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

Dear god I hate wonderful christmastime

now imagine Glenn Frey singing "Wonderful Christmastime" over the same arrangement.

might be mccartney's greatest crime against humanity.

SimpLY HaaVING a Wonderful Chug All Nite

its like throwing a bomb that just keeps exploding for decades.

Like a landmine, eh?

"At any moment, children in Bosnia are in danger of hearing a song recorded 35 years ago..."

as dire as "Wonderful Xmastime" is, any recording of "The 12 Days of Xmas" trumps it in relentless, unending awfulness for me.

i gotta admit i kinda like the chipmunks version of 12 days.

http://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=vxz2cRYnZoA

Xmas in October
Jesus Christ
In reverse

Um, I don't think that link goes where you think that link was supposed to go.

I didn't see any Christmas songs, at least.

LOL, what happened there

it's nowhere near the best version of this song ... but maybe Don was emboldened to try it after his recent faux-soul exercise.

there should also be a hall of fame for any major artists who does NOT succumb to pressure to release a Christmas song...

Thought I had one, but I was waaaay off.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T1GNA129L._SY300_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-5-rCoraGc

dang, I really thought I got that one right as a link. sorry.

I didn't need to see these people in bathing suits around a condo pool.
lol, that's the best part about this song! agree that it should be sprinkled with oocaine (going to refer to it as oocaine from now on).

I listened to 30 sec of this and had to jump ship. I have an extreme allergic reaction to Christmas songs unless they are being sung by Muppets.

Only way that pic could've been better is if they had all been dressed like cowboys down at the saloon, but still gathered around the oocaine-sprinkled Beverly Hills cabana pool.

I think I just described a Pavement video, so nevermind.

ooooocaine
witchy woman

oh! i forgot to mention that i had an eagles-related sleep disturbance last night! i woke up in the middle of the night (as i often do) and the only thing i could think about -- like a persistent recurring thought -- was the part at the end of "take it to the limit" where someone goes OOOOHHHH really high. imagine that on a constant loop at 3am. that, amigos, is hell.

earworms razed the mind
nobody caught 'em

i kept hearing HC guitar duel in my head all day yesterday. definitely feeling the eagles nightmares.

Anyone else think this sounds like a knockoff of "Oh! Darling"?

(of course, the original Charles Brown song predates OD by a decade so it could be argued the opposite is true)

http://youtu.be.com/watch?v=itdNoGtPQ3I

"Please Come Home For Christmas": This is a nice reading. They don't embarrass themselves. This was put out as a stopgap between HC & TLR. In Take It To The Limit, it's reported that the label offered them a massive amount of money to get the latter finished so they could have it in stores for xmas '78, but our heroes said "No" and gave them this single instead.

Jerry Maguire was in theaters during xmas '96:

PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
DON: When I was growing up in East Texas, there were basically two radio stations that were interesting. There was KEEL in Shreveport, Louisiana, which I listened to in the daytime. Then there was the legendary WNOE in New Orleans, which I could pick up at night when the station boosted its signal. It broadcasted this wonderful, eclectic mix of music which was like nothing I had ever heard on the pop stations in Texas. WNOE is where I first heard Charles Brown’s original version of “Please Come Home For Christmas.” It always stuck with me. Our version was very much like the original.

GLENN: We were in the middle of The Long Run album, and we weren’t going to finish anytime soon. So we cut a Christmas record in Miami. It was a fall day, by the way, and it was hot as hell. Perfect for a Christmas record.

it's interesting how the pace of releases has slowed since the '70s. Taking two or three years between records used to be a huge deal, a sign to record cos. that the artist was getting lost in the studio(didn't Stevie Wonder put out ads apologizing for how long it took him put out "Songs in the Key of Life"?)

It was t-shirts:

There was huge anticipation for the new album which was initially scheduled for release around October 1975. It was delayed on short notice when Wonder felt that further remixing was essential. According to Stevie Wonder, the marketing campaign at Motown decided to take advantage of the delay by producing "We're almost finished" t-shirts.[6]

Ha, found this about the album we just finished on wiki while looking for something else (which turned out not to be on wiki):

While the band were recording the album, Black Sabbath were also recording the album Technical Ecstasy in an adjacent studio at Criteria Studios in Miami. The band were forced to stop recording on numerous occasions because Black Sabbath were too loud and the sound was coming through the wall.

http://flaggedforfollowup.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345201fa69e20133ec683d8a970b-500wi

xmas song doesn't do much more me.

bring on funky new year! that's gotta be good, right? eagles, funkiness, new years...what could go wrong?

Ha, found this about the album we just finished on wiki while looking for something else (which turned out not to be on wiki):

While the band were recording the album, Black Sabbath were also recording the album Technical Ecstasy in an adjacent studio at Criteria Studios in Miami. The band were forced to stop recording on numerous occasions because Black Sabbath were too loud and the sound was coming through the wall.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, October 9, 2013 1:55 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sabbath's worst Ozzy album. Now we know why!

The coke going around at Criteria that month must have been plentiful. Then again it was the 70's, in Miami at a recording studio, so probably not an incremental difference.

Buckets of oocaine came complimentary with the purchase of recording services.

"Sabbath's worst Ozzy album. Now we know why!"

proximity to Eagles! it all makes sense now.

The album included "Dirty Women", which remains a live staple, as well as Ward's first lead vocal on the song "It's Alright".[51]

"Guys! I was just watching next door and you won't believe what their drummer was doing!"

i like "it's alright" a lot - it's basically a solo lennon tune

I like both Its Alright and Dirty Women. Some of the other stuff is not great. They bounced back for Ozzy's swan song though.

dudes, total in the wild freakiness: i'm sitting on the front porch and i hear that loud eagle cry and an actual eagle flies toward me from across the street and goes over my house. a little scary. you think don sent it?

did the eagle hit on your girlfriend/steal your coke y/n

did the eagle have a curly little topknot?

IT WAS DON.
http://youtu.be/S4YZ45xqoTY

bald eagles adore oocaine iirc

"One of These Nights" is currently playing in the House of Pies I'm sitting in.

one of these pies
one of these crazy round pies

crusty round pies, dammit.

"One Of These Pies" kind of a superior title in my opinion.

You're gonna find out
that it's rhubarb
When you turn on the lights

Don: You see, the pie is a metaphor for the sweetness masking the corrupt nature of...