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

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.

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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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NIGHT"!

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.

more like "Sunday Times crossword chops"

is the basic track on this a Casio preset? eagles: chillwave pioneers

wow this is fuckin bad

i apologize to all those eagles songs from the 70s that i said were shitty

this is beyond bad. just soooooooooooo terrible. jesus, joe walsh do you really need money that bad!!!!???? don't you have enough?

Kinda broke my heart to see him harmonizing with them at the beginning.

Jesus fuck, how long is this fucking song?

I wish the Eagles had never been born.

I woke up this morning with "I Can't Tell You Why" stuck in my head on a constant loop that occasionally morphs into "The Long Run" (more specifically, the part where the rest of the Eagles sing "strong one")
They are inside my brain, the end must be near?

Also kinda feel like I owe Alan Jackson an apology.

i made it 1:32 into this song, and the last 30 sec was only because i briefly pretended that they were a group of small town cops who caught the music bug

The Jackson song is great!

haha.

Bernie and Joe would make for good cops in their current modes.