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

Henley's their Bernstein, you guys. It totally makes sense.

These guys are pathologically bad at sequencing albums

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

Royalty statements fascinate me. I suppose it depends on his publishing deal. Does he make enough to pay for a house and not work for the rest of his life?

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:13 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not to derail, but I just found this piece on royalty amounts/distribution in the wake of "Baby Blue"'s Breaking Bad sales spike:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-04/breaking-badfinger-whos-gets-the-baby-blue-money#p1

^^SPOLIER ALERT!!!! (j/k I found out on fb like an hour after posting to the BB music thread)

On a related note, BESIDES the scene(s) in Lebowski and The Hitchhiker's Guide, has there been any other notable uses of Eagles music in Film/TV? "Lyin' Eyes" shows up in Urban Cowboy, and the cover band in the Ridgemont High dance scene does "Life In The Fast Lane", but that's all I've got.

Oh, and The Simpsons used "New Kid In Town" once.

"in the city" of course, though that predates the Eagles version. but yeah, otherwise drawing a blank. maybe Henley/F are too greedy and no one can afford to use their stuff

Well at the time, "In The City" was still a Joe Walsh song, but I'll let it slide.

^^SPOLIER ALERT!!!! (j/k I found out on fb like an hour after posting to the BB music thread)

Hahaha, as soon as I posted that I thought, "Fuck, C. Grisso/McCain doesn't know what the song is yet!" But it was so crazily all over the news that I hoped you probably already knew.

There's the Seinfeld episode where "Desperado" and "Witchy Woman" both play very prominent roles in the plot.

On a related note, BESIDES the scene(s) in Lebowski and The Hitchhiker's Guide, has there been any other notable uses of Eagles music in Film/TV? "Lyin' Eyes" shows up in Urban Cowboy, and the cover band in the Ridgemont High dance scene does "Life In The Fast Lane", but that's all I've got.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain)

hi dere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_kCR5yQpY0

xpost - damn you to hell

Hah I watched that exact clip this morning, because "Witchy Woman" is stuck in my head and I was hoping it would exorcise me.

Love Jerry's "Don't you mean 'Witch-ay Woman'?"

There's that SCTV sketch "The Crusin' Gourmet" in which Dave Thomas dresses up in leathers and fist-stuffs the chained-up turkey while "Disco Strangler" plays. It's on youtube but the music may have been changed.

I don't think I've seen that Seinfeld before. As for SCTV, they changed the music to some library rock piece: http://youtu.be/fmLfpoj5e84

!!! omg that makes me love that bit even more. never seen it with the original music

Damn :(

As if I could hate Henley/Frey even more...

Glenn: This is no longer the Eagles Cruising Gourmet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE0Q904gtMI

"Victim Of Love"

http://m2.paperblog.com/i/66/663677/track-124-victim-of-love-the-eagles-L-xJJbM7.jpeg

http://youtu.be/FW3QuLxpqeo

joe has his rocky mountain way with this song which i appreciate, but i think i'd appreciate it even more if it were just a joe solo song. james gang or joe alone would have made it slinkier and funkier. again, the unfunky drummer kinda crashes his way through everything. ol' thudfoot henley. they should have just used session drummers. nobody would have cared.

god these guys would perceive themselves as victims of love don't they

The drumming's terrible here, yes

scott OTM: Henley is just dreadful on this one. The 12-yo kid down my street who practices drums after school every day plays livelier fills than what H does here (see 1:30 among others).

I like his singing better than on "Fast Lane," maybe because the lyric's just so condescending and sleazy (see the sociopolitical metaphor of "how come you still got his gun in your hand") and he lives up to the part. He's better than Felder would've been at least.

imagined Crowe interview

FREY: One morning I was in the hall of some Best Western and I saw some girl leave Henley's room. "Another victim of love," I thought. There it was!

HENLEY: A willing victim, heh.

FREY: I thought, "Well, gal, get ready for immortality." Don and I picked up our guitars and out came "Victim of Love." A lot faster, I gotta say, than that chick did.

