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

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.

Heard this immediately followed by Henley's New York Minute whilst out yesterday

yeah this song is totally alright with me
it has that "play misty for me" smooth late nite radio feel

It's just hit me that, if the catalogue can be got into any kind of sensible order, the next track-by-track should be Elvis.

i'm pretty sure elvis recorded about 27,856 songs.

god, i just got the shivers thinking about doing an elvis costello listening thread. that would kinda be hell for me.

every once in a while out of nowhere in my head i'll hear "VerONicaaaaaaa..." and i want to go track that guy down and give him a talking to.

Love this. His voice reminds me of Smokie or something reaaaaaal easy like that. That first line hooks me completely

and fuuuuuuuck Frey & Henley for making TBS' moment in the sun all about them. gag

"here'e your hit, bitch, now go clean the pool."

TBS in interviews is totally a company man. you'd think he had started the band with those guys.

he's mr get along with everyone /hey it's just music/ anyone want to come over my wife made spaghetti

DON: Tim, we're out of spaghetti. You mind if we use your hair?

TIM: Naw, man. It's cool!

Every time we're out of spag-het-ti
I give my hair to He-ne-ley
And I can't tell you why

This is a great song, and second only to "Journey of the Sorceror" as something I'd never guess was the Eagles. Love the production too - listen to the intro riff which repeats four times, twice with a Fender Rhodes before changing to an electric guitar, with a Hammond organ embellishment that comes in and then fades into a synth.

Everything in this song works. For once, the solos don't sound like just noodling (those string bends are great), even Henley's
extra snare hits at 2:59. Fine lyrics too, a mature love song. Schmit did write some songs previously, including one of Poco's biggest hits "Keep On Tryin'", but this is better.

Wow, this is truly excellent. Very good song, well-developed through the various changes; nice understated arrangement, well played Frey; good playing throughout, the odd leaden Henley drop quite forgiveable in context; and the smoothest of production, nice doubling in places to give more texture without making the track too busy. Great vocal of course. I can imagine being in a vaguely noirish lounge while this plays, maybe half-a-dozen lone guys and a sympathetic broad serving drinks; would be a good night.

No idea that this was coming but that's a very promising start to the album (though we've heard that before).

Feelin the keyboard on this one

A stone classic. Like many here, I didn't know this was the Eagles for the longest time. I used to think it was some one-hit Female artist like, I dunno, Karla Bonoff or somebody. But no, it's Tim B's big moment. It's kind of amusing that in the interviews Frey's all like "we kept trying to find a good song for Randy" and then they actively strike gold w/Tim right out the gate. In the context of this album it feels like an odd choice for track two. It would fit better at the end of side 1 or (better still) closing the album. But we got some Henley/Frey shitwhiches on that real estate.

TBS Poco jam: http://youtu.be/iF1j8Y0zw6w

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.

Did not know this before but feel like a better person knowing it now!

TBS wrote Keep On Tryin *and* sang on Africa?

awesome

Joe Walsh playing the synths on this one.

Schmitt's journeyman/company man qualities are exactly why I don't like "I Can't Tell You Why" as much as most of you. He sounds pallid and blank.

Schmit toured with Jimmy Buffett, in 1983, 1984, and 1985 as a member of the Coral Reefer Band, and coined the term "Parrotheads" to describe Buffett's fans.

xpost you sound, etc

Schmitt sings on half of Gene Clark's No Other!

Schmitt's journeyman/company man qualities are exactly why I don't like "I Can't Tell You Why" as much as most of you. He sounds pallid and blank.

otm. i'd like to hear randy sing this one.

jesus you guys we were so close to consensus! that might be as close as we ever come...

as close to positive consensus

Well, yeah

i thought "one of these nights" was the positive consensus pick!

yeah that one too. though there were still probably a couple of nay votes.

Yeah, fuck that song. Never liked it.

I didn't ride for OoTN either.

buncha contrarians

For me, it just has so many elements of what I hate about the Eagles: flumpfy sound, stiff drumming, forced/awkward ad-libs ("we're gonna find out, pretty mama").

(I guess "I Can't Tell You Why" has flumpfy sound too, but in that context, it works. Flumpf does not work when you're trying to rock out.)

wait, i can't remember anyone saying they HATED "hotel california" the song. or maybe i'm forgetting. everyone likes the guitars on it anyway.

tarfumes, got a sealed copy of this the other day. debating whether i should put it online or keep it. i've never actually heard it!

http://www.discogs.com/Joe-McPhee-Tenor/release/1796127

Do you know Roatario Records slot? My friend runs it he's put out some records by him in recent years

Had no idea "Tell Me What You Dream" was T.B. Schmit. Tim gets himself everywhere!

"In The City"

http://www.weiunderpar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/the-warriors.jpg

http://youtu.be/2SrXi1SsFgg

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

Walsh's vocal annoys me; he strains.

Love it

Is this different than the version in the Warriors that is billed as a solo Walsh track? Sounds the same