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

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

TS: Frey solo vs. Jagger solo.

Has Frey ever been involved in anything as delightful as Lucky In Love? No, he has not.

BETTIN' ON UH FILL-EHH, DOWN AT DUH TRACK! hadn't heard that song since '85, and indeed it's charming. the video, particularly.

Sometimes Keith's influence is not the be all and end all, and Mick's interest in keeping up with the Joneses in the charts is refreshing. If keith insists that the stones must go to the blues, country, reggae, chuck berry well over and over again, then I think it's great that Mick is interested in other newer shit. If keith had his way, then no "Miss You," no "Emotional Rescue" no "love comes at the Speed of light."

yes so sick of the Stones sucking that reggae well dry

even Jagger's bid for MTV play "Just Another Night" (it worked) boasts tricky rhythm changes, good synth colors, and Those Vocals.

ahem…I suppose, in light of mr SM Collier's sneering, that I should clarify that jamaican music is kin to the others I cite in that Keith considers them to be true and real and arrgh claarrgghh / heh heh / cackle / fuck him he's such a whore/ his cock is small /phlegmy asides and so on…it's tedious.

Wonder how many takes Henley had to go through before getting the drums rights. Unusually non-clod footed here. (Mick Fleetwood would have been aces playing this)

Nice guitar on the outro though (Walsh?). Gilmour-like

like all the guitar work on this track. doesn't really seem in character for any of the guitarists.

Eagles sighting -- not really a song but a weird mention. I was listening to the Nerdist podcast interview with Slash on my way into work and as they were trying to get around the awkward non-conversation of trying to find out about Axl without saying his name, he said how he watched History of the Eagles on a tour bus recently & loved it, but how a lot of the falling-out part was 'depressingly familiar' to him lol

"Heartache Tonight"

http://www.raw-tcsd.com/Eagles.GER.12394.jpg

http://youtu.be/snPgFNMCXBs

i love this song. mostly for that awesome beat, but i just love it.

Haim know what i'm talking about!

Seth Rogen 5 days ago
my dad brought me here and i'm glad i grew up with classic rock:)THANKS DAD!!!!

respectclassics 5 months ago
Is that autotune I hear? Nope! its called talent! 

This song sounded like an anachronism in 1979: it sounded like a mid seventies holdover. I'll never like it.

that beat is technotronic. they were ahead of their time.

Ugh, I can't stand this. There's a quick bait-and-switch where you think you're on for some Rock And Roll Part II madness; then it turns into this boring mid-paced crap. People will line-dance to this, how can your pride stand it?

Walsh does a decent job tbf, the slide points towards a different song entirely. But the rest is simply awful, from the horrible multitracked Who Are You vocals (which incredibly get worse when set free) to the most leaden of leaden beats from The Don. Bass completely anonymous, words asinine, no risk whatsoever.

I could understand this record were it a wedding band cutting their one demo - play safe, studios are expensive. But when you're The Eagles and you can do whatever you like, I just do not get it.

'Teenage Jail' though, lol no spoilers

This song sounded like an anachronism in 1979: it sounded like a mid seventies holdover.

It almost sounds like a song by that one band, oh what was their name, had a hit in '74 about seeing the stars and not seeing the light....

Haim know what i'm talking about!

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:32 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard the Haim song this morning, and I'm pretty sure it's a straight sample of this.

Everything I hate about the Eagles -- the awkward-ass cymbal flailing, Glenn trying and failing to prove he can "rock," the nastiness of the lyric (I just assume it's Glenn celebrating dicking someone over), the stiffness of the vocal harmonies, the laughter-inducing "Break my heart!" towards the end -- is pretty much why I like this. They put everything shitty Eagles element into one song and made it count.

the horrible multitracked Who Are You vocals

The "Who Are You" chorus/backing vocals are all Pete, from his demo. He was a one-man Eagles!

So here's the Harold Jenkins version, complete with horn section:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Conway+Twitty+Heartache+Tonight

This reminds me of Little River Band -- like 70s-era 50s revival "with a country rock edge", like it came out of a food processor. Not my thing then, or ever, unless I have some sort of great life experience while this song is playing, and then I guess anything is possible. Until then, yuk. I made it to 0:32.

Tried to find a YouTube of it, but only found a Conway Twitty impersonator performing it which, let me tell you, led me down the deepest of rabbit holes.

xp

And it does have that LRB vibe to it! Kind of the weird second cousin to "The Other Guy" with the beat.

