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

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

xp All by yourself?

"I turn on the tube and what do I see..."

I used to write songs that started off like this too (when I was 11.)

I've remembered I did once know an Eagles fan!

At my primary school there was a big mountain of a boy, strong as an ox but highly-strung and angry, and easily riled/bullied. I remember him once being pushed too far and charging all the way out of class and out of school grounds, bellowing, while the janitor chased and we watched agog from our classroom window. That he just kept going and never came back was the awe-inspiring thing.

Years later I was working in a hardware store. The storeroom guy - who looked like Napoleon Solo - left to live in Hong Kong and who should get the job but the ox. To his credit he seemed to have sorted out the anger thing and was a completely straight-edged guy. Except now he was a massive fan of The Eagles. He didn't appear to like any other music - in fact he considered non-Eagles music fans to be junkie degenerates. I think he got the Eagles love from his dad.

He never gave any indication that he remembered me, and given his difficult time at my school I never let on that I remembered him. And I knew not to tease too much - I suspect the rage was always pulsing away just below the surface. But I couldn't resist digs at The Eagles.

In truth I didn't know too much about them then, really just that Henley was busted with a fifteen-year-old and a ton of 'ludes. One day the ox was ranting against junkie musicians, which led to the following exchange:

- Like Don Henley, I said.
- Don Henley's a brilliant guy.
- What about when he was caught with a load of drugs?
- ... no he wasn't.
- He was; and he was caught with an underage girl as well.
- ... I don't know about this and I don't know what happened - but you can bet she put him up to it

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

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, October 21, 2013 2:57 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa377/asusundevils/Don_Henley.jpg

"Mission Accomplished!"

was this around the time of Brooce's "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)"?

is there a "Classic Rockers Watching Expanded Basic Cable" mini-genre?

couple of years after. LOVED 'santa monica' (more than any green day song) and was generally ok w/ everclear but boy if you want to be depressed for everclear go on spotify and check out how many times they've re-recorded their hits over the past few years.

and here's my confession: i've never actually heard 'get over it'. in fall/winter? of 1994 i was in iceland and neither icelandic radio or the local armed forces network radio station which was programmed by 19 year olds for 19 year olds went anywhere near it. i was aware of it - yet another entry in henley/frey smugly stupidly attacking something they view on some level as an unworthy threat ('johnny can't read' is effectively an anti-video game screed).

Can't access this on phone youtube, spotify doesn't have it and it doesn't seem worth starting up my computer for, so I guess this is where the eagles and I part company. Probably a good thing, no point in tarnishing the legacy.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7icfUzDN2I/T--UOykqb-I/AAAAAAAAG64/Cp5tJi-0f7s/s1600/toti+mju8.gif

"Yowza Yowza Yowza! Another one bites the dust here on the Eagles listening thread! How many will make it to the end?!?"

marathon chug contest!

Buckle up, it's gonna be a rough ride

last weeks of our survey are going to feel something like this:

http://youtu.be/0ECZW9R16EY

"Love Will Keep Us Alive"

http://www.timothybschmitonline.com/images/eaglesHFOFieldBW2.jpg

http://youtu.be/ljrB3M2IEqw

I heard this song A LOT in early and mid '95, enough to disgust me for life. It defines "mawkish."

A solid rival for those YouTube videos that play 8 hours of box-fan noises as a sleep aid. The nearly-unchanging guitar arpeggio had me nodding off at my desk, and I've had 2 cups of coffee. The way Schmit wincingly sings "survive" is rather grotesque.

I recall hearing this one a few times in the '90s, but it's the sort of mush that blessedly fades from the memory v. quickly.

The same five men who recorded "Those Shoes".

As shitty and dull as Szymczyk's production was, it was never overtly dated-sounding. These '94 turds sound horrendously/hilariously early-90s, all digital reverb and elevator-music compression.

co-written by Paul Carrack!

"Love Will Keep Us Alive", is a song written by Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack, and Peter Vale. It was first performed by the Eagles in 1994, during their "Hell Freezes Over" reunion tour, with lead vocals by bassist Timothy B. Schmit.
According to the liner notes that accompanied their 2003 greatest hits CD, this song was written when Carrack and Schmit were planning to form a band during the late eighties or early nineties. This never materialized, so Schmit proposed the song for the Eagles' reunion album.

The hell? Jim Capaldi? Weird. Dude was a monster in Traffic.

his solo albums are...interesting.

All I know is "Living on the Edge," which was a huge radio hit in, what, '83 or something. Actually, I knew that song before I knew he was the Traffic drummer. Not a bad song, though, and certainly better than this poo.

That little dripping water sound (temple blocks?)is fingernails on a chalkboard for me.

It's the biggest pet peeve I have in all of recorded music.

I went years refusing to listen to country music because of that shit. Kenny Rogers has a lot to answer for.

I had to turn this song off. I'm so disappointed in TBS after his stellar performance in I Can't Tell You Why.

I have a bad feeling that more than one couple have chosen this as a first dance song at their wedding.

wow i had totally forgotten about this song

this song is a bad day in hell

i'm not even sure i knew this was the eagles, i think i might have thought it was a sole female artist

i think we've got another candidate for the next thread:

This extensive 40th Anniversary anthology, selected personally by Leo, features his catalogue of recorded material, including all of their original studio albums in mini-vinyl replica wallets, non-album tracks and B sides, together with a small selection of alternative mixes and rarities unearthed from the vaults, in this 166-track, 14CD box set. • The box set has also been personally designed by Leo and artworked by Simon Halfon. • The 32-page booklet includes a 4,000+ word liner note and track annotation by Leo. • The box set features all of Leo’s UK hits from 1973-1986, including the Transatlantic #1 single, ‘When I Need You’. • Leo is celebrating his 40th Anniversary since the release of his debut release ‘The Show Must Go On’.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Box-Complete-Recordings-1971-2006/dp/B00FE9R226/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1382451567&sr=1-3&keywords=leo+sayer

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81z6T4H0ibL._SL1428_.jpg

just a pox

Yeah, it's not the "1971" part so much that worries me as it is the "2006" part.

Not really into Leo, but he wrote the best stuff on Daltrey's first solo record:
http://youtu.be/TG_q_qUqupw

P. Plains' very first 45's: "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer and "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots.

I don't feel so bad about my little boy being a huge fan of "Firework" by Katy Perry for this reason.

Not as heavy as Daltrey, but I didn't realize Leo could belt (dressed as a clown, no less):
http://youtu.be/6OEarewzmwI

that's awesome! i had no idea he was british until today.

always thought bobby bloom should sue leo for stealing his hair AND his font.

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/28514.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Leo+Sayer+-+Silverbird+-+LP+RECORD-230091.jpg

okay maybe not the same font, but still...

those seventies fright perms confuse me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxCGd4UO7GU