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

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

okay, i remembered how to do youtube links like that. i should probably do youtubes like that from now on? yes? no? so that this thread doesn't become impossible.

so you guys keep talking about "In The City," so when I went to Spotify to see what the fuss was I realized I've heard this thing on AOR radio for years.

This is a terrible song.

Opening chord sequence reminds me of We're Going Wrong by Cream. Otherwise this sounds pretty generic really.

i was totally on board with this song and enjoying how well recorded the drums are (i could even hear the bass clearly) until "i believe we can chug all night" and then i started laughing
like actual hahahaha laughing

The band is loose and the groove is right

this song doesn't sound very loose or groovy at all ... needs to swing more

not sufficiently laid back, two point deduction

first person to have a poignant story that involves hearing this song when they were a kid wins a prize.

Almost sounds like Heart for the first few seconds. I mean, before any vocals appear. LL otm re: drums (no one can fuck with Glyn Johns). This is the best-produced Eagles song I've heard. Too bad its an irredeemable piece of whiny-ass reductive shit.

I have a personal category of songs that are more or less songs I thought were parodies/commercials when I first heard them but are actually sincerely recorded songs (The Doctor by The Doobie Brothers (sure it was a Dr. Pepper jingle) and All Summer Long by Kid Rock (thought it was a MI tourism board commercial) are prime examples) and if I didn't already know this was real, I am pretty sure I would have thought it was a joke, chug all night/hug all night is just so stupid.

kinda critic-proof. there should have been a choice hair metal cover of it. but other than that Dutch group doing it, there are absolutely no cover versions on Youtube. and believe me that says a LOT. there is only one clip of the actual song on Youtube. and someone put it up 2 months ago, so maybe Frey goes around yanking all videos of this song as fast as he can.

this is rough

i was just thinking about how someone said on the other thread that old-ilx would never do something like this and i was trying to imagine marcello and mark s. debating "chug all night".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STH7AxNmUY4

I like the introduction, I was expecting* it to unfold like The Stooges for a bit but better-recorded. The verses are better for keeping that urgency, but the vocals sadly don't keep up with it. Frey(?) really needed to cut loose here, scream a bit**. The oo-oos that appear in the second verse are too polite.

The guitar breaks are nice, and sound fantastic. I really like the 'no woman ever do what you do' bit, the bass rolls nicely. I can imagine Steppenwolf laying down this sorta thing.

The chorus is a disgrace though. The sentiment is fine - who among you hasn't wanted to chug all night? - despite the clumsy music/act of love parallel. No, the problem is the sheer laziness of the inner bar band here. That I-IV-I-IV progression*** and wall-of-backing-vox, cutting out on the punchline, we've heard it millions of times before.

FFS: 'gonna do a little chuggin', gonna do a little huggin'? I take it all back.

* not really
** scratch that, he does cut loose in the main guitar solo and it doesn't work. Henley should've sung this, he's raspier.
*** I'm making that up, mostly

I think this is tied with "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" for worst Eagles song...except that the music is pretty good. I hate Frey's vocals (there's a lot of cracking and deliberately ugly notes, and obviously the lyrics are mind-crushingly stupid), but the backing track is great. With better lyrics and a different singer, this could have been a '70s AOR classic.

I like the introduction, I was expecting* it to unfold like The Stooges for a bit but better-recorded.

I recall reading some account of early John Cougar Mellencamp where he claimed to have been in a band that covered the Stooges, but I just can't believe it.

Someone tell Robin Thicke we figured out what rhymes with hug.

"I can imagine Steppenwolf laying down this sorta thing."

steppenwolf from this era some of my fave steppenwolf. especially the albums Slow Flux and Skullduggery. two good ones from that time period:

"Black Pit"

http://youtu.be/i9PfrbScLi0

"Gang War Blues"

http://youtu.be/IszBXYDXWm4

but the actual year that the Eagles debut came out, 1972, saw the release of John Kay's solo album where he did a really good version of Richard Farina's anti-imperialism epic "Bold Marauder".

http://youtu.be/BhUkjeMDADg

which is just a way to point out that John Kay and Steppenwolf in the early 70's had WAY more on their minds than the Eagles did. and that's saying something.

Early '70s Steppenwolf albums are amazing. I love "Gang War Blues." But pretty much every Steppenwolf album right up to Skullduggery is great.

"Chug All Night" mostly makes me think of this guy.

Not the worst Eagles song in the world. I can hear in my mind a million bar bands butchering it.

Make them stop!

if you bought this album new and these were the first three songs you heard, i think you'd be pretty confused as to what exactly this band is--so far they've done prototypical country rock, soulful/citified pop-rock, and hacky bar band shit.

i dunno, seems kinda typical stuff to me. but i listen to way too many country rock records.

feel like in another era frey and henley would have been brill building or tin pan alley dudes. or own a shady little label where they would rip off r&b performers left and right. or despots in the mesopotamian empire.

living in a river of darkness beneath a neon light

xp yeah that may be true! i feel like this is less coherent than i thought it would be but you would know much better than me

feel like in another era frey and henley would have been brill building or tin pan alley dudes.

Frey and Henley at one desk, Fagan/Becker at another...

... Buckingham/Nicks naked under another ...

I kind of like this song. Ive never heard it before.

it would take all my superpowers to think of something interesting to say about this song. again, the intro is really promising. even when the first lines of the song creep out of frey's mouth you COULD conceivably be in for something good. and it sounds fine, but the production does nothing for me really. a zillion 4th tier country rock albums of the time had production that sounded as good as that.

the verses sound like a band in a garage just fucking around like 'hey what about this song'...in an ideal world instead of playing the whole song the drummer trails off after a verse and then they all just kinda stand around until Frey says, 'yeah I guess it wasn't that good' and they go try something else

but hey

the chorus is ok.

god the harmonies are not...very...good. or unnecessary. or something. like riding around with a dude singing along in his car but he's a beat behind so he comes in late

I BELIEVE WE COULD CHUG ALL NIGHT
I BELIEVE WE COULD HUG ALL NIGHT

*falls down on the floor laughing*

I BELIEVE WE COULD PUG ALL NIGHT