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

TS: "with an orchestra" vs. "on ice" as the ultimate shark-jump tour shtick

The orchestra is proving to be a big selling point on the current Who tour. Unfortunately, it’s treacly, predictable as fuck, and pointless. So, while those qualities detract from a Who show, they’ll likely vastly improve an Eagles performance.

Well, there are loads of Eagles songs with orchestration already.

DON: I'm looking forward to going out on the road with the orchestra. We'll finally be able to present our music as Glenn and I had originally envisioned, but were unable for whatever reason to present as such, in concert on prior tours.

GLENN: We always had the budget for orchestras, but drugs, girls, Budweiser, and girls with drugs and Budweiser don't pay for themselves, ya know!

DON: Well, yeah.

Iggles and co.

i bet the orchestral version of Chug All Night fkn slaps tho

Chug In C Minor

Chug Swear Didn't Know C's Minor

in the wild: listening to smuggler's blues on the radio, wondering how and why it isn't a warren zevon song.

"i wish you peace" sounds kind of nice today

no one asked Patti Davis what she thought.

Don Felder is playing at a gun show/outdoor expo in Houston soon.

*Only saw half the commercial last night, but there was gun show footage alongside pics of Felder and co-headliner comedian Tom Papa.

Already Gun

Same joke, different thread.

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Take it easy with the Eagles’ biggest hits, at-home playlist & more on exclusive channel

Listeners will hear The Eagles Pandemic Playlist, a timely curated collection of songs during these uncertain times, as well as encores of the Eagles’ exclusive SiriusXM concert from the Grand Ole Opry in October 2017.

You can never leave, etc.

Just Another Corona Sunrise...

how are Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn handling social distancing?

DON: Social distancing is tough, but necessary step we're all having to take to prevent the spread of the so-called 'Chinese Virus'--Covid-19, or the Corona Virus. I've been making the most of my time in quarantine with my family, reading, watching the news, and writing new material for what could be the next great Eagles album.

GLENN: Too bad this didn't happen back in the day. I'd be in Quarantine over in Coldwater Canyon with QuaranTina, QuranTerri, and QuaranToni with enough Corona to go around, I guarantee you!

DON: Well, yeah.

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don: fuck 'em and *then* social distance 'em, that's how i do it.

glenn: well, yeah.

Coronavirus... GET OVER IT!

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― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, April 30, 2020 12:49 PM bookmarkflaglink

i love u Grisso

DON: For a person like me, wealth gives me the privilege to self-isolate. And Thoreau's Walden, a book I consider a touchstone, is never far from my side.

GLENN: Henley, when you and I self-isolated in Topanga Canyon in the mid '70s, we made sure to bring a lotta blonde privileges with us!

DON: Well, yeah.

Loooool mmm yes such a great observation

“We saw a lot of beautiful women around Hollywood who were married to wealthy, successful men, and wondered if they were unhappy," Frey said during the audio commentary of the Hell Freezes Over concert film. "One night we were drinking in a bar when I spotted this stunning young woman; two steps behind her was a much older, fat, rich guy. We all started laughing and one of the other guys commented, 'Look at her, she can't even hide those lyin' eyes!' Immediately, we all began grabbing for cocktail napkins to write down lyrics to go with that great observation."

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/eagles-lyin-eyes/

"The 'ci' and 'ty' came from two different takes, 'girls' from another, and each word after that from different takes," producer Bill Szymczyk later told Rolling Stone.

Only Teo Macero got more out of an editing room.

cocaine is a wonderful editing tool

Lying Eyes is such a nothing song

Worse.

