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

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

i feel like Bernie was the heart of it. He wasn't the most important member or whatever but yeah I dunno. something about his whole boho folk surfer vibe was cool

Also nominating Don Felder for Eagles MVP

Yeah, if there's one thing this thread taught me is that the parts of the Eagles I've always liked, still like, have something Felder in them.

guitarists made the eagles. from beginning to end. without those guys i don't know what the hell they would have been. drippy loggins & messina wannabes.

yeah they were blessed they had 3 really fucking great players

Kinda want to go back and find some live 70s stuff of "Witchy Woman" with Felder on it.

Might do that... later.

pplains there's a cool-down period on eagles bootlegs, it's like buying a gun.

no, a gun you can buy inexpensively at Walmart whenever you want. You can even buy it just because you hate a family member.

Just like Long Road Out of Eden!

yes, that's correct.

guitarists and other songwriters not in the band i guess to be more accurate.

i'll bet if you ask old jd souther he'll tell you he gave those guys a lot of free "advice" when they were writing songs. get him all coked up and before you know it he's written half an album for you. wakes up doesn't know where he is and there's a "property of glenn & don" tattoo on his ass.

guitarists made the eagles. from beginning to end. without those guys i don't know what the hell they would have been. drippy loggins & messina wannabes.

this is so otm. it's shocking how much Frey and Henley got away with w/their 2nd-rate talents. Having three top-notch guitarists to enliven their songwriting blahs; having JD Souther and Tempchin on retainer, essentially; having a producer who was able to make even their crummiest stuff sound professional at least. But man, they were the world's most evil singles band.