i wish the reprise would make a comeback.
awesome sentence.
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha. "oh when will I hear a reprise again?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, this reprise is the epitome of album filler. Pretty sure the reason the cymbals are so high in the mix is because Johns fell asleep at the board.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
This just drives home how hard Desperado is trying to be a concept album.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
if a Hotel California reprise was just Felder/Walsh guitar duelling then YES
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Aw, this is good! They picked the right songs, gave them nice arrangements, had dilly banjos and falsetti drop by like wasted friends - this is a proper reprise, kudos.
This album hits more than misses, I think - the closing run is pretty excellent, and before that the non-hits are mostly boring rather than offensive. You can see them getting there - if there's any boilerplate filler on the next one I'll be disappointed in them.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
i got sidetracked & didn't comment on as many songs for this album but overall i really do enjoy this album, ismael otm that there's no real stinkers
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
outlaw showdown, check; queens of diamonds and hearts, check; twisted fate turning the tables, check; stolen dreams, paid in regret, check; hard when you're all alone in the center ring, check; stardust, check
don't understand why people bust on the Eagles' lyrics, they've got everything in there
don't forget 'faithless women'
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
But no 'CHUG'!
Like this. Prefer the "Desperado" reprise to the original. Seems like it wouldn't hurt a Classic Rock station to slip this in every once in awhile.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
faithless women pretty much essential to the whole outlaw = rocker enterprise
― Brad C., Tuesday, 10 September 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
vibey outtro of "bitter creek" probably my fav eagle moment yet
this reprise blows ass
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
seems as if we are bitterly divided on the reprise...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
BITTERLY i said! yeah i know nobody wants to fight about eagles. anyway, as a reward for getting through this album you get to hear this awesome epic earth opera track. just played this album today and i think it holds up. you got the west coast/dead moments. the jazzrock psych stuff. the olde-tyme moments courtesy of david grisman. you get a little bit of everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC-nj68X19c
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
plus, billy mundi on drums. tarfumes should check him out. he's kind of the reason to buy Rhinoceros records if you ask me. i'm not a huge Mothers fan, but he could really shake a stick.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
BITTERLY i said!
Somebody's gonna hurt someone before this thread is through.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
heartache tonight y/n
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently Earth Opera were big Soft Machine fans. Digging this, though.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
peter rowan went on to bluegrass fame of course. after earth opera he started seatrain and i enjoy their two albums. he's on the old and in the way album too with grisman/garcia. never really got into the rowans albums though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
tarfumes i wish i had known you were playing on friday sooner. i don't know if i can make it. maybe rob is going? liz said she wants to see her pal tatsuya so maybe they are going...if so i could maybe hitch a ride with them.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
for some reason liz really doesn't like going to see things at the f*y*h*e*.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
It's a weird space...I kind of liked the old one, which had a nice, homey, church-basement feel.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
wow this Earth Opera is fucking great skot
reminds me of what music can be! so much more than the eagles
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Read a book recently abou Detroit rock. Oral history. Direct quote from iggy pop is that Glenn Frey was almost in the stooges. Good times.
Yes I'm drunk. But the above is accurate
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
I think I've seen that book! Skimmed it for a minute, read an anecdote about Lou Reed taking acid in Detroit, requiring hospitalization and Thorazine.
Bill's drunk, I'm high
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
...and Glenn Frey is swimming in a sea of money, Scrooge McDuck-style.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
Man, who was just talking about that the other day how Scrooge McDuck never broke his neck when he dived into those gold coins?
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
Huell?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
"Already Gone"
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/glennfreyonline/calendar/alreadygone.jpg
http://youtu.be/W8o_C50JFkc
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
a later live rendition if you want to see some live footage:
http://youtu.be/iYCPccFQHWA
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
brb have to eat my lunch all by myself
Being in a band that covers this song and can't sing harmonies well is like being skinned alive, is all I have to say to this.
― Marlo Poco (Phil D.), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
well, all right! Enough cowboy crap---we need another hit. And welcome Don Felder, the Han Solo of the band.
This is pretty much the Glenn Freyest of Glenn Frey Eagles tracks (so it's odd that he didn't write it): the condescending "just remember this my girl," the whiny petulance of the verses; it's pre-emptive breakup song, the guy skipping town and trying to guilt his ex about it.
early memory: driving w/my dad, "already gone" comes on. After the "eat yr lunch by yourself line" he laughed. I looked at him. "It's a stupid song," he said.
― col, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome to the Eagles, Fingers! We needed you!
This song kicks ass and finally turns Freyness to useful purpose.
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
A hidden message carved into the run out groove of vinyl LPs reads: "He who hesitates is lunch".
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I dig this, and it's probably my favorite rocker of theirs. But at the same time, it perfectly encapsulates everything I hate about them (col OTM).
For me it always evoked a scene of a suburban high school cafeteria circa 1975-76. There's a mousy/shy/nerdy kid sitting alone, and some ringer-shirted feather-haired popular neo-jock asshole walks by with his equally assholish neo-jock friends singing "and you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself! HAHAHAHAHA!" to that kid. I always imagine that asshole looking exactly like Frey looks in the photo at the top of this thread.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
This is so good. The verses are rote but the choruses, oh my. So alive, the harmonies but especially that big fat juicy lead guitar. It sounds like a thin arrangement - probably isn't, but that big lead sounds like it's squeezed everything else out. Would love to hear a version with just isolated lead and harmonies.
The intro should just start with the lead, and the key change ... uh, I guess they were always going to do it but not really needed thanks.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
"Already Gone" is like some parallel universe version of "Take It Easy." The song also reminds me oddly of the Dead at twice the speed. Did Alabama ever cover "Already Gone?"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Poor Glenn is the last to know. His friends had to tell him she was putting him on the shelf, but he's trying to save face: you can't break up with me, I'm already gone! His buddies' victorious woo-wooing makes his salvage attempt even funnier.
This is a great song. The Eagles' characteristic shallowness, creepiness, and self-inflation perfectly match the resentful lyrics and pumped-up sound.
Tarfumes otm about the mise-en-scène for "you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself," but I see Frey (looking exactly as described) as the nerd delivering this line to a popular girl who has no idea what he's talking about.
― Brad C., Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
their horses have turned into muscle cars. and they sound much more comfortable inside a gas guzzler.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
kinda like what happened to a lot of baby boomers at the time. fuck this hippie shit i wanna get paid. though there is still some hippie shit on this album.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
It is, after all, their track-by-track response to On the Corner.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
White Satin
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
I love this song, definitely gets cranked up whenever it comes on the radio in the car.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
mix this up in my head with "Sister Golden Hair" in the chorus when instead of repeating "I'm already gone" it goes into "and I just can't make it" and that sweet riff
good tune in either case, top shelf Eagles
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
It is, after all, their track-by-track response to On the Corner
Tell me you're not kidding
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
This song manages to rock despite Frey having one of the world's most boring voices.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah Bill Magill otm, great singalong song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
"Say Don, are you excited to be working with Glenn Frey?"
http://www.qkly.com/images/don_felder.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Can we pls start referring to GF by his official eagles nickname 'roach'?
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
i was gonna try to front and say this is already a poorer knockoff of take it easy
but the chorus is damn good, and the dual guitar solo is really good
it keeps coming back a lot for me on this thread but i've never encountered a band where there aren't really that many DEEP CUTS...it's like there's...the hits....
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
is this the first felder album?
cuz the guitar interplay is really good, nice addition
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link