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

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"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.

yeah I shudder to think what they would have been like without leadon, walsh & felder

^^Frey: Working at Guitar Center
Henley: Low-level Texas politico

henley: curator of the Henry Thoreau Strip Mall and Museum

Frey: Doing 10-15 in the Michigan state pen

Is Walsh that good a guitarist and songwriter? He's fun. He relieves the tedium.

walsh is a bitchin guitarist imo

"Rocky Mountain Way" and "Life's Been Good" are better than the entire Eagles catalog, imo. & haven't even heard many of his albums

james gang are so far beyond eagles album-wise. they made great albums. rich, varied rock albums. great songs, great arrangements.

Walsh in James Gang was like a roaming wild lion vs caged sad lion in Eagles

he's still great but I don't think Frey and Henley let Walsh do even half of what he was clearly able to do prior to joining them

translate that however you like to make it readable :/

Cool! You guys have given me good Spotify notes.

And, yeah, I love LBG and RMY.

James Gang Rides Again is really amazing, such a great groove band, killer rhythm section...also as skot says more varied than you think, side B has a lot of folky pretty stuff w/ornate arrangements

There's got to be something said for the fact that it's Walsh who's energizing not just the latest reunion shows, but the current fanbase as well. It's the largest-selling American band of all time and it leans hard on a decent musician of, say, Mark Knopfler's caliber to light it up. It just seems a little backwards, a little tail wagging the dog.

yeah, Eagles are the kind of band where if a fan won a "lunch w/ Don Henley" they'd be like: "can I trade for Walsh?"

And it's Joe Walsh! Not Lindsay Buckingham or David Gilmour.

You rang?

http://www.music.lt/images/groups/3/2977/David_Gilmour/jpg_3.jpg

Sorry just thought scott and I could fangirl out over hot young David Gilmour for a minute.

Lemme know if it's time for pictures of hot young Robert Plant.

it's always time for gilmour/plant hotfest

Ladies, but Glenn is only going to be yours for one more day.

http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae326/HueyLewisandEaglesfan/Glenn%20Frey/GFreyCiao.jpg

I feel like those eyes are giving me retinal cancer with just the merest glance at his horrible visage

Have we made mention of Don Felder's contributions to the Heavy Metal soundtrack?

Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)
All of You

Heavy Metal features Henley and Schmidt on background vox...sounds pretty good, very well could have been a latter-day Eagles track, and real talk even if he isn't as good as Henley, Felder is every bit as good a singer as Glen Frey, I mean why not just let the guy sing Victim of Love for chrissakes. What assholes.

All of You sounds like the Alan Parsons Project, which personally I will take over the Eagles most days of the week. Pretty good illustration of what Felder brought to the table anyway, besides the killer guitar playing.

More evidence for Felder's MVP status:

http://youtu.be/ISdr6wf68Kk

i will love Felder forever for Heavy Metal

"It's Your World Now"

http://images.coveralia.com/audio/t/The_Eagles-Long_Road_Out_Of_Eden-Interior_Trasera.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ytlsHhIQA

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID23498/images/Eagles_044_BackCover.jpg

finally, a mariachi song for old white people to dance to on their anniversary vomit cruise

well, it's the Eagles' world, we only live in it.