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

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.

This tune's okay - as unmemorable as any other 'gles filler, but more saccharine so I like it better. At least it's something.

otm about the shocking barrenness of their imperial phase though. I guess that's because the imperial phase is the Greatest Hits plus one single, which they somehow managed to spin into a rock legend, so you assume there must've been something behind the curtain all along.

wait

i had this mixed up with another (-future-) track

this is ok. a bit sugary but nice enough. would it have been more guitary as a joe solo song?

"scottie from star trek is also in this."

Gene Roddenberry, writer/producer of 'Pretty Maids,' looking out for his family.

it's weird that you get Walsh in the band but rather than having him tear it up on some rocker, he gets the sad waltz. It's like trading for Reggie Jackson and using him as a utility infielder. You get the sense that "Life's Been Good" was something he had but was like, 'nah, this is too good for the Eagles.'

^^^

The Eagles are the north korea of rock

lol didn't notice roddenberry produced it. this was vadim's next movie after barbarella, which kinda shocked me cuz i figured it was a ways down the line. crazy that the director of barbarella and the creator of star trek team up soon after and make an overegged forerunner to 80s teen sex comedies. i watched a few clips online, it's as awful and horrifying as you imagine, angie looks great though.

and yeah have zero doubt that he was saving the best stuff for solo albums. apparently this got cut from the long run - http://youtu.be/y8vOK6fuX9o - and then he reworked it for there goes the neighborhood.

You get the sense that "Life's Been Good" was something he had but was like, 'nah, this is too good for the Eagles.'

Wonder who threw who a bone that it shows up on the Live album?

"scottie from star trek is also in this."

Was a real-life childhood friend of my grandfather! (true)

The Eagles are the north korea of rock

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, October 6, 2013 10:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahahahaha. This should be a t-shirt, a bumper sticker, and on a banner flown behind a plane over every single one of their concerts.

Are you talking about this one, Iago?

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

― pplains, Sunday, October 6, 2013 12:26 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks, pplains--that's it....and thanks Scott for the background

"Life's Been Good" was easily the highlight of the show I had to review in '03. He wore a miner's helmet to signify his commitment to goofiness or something.

The Eagles are the north korea of rock

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, October 6, 2013 10:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahahahaha. This should be a t-shirt, a bumper sticker, and on a banner flown behind a plane over every single one of their concerts.

― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, October 6, 2013 11:49 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Where's my "Glenn Frey Looking At Things" tumblr?

Anyway, "Pretty Maids All In A Row": This sounds like Wings. I had that nice James Gang Greatest Hits set in the truck changer last week and you forget how McCartney-esque Walsh can be ("Midnight Man") so this isn't a surprise. It seems very Eagles that they bring Walsh in and allow him to make Henley/Frey songs rock, but forbid him to do so on his own showcase. As slow Joe songs go, this is on the less-memorable side.

I picked up the Pretty Maids movie awhile back in a Warner archive sale, but have yet to screen. If I remember I'll dig it up and check it out tonight.

I loved the movie - lotharios in cinema are compelling, and an oft-played archetype for secretly gay matinee idol Hudson
(cf. Warren Beatty in 'Shampoo', for one; David Duchovny in several roles starting with 'New Year's Day').

The song is sweet, though kind of dated -- better than most of the ballads that hit the charts that year.
(and fwiw 'Life's Been Good' was always a Joe song to me, never an Eagles song)

Wow. I'm almost mad at you guys for pointing out Henley's terrible drumming. It's like when someone says "do you hear that annoying beeping" but you hadn't noticed before then it's all you can hear.

Victim of Love, wow the drumming is just so terrible... No energy or creativity or flair. The choice to isolate some of those amateur hour fills is really puzzling

Pretty Maids I like OK! rare instance of then doing an unlikely and inspired choice. Song would seem to be perfect for Henley but have Joe's far less perfect voice gives the song a nice character, would have seemed too easy listening with Henley

Henley plays guitar or keyboards too, so who knows if maybe he only became reluctant drummer by default, like McCartney on bass. (Except Paul became a fabulous bassist, of course.)

Another little detail that was really driving me up a wall with Victim of Love was that that faux improvised way Henley says "....no I'm not" after "I could be wrong but I'm not" it's like dude I get it you are right stfu already

Xpost maybe... But his sticking with it is odd. I mean they were certainly willing to make changes to the lineup to correct what they thought were deficiencies...It had to be pretty obvious that Henley wasn't that God as a drummer, plus it was a liability live to stick essentially lead singer and leader behind the kit...

According to the doc, Henley started drumming from an early age, and it was definitely his instrument of choice.

The problem with his playing is that it's the very definition of "serviceable" -- it rarely overtly detracts from the song, and he plays the absolute bare minimum required to keep the song together. It's not even "good enough" -- it's just "enough."

Henley plays guitar or keyboards too, so who knows if maybe he only became reluctant drummer by default,

Not particularly proficient on any of these either: he's a songwriter dabbling with instruments. Except he's only written a handful of songs on his own. What a strange career.