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

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

there you go

Sweetwater then.

this is the uncoolest song i have ever heard.

HENLEY: We're in our sixties. We don't chase after these false notions of cool, you know? We've done that. We've done everything. So when Tim gave us this beautiful Paul Carrack song we knew we'd found the perfect song for us.

FREY: A dirge that had no chance in hell of gettin' us publishing royalties.

HENLEY: Well, yeah.

it sounds like a women's bathroom!

it smells like a soapcake

Hearing this does make me want to quickly dry my hands and get back out to the Caribbean Stud table.

steeling myself for a few days hence

"Fast Company" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 4:00

but slow tempos

slow women, fast food

"I Don't Want To Hear Anymore"--Autotune, Protools, ugg ugg ugg....The dynamics of the song are ok Adult Contemporary circa 1989.

"Autotune? In the seventies, man, we used to suck lemons to stay on pitch! That was our 'autotune'! And our 'inspiration' was cocaine!

Also, we were completely reprehensible human beings who should have been legally barred from access to recording equipment of any kind."

"Well, yeah."

In the RS cover story for this tour/album, Walsh rants about how much technology was utilized in the studio: "We don't have to replace syllables, but we do!..."

"Waiting In The Weeds"

http://www.donhenleyonline.com/images/DHenleyMilan09-04.jpg

http://youtu.be/s4GL4JmDKdY

SEVEN minutes?!?