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

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

different recording but the arrangement is the same, walsh sounds more beat down in the original to me and the little production details tend to be more buried

I don't like this. It reaches a point where you think it must change or stop, but it just goes on and on; like a bowling ball on an infinite alley.

But Joe sounds a lot like Neil Young I reckon. Roughen up the guitars, make the solo muddier but more epic, have it lurch in tempo at least once, and it could be a Neil song I don't like instead.

lol apparently henley and frey liked the original and decided 'that should be an eagles record' so they got walsh to rerecord it w/ them w/o really changing anything. it's not only on the long run but also apparently on hell freezes over. despite this nobody thinks of this as an 'eagles' song. warriors > eagles.

i like this bcz joe

o wow the desmond child track on the soundtrack is some bad bruce. always figured the springsteenisms in bon jovi came from growing up in jersey but maybe there was an additional vector. anyhow pplains before you pipe up about how you don't think 'in the city' really works at the end of the warriors (strong disagreement here obv) give this thing a listen and imagine michael beck on that beach while this plays: http://youtu.be/G9_kFDYW9EE

haha, ok, compared to that, they could've played space age whiz kids at the end of the warriors and it wouldn't be worse than that.

i'm gonna admit that i am not 100% sure i knew that this was the eagles before today

i did know that i didn't like it

i think 90% of me liking it is the Warriors association, the other 10% is just because Frey/Henley didn't write it

Strongest opening to an Eagles album yet. Pretty sure it's downhill from here....

Like "Desperado", this is a well-known non-single/non-hit

I just watched that final scene of the Warriors again. COME ON.

Has nothing to do with the rest of this thread, but a buddy of mine instagrammed a pic of him and Michael Beck last week. Looks pretty much exactly the same.

apparently reagan loved the warriors and called up michael beck after screening it at camp david to tell him so

yet in his diary he complained how 9 to 5 had disappointed him. Instead of watching the girls get drunk we get a scene in which they get high on pot.

not a fan of star trek III iirc

"In The City": Like This. Easily the better of his two initial Eagles spotlights (but not as good as the brand new Eagles-esque solo track he'd have in a movie the next year and share on Live). Some old problems arise as the coda should have been faded earlier.

Crowe w/the one Eagle who didn't get a spot on the FTARH soundtrack:

IN THE CITY
GLENN: Of all the songs we were considering for the album, I always loved this one of Joe’s. An earlier solo version had been in the movie The Warriors, but it wasn’t that widely known. I always liked the song and thought it could have been an Eagles record, and so we decided to make it one.

in the wild: i saw tarfumes the escape goat today and he kept reminding me in public that i listen to the eagles every day. also, he has never seen the warriors. he's really gotta get on that.

wtf tarfumes

Were ... people listening?

A reminder that ILM is not as real life: I was trying to explain this whole Eagles project to a friend the other night: what I get out of it, how interesting it was to listen to the details, to work out exactly why they aren't that great, etc. The reminiscence I got in return was about how an ex-girlfriend's dad had really loved the Eagles, and he remembered going to her house and hearing them there, and he didn't know that much of their stuff but there was one song he did like ... Hello California, that one.

lool

hello california
is it me you're looking for

he's been listening to the eagles every day too iirc?!
also over the edge is better for teens wilding out to 70s rock music imo

DON: We've heard about this website that's gone through the trouble of listenin' to every one of our tunes.

GLENN: On one level, we're proud people are talking about our work. On the other hand, how many of these people have smoked the finest cheeba, flown in a Lear, and have gotten the pussy we have?

DON: Well, yeah.

done, done, and done

down here we all chug

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CFbgRSAxoY0/UAoG3bzsugI/AAAAAAAAAz8/y_EM1KFBWdc/s1600/pennywise_the_clown.jpg

"Were ... people listening?"

sorta. its just too hard to explain to people. luckily we were surrounded by people who are quite fond of the both of us and would have probably looked the other way just this once. it was nice to see him though. it always is.

over the edge is my favorite movie when all is said and done. but the warriors is definitely up there too.

in the wild: i saw tarfumes the escape goat today and he kept reminding me in public that i listen to the eagles every day. also, he has never seen the warriors. he's really gotta get on that.

― scott seward, Sunday, October 13, 2013 5:48 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf tarfumes

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, October 13, 2013 5:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I KNOW, I KNOW, I'M ON IT.

Kinda like this song, maybe because I can only think of it as a Joe Walsh joint, and I don't actively hate anything Joe Walsh has done. I don't love anything he's done either (give or take a James Gang track or two; and the fact that he gave Pete Townshend the Gretsch/Fender Bandmaster rig Pete used on everything from Who's Next on). But I always dug the groove on this, and I'm wondering if it's actually Joe Vitale, and not Don behind the kit.

I'll bet Vitale is playing on the soundtrack version - whoever's playing sounds more like a studio groove dude than Henley's dull thudding on the Eagles version.

"The Disco Strangler"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eaglesVB10.jpg

http://youtu.be/wuGdtVELyq4

"strangled" is how Henley's vocal sounds. I understand he's trying something new but – ugh ugh ugh

What is it that he's trying? This one is so bad, I can't believe they thought it worth putting any of it together. Even the riff is rubbish.

wtf is this? Wasn't "Long Run" allegedly the product of two perfectionist years ensconced in the studio? And yet track four sounds like a shitty studio demo with a wonky guide vocal.

as with their barely-remade "In the City" it's a sign the band had nothing in the tank, even by their standards.

I recall that a friend & I cracked up around 1983 (a year 'disco' was the height of uncool, at least in Virginia) when we were looking through record sleeves and saw this one. "Oooh-- the Disco Strangler!" Image of a killer wearing the Travolta white polyester suit.

that their vaunted quality control is discarded so that they try something completely misbegotten and gacked-up-to-the-goddamn-gills, with this song and two on the side 2, is why I like this record more than the preceding. It's nasty, brutish and short. they look at disco like they look at women and other challenges to their imperial primacy, so they make this mutant version. Never really tried to parse what Don's talking about here, but that they were so coked up that they thought this should make it on the record is endearing.

It's a tragedy that SCTV couldn't get the clearance for this in the Cruisin' Gourmet sketch.

What balls for Henley to sing this one all the while paying no mind to the actual beat and rhythm of the song. It's like he's strangling disco.

But say what you will, at least this one's over and out. Meisner would've never wrote something like this, but if he had, it would've gone on at least to the 5:49 mark.

Does a band that recorded "One Of These Nights" have a right to strangle disco in the first place?

Pretty sure Glenn Frey's choked himself on more than one occasion.

Sounds like one of Henley's more creative beats. Or, more accurately, this is Henley's one creative beat.

But yeah, total throwaway b-side material. Took them three years to come up with 42 minutes of music, and they still had to hijack a Joe joint and put this afterthought on.