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

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Every night I tell myself I'm going to be a blue collar man.

"The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"

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

http://youtu.be/Ms0VIKlp0CU

What a odd little tune.

if "Teenage Jail" was their dig at Sabbath/metal and "Strangler" a fuck-you to disco, was this their go at New Wave? Guess so: the organ seems to be a reference to Steve Nieve/Jimmy Destri. Dumb and a bit leaden, and having Henley sing never helps, but by Eagles standards this is fun.

Yeah does sound a bit like the Attractions

YouTube says backing vocals by Jimmy Buffet!

I suspect it's not a new wave dig though. Perhaps: they are drunk/high & someone says "the Greeks don't want no freaks" and everyone cracks up & it becomes a thing for a few days and they decided to make it a sing as a goof... So they just jam out a little old Seger 2 chord garage rock throwaway

DON: I thought it'd be a good idea to write a fun song about how ancient Athens and Sparta weren't exactly copacetic with each other.

GLENN: They sure were funny lookin' in those days!

DON: Well, yeah.

hahaha
this song contains the word "barfin"

they were courting the animal house vote with this song. eagles frat boys at heart.

yeah, they probably watched Animal House with Buffett and then went into the studio and grunted this one out quickly.

Wish there was a certain word to describe "second song to play during end credits of B-movie, right before awkward fade into the score."

This is sort of like alternate reality where Elvis Costello is a frat boy.

The barrel really was empty, huh?

they're chopping up the barrell & using it for firewood at this point

still appalled by Stevie Nicks dating both Henley and Walsh. Give to me your leather indeed.

still fond of this thread i started many moons ago:

TS: whenever i call you friend -vs- stop draggin' my heart around -vs- leather and lace

I'm as big a Nicks fan as you'll find on ILM (consult the archives) but this spongy kitsch is too much for me -- and Henley admitting he's scared and sometimes cries is too big a leap of faith for me.

― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

ha! i almost cut & paste that here.

When I first started buying albums my mum advised me that if I'd just wait a few years, bands put everything good on a Greatest Hits anyway. It's like she grew up with The Eagles.

When I first started buying albums my mum advised me that if I'd just wait a few years, bands put everything good on a Greatest Hits anyway

And now we're in an even better golden age, where many bands' entire worthwhile catalog can be found in a 5-CDs-for-$20 set from Amazon!

she should've been more vague with the second bit, then she could say she predicted file-sharing

whenever i call you friend easy

This song is dumb.

I think it really says something about the Eagles that when they actually do a 2:20 song, the 'song' part is over at like 1:40. Could use a cheesy guitar solo on the coda to go with the chant. This is also were Henley starts on the path to making full-fledged New Wave tracks w/Danny Kootch, members of the Go-Go's etc. with less leaden results.

Don: We'd heard a little about Elvis Costello, who was beginning to make some waves over here, as our friend Linda (Ronstadt) began dipping into his songbook for her albums of the time.

Glenn: Not to mention we heard Costello had been dipping into Bebe Buell, and we all wanted in on some of that action!

Don: Well, yeah.

I'll donate all I have and anything I could steal to compile these dialogues.

i wonder who out of that socal circle was the first to get into elvis costello - buckingham was a fan, ronstadt obv, nicks a huge fan (she's said on a few occasions that 'green shirt' is one of her favorite songs period). i wonder if that's how petty worked his way in - similar to ec but not quite as 'punk' in attitude, byrds fandom a obv connection.

The memoir by Buckingham's ex describes a night out to see Elvis C. As the most trad of the punk fellow travelers and blessed with Ronstadt's support, it's easy to see the attraction(s).

she's said on a few occasions that 'green shirt' is one of her favorite songs period).

from a summer '94 ish of Details, right?

In Please Kill Me, Buell tells a story about doing a modelling gig in London around '75-76 for Elizabeth Arden and how she fell in love at first sight with this guy she saw deliver some stuff to the studio. A couple years later she is shocked to see him again on stage at Hollywood High.

she is shocked to see him again on stage at Hollywood, high.

i've seen it in like four or five interviews (sometimes unprompted), she LOVES that song

xpost...and then she looks him up the next day and she gets him stoned on proper marijuana for the first time and they tool around LA and then she follows him back to England and...many years later E.C. says some nasty stuff about her in some liner notes.

and yeah ec's talent and trad leanings were apparent enough, plus my aim is true is about as socal friendly an album punk/new wave was gonna hand them

Buckingham seems like the most punk guy of all the L.A. FM crew

Stuff like "What Makes You Think You're the One" isn't far off from new wave

that's the one he said IS particularly punk inspired (Fleetwood's the only other musician on it).

GLENN: "And you know something else? Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvis Costello. Ha!”

DON: "Wait. Didn't someone else already say that just recently?"

GLENN: "Well, yeah."

Mick's metres on that one are so strange. I wonder what Henley thinks of it.

Great stuff from that Details interview:

Stevie Nicks: When we were recording "Stand Back" I decided to be really blatant and call Prince up and tell him that I had been inspired to write the song while listening to "Little Red Corvette." I told him that I figured my song was half his. He came over to the studio where I was recording and listened to it--as I turned extremely white and started to shake. Then he walked over to the piano and put on a really incredible keyboard track. And not only did Prince make it up right on the spot, he played it with only two fingers. Then he left.

Details: Did you see him again?

Stevie Nicks: Yes, when I was on the road a year or so later. I was sick, and Prince brought some cough syrup up to my hotel room. He was sweet--he walked around the room folding things, fluffing pillows, tidying up in general. Then he gave me a spoon of it himself. But when I asked for another spoonful he changed--he said, "I didn't come all the way up here just to get you hooked on another substance!" Then he left.

Details: Do you still see him?

Stevie Nicks: No. I was at the premiere of Purple Rain, and in the scene where he slaps Apollonia I freaked and had to go sit in the bathroom. Afterward I went back to see him, and when he asked why I'd left, I had to tell him, "When you popped Apollonia, it kinda popped my brain." He looked at me like it just killed him. We've never spoken since. (sighs) It’s a shame, really...we were alike in so many ways.

lol

you cant make that stuff up

i've read some more recent Nicks interviews where she describe more recent encounters with Prince

every encounter with prince reads like fanfic written on acid

I can't remember if I posted the mystery suit Prince story on ilm before

You guys please tell me when "DON: Well, yeah" becomes a full fledged ilx meme!

Mississippi I ain't heard it so plz expand!

I want to hear more Nicks-Prince stories!

Me, too!

Jesse and I took a cab to a baby shower and the radio was playing an Eagles rock block. The driver changed it halfway through the second song (Hotel California).

Before that, the driver was listening to sea shanties.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l105/Elvis1954/Lebowski/big_lebowski-eagles.png

Ok here goes: college summer temp job processing mortgage forms. Agency supervise was cool, pretty Mexican girl in mid 20s. She told us this. So, she goes dancing at Prince's Glam Slam club. On the floor, bouncer comes over and says Prince wants to meet her. So she goes up to his lair where he's reclined on a couch. She's wearing a catsuit (it's the 90s). Prince looks at her and asks,"is that a mystery suit?"

She doesn't know how to answer so she says, "uh...I guess?"

Prince doesn't say anything but keeps staring at her. An uncomfortable amount of time goes by then when it's clear shes not going to rip her clothes off, a bouncer leads her back out to the dance floor.

Prince in unable to deal with normal people in social surrounding shocker