't pin down exactly which Skynyrd song they're ripping off. The tablas are a nice touch, in that they defensively shout, "Hey! We're ambitious! L-look!....um...tablas!"

As we're walking, I walked up very close behind and said "give me my ticket". He reached in to his pocket and handed me my ticket......GOT IT!

Ticket to the limit

anyway, kinda reminds me of mark gormley for some reason.

the Eagles couldn't sequence their records worth a damn: let's follow "Nights" with a second-rate piece of Randy clunk ("we are doing what is best/for our future") and just derail any momentum we've got. the story of Fake Randy Meisner is eight times more interesting than this track. Outro is okay: Felder's riffs and even Henley-on-tablas.

I consistently confuse these guys. Leadon? Meisner? Felder? I'm lost in a fog of Anglo-ness.

The only thing missing from this band of Randy, Dons and Glenn was a guy named Gary.

For the first 10 seconds or so I could pretend I was listening to Fleetwood Mac, but Randy's range is not quite as high as Stevie's

moon spoon night right blah blah
randy's lyrics are always so, idk, nowhere. like a shitty steve miller

nice guitar though

i don't mind it as album filler it's just kind of a boring comedown from that great opener

i didn't know randy meisner existed before this thread

"One of These Nights" also marks the exciting shift of Eagles LPs named after the first track of side 1, rather than the last track of side 1.

Randy's the token Poco dude

yeah for me this is a quantum leap (been listening all along; wish I had my dad's Eagles vinyl, but spotify is doing the trick ok).....in my head, though, the production is pushed more in the direction of disco/funk stones...that falsetto! it's so wrong, but so right--like some guy has Maurice Williams at knifepoint...

Randy's the token Poco dude dog

let's get to know our eagles. Bernie Leadon was a world-class banjo player who was in the critically acclaimed country-rock supergroups Dillard & Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers. he's a bluegrass guy who could play anything. banjo, guitar, mandolin, etc. not a rock star type.

http://www.nashvilleledger.com/Editorial_Images/10017.jpg

http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s348/chilca0001/Bernie%20Leadon/bernie4.jpg

Randy Meisner moved to california and ended up in the band Poco. They kicked him out of the band and replaced him with a dog. he joined Eagles and played bass and sang on one HUGE Eagles song and then he quit the band because he HATED touring. also not a rock star type.

http://hollywoodagogo.com/Randy%20Meisner%20young.jpg

Don Felder was a guitarist from Florida who had been in bands with Bernie Leadon and Stephen Stills and he kicked around the country as a guitarist until he ended up in california playing with david blue and the eagles got to know him via his old pal Bernie and when they needed some extra guitar work he did some studio time and ended up in the band and kinda cemented their trademark double guitar camarorock signature sound.

http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/English/aaFeaturesImages2010/don-felder_Doubleneck.jpg

frey and henley you know. joe walsh you know. timothy b. schmit came later replacing randy meisner on bass just as he had replaced randy in poco after randy got booted from poco.

that was for alfred.

yeah randy seemed really not cut out for the rockin life, he had a family & the whole nine when he joined the eagles, right?

whoops--one song behind.....(listens): yeah, today's kinda sucks.

eagles had a good poco depth chart

I don't mind this one too much - it's not more than filler, but it's decent filler with a bit of drive and good guitars, as opposed to the slow plodders on earlier albums.

The vocal though, he sounds so uptight having to strain for every note.

I like the music on this one, but good grief those are some dopey cliche-fest lyrics.

"Hollywood Waltz"

http://www.donhenleyonline.com/images/eagles1974plane.jpg

http://youtu.be/8EmrLcf1Ylo

so NOT what i am gonna play in my Camaro. tarfumes is gonna have a field day with the cymbal attack at the end which is kinda ???????

Such a great photo!

"synthesizer by Albhy Galuten"

Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive.
He produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies. He has won two Grammies, a Dramalogue award (theatre) and a BMI award (as a songwriter).
His record productions include the soundtracks Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease" and songs or albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (Guilty), Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker), Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton ("Islands in the Stream"), Samantha Sang ("Emotion"), Diana Ross ("Chain Reaction"), Eric Clapton ("Knockin' on Heaven's Door"), Titanic Love Affair and Bee Gees (nine number one songs).
Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt (director of paradigm).
He is currently a technology executive at Sony and has been an executive at Universal Music Group (Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology) and Ion (Vice President, New Technology). In his various roles as a technology executive Galuten has filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum (Chairman) and the Coral Consortium (Vice President).
As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop ("Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees), the enhanced CD and patents on content distribution and resolution, on customer care and on User Interface design.

the more you know...

"hey, i wonder who invented the first commercial drum loop."

"oh, that would have been Albhy Galuten."

I know him as the Bee Gees' keyboardist.

Ditto

or "Sympathy For a Groupie." playing in 3/4 is a means for the Eagles to swing even less than usual. Henley's voice isn't really suited for this: again, Frey's weaselly tone would've been a better fit, maybe. & what is going on with the cymbals? You can imagine a coked-up Henley in the booth with Syzmczyk: "more on the high end! more on the high end!"

i am a sucker for a waltz & I mostly like it but yeah, what is going in with the cymbals. maybe a kitten got into the studio?

!

Due to the death of drummer Dennis Byron's mother in the middle of the song's sessions, the group first looked for a replacement. The shortage of qualified drummers in this area of France prompted the group to try a drum machine—yet it did not offer satisfactory results. After listening to the drum track of the already-recorded "Night Fever", the group and producer Albhy Galuten selected two bars from that track, re-recorded them as a recurrent loop on a separate tape, and proceeded with sessions for "Stayin' Alive". This accounts for the unchanging rhythm throughout the song.

As a joke, the group listed the drummer as "Bernard Lupe" (a takeoff on session drummer Bernard Purdie). Mr. Lupe became a highly sought-after drummer—until it was discovered that he did not exist.

Ha, that's hilarious.

hahaha! they should call that move the lupe shuffle

i didn't hate this song, and kinda liked the cymbal bonanza but i like cymbals a lot