HENLEY: Well, yeah.

actually this is a group composition with souther but felder wrote all the guitar stuff not joe. sorry don. the guitar stuff sounds great.

been watching the felder/stern interview instead of working this morning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLFuTSec1g

I was so ready to take Felder's side on this one. Had to be humiliating where everyone gets their song to sing on the record, you go out for some drinks, come back, and Henley's made it into one of the other half-dozen leads he's got on the record.

But then you see

http://youtu.be/IOX09LT0L3E

Now that's 30 years later and everything, but I don't "Visions" was his admission ticket to being able to sing Victim of Love.

I forgot to post this one on Life in the Fast Lane day

http://youtu.be/2GJidFbtB44

Listen to that intro, still with the crackle and electricity of the old days. And then as soon as he goes into the verse, it's like What the hell just happened.

I say this as a bass player, but dude even sings like a bass player. Rigid stance in front of the mic, neck up to his left ear.

they should have just used session drummers. nobody would have cared.

― scott seward, Saturday, October 5, 2013 9:03 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, Henley mostly used session drummers and drum machines on his solo records! He finally owned up to his crapulence.

There's something so fundamentally thuddy about Henley's approach that he could be playing tympani in an empty airplane hangar and it would still sound like a sack of flour dropped on a shag carpet.

i think felder just plays for fun? he doesn't need the money. though that doesn't really explain all the live footage of him at crappy casinos and stuff.

Don Henley's drumming is just really unimaginative/uncreative! He doesn't try anything interesting afaict, just thud thud thud. I've got more verve that that guy does.

oops *than

Donny Thud Lately

its especially striking to me because i listen to thousands of 4th-tier 70's rock albums every year and soooooooo many bands had really good/decent/great drummers who could do lots of things on the drums. lots of albums then were hard rock/soft rock/funk track/disco track/etc and you had to be able to mix it up.

henley was passable for the country-rock shit but one gets the sense that he never knew he was signing up to play in a band that would one day include joe walsh

I love the guitar on this - opening riff is so cool. And it's maybe one of my favorite Henley deliveries singing-wise but yeah the drum kinda kills it.

I imagine it's really hard to play interesting drums while lead-singing, not that that's prevented a lot of people from accomplishing it.

"Victim of Love": Another one I like. Seems like one of the most honest Eagles songs: they've dropped the phony sensitive boy schtick and revealed themselves as sleaze incarnate. "I could be wrong, but I'm not" is Henley's worldview in a nutshell. The drumming is leaden. When Walsh signed on, he tried to bring Joe Vitale on as a official member too, but he was only accepted as part of the road band. He would have been better here.

Roach fibbing a little to Crowe:

VICTIM OF LOVE
GLENN: That’s an Eagles track with no overdubs. It’s five pieces, live. For a band that did a lot of overdubbing and a lot of editing, it was a neat thing to do. We just said, “Look, let’s just cut this thing live and this will be it. It’ll be what it is.”

mixing tenses beautifully there

OMG how did I forget about this.

I just can't get into this song. I feel like somewhere between the irritating bounciness of Life in the Fast Lane and the overly contrived griminess of Victim of Love is the perfect song that I want to hear.

Five guys riffing in the studio *except that whole taking Felder out to the woodshed so Henley could do vocals*

i can't believe i'm saying this...but i might actually be the first person to crack under the pressure. of this thread. i am so sick of the eagles. i'll pull through. but i have a james gang cd on in the store and it sounds so amazing. what a great band.

Knowing that The Long Run is up next is why I'm still here.

Knowing that Hell Freezes Over East of Eden or whatever lurks after that, that's what gives me the cold shakes.

hold on, man! we're almost through the "classic" era. The real killing ground will be the 20 (!) tracks on "Long Road Out of Eden"

exactly!

By then we'll all be too busy being fabulous.

by the time this is over all of us will have identical little poodle head henley perms

god "Victim of Love" smothers me with its offhand sexism, dull drumming, tired riffs, and offhand sexism.