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

that attitude goes all the way back to "Take It Easy." It's what makes the Eagles so loathsome.

xp to Alfred: I've hated this piece of dreck since I was 10, when it was on constant rotation on seemingly every Virginia radio station

think DJs liked it in part because the sax intro is so damned long they could spend like 45 seconds on chatter, listener requests, etc. before Glenn kicks in

hey guys, what have i missed so far?

http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~markowit/interviews/eagles/latimesbu/eaglesbu.jpg

"The One You Love": Can I just bypass the song and talk about how much I'm lovin' Glenn's cheesy videos? I'll wait. It's funny how a lot of the elements of this song (the sax, electric piano, glacier pacing, orchestration, druggy vocal calmness) would fit right in on Random Access Memories. but this is Glenn were talking about, so his combination of this stuff doesn't quite work. Could stand to have some key or tempo change going into the chorus, something to make it go bigger. I foresee much rough sailing ahead on days we peruse Mr. Frey's Yacht Rock.

The video: Where do I begin? How about the ending, with the camera pushing back revealing the obvious artificialness of it all! The 'other man' and the video babe making out...in a Mercedes convertible...in the snow...as Glenn plays bystander! All those black soundstages! SAXMAN!

I can imagine him at the electric piano shouting across the room, "Yo, Henley, where's your bit? I'm stuck."

The room is empty.

Tempchin, on speaker phone: "just put in some more sax there, Glenn"

Meanwhile Henley faxes lyrics to Danny Kooch, with annotations and demands for "Backing Tracks Next Week...Bitch".

tomorrow!

"I Can't Stand Still"

https://rbhsjukebox.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/henleystand.jpg

http://youtu.be/QVexTpKmHI8

The guitar/synth combination tips is into L.A. New Wave, and for a few bars I thought it was not a palate cleanser after Frey's meathead rock but an advance over the Eagles. The lyrics let it down though. As usual with this dude, the tempo drags too.

*I thought it was not only

I like this one! A bit. Well, the verses: the refrain's soggy and draggy. Lyric is basically the same gross scenario as "the One You Love." But there's some fun stuff going on, too: the synth riff that's a bit like Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur," the poor man's Eno synth solo and some of Don's phrasings remind me of Get Happy-era Costello. Don's thudding drumming does its usual damage (wisely, he used Jeff Porcaro on most of this record)

backing vocals by Max Gronenthal, notable for releasing an album called Who Is Max Gronenthal? The Answer Is In This Album.

LP cover is your standard 1982 MTV set. Just need something on fire:

http://www.donhenleyonline.com/images/DHenleyICSS02.jpg

besides the match, of course. also, breaking glass and dry ice.

such a wonderful person
but he's got problems

the era when Don could've been Gary Hart's stunt double

Don's vox are so perfectly suited to '80s synth-rock schlock.

Glenn's vocals are perfectly suited for a Honda salesman jailed for lewd and lascivious.

Butt-head's Dad: Hey, one of you bastards got a match?
Butt-head: Uh, yeah. My butt and your, uh, butt. Uh huh huh

Glenn would bring out the books of his Honda dealership, show how successful he's been, then tell the judge to fuck off.

Frey's the better musician but the more generic songwriter. Henley undercuts the often surprising arrangements with TED Talk crankiness. What a pair.

You've got the brawn, I've got the brains, let's make lots of ...

0-0 on both counts

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ozeagle/media/Solo%20Years/RockHard.jpg.html

"Wait, you saying I'm the smart one?"

Boo. Picture Glenn lifting weights.

already posted upthread

i'd rather not xp

"I Can't Stand Still": You look at the gatefold photo from The Long Run, and Glenn Frey looks like the only guy in the band ready for the '80s. But here we are in 1982: Glenn's still after-partying like it's 1979 and the Donster's got the big drums, synth-Farfisa, glossy guitars, keys to the Car(s). The comparison to "The One You Love" is apt. It's like one of those "How I Think I Look.../How I Really Look" memes: Glenn plays phony sensitive sincerity, while Don is clearly arrogant, tossing off some of his whiniest singing to date--it's much more honest to the scenario. And lyrically he's looking forward to "The Boys of Summer".

