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

lol @ yt screengrabs

http://i.imgur.com/KR6dqu8.png

http://youtu.be/UuWpqmTR2uw

http://i.imgur.com/laks1.gif

the last #1 album of the Seventies, right? which seems appropriate (I remember my dad got this and "Tusk" around the same time and was disappointed w/ both of them)

OOOH FA FA FA FIND OUT

Knocked In Through the Out Door out of the No.1 spot. Two of the biggest bands of the 70s and their swan songs fighting to be the last of the decade.

I wonder sometimes if Joe misses his buddy.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfstm1_eagles-the-long-run_music

Meanwhile Tusk never hit #1.

I can't argue with any of the insightful, positive comments any of you have made, but boy I just do not like this song. It grates on me in what I now recognize is a very Eagles kind of way. This makes it even worse: Knocked In Through the Out Door out of the No.1 spot. I mean, I wouldn't go to the mat for In Through the Out Door in an argument about best Led Zeppelin albums but it's a damn sight better than The Long Run (and, spoiler alert, I have a lot of good things to say about tomorrow's song).

i like four songs on inthroughtheoutdoor more than any eagles song.

Fuuuck, just thought of what an Eagles Mexican Reggae version of Fool in the Rain would sound like.

Just to be sure, I played "In the Evening" a few minutes. Yep, it's better.

Man that slide playing is slick

Coming into this I thought my own take on the eagles would be a good country rock band that sold out to fame & FM gold

But honestly they were a mediocre country rich band and their stuff like this was better

[thoughtful pause]

Obviously a lie. Don's never had one of these in his entire life. Should read [thoughtless pause].

OOOH FA FA FA FIND OUT

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, October 11, 2013 9:45 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, always found this unintentionally hilarious, like "Alright! Nighty-night!" on "Already Gone." Motherfuckers couldn't ad-lib for shit.

Good God, didn't the '70s teach them ANYTHING?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWPJx7sooR4

I unabashedly love this song AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT

Also weirdly the intro reminds me of Huey Lewis and the News 'If This is It', don't ask me why

^ I like that In the Long Run miles better than the Eagles In the Long Run xp

the two 'in the long run's are not in the same league AT ALL
that goes without saying
somewhere along the way
come a rainy day

Also weirdly the intro reminds me of Huey Lewis and the News 'If This is It', don't ask me why

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), F

OMIGOD I HAVE LONG THOUGH THIS TOO

or "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" – you expect the Eagles to go "oooh why don't you tune in and turn them up" after "In THE LOOOONG RUNN"

shared ancestry

I hope y'all know they had a great blueprint for today's song: http://youtu.be/ZTP322AhAdI (supposedly Seger's cover on Nine Tonight was done to give credit where it was due)

The Eagles' rip-o...homage is nice lightweight single. This is the album where they returned to making fine gas'n'go Friday night singles. It bops along nicely, and for once they're not too much out of their depth. The Houston shout-out is cool; Frey's wife at the time was a deb from Dallas, so that's probably where that came from (City rivalry yo).

That's interesting. I always thought that was a weird line. Debutantes? Houston? What?

Abstract dig at Rolling Stone critics.

I didn't know that Frey was married at the time: are you sure about that? that seems unlikely: more like whichever chick he was with and would cheat on at a moment's notice. I once was told by someone with firsthand knowledge that on tour in the early 70s, Frey went AWOL for several days, having holed up some place in the south with some chicks and tons of blow: they had to cancel shows cuz no one knew where he was.

I just A/B-ed the Tyrone Davis and Otis Clay cuts, and yeah, they totally ripped off the latter. While I am not on the "glenn is a jock asshole" bandwagon (fuily on board with "Don is a pompous, litigious pseud") perhaps he passive-aggressively but still bitch-assedly gives credit to the davis cut cuz people pointed out his xerox of Clay?

but yeah, this commences the best eagles rekkid. they don't like it, everyone sez they ran out of gas, and so of course it's gonna be the ILM fave. I can't wait to see what you think of two under-played gems, absolute marvels of elegant, creepy hypocrisy.

"Disco Strangler" is a horror but we'll get there soon enough.

