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

i can remember wanting to go see eagles and linda ronstadt at the yale bowl when i was kid. my dad wouldn't take me. little river band opening, i think.

damn i set myself up for that

Yup.

Thanks!

I thought it meant he wasn't interested in sleeping with that particular one of the seven.

― no fomo (La Lechera), Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:24 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My take is that it was the other way around. But, yeah, none of those seven women seem to have him on their mind, at least not in any good way.

As far as childhood memories, I completely intertwine Eagles and Steve Miller Band because this concert came to town the week of my eighth birthday, when I was listening to top-40 radio all the time. Not only are those two bands intertwined, but the third on the bill, Pablo Cruise, is there as well. Must've heard the show advertised on the radio enough times for it to be branded into my head.

- she *says* she's a friend of his. So it could be like she's all made 'wtf you're sleeping with six other chicks I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS' ...or she's just rolled up to his house trying to weasel her way in with some line like she's an old friend of his

- the banjo is insane. like in a kooky way. as though bernie leadon was pissed off and just said 'fuck you frey I'm playing the banjo the whole way through and there's nothing you can do to stop me'

- I always wonder what if Frey had just stolen Jackson Browne's songs outright while he was living upstairs from him

- take it easy man

made = mad

the structure and tempo of this song are kind of cool. the chords keep zipping along, and the chorus never really repeats from one occurrence to the next. the first time through it's "lighten up while you still can," the next time through they say "come on baby" instead of "take it easy," and the third time through he has to know if your sweet love is gonna save him. minor chords popping up all over the place. keeps you on your toes.

Something I like about this song: In the last verse, there's a single substitution of an Am where a C has appeared in all the other verses. It's also supported in the vocal harmonies and is unexpectedly sweet-sounding.

― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Tuesday, August 20, 2013 9:43 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never noticed this, nice catch

Michael Vick was just named the starting quarterback for the Eagles in the coming season. felt like i should note that here.

Eagles [Asylum, 1972]
These guys certainly boogie more than the bluegrass sellouts who populate the vaguely country-oriented mainstream of contemporary American rock, and they certainly write more memorable songs. But this culminates the reactionary individualism that country-rock has come to epitomize in the counterculture. What's worse, the country orientation bespeaks not roots but a lack of them, so that in the end the product is suave and synthetic--brilliant, but false. And not always all that brilliant, either. B

The B-side is kinda the reverse of the A-side -- bummed-out dude getting no action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cBuNuXFSz8

the country orientation bespeaks not roots but a lack of them, so that in the end the product is suave and synthetic

This echoes a lot of the discussion in the Mumford/Lumineers threads -- except maybe the suave part.

"The B-side is kinda the reverse of the A-side -- bummed-out dude getting no action."

dude, no spoilers! haha, just kidding, but for real we will get to it!

that's the whole "track-by-track" part in the thread title.

right now i'm like a newborn baby, there is only one eagles song, it is my universe, my everything

That's a typically painful and tone-deaf review from the "Dean" up there.

Most of the rest of this year, we're going to be listening to The Eagles everyday.

at the end of the year, we'll all get shiny cyanide capsules we can bite down on

right now i'm like a newborn baby, there is only one eagles song, it is my universe, my everything

― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 20, 2013 5:10 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

dude, no spoilers! haha, just kidding, but for real we will get to it!

Sorry! I guess I should've just ... taken it easy.

you can't rush these things.

loosen yr load, dude

actually wait, don't.

the good news is that after today, we will never be here again.

just loosened my load fyi, everybody

a girl in every port, an eagles song on every day

xpost henley probably has a cigar box you can use

at the end of the year, we'll all get shiny cyanide capsules we can bite down on

i'll take mine now, please.

(actually, this thread idea is genius.)

(but i'd like a glass of water, just in case.)

check out any time you like, cuz.

wow check the Wiki page about the Ozark Music Festival - i've never seen so many "citation needed"s on one page. Seems like good times, except for the water shortage. Was the Marshall Tucker Band really considered a bigger draw than Bruce Springsteen or Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1974? (Bruce apparently didn't make the show)

It's a good format for a thread, but I'd expect ilx to do this first for a band it likes a lot more. I feel like we are being drawn to The Eagles like a dog is drawn to a rotting carcass.

ILM kinda does this with its readers polls, counting down to the most favorite song.

But with the Eagles, I don't think anyone wants to be caught casting that ballot.

Sure, though this way we talk about *every* song? I suppose we can enjoy working ourselves into an ecstasy of disgust.

I was watching a punk documentary tonight and they showed a big blow-up of the Jubilee chart with a big white box at no.1 where The Sex Pistols should've been. There at no.2, top of the charts by default, rides Hotel California.

the morbidity of this project has a joan didion-reckoning-with-california vibe i dig

Well, at least this thread got "What's Up" out of my head.

was either this or a bullet.

by the end of this thread we will all have had either a divorce, rehab, lawsuit and/or ridden in a corvette with a drug dealer. and released at least 1 solo album.

Forget it Veg, it's Freytown!

I'm looking forward to meeting Stevie!

http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/650_crazy_eyebrows.gif

I'm not sure I ever knew about the Ozark Mountain Festival. This is kinda blowing my mind:

Posters for the festival announced that some of the best bands in country and southern rock would be performing, including:

Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Aerosmith
Premiata Forneria Marconi

woah

FUCK THE SINGLES!! I WANT DEEP ALBUM CUTS!!

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relax

take it easy!

i think we're gonna do it all in order right?

Will someone call me back when it's time to take it to the limit?