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

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.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Curator Charged Over $1M Worth of Stolen Eagles Lyrics
Craig Inciardi, Glenn Horowitz, and Edward Kosinski are all accused of being involved in a conspiracy that sought to peddle nearly 100 pages of Don Henley’s handwritten notes and lyrics from ‘Hotel California’ and ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ to potential buyers.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eagles-hotel-california-lyrics-charged-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-1381952/

Hidden in the margins is a treasure map for finding Glenn's (Eagles) Gold

100 pages of handwritten notes, circa. 1976.

- Toilet paper should be rolled toward the user, to display the design.

- Sunken living rooms should be no more than three feet deep, to preserve sight distance.

- Avacados vary too much in hue to be the standardized name for a certain color of refrigerator. "Philodendron" is a more appropriate name.

"In the City" playing on 880-AM this morning, but it was the Long Run version.

http://twitter.com/seanhowe/status/154766252181273395

Ed Sanders was going to write about Jonestown when the Eagles contacted him in 1978. He completed the 900-page Eagles biography in 1982; it was never published. https://t.co/0dQanOqZ28 pic.twitter.com/Li62CDY9dC

— Sean Howe (@seanhowe) July 14, 2022

that’s pretty fascinating

also i tbh for local color alone i would read Sanders’ Eagles bio

Me too! Can't find anything about it, other than his passing mentions way back when he was working on it, says the new album is real good, The Long Run, I take it.

i am kinda fond of his Manson book for similar reasons, not so much veracity as just local flavor & genuine weirdness - you can’t fake that style

"Peaceful Easy Feeling" in the Publix bathroom supplies aisle, of course.

Okay but wouldn't "Take it Easy" be more appropriate?

"Tryin' to loosen my load" could take on new meaning.

NEW meaning? That's literally what Jackson Browne meant by that lyric.

in case anyone has ever wondered what "hotel california" would sound like with the solo from megadeth's "tornado of souls," and vice versa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc3DY3Lbo50

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Rq8WoNF1ZeKDgjhLujaLM4gVf3syC4RYHnrJ9VyYvf6ZZiWrLd2CS2MtBUkqzUeal&id=100044525882499&post_id=100044525882499_pfbid0Rq8WoNF1ZeKDgjhLujaLM4gVf3syC4RYHnrJ9VyYvf6ZZiWrLd2CS2MtBUkqzUeal&mibextid=Nif5oz

what might Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn say?

DON: I've never heard of Pavement, but they will certainly be hearing from my lawyers.

GLENN: Why just "Summer Babe"? Equal time for the babes of Spring, Winter, and Autumn, I say! And even better if that equal time is at the same time, if you know what I mean...

DON: Well, yeah.

Ted Cruz tells a story about how he planned to go to an Eagles concert for a fundraiser in March 2020 until he got a call letting him know that he likely was exposed to Covid at CPAC. He says that Heidi wasn't happy they had to bail on plans. pic.twitter.com/e6zZbMHrJj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2023

Obligatory "Well, yeah."

That's the most human Ted Cruz has ever sounded.

I thought Matt Schlapp was verboten these days.