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

You can tell Meisner wasn't long for the band. Check out his thousand-yard stare in that photo.

Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.
Don was our Teddy Pendergrass.

There's just this bridge the Eagles couldn't cross. Teddy Pendergrass says to turn off the lights and light a candle, and before you know it, we're all in between the silk sheets with him. Had Henley tried to turn off the lights, we would've collectively gotten out our mace sprayers.

Spray him right in his little head.

(uh, not a euphemism.)

Trying hiding your lyin' eyes from THIS! PSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHT

Enjoy life in the MACE LANE!

Well baby, there you stand / With your little head, down in your hand
Your baby's gone, and you're all alone / and it looks like the end.
You're afraid it's all been wasted time

What if - and I apologize for the nightmares this will surely inspire - the first "baby" is a dude, and the second baby - "Your baby" - is a girl? Maybe he's saying that the dude is mournfully masturbating while thinking of his lost love...

"tears" on your shoulder....

No that's wrong, later on in the verse he said "but you just can't hold your man" and it's very clear he's only addressing one person in the verse

Now quick run along someone just called Mikey racist

your man = penis

yep, definitely abt masturbation

i like the phrasing, it's an ok song but it's waaaay to pleased with itself for what it is

^^ yes! that is it exactly.

"We did a big Philly-type production with strings — definitely not country rock. You’re not going to find that track on a Crosby, Stills & Nash record or Beach Boys record"

yeah, no big productions w/strings on any Beach Boys records. You wonder sometimes if Frey ever listened to anything but his own masters.

*makes shitty cheesesteak sandwich*

"Ha! You've never seen Graham Nash eating one of these!"

*dresses as Philadelphia cop, beats innocent bystander, frames them for murder*

"I'd like to see Crosby try THAT!"

CROSBY: Ooooh! I eat cheesesteak sandwiches like you for BREAKFAST!

FREY: Oh yeah? I bet you have to EAT YOUR LUNCH ALL BY YOURSELF!

*claims he served in Vietnam*

"Like Stills would ever do this--oh wait..."

imagining scenario where Frey buttonholes Thom Bell at a party and makes him listen to a rough mix of "Wasted Time." "we've beat you at your own game, man!"

"Wasted Time": Seems to me to be too labored. They've got some of the Philly moves down, but Henley is such a tight-ass singer here, with none of the ease or authority of Pendergrass, Phillippe Wynne etc. Henley supposedly played this over the phone to woo back an ex-girlfriend (she of "Hotel California" and leaving the Donster for Bernie Taupin fame) and she told him to fuck off despite his insistence that the song wasn't about his wasted time spent with her, but them together wasting time 'wasting time' (like watching tv or eating sandwhiches instead of doing blow and fucking, I guess). Smooth move ExLax.

with none of the ease or authority of Pendergrass, Phillippe Wynne etc.

This is otmfm, and I actually like Henley's vocal here. But imagining Phillippe Wynne singing this...that would put this song on a whole other level.

you know who could have killed with this song? guns n' roses.

i don't think i EVER would have thought of philly soul if he didn't mention it in the interview.

someone else said it upthread but i too always thought this was a Henley solo jawn from like 1989

i think henley actually did invent the 80's with this song. or the 90's! a man with a vision.

yeah i figured it was an album track off end of the innocense

I get them all confused, two in particular. One is "The Sad Cafe" and the other one isn't.

This is really excellent. Henley can sing. It isn't Philly Soul though; I guess it could pass as something at the Elton end of Elton's Philly Soul phase. Only with stiffer drumming. I like it a lot.

Philly Cream Cheese soul amirite

def prefer early poco-lite eagles to late period elton-eagles

but then i fucking hate elton john

FIELD REPORT: heard "Already Gone" on the radio on my way home from my first class today. I'll admit it. It sounded alright. I even sang along a little bit.

they were no hall & oates. let's put it that way.

gourmet sandwich joint playing not terribly exciting live version of take it easy

'Gourmet' sandwich joint, or 'EAGLES' sandwich joint?

Once Frey shows up, it's an Eagles sandwich

Meisner and Leadon look at each other and go eewwwww.

http://memehuffer.typepad.com/meme_huffer/images/2007/08/29/rotten_sandwich.jpg

http://rollingspoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Don-Henley-Chili.jpg

Don Henley's beer...
in a cowboy boot glass

Disgusting food, tacky beverage... but the flatware is actually kinda cool!

^ The Story of the Eagles, check local listings.

Don Henley's crabs...
in your underwear

suggest ban

GLENN: Don Henley's crabs...in your underwear

DON: Well, yeah.

New Crabs In Town

Life In The Crabs Lane

Tequila Crabrise

The Greeks Don't Want No Crabs

Hotel Crabifornia

Crabby come lately the new crab in town