So this must be what it's like to hear an Eagles song for the first time.
WE'RE UP ALL NIGHT TO GET CHUGGING.
― pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
hee hee hee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
It's almost like Frey is a failed advertising dude who became a musician, and he's just using up his terrible slogans in his songs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Hahaha OTM.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
but the Eagles use them as frames to hang their rock & roll licks on, and the controlled explosiveness of the performances makes them among the most exciting songs here.
jesus
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
dare i say, bud scoppa not otm
has he *heard* other music? do we know for sure?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
"FLying Burrito Bros were massive there"
this is true! and everything byrds. that one gene clark album only came out in holland.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I believe we could bug tonighthttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4TwrnXluxjM/T6XkAujoWuI/AAAAAAAABII/B6ahF5gkjvw/s200/Orkin+Man.jpgcan someone photoshop glenn frey's mug on the orkin man pls
― no fomo (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
It's not already?
― pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:21 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This explains a lot. Friend/former one-time bandmate did a duo record with Janet Bean (from Eleventh Dream Day and Freakwater) of Gram Parsons covers that was commissioned by a Dutch label (and only released in Holland).
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Maybe move this thread to De Subjectivisten?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
"Chug All Night" is the more faceless side of the band. Steppenwolf comparison upthread OTM--it also brings to mind ZZ Top (for some reason I flash on "Move Me On Down The Line" while listening to this) and Seger of the period. Joe Walsh could have done this in his sleep. Very much a 'First Album' song; you can also tell why Glyn Johns was so against them trying to really rock out.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
this reminds me of when you see a classic rock cover band at a bar and they sneak one original into the setlist
Glen Frey's snarling rhythm guitar is featured on these two, as it is on "Nightingale"; it's worth paying special attention to.
LMAO
if this was literally like the only rock song you'd ever heard in your entire life, i guess....
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
grisso c'mon man this isn't even on the same planet as ZZ Top
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
zz top? seger? noooooooooo wtf grisso why u braek heart
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
In this case I think Glyn Johns echo is passive-aggressive because it seriously sounds like they're playing in a bar with a wooden floor for like 2 people
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
I was just pointing out what it reminded me of--of course those guys did it better!
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
It's kinda funny that ten years later ZZ Top put out "Leila" which like halfway between LA: Light Album and The Long Run.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
I can't do this and the Elton thing at the same time
The sheer superstar level of dudes like Elton John in the '70s put the Eagles to shame, no? Like, weren't there many months with multiple Elton albums in the top 10?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
plus, elton was huge everywhere. don't know if that's true of eagles. eagles were huge here, but maybe not everywhere in the world.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
and speaking of mellow and Holland, i'll never forget when maria told me about living in the Netherlands and how nobody knew who James Taylor was there. we just live in a humongous bubble here. maria's cousin married the only non-musical taylor boy.
(that's the kind of thing i never forget. people's birthdays i'm not so good at remembering.)
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
I've been trying to find the line between U.S. and Australia with sunny successor. She knew the Eagles growing up, but not Styx.
Imagine saying "Domo aragoto Mr. Roboto" to an English-speaking person over 35 and them replying with "The fuck did you just say?" It was magic.
― pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Mr Veg gets a huge kick out of that too. Did Sunny know Journey? I didn't really know them either
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
i used to love to watch the paul hogan show when i was a kid even though i had no idea who they were making fun of. rolf harris jokes and the like.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
i remember hoges showing his butt on latenight tv once
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/yahoo-serious-film-festival-simpsons.jpg
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
"Those are all real words, but that sign makes no sense."
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
No Journey. No Boston either.
― pplains, Thursday, 22 August 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
I meant I can't willfully force myself to listen to this much crap in one day. at some point I have to listen to something I know I'm going to actually enjoy
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 August 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
This is only a track a day commitment tho.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah but I just listened to 25 Elton John songs in a row
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 August 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
this is the thread that i deserve
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 August 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Dang I was so excited about this thread but I didn't notice it'd been launched til today! Got all caught up on the train home just now (during which take it easy played 5x, witchay woman 3x, chug all night 1x).
Chug thoughts:
-I like how during the verses there's like no treble information at all. The guitars stay way down low with the bass and it actually does sound kind of sick. But it's unusual to hear this kind of thing recorded so immaculately. Imagine if the first boc lp was engineered like this!-during the verses I do get a first 2 boc albums vibe tho not from the vox obv. I guess that fits with the steppenwolf thing too. -is it weird that this lp has two tracks in a row where sex changes your color? Red in ww, black and blue here. -this is nowhere near worst eagles song territory. Not with ***spoiler alert*** James dean and Greeks and hole in the fkin world in the mix.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Friday, 23 August 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
-is it weird that this lp has two tracks in a row where sex changes your color? Red in ww, black and blue here.
I thought this, too! What is their deal with having sex to the point of minor skin injury? And using dumb euphemisms for sex, too. I really hope the next song has a lyric about bebopping until they get calluses.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Friday, 23 August 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
Yellow calluses, if the pattern holds.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Friday, 23 August 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
I hate to say it, but James Dean gets in my head at least once a week.
Reading all about that new Lindsey Lohan movie? James Deen, byur-nur-chur-churk, James Deen, why do you have to be so mean?
Those probably aren't the lyrics, but hey.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 00:49 (ten years ago) link
There are a couple of songs on Steppenwolf's Skullduggery (most notably the title track) that sound a lot like BOC. Of course, there are other songs that sound like '70s Waylon Jennings. And there's a jazz-disco-funk instrumental that closes the whole thing out. It's a really weird album.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 23 August 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
James Dean sounds so much worse than you expect, even with the title. Chug at least meets expectations
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
(during which take it easy played 5x, witchay woman 3x, chug all night 1x)
seems like the appropriate arc for this exercise so far
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 August 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
take it easy 5xwitchay woman 3xchug all night 1xprofit?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 01:41 (ten years ago) link
Tbf chug came just before I got home so there was no option of encoring it even had I wished to.
James DeanJames DeanWhy does your skin have that sheen?
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Friday, 23 August 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
let's not get ahead of ourselves
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
I wish I knew Glenn Frey's phone number. I would randomly drunk dial him every now and then and just play a chorus of Chug All Night and then hang up.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 August 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
this thread is insane, i love you guys
"Witchy Woman"'s intro sounds heavier than i remembered it, this is really one of the only Eagles hits i'd really just totally dismissed out of hand anymore but it sounds pretty good right now. and i hate to be that guy projecting indie cred, but i swear i can hear noted '70s soft rock aficionado Steve Shelley copping a very specific fill in this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_DEH9GHfI
― some dude, Friday, 23 August 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
"Fingers?!?! Is that you, you sonofabitch?!!!"
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Friday, 23 August 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
Xpost
lol I should spoof Felder's number to make the calls :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link
God my ears need an edema. Glen keep using "chug" as the blueprint for everything you record.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Friday, 23 August 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link