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

zz top? seger? noooooooooo wtf grisso why u braek heart

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

I was just pointing out what it reminded me of--of course those guys did it better!

It's kinda funny that ten years later ZZ Top put out "Leila" which like halfway between LA: Light Album and The Long Run.

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?

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.

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.)

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.

Yeah Mr Veg gets a huge kick out of that too. Did Sunny know Journey? I didn't really know them either

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.

i remember hoges showing his butt on latenight tv once

http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/yahoo-serious-film-festival-simpsons.jpg

"Those are all real words, but that sign makes no sense."

No Journey. No Boston either.

I can't do this and the Elton thing at the same time

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

This is only a track a day commitment tho.

yeah but I just listened to 25 Elton John songs in a row

this is the thread that i deserve

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.

-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.

Yellow calluses, if the pattern holds.

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.

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.

James Dean sounds so much worse than you expect, even with the title. Chug at least meets expectations

(during which take it easy played 5x, witchay woman 3x, chug all night 1x)

seems like the appropriate arc for this exercise so far

take it easy 5x
witchay woman 3x
chug all night 1x
profit?

Tbf chug came just before I got home so there was no option of encoring it even had I wished to.

James Dean
James Dean
Why does your skin have that sheen?

let's not get ahead of ourselves

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.

lol

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

"Fingers?!?! Is that you, you sonofabitch?!!!"

Xpost

lol I should spoof Felder's number to make the calls :D

God my ears need an edema. Glen keep using "chug" as the blueprint for everything you record.

THE CHUG IS..... ON

"It's the politics of contraband/It's the Chuggler's Blues"

Hey Scott, according to discogs Timbuk3 have 7 albums& 12 eps / singles.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Timbuk+3

CHUG OVER IT CHUG OVER IT

"It's the politics of contraband/It's the Chuggler's Blues"

Perfection.

"What a neighbor
Thanks for the favor
She's a very chuggy girl"

the kind u don't bring home to mother

BTW, the "Standing On A Corner" in Winslow is just a facade - the building burned down several years ago. It's just a wall surrounded by Route 66 tourist junk.

http://www.koocanusapublications.com/rvwest_test/images/uploads/park1.jpg

You can chug out anytime you like
But you can never leave

xpost haha that's even weirder

"Chug All Night" would sound like great sludge as a 45 rpm slowed down to 33 1/3. Also, nice of them not to finish the song with a harmonica flourish at the very end.

As long as we're revisiting "Take It Easy", I'll say that for the past two days I've been thinking "It's a girl my lord and a fat Rob Ford slowing down to take a look at me."

someone get REALLY drunk and listen to chug all night and tell us how it sounds. for science. i ain't doing it.

xpost haha that's even weirder

Symbolic of The Eagles. Fake empty authenticism

someone get REALLY drunk and listen to chug all night and tell us how it sounds. for science. i ain't doing it.

― scott seward, Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've been drinking a bit but not that much

Being a member of a particular secret mailing that was popular in the mid-90s is giving me spectacular laughs. Thank you all!