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

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.

Yeah that's it

"Learn To Be Still"

http://www.hotelcaliforniatab.com/web/wp-content/Eagles/hell-freezes-over-era-1994-1996/eagles1994apocalypse.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTWNBX2VmAo

there is no eagles version of this song on youtube. this is by a band called Laredo. not even a live version. maybe stan lynch trolls the internet for songs that he wrote.

there's a live Eagles version on Dailymotion:

http://dai.ly/xrg6n

Can't finished it. Getting through this song would be like eating a whole jar of mayonnaise.

Sayin' I love you, is not the words I want to say...

like eating a whole jar of mayonnaise.

You're right, he does sing a little like Tom Petty on this one.

Getting through this song would be like eating a whole jar of mayonnaise.

I'm sure Long Run era Don Henley would've really delighted all with a song called "Learn to Be Still (You Fallen Debutante, You)"

well, yeah

made it to the verse where Henley compares a woman "to a sheep without a shepherd/don't know how to be alone" and pulled the plug

hey guys remember "witchy woman"? that was fun

We were so innocent then.

http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m536/dandy_monkey/gifs/sigh.gif

"Learn To Be Still": I watched the dailymotion version, and I can totally buy the Donster's opening remark about writing it an hour ago. Open up a notebook of scraps, verse 1 on page 12, verse two dumped on the back cover under a coffee stain, third next to that hot yoga instructor's phone # on page three... Who'd a thunk "Get Over It" would be the standout in this collection of tracks?

We're doing "Hole In The World" tomorrow, right? Followed by all 20 tracks of Long Road?

sure.

New kid in town on old bar jukebox
bass drowning out the harmonies lol

Meisner's Revenge

"Hole In The World"

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mb6fIAnsL.jpg

http://vimeo.com/33989886

hole in my brian more like

Writing a 9-11 song that uses their undepleted cache of bitterness and spite is a talent, I must say.

its like some strange competition with themselves to see if they can come up with a WORSE song than the one before it. forever.

lol @ Henley credited with "drums."

wow, this is dreadful, esp Henley's grunting, whinnying vocal "improvs" towards the end. Key change midway through really seems to push him into an uncomfortable place. You can tell he was pleased with rhyming "anointed" and "disappointed" tho

DON: I tell ya, I was mighty pleased I got to rhyme "anointed" and "disappointed," and especially proud that it fit the mood of autumnal despair.

GLENN: You got your SAT chops in.

DON: Well, yeah.