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

and whoa at how this guy turned out.

http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/523*328/04eagles091913.jpg

jesus christ Hitchens was angry the last year of his life

Pure Henley

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cGTCZQfXKWA/TeUADA2woFI/AAAAAAAAEhw/krv7lGoR7qw/s1600/CountryBearsHenley.jpg

context, if you are a buzzkill http://thisdayineagleshistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/2002-movie-country-bears-featuring-don.html

Also I stumbled on this which is kinda lol but mostly sad

..."I've heard the rumors about Glenn (Frey) and Don (Henley) being jerks, but I always thought that was just coming from people who are jealous of their wealth and fame. I guess I was wrong," says Lyle Givant, who's seen the band in concert "at least 20 times" over the last four decades. "Frey and Henley come across as two guys who have zero regret over how badly they've treated people over the years. It was hard for me to watch this documentary at times because I've loved the band for so long. I'm sure it wasn't the director's intention, but she made Frey and Henley look pretty bad. They clearly still live by the motto that the end justifies the means. If it's supposedly good for the band, screw it if people get hurt."

http://therenodispatch.blogspot.com/2013/02/exclusive-eagles-fans-angered-by-new.html

BREAKING NEWS: HENLEY AND FREY - IT IS SAD, THEY WERE DOUCHEBAGS

There's a special place in hell for Glenn Frey. Always has been. He can check out any time he likes, but he can never leave.

he's just a victim of love

it's a losing proposition
but one you can't refuse
it's the politics of contraband
it's the chugglers blues

Who's got the bigger reservation in Hell: Frey or Mike Love? I say the former, 'cause the man needs his hats and weirdos.

Man, say what you will about Mike Love but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwPhBLh3hs

mike love is farm league compared those these 2 clowns

I dunno the Beach Boys universe is so fucked and tragic compared to a bunch of vapid dicks being dicks to each other.

Murray Wilson is rotting in hell and Frey and Henley don't compare to all that sad wreckage... And I'm not even close, I would hand w Frey or Henley way over Mike Love

TS: TM or Walden's Pond (TM)

TS:TM or Chugging all nite (toss up)

Mike beat Glenn to Chug by nine years: http://youtu.be/rDY02aGBTfg

I like After The Thrill Is Gone; nice guitars, good bass, good tune, reasonable singing. It's not a-grade eagles, but it's high b-grade and that's rare enough to still be a treat.

"I Wish You Peace"

http://www.bernieleadononline.com/images/BLeadonOOTNSB.jpg

http://youtu.be/aVoOk68T1SI

farewell, brave cosmic banjo man...

co-written with Reagan's daughter, ladies and gentlemen

ah,Bernie, this is how you leave us? not with oddball stuff like "Bitter Creek" and "Sorcerer" but a collaboration w/ Patti Davis? Aptly described by Henley as "smarmy cocktail music"?

Agreeable smarm, nowhere near eagles reunion album smarm, but yeah. The sorcerer is not in for this one.

Syrupy to be sure, but after two minutes I thought it was a nice little coda to the album. Then it just kept going into noodlesville.

Bernie threw us some nice curves, including this one, but yeah this should have been cut at 2:06.

^ This is nice enough; would've been boring for a band who put out actual lounge classics, but The Eagles are not that band. Actually, for a sleazy seventies act, there's not much Rhodes piano on their records, good to have one holding this track together.

well. at least there's tomorrow's.

Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan's daughter, published "Till Human Voices Wake Us" as an e-book. Amazon/Patti Davis
Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, has penned a new novel, “Till Human Voices Wake Us,” a lesbian love story written in the first person.

What would be worse -- hanging around the Reagans or Frey-Henley?

Reagan anecdotes about Erroll Flynn, even if made up > anything Glenn Frey has ever said

1975:

http://www.indecisionforever.com/files/2009/09/thereagans.jpg

Michael Reagan looking like Meathead shocker.

