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

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!

I'm drunk right now, but I'm listening to Duke Ellington. Turning him off to put on an Eagles song is a level of sacrilege I'm not prepared to experience and/or comprehend.

What a strange, strange, strange Google Street View capture.

http://i.imgur.com/9h9m2MN.jpg

You hear that? There's that bridge to "Witchay Woman" again.

"Most Of Us Are Sad"

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/whitcap/Jennie-and-Randy-Meisner-1.jpg

http://youtu.be/z1fka_Ow0M4

Songwriters: FREY, GLENN LEWIS
Most of us are sad
No one lets it show
I've been shadows of myself
How was I to know?
Tell me scarlet sun
What will time allow?
We have brought our children
Here who can save them now?
Oh, weeping woman try to smile
Like the coming dawn
Most of us are sad it's true
Still we must go on
Love was here today
Oh the sun was bright
I will sing you faraway
Love is here tonight
Most of us are sad
No one lets it show
I've been shadows of myself
How was I to know?

"Randy Meisner appears on this album but was asked to leave the band shortly before the record was released. Meisner's exit was a result of his anger from being excluded (at Furay's insistence) from participation in the final mix playback sessions for the record, as only Messina and Furay were to complete the production. His image was removed from the painting on the album's cover, and replaced with the dog seen at the far left. His bass parts and backing vocals were left in the mix, but his lead vocals were removed, and new versions were sung by George Grantham."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Poco_1969.jpg

replaced with the dog
replaced with the dog
replaced with the dog
replaced with the dog
replaced with the dog
replaced with the dog
replaced with the dog
replaced with the dog

intimations of randy meisner singing three dog night's "easy to be hard"

that guitar sure does sound pretty though.

Zylon Tex 1 month ago
Just for the record, I've seen the Eagles documentary, I know all the sordid detail; Randy Meisner didn't walk out on the band, he was driven away by toxicity and ominousity, hostility of those who shall not be named
Amazing musician, mad respect

i meant that in a good way! in an early morning reverie imagining golden smog covered "most of us are sad" too on their first EP

it could be a Low song.

how's his stuff after he left the eagles?

"In 1988, a man named Lewis Peter "Buddy" Morgan started impersonating Meisner. He had previously been charged with impersonating Don Henley in Las Vegas, but skipped on his bail. Morgan's identity was not conclusively revealed until 1997. In 1998, he was arrested and spent 16 months in jail, but upon his release continued his charade and was still doing so as of 2009. In Reno, Nevada, he tried to use Meisner's identity to rent hotel rooms. He was not as successful as before with the ruse, since area hotels had notified each other of the impostor. Some people are not familiar with Meisner's appearance, and Morgan used that fact to con musical instrument manufacturers and retailers, casino owners, and women."