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

god this guy is so embarrassing

He's the Chobini yogurt of musicians.

when it works it's tasty and calorie-light; when spoiled it curdles the stomach and lands you in the hospital.

lolololol #chobanitime
i haven't even thought about listening to this song but i am 100% sure it sucks

the only thing that brought to mind is "he tastes like paste" and i just died of gross

:(((((

;_;

"I Love To Watch A Woman Dance": A nice little musical track, which deserves a lyric about, I dunno, seeing your kids grow up and graduate from school, or perhaps some about "Honey, we're getting older but I still love you" (which, tbf, is almost where this song was headed). These guys can't even get sincerity right.

"Business As Usual"

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Look at the weather, look at the news
Look at all the people in denial
We're running time, leaving grace
Still we worship at the marketplace
While common sense is goin' out of style
I thought that I would be above it all by now
In some country garden in the shade

But it's business as usual
Day after day
Business as usual
Just grinding away
You try to be righteous
You try to do good
But business as usual
Turns your heart into wood

Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky
Our better nature's buried in the rubble
We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
Sitting up there in that beltway bubble
The main jefe talks about our freedom
But this is what he really means...

Business as usual
How dirty we play
Business as usual
Don't you get in the way
Yeah, make you feel helpless
Make you feel like a clown
Business as usual
Is breakin' me down

Boy, you can't go surfing in Century City
Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain't pretty
And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
Soul suckin', soul suckin' world

Business as usual
Day after day
Business as usual
Feel like walking away
A barrel of monkeys
Or band of renown
Business as usual
Is breakin' me down
Breakin' me down

i honestly could not get any ersatz videos to load or play on all the un-youtube sites i tried. i really tried too.

You try to be righteous
You try to do good
But business as usual
Turns your heart into wood

you know it

you can listen to about 30 secs. of it here, which is all you need:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/long-road-out-of-eden-mw0000497545

what is this thing? Henley's pissed that he still cares how much he hates humanity? christ, just shut up and tend to your six fireplaces, dude

I thought that I would be above it all by now
In some country garden in the shade

Eagles In The Wild: Looking for a traffic report, found the last half of "Already Gone". Man, those guitars crackle. Miss those guys.

Accident on 30 Westbound was behind me, so it was all clear sailing for me, my boy, Glenn, Randy, Bernie, Don and Don.

Heard "The Long Run" in a CVS yesterday. I don't even like that song much, but man, compared to this 2007 shit, it was Miles Davis.

And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
Soul suckin', soul suckin' world

Morbidly curious how this was delivered

I hope the music drops out and it's just him acapella during those verses before the drums, bass, guitars and organ come back, in that order.

Ok guys. This album is on grooveshark.com everyone's favorite quasi legal streaming site.. do your duty. The way he says main jefe is really bad... Soul suckin was as dumb as advertised

And man, to think that I usually rep for Grooveshark.

out of a sense of obligation, i listened to it. The chorus has these odd echoed/phased backing vocals. Agree the way H sings "jefe" is dreadful, but nothing prepares you for the volleying "soul sucking" bit. & the line about "sharks luuurking beneath the cuuurb," accompanied by H or whoever clanging a cymbal, sounds like a bad Dylan impression that H. does after a few rounds at the Eagles' Next. Heaps of boring guitar too!

I can't wait to hear how that cretin sings "jefe". For some reason the lyrics to this one are making me laugh instead of enraging me. I'd love to laugh at the Eagles irl.

We should gather the Eagles in a room and stage a dramatic reading of this thread for them.

And lock the doors from the outside.

"looking for the passage back to the place you were before? You mean when you weren't a bunch of tepid old crybabies singing songs with gated vocals?"

tomorrow!: the last-ever (touch wood) Henley/Frey composition. End is in sight: If this was the NYC marathon, we'd be staggering into Central Park with a bandaged knee and a torn sneaker, already wearing a space blanket.

