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

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.

Alas, they were truthful, and included today's song as one of the selling points:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0166/1048/products/eagles_eden_1_1024x1024.jpg?0

good price, though

Not sure what kind of message they're trying to send with cheap record prices and batshit ticket prices.

grandpa's birthday is just around the corner

They were going hard after the Kate Bush Aerial demographic with that sleeve

Back cover's pretty sweet too:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0166/1048/products/eagles_eden_2_1024x1024.jpg?0

10:15, the horror

Oh no there are a lot more songs left on this album.

oh shit didn't notice that. I was too busy getting worried about having to listen to a song called "I Love To Watch a Woman Dance."

I think I am going insane because I just spent 20 minutes writing this.

Grandpa Receives Eagles CD for his 60th birthday

A Barberton, OH man has received the latest recording by the 1970s legends of excess, The Eagles, from his 4 year old granddaughter. He received the CD at a family gathering held at his favorite restaurant, Applebee's. Other restaurant patrons recalled the silver-haired father of two (grandfather of 4) as he drank a few too many Jack and Cokes. "He was getting louder and louder, and I thought he might vomit," said one concerned patron. Another patron sitting at a nearby table claims that Grandpa was beginning to lose his temper with one of the waitresses after she asked him politely not to touch her. His daughter Amy tried to distract him by handing him a gift. The retired accountant laughed as he opened the gift from his granddaughter Kayleigh, who was his daughter's baby. Kayleigh was 4, but she was the well-liked youngest child and always referred to as "the baby" by her extended family. After opening Kayleigh's gift, a CD by grandpa's favorite band The Eagles, Grandpa beamed and thanked his "little Kayleighbear" for her thoughtful gift and began to "tell stories about the old days, just like he always does", laughed Amy. To date, Grandpa has not opened the CD because he doesn't know how to operate a CD player, but he continues to appreciate the thoughtfulness of the gift.

would make beautiful liner notes if they ever do a follow-up

thank god they'll be occupied with this tour until 2015

Which means a new album at Wal Mart in 2020.

When you drive from Little Rock to Chicago, there's this section of the route with no interstate. You basically spend hours in the foothills of the Ozarks going up and down hills, crossing unlit railroad tracks and keeping an eye on the 55 MPH speed limit.

Finally, you come out on Interstate 55 which leads up into the Missouri Bootheel and the New Madrid fault line. You turn right at I-57, cross the Mississippi, barely skirt Kentucky and enter Illinois, which is at least the state in which Chicago is located. Home free, finally.

Except just a mile or so after the Cairo exit, you see the sign that says "Chicago . . . . . . . 371". You can make the trip dozens of times and on each one, you'll feel just plain ol' deflated when you calculate how far you still have to go.

Anyway. That's how I felt when I saw this morning that not only do we still have at least two weeks of this catalog left, but one track is ten minutes and fifteen seconds long. :-(

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

I think this accounts for 20% of its sales. Harried shopper, two weeks before Christmas, ticking off the gifts she's bought while in line at the cash register, realizes she's forgotten to buy for her sister's stupid boyfriend. Sees "Long Road Out of Eden" in a display box. "I think that schmuck likes the Eagles. Is this a live album? Only $12? Fuck it." In the cart it goes.

Also ham radio recordings of Joe on his wikipedia page.

Joe talks ham radio and morse code in this show: http://youtu.be/0vyjXClQnLs

"I think that schmuck likes the Eagles. Is this a live album? Only $12? Fuck it." In the cart it goes.

this is amy buying the gift for her dad
can't you see?

According to wikipedia, the video for "Busy Being Fabulous" features the Eagles performing at a party AND playing the roles of different individuals at the party (waiter, bartender, etc.)

More from wikipedia:

Joe Walsh plays "both a policeman and a security guard (the cop and the guard are actually the same man). His sidekick for both roles is a monkey. At one point in the video, the monkey steals a wallet from a drunken party guest and gives it to Walsh."

Not technically an "Eagles in the wild," but this morning I heard the Steve Miller Band's "Rock'n Me" and immediately started singing, "Well, I'm a-runnin' down the road, tryin' to loosen my load..." Same meter! And almost the same melody! It totally works!

a bunch of dudes were CRANKING 'The Long Run' yesterday at the Raiders tailgate. :D

in answer to a facebook question from alfred, kinda thinking about turning this whole bloody nightmare into an EMP conference proposal. its such an easy target but i'm old and i can only really reach the easy targets. i promise i wouldn't mention any of you by name if i ended up writing something.

awesome!

the song about walking in the woods sucks

"how long" was actually pretty good i thought! def an old school country rock eagles type thing. could see why it made the charts at least.

too busy being fabulous made me vom thinking that lou just died and wtf am i doing listening to this shit?

Would loved to have heard a Lou song called "Busy Being Fabulous" tbh.

"What Do I Do With My Heart"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eaglesGADublin09-04.jpg

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbrzs3_eagles-what-do-i-do-with-my-heart_music

"now you tell me that you've found someBODY
someone who loves you BETTER
no one could ever love you
the way I DOOOOooooOOOO"

jesus, weren't these guys professional songwriters once? Try to make it to the verse where Henley takes the lead and Frey delivers some of the lamest "ad libs" ever recorded (H: "Stiiiill missing you" F: "whoa!").

its so bad.

I got as far as 2:47. Can I turn it off?

if someone ever brought a song like that to richard marx he'd stomp their head into the floor and kill their whole family and shove the sheet music into their hollowed out skull and leave the burning skull on his doorstop on a post as a warning to other songwriters to never ever bring him a song that lame ever again.

doorstep that is. and don't think he wouldn't do it either. the man has standards. and he's one sick bastard.

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HMaV0O.410suuPmpXyQCGA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-SG/blogs/ept_prod/marx.jpg

well, that's the thing: Richard Marx wrote at least six of these before his jog around the lake this morning. By the standards of professional anonymous songwriting, this song is dismal.

backing track sounds like another Casio preset, with Walsh playing a line over it while watching "Regis and Kelly"

prob. not even Walsh--more likely the hired gun they got post-Felder

a bunch of dudes were CRANKING 'The Long Run' yesterday at the Raiders tailgate. :D

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, October 28, 2013 9:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty optimistic for Raider Nation.

:)

Were any Eagles songs identified as being used for sleep deprivation in Abu Ghraib? I'll bet it was this one...

with a better arrangement, this would be perfectly acceptable as a lesser album track on a lesser '90s album by a minor nashville singer with one or two adult contemporary hits. bring in diane warren for some song doctoring and maybe even trisha yearwood's people would think about returning your calls. i mean, they wouldn't, but there's a chance they'd at least think about it.

Try to make it to the verse where Henley takes the lead and Frey delivers some of the lamest "ad libs" ever recorded (H: "Stiiiill missing you" F: "whoa!").

it would've been kinda awesome, though, if it went like this instead:

H: "Stiiiill missing you" F: "well, yeah."

Eagle in the wild... "New York Minute" on the background music at the local Home Depot.

At the beginning of this song I thought skot could only find the karaoke backing track version