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

They just wanna get their hands on you.
You get whatever you choose.
I mean look at what you were wearing.
What did you think would happen?
Slut.
Hey, want to check out the hot tub at the Eagles' Nest?

um

http://youtu.be/sIPtrAkamsk

it's not NSFW but it's kind TCFW (too creepy for work)

why did i read the comments
why did i watch that at all
this guy rules http://youtu.be/v-Z8SvOuGGI

oops that was supposed to be this one
she was cute too http://youtu.be/CCuYLkSgZ6o

this is what youtube suggested links gives me now, btw :-/

Haha I know I had to choose between fucking up my YouTube or fucking up my Spotify

what a bunch of masochists we are! my god.

listen don't EVER tell Henley you use Spotify

I wonder if Frey thinks Spotify is some kind of new herpes cream.

ILX - strap on the talkbox

Eagles in the wild: One of These Nights is playing on the radio right now.

Ahhhh now it's a cover of Desperado!!!

Eagles Classic Rock Block on the day before Glenn Freyday.

I've listened to this four times. I can hear that it's been put together well, that the beat is relatively stompin', that there should be enough sleaze to get a grip on ... but each time I've zoned out and only been brought back in at the end by the ol' strap on. I think I'm maybe just Eagled out, it's obviously one of their better all-round rhythm performances, I just don't care. I like Funky New Year a whole lot better.

I guess I could praise the guitars, hey? They're tight here. In fact they've been consistently excellent, whoever's been playing them - there probably aren't more than half-a-dozen songs where you couldn't isolate the guitar tracks and find them a damn good listen.

"Teenage Jail"

http://www.donhenleyonline.com/images/eaglesVB12.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98vOJs_h1bI

i kinda love this. i don't know if i've ever even heard it before. i have no memory of hearing it. the guitars rule.

also wish the ending kept going for another five minutes. when do i ever say that about an eagles song?

The guitars are great but jeez what a dirge. I'm wondering exactly what kind of band do The Eagles think they are? They don't seem to have much idea where their strengths lie or what they should be doing.

This reminds me of something. Maybe an early Built to Spill song? Not all of it, just the guitar and the initial vocals.

I'm a little freaked by gorilla boobs in that picture.

"Synthesizer (Solo): Glenn Frey"

HA no it's not a Built to Spill song. It reminds me of a song by a now defunct early '00s NC band Rebar, and I will never remember the name of be able to find it, although I have it on a mix somewhere. Just trust me. They are very similar, except I liked the Rebar song much better.

I found their website. Bless.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jaestar/rebar/rebar.html

Seventy seconds into this song and I couldn't finish it. What a fucking plod.

jesus christ, this song. there's no reason anyone who don't own the record would have heard it, as the average AOR/classic rock listener would be bewildered and change the station…

every single aspect reeks of showbiz sherbert/peruvian marching powder. "ssnnnfffff…uh…yeah…this is great…uuuhhhff…"

it's like Glenn wanted to do a parody of alice cooper/sabbath song, but 5-6 years too late. so ill-advised, but one of two tunes he sings on the record. In particular, Don sounds very gacked up. Know what though? I'll take this and tomorrow's selection over the sanctimonious elegy coming up on Sunday. I'm glad they put this on the record: you'd think a band universally known to be careerist, risk-averse and beholden to "quality control" would have developed one of the riffs you can hear on "Long run leftovers) instead of this utterly bizarre episode of cocaine psychosis.

okay okay I finished it. The solo is fine but what is it doing attached to such a ponderous tempo?

because Don sucks most of the time. It is indeed strange as someone said upthread that he seemed to want to be a drummer. Peter Gabriel started off as a drummer, but made a choice that Don probly should have. Fuck, it doesn't strain credulity that maybe Syzmicyckckckckck edited in, like Russ Kunkel or Joe vitale playing various parts like that swinging ride cymbal…

It's like they're trying to do the Stones' "Sway," or something Sabbathy, but like Billy Joel when he tries to "rock," they inevitably fail miserably. And every utterance of Henley's makes me want to just pound and pound his face with a shovel.

But that synthesizer solo is ace. It's like Sun Ra snuck into the studio and laid it down when no one was around. But since all the Eagles were coked out of their skulls, they assumed one of them probably did it. A quick round of rock-paper-scissors gave Frey the credit.

i still like it! it doesn't really sound like eagles maybe that's why. its kind of a weird tune. i'll take this filler any day over most of their filler. the guitars really do sound great.

their jacuzzis really do runneth over

Is Don Henley supposed to be dressed up as ... Don Henley in that picture?

perhaps as a supplementray exercise today a list of singer-drummers? this should only encompass drummers who were one of the main singers of the band, not the drummer who sings occasionally (ringo, bill ward)

Phil Collins, Karen Carpenter, Levon Helm, Kelly keaggy…and who else? If anyone can cite a singer-drummer as swing-deficient as DH…they win, I guess.

and "Teenage Jail" has to be in a tie with "Journey of the Sorceror" as the most out-of-character cut they done…

the guy from the Romantics?

Grant Hart!

Don Brewer!

i still like it! it doesn't really sound like eagles maybe that's why. its kind of a weird tune. i'll take this filler any day over most of their filler. the guitars really do sound great.

― scott seward, Friday, October 18, 2013 9:54 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll grant that this is better than most of their filler, mainly because it's more obviously filler than the other filler that was trying to pretend it wasn't filler.

It's still hilarious to me that it took them 2 1/2 years to make a record, had to hijack a Walsh tune, shoehorned in this filler, and still couldn't hit the 43 minute mark.

His drumwork was indeed competent.

xp

Mickey Dolenz!

Hilarie Sidney!

What's-his-name from Mates of State!

Janet Beveridge Bean and Georgia Hubley (and Mo Tucker)

Milford Graves!

The guy from Night Ranger!

(those aren't the same person, btw)

Al Bouchard

the guy from Rare Earth

Buddy Miles

scott seward ‏@skotrok 21m
"Teenage Jail" is underrated, I don't care what anyone says. The guitars are great!
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that's right i tweeted about it.

who's kelly keaggy?