“We saw a lot of beautiful women around Hollywood who were married to wealthy, successful men, and wondered if they were unhappy," Frey said during the audio commentary of the Hell Freezes Over concert film. "One night we were drinking in a bar when I spotted this stunning young woman; two steps behind her was a much older, fat, rich guy. We all started laughing and one of the other guys commented, 'Look at her, she can't even hide those lyin' eyes!' Immediately, we all began grabbing for cocktail napkins to write down lyrics to go with that great observation."
I didn't have a high opinion about this band before, but Jesus, what a bunch of assholes.

cocaine is a wonderful editing tool
LOL, probably a given that razor blade was doing double duty

i swear every story they tell of a song inspiraton follows the same formula

x person says a generic line - “thats life in the fast lane” / “she cant hide her lyin eyes” etc

glenn/don: OH BOY WHAT A GREAT LINE! BOYS GRAB YOUR COCKTAIL NAPKINS WE’RE HEADED TO HITSVILLE, POPULATION: EAGLES

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Some Guy At A Kegger: "Chug! Chug! Chug...All...Night!"

<LIGHT BULB EXPLODES ABOVE GLENN FREY'S HEAD>

GLENN'S (EX-)WIFE: "I don't know where we're going to get everything for Jack Tempchin's surprise party! Maybe a trip to Partytown is in my future?"

<GLENN FREY'S TOAST POPS UP>

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lol

Henley’s girlfriend: We need to find a hotel *here*, Don! In *California*!
Don?
Are you even listening?
HOTEL?
CALIFORNIA?

KLIEG LIGHTS EXPLODE IN HENLEY’S BRAIN

Frey gets out of a taxi; driver says "take it easy, man."

Frey: HOLY SHIT, where's a cocktail napkin when you need one?"

young don henley, desperate for money, drives to the local mall, runs into the gap, hands his resume to the manager and says he needs a job. manager looks it over, says you like a fine young man but you kind of smell like colitas, and anyway i don't have any openings. he gives young henley his resume back and says take it to the limited, i hear they might be hiring.

A BOLT OF LIGHTNING CRASHES THROUGH THE ROOF THE MALL AND STABS YOUNG HENLEY THROUGH THE HEART.

he shakes it off, picks himself up off the floor and, needless to say, does not take his resume to the limited.

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"'Someone saved my life tonight'? Man, someone saves my life every night. Thinking of those Eagles lights. Love Lies Bleeding? More like, 'Love, lies, and uh, breeding!'"

I can imagine Frey and Elton getting high together and then looking at each other and cracking up

I'll take "White Men Born in the 40s" for $200...

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Biden To Trump: GET OVER IT

It's at least partially their fault tho.

it’s not really the eagles’ fault so much of their catalog got overplayed into treacly eye-rolling teeth-gritting unlistenable pop trash by decades of bad radio, but this album is their one epic masterstroke that survived by being just too beautifully weird for radio https://t.co/SGIJtY64FM

— kilgore trout, trump social media director (@KT_So_It_Goes) March 22, 2021

i just started watching the original BBC Hitchikers Guide to Galaxy series for the first time

hello spaced-out Bernie & the Eagles with the theme song maaaaaaan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdZKolMIl0

Saw this in a group on FB: Glenn Frey Wrecked The Rationals' Van!

https://pizzadontgobad.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-did-glenn-frey-roll-rationals-van.html?m=1

I mean, FUCK:

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That's Life In The Fast Lane For Ya!

You know, they made whole mini-series based on Kenny Rogers songs. How come there hasn't been some sort of Movie of the Week based on Hotel California?

Detach Henley & Co. from it altogether and just think of it from a third-person POV, a kind of Mulholland Drive meets Westworld type deal.

What got me thinking about it was that line in the last stanza: "Relax," said the bellman. "We are programmed to receive."

Programmed to receive? We go through this six minutes of this Mexican reggae only to come out on the other end with this mechanical butler blocking our egress. In the above movie, maybe the actor could throw in some sort of Zrrrrrrr-BOT! after he says the line. Maybe do a little poppin' robot move with his stiff forearms.

"Check in any time you like, but you can never leave," is a fine lyric to close the shop with, though now I'm wondering which came first, the Hotel California or the Roach Motel. Oh, God, "the Roach". Shit never ends.

I want to see this song remade as an episode of "Family Matters".