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

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.

We were lucky: our bleacher stomp songs were "Push It" and "It Takes Two" (Rob Base & DJ EZ-Rock).

I don't think anyone in my high school publicly admitted to liking the Eagles, except this one kid who threatened to beat me up because I told him Eagles Live was heavily overdubbed.

love this but not nearly as much as when i was four when it was my favorite song of all time, my first favorite song (thought it might've been 'queen of hearts' but that didn't come out til a year and half later). love the quiet-loud dynamic mixed w/ honky tonk, love the compressed guitar wanks, love when they bring it all home, love that stupid banal ad-lib for once, love the foreboding girl group of the verses (1-2 henley's coming for you, 3-4 better lock your door), love that girl group BEAT. that said we're a hop skip and jump from 'the heat is on' here.

We did Push It and The Show! I still like both of those songs very much, at least. xp

Our marching band wasn't nearly good enough to play "Push It" or "It Takes Two," so recordings were played during games. But some of us played along anyway to the delight of probably no one. Still love those songs, though.

Never particularly liked or disliked this one, it was just there ever since I was 12. I do remember being very mildly and oddly thrilled when the local radio stations would (occasionally) play the complete version with the useless drum fill at the end - kind of an AM easter egg.

Joe's slide breaks are nice.

Yeah, Walsh makes the track. I'm sort of surprised at the hate this one is earning today, but I see some good reasons. This track is the real "Chug All Night", Frey finally mastering the bar band boogie. Another one of those songs that became a blueprint for Contemporary Country, it's true Urban Honky Tonk music. When I heard this on the radio as a kid, I thought they were singin' "There's gonna be a PARTY Tonight, A PARTY Tonight I know..."

In To The Limit, JD Souther talks about his part of writing the song, revealing that they were trying for a Sam Cooke-style groove (think "Twistin' The Night Away"), going so far as to clap their hands in time as they tried out lyrics. This is pretty much lost in the Eagles version, but you can hear it in Souther's live appearances: http://youtu.be/HJMx-H-BOzg?t=2m19s

I am not ashamed to say that I love this. I always have, always will.

CLAP

CLAP-CLAP-CLAP

CLAP

Picturing the Eagles standing around trying to clap their hands in time and then going, Aw forget it.

Heartache to me is like a paint-by-numbers version of Eddie Rabbitt's 'I Love A Rainy Night'.

Like, heartache would go perfectly on a "Shitty Dive Bar Over-40's Singles Night" playlist

(fyi I Love a Rainy Night is maybe one of my favorite songs ever in the whole world, so that wasn't meant as a total insult)

lol pplains

vg, I love that song, too!

Ugh, "I Love A Rainy Night" can eat my poo.

(sorry, shit-ton of airplay in 198whenever, kind of monotonous, and fuck Eddie fuckin' Rabbitt).

Frey: "No heavy lyrics — the song is more of a romp"

I'd like to imagine Frey coming down on Henley during a vocal session. "No heavy lyrics, man! Cut out the shit about the fucking frontier for once!"

agree that (& to give the devil its due) this song was a huge influence on '80s country. The more "rockin'" Alabama singles are in its debt, for one thing.

HENLEY: This song is basically about the end of the seventies. We were worn out, exhausted by drugs and women. Plus, we saw the age of Reagan. We saw how hopeless were gonna get.

FREY: The chicks started giving us more lip too.

HENLEY: Well, yeah.

tarfumes y u braek heart

Eddie Rabbit wrote 'Kentucky Rain' which makes him UNFUCKWITHABLE

Oh shit, he wrote that? I didn't know! I love "Kentucky Rain"!

Rabbitt loved him some rain metaphors, apparently.

Rabbitt has this in his favor as well: http://youtu.be/B05ekks0RqY

xpost Rabbitt also wrote "Patch It Up"! http://youtu.be/Xa5_NtRU_A4

and sang my beloved "Suspicions"

" 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."

I know exactly what you mean. I listened to the whole haim album and liked the writing, the playing,the performances a LOT but there is rly something wrong with the way it sounds. Like a rough mix that wants to grow up into an amazing mix. Cramped and sorta brown.

Eddie rabbitt was on the radio literally every 10 minutes when I was a kid. It was like kool and gang celebration, Eddie rainy night, repeat repeat repeat

The guy at my record store was named Eddie! It took me all day to think of his name, but it was Eddie. Not surprisingly, he loved Eddie Rabbitt.

Eddie rabbit should have written a song abt hrududu

I don't know how to make Youtube links not embedded but if I did I would post a link to Driving My Life Away which is my favorite Eddie Rabbit song.

I associate Driving My Life Away, Dreamer (Supertramp), and Whip It because they were all on the radio around the same time and they were all my favorite songs.

Late summer/fall 1980 iirc. Except "Dreamer" didn't get much airplay my way because the studio version was already a hit six years before, nyah nyah.

I think the live version released in 1980 charted higher than the studio version in the US.

This song brings back memories of its constant reverberation through dorm room walls. I think there was a rule in effect my freshman year that required this song to be playing very loudly somewhere in the building at all times. Bill Berry provided temporary relief by blasting the Sex Pistols from the window of his room, but those were dark days.

How can this be? It's the lamest shit imaginable!

This is the first Eagles song i'm old enough to remember before it existed. Knew only the '71-'75 hits album at the time, which my 9-year-older brother had, so wasn't even aware the Eagles were still an active band until this came on the radio. It clawed at me then, and still does. (my bro who bought the greatest hits album couldn't stand it either). And no, it didn't sound like typical 1979 pop to me at all.

It does fit right alongside with 1980 Country radio hits like Juice Newton, Eddie Rabbit, "Somebody's Knockin'," Charlie Daniels Band, Alabama, Exile...

So many songs about the devil showing up on people's doorsteps that year. wonder if he looked like don henley.

Hi Dere!

http://media.commercialappeal.com/media/img/photos/2011/02/04/Ronald_Reagan_t607.jpg

my favorite era of country

ILX quoted out of context

and some posters already think this of me!

Gives "Reagan country" a new meaning

"Heartache Tonight" was a #1 single for a week in Nov '79: it knocked off "Pop Musik," held off "Dim All the Lights," then dropped off quickly

the L.A. mafia played on "Dim All the Nights." whatta difference

haha brad c i didn't know you were og athens!