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

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...

surprised this wasn't the album sleeve

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/braised-brisket-woman-0910-lg-88673427.jpg

pplains, all I can think is that you've only had terrible pecans in your life.

dudes! the pecan pie is a metaphor. it is a metaphor for a second helping of barbecued brisket, which is the thing this whole song is about.

Don: "You're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough pecan pie in my time to know how it should be made. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with pecan pie. It's a sociopolitical statement."

I just don't get them. walnuts not on my nice list either.

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Don+Henley+cYj7xobU-Ohm.jpg

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

Alfred that album sleeve was reserved by The Cars for their brisket album

its glen frey's birthday today
http://www.theawl.com/2013/11/glenn-frey-is-65

I have had a longstanding suspicion that people like to talk about brisket more than other meats (pastrami for example) because the word is so appealing to say and hear.

dudes! the pecan pie is a metaphor. it is a metaphor for a second helping of barbecued brisket, which is the thing this whole song is about.

― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, November 6, 2013 12:18 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but what if the pecan pie is a metaphor for a second helping of brisket which is, in turn, a metaphor for.....ANOTHER PIECE OF PECAN PIE?????