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

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.

ok just checked. still unconnected.

I wish that 3.4 million copies were languishing in Wal-Mart warehouses across this great nation. But chillingly, 2.6 million copies of this album were sold to paying customers the last 2 months of 2007 alone.

My guess is that, by now, well over 3 million copies of this album have actually been intentionally purchased.

citation on that 2.6 million number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States_since_Nielsen_SoundScan_tracking_began#2007.5B6.5D

take that, daughtry (and your mere 2.5 million)!

Don't cry for Daughtry. That 2.5 million figure is only for 2007. The album moved almost 5 million copies, eventually outselling our thread's heroes.

"Busy Being Fabulous": Rather than dwell on on the inherent misogyny in this song, I'd rather focus on how hilarious it is that Mr. Donster McSeriousPants is still writing songs about bimbos ditching his sorry ass. I could probably c'n'p my prior comments about the harmonies from here on out. This was fairly big on Country radio too, no?

GLENN: in the end, daughtry sold more albums, but we, um, well, you know...

DON: well, yeah.

It wouldn't surprise me if LRTE really did sell millions. Wal-Mart customers are their demographic.

I actually got a little knee jerk insulted on behalf of Walmart customers! I'm not even kidding!

Meanwhile, I thought to myself that people who would buy an Eagles CD at Walmart get what they deserve, just like ppl who voted for Rand Paul, whose poodly topknot indicates some affiliation with Don & the gang.

I don't think it's a demographic so much as, "Lessee, got detergent...Liquid Plumber...new bath mat...oh, huh, new Eagles for $10? Sure, what the hell."

In other words, the Eagles knew that no one, anywhere, ever would make a special trip to a store to buy their new record; the only purchasers would be those who were stocking up on dog food and socks at the time.

who wouldn't stock up on dog food and socks? People get hungry and cold.

Maybe the Eagles CD is for the dog.

...the dog they got after they got rid of Randy Meisner

Also, Long Road Out of Eden was a holiday season release, and what the hell else are you going to get the uncle/cousin/sibling you rarely see or think about?

who wouldn't stock up on dog food and socks? People get hungry and cold.

Exactly. The Eagles correctly reasoned that only those already in Wal-Mart buying staples would impulse-buy their record on a whim/at the checkout.

i also like to think there was a sticker on the cd that said "not INCLUDING TAKE IT EASY AND HOTEL CALIFORNIA," with the "not" in 2-pt type and everything else in 36-pt type.

I like the idea of your average shopper hate-buying the record as a last-minute gift for someone they dislike.

I plan to do this for several ILXers.