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

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

"Love Will Keep Us Alive": I don't I heard this 'til I got "The Very Best of..."; if area rock radio only reluctantly seized on "Get Over It", they wouldn't have touched this with a ten-foot poll. It actually sounds exactly like what you'd think the Eagles would sound like in '94: all Adult Contemporary and synthetic. "Get Over It" at least had the surprise factor of beer commercial-esque rockin' out.

This info already posted in different form, but Roach--that's Frey--speaks out:

LOVE WILL KEEP US ALIVE
GLENN: There was a short time, while the band had broken up, that Timothy and Sharkey — that’s Felder — were trying to put together a group with Max Carl from Jack Mack And The Heart Attack, Jim Capaldi from Traffic, and Paul Carrack. The five of them were getting together, I believe, out at Felder’s house and doing demos, trying to write songs and sing and do different things. From those demo sessions came Paul Carrack singing “Love Will Keep Us Alive.”

I wonder what the Carrack version sounded like? He's one of those "could sing the phone books" voices for me.

and by "sing the phone books" I mean both the yellow and white pages.

here ya go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VusIipWjc90

feat. Don "Sharkey" Felder and Max Carl from Jack Mack and the Heart Attack

kinda feel like paul carrack with two songs ("how long(has this been going on)" and "tempted") kinda trumps the majority of eagles catalog.

confession: have always loved this - http://youtu.be/LJ4wa-432xQ

as long as you forgive Paul Carrack for "The Living Years."

bl0unt haha I don't even have to click on that link. I bet I know.

That line 'When we're hungry, love will keep us alive' always makes me think of this

http://images.moviepostershop.com/alive-movie-poster-1992-1020190179.jpg

Anyway this song is just sooooooooooooo blah. It's like an audio version of a plate of all-white foods

xposts Thanks Scott for the Carrack version. Better than the Eagles, with a nice bit of understatement.

kinda feel like paul carrack with two songs ("how long(has this been going on)" and "tempted") kinda trumps the majority of eagles catalog.

The first Ace album (the one w/"How Long") eats the Eagles lunch.

"Girl From Yesterday"

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreyPenthouse06.jpg

http://youtu.be/aaT54V16bCw

plane across the sea to some foreign land

hey guys, persian gulf war was soooo three years ago.

well, Frey helped popularize this sort of rock-countrypolitan fusion, so he's in his rights to cash in w/ the post-Garth Brooks world. Lyrically it's actually subtle for once: the guy could be off in Iraq, but he could be working through a long-distance break-up from the "Girl." Frey's trying too hard, but compared to most of the Eagles catalog, this is humanist.

I wore T-shirts and caps in that pattern in the early nineties. Remember Yaga and Stussi?

there's a light in the window, she waits by the phone

every light is burning in the house across town
she's pacing by the telephone in her faded flannel gown

Damn, Glenn, I think Mr. Gaines got you on this one.

Just what we need: a slower rewrite of "Lyin' Eyes" (for those who thought the pace of the original was far too frenetic), but with shittier production.

I swear Glenn Frey has a set of cards that are like modular cliches you can rearrange and shuffle to suit your lyrical needs. These last two songs just totally fucking suck.
I've been angry about "love will keep us alive" for a full day now. What a stupid and untrue message. When you're hungry, only food will keep you alive. Love will make dying feel better, but food will keep you alive. GOOD LORD I hate the Eagles.

"All You Need Is Food"

hate keeps me alive

I watched Jeremiah Johnson last night and it reminded me so much of Eagles. Redford's hair is perfect in the wilderness for years. He feels sorry for himself a lot and only survives because other people help him so much. He single-handedly defeats scores of Indians in hand to hand combat (I'm so sure...). He's a jerk to his squaw (Who ends up dead, of course). And the theme song sucks.