I worked with this guy at a record store who looooooved to sing at the top of his lungs to shit like this -- esp LRB -- and I will never forget how happy he seemed when he was singing. He looked like Donny Osmond. That's the closest I can get to liking that borderline showtunes country-rock stuff that this song exemplifies.

hate this one intensely, in part for personal reasons (it was a big "bleacher stomp" song during football games at the school my mom taught at in the early '80s---imagine 200 surly/drunk teenagers chanting the opening lines and you know what my personal hell will sound like). but like everyone else said, it's just lame, Frey's vocal is a grotesque harbinger of his '80s career (that last holler he does--gah) and Henley's beats sound like a place-filler guide drum track that they left in the final mix by mistake.

only thing I disagree with is it sounding like an anachronism at the time. It's very much '79 for me: always seemed like a rip of "We Will Rock You," for instance.

what did Seger contribute to this? the chorus?

i really wanted my dad to take me to see the eagles/linda ronstadt/little river band at the yale bowl in the summer of 1980 but he wouldn't do it. oh sure he would drag me to see dizzy gillespie and woody shaw and chico freeman when i was that age but could i see the eagles? nope. wait a minute...uh...thanks dad!

well, it sounds like an anachronism cuz it's a mellow-man vibe trapped in an arena rock shell and doing miserably at both.

This is another Friday night song for me. Remember when it was a current hit on the charts. Stayed in rotation on the Pizza Towne and Eagles Nest jukeboxes. I can still picture (much later after it was a hit) lugging a cooler full of Coors out of a flatbed while another truck cab closer down to the lake blared this one.

Funny thing is that in my mind, I always think that someone's going to have a heartattack tonight. I mean, shit is tense, right?

"but like everyone else said, it's just lame"

not everyone!

And yeah, this is very much of the We Will Rock You era. Crazy Little Thing Called Love was in the same rotation on those pizza jukeboxes.

I miss those days when a decade would change and suddenly everyone would change their look at once. Glenn would shave his stache, Freddie would grow one....

cool dad
and yeah, it does sound super 79 but i was 4 at the time, so my impression of it is all kind of visceral. When I was 4-5 I was really into the Beatles and Blondie and ABBA (my mom's records) and this song sounded like boring old people music.

One mustache passed between the two of them. xp

GLENN: …and then they sold 12 million records, and everything changed! As Bob Dylan said, “They deceived me into thinking I had something to protect.” And that’s what happened with us. We made it, and it ate us. The Long Run became, indeed, the long run. It was a difficult record to make overall, but I loved “Heartache Tonight.” Whenever Bob Seger was in L.A., he always used to come over and visit me, and he’d visit Don, too, and play us stuff he was working on — and we would do the same. I seem to remember that I had the verse thing going on for “Heartache Tonight,” and I was showing it to Seger, and we were jammin’ — I think we were jammin’ on electric guitars at LaFontaine — and then he blurted out the chorus. That’s how “Heartache” started. Then Bob disappeared, and J.D., Don, and I finished that song up. No heavy lyrics — the song is more of a romp — and that’s what it was intended to be.

I'm not much older than LL. Mom was into Heart and Elton John. I didn't know what my dad listened to until later when I'd ride in the car with him three hours every weekend for visits. These late-era Eagles songs were the first hits I remember hearing that weren't my mom's music.

Well, that and the Grease soundtrack. Those two older kids up the road played that one to death.

The Long Run became, indeed, the long run.

amazing it took four writers including pros like Souther and Seger to cobble this shit together

hate this one intensely, in part for personal reasons (it was a big "bleacher stomp" song during football games at the school my mom taught at in the early '80s---imagine 200 surly/drunk teenagers chanting the opening lines and you know what my personal hell will sound like).

This is not my experience with this song, and my bleacher stomp personal hell happened 1986-90, but I can fully identify with this. (I was in band so we had to attend every game and I hated football anyway and our team didn't win a single game my junior year and after we got caught sneaking away to smoke/drink early in the season we were forbidden from leaving the stands and it just suuuuuuuuuuuuucked.)

Anyway, this song is kind of sonic wallpaper for me. I think it's kind of fun in a drunk on bud light in a dive bar kind of way. My aunt, who was 12 years old than me and loved metal and was a big influence on my musical taste, HATED this song and programmed me accordingly so I don't think I'll ever be able to really love it but I could see getting into it in the right drunken circumstances.

its probably just nostalgia for me. i played the 45 so much. that drum machine was the shape of things to come for me. i always liked the harmonies too. joe walsh is actually my least favorite part of the song. always wished the whole song were more minimal which is why i always wished that a rapper would just make a rap song with that beat and then i could have the best of both worlds. i don't really like the Haim song. maria was playing the Haim album in the car the other day and i had to try really hard not to say anything but it sounded so terrible to me. the production. she ripped a copy from cd but it sounded like bad internet sound to me. i gritted my teeth.