That may be the worst Ronnie has ever looked.

wasn't Patti disowned around that time for living in sin with Leadon? (or maybe for this song)

yep

"I Wish You Peace" (or, "I Wish I Was Dan Fogelberg"): Their most Easy Listening track yet? Legend has it that Henley & Frey were ticked at Leadon for giving Davis credit. The Rhodes kind of tugs the song into the direction of lite Soul. I'll give it points for keeping the noodly bits to the solo and for having more lyrics were the pointless coda could have been.

reminds me of a deep 70s beach boys alb cut

That country bears image is going to give me nightmares.

In the wild report: "The Heat Is On" followed by "The Long Run" on jukebox auto play in a diner.

...followed by "Chantilly Lace". We should have a Big Bopper listening thread next.

on this day in which monsieur Seward will post the famous Eagles cut ever…I would like to suggest that, perhaps as a change of pace in between "the Sad cafe" and "no more walks in the Woods," he might consider posts regarding 80s-90s singles videos that will horrify most of the participants here, like Felder's "bad Girls," Schmidt's "Boys Night Out," "Sexy Girl" "the Confessor" "A Life of Illusion" "All She wants to do is Dance" etc etc…

I found this: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/glenn-frey-by-barron/

a preview of today's extended metaphor:

Q: You sing: "So I called up the captain / 'Please bring me my wine' / He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.'" I realize I'm probably not the first to bring this to your attention, but wine isn't a spirit. Wine is fermented; spirits are distilled. Do you regret that lyric?”

Henley: Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention-—and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It's a sociopolitical statement."

That is simply beautiful.

You can tell he's angry because he said "nomenclature."

"Hotel California"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/hcinsert3big.jpg

http://youtu.be/KaQHsWFSiao

more exegesis from Henley:

This is a concept album, there’s no way to hide it, but it’s not set in the old West, the cowboy thing, you know,” Henley told the Dutch magazine ZigZag. “It’s more urban this time... It’s our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of a little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole world, if you will, and to try to wake people up and say ‘We’ve been OK so far, for 200 years, but we’re gonna have to change if we’re gonna continue to be around.”

so, some random thoughts on a song i've probably heard 4,000 times in my life

* Henley's finest, or at least most memorable, hour as a drummer? e.g. the fill after "can't kill the beast" where he seems to spin over to timbales.

* one influence, i'm pretty sure, on Felder at least was Bowie's "Moonage Daydream." The guitar solos have some Ronson in them; the bassline is pretty similar in places

* Felder wrote it in E minor, and they recorded the instrumental tracks in that key. But when Henley went to sing it, it was too high: Felder said he sounded like Barry Gibb. Eventually they had to downshift to B minor and re-record the whole track.

* realized i can hum, pretty much note for note, the entire Felder/Walsh guitar solo--it's like the damn thing is encoded into my DNA.

This totally slays, I can't and won't front.

Obviously the guitars sound fantastic, right from the start. I love how the licks in the choruses get progressively more manic - is this what Walsh brings? There's been nothing so unhinged hitherto as the lick at 3:07. The bass is terrific too; as well the cod-reggae lines Randy lays down a pretty melody in the intro, and wisely resists the temptation to show off when the dual guitars chime in.

Two things. Is this generally reckoned a Stairway rip-off? Because it clearly is, but I've never actually seen it said as such. And when Henley's voice fades out at 3:28 it's alarmingly abrupt. Is that normal, or something to do with me listening on spotify? It sounds almost like he's gated, which there's no reason for at all.

LOL at the Eagles trying to wake anybody up

It sounds almost like he's gated, which there's no reason for at all.

I noticed it on the YouTube clip too. Don probably exhaled weird or something, necessitating a cut-off. His vocal doesn't sound gated anywhere else on the track.

It's kind of amazing how the harmonizing guitar figures during the verses never bump into or crowd the vocal, or predictably "answer" it. And I like how the guitars start to sound like a synth towards the end of the solos.