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

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??

Wow, the Wilson Phillips version is pretty great. I'll take their singing/harmonies over the Eagles' any day.

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The booklet for the Criterion version has excerpts.

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

― carl agatha, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

don henley key party is slightly worse imo but sadly i am not as deeply repulsed by the whole idea as i should be
this song is ok, don't hate it -- wilson phillips version sounds like me and carl at karaoke

This one's also got that famous last chorus truck driver gear change. Whereas its usual for a key change of a semitone or a tone, this one leaps by something like a fourth.

http://www.gearchange.org/descriptions/The%20Eagles%20-%20Already%20Gone.html

i can't believe that's a website!! kudos!

Hahaha

Wolff, Jonathan Seinfeld Theme

I know that website's been referenced here before, but if you try searching for "trucker" and "Gear", all you get is references to a certain other old thread.

fuck washing a trucker

I was always amused at how Queen would make such a big deal about putting "no computers/synthesizers used" on their albums and then open up The Game with the most over the top Oberheim synth ever on "Play The Game." Of course Frey sings this, he's annoyed at not rocking out. Cal Jam live clip is great.

Pleased that gearchange.org exists!

Aside: the past two times I've gone to the grocery store, I've heard the Eagles on the background music ("Take It Easy" and "Heartache Tonight")

that key change is indeed a fourth -- from G to C -- which isn't all that weird really. the slightly weird, and kinda cool, thing is that they modulate a fourth while sitting on the fourth of the original key, which basically means they modulate by not changing the chord at all. the IV of the original key becomes the I of the new key. that's a common old-school classical technique, as opposed to the abrupt let's-just-switch-keys-here-for-the-hell-of-it technique that's more common in the truckdriving gear-changing school of pop.

I was always amused at how Queen would make such a big deal about putting "no computers/synthesizers used" on their albums

I think that was because their vocal pitch accuracy was thought by some to be the work of synthesizers. It was more to set the record straight rather than to take a stance against synths.

So when they finally used an Oberheim on "The Game", they had to formally announce it in the liners

ALREADY GONE
GLENN: I got a tape of the song from Jack Tempchin in my mailbox at 1740 La Fontaine Ct., the house in Coldwater Canyon where I lived for 16 years. James Cagney’s brother, Ed, had once owned the house, and it still holds a lot of memories for me. James Cagney, in his later years, sometimes used the house as a hideaway and went there to play the piano and relax. In earlier years, the Cagneys held great parties in that bungalow. A lot of music happened there.

“Already Gone,” though, arrived in the mail. Jack was a songwriter we liked who was from San Diego, and he’d already written “Peaceful Easy Feeling.” “Already Gone” was one of the first songs we’d later do when we switched producers and started recording in Los Angeles. I had a very strained relationship with Glyn Johns. I think he got along better with all the other guys in the band. He was so intimidating, I was always afraid to be forthright and tell him what I thought. He was a taskmaster, and that was probably good for a young band, but the great thing for me about this song and record is that I left England behind and had a much more positive energy in the recording studio. The “all right, nighty-night” at the end of the song was sort of typical of the spontaneous feeling we wanted on our records. It was at this time that we changed producers and started working with Bill Szymczyk. I was much more comfortable in the studio with Bill, and he was more than willing to let everyone stretch a bit. “Already Gone” — that’s me being happier; that’s me being free.

From the Crowe Very Best of... interview. I don't think I ever noticed that "all right..." bit 'til it was pointed out here.

http://i.imgur.com/kxsr4PV.png

If that swimming pool could talk...

Casa de Chug

iirc, there's a story in To The Limit about Cagney himself showed Frey around the house when he was preparing to buy it.

Just one Yankee Doolin Dalton chugging with another.

"so the master bath's over here...now what combo are you with again, kid? the Beach Boys?"

"Hey Frey, wanna grapefruit?"

The “all right, nighty-night” at the end of the song was sort of typical of the spontaneous feeling we wanted on our records.

Haha, that's the dopiest fuckin' part of the song.

Endearingly so, though.

"All right, Chug All Night" almost scans.

this is the album that Glyn Johns produced after Desperado. I really like it. I'm a fan of those dudes. I was a fan of Mcguinness Flint.

http://eil.com/images/main/Gallagher+%26+Lyle+-+The+Last+Cowboy+-+LP+RECORD-296790.jpg

Didn't know they had MS Paint back in those days.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/31/9f/8a/319f8af6f670b72460bd19e953ab4a96.jpg

"You Never Cry Like A Lover"

http://www.theuncool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/rs196.jpg

http://youtu.be/OXhc4JqQN8U

lead guitar (uncredited) by Bernie Leadon

None more yacht. Roach looking überrelaxed there.

this song might...grow on you. if you play it more than once.

Randy a surefire winner of the "dress like Gram Parsons" contest. my god, Frey is at his most dirtbaggiest in that shot.

Hack off the drawn-out ending, add an unexpected upward modulation in the bridge, and this would be a Badfinger song. And that's never a bad thing.

speaking of Parsons, "Smile Like a Lover" has a bit of GP in the verses, no? Godawful lyric: smug and stupid in equal measures. Henley's by far their best singer, but even he's floundering at times here.

That's.. an interesting graphic design for Rolling Stone.

http://i.imgur.com/6HmKXrR.jpg