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

<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

^^Me too! This sounds like something Frey & Henley cooked up as a pitch to the Backstreet Boys or somebody so they could prove to their daughters they were still 'cool' and 'with it'. Reminds me of "Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely" (which in turn sounds like a Henley title come to think of it).

nah Henley-Frey would write "I'll Show You The Meaning (Of Being Lonely)."

Well, yeah

"Guilty Of The Crime"

http://www.joewalshonline.com/images/eaglesRS2008.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274FGKogHHM

Ricky Gervais looking thinner in his boy scout shirt, but when did Russell Brand shave the beard?

Cripes, Walsh really needs to play with a drummer other than Henley.

(Answer to that last one: When she released California Girls...)

Henley going for a Franco-Prussian War general look.

"Guilty of the Crime": this is C-rate tired rock and roll but at least it sounds somewhat alive (the pianist seems to have a few cups of coffee before the session), and Walsh's voice is a relief after all of these Henley/Frey slogs. Agree leadfoot Henley behind the kit doesn't help matters.

happy birthday Timothy B. Schmit, have an excellent one

"Guilty of The Crime": I liked the ending on this, as Walsh's phrasing gets a little looser...the whole thing could have been better a little looser.

I take back what I said earlier about Long Road Out of Eden sounding like a compilation of their '70s non-hit album fillers. It's not up to that lofty level....

"I Don't Want To Hear Anymore"

http://www.timothybschmitonline.com/images/TSchmitLROOETB02.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR5CEnFzdkw

otm

these are rough final days.

written by Paul Carrack.

There isn't a single surprising lick, down beat, or melody: a dude and his keyboard presets in a Duluth coffee bar.

otm

otm

It's not the first time
That I've had the sense that something's wrong

got that right Schmit. he should've gotten jail time for cutting this vocal

written by Paul Carrack.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:28 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and also first recorded by him a few years earlier (with Schmit and Henley on backing vocals)

http://youtu.be/IkGAv21vrm4

There isn't a single surprising lick, down beat, or melody: a dude and his keyboard presets in a Duluth coffee bar.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh....not cool don't lump the beautiful haunted city of duluth into this.

Yeah, Alfred. Comparing this song to Bob Dylan is really stretching it.

a dude his keyboard presets in a Clearwater coffee bar.

his keyboard presets in a positively fourth street coffee bar

You could make it clear that its a Duluth Georgia coffee bar