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

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

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2013/04/Don-Henley.jpg

http://www.mtv.com/crop-images/2013/08/15/Don%20Henley%20Getty%20Rick%20Madonik%202013.jpg

first pic of DH looks like he's playing the heavy in a '90s "near future" SF movie

I know you guys insist Frey is worse but seriously give Don Henley's eyes another glance: those fuckers have seen and done evil shit.

The last picture: Don demonstrating the percussive skills that have made him a legend in rock circles.

Maybe that's their appeal. The Eagles hate everybody so people who listen can feel like they are in an exclusive club of special people who occupy the narrow space of who the Eagles don't hate.

Jokes on the fans though because the Eagles hate them too.

xp wait Alfred did you make that up? I can't even tell anymore.

The part about Theodor Adorno.

Too many xps. Eagles-haas is making us prolific.

cuz you're my fact-checking carl

forgot about this cover

http://991.com/newgallery/Don-Henley-Actual-Miles---Gr-469957.jpg

did you forget Henley's "Hotel California" sequel "The Garden of Allah"?

"Maybe that's their appeal. The Eagles hate everybody so people who listen can feel like they are in an exclusive club of special people who occupy the narrow space of who the Eagles don't hate."

this is rush limbaugh too.

"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)

At least Joe's signature model is based on his actual guitar. Frey's

what's the book?

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/don_henley_classic_130_1978.jpg