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

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?

god I hate pecan pie

Nut-based pies are bullshit.

What the hell is wrong with you two?

We've been writin' songs about the workin' man.

I was going to go to town on that shitty stupid 'nother slice o'brisket line but then this pie heresy happened.

i'm more anti-sweet potato pie myself. in a world where pumpkins and apples exist. bean pie! that's a thing too. no thanks. i'd eat some pecan pie. that's some sweet stuff.

now i kinda want some brisket.

I'll take the brisket.

Wait I'm sorry. Let's not fight. The Eagles are tearing us apart.

i was actually watching a sister souljah video BEFORE i listened to this song and i thought about muslim bean pies they used to sell in philly. and now this.

My granddad was said to have made the best pecan pies, but I wouldn't know. I've never sat down to a plate full of WOOD.

Now I'm going to have to listen to this damn song to hear how The Don pronounces "pecan".

My granddad they said
he made the best pecan pies
but I wouldn't know
I never sat down to a plate fulla WOOD.

my first and only time listening to this thing. an annotation:

first minute: cod-"Middle Eastern" motif with whistling sands, distant gong. Video game incidental music.

2nd min: organ line. a creaky Henley surfaces. "moOon shining down thru the paaalms" where are we, Israel? Saudi Arabia? "somewhere we're gonna get blowback from, man. Read Chris Hedges."

3rd: wow, a refrain. H. doggedly has to keep up with the chord progression: it seems to irritate him after a while

4th: drums! crappy guitar mixed right. We're in America now! SUVs, interstates, BBQ. "Petroleum clubs?"

5th: refrain again.

6th: guitars, not quite soloing. Henley cuts 'em short with a sort-of bridge that uses the same chords as the chorus. actual solo happens: sounds like a YouTube instructional video.

7th: spooky "Arabic" theme returns. Sounds slightly like the backwards cult music used in "Eyes Wide Shut" shitty drum fill, like someone hitting a trash can lid, wakes everyone up.

somewhere around here: road to Damascus! Road to Morocco! (Henley can't remember any more Crosby/Hope movies) Road to empire!

8th to 10th: more first-gear guitar, massed humming. something resembling a drum shuffle. Schmit gets a bass fill, as if he was the last guy awake in the studio. at last, the song seems to just die in its sleep.

"gimme 'nother slice o' that barbecued brisket!"

Seriously of all the terrible Eagles lyrics this may make me the most irritated. It's the "o". It has the same syllables as "of" so why the "o" you ridiculous fucks? Why?

I don't mind that, I'm prone to mumble and not pronounce the 'f' myself.

"'nother" is more unforgivable imo.

well, yeah

he does pronounce it with a long 'e' and shit, i should've known this was going to be the ten-minute cut.

Also Paul Kowtowski is crazy.