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

i could imagine liking 'dirty laundry' if it was an instrumental, that initial murky few seconds before the high synth hook comes in reminds me of the beginning of 'juke box hero' in a weird way.

Wait I thought All She Wants... was about Vietnamese hookers?!

End of the Innocence is murderous. Robbie Robertson, if he heard it, would be like, "man, pompous much?" I like "Dirty Laundry" just for that keyboard hook---it drowns out the song's Henleyness.

Hey, y'all. Heard you had a bad day on the Eagles thread. Sorry 'bout that. Hope this makes up for it.

http://vimeo.com/76914676

I accidentally clicked flag post instead of the the link when I tried to view that the first time

me = otm

i love the sound of dirty laundry. always will. its pretty dope. just sample the shit out of that opening riff and get rid of henley. is my advice. but i can't deny how cool it sounds to me. probably the idea of whoever played keyboards on it.

Itt Joe Walsh teaches me that the answer to flares is high-waters.

scott otm re: "Dirty Laundry." I didn't associate it with the Eagles for years, even knowing that it was Henley, and knowing Henley was in the Eagles. Also, best production on an Eagles-associated record up to that point.

"King Of Hollywood"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eaglesLRTB03.jpg

http://youtu.be/5xdnmEqIAHU

don't think this song is long enough.....................................................

building the perfect beast made rolling stone's best albums of the 80s (just behind marshall crenshaw's debut, just ahead of, brace yrself, sign o the times), when i was a kid i chalked it up to lol rolling stone but knowing now that jann wenner apparently hated the eagles i have no idea, maybe it is decent

― balls, Monday, October 14, 2013 7:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It got four (four-and-a-half?) stars in 1984, which indeed was something for an Eagle in Rolling Stone. It made a lot of Eagles-haters, myself included, sit up and take notice. I never heard the whole record, but the singles are all pretty ace. "The Boys Of Summer" sounds dated as shit, but I still love it. It was like he crammed every positive, sentimental, non-douchey quality he'd ever expressed in the Eagles -- and there were a small handful at most -- into one song.

Wow that picture. Eagles hairvolution is something to behold.

i like both guitar solos in dirty laundry too. joe walsh and then steve lukather. i do like that whole song. the mechanized kick'emwhenthey'reup chorus thing. perfect 1982 pop single. i can imagine electro-funk people digging it.

everyone loves boys of summer. thank god another hired hand guitarist gave him that song to do.

Hey I don't hate this song! It's smooooooth and groovy. The Eagles should have just been a soft rock band, like Ambrosia, from the beginning.

I've never been happier to hear Glenn Frey's voice appear on an Eagles record.

silkscarf monkey google search disappointed

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mvNQBdi6ZX_3aIzv_7mMGww.jpg

This song is three seconds shorter than Hotel California. For the first time in six albums, I can say that it sure didn't feel like a really long song.

wow, they should've given bottles of hand sanitizer to anyone who bought this record.

This one slightly works for me (well, until "his jacuzzi runneth over"). Maybe it's just that with creeps like Frey and Henley in character as a different caste of creep---coked-out rockers acting out Hollywood casting-couch scenarios--it makes the typical Eagles sleaze seem toxic here. The vocal in the verses, with Henley sounding slightly altered (maybe he had a cold) and Frey dubbed above him, sounds like a ransom message. One too many guitar solos, and near the end we get the Henley standard cymbal crashes-lumpy tom fills, as if Azoff mandated they appear at least three times per side.

Frey rocking the New Wave skinny tie look? Henley looks like he's been holding in gas since 1969

don't look back, you can never look back.

& Walsh looking like a late 70s porn actor regretting his life's choices

"What have I done?! I used to be a porn star...and now I'm in the EAGLES?! Ugh, fuck my life."

Joe Walsh was one of the first shows I ever saw. He opened up for Stevie Nicks at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock on his "You Bought It, You Name It" tour. That was also the first record that I'd ever sell back at a record store. Wore the shirt for a long time though.

At one point during "Space Age Whiz Kids", they turned out all the lights and the band was wearing these neon plur-lookin' lights. Joe was ahead of his time.

Liberty DeVitto was playing drums for Nicks on that tour. It's the closest I've ever been to seeing Billy Joel live.

I'm almost touched by the poignancy : boomer cuts hair, remains asshole.

this is a dirge

it is a dirge. a sleazy yet elegant dirge, with that guitar phrase coming in one at a time to combine in three-part harmony. I think Don acquits himself just fine on the drooms, and I quite like Glenn's high harmony.

and yes here's where he has the brass balls to critique Hollywood lowlifes for predatory behavior towards chicks, which is super amusing in light of the quaalude incident soon to come.

I love this song for the creepiness, the finger-pointing hypocrisy, the guitar playing, the hermetic, expensive L.A. airlessness. This and one other on side 2 is what some ILxor on the Long Run thread I started in my first days here on ILM described as making up "dark heart" of the record.

Hey I don't hate this song! It's smooooooth and groovy. The Eagles should have just been a soft rock band, like Ambrosia, from the beginning.

― carl agatha, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 9:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ambrosia was a prog band when they started out. No kidding! And a good one.

