They Will Not Go Quietly: The Official ILM Track-By-Track DON 'n' GLENN Listening Thread

"Damn It Rose"

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http://youtu.be/-yBxru116Gk

7:13! "is this some kind of cosmic quiz?" guitar solo is a blessed relief, but over too soon. Some of this seems like a Dylan parody that Don wrote in the early 70s ("bloated Burmese cat").

inspirational lyric: "you could have given us the finger/ much more constructively than that"

Jesus Christ this album still has songs...

"Miss Ghost"

http://www.donhenleyonline.com/images/DHenleyClef01.jpg

http://youtu.be/nWqyLVSJtbQ

sounds like he, John Corey, and Stan were listening to the Wallflowers.

oh my dear God does this album need to end. I'd fund a survey to see if anyone, including die-hard Henley fans, Henley's wife and his collaborators, made it to the end.

"Damn It, Rose": Wow, on the opening couplet, our Donster lets out the most twang in his whole career. Other than that...well I let it play in full, but zoned out quickly. Good sonic wallpaper, I guess. Certainly less offensive than other tracks here.

"Miss Ghost": I believe that's Jimmie Vaughan on lead guitar, twangy blues licks/fills that are easily one of the most interesting and surprising sonic ideas on the album. "Here's to seeing through you..." textbook Henley. The tempo keeps this from being a total slog.

Only three cuts left...

Someone went crazy posting every link just 10 days ago...

"The Genie"

http://www.donhenleyonline.com/images/DHenleyFlashFace.jpg

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

Don's lawyers will crush him like a gnat any day now

my god when will the madness stop

wait, is he kinda ripping Bel Biv Devoe for the beat here?

well he would say his love is poison

"Annabel"

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http://youtu.be/0bG8y9yzjnA

and the end of this fucking album, titled, appropriately...

"My Thanksgiving"

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http://youtu.be/mYvzeGNEIHk

What a Turkey!

Going To To Do What No One's Done Since The Year 2000: Listen to The Last Three Tracks Of Inside Job IN ORDER.

"The Genie": Booming big beats give way tio Tsk-tsking Don. Christ, there's 5+ minutes of this thing. Oh man, those assertive backing vocals on the second chorus. And now he's shouting down arrogance. All yhat and an out of nowhere synth coda.

"Annabel": Don Henley watching you sleep is not a good thing. Is this about one of his kids? Imagine Henley as your dad. That'a part of why she gets judged in the song: honey, your dad's an asshole. Song's kinda pleasant tho.

"My Thanksgiving": "I always thought of you as a friend of mine"? Don thinks of people as friends? The chorus chords are pretty nice. Sitar action in the break! Have to say, this is one of the better tracks on offer.

I heard "In The Heart of the Night" in the wild (deli) and was sure this was Frey. But no, it's Poco, creating the solo-Frey template.

I'll return soon to start the slog through Frey's 1992 album. I need to get air.

Strange Weather in the air

"Silent Spring/Long Hot Summer"

http://youtu.be/p3FMtjGTCvo

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IeGYGv5bL.jpg

that looks like it comes from some alternate universe where glenn frey wrote comics for vertigo

had to bail from the last Don songs for reasons of sanity, but am back to finish out the set.

and...we start with a 5:17 track? oh, CDs you merciless bastards. Bit of a cusp piece here---late 80s synths (and disembodied "Tron" voices), layered w/some kinda-Frampton guitar (Glenn?). like the last Glenn solo, it's comes off a bit cut-rate sounding, even demo-ish in spots, esp. when compared to Don's slavishly-produced stuff.

"Long Hot Summer": Somebody's been listening to Henley! The talkbox is a nice addition keeping things from getting too far into Donster territory. This doesn't need to be 5 1/2 minutes. Looks like this album is the Freydaddy's one CD-bloat era document.

Alright, let's finish this thing.

"Strange Weather"

http://youtu.be/V9nEXBDQc9Y

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreyTakamineAd.jpg

The One That You Love definitely has the smooth in spades with that 80s sexy sax and mellow rhodes piano.

