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

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

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

any one of a hundred country dudes to thread.

that's what i was thinking, only i didn't know who specifically
joe the plumber's debut single?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbCOA0C-1c

did Schmit have a grunge period? I can see him getting a memo from Henley/Frey to shave the goatee before the tour.

Reunion Walsh in today's photo looks a hell of a lot like geddy to me

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

any one of a hundred country dudes to thread.

― scott seward, Monday, October 21, 2013 11:37 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obv not old enough yet but Taylor Swift seems like a really resentful person, maybe she'll grow into it

Oh golly. This does have a nice slick trash rock groove. I guess I generally missed this song in '94, or at least didn't associate it with the Eagles. I recall thinking it was Bon Jovi or somebody, probably because our mainstream rock station here at the time wasn't big on the Eagles. But I later found out the truth, and even later actually listened to the lyrics. Big mistake. I can imagine millions of parents in 1994 playing this song to their teenage children either to 'be down with them' or to teach some lesson about growing up. These kids would then go see Reality Bites while mom'n'pop went to the local Enormodome to see "Hell Freezes Over".

Crowe:

GET OVER IT
DON: Written in a burst. It’s the fastest song, tempo-wise, that we’ve ever recorded. The best thing about it is that it got Glenn and I in a room together again, after 14 years, and we created something as a team, even if it wasn’t the best thing we ever wrote.

GLENN: We were so sick of tabloid television — and this was eight years ago! I was so tired of professional victims everywhere you looked, all over the media. Don said, “I have a title: ‘Get Over It.’” I said, “That’s a song — let’s write it!” We got together at his place up the coast and wrote it. Whether it’s the best song we’ve ever written or not, it was the song that proved to use that we could write together again. During The Long Run our creative relationship became strained, perhaps just because we’d been going to the well for so long. We struggled to complete all the songs for The Long Run album. Let’s just say that I was less than confident that Don and I could get back in a room together and get through a piece of work. “Get Over It” showed us that we could get together and write again. For that reason it’s an important song to me.

Fun Fact: on The Very Best of..., "Get Over It" is followed by "Hole In The World" (aka "The Eagles 9/11 Song").

I was so tired of professional victims everywhere you looked

[Livia Soprano voice]: Poor you!

does he really say "bitchin' a fit"?

cuz i always thought it was "pitchin' a fit" which is a phrase i've heard

god this song sucks

joe's slide playing is always p cool

I have also heard "pitch a bitch" but I have never heard "bitch a fit."

The lyrics I'm finding say "Pitch A Fit"

I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin' "Don't blame me"
They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else
Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma's too thin; your daddy's too fat

Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin' and cryin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

You say you haven't been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if I gave you some cash
The more I think about it, Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight
You don't want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing

Get over it
Get over it
If you don't want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, Get over it

It's like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You're makin' the most of your losin' streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass

Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin' and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it
Get over it
It's gotta stop sometime, so why don't you quit
Get over it, get over it

Thanks for posting the lyrics! I just hurled my lunch.

bitch a fit is a good eggcorn