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

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

wow , this song is nuts. i dig it. its about death by global warming. excellent chillwave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSxIX2BXwlE

and the instrumental prelude is called "silent spring". its really good.

yeah, the costas thing is dire. costas just makes me want to die when i look at him and hear him talk. i have such an allergy to him. but i watched half of it anyway.

the waves of condescension going back and forth in that interview must have been horrifying to witness

Lol

they should get married.

but listen to that frey song up above! dytopian nightmare lyrics!

i gotta search for a charlie rose/henley interview on youtube. that would be the smarm de la smarm.

mr and mr costas-frey

Looking at that "I Found Somebody" clip, I'll venture a guess that of all the Eagles, Frey was the most pleased by the prospect of MTV (Acting! Suits! Mugging! Babes!). Also, is it just me, or is there a "Tumbling Dice"-style vocal tug against the beat going on in the verses?

Lord, I ain't never seen weather like this
It's a hundred and ten in the shade
It feels like the devil moved here himself
To see the trouble he made

Everybody's 'bout to go insane
They're crazy from the heat
Nobody wants to go outside
There's danger in the street

It's gonna be a long, hot summer
People dream of leavin' town
Get ready for a long, hot summer
Feel the hammer comin' down, comin' down

You see the heat comin' up from the sidewalk
You can feel the temperature rise
All I see is a blazin' sun
Burning a hole in the sky

I never thought that it could be like this
24 hours a day
It's too hot to sleep, were in trouble so deep
And you know there's no running away

It's gonna be a long, hot summer
This place is like a burning hell
Get ready for a long, hot summer
There ain't no water in the well

It's a long, hot summer
A lot of sweat and misery
It's a long, hot summer
It's killin' you and killin' me

So you scream and shout, but there's no way out
You just live with a lock on your door
There's a fire in the sky and the earth is so dry
Like a cracking ground, you can't take anymore

It's three o clock in the morning
(Don't do it)
You wait for the sirens to moan
(Don't do it)
You stare at the trigger, but somehow you figure
You don't feel like dying alone
(Don't do it)

The mean streets are getting meaner
Everybody's got a gun
This ain't no city, it's a nightmare darlin'
Were all dying in the sun

It's gonna be a long, hot summer
People dream of leavin' town
Get ready for a long, hot summer
Feel the hammer comin' down

It's a long, hot summer
Never seen a drop of rain
It's a long, hot summer
Nothing's gonna kill the pain

anyone who can write the lyric "We're all dying in the sun" in their miami chillwave epic can't be all bad.

From the Bob Costas interview:

Lynn Turman 2 weeks ago

For all of you who are convinced Glenn Frey is some monster who always had to get his way & whose sole purpose was to destroy the lives of Bearnie Leadon, Randy Meisner, and Don Felder? Watch this.

In the wild: our next selection on a jukebox in a noisy diner.

Costas: [smug long boring question] *does something smug with his stupid face* *YOU SECRETLY ENVY MY LUSTROUS HAIR AND KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICS, FREY*
Frey: [smug long boring answer] *does something smug with his stupid face* *I COULD CRUSH YOUR SKULL BETWEEN MY TEETH WITH MY MANLY JAW, COSTAS*

The Long Run is too cheesy for me. Would be fine if it was an actual soul record, but in this arrangement it sounds more like something the teachers' band would play as a finale at the school talent contest.

The various bridges are good though and the slide guitar works well. But it wouldn't've worked if it had been all bridge, and the rest is too jaunty to be interesting, so into the dud pile it goes.

"I Can't Tell You Why"

http://www.timothybschmitonline.com/images/lrsunning.jpg

http://youtu.be/H0oaISkCPQ0

luv this song. i don't think i even knew it was eagles for years. always loved hearing it on the rsdio. you get to hear this on AM radio as well as FM radio. love the guitar. the drums sound like a drum machine so i like them. this should definitely go in the chillout lite rock hall of fame. sounds like something someone made at home back then not like a million dollar production.

basically love the fact that if you didn't know it was eagles you'd never guess it was them in a million years.

plus, shout-out to glenn frey for the guitar solo and the fender rhodes playing!

http://www.redtelephone66.com/albumart/glad.jpg