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

Going to high school in a rural redneck town ruined Steve Miller forever. Steve Miller's greatest hits blaring out of pick ups, everywhere you turned someone clapping the claps from take the money and run, custom Firebird decals declaring their drivers to be gangsters of love, never ending Steve Miller Band nonstop for eternity.

this phenomenon was not at all restricted to rural redneck towns.

"and Miles Davis hates him"

you realize that this is a REALLY long list.

yeah, steve miller ubiquity kind of a nationwide thing. but i kinda feel the same way about his smash hits as i feel about eagles smash hits. just a part of the air for as long as i can remember. it would be like hating trees or butterflies at this point for me.

The Who being described as "unmusical" is a new one for me. Thats a bad call

you know, trees that will try to sleep with your children and butterflies that will steal your drugs, but still...

I don't have the exact quote handy, but Miller said of the Who's performance at Monterey (retrospectively, in 1987), "They came into the middle of this peace-and-love thing and did their tear-it-up bad-boy act. Totally unmusical. I thought that then, and I think that now."

And yeah, Miles pretty much hated everyone, but there was something delightfully hilarious about how he singled Miller out. He seemed to like other acts he opened for; he had nice things to say about the Dead, the Band, Laura Nyro, and CSNY (and while he never shared the bill with them, he loved the Who).

i dunno, miles said lots of mean stuff about lots of musicians. tons of mean stuff.

Oh, I agree. I think his comments about Dolphy and Cecil were supremely fucked, and he was goaded into talking shit about the new music by anti-new-thing critics in a divide-and-conquer kind of way.

Did Miles have any opinion about the Eagles?

big fan iirc

He appreciated the fact that their third album was a track-by-track response to On the Corner.

this phenomenon was not at all restricted to rural redneck towns.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 5:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I totally believe you. For whatever reason, SMB was most popular among the most rural farmer kids so I always associate them with that demographic.

Good to know (and not really a surprise): "Witchy Woman", along with all other Leadon and Meisner compositions, was left out of the Hell Freezes Over project so those guys wouldn't earn any money directly off the reunion.

heartwarming

bless their cotton socks, those loveable scamps

sooooo, i guess there isn't much to say about witchy other than its witchy and slow and it reminds us of seinfeld. and our childhood. and i like the guitars. its so simple really. that song. but what a formula for earworm immortality they had. plus, i think any band that has people singing the guitar parts to their songs is destined for a cash reward. i just made that up. but i think its true. that intro is so singable.

just a part of the air for as long as i can remember.

So, to a lesser extent is SMB

I guess I'm too old to care about the fight now. They're everywhere, though fading, and I can't see fighting about it any more than I can about arbitrating the Dorsey/Miller beef

i think i would like witchy woman more if it was don's only turn as lead vocalist in their catalog.

hmmm. i was gonna say this was one of my fav eagles songs but it's kinda sucking right now. :/

the intro writes a check the song can't cash

The title writes a check the song can't catch.

Cash.

This song is a steaming pile of poo. When I hear the a-ha's I think there's a bunch of 14 year old tricks squeezing their nads so they can hit the high notes.

the intro writes a check the song can't cash

this thread is, at this point, two for two on that score.

Given the drums on this, doesn't "rocking you in the night til your skin turns red" imply that the witchy woman turns you into a Native American?

i thought you actually meant A-Ha for a second there. they could hit those high notes real good too.

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Supposedly, when recording, they sucked lemons to stay on pitch. I don't know how or why that would work.

cocaine thoughts

Eagles Lemon Party

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

i like their harmonies on this. I mean, I like most of their harmonies on most of their songs, but this one in particular stands out for me

I like how henley's voice sounds kinda ragged like he's been up all night with the Witchay Woman... and when you listen with headphones all the Glyn Johns echo that they hated on their voices sounds really good SO SUCK IT douchebags

This is one of the laid-back Eagles songs that actually feels *naturally* laid back, instead of later forced laidbackness that sounds like they just came out of a meeting where Frey screamed YOU GUYS BETTER BE MORE GODDAMMED LAID BACK OR WE'LL NEVER SELL A BAJILLION RECORDS over and over.

haha

Feel like I need to buy a topaz bolo tie just to read this thread. Bless you all.

Oh, interesting. I always thought of this as the Eagles' heaviest song. Maybe it's just that distorted guitar riff. I loved it when I was a kid. Has a cool spooky atmosphere.

Didn't realize these were tracks 1-2 on their first album. I only really know Hotel California as far as the albums go. Maybe that one is worth picking up.

First album is p good imo

It starts off so good and then we start chuggin

must be obvious but "Witchy Woman" is such a Stills rip off, or maybe better a Buffalo Springfield rip off since the lead guitar sounds like a Neil rip off

I hate Stills btw

Yeah, I thought of Neil Young right now too. Never really occurred to me before, somehow.

Ralph Molina loves his tomtoms.

that live clip really brought the neil-isms home for me.

Wonder if Stevie Nicks heard "Witchy Woman" and thought, huh, these are my people. I wonder if Don thought dating her later was anti-climatic.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6TXHpFIqcvk/Tq60CAFnd2I/AAAAAAAADrA/XAWQsFTFONI/s320/SNicksWitchyWoman.jpeg

I like how Henley switches onto the on-beat under 'woman' in the chorus

"Chug All Night"

http://www.eaglesfans.com/picture/chug%20all%20night%20-%20dutch.jpg?pictureId=10650896&asGalleryImage=true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRtCL2HeoEg

oops:

http://images.45cat.com/eagles-chug-all-night-asylum.jpg

damn!

anyway, it was a single in Holland. god bless the Dutch.

http://images.45cat.com/eagles-chug-all-night-asylum.jpg

hey, great intro...

On the day that I die, well
I just might scream
If I'm alive in the morning
Ill be alive in a dream
You better listen to me baby
Cause you know that I'm hung on you
till I'm blind and black and blue

No woman ever do what you do
High on a pleasure wheel
No devil ever cast a voodoo
so long and dark and real
We're gonna do a little chugging
We're gonna do a little hugging
The band is loose and the groove is right
I'm wired for sound
Are you wired for light?
And you're so much woman,
I believe we could chug all night

the Dutch were apparently very big fans:

http://youtu.be/hF4aJwiFMC0