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

Ha, are you actually planning to discuss every single song in the Eagles' discography?? That only registered now, somehow. Whoa.

they laughed at madame curie too. right in her face! but someone has to do the dirty work.

This definitely feels like one of those "only Nixon could've gone to China" type things.

I packed my suitcase, I'm totally ready.

- 1 pair unwashed bellbottoms
- quaaludes
- coke
- ?

mostly coke, weed, and tequila. maybe a learjet

idk why I think of them as a coke n 'ludes band but yr suitcase is p cool too

Xpost...underage girl, Rimbaud poetry volume.

*runs back to house, packs those things*

ludes not specifically mentioned in the hoskyns book but who the fuck knows, i'm sure they were around

i always kinda wished i had tried a quaalude. they stopped making them during my drug years. i think. nobody had any anyway.

see, Eagles make you wistful.

They had a suitcase full of valium at that airport in the documentary, so if they weren't fucking with ludes specfically then boatloads of [insert downer]

that's kinda sad to have a suitcase full of valium. now valium i had PLENTY of during my drug days. thanks to my dad. he practically had a suitcase full. stressful times. for the both of us and for the nation. man, the eagles were bummed out.

cocaine leads you to the sad drugs i guess

The eagles are perfect because there are 20 eagles songs everyone's heard a million times and 70 eagles songs most of us have never heard

otm

Yeah, even their "Very Best of" two-discer is about half stuff you don't hear much on the radio.

Before we move on to the next track, I just want to say I like "Take It Easy", and part of that stems from a story I heard somewhere about how Winslow, Arizona ended up in the lyric: Jackson Browne had been driving cross-country, picking up Route 66 to get to California when his car broke down in Winslow, and he had to stay there for a few days while it was repaired.

cool story bro

:)

I'm thinking if we did an Eagles tracks poll, where you could include solo songs, that "Boys of Summer" would win.

I actually mostly like Take It Easy, at least until the speedfreak banjo gets on my nerves

so what are the rules: can we no longer discuss "take it easy" come tomorrow? or ever again? or are songs open for discussing going forward once they've been entered into the fray? also, will we have to start doing copious amounts of coke once they start doing copious amounts of coke?

song a day should mean no bleedthrough imo

new song, new convo

yeah, Take It Easy is great. I dig the famous Xgau article but the political criticism of the Eagles is sort of... outdated? we have all grown to like yuppie music, right? the albums review is still important though, the "And not always all that brilliant, either" part. which is why this "one song each day" project is so necessary. bring it on!

"Witchy Woman"

http://ring.cdandlp.com/timburton007/photo_grande/113894224.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6gNHLOkfc

the guitars kinda rule.

i mean i can see other bands at the time listening to this and going DAMN SICK GUITARS and then hating the Eagles even more.

This is pretty great too. Greatest Hits was inevitably one of the handful of tapes my dad had in the car when I was a kid, and this was the song I liked. I think the woo-oo-ooos make for a killer hook. Also they suit a loping bass, like in One Of These Nights.

Lyrically it's not ideal, but if I give Dazed & Confused a free pass I can hardly complain about this.

the intro is killer. and after the intro you get three cool sounding guitars and it just sounds really good to me.

true story: this song was playing on the department store speakers when my wife Maria went to go buy her first bra. (she just told me that.)

I bet the guys'd get a kick out of that.

I like the drumming here. There's too much empty repetition at the beginning - the four repeats after the intro should've been cut in half.

They've become 'the guys', see what you've done to me.

A mainstay of Halloween party mixtapes.

T/S "Witchy Woman" vs "Black Magic Woman"

the only single on the first album with don henley lead vocals. i just read that.

"While the inspiration for the title and lyrics was based on various women they had met and remembered as seductive enchantresses, Henley had Zelda Fitzgerald particularly in mind after reading her biography."

"She drove herself to madness with the silver spoon", is a reference to Zelda's time in a mental institution and the special slotted silver spoon used to dissolve sugar cubes with Absinthe, the popular 1920s alcoholic beverage distilled from the wormwood tree and called "the green fairy" for sometimes inducing hallucinations. The song was conceived while Don Henley was living in an old house near the Hollywood Bowl, with his flat mate, Henry Vine (aka 'Blitz')."

check out the guitar sound on this t.v. performance. nasty.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcogzw_witchy-woman-eagles_music

The toms on the intro make me wonder if it started out as some kind of "Cherokee Nation" thing.

Was listening to Zevon last night. Obv. Zevon was part of that scene, pals with the Eagles, etc., but he's so much more vicious, acid, witty and mean, not just vacuous. Was he just in it for the drugs? There are all these talented writers, like Zevon, Browne and Newman, who seem to have no prob with the Eagles as a band or as people. And in some cases, like Zevon and Newman, you'd think the Eagles would be open targets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2O91T6ZeW0

Xgau: "But the only ones that score are the jokes: Ernie K-Doe's sly, shy "A Certain Girl," and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado," a satire of the Eagles, not to mention Warren Zevon. Don Henley sings harmony. Linda Ronstadt will not cover. "

That TV performance is the business. Reminds me of Peter Green, talking about Black Magic Woman, though Green is a lot more fluid. It's an amazing 1-2 all told, and aiui they only get better from here.

Holy fuck, was there anything Christgau was right about in the '70s (or, frankly, ever)?

Yes?

This old lady looks a little like Glenn Frey:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/16/martin_manley_suicide_website_a_sports_writer_s_troubling_template_for_social/Martin_Mug.jpg.CROP.article250-medium.jpg

oldladieswholooklikeglenfrey.blogspot.com

And in some cases, like Zevon and Newman, you'd think the Eagles would be open targets

this has crossed my mind more than once

Having a pop at Springsteen and ELO is funnier

Ugh, hate this. Dull, plodding, thudding, flumping, about as dynamic as a drool-stained pillow.

That 45 has terrible sleeve art. I guess that's how you know they weren't rich yet.

xxpost so was Newman clowning ELO?

i don't think that was the american sleeve. i think this was:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Witchy_Woman.jpg