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

"And why are you so angry at Eagles, Soto?"

"Love disappointed."

It's in the Miami Herald in the summer of 2003; I'd post it if I could.

"No More Walks In The Wood"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eaglesGADublin09-03.jpg

https://myspace.com/eaglesonlinecentral/video/eagles-no-more-walks-in-the-wood-long-road-out-of-eden-/31334792

yes i had to go to myspace to find this song...

no more walks in the wood cuz there's a hole in the world so GET OVER IT

oh dear. poor John Hollander: I didn't know that Henley had "covered" him.

original poem: http://www.ct.gov/cct/cwp/view.asp?a=2162&q=329214. The Eagles replace its tight, driving rhythms with mush-mouth draggy melodies and ignore its wordplay (see how they just clunk through the "gone for good, and you, for ill"). Sadly, this has probably been used in a few high school English classes to torture students.

man, we are really gonna drag to the finish line with this. yeesh....

First Eagles album with solo Frey credits!

this was the album they only sold through Wal-Mart, right? Which is a perfect partnership for 'em

so their entire catalog is on spotify except for this album. THIS is the one they're withholding from downloaders??? i'll be sure to run right out to wal-mart and buy it right now.

i think THEY must have the rights to this album or something? that would explain why i its hard to find? private property of eagles/walmart.

they have enough rights to their entire catalog that they were able to withhold all streaming rights until very recently. and then, with much fanfare, they made everything available except the walmart album. so maybe wal-mart is the one aggressively keeping it off the internet?

the first humane move of Wal-Mart's existence imo

"hey, looking for the Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden": said no one on a file-sharing site ever

Bet you could find plenty of "How Long" by the Eagles on a file-server. They'd all feature Paul Carrack singing about how he's not quite as dumb as he seems, but they'd be in there.

I think most people that bought this album think file-sharing involves manila folders and the post office.

"No More Walks In The Wood"--Man, they really Protooled the shit out of those harmonies. CSN(Y) used to do stuff like this just standing around a mike going direct to tape. This shall be a long road indeed...

it'll be a long friggin' road if i end up having to search for these damn songs on abandoned geocities fansites.

i'll have to start using a more reliable search engine for this kind of thing.

http://www.dogpile.com/

eaglespile.com

For some reason, the myspace page isn't opening for me.

So it's basically, "Dammit, I can't open this jar of sun-dried, urnine-soaked phlegm clumps!"

well, yeah

Ermine-swaddled phlegm clumps

"How Long"

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreyPB2008-08.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBqpyUmCP4

Ugh golf Glenn.

karaoke version of their old sound, as if intended for someone listening to the radio to think it's "Already Gone" for a minute before realizing their mistake. Gets ugly when Henley comes in on the 2nd verse. 18 more of these to go?

I feel guilty for not helping drag this dead horse across the finish line, so I made myself listen to this one

This is ... not entirely awful! I see it went to 23 on the US country charts, I'm sure it fit right in

KInd of peppy, appropriate use of Eagles Vocal Harmonies™ ... only 3:16 but "good night, baby, rock yourself to sleep" still quite apt

At least the production is better than the '94 stuff. But that's not saying much. In fact, it's saying absolutely nothing.

FYI This was a JD Souther song from '72: http://youtu.be/AlMURk9RsU4 (I think that's Roach & the boys on harmony, who also used to smoke it live: http://youtu.be/fkmj1INRCok)

As for the new version, it's a nice little romp, and probably better than a lot of what surrounded it on 2007 Country radio. Once again not digging the Protooled harmonies.

In the wild:The H is O at this diner...

...and now there's a Heartache Tonight!

In the wild:The H is O at this diner...

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, October 28, 2013 7:25 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Brain: the Henley is... out?

I figured it out though.

probably overdue - http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/540b145e5d/the-h-is-o-a-short-by-adam-mckay-from-adam-ghost-panther-mckay-will-ferrell-jimmy-fallon-and-ben-stiller

"Busy Being Fabulous"

http://www.joewalshonline.com/images/JWalshMarjorieCandid.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uht1Jy1x2hA

r.i.p. lou reed.

"Available Exclusively at Wal-Mart" is all you really need to know about this album. Thus far it sounds exactly as i'd expect a Walmart-only album to sound (like a '70s Eagles album with the hits removed.) Scanning the tracklist, I don't recognise any of the song titles, yet this opened at #1. I must be out of the pop music scene or something....u

with Lou's death, I really don't have the heart to listen to today's bilge, especially as it's yet another Henley song about a bitch who's done him wrong. Henley and Frey will live to be 100 years old.

i listened to it, and if i had to apply the lou reed filter, i'd say i did it because i wanted to really feel the hate for don henley. and it worked!
i was ready to just dismiss it as complete garbage but dang this song is offensive
love the video "my first music video"

I interrupted listening to Berlin for this? By far, the worst decision I've ever made in my life.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/31/article-0-1187154E000005DC-12_634x380.jpg

So Joe Walsh is Ringo Starr's brother-in-law.

I knew Joe had been a member of the All-Starr Band, but this, I wasn't aware of.

Haven't listened to today's song yet. YouTube wanted me to sit through a 30-second spot for Acura, and I just couldn't do it.

Also ham radio recordings of Joe on his wikipedia page.

I've fallen behind on my listening so I just listened to everything from Learn to Be Still forward.

They are all terrible songs. I think How Long could be redeemed if it could be purged of the Walmartness of it and maybe change some of the stupid, stupid lyrics. Don does some vocal freestyling at the end of Hole in the World that is just repulsive, also did you look at the video? Look at their stupid faces in the video while they sing that song. They look like a sketch comedy troupe pretending to be a washed up shitty band singing some late-career self-important treacly mess of a song. Also that song is over four minutes long because by now, the entire band is made up of nothing but contempt for their remaining fans. Busy Being Fabulous is execrable. I couldn't get through the live version of Learn to Be Still. I could barely get through the 5 seconds of stage banter before they started playing. God I hate the Eagles.

And that's Paul McCartney's son, right? Have you ever in your life gone out on the town with the assistant sales manager your dad used to work with and that guy's brother-in-law? Maybe Sean won't return his calls.

i was wondering who the owl faced kid is! he looks miserable.

We can't all be "the cute one."

haha
what a strange life it must be to be son of the cute one. like eric stoltz in son of the fly.

http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pn004963.jpg

"A teenaged prostitute? Your drummer can't get by on his looks alone like me?"

lol

Lee626, not only did it debut at #1, it was the third best-selling record of 2007 and is 7x platinum.

Granted, it's a double album so 7x Platinum means 3.5 million shipped/sold, but still pretty shocking.

7x Platinum means 3.5 million shipped/sold

if 3.4 million copies of that double album were sitting in the basement of a walmart warehouse, it would still get to be 7x platinum.

But in the SoundScan era, do labels still claim shipped=sold?

last time i checked, and i admit it's been a minute, the riaa's gold and platinum awards were completely unconnected to soundscan.