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

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Funk definitely threw a monkey wrench to the rock bands of the day.

Hell, even the Who got funky:
http://youtu.be/p91GXWXyngo

rockers getting funky part of the foundation of hip hop. just ask Mountain.

Totally. It's kind of amazing to think that Jefferson Starship were once sufficiently funky as to be sampled by Public Enemy.

Eh, it's kind of retrofitted funk. Almost anything is funky if you loop it. Like the Jungle Brothers sampling Iggy clearing his throat or whatever.

^ funk authority

funkmaster josh

Not into this. It reminds me more of where barroom rock ventured in the late 80s than any actual funk.

I was actually a bit confused about why you were all citing funk at all til I picked up on the rising lick after the 7. I can see it just about now - the dirty lead get kind of funky around 2:00, there's some Bowie funk kicking in around 2:50. The last 90 seconds are quite cool but they are not funk, Henley's playing is too stiff (though I do like it)

let's be clear here, its funky FOR THE EAGLES.

the handclaps make it. heartache tonight is still my fave beat though.

would have liked to hear War cover this song. that would have been cool.

still funkin' shit up in 2013

http://youtu.be/PBrMTrPXHs8

"On The Border" is easily one of my favorite Eagles songs. Cool riffs, fantastic utilization of all their voices outside of the usual harmonic context, all the sections work. I know I'll be disappointed when I discover this won't be used in American Hustle 'cause it's too 'on the nose' or something. As ums pointed out, this is also the beginning of cranky politico pundit Henley, who would resurface throughout the rest of the Eagles run, and then fully become his Mr. Hyde in the solo years. I don't hold that against it.

would have liked to hear War cover this song. that would have been cool.

― scott seward, Sunday, September 15, 2013 1:30 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Isley Brothers man! Ernie would shred.

what's with joe [ walsh] and other guitarists making funny faces when they play?
pinoywheelgunner 3 months ago

It's just how it is done. That's all.
It is the way of things.
StephenRedrobe in reply to pinoywheelgunner 3 months ago

Searched for a while for this half-remembered quote xp, lolled when I saw it actually was about these guys. And then I thought *slows down, drops voice* 'well of course it was'.

let's be clear here, its funky FOR THE EAGLES.

― scott seward, Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I was operating on the assumption that this was the subtext of all the funky comments. It was for mine, at least.

Isley Brothers man! Ernie would shred.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:23 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. And the Isleys had an amazing track record of re-working mid-70s top 40 hits (cf. "Summer Breeze," "Fire and Rain"); it woulda been cool to hear them tackle some Eagles.

"let's be clear here, its funky FOR THE EAGLES."

― scott seward, Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it's funk in the same way 'Hotel California' kind of does some reggae.

mindblowing

original title for 'hotel california' was 'mexican reggae'

eagles unheralded inventors of reggaeton.

Glenn Frey's people are contacting Daddy Yankee about possibly sampling "Chug All Night" even as we speak.

"James Dean"

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m135/icon_watcher/More%20Thumbnails/James_Dean_crash.jpg

http://youtu.be/7guzEuV7j9c

No, no, no. This is appalling.

Releasing this as a single, wtf? That isn't what you do with a song like this - what you do with a song like this is jam it once at a soundtrack then forget about it; if you like it, tape it and learn it, trot it at future soundchecks; then eventually the tape gets around, you can play it as an encore at a fanclub-only show after your reunion, it gets an enthusiastic response. Maybe you can do it again before the next tour. Don't make it a single ffs.

I dunno, it's stuff like this makes me think the only quality control this lot ever did was deciding on a tