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

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".

In the Marc Eliot book, there's a bit about how producer Julia Phillips (of The Sting and Taxi Driver fame) wanted to option "Hotel California" as a film, possibly starring the band. It was scuttled by (A) A very poor meeting between Phillips & Don'n'Glenn, and (B) Phillips subsequently discovering that the copyright on the album was in dispute, due to a then-ongoing lawsuit between the band and David Geffen re: publishing ownership percentages, which would complicate any film deal involving the IP.

it is 3:30 EST, some four hours after a post containing most fecund material for an excerpt from the lost Crowe interviews with Don and the Ghost of Glenn…and yet, there is no such excerpts presented so far…eagerly anticipating!

https://i.imgur.com/gWWkao8.jpg

Well, yeah.

Shots fired, Raggett

Our latest episode on all things #Tolkien is live on @MegaphonicFm! In which we talk about the Eagles, and make neither a Philadelphia nor a Don Henley/Glenn Frey joke, for which we are collectively justly proud. https://t.co/1Ywq9ghEHv pic.twitter.com/KrY61PSLmg

— By-the-Bywater (@BytheBywater) July 30, 2021

lol

Hey look if Sam Gamgee’s not a Victim of Love, i dont know who is.

Dr. Johnny Fever plays the Eagles

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

They had to use a soundalike on the DVD.

A Facebook friend just posted a pic of the stage after taking their (nosebleed) seat at tonight's Eagles show in Dallas: they actually have a huge banner hanging from the rafters above the stage boosting of how many sold-out shows they've played on this tour and the exact number of tickets sold.

Serious Donald Trump Energy In The Henley House.

Talk about creative bankruptcy

Every Eagles Song

don’t do it buddy

https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E01/aVaEMW0SxCmH1X4c0KID29RT2rg=.gif

Such a boring blog title too. Should be "Pushing Ahead Of The Roach" or "Desperadoes & Donsters" or something.

Was there ever was a band less deserving of a close reading

https://i.imgur.com/cXusktI.gif

I actually listened to Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and Hotel California on a long car ride over the holiday, per family request. I hadn't listened to Hotel California in its entirety in at least five years (maybe close to ten), but it actually came off better than expected. I could do without the bathetic "Wasted Time" reprise and some of the lyrics on "The Last Resort." ("Jesus people bought them" is bad enough on paper, Henley's smug delivery is the pits.) But most of it holds together, a good album. The former was kind of pleasant but nearly every track bothered me in some way as either an empty pastiche (Ray Charles on "Desperado," Bee Gees on "One of These Nights," etc.) or more chauvinism. "Take It to the Limit" was a gorgeous sounding track though.

YOu know what holds up pretty well? "I Can't Tell You Why."

^^^an amazing track and the guitar solo is one of the few times I have had to tip my cap to Glenn Frey

Also Walsh with an understated, underrated keyboard performance

look if you are not calling your blog BLOG ALL NIGHT then what is he even doing

Lol

part of me wants to say dude, this is a wasted exercise. in terms of non album tracks, it’s turds almost all the way down. the ones you know are the only thing that will save you (maybe). just do the complete greatest hits & save your sanity.

True Mad Puffin. Something about Walsh's presence, especially when he's on lead guitar, gives even a ripoff like "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You" a solid identity.

* even a ripoff of "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You"

Dude really is an astonishingly complete musician, which is the cherry on top of him being a refreshingly weird person (at least as far as one can tell from documentaries and interviews).

...(and album titles)

Frey and Henley's call-and-response bits in "I Can't Tell You Why" are their tenderest moment.

All this talk of Molotov cocktails keeps getting “All She Wants To Do Is Dance” stuck in my head.

Frey Jr. departs

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/deacon-frey-glenn-frey-son-leaves-eagles-1333746/

They will never forget you till somebody new comes along.

Apparently you can both check out AND leave.

What would Ghost of Glenn say?

DON: It's been great having Deacon out on the road with us these past few years, as we've brought on a new multi-generational dimension to the Hotel California album on sold-out concert stages around the world. As much as I'd have liked to continue this work in the studio, I completely respect young Mr. Frey's decision to build on our foundation alone, making his own unique and special music.

GLENN: Glenn Lewis Frey didn't raise no fools! My boy knows that: (A) real estate is King; (B) if she says she's 18, she's 15; (C) when in doubt, add a sax solo; and above all, (D) there's much more to life than spending six months in the studio punching in syllables with this asshole!

DON: Well, yeah.

I had a friend who used to say, in all sincerity, that "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" was his favorite Eagles song.

brainworms imo

The Long Run - best rocker of all time
I Can't Tell You Why - best slow jam of all time
In The City - best Joe Walsh of all time
The Disco Strangler - best dance song of all time
King Of Hollywood - best prog-rock song of all time
Heartache Tonight - best shuffle of all time
Those Shoes - best funk song of all time
Teenage Jail - best heavy metal song of all time
The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks - best new wave song of all time
The Sad Cafe - best career-ending ballad of all time

The longest run of all time.

The VIP section at The Eagles' Hyde Park concert in London broke into a brawl during the band's performance of "Take It Easy": https://t.co/qbbVlD4l3A pic.twitter.com/YQVyX2B0TM

— Consequence (@consequence) June 30, 2022

a good day in hell

is that at the 1/6 insurrection

I do believe I could CHUD all night

Security guys finally getting to crack some heads

Nah, if they learned anything from Henley, they know how to take care of this. (at 1:41:45) "STAY OUT OF THIS! This is PERSONAL! And it's PRIVATE! Real, fucking, PRIVATE!"

(ah, the Twitter picture didn't come up earlier. I guess they didn't learn anything from the Eagles doc.)

Reportedly, an onlooker kept telling the fighters, “You’ve got to take it easy,” and he didn’t even get punched.

just loosening their loads maaan

Life In The VIP Section

Well, yeah.