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

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?????

I still think of brisket as being more like a cheese or lightly-salted bread snack.

I mean I dunno, they should be called "barbecued pork slimpies" or something.

unbeknownst to you all, the pecan pie and brisket were actually Timothy Schmidt's only contribution to the song. "you know, I've been reading up on Americana, Don" he said one day in the studio. An impressed Henley let him write two lines.

but pork slimpies isn't sexy like brisket

How appropriate--the song stopped in the middle so I could see a Mr. Clean ad, and then a again with 15 seconds to go for TWO dayquil ads w/Drew Brees. I like that there's electric piano on this. The rest...not so much.

clearly Don's 07 update of "hotel California" but still nowhere near as hideous as '95's similarly inclined "garden of allah."

It's like he forgot how to make one of these epics work. It's a terrible thing to say, but Don really needs some no-good woman to build his epics around.

For the strong of stomach, the uncut video of "The Garden of Allah": http://youtu.be/cpnlnoaUSpE (summary: everything wrong with the '90s + shouting Don Henley)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_USySsJoOMYc/SqPMP2kSMjI/AAAAAAAACSc/2wijvmUz8ZY/s400/Hardcore+122.png

George C. Scott OTM. "TURN IT OFF!"

"I Dreamed There Was No War"

http://l.yimg.com/ao/news/frey1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4B8K0jTg4

Hi, Glenn!

More solo Glenn; I assume he's playing the gee-tar too. In concert he'll close his eyes and ooze guitar hero sincerity.

The idea of a song called "I Dreamed There Was No War" written entirely by Glenn Frey fills the soul with dread, but as it turns out it's an instrumental! and it's only 1:39! Bless you, Glenn. This is a like a sip of cold water after yesterday's greasy brisket.

sip o' cold water

from the YT comments:

Jennifer McCoy

"again, if you don't love the eagles, you don't love america. if you don't identify with all we have lost in the love of our great country. if their souls don't burn in your heart when you hear this song, then you should probably find another country. glenn, timothy, don, joe, you boys always get to the heart of it. the very heart. our heart. this is the love song of our country.

HeyBennyBoy

geez people, just enjoy the song"

Jennifer McCoy OTM

brisket kinda burns its soul into my heart but i heart it anyway.

ol' pecan pie they call him...

http://gonzoshots.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_2003.jpg

"I Dreamed There Was No War": Hat's off to Roach for avoiding everything that could have gone wrong with the Eagles doing a song with this title. For some reason I want to sing "My Way" (the Anka-Sinatra one) over this track.

Kinda has Top Gun soundtrack vibe

brisket kinda burns its soul into my heart but i heart it anyway.

― scott seward, Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:28 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Brisket is so good

three things we learn from the haim feature in the current issue of rolling stone:

1. when they were kids, they played in a band with their parents that covered the eagles.

2. they still like the eagles, "except for that song," says danielle, referring to "hotel california."

3. they recently hung out on a pecan farm.

coincidence? I think not.

woah, this goes deep

*takes the red pill*

"they still like the eagles, "except for that song," says danielle, referring to "hotel california."

"that song" is like Haydn compared to the majority of the stuff we've endured on this thread

Heard David & David's "Welcome To The Boomtown" today. Love how the Davids take the Eagles gateway image of the LA-burnout cowboy and make a great song. Probably could have been the Eagles of AAA radio back then, but they wisely took their songwriting deals and went their separate ways.

I can imagine Henley & Frey hearing Boomtown and shouting at Azoff. Frey: "Can't we get those guys to write for us?" and lots of "Well, yeahs" for Sheryl Crow from Henley.

"Somebody"

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Don+Henley+History+Eagles+Premiere+Q+2013+sChui6Vrrznl.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yboA4MVAwrc

when Frey puts on his I'm-playing-a-character voice it's like hearing an air raid siren.

"there's a big black crow and it's CAWLIN' YOU HOME". Is this supposed to be spooky? It's like something Tempchin wrote for a horror film that never got past the script stage. This evaporates all the mild good will that Frey's generated over his past few songs.

The Walsh solo is so generic you wonder if he cut a run of them on DAT, went on vacation and had them dub in whichever one sorta fitted.

and the drums sound like Henley beat an angel food cake with toilet paper rolls.

glenn really wanted to be "the one without a scarf" in that picture huh
so i decided to listen to this one bc it's on youtube. why is he so hateful? this song is like being berated by someone who is bad at berating. i made it just over a minute.

okay i didn't actually listen to this whole song until now. its terrible. this album is so terrible.

Oh wow, Frey's 'character' voice. That's a doozy. Who's he trying to ape, Dr. John or somebody? Also: six-string bass. I'd like to think the "Big Black Crow" line refers to this guy:

http://www.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/03/Chris-Robinson1.jpg

"Baby, I'm CAWLIN' YOU HOME/'cause Bob Weir's coming over/and he's bringin' burritos..."

i was sort of ok with this until the first chorus. simply, not fussy, not trying too hard. and then all of a sudden it starts trying.

simple and not fussy, that is.

well, yeah

that particular big black crow(e) looks like he's auditioning for monster magnet.

the eagles manage to be simple AND fussy

^^That the cost of being too busy being fabulous.

i feel like everyone on this thread could write a better evildoer gonna get their just deserts song. devil gonna feed you his pecan pie in the graveyard at midnight under a pumpkin pie moon.

devil's gonna make you chug all night

Get over it! Get over it! Get over it!

hey this record has a cool color-changing album cover!