"glenn is a jock asshole"

he's scottish?

never forget:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/ozeagle/Solo%20Years/RockHard.jpg

i was coming here to say i had never noticed, until this morning, how good a soul pastiche this was. then i listened to the otis clay song and, yeah, wow. pastiche is no longer the exact word that comes to mind.

but it works. it's a good single.

do Frey and Henley still drink? I'm curious about the bibulous habits of aging libertines.

I didn't know that Frey was married at the time: are you sure about that? that seems unlikely: more like whichever chick he was with and would cheat on at a moment's notice.

In To The Limit it's reported that Frey got married in the late '70s to a society girl from Dallas. However, in the text we don't learn her name or much about her other than she was a debutante and that Frey felt he was courting "an American Princess". Later on it's revealed that as part of his "cleaning up" in the '80s he divorced her and quickly wed a dancer from one of his videos, whom I presume he is still with. We don't get her name either, and Frey's wiki page has no "relationships/personal life" section. Instead, we get this:

Frey's first appearance as an actor in a commercial was for Pepsi with Miami Vice star Don Johnson. Another notable commercial campaign was the "Hard Rock in the 70s, Rock Hard in the 80s" gym campaign of 1988, which featured a photograph of a newly physically toned Frey contrasted with the famous Hotel California insert photograph. He even did a picture spread in Rolling Stone modeling ski wear, and a spread in Penthouse modeling sweaters.

"hard rock"
i am so sure

the same person that I cited above says that they do drink—or at least did when he told me this, in '08. They never had to go to rehab (or not that he or most people in a informed position knows about) and moderated their intake fairly quickly into the '80s. The ad campaign illustrated by Tarfumes was indicative of Frey's lifestyle, not bullshit. Henley was disgusted by it, but who knows what Frey thinks of Henley's association with the Country Bears?

He also told me that Henley is a big, possibly problem, gambler: don't remember what his game is. That's his big secret: inconsistent with the Recording artist's Coalition, Walden Woods Project, but vaguely congruent with doing that which Roman Polanski did. With two underage girls!

they're in their sixties so I imagine wine after the show to go with the handjob is the way they roll

Glenn: It's not just wine and a hand job, it's an EAGLES Hotel California label vino by the glass and a hand job.

DON: the handjob is really a metaphor, though.

GLENN: no it isn't.

DON: well, yeah.

do they still have their "Third Encore" crew at Eagles shows? when i heard that story it seemed so diabolical. but lots of bands did similar things.

note to Monsieur Seward: there's a cobbled together cut on the "Collected Works" box set called "Long Run Leftovers" that I'll leave it to you to incorporate, as well as "born to boogie" a shitty John Lee hooker jam, and "random Victims" a track of them fucking around in the studio drunk, coked-up, and bored that will be catnip for the haters here. weird that I found these tracks on YT as fast as I did, and indeed that you have evidently had no difficulty posting tunes, as in past years Henley and co. has been very aggressive in getting shit off the computer real fast.

again, somebody suggested that the tunes unique to Eagles Live, "seven bridges road" "All Night long" and "Life's been good" might follow up the Long Run. and I think a selection of solo shit would be good before the dreaded "get over it," which still isn't as bad as Henley's vile "garden of allah."

don henley is a weirdo. what happened to him? maybe some people are just born that way. wonder what his parents were like.

i could do the leftovers stuff after the last cut on the long run, i guess.

when do we begin our mass exodus to the new messageboard?

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/forum/index.php?s=90f9fe14a926c4d34987488fa3c91626&

http://i.imgur.com/H5VQoqr.jpg

Sighting: "Peaceful Easy Feeling" as background music in a mid-city LA coffee bar this afternoon.

Veronica I listened to random victim on YouTube lord that was one of the grating things I've ever heard

i had a terrible headache driving home today and I put on the Eagles complete greatest hits in the background -- it was like taking an ibuprofen, just chilled my brain right out lol

How's your stomach?

even solo glenn couldn't live without the braindead drum sound...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UxNzlE8ZRk

xpost I skipped the Get Over It etc, so stomach's all good

Ha, that almost sounds like what Glenn's demo of The Long Run must've sounded like before Don & Co. got a hold of it.

watching battle of the smarm. frey and bob costas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1quzu9KVU

not even with a gun pointed to my head