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

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

Used beautifully in Shoot the Moon, and, yeah, I didn't know it was an Eagles tune for years.

When I saw'em live Frey reprised his Fender ticklin.

i'm in the club that didn't know it was the Eagles until maybe 1988 or so---thought it was Leo Sayer or Eddie Rabbit or someone. It really does seem to be by Tim Schmit and a group of session guys, like "Sorcerer" & Bernie.

Frey's "The One You Love" seems to be in part a rewrite of it, with worse vocals.

in the doc, there's a Frey noblesse oblige moment. He recalls playing the riff on his Fender, then looking at Schmit and saying "There's your hit!"

DON: Timothy came in with the title and other bits and pieces. Glenn and I just wanted to surround it with everything we could. Glenn came up with that wonderful counterpart, very much a soul-record type thing, “Try to keep your head, little girl.” Glenn also composed and played that great guitar solo.

GLENN: Timothy joined the band and the real challenge, as Don and I saw it, was to get a piece of material for him that wasn’t country. So we got him over to LaFontaine, and the three of us got down to work. I said, “You could sing like Smokey Robinson. Let’s not do a Richie Furay, Poco-sounding song. Let’s do an R&B song.” He said, “Sure, love to try!” Some of those crazy moments happen when you just go over to the piano and jam. There I was, brave as a Budweiser, going right to the piano and saying, “Well, how ’bout something like this?” That’s another one of my absolute favorite Eagles songs. It’s got the mood. It’s got the “Ooh baby, baby” vocal. But, again, counterpoint — with Don and I singing against he melody and the understated, brilliant guitar stylings of yours truly [laughs]. It’s another song that people love in our live show. Since it is a ballad, we are not playing too loud and can hear the audience. Timothy starts, and there are thousands of people singing, “Look at us, baby…”

I, too, love this song. Other songs I've liked so far (save JOURNEY OF THE SORCERER, which is weirdly wonderful in its own right) I've liked in the context of this thread but this one stands up all on its own. It's no secret I'm a big fan of AM Gold/Yacht Rock, so I'm sure that colors my view of this one. Glenn's bloviation makes me a little ill but I love the guitar and backing vocals on this as much as I love Timothy B. Schmidt's white boy falsetto.

I was reading about TBS and he's a studio backing vocals champ. He sang on Toto's Africa and Just Remember I Love You by Firefall, which is another song I lovelovelove.

I didn't know it was the Eagles either, until around 2000 or so. In that way, it reminds me of "Train In Vain," as both songs were all over WLS-AM at the same time, but I didn't know who the bands were until years later.

in the doc, there's a Frey noblesse oblige moment. He recalls playing the riff on his Fender, then looking at Schmit and saying "There's your hit!"

"Wait, did I say 'your' hit? I meant mine! It's mine! I own it! And all the subsidiary rights!"

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

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 11, 2013 2:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Song proves this point pretty well.

brave as a Budweiser

hero

Kinda digging this cover (and I think that's Timothy in the video...?)
http://youtu.be/JmtuL386nnY

But yeah, easily the best thing the Eagles ever did.

DON: We felt bad for Tim. He didn't really write songs, didn't get girls, was not what I consider a studly looking man. We wanted to give'em a piece of the action.

GLENN: By this point we could give lightweights our shit and it'll smell like gold.

DON: Well, yeah.

Sounds like Timmy tried to go back to that well at least one other time:
http://youtu.be/GGZx5ZHixkI

This song is pretty much unimpeachable to me. This and one of these nights are the best tracks they ever did. Guitar solo redeems the existence of Frey. It's like the surface tension if water.

Now time to listen to toto iv and try to hear TBS.