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

I feel like they're mocking us

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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.

Already missing "King of Hollywood"

hell, this makes me miss "The Last Resort"

he does pronounce it with a long 'e' and shit

I always did, too, until I started dating a southerner who would say "Pee can? A can you pee in? Why do you want to eat that?" whenever I would.

It'd be more of a Southern thing to pronounce it with a long e, but it's like a rare French moment where it's pronounced puh-CAHN.

Watching someone eat a bowl of pecans to me is like watching someone nibbling on old furniture.

Deez nuts

pecans >>>> the eagles

Don: People who like pecan pie........

Glenn: Are they assholes?

Don: Well, yeah.

I happened to hear this when listening to one of Sirius' middlebrow AOR/AAA stations like the loft or the spectrum or somesuch that will play new stuff by old guys like in september when this thread was involved in the 70s rekkids. My was it insufferable. clearly Don's 07 update of "hotel California" but still nowhere near as hideous as '95's similarly inclined "garden of allah."

Paul Kotowski
What a masterpiece. On par with Hotel California and the greatest songs the Eagles have ever done.
By Paul Kotowski
- 3 weeks ago

He said: "gimme 'nother slice o' that barbecued brisket!"
"gimme 'nother piece o' that pecan pie!"

^song could have been saved if jerry reed had done a came to deliver these lines like "amos moses"

It'd be more of a Southern thing to pronounce it with a long e, but it's like a rare French moment where it's pronounced puh-CAHN.

^don splits the difference....pee-CAHN not puh-cahn or pee-can

what an artist

It's like Henley/Frey got so clever flipping the script and having the fat cats eat cue and pie instead of caviar and champagne that it became not clever anymore.

WTF AT THIS ANTI-PECAN HERESY

It's really weird, isn't it? I mean, I've had bad pecan pie, but good pecan pie is sublime.

http://www.beyondbowls.com/wp-content/gallery/bowls/spalted-pecan-bowl.jpg

Man, if only I could mash this up and make a pie out of it.

I like the idea of your average shopper hate-buying the record as a last-minute gift for someone they dislike.

― carl agatha, Monday, October 28, 2013 4:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this accounts for 20% of its sales. Harried shopper, two weeks before Christmas, ticking off the gifts she's bought while in line at the cash register, realizes she's forgotten to buy for her sister's stupid boyfriend. Sees "Long Road Out of Eden" in a display box. "I think that schmuck likes the Eagles. Is this a live album? Only $12? Fuck it." In the cart it goes.

― col, Monday, October 28, 2013 7:13 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

evidently Long Road Out of Eden was sold not only at Wal-Mart, but also their sister store Sam's Club. I'm imagining palettes stacked with 8-packs of Long Road Out of Eden by the checkout cashiers, bulk-wrapped so you could conveniently hate-buy the CD for all your obnoxious relatives with a single purchase.....

I've been listening to today's song as I write this for well over a minute and the vocals haven't kicked in yet. But I already know it's a 10-minute song about pecans....

I was kind of hoping the DUN-DUN of "Livin' Thing" would kick in after the first minute, but no such luck.

Headin' to Lockhart for brisket and pecan pie...