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

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?!?

7:47!!

this sounds like a small town church song. i barely made it one minute.

Except for a middle eight in which they play with minor chord this is more one-old-dude-with-drum-machine sentimentality.

And though I heard some wise man say
That every dog will have his day,
He never mentioned that these dog days get so long

wait, what? this is like attempted wit by someone unfamiliar with the concept

later on we get again "he doesn't love you like I do," natch. But it gets bizarrely comical midway through, when the woman's at the county fair (cue "calliope" preset) on a Ferris wheel, and Henley gets weirdly excited: "you're swingin' on the top!" Then he compares her new guy to an ice cream that's dripping on her dress.

DON: When I compare her new guy to an ice ream that's dripping on her dress, it's called a metaphor.

GLENN: I call it premature ejaculation.

DON: Well, yeah.

i failed to say that the ice cream was a masterful bit of wordplay after the guy was called "the flavor of the month"

man i love this thread, i hate that i've been too insanely busy the last couple months to actively follow it or post on it much at all. we're gonna go straight into the Henley solo albums after this, right?

I'd love to.

i failed to say that the ice cream was a masterful bit of wordplay after the guy was called "the flavor of the month"

you have succeeded in isolating yet more pure unholy lameness from don henley. he sat down and wrote that? uuuuuuuugggggghhhhhhh.is he surrounded by sycophants?

well, yeah

haaaa

i wonder what their conversations are like. i also wonder who knows him best and continues to like him genuinely? anyone?
real q - is being surrounded by sycophants the status quo for men of his...level of entitlement?

don't know if dreck like this song is as much owed to sycophants as it's everyone just not giving a shit to bother. By this point, the Eagles aren't a band: they're a collection of wealthy guys (well, except maybe Schmit) affiliated to get wealthier, and so it's all about just getting the songs on tape. Henley could make crow noises on a track and everyone else would be like "ok, there's another 5 minutes done."

Man, look at Henley go full Bonham/Moon up there in that picture. What a badass.

so he knows he is doing a shitty job, is that what you're saying? crow noises would be way more interesting than this. he still tries to pretend that he sounds sincere when he's singing, so...is everyone just aware that he is phoning it in from a tin can/string?

also, lol he looks like an executive who got too drunk and commandeered the drum set of the band his assistant hired for the company party. there goes don again!

"there goes don again!"

LOL

lmao

honestly i think the chorus to the song (at least the melody of it and the chord changes) is probably about the best thing i've heard on this album so far

ok lol at the flavor of the month dripping on your dress part, love how they purposefully do "beatles" backing keyboards on that

"i've been stumbling through some dark places" - us too, don...us too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L0BK3ydL2w

live at madison square garden even more emotional don

goddamn it i'm sorry i thought i did that right

though at this time we're all so beaten down by the eagles do we even care about youtube embeds? we didn't ask to be born

man this is long

in general....is there ANY eagles song that you couldn't safely lop a minute and a half off of?

yeah i don't care about embeds anymore. this thread should have probably been unreadable all along.

i don't think i know how to embed youtube videos anymore though.

used to be that the url would work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSOj8b804U

but not anymore.

we didn't ask to be born

Okay y'all are delivering the LOLs today. And I have the Eagles to thank for that. THINK ABOUT IT.

but not anymore.

― scott seward, Friday, November 1, 2013 10:46 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i loled at this
the eagles have sapped our brains of their power and converted it to gold
they are brain plundering alchemists

the fact there's still another disc & 1/2 to go is just vicious cruelty

"Waiting In The Weeds": I'm with ums, the chorus on this is very finely crafted, and it would be better showcased in a shorter song. Also: I can't be the only one weirded out by Henley's Dorian Gray vocals on this album? It sounds like he's phoning it in from sometime before their debut.

he's singing from the Sad Cafe

"No More Cloudy Days"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/ozeagle/Frey%20Videos/Shadow8.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baAQj0E4sdE

solo songwriting credit!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/songbirdreleased/Eagles%20etc/tumblr_miwv9zCRw91r04bgzo1_r1_250-1_zpsd8ee7b02.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/songbirdreleased/Eagles%20etc/tumblr_miwv9zCRw91r04bgzo2_250_zps16afa2e3.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/songbirdreleased/Eagles%20etc/tumblr_miwv9zCRw91r04bgzo3_250_zpsc80e4b51.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/songbirdreleased/Eagles%20etc/tumblr_miwv9zCRw91r04bgzo4_250_zps59469da1.gif

This is by far the best of the LROOE songs we've heard, but it's still generic.

yeah not too bad (well, until the sax solo) and the chorus is actually memorable. Lyric seems to have been composed of cut-up greeting cards, but hey, by the standards of this album so far, it's grade A. Congrats, Glenn Frey: after 40 years, you've written a sorta-okay song by yrself!

I take it we're all at home listening to....

EAGLES' STUDIO ALBUMS VINYL BOX SET FOR RELEASE 29th Octoberu
1972-1979 Limited Edition Boxed Set Features Six 180-Gram LPs
http://www.rhino.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/EAGLES_Vinyl_Box.jpg
Still not sure you want it?

the sleeve of the debut album, EAGLES, will finally be released as the band originally intended, with no glue flaps

eagles in the wild: "hotel california" on the instore sound system while hanging at the tonic & juice bar at erewhon in los angeles, which is basically LA multiplied by LA raised to the power of LA.

the sleeve of the debut album, EAGLES, will finally be released as the band originally intended, with no glue flaps

a cosmic injustice finally rectified

Saw a Halloween concert in the parking lot of a local market and while it was an original, the song the band played after their cover of Van Morrison's "Wild Night" was nearly a carbon copy of "Witchy Woman". Without a doubt the Eagles song was performed at some point during the day.

"No More Cloudy Days": Has a nice 80s AC vibe (down to the outro sax). Henley should use brushes more often. Listening to this, I'm picturing an older couple linking hands from their separate outdoor bathtubs as I also hear a warning to seek medical help if your erection last more than four hours...