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

7 women on my mind, four that wanna to bore me, two that wanna bone me, one says she's a friend of mine

yeah the first 30 seconds reminded me of Big Star

what's with all the intros on this album being better than the song?

man, these guys were lucky they got Take it Easy and Peaceful Easy Feeling handed to them or they could have been just another forgotten dollar bin 70s band

they got those songs and still almost pissed it way--desperado didn't exactly light up the charts.

v true re big star. a better lead guitarist would help. wonder what they'd sound like with someone like, say, joe walsh.

if he joined now though we'd be robbed of some awesome james gang which shits all over every eagles song

otm

I still think about what a bunch of idiots they are, that by the time they had Felder and Walsh, they made one good album and then a kind of meh album (and then whatever the rest was which uggggh). to me it's just, you guys should have been KILLING it with like 2 or 3 albums in a row of facemelting guitar radness

idk

then again with Herr Frey and Herr Henley, it's hard to see how it could have gone any other way

anyway i'm getting ahead of myself

if he joined now though we'd be robbed of some awesome james gang which shits all over every eagles song

I don't know about that robbing us of some James Gang stuff--Thirds was also in '71, and he just had the live album to go. If anything, we may have lost his early solo stuff--or "Rocky Mountain Way" would have appeared in On The Border!

But anyway, "Tryin'": Kind of a limp Stones thing. I like the opening riffs some, and the rhythm guitar during the solo. That's it.

the thing that best describes this song, and possibly this album is that thing Billy Crystal does in When Harry Met Sally with the sad-dude-overbite dance

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_losovterVJ1qf7r5lo1_500.gif

ha!

This is how I imagine anyone dances to the Eagles.

Final analysis on Eagles, btw, since I didn't really play along: I like the three singles (always did), most of the album tracks are passable, and only "Take the Devil" truly sucks.

btw every time I click on this thread and see the photo of Glenn Frey rocked by laughter I want to strangle babies
He's laughing at you. He's laughing at all of you.

I too see them laughing at us for our grand endeavor.

Perhaps we've inspired him to go over to Henley's and say, "Man, we've just got to do "Chug II!""

i was stuck at a light behind a car w/ an 'I <3 my Chug' bumper sticker and 'Take It Easy' came on the radio scan, i thought of this thread.

also learned that a Chug is the saddest dog hybreed of all

What's that, chihuahua pug??? No way, when I was a kid we had a part pug/part chihuahua and she was the cutest best dog. Her name was Susanna.

woah saki

that's crazy

No it's a cross between a CHUD and a pug

Xpost

Oh well yes that is terrible.

cross between a CHUD and a pug

LOL A+

Meisner's vocals on "Tryin'" remind me of Steve Marriott a little.

Eagles in the wild report: I'm just leaving an all-nite diner, one of those places with a jukebox that nobody plays, so the machine cycles through stuff on random play mode all the time. The final two selections for my visit were "The Heat Is On" and "New Kid In Town". Hearing them back to back like this kind of reinforces how odd that the same guy was responsible for both.

playing catch-up:

1) i still like the singles okay (in a noncommittal, out-there-in-radioland sort of way), but everything else pretty much sucks.

2) retrospective sleaze awareness aside, "take it easy" isn't particularly sleazy, not in light "girl, you'll be a woman soon" and "you've never been this far before".

3) i like clips are a hell of a lot better than the studio stuff. should have been a jam band.

"Get You In The Mood"

http://www.nnoa.biz/Pics/gfreymug1.jpg

http://youtu.be/1ISeIBF0N8k

non-album b-side and there you have it. its a real barn-burner too.

Small brown
Long blue
Mustache normal

"Thank you for coming everybody. I'm Glenn and we are EAGLES! Please don't forget to tip your waitress on the way out." *extended mood jam*

The last girl I hit on
wasn't very pretty

smdh

I was unmoved until ~ 3:15 (the "extended mood jam"). That was good.

"I get so wasted in the city/Last girl I hit on wasn't very pretty"

for the AGES!

haha x-post

http://www.heyreverb.com/files/2010/05/henley.jpg

oh gross.

along with "chug", this one's working awful damn hard to convince me that i hate the fucking eagles

i didn't totally hate this one
the sun is your clown
his singing is overzealous and far to the front for my liking but i like the slow tempo and the jam is ok (unfortunately there's only like 30 sec of it)

also -- i heard "life in the fast lane" in the car yesterday and it sounded just as atrocious as it always has. just AWFUL and loathsome. i also heard "hotel california" the other day (also on the car radio) and it sounded like the dr teeth & the electric mayhem, like it always has. (i figure this thread could be used for noting when eagles songs are heard in the wild)

ok... it's still a stretch, but this is the closest we've come to Chilton yet.

This is okay. I think my feelings so far is that this band is so stiff and uptight that any hint of them cutting loose seems much wilder than it is. So the meandering verses here, or the growling intros elsewhere, sound like a band you'd keep an eye on; whereas in reality they rock out like a barbershop quartet.

"(i figure this thread could be used for noting when eagles songs are heard in the wild)"

yah! i actually asked people to do this upthread.

First thought (on "Mood") was, "This would sound a lot better if Ronnie Van Zant was singing instead of Glenn Frey."

Then I realized that applies to everything Glenn Frey ever sang.

Eagles in the wild: "Take It Easy" at Walgreens, 10:45 p.m.

This "Mood" song is the lamest shit I've ever heard in my life, jesus fuck even for a b-side what a bunch of losers

yet their pal Linda is fucked: Linda Ronstadt - Classic or Dud?

so sad....in Hotel California which has come up a bunch on this thread, she's one of the few people that comes across as really genuine and generous in that whole scene :(

I thought I recalled owning the 45 of "Take It Easy" when I was a kid, but I definitely have never heard "Mood" before in my life. M@tt OTM, this is horrible.

like i said in the other thread, in that hotel california book the ONLY people who come out smelling like a rose are linda ronstadt and jackson browne. i can't recall anyone interviewed for the book who had anything negative to say about those two. which is not the case with everyone else in the book.

In the other laurel canyon book graham Nash seemed pretty chill and decent too.

I'm gonna dissent here; I actually like this song, especially the guitar solo outro. It's available individually on Amazon MP3, too; I think I might tack it onto the debut album in my iPod.

idk why but I always get the feeling that Graham Nash is a secret dick. He seems chill and decent p much all the time, but in a way that makes me suspicious that he's just doing that bcz Stills and Crosby couldn't hide it

unsupportable theory, just the weird way my brain works

He is a secret dick. Every quote I've read suggests he's intensely conscious about PR and projecting affability. Besides, Neil Young must have had a reason to always find excuses to stop hanging out with him.

i don't know if i've heard this before or if it's reminding of something else with a similar chord progression.

pplains otm re Chilton