Also:

I know you love me
You know I love you too
You know I always will
No matter what you do

Only Don Henley could start off his solo career with a couplet like that.

we know you love him

He loved me until I stood up during a ballad.

uggggggggggggh god I totally forgot about The One You Love
i hate that I even kind of know it! in my mind I'm in a glass elevator in a shopping mall full of potted palm trees & haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalp

i like the sax melody but like all good things glenn frey just ruins it all by showing up

Can't Stand Still

kind of a good bookend to The One You Love for the same plodding drum beat
both songs seem like they could stand to go just a shade faster but annoyingly, stubbornly stick with the plod. So Henley. So Frey.

Henley at least has some good phrasing, there's a bit of a hook

but what the fuck is with the keyboard bullshit

the thing I hate about don henley is that I find the quality of his voice v appealing

it's maddening
because I hate him so much

VegemiteGrrl, why don't you come to your senses?

>:(

(Yrs truly,)

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It's unreal how many extreme closeups Old Guy Don gets during his interview segments in the doc. You could "Hi Bob!" them and be legless by the time Hell Freezes Over.

"Party Town"

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/54NWWRGLPA4/hqdefault.jpg

http://youtu.be/54NWWRGLPA4

jesus fuck that is limp

well, at least we got this one out of the way quickly. Just as shitty as I remembered when we unearthed it last year. Drummer manages to be duller than Henley; last minute devolves into half-assed busking. "Party" backing vocals sound like they were recorded at 3PM in a song publisher's office.

this, from the old thread, is totally otm:

listening to "Partytown" and I feel like I'm in a Chevy Chase movie

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, October 20, 2013 8:59 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is like the real 80s, the 80s that no one ever revives, this kinda lame rock n' roll pastiche done with bad sounding drums and instruments and synths and shit.

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, October 20, 2013 8:59 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No Fun Aloud

otm

"Party Town": There was a feature story in Mojo some years back about the band Squeeze, a full-on overview of their career. In a sidebar, we got a detailed account of their last tour in the U.S. before breaking up in '82. At one point a contemporary interview was recounted about how offended Difford & Tillbrook were by a song then in microwave rotation on American radio, a song with what they felt carried a ridiculous, irresponsible, and stupidly juvenile message.

That song was "Party Town".

I'm no Difford and Tillbrook, but...well, Bob Seger could do this stuff better in his sleep. Oddly enough though, if you upped the twang quotient 50%, this would have been at home on early '90s Country radio. Perhaps every decade gets the "Chug All Night" it deserves? (in the '90s, it was "Get Over It")

Mmmm, Georgia Satellites on the related video list.

"You Better Hang Up"

http://www.wikimusicguide.com/images/thumb/f/f3/Donhenley.jpg/230px-Donhenley.jpg

http://youtu.be/gf1H7uHdGe4

"If Don answers/You better hang up."

sounds half-written, esp. the barely-there refrain. nice of Don to give an Adultery 101 guide, though. inspirational verse: "You're from New York City/ where they don't say no prayers"

Kootch's lead line sounds feral. Kootch is consistently impressive on this album.

"You Better Hang Up": Great Riff! This feels very...sunny? Could use a third verse, because--Henley being true to his roots--even at just over three minutes, this still has a pointless coda. I see this being in something above a Chevy Chase movie.

Related:

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Henley channeling Donald Trump in that interview.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/31/18/753118bb1a6437c7938137a0fe00a50d.jpg

Roach joins the Criterion Collection!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmolOw2WUCg

(This video is an extra on their Thelma & Louise release)

Smugglers Blues co written by Temchin? Makes sense I guess , I wouldn’t expect Glenn to be capable of this level of wordplay