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

^^ get over it

:(

If anyone needs help stepping in from the 70s to the 80s, I posted this video with today in mind:

https://vimeo.com/76572721

that's inspired! Frey's 1980s equivalent of "Chug" is "Partytown," which is the song that the worst neighbor in the world is blasting through your floor at 4 AM.

http://youtu.be/54NWWRGLPA4

I was so mad about YouTube muting the original audio...

That assortment of random riffs is one of my favorites so far

oh pplains, that Chuggler's Blues vid...

Since we're not doing the live album, can we talk about Joe and the real Chug All Night (Long): http://youtu.be/QYBguT7mPHU

Guys, listen to "Partytown."

Glenn Frey is tired of his job, tired of his wife, so he's ready to kick some ass.

That's right! He's writing in character. Oh.

dlanor epmart 2 months ago

This became my favorite song in 1982. I had just gotten divorced and I lived that line..."I told everybody they could kiss my ass"

Another solo Eagle gem from '82: Henley's "Johnny Can't Read": sorta-New Wave in which the Donster (playing a frustrated school teacher in video) complains about those damn soft coddled kids. It's very much the predecessor to tomorrow's song:

http://youtu.be/VYEm76840Yo

"is it the President's fault? OH NO. Is it Johnny's fault? OOOOH NOOOO!"

He should sing in this register more often.

I like The Sad Cafe. It's hardly Abbey Road, but after the junk of almost the entire Walsh-era Eagles, it's an unexpectedly dignified exit for them.

That sad, it plods a bit - even now they still often can't develop a melody - and the drums are same as ever. This thread has made tedious drumming set my teeth on edge, when I'd've given it a free pass before. The same old hissy cymbals too I note. The Rhodes is good and the sax beds in nicely. So welcome after the sub-rock rock they've been squeezing out these last few.

I Can't Tell You Why is the best track here by far obviously, but Sad Cafe takes a comfortable second.

one for Alfred: Frey's "It's Better in the USA". Check this mighty piece of Reagan-era jingoism (co-written by Tempchin!)

live recording link:

"Well, they look to the east
They look to the west
The Third World wonders
Which way's the best
We got freedom, we got soul
We got blue jeans and rock'n’roll

Man, there ain't no choice
It's better in the U.S.A.
(It's better in the U.S.A.)
You can be what you want
Say what you wanna say
(It's better in the U.S.A.)
Why can't I make you understand?
It's better in the U.S.A.
(It's better in the U.S.A.)

I hear the same propaganda day after day
It's gettin' so hip to knock the U.S.A.
If we're so awful and we're so bad
You oughta check the night life in Leningrad"

sorry here's the link: http://www.glennfreyonline.com/multimedia/MP3/BetterintheUSADelMar85.mp3

Why couldn't he make us understand?

I like how every name they drop in those particular anecdotes is someone waaaaaaaaaaaay cooler than them.

who on earth could they have name dropped who wasn't way cooler than them? steve garvey?

hahahaha

Are you seriously asking if the Buzzcocks bassist isn't cooler than the Eagles? You shittin me??

this is an eagles thread man, he ain't talking about steve garvey from the buzzcocks. disgraceful.

listening to "Partytown" and I feel like I'm in a Chevy Chase movie

this is like the real 80s, the 80s that no one ever revives, this kinda lame rock n' roll pastiche done with bad sounding drums and instruments and synths and shit.

this live version actually changes "night life in Leningrad" to "ugly women in Leningrad"

what a fuckin asshole

and the Chevy Chase movie is Deal of the Century not Fletch or Vacation.

lol thought y'all were talking about 'johnny can't read', which struck me as henley biting 'holiday road'

Don: Glenn's insensitive remarks kept us out of Russia for years, denying us the opportunity to bring our music to these once oppressed people.

Glenn: Putin set me straight though. Let's just once the Eagles rolled into Stalingrad, we learned the true meaning of a 'Free Pussy Riot!"

Don: Well, yeah.

