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

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Smith is a well-respected and sought-after studio musician with credits on many top name albums, actually starting out as a session keyboard player. He is also known for having performed with Rodney Crowell[2] and Shawn Colvin among others, prior to joining the Eagles. In the early 70s he played small gigs in Baltimore and the DC area. Bands that he played with included Babe, Liz Meyer and Switchblade.
Over the course of his career, he has worked with John Stewart (Bullets in the Hour Glass) Mary Chapin Carpenter (Stones in the Road), Shawn Colvin (Fat City, A Few Small Repairs, Cover Girl[3]), Rodney Crowell (Life is Messy), Rosanne Cash (Retrospective), Loudon Wainwright III (Last Man on Earth), Vince Gill (These Days, High Lonesome Sound, I Still Believe In You), Dolly Parton (Something Special), Wynonna Judd (Wynonna, Tell Me Why, New Day Dawning), Trisha Yearwood (Inside Out, Song Remembers When, Where Your Road Leads), Suzzy Roche (Songs from an Unmarried Housewife), The Cicadas[4] (Cicadas), Terri Clark (Fearless), Darden Smith (Field of Crows), Lari White (Lead Me Not), Crystal Bernard (Don't Touch Me There), Chely Wright (Let Me In), Thrasher Shiver (Thrasher Silver), Kasey Chambers (Wayward Angel), Karen Staley (Fearless), J.C. Jones (One Night), Sonny Burgess, Brady Seals (Thompson Street), Matt Duke (Winter Child), Michelle Branch (Hotel Paper), Lucy Wainwright Roche (Lucy), and others including Charlie Louvin (The Longest Train) and Washington DC music legend Root Boy Slim (Dog Secrets).

scott seward, Monday, 4 November 2013 14:16 (twelve years ago)

metacafe? this end run of songs is turning up video sites that I didn't know existed.

yesterday's Russian site was only loading for me in five-second fragments: so i heard a bass drum, a Henley bleat, 20 secs of silence, another Henley grunt. Figured that was as good a way to hear "fast company" as any.

today's song is a drag x 20. Tim Schmit's voice is just ghastly: he sounds like a schoolmarm. It's enough that when Henley barges in towards the end, it's a blessing. wow this record is the pits.

col, Monday, 4 November 2013 14:23 (twelve years ago)

lol @ bleat/grunt

going to that russian site made me feel kind of yucky and i couldn't get it to work either
i guess is the last big hill, and i think i'll wait for y'all down here because there is no way i am going further out of my way to hear another one of these songs than i already have
i would describe their sound as "flabby".

sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 4 November 2013 14:32 (twelve years ago)

oops missing *this after guess
i am repulsed by the eagles just that much

sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 4 November 2013 14:33 (twelve years ago)

i knew this last leg would be rough but man i really can't wait for this to be over. you guys might have to do solo henley without me.

scott seward, Monday, 4 November 2013 16:36 (twelve years ago)

here ya go.... new one! "We get into his purple Camaro and bomb out onto the freeway at 100mph. I'm terrified, but kind of excited, too"

She said faster, faster -- the lights are turning red.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 November 2013 16:52 (twelve years ago)

"We get into his purple Camaro and bomb out onto the freeway at 100mph.

You can take the man out of Chanhassen, but...

pplains, Monday, 4 November 2013 16:57 (twelve years ago)

i guess is the last big hill, and i think i'll wait for y'all down here because there is no way i am going further out of my way to hear another one of these songs

come on man, we're going to need all hands on deck when we hit the 10-minute-plus title song

col, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:37 (twelve years ago)

i dunno. i was having a pretty good morning, enjoying a variety of feelies covers, generally on an optimistic trajectory and then i checked this thread and saw the picture (loled) and tried to listen to the song, but it didn't play immediately and i just felt like "i'm seriously supposed to wait for even 1 more second to hear this song by the EAGLES when i could be doing something that makes me feel good about myself and my life?" and i gave up
what have they done lately to earn even one more minute of my time? i have enjoyed clowning around with y'all, that has been pleasant, but these songs? guuuuuuuuuuh so awful.
at least the last one i heard was awful

sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 4 November 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)

"do something" sounds like a christopher cross discard.

i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Monday, 4 November 2013 18:51 (twelve years ago)

Do Something is the musical equivalent of hospital food.

I couldn't get the sketchy Bulgarian (Google said it was in Bulgarian) site to load.

carl agatha, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)

I couldn't get today's link to load. i found a thirty second preview clip on another and all I can say is "Bland Country". I also found the lyrics in French:

Traduction et explication de la chanson Do Something :
{Fais quelque chose}

J'ai marché à travers les champs

Et dans les rues de la ville

Essayant de donner un sens à ce que tu m'a laissé

Tout ce que je croyais

Je n'y crois plus
Et maintenant il semble que le monde tout entier soit devenu fou

Mais quand je me sens près à abandonner
Et que je suis prêt à partir
Dans le calme, je peux entendre
Une voix en moi me dire

Fais quelque chose
Fais quelque chose
Il est trop tard pour se sauver
Ne reste pas planté là, prends l'espace
Pourquoi ne fais tu rien ?
Fais quelque chose
Ce n'est pas fini
Non, ce n'est jamais trop tard

Tu étais toujours à mes côtés
L'amour était tout ce qu'on avait
Maintenant je m'assois et regarde notre amour s'envoler
Je ramasse le journal
Toutes les nouvelles sont mauvaises
Comment en sommes nous arrivés là ?

