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

"Already Gone"

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/glennfreyonline/calendar/alreadygone.jpg

http://youtu.be/W8o_C50JFkc

a later live rendition if you want to see some live footage:

http://youtu.be/iYCPccFQHWA

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.

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.

Welcome to the Eagles, Fingers! We needed you!

This song kicks ass and finally turns Freyness to useful purpose.

A hidden message carved into the run out groove of vinyl LPs reads: "He who hesitates is lunch".

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.

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.

"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?"

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.

their horses have turned into muscle cars. and they sound much more comfortable inside a gas guzzler.

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.

It is, after all, their track-by-track response to On the Corner.

White Satin

I love this song, definitely gets cranked up whenever it comes on the radio in the car.

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

It is, after all, their track-by-track response to On the Corner

Tell me you're not kidding

This song manages to rock despite Frey having one of the world's most boring voices.

yeah Bill Magill otm, great singalong song

"Say Don, are you excited to be working with Glenn Frey?"

http://www.qkly.com/images/don_felder.jpg

Can we pls start referring to GF by his official eagles nickname 'roach'?

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....

is this the first felder album?

cuz the guitar interplay is really good, nice addition

First felder album and first one produced by szymzyk.

i have listened to this 3 times already, dare I say it, it is kind of a jam

It was weird thinking of the Eagles as a four-piece anyway.

we should do an eagles-inspired fb macro

YOU CAN LOOK UP AT THE STARS
AND STILL NOT SEE THE LIGHT

- bob marley

much as I enjoy that second album, I am growing to like the bitchin guitar Eagles era more and more

ROBB21265 3 months ago

I DONT GIVE A SHIT BOUT YER COMMENTS, THIS IS THE MOST KICK ASS SONG BY THE EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!

robb is feelin it

"first one produced by szymzyk."

if you say his name backwards, glenn frey comes to your house and chugs all night.

This is the first album by the Eagles to be released in Quadraphonic surround sound. It was released on Quadraphonic 8-track tape and CD-4 LP.

I am inordinately curious as to how this sounds. It might feel like eating lunch by oneself while assorted Eagles are harmonizing all around you.

It is so fun the harmonize with the chorus of this song, and also sing the WOO HOO HOOs. It is truly a vict'ry song.

the woo hoo hoo's are great, otm

Quadraphonic 8-track tape

never forget

Perfect soundtrack to a key party.

*shudder*

i was picturing myself driving a trans-am, wind blowing through my hair...I had not planned on driving to a key party and now my fantasy is a nightmare THANKS A LOT TARFUMES

When you walk into a party and see Glenn Frey at the door with a fishbowl, RUN.

i was picturing myself driving a trans-am, wind blowing through my hair...

YES and throwing my dumb ex's terrible 8-tracks out the window after leaving his petulant, cheating ass stranded on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.

Glenn Frey hosting a key party is an image I may never quite recover from.

if don felder greets you at the door, you'll prob get laid but you might have to listen to a lot of whining about frey

if don henley greets you at the door, your body will be found in the basement many months later

if randy meisner greets you at the door, you'll have a nice lunch of soup and sandwiches

if Azoff greets you at the door, you've been killed on the drive over and are actually entering hell

haha otm

if joe walsh greets you at the door this could be heaven or this could be hell

If Bernie Leadon greet you at the door, you're gonna spend the whole night watching this dvd box set.

i have listened to this 3 times already, dare I say it, it is kind of a jam

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 1:31 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Total jam. Having been "put on the shelf" a few times myself, i gotta admit the narrator in this song has a pretty decent attitude about how to get over a breakup.

:)

if joe walsh greets you at the door this could be heaven or this could be hell

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:15 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It would be hard to leave if you can't find the door.

I always associate "Already Gone" with the section in the Dazed & Confused companion book covering Shavonne. There's a paragraph detailing her first dance with boyfriend Don at a Halloween party in '74--she was dressed as Faye Dunaway's Bonnie Parker, he as Joe Namath, and the band was starting up "Already Gone". A great, vivid image, easily up there with anything in the actual movie.

That aside, um, this is one of those songs that every once in a while I'll go crazy for if I hear it on the radio in the right frame of mind, but most of the time I'm kinda 'meh'. But if anything, it was the D&C thing that brought me around at all on the song. It is a nice sing-along.

Ever wondered how this song would sound like coming from a woman? Wilson Phillips is here to help!

Dazed & Confused companion book

^^wait...what??