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

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...

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"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"

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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!

"Frail Grasp On The Big Picture"

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/history-of-the-eagles-tour.jpg

http://www.moskva.fm/artist/eagles/song_1502160

Frail Grasp On The Big Picture: The Story of the Eagles

we keep making the same mistakes
over and over and over and over again

Joe's playing the Glenn Frey signature Rickenbacker.

"How do you like my guitar, Joe? Yeah, maybe someday you'll be as good a guitarist as me, and then you can have your own signature model!" (pats Joe's head)

just stop making songs, Eagles

worst band on the planet.

Next time someone goes on about "oh the Eagles are great, just hipster punk rockers won't give them a chance" I'm going to go off on them like Sam Kinison does on that student who answers the question about Vietnam in history class in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield

Haaaaa

Well, ain't it a shame
That our short little memories
Never seem to learn
The message of history
We keep makin' the same mistakes
Over and over and over and over again
And then we wonder why
We're in the shape we're in

Good ol' boys down at the bar
Peanuts and politics
They think they know it all
They don't know much of nothing
Even if one of them was to read the newspaper
Cover-to-cover
That ain't what's going on
Journalism's dead and gone

Frail grasp on the big picture
Light fading and the fog is getting thicker
It's a frail grasp on the big picture
Dark ages

You my love-drunk friend
All that red wine and candlelight
Soulful conversations
That go on until the dawn
How many times can you tell your story?
How many hangovers can you endure
Just to get some snuggling done?
You're living in a hollow dream
You don't have the slightest notion
What long-term love is all about
All your romantic liasons
Don't deal with eternal questions like
Who left the cap off the freaking toothpaste?
Whose turn to take the garbage out?

Frail grasp on the big picture
You keep on rubbin' that, you're gonna get a blister
It's a frail grasp on the big picture
I've seen it all before

And we pray to our Lord
Who we know is American
He reigns from on high
He speaks to us through middlemen
And he shepherds his flock
We sing out and we praise His name
He supports us in war
He presides over football games
And the right will prevail
All our troubles shall be resolved
We have faith in the Lord
Unless there's money or sex involved

Frail grasp on the big picture
Nobody's calling them for roughing up the pitcher
It's a frail grasp on the big picture
Heaven help us

Frail grasp on the big picture
All waiting for that miracle elixir
Frail grasp on the big picture
I don't wonder anymore

Frail grasp on the big picture
Somebody says, "You brought her here so go ahead and kiss her
Frail grasp on the big picture

Frail grasp on the big picture
Light fading and the fog is getting thicker
It's a frail grasp on the big picture

Frail grasp on the big picture
Frail grasp on the big picture

pecans and politics

For fuck's sake, the Eagles just hate EVERYBODY.

"Hey, fuck you egghead, ya fuckin' poindexter! Hey, fuck you too, ya dumbfuck uneducated hick sitting at the bar!"

Don: Well, yeah.

they even hate football. some all-american band they are.

Who left the cap off the freaking toothpaste?

i couldn't actually get through that whole song on the stupid russian site but i got the gist of it. it sucks.

How many hangovers can you endure
Just to get some snuggling done?

Dylanesque...

And we pray to our Lord
Who we know is American
He reigns from on high
He speaks to us through middlemen
And he shepherds his flock
We sing out and we praise His name
He supports us in war
He presides over football games
And the right will prevail

ohhhhh SATIRE

Frail grasp on the big picture
You keep on rubbin' that, you're gonna get a blister

ohhhh one of them double entendre things

has there ever been a band with as much naked contempt for its audience as these guys?

DON: We were disturbed like a lot of our generation by some of the things we've seen, so we thought, "Why not beat the mugs at their own game? We'll sell the record at Wal-Mart." This way we could educate them on how our country works.

GLENN: We got the idea from Theodor Adorno, who wrote several texts in which he excoriated the consumer class for the commodification of taste.

the Eagles: secret Situationists

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