Mais quand je me sens prêt à abandonner
Et qu'il n'y a nul part où aller
Ces moments où je m'enfonce
La chose que je sais

Fais quelque chose
Fais quelque chose
N'abandonne pas pour quelqu'un d'autre
Ne te sens pas désolé pour toi même
Pourquoi ne fais tu pas quelque chose ?
Fais quelque chose
Ce n'est pas fini
Non, ce n'est jamais trop tard

Cours
Tu peux courir pour toujours
Pour ton honneur
Pour ta fierté
Tu dormiras mieux
Tu auras essayé

De faire quelque chose
Fais quelque chose
C'est si simple
Tu n'est pas prêt pour la chaise roulante
Lève toi et fais quelque chose
Fais quelque chose
N'attends pas trop longtemps
Même si ce n'est pas bon
Tu dois faire quelque chose
Fais quelque chose
Ce n'est pas fini
Non, ce n'est jamais trop tard

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 November 2013 22:04 (twelve years ago)

Oh wait, now it decides to load. Damn, Schmidt, don't you know you used to be in Poco? And you also sang with Gene Clark? And were partially responsible for one of the only songs on this thread to encourage near-universal love? "Do Something"? DO SOMETHING ELSE!!!!!

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 November 2013 22:09 (twelve years ago)

BTW, this is where I found a loadable copy of "Fast Company". The page is in Vietnamese. We lost the war, they give us Eagles Funk.

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 November 2013 22:14 (twelve years ago)

wow fast company is horrible! the worst yet maybe!

the backing track sounds like a sample track that you would get in vide tutorial on how to use recording software

lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 November 2013 22:31 (twelve years ago)

hilarious that it's so difficult to find this megaselling recent album online

Ismael Klata, Monday, 4 November 2013 22:35 (twelve years ago)

holy hell, "Fast Company" is atrocious. How was something like this on a #1 platinum-selling album in 2007? What an indictment: of everyone, the Eagles and America. When I'm an old crock and some kid asks me: "George W. Bush? how did that happen, old man?" i'll tell her to listen this piece of crap (which'll probably still only be available via Vietnamese bootleggers) and gape-mouthed millennial America will reveal itself to her.

col, Monday, 4 November 2013 23:19 (twelve years ago)

Ismael otm

intheblanks, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 03:34 (twelve years ago)

it would make sense that Frey admired R. Kelly's...habits.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:20 (twelve years ago)

can't believe i'm writing this, but Frey is by far the best thing about this shipwreck of an album. This is another pleasant, even hummable mediocrity: i'll take it, gladly

col, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:51 (twelve years ago)

I agree – this is an innocuous ditty but in that it's not charmless.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:56 (twelve years ago)

the next song is another solo songwriting credit, also not terrible

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:56 (twelve years ago)

Some of us are abandoning ship with this album. Alfred can't wait for the next track and is skipping ahead!

pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 15:11 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, now that there's no "Take It To The Limit" or "I Can't Tell You Why" to look forward to, I'm running for the lifeboats.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 16:21 (twelve years ago)

You guys can't leave me. You can't.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

totally not terrible, and i'd rate it a step above "innocuous ditty." it's a perfectly ok little folky throwback that could have been written and recorded in pretty much any of the past five decades, and if rayna jaymes' daughter sang it while lounging around in their bedroom on an episode of "nashville," it would totally work.

also of note: it's less than two and a half minutes long.

also: for the first 10 or so seconds of those two and a half minutes, i thought they were about to break into "dust in the wind."

i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:20 (twelve years ago)

we're running out of Frey-Henley exchanges :(

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:24 (twelve years ago)

Well, yeah.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:31 (twelve years ago)

You guys can't leave me. You can't.

Alfred.

Alfred.

http://chs.live.mediaspanonline.com/assets/469437/glenn_frey-3.jpg

You are not alone.

pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:38 (twelve years ago)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

carl agatha, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:56 (twelve years ago)

He has dead eyes.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:56 (twelve years ago)

wait, who has dead eyes?

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/11/Don-Henley.jpg

scott seward, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)

grrrrrr.........

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2009/4/21/1240304197504/Don-Henley-of-the-Eagles-001.jpg

scott seward, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/tim-heidecker-the-comedy-slice.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 18:55 (twelve years ago)

These pictures are not encouraging anybody to stick around for the end of the thread.

carl agatha, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:10 (twelve years ago)

2:24! very short! love it

lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:18 (twelve years ago)

Don: As we all get older, it's refreshing to do shorter songs.

Glenn: They don't take as long to play, so we get backstage sooner for our Eagles wine and handjobs.

Don: Well, yeah.

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:27 (twelve years ago)

hahaha they all have those little capped bottom teeth that show when they're talking, like howard dean

sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:15 (twelve years ago)

Looks like a partial set of dentures in the last pic Scott posted.

carl agatha, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:26 (twelve years ago)

I feel like they're mocking us

http://www.theonion.com/articles/dhs-warns-us-in-danger-of-another-eagles-reunion-a,34465/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:25 (twelve years ago)

wow, yeah, is the onion lurking here? so perfect.

scott seward, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 01:29 (twelve years ago)

Haha that is amazing.

carl agatha, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 03:34 (twelve years ago)

^^I know, right? All that Frey quote needs is a "Don: Well, yeah." behind it.

"You Are Not Alone": This is alright. The folky Americana stuff is a better fit for them at this stage than most of the other avenues trod on this set, and it took Frey to bring the goods. FREY!

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 03:34 (twelve years ago)

"Long Road Out Of Eden"

http://www.suprmchaos.com/eagles1_051212.jpg

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiu766_eagles-long-road-out-of-eden_music

scott seward, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:22 (twelve years ago)

holy shit...

scott seward, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:22 (twelve years ago)

can't believe he sings about the badness of BLOAT in that song. oh the ironing.

scott seward, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:23 (twelve years ago)


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