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

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!

The Rolling Stones were touring that fall. Kurt Cobain shot himself and out jumped all these boomer skeletons from the ground. No, Elton, I was not feeling the love that night.

actually, Mellow Gold and Under The Pink would have been good alternate titles for Hell Freezes Over too. also: Dookie. also: Dummy.

This shit is especially aggravating coming from dudes that haven't worked a day since the late 60s

I just looked at the lyrics of this for the first time. Holy cow what a hateful little song this is.

Also yeah kill all the lawyers and see how well you can negotiate your stupid royalties contracts by yourself, you bozo.

I do remember it but I thought it was dumb as hell (it goes in the category of "songs that I think are commercials the first time I hear them and am surprised to learn are actual songs" along with Music is the Doctor and Kid Rock's song about Michigan) and didn't pay much attention to it. In 94 I graduated from college and worked at a convenience store until I moved to northern California to live in a house full of wannabe pro snowboarder tweakers so I mostly listened to NOFX and Pennywise whether I wanted to or not.

I'm sure Irving Azoff said, "Don, what a kneeslapper!"

On a related note, we saw Everclear at the Arkansas State Fair this weekend. I hope Billie Joe Armstrong wakes up every morning and hails Satan for everything he's got.

I will rep hard for "Santa Monica" but boy I do not have time for the lead singer's dad issues. Jesus, buddy, no need for all that Father of Mine bullshit. Just drink a little too much and suffer in dignified silence like the rest of us.

would you like to tell him to "get over it"?

We watched this silly documentary about punk rock dads the other day (Jeff was looking for fathering inspiration from Fat Mike, I guess) and the Everclear guy was in it with his stupid goatee whining about his dad. Gross.

xp LOL omg I would. Nooooooo this thread has changed me!!!!

Kinda weird to see a 50-year-old man stand up in front of a bunch of fairgoers and say to them, "All right, sing along with me because you know the words: Fah-ther of MINE..."

GET OVER IT!
GET OVER IT!

"I showed you, DAD!"

* Eats funnelcake *

"no need for all that Father of Mine bullshit"

this is pretty much the only everclear song i like.

oh scott, no.

i thought it was well-written! and kinda poignant at the time. its not like i hear it every day. daddy gave you a name!

Eagles
Everclear
Evanescence

So many one-word E bands.

I really like that Father of Mine song! (hides)

good rule of thumb i've found in life: anyone who refers to "'Billy' Shakespeare" is usually an ass

oh another personal anecdote about this thing I forgot: my friend's sister was dating his horrible guy. they were having an argument driving on the NY Thruway and this song came on the radio and the dude cranked it, looked at her, and mouthed the chorus. They subsequently married and had two awful children.

GLENN: my friend's sister was dating his horrible guy. they were having an argument driving on the NY Thruway and this song came on the radio and the dude cranked it, looked at her, and mouthed the chorus. They subsequently married and had two awful children.

DON: Well, yeah.

Aw I like the big Everclear record

Reminds me of working as a cook in a bar during college
Just thinking about that "I walk with pride with my black girlfriend" song that's kinda o_O

Ha, I haven't been able to think of a way to phrase this:

But listening to songs like "Ain't Nobody Leaving!" where he brags about having a mixed-race nephew - He's gorgeous! - AIN'T NOBODY LEAVING. I mean, even in 1991, I would've figured most people's reactions to a kid like that would be "so?"

I keep having this thought of some 90s alternative rocker like Perry Ferrell telling people today, "Yeah, man! You gotta RECYCLE more, stop RACISM, let GAY PEOPLE wear a DRESS if they wanna..." and the reporter going "Wear a DRESS?"

who is such a geezer today that it's conceivable that s/he could produce a song as lame/bilious as "get over it"?

Who makes that their comeback song?

So many needlessly-defensive musicians back in the day.

If this thread has proved anything, it's that the Eagles had plenty to be defensive about.

what was the reason for getting back together anyhow? just the dough, Azoff promising they could sell $100 tickets? Henley's solo career was still pretty strong, post-"End of the Innocence," though Frey had been in the wilderness for a while.

well, yeah