"think acoustic, play electric" two keyboard solos!

Glenn playing the irritating boyfriend on a bad date near the end of the relationship: "is there something wrong? There is? Do you feel okay? Everything okay?"

sorry: "LIVE electric" as evidenced by that barn-burner of a title track

happy birthday!

so glad I got to start it listening to Glenn

"Strange Weather": ...and we're back to the Yacht Rock. With two meteorological songs in a row, it sounds like someone was nursing a crush on a weathergirl. The deep bass groove I like, but otherwise this is bland and too long.

Happy Birthday col!

This is very much "You Belong to the City" on Prozac, and then the medication wears off at the chorus.

"Love in the 21st Century"

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/SWDesperado30.jpg

http://youtu.be/5ZYPTgF0gGk

The 50-sec instrumental "Aqua Tranquilo" unavailable, alas.

Glenn's future dystopia: video/phone sex lines? virtual reality relationships? it's a bit vague. But he sort of predicts Tinder in an oblique way.

Ghastly as this is, its cheesiness (those horn fills! the phone sex/synth/Marvin Gaye rip!) saves it from being as soul-killing as one of Don's rants. Couldn't make it past 5:00, though

political Glenn!

"He Took Advantage (Blues for Ronald Reagan)"

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/large/C9531-10A.jpg

http://youtu.be/uXIeaR20HcY

no doubt Don approved this repentant Glenn.

man, Glenn sounds like he and Reagan had a fling and then R. stopped returning his calls

"sounds"

A year before Billy Joel!

"River of Dreams"

http://youtu.be/6lcq5EuKlFY

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreySOSpreview.jpg

Three songs behind...let's do this

"Love In The 21st Century": Copping the "Fortunate Son" riff right out the gate! And then goes nowhere. Yes Glenn, you do look like a desperate man. Seems like this high concept lyric was begging for another one of Glenn's patented narrative videos. Song's way too long.

Should throw this out there

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"He Took Advantage (Blues For Ronald Reagan)": Sounds like he had a copy of Afterburner on the Bose at Lefontaine when this was hatched. How tacked-on is the Reagan stuff? This could as easily been a answer to "The Allnighter" as a forecast of Bill Clinton or Spitzer or Edwards or...

"River of Dreams": The link is a live version! And it's a minute shorter than the studio cut (http://youtu.be/QDHoLDrHGdM)? Decisions decisions. Studio: Opening pianner wants to be "Desperado" real bad. Here comes the sax...God, this intro is endless. Wisely cut from the live take. Another Glenn self-help anthem. He confesses he's not "A Modern Man" and owns up to owning a Camaro in the same tone of voice. I bet he felt this was a "Springsteen move" Bland Bland Bland. Oddly, for a guy who loves making him some long codas, this one just kind of...stops.

While I have the floor, remember how in the Eagles doc they reveal that the lads got to together for some exploratory rehearsals in 90-91, and the sole holdout was not Henley (who, riding high on TEoTI, really had no need to be associating with the old gang other than to piss Geffen off, which in retrospect was probably the idea) but Frey, whom I can see ensconced in a high dollar LA studio mixing sax overdubs and thinking to himself, "Who needs those assholes? Eagles schmeagles! Wait'll they get a load of...Strange Weather!" You know that's how it went down too.

alfred, what is that photo? Was Glenn in a pilot for some early '90s Mod Squad revival?

from that show, I think.

South of Sunset, Glenn's one and done private detective show.

"I've Got Mine"

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http://youtu.be/NZznBNMiZas

wow, Glenn gets slightly subversive, using high yuppie signifiers like synth chimes and a grotesque "Heat Is On" sax in the service of an anti-rich screed. Well, sort of. Main takeaway is: "I make a small donation/what else can I do?"

and it was the single!

Glenn's political stuff goes down a lot smoother than Don's by this point

well, that sax is like swallowing a cat o' nine tails.

Surely it helps that for Glenn "politics" is a means to hit on women at the Hyatt Courtyard bar.