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

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

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

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

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

"do something" sounds like a christopher cross discard.

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.

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

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!!!!!

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.

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

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

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.

Ismael otm

"You Are Not Alone"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/26/article-2315221-197CE899000005DC-589_308x425.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9Sohowp6o

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0812/eagles_reason_9_v_g_mp.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/26/article-2315221-197CE899000005DC-589_308x425.jpg

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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

Well, yeah.

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.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

He has dead eyes.

wait, who has dead eyes?

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

grrrrrr.........

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Don_Henley_(cropped).jpg

http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Don+Henley+Honored+2007+MusiCares+Person+Year+63BTkIipGHIl.jpg

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

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

2:24! very short! love it

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.

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

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

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

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

Haha that is amazing.

^^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!

"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

holy shit...

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

could swear he rails against "the power of the jews" too. but i must have misheard. seems in character for the song.

"Long Road Out Of Eden"

Moon shining down through the palms
Shadows moving on the sand
Somebody whispering the twenty-third psalm
Dusty rifle in his trembling hands

Somebody trying just to stay alive
He got promises to keep
Over the ocean in america
Far away and fast asleep

Silent stars blinking in the blackness of an endless sky
Cold silver satellites, ghostly caravans passing by
Galaxies unfolding, new worlds being born
Pilgrims and prodigals creeping toward the dawn
But it's a long road out of eden

Music blasting from an suv
On a bright and sunny day
Rolling down the interstate
In the good ol' usa

Having lunch at the petroleum club
Smokin' fine cigars and swappin' lives
He said: "gimme 'nother slice o' that barbecued brisket!"
"gimme 'nother piece o' that pecan pie!"

Freeways flickering, cell phones chiming a tune
We're riding to utopia, road map says we'll be arriving soon
Captains of the old order clinging to the reins
Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains
But it's a long road out of eden

Back home i was so certain
The path was very clear
But now i have to wonder: "what are we doing here?"
I'm not counting on tomorrow
And i can't tell wrong from right
But i'd give anything to be there in your arms tonight

Weaving down the american highway
Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junk
Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda
And now we're driving dazed and drunk

Been down the road to damascus,
The road to mandalay
Met the ghost of caesar on the appian way
He said, "it's hard to stop this bingeing, once you get a taste."
"but the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste."

Behold the bitten apple - the power of the tools
But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
And it's a long road out of eden....

quaint song for a multi-million dollar business partner of walmart.

This song is about this thread.

Having lunch at the petroleum club
Smokin' fine cigars and swappin' lives
He said: "gimme 'nother slice o' that barbecued brisket!"
"gimme 'nother piece o' that pecan pie!"

I can imagine Henley-Frey concentratin' to make sure they cut the syllables and put apostrophes in the right places.

That poor PFC, cutting open another care package and it's 25 copies of this.

Swappin' lies, right?