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

i mean william h macy doing a murder suicide didn't put as much of an exclamation point on the decade as that thing

― balls, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:03 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

balls not just otm, but EAGLES OTM!

OMG balls I saw that '78 ABBA/Olivia/Gibb special on live TV when it aired! Not only that, I even had a cassette recorder in front of the tv speaker taping the whole thing, and I listened to it for weeks afterward! It was one of my first-ever exposures to pop music of any kind. I still remembered some of the segues from song to song to this day. Didn't remember Andy Gibb completely missing the entry to "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water"....

In balls' clip, who's that in the leather breeks next to Olivia onstage? It looks like Cliff Richard but it can't be him.

I am so charmed by your anecdote, Lee.

"Those Shoes"

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFrey1978Baseball03.jpg

http://youtu.be/8LLgSY-b3DA

i forgot about this song. i love how this song sounds. and for once i don't mind the length at all. even the members of Cameo might nod their heads to this.

best track on the album for me. While it's mainly Walsh's show, Henley's King Sleaze routine is almost sublime here.

Felder finally gets another vocal part.

And yeah, somewhere in 1979, Roger Troutman looked up and said, "This is the Eagles? The band with those Poco guys?"

part 2 of dark heart of Long Run here. condescension! hypocrisy! sexism! entitlement! a track that represents those qualities effectively and compellingly…I guess don felt as if he was above the jerk-offs in their fancy cars (much less movie pukes) because…he's famous? cuz he has big thoughts about the despoiling of the environment?

Don rises to the occasion on the drooms, much more nimble on the ride cymbal than you would think … eagles funk, finally, after the hideously misbegotten "On the border". Joe and Felder sound tight as hell…they had their eye on Donald and walter here, and cocaine paranoia results in a cut that could have pointed a way for later shit (although I suppose a few 80s henley tunes owe this tune).

above photo is probably from the Rolling Stone vs. eagles softball game: eagles kick Jann et al's ass…

and so I think today is the right day for this, which I wrote 5 years ago…

http://idolator.com/392421/

That was great, want to read the RS article

Those Shoes is probably the best Eagles song... Really effective, funky (didn't think they had it in them), ominous... Great song....I mean I'm ignoring the creepy misogyny but at a certain point it's the Eagles and they've worn me down

Great piece, vm. I always liked Charles M. Young; he did a great Who interview in 1989. Gonna try to find that 1979 Eagles article.

above photo: poor Tim Schmit doesn't get his official Eagles uniform until he passes probation; Frey looks like an asshole coach who's the adversary in some early '80s teen comedy

much more nimble on the ride cymbal than you would think

This is otm. I was wondering how Henley suddenly got so funky, but it sounds like the shaker/shekere (?) player is doing a lot of the funk heavy lifting.

But this should've been an instrumental. Fuckin' Henley's creepitude is just off the charts here.

Did Schmidt steal his bandana from Michael Anthony?

I keep thinking of Elton's "Who Wears These Shoes?"

I don't think I can listen to this song.

This is the life we chose

we could be reading buzzfeed listicles all day.

we could be MURDERING people, but no we are listening to eagles.

:( a student at my school was murdered last week
i'll listen as soon as i have access to earphones -- right now i am proctoring an exam!

LL, if it helps you can just listen to the Beasties' "High Plains Drifter" and call it a day. In fact, listen to all of Paul's Boutique. It's on me.

Felder Comes Alive, dgaf.

Cher being wheeled out on a 20-ft high heel, ''The Tonight Show'' (1981)

I'm not gonna listen to it. That's that.

i'm going to have to escort you out of the building.

You can be escorted out all you want, but you can never leave.

You would willingly listen to Chug All Night and James Dean and endless streams of boiled garbage but you won't listen to THIS?

ffs Alfred

every time i think about james dean i laugh
that's something

He also doesn't like George Harrison, brb flagging all his posts.

I don't like George's voice. Who does?

i do

Don rises to the occasion on the drooms, much more nimble on the ride cymbal than you would think

compare drum intros from "Shoes" and this 2-year-earlier hit:

http://youtu.be/E6I4SVdKxCE

http://youtu.be/qsulExJUP7Y

great piece vm! in a way i should hate this track cuz it was this track that put the notion in my head that hey maybe the eagles have other awesome deep cuts

http://www.manaleak.com/mtguk/files/2013/09/waynes-world-not.jpeg

I always kinda liked this song as a kid cos of the beat and then later when I heard it in that Beastie Boys song I realized how awesome it really is!

Also, this would probably be the best Eagles song to strip to.

This, or "Journey of the Sorcerer".

I'm not really good at stripping.

weather-stripping iirc

Another one I like. There was a period where this one wasn't on the radio, and in that time I discovered Paul's Boutique while forgetting this track. One afternoon I heard it on air as a "deep cut"and was all like "HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER!" Supposedly the Donster was none to pleased with the sample. My sister told me that back when she was in high school (early '80s), word in the lunch room was the wearer of the titular shoes was none other than Stevie Nicks.

The guy who filmed a scene wherein a young woman was wagered along with a $50 and a case of beer in a card game, and subsequently lost to Humble Pie

THOSE SHOES
DON: One of my favorites. At that time, all the girls were wearing Charles Jourdan shows — the ones with the little ankle straps. They’d become very popular and we were big fans [laughs]. And so, we said, “Well, it’s not enough just to write about that; we have to turn it into a metaphor for women standing on their own two feet, so to speak, and taking responsibility for their own lives, their own losses.” That was our intent. The lyric “Once you’ve started wearing those shoes” meant “Once you’ve started being your own woman and taking responsibility for your own life; once you’ve decided not to be just decoration — an appendage to some guy — then this is all the crap you’re going to have to put up with in conjunction with that.” Anyone who decided to become the master of his or her own destiny always has to put up with a lot of crap. On the surface the song was about the singles scene: the beautiful, young women seemingly unaware of the sharks waiting in the shallows… sharks that sometimes included us. It was also a great, great beat. It gave Felder a chance to strap on the talkbox, a device which Joe Walsh pioneered on “Rocky Mountain Way” — and the two of them soloed together…

GLENN: As far as I know, it’s the only double-talkbox solo in existence. That’s Felder and Walsh on talkbox at the end singing “Butt out…butt out….”

I love how Henley spins the lyrics.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/XeKjKWXWZOE/hqdefault.jpg

"Everybody knows "Those Shoes" is misogynistic. What I propose is...maybe it isn't."

How is it that the sentence containing the words "Felder" and "strap on" manages to be the least-offensive sentence in that whole paragraph?

Not even gonna get into how one could "solo" with another person.

Henley's explication of his lyric sounds like something you'd find on "Songmeanings.com"

Got those pretty little straps around your ankles
Got those shiny little chains around your heart.
You go to have your independence
but you don't know just where to start.

WOOOO that is some consciousness-raising feminist writing right there.

GLEN: So I was all, "You got to have your independence, but you don't know just where to start. So how about you start with a hummer!" Haha, right?

DON: Well, yeah.

Not even gonna get into how one could "solo" with another person.

― pplains, Thursday,

GLENN: Ya shoudl've seen Henley solo with Nicks that night in Houston! Ha!

DON: Well, yeah.

it is something how about 50% of Henley/Frey lyrics have their origins with the two of 'em in a bar going "man, look at that chick"

lol forever at stripping to JOURNEY OF THE SORCERER, btw.