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

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.

scott otm, james gang makes me look at the Eagles and go WTF did you fuckers DO to him

I've been making a playlist of keepers as we go along and it's become my default listening of choice, so I'm in to the bitter end here

now i know what all those people were talking about when they said they hated the eagles. i always thought it was just kinda fashionable to hate the eagles like being scared of clowns or hating mimes. but, man...they were really something. i really only knew the hits. i never really listened to the albums.

This is why Their Greatest Hits is their big seller. No one can listen to their albums.

my feelings about the eagles have remained more or less the same throughout this neverending torture experiment, which is why i wonder why i keep listening. there have been days i have ignored it, but i keep coming back.
i guess no one has ever given me a forum in which to discuss how much i hate the eagles, so here we are.

Ha, one day we are going to be out together and an Eagles song will come on and we'll both start crying and nobody will know why.

And we can't tell them why either.

found electrocuted in a bathtub just as "James Dean" fades out on the radio

"Too fast to live, too wet to dry"

This is the weakest "classic" era of a big classic rock band.... Sheesh. I was honestly expecting Hotel California to be an impressive all killer Rumours type thing

Can you imagine a "The Chain" string reprise on Rumours?

This is the weakest "classic" era of a big classic rock band.... Sheesh. I was honestly expecting Hotel California to be an impressive all killer Rumours type thing

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

^ this. I'm shocked actually.

Searched the thread and didn't see any reference to the old live clip of "Hotel California" they used to play on early MTV. Anyone know what that was from or where I could see it now? (Not on youtube as far as i could tell)

that was a promo video they made. pre-mtv promo video. to help sell the album overseas and everywhere. i guess it worked. if you listen to felder they were not livin' large until hotel california. then they blew up. but when they were making the album they were not money in the bank yet. i still want to see that new documentary. that's how sick i am...

you mean the documentary from last year? it's a really really good rock documentary, and liking the band is not at all a prerequisite for watching it.

you need to see the doc, skot

it might get you through another album at least -- I dunno that it'll get you to the end, I dunno if any of us will survive that...but it's worth a watch for sure

Are you talking about this one, Iago?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1971g_eagles-hotel-california_music

And I'm sorry, I can't stand hearing their Seven Bridges Road.

Same as everyone else for me as for everyone else - it's like Don was awakened at 4 a.m. and reminded he needed to overdub a drum part before the tapes are sent out for final mixdown this morning.

"Wasted Time (Reprise)" is like side two of Yellow Submarine condensed into one track.

"Pretty Maids All In A Row"

http://rpseawright.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/walsh_joe_mad_g_mp_576.jpg

http://youtu.be/4h11GolBkh8

*gasface*

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwCt3eV28EA/TSzlZa-0mZI/AAAAAAAAB9w/A_5RqQSCHq8/s1600/pretty-maids-all-in-a-row-movie-poster-1020237753.jpg

^ made tarantino's sight & sound ballot

features gram parson's widow as one of the pretty maids

this song is a begging for a (reprise)!

movie stars rock hudson as a hs football coach/guidance counselor who likes fucking his students. he also tries to help a hardup virgin dorkwad student by trying to set him up w/ angie dickinson, a substitute teacher. also features telly savalas, a cop hunting a serial killer who's been knocking off hot hs girls. *spoiler* rock hudson is apparently the serial killer. scottie from star trek is also in this.

song's alright, decent album track. curious what it would've sounded like as solo walsh.