Buckingham plays on BAPB, and Henley's solo career consists of recording his kind of "edgy" adult contemporary.

sadly, solo Frey is in short supply on Youtube, but there are two songs from his just-before-the-reunion album that look amazing. "He Took Advantage (Blues for Ronald Reagan)" (Glenn breaks up with the Gipper) and "Love in the 21st Century," which apparently has a spoken phone-sex line interlude (like "Sex Over the Phone"!).

i leave you with Henley in the Thunderdome:

http://vimeo.com/68243359

i've come so close to playing BEAST on spotify over the past couple of weeks, havent been able to pull the trigger yet. i'm not sure if i want to listen to it when i'm able to pay some attention to it or if i want to listen to it when i know i won't be able to pay attention to it.

try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ut5nc9X04

Since the "Eagles Live" outliers, can I just say that Joe has a bit of fun with the "Eagles Live" take of "Life's Been Good", throwing in woozy guitar and changing a few lyrics ("they write Tim letters/Tell Glen 'Don's great!'")

outliers AREN'T BEING DONE, grrr

Life's Been Good was playing in a diner today. I don't know if there's been an uptick in Eagles or if I'm only noticing it now or what, but in response to Prof Whiney's hypothesis that the Beatles are everywhere, I would counter that it's really the Eagles that are so damn ubiquitous. If I weren't so tire I would try to extrapolate that into some kind of insight about the current state of our country.

^^Eagles are like serious diner music these days. Most of my 'In the wild' reports come from diners or casual dining places.

Jumping back to that imaginary 80s Eagles album Scott shared upthread, doesn't it seem odd that there are two tracks apiece (on a ten track lp) from Walsh & Felder and there's nothing from Schmidt?

Also, THIS:

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i422/rb44056/MS3/42655.jpg

"Long Run Leftovers" unintentionaly one of the most interesting things I've heard from this band

hahahahaha that picture of don henley is hilaire! he looks like you stuck the face of a cartoonishly drawn schoolmarm onto bob pollard's body and then took a picture of him in front of an illuminated trash chute. what is he holding?

"Get Over It"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eaglesHFOPress01.jpg

http://youtu.be/1H-Y7MAASkg

Notes:

1. I have to remind myself they released it in fall '94. The production sounds like 2008.

2. Much crisper drumming because guess who was too busy getting himself into a fine froth to drum.

3. Why hasn't Rush Limbaugh used it as a theme?

TheSilverRanger 1 week ago
To the pizza delivery guy who "never seems to have enough change on him." It is your goddamn responsibility to have change on your person at all times when making a delivery; I am NOT giving you a $16 tip. Get over it.

belziebub 1 day ago
telling my parents & my kids to get over what ever they are having delusions about is an understatement. put them in their place or they will end up dead

jazsper123 1 month ago
Why's everyone so pissed? This song couldn't speak more truth about being a pussy. Get over it and kick some ass.

I remember the first time I heard this on the radio, and I swear that at the end (3:25), instead of just saying, "Get over it!" Don said "Get over it...bitch!" But none of the youtube versions have that.

It's also possible I just imagined it, since it's probably what Don was thinking anyway.

clearly unabashedly music by and for hateful old people
i said it before, but i'll say it again: whatever, gramps.

I've waited two months to get to this song.

tarfumes you remember radio experiences extremely vividly! i think it probably happened. grouchy old fart henley would have done that.
i think this is the side of the eagles that i forgot that i hated! the grouchy hateful old person side.

and it hit the top forty: one of the last geezer hits ever

It was the geezer-rock equivalent of the moon landing; no way could I ever forget it.

xp

i don't think i've heard this whole song before. i was avoiding the radio in 94 for the most part, except for oldies maybe.

i'll always associate it w/ the miserable era of its release: fall 1994, the victory of the Gingrich Congress, & a time in which I had four consecutive, awful (but subtly different in misery) headcolds in the space of three months.

It's quite something (hell, a talent of sorts) that the Eagles can come back, 14 years later, and pick up being assholes precisely where they'd left off. You can see the roots of this song in Henley's smug "political" screeds and Frey's turn to Reaganism, which coincided with his steroided-mook look. But at least in the Seventies, you got the sense H and F were basing their sneers on some actual experience, even if it was just hanging out in high-end bars. "Get Over It" feels like Henley was watching Jerry Springer on TV in an airport lounge one day.

So the big comeback is mean-spirited crap, a song that classes America into whining pussies and the righteous people who are flipping 'em the bird. Probably the best drumming track they've had to date, though. Welcome back, gents!

belziebub 1 day ago
telling my parents & my kids to get over what ever they are having delusions about is an understatement. put them in their place or they will end up dead

!!!!!!!!!!

It's a lot easier to stomach it if you picture this as the Eagles' version of a Rockpile song.

And, man,

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eaglesHFOPress01.jpg

Steve Buscemi was in everything back during the 90s.

i have only vague memories of this. i moved that year, so i was no longer hearing rock radio. i heard it every night during my graveyard shift supermarket job in connecticut. but by the time this came out i was back in philadelphia and getting my prime bitch rock from dog man star. can't believe this came out the same year as live through this and the downward spiral. come to think of it, two good alternate titles for hell freezes over!