When you're hungry, only food will keep you alive. Love will make dying feel better, but food will keep you alive. GOOD LORD I hate the Eagles

HENLEY: Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention—-and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough food and women in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with eating. It's a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about food consumption. Also, Paul Carrack and the guy from Traffic wrote that shit.

they are the worst

THE WORST

like a student who plagiarized a shitty paper and then criticizes the teacher's clothing and/or face for being ugly and distracting

the verses seem like they are ripping off some gram parsons song but i can't get it

either way it's a pretty shitty burritos/gram type song...hear those corny synths in the background

man there aren't gonna be any odd gems from here on out

but this is 10X better than love will keep us alive

also:

Eagles Field Report: Heard "Dirty Laundry" on Jack FM on the way to work this morning. I have to admit I kinda love that song...the production is so weird and abrasive! Those weird robot people chanting "Kick em when they're up Kick em when they're down"....I gotta looks up who plays guitar on that...the guitar solo does some kinda weird almost atonal passages in points, like a studio pro way....almost reminds me of Vernon Reid

huh!

Among the musicians on the record were Timothy B. Schmit and Joe Walsh, two of Henley's Eagles bandmates. Walsh performs the first guitar solo, followed by Steve Lukather of the band Toto; the guitar basic tracks are played by Danny Kortchmar who also helped Henley composing this song.[2] Jeff Porcaro (also of Toto) plays the drums on this track.

i was talking about the Lukather parts i think, i caught the song 2/3rds through

pretty sure it's Kootch or Lindley.

wow

LL I don't like that you are enraged but I have to admit that I am enjoying your reaction to these terrible, terrible songs.

I listened to this most recent song this morning and I already forgot everything about it aside from not liking it.

Jeff Porcaro (also of Toto) plays the drums on this track

translation: everyone was coked to the fuckin' gills

my friends just recorded an album at jeff pocaro's old house in LA...it's a studio called seedy underbelly now, which used to be in mpls but relocated.
anyway, i guess there is a "coke room" where everything is mirrored fo' better snortin' action.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:10 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Steve Lukather played on Spinal Tap's Break Like The Wind, and Jeff Porcaro actually died in a bizarre gardening accident. It's all a rich tapestry.

I watched Jeremiah Johnson last night and it reminded me so much of Eagles. Redford's hair is perfect in the wilderness for years. He feels sorry for himself a lot and only survives because other people help him so much. He single-handedly defeats scores of Indians in hand to hand combat (I'm so sure...). He's a jerk to his squaw (Who ends up dead, of course). And the theme song sucks.

Seward you are dead to me! Dead! Jeremiah Johnson fucking rules and has a completely awesome theme song. Of course everyone in it is a pig it's a John milius joint!

i love john milius. JJ is not great sydney pollack though. there are a million better mountain wilderness movies. they catered to redford's vanity. if warren oates had played the part we would have seen a movie.

"The role of Jeremiah Johnson was originally to be played by Lee Marvin and then Clint Eastwood, with Sam Peckinpah attached to direct"

ah, the possibilities...

"The Girl From Yesterday": Ugg, they're still on about/speaking for the simple-minded girls in 1994. At least she's not a cheater with 'the boy from tomorrow' as she most certainly would have been in the '70s. I guess this is where the Common Thread tribute album's influence rears it's head, as it's the most trad country thing they'd done since Leadon left. It's kind of forgotten know, but Common Thread was huge when it came out, setting the stage for the reunion.

(Sort of) In The Wild Report: I was checking out an area Karaoke bar's online catalog, and in addition to the expected Eagle hits, they have "Too Many Hands" and...wait for it
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this movie is cool. and pretty. if you like mountain men:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTkZ63dHiY

who doesn't like mountain men?!

Milius original draft is really supposed to be something (re: JJ)

there's something weirdly 80's about JJ. it's missing the 70's grit and getting the world ready for The Electric Horseman. i'm not a redford fan though. he's not a great actor (and he seems kinda dumb) but his hair looks good. kinda like brad pitt with the height of tom cruise.

watching JJ made me wish there was a good dvd copy of heartland. i heart heartland. can watch it on youtube in installments though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9rSjyd-T8

would watch all these mountain men

Heartland kills me.

The Dick Proenneke documentaries are the Frederick Wiseman of mountain men movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
http://www.dickproenneke.com
http://youtu.be/iYJKd0rkKss

ooh now you're talkin
i love wiseman!!

It's always reminded me of Gram Parsons' version of Streets of Baltimore off of GP.