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR_62HiZuXI)

If only the band, and those still willing to pay to see them, could GET OVER IT ...
http://www.rocknycliveandrecorded.com/2013/10/the-eagles-american-airlines-center-dallas-texas-october-11-2013-reviewed.html

Heard an interview with Patty Griffin on the radio. She's a real sweetheart. Anyway, at one point she tells the interviewer that the older she gets, the less she knows, and the guy responds with "just like Don Henley sang." And there was this three seconds or so of silence that basically served as a tacit "what the fuck are you talking about?" And then the guy goes on to sing a few lines from "The Heart of the Matter," and you can tell Griffin is both totally lost but, because she's a sweetheart, totally humoring the interviewer. Because clearly she had never heard anyone quote Don Henley lyrics before, let alone ever given them a moment's thought.

I do dig the groove here, there's a proper sleazy lounge vibe to it. It's the one time I could see this being a Fleetwood Mac number, meaning Bob Welsh era of course. Terrible lyrics though and the phrasing is far too samey and obvious. This is Henley singing? How can you tell?

I've kept them to myself mostly, but a lot of these Eagles reviews are pretty hilar.

Early on, he promised that the group would educate as well as entertain. That meant clips from the film about what book inspired this song and how they told that producer it’s time to rock. It also meant a lecture about the night’s harvest moon and playful scolding when Professor Frey mistakenly said CD instead of tape and the fans laughed.

“I’ll tell you when to laugh. That wasn’t a joke,” he half-joked.

The nearly three-hour concert... opened when Don Henley and Glenn Frey, on acoustic guitars and vocals, took the stage for the wistful country-rock ballad “Saturday Night.”

“This portion of the show is meant to give you a feeling of what it was like in the early summer of 1971,” Frey said, recalling the band’s first sessions at a hole-in-the-wall studio in Los Angeles.

Those carefree days in 1971 I spent at KeyArena listening to a 60-year-old man sing country-rock ballads.

The second set clipped along at a nice pace with a rousing, honky-tonk rendition of Heartache Tonight, Walsh's chugging rocker Life's Been Good -- one of the night's few forays into the members' solo output -- and The Long Run, which Henley dedicated to the audience.

"This has become kind of our anthem because we're still here and you're still here," he says. "We're here because you're here."

god i just want to run up to glenn frey and laugh in his face and tell him what a pointless old asshole he is

From their show in Saskatoon:

Each main band member took a turn talking to the crowd, usually about how cold it was the last time they were here. Frey told a story about Joni Mitchell, obviously unaware that she has fallen out of favour with some locals.

As the show reached its final third, and the huge hits came out, the crowd went bananas. They danced, sang along and gave ovations for almost every track. When the show ended and the band took time to wave at each section of fans, they did so to raucous applause.

don and glenn: never show when you can tell. and tell and tell and tell and tell and tell and tell and tell ad infinitum…

"This has become kind of our anthem because we're still here and you're still here," he says. "We're here because you're here."

let's hope it's a mutual pact: when one finally dies, the other will too.

is there a portion of the show meant to give you the feeling of what it was like in Henley's bachelor pad, 1979?

"King of Hollywood": This isn't quite as bad as I remember it. Nice guitar work, including some dual harmonies. The locked rhythm section working for rather than against. The lyrics are another matter. Kind of interesting that there's no real chorus. Henley has a good time in To The Limit dissing movie people, or "Movie Pukes" as he calls them. We hear about how Julia Phillips (producer of Taxi Driver, Close Encounters... etc.) wanted to do a film adaptation of "Hotel California" with the band as actors but backed out because she discovered that (a) Henley & Frey were unlikable dicks, and (b) at that time the band's publishing was in dispute with David Geffen being sued by the band and Azoff. Seeing dollar signs, Warner/Asylum released the album anyway, adding a disclaimer "copyright in dispute" to initial pressings of the album. The Donster claims the band was only humoring the coked-out producer, and they never seriously considered going into the movies.

This was all pre-Country Bears obvs.

I'm already looking ahead because I'm dreading the 90s shit show, and because I was confused about when they were releasing new songs. I didn't realize Hell Freezes Over was four new studio tracks AND the whole unplugged jam of the classics.

And looking at the tracks they went back and replayed, I'm surprised by the one solo song they did (not counting In the City.)

we aren't doing the unplugged stuff. in case anyone didn't catch that. just the four new songs on that thing.

Phewwww...

I did catch that. Just didn't realize that album was new studio/greatest hits live combo.

GET OVEEEEEERRR ITTT

Frey told a story about Joni Mitchell, obviously unaware that she has fallen out of favour with some locals.

???? what's up with that?

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/24/joni-mitchell-saskatoon_n_3647004.html

Said Saskatoon's bigoted, just like the deep south.

Walsh looking like a late 70s porn actor regretting his life's choices

aka walsh looking like matthew mcconaughey

i do like the groove -- agreed that there's something fleetwood mac-ish about it -- but mostly this song makes me want to listen to the rolling stones' "tops."

or "World Turning"

but mostly this song makes me want to listen to the rolling stones' "tops."

Thanks to the Eagles limited film licensing, they'll never get to be part of something like this: http://youtu.be/kGViaTOfSow

by this point in our survey, I'd say any song on Tattoo You > any song by the Eagles