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

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"

http://www.rockpeaks.com/files/imagecache/body/eggs/e/Eagles/002691-Eagles-Train-Leaves-Here-This-Morning-BBC-In-Concert-1973.jpg

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.

there's a tone to Bernie's voice that reminds me a lot of Marty Robbins. Really rich in the low notes, and he hits those really pretty high notes.

What did he do after the Eagles?

piss off Glenn Frey

Played a lot of bluegrass and became a Nashville session guy.

xpost lol Alfred

just for reference:

Dillard & Clark - Train Leaves Here This Morning

didn't know that was a single for D&C, or that The Eagles covered it.

Imagining alt-timeline Eagles w/Gene Clark. He dies much sooner there.

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

― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually Gene Clark does have quite a cult following (and not just on ILM), if not quite as big as Gram's or Alex's

Gene never had the US Indie following those guys had. Europe was another matter.

i am all the cult gene needs! ivo turned me on to him in the 80's. thanks, ivo!

bought this today. listening now. so far so smooth. 1977. glyn johns produced.

http://img5.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/a0/7c/far_side_cafe/folder/1487945/img_1487945_47654944_2?1181883408

killer drum sound. tarfumes might want to pick it up.

oops.

http://www.rockandrollcollection.com/images/eagles/eagles_LP_1670.jpg

Interesting! I will check that out. I dug Leadon in the Burritos, and so far he's the best thing about the Eagles.

This isn't technically an Eagles song.

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Dude, it's the Eagles singin' and playin' on it! Also, more Eagles (one) had a hand in writing it than in writing "Peaceful Easy Feeling" (zero).

It could only be more Eagles if the lyric was amended to "the train chugs out this mornin'"

o/t but <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamTAp1W4Mc

who is michael georgiades?

my favorite song on that gene album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXuuJ9aZswA

i think i would die for that album. like, if some country decided to go to war against No Other i think i would pick up a gun and fight until i couldn't fight anymore.

and hey remember links and not embeds if you can remember. thanks, the management (you do realize we will be here for months...)

practice link (fingers crossed this is right!)

http://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=oPghGSOrHFk

"Take The Devil"

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa377/asusundevils/Randy-Meisner-and-his-twins.jpg

http://youtu.be/9kJiXvoWQHI

the first Randy-written song! how exciting...

sorry for the sound. its really hard sometimes to find an eagles youtube with good sound. their fans aren't that picky i guess. sometimes there will be three crappy vids that all come from the same horrible MP3 or whatever.

anyway, he wrote this about Don I think.

i think we can safely say that this song begins and then it ends.

Train Leaves Here This Morning: Grateful Dead
Take the Devil: Bon Jovi

also, the YouTube for Train Leaves Here This Morning shows the album track listing and I was like, "Nightingale? I don't remember that. Did Scott skip one?" and went back to check and LOLOLOL

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.

― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Saturday, August 24, 2013 7:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Using the drunk stepfather deep cuts metric, I can completely envision my stepfather five beers in smoking a joint and really, really enjoying Take the Devil.

This is some of the most convincing rocking I've heard the Eagles do, and it's still 3rd-rate Crazy Horse.

it's funny how much more accomplished "train leaves here this morning" sounds than its predecessor on the album. imagine listening to this record without seeing the writing credits.

"take the devil" is....fine.

i found it pretty boring and the singing was anguished.

btw let it be clear that the only eagles songs i have ever heard are the radio singles.

i found it pretty boring and the singing was anguished.

― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, August 26, 2013

lethal combo

This one's pretty good. It suits them to stay away from the upper registers, which is a problem for a band whose appeal is largely based on vocal harmonising. When whoever's singing here heads upwards, the effect is not good.

The drumming's good again, but everything needs to be a bit rougher. "...3rd-rate Crazy Horse" is otm, see the opening of Cowgirl for what you can really do with so few elements. Would love to hear Neil take this on actually, the basic song is pretty good but he'd do so much better with the solos.

The all-triplets outro is confusing me, because it's crap yet normally I really love triplets.

the trouble is Meisner's voice. He's got a dull guitarist's voice.

i think he sounds a lot better on some other songs but yeah not as good on this one