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

I've got a project for the weekend, just letting you all know.

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the spritual godfather of el-lay decadence. and you just couldn't kill him.

HOLY SHIT

Kicking myself that I forgot him. Wolf King is a great record, but hooboy has he left an evil shadow on this town.

The Zevon book desperately needs an index, but there is a Who's Who at the back and under the "Henley, Don" entry is this

Warren's relationship with Don was strange. When discussing whether or not he wanted a funeral, Warren said, "I just don't want to have to spend my last days wondering if Henley will show up." Henley didn't, but Timothy Schmidt did.

Also, am I the only one self-conscious enough to turn off my Last.fm tagging when reading this thread?

bwahaha

shame shame we know your name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU

if only we had listened to mojo

a line in that Mojo song reminded me of that brief time in the late '80s when Henley turned into Timothy B. Schmidt (or, "The Ponytail Years")

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For some reason, this photo of Sonny reacting to Glenn's suggestion they change the name of the show to "Frey-ami Vice" came up too:

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i wonder what his career would have been like if he had kept his creepy 'fro

xpost LOL

ok ok

how about Miami Chuggin?

you guys! we could take an ilx field trip!

http://standinonthecorner.com/

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"Nightingale"

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http://youtu.be/xBahwTC8eXY

this song is lame.

i think this is actually the first time so far where listening to one of these songs my immediate response is: LAME.

They cut this after the initial sessions because the label wanted "More Henley". You can also see why Browne didn't put this out himself.

in that eagle-hating salon article i defended eagles when that guy called them lowest common denominator but i don't know why i would bother when i listen to something like this. or chug for that matter.

this song needed like 6 more months in the woodshed

jesus christ this song is like watching the lawn in front of my house die

This is okay but no particular reason why it should pass any cut. A bit strange that it makes it onto the same album as Take It Easy, let alone Witchy Woman which genuinely does have a touch of genius about it. If you took the vocals off, the verse-and-choruses are what a computer might come up with if you programmed it to play rock & roll.

But it does take wing for thirty seconds at 2:58 from "I get so low, and my mind's about to go ... but wait a minute". I like this a lot, there's some genuine yearning there - if that's been turned into a song it'd've worked fine. As it is, it should be a decent b-side.

Maria heard witchay woman at Home Depot yesterday. this might be a good place to post if you hear an eagles song in the wild.

i would love to hear Browne sing this. it totally has his melodic sense but it would only sound particularly good in his voice, unlike "Take It Easy."

it's just the same old murder movie
but they call it the news

Dig 'em when they're up. Dig 'em when they're down.

Get a very demo vibe off this, a track a band throws onto the tape just to show they have more than four songs. The inert opening vamp is just ... nothing.

Opening riff reminds me of the riff in Jesus Mary Chain's 'Sometimes Always'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL0269xbykQ (start at 1.57)

I don't mind this, it's just that it doesn't really go anywhere for me. I kept waiting for a build or a hook or a something but it just kept going.

would it be rude of me to suggest that you guys do the youtube link thing instead of the embed thing too? i just kinda like the idea of this thread being one thread, but i guess we could have a part 2. it could get kinda impossible with a million vids on here. says the guy who throws fifty million youtube videos onto a million threads.

Wooo that song is bad but also I forgot how it even went the second it was over so it's kind of ultimately neutral I guess.

bah, this band, but i'll read this thread periodically till you get to their version of steve young's seven bridges road and their song the sad cafe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcYY-7AqOeo

Agree no embeds fwiw. I want this thread to be openable so's one of us can print it out when it's done and bury it one night in a time capsule on Henley's ranch.

Another day, Another bad Eagles song.

no that's a good idea scott, will do

I want this thread to be openable

Ha, says the guy who a few posts earlier said of Witchy Woman it "genuinely does have a touch of genius about it," and referred to the band's " genuine yearning." ;) Me, I'd be OK if this thread was not openable.; Like a child lid on a prescription.

josh

dude

take it easy

I guess it's possible that I may come to regret those posts, YouTube away

Nah that's not right, Witchy Woman is strange enough to deserve it

you guys! we could take an ilx field trip!

http://standinonthecorner.com/

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:19 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lolling at how the town of Winslow, Arizona is trying to make "Standin' On The Corner" a tourist attraction/slogan/image solidifier, it's like they know the only time anyone ever hears about Winslow is that brief mention in "Take It Easy", so they need to milk it for all it's worth.

As for "Nightingale", as a onetime songwriter I can relate to it. Sometimes the inspiration hits, and you think up a lyric that perfectly captures your situation in a unique way, and pair it with an inventive melody and backings of the sort you can only dream up at your most inspired, and through happy accidents in the recording process it sounds even better on tape (or whatever you record on nowadays) than it did in your head when you were writing it. But most of the time I'd be called upon to write something when I wasn't in the mood and had nothing to say, but just needed to force it and squeeze out a song for contractual reasons. And when I did, it usually would sound something like "Nightingale".

I must admit i got a good laff from that youtube photo though

"Train Leaves Here This Morning"

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http://youtu.be/UXy3hYqvstU

this song is a ringer because a god among men wrote it. so, enjoy a wonderful sunday song.

Sighting: out buying lunch, Peaceful Easy Feeling playing in M&S

This is really good, best song in days. I wonder what kept them from doing more Clark material (I know:$$$$$). He was a friend/drinking buddy of theirs in the early days.

This is really good, but very unEagles - I'm guessing Gene Clark is the writer here, it could easily be a more country Byrds. The phrasing is nothing like any of the previous songs, which are all made up of short, hooky lines repeated and varied; this deals in very long phrases and is more interesting for it, even with the slower chord progression. I like the vocal harmonies, and the guitar in the middle eight sparkles nicely, though the chord change/quasi-solo at the end is unpleasant. The ending is good. Another one that's quite unlike what's gone before.

It was a Clark/Leadon co-write from the first Dillard & Clark Expedition album from '68.

whoah, this is nice. who's singing lead on that? bernie?

Reminds me of Jayhawks, at their most Burrito-ish.

Yeah Gene Clark parts of Hotel California are heartbreaking, you can tell Hoskyns really loves his music the most

Such a tragedy, and he doesn't even have the Gram Parsons/Chilton/etc cult that he deserves

that's Bernie on lead vocals!

LOVE this so much.