You meant "If we were prostitutes in the Henley-Frey apartment, e'd be staggering into Central Park with a bandaged knee and a torn sneaker, already wearing a space blanket."

well, yeah

Gonna miss those alley-oops, guys.

allmusic gives this album 4 stars, wtf?

I'm so ready to hit I Can't Stand Still.

allmusic gives this album 4 stars, wtf?

yeah, noticed that too. Maybe Erlewine was in a good mood the morning he listened to it. But no way in hell "Long Run" gets 3 stars and this mess gets 4.

I'm going to post on his FB wall – brb

Maybe Erlewine was in a good mood the morning he listened to it.

He couldn't have been in one 20 tracks later.

In the wild (sort of): I'm listening to a phone interview with Terri Nunn on the radio right now, and when asked if she had any Houston stories, she replies that when Berlin first played here in the early '80s, Don Henley came to the show and then took the whole band to dinner at a restaurant he owned.

Then he charged them for their meals.

And asked Terri if she still looked like those Penthouse photos.

"Nunn in the morning, Nunn at night"

In the wild: "The Long Run" aiding digestion at a Five Guys restaurant in Phoenix, AZ

as it turns out, Henley thought he'd invited Blondie to his restaurant that night. "hey, why didn't you guys play that rapture thing tonight?" he asked over the dessert course

In the wild (sort of): I'm listening to a phone interview with Terri Nunn on the radio right now, and when asked if she had any Houston stories, she replies that when Berlin first played here in the early '80s, Don Henley came to the show and then took the whole band to dinner at a restaurant he owned.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Then he charged them for their meals.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat),

real life lol

Well, yeah.

"Business As Usual", or yet another item from the Terrible Lost Don Henley solo album from the W. years. The second most appropriate song title on this set after "I Don't Want To Hear Anymore".

You know what old Texas guy did better BushCo. songs? Rodney Crowell: http://youtu.be/SKc6EMb7Y-0 (Sex & Gasoline, the album where this comes from is something Henley wishes he could be good and clever enough to make).

rodney crowell is an artist.

he makes art.

"Center Of The Universe"

I come before you with my heart in my hand
Hoping you can see me through this veil of tears
Somehow I've got to make you understand
Ah, don't you know me after all these years?

Oh, love, I hate to disappoint you
But there's something you should know

This is not the center of the universe
That's alright with me
This is not the center of the universe
But it's where I wanna be

I will be with you everywhere you go
In gentle breezes that caress your skin
And you will see me in the silent snow
In everything that comes around again

Oh, love, I'll always be beside you
Wherever you may roam
Someday, with all the stars to guide you
You will find your way back home

This is not the center of the universe
That's alright with me
This is not the center of the universe

I CAN'T FIND THIS ONLINE - OR AT LEAST A VIDEO THAT WORKS PROPERLY - SO HERE IS A BERNIE LEADON SONG CALLED "CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE" THAT IS NOT THE SAME SONG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4gEvJ0-a8

listened to it on Grooveshark. It's an "emotive" vocal by Henley over an acoustic guitar arpeggio and a woodblock. Frey joins him on the choruses. Strings eventually show up & what sounds like accordion in the 2nd chorus. To be fair, it isn't that bad: it's mildly pretty. But it drags like no one's business. "Spanish" guitar solo & wordless harmonies towards the end, the latter in hock to the Beatles' "Because."

"Center of The Universe": Beatles by way of CSN in a sterile room. col otm, mildly pretty, drags, but basically unoffensive.

Bernie's "Center of The Universe": What indie also-rans does this sound like? Seems like this would have been on album getting 4/5 Stars in Uncut circa 2003. Also: WOODBLOCK

are we done? really?

One more.

i'm so tired of the eagles

I would like to take this opportunity to thank this thread for introducing me to Gene Clark's "No Other", which pretty much sons anything the Eagles ever did, 'cept maybe "Those Shoes". Also nominating Don Felder for Eagles MVP

well, babe, they've hated us longer than we've been alive.

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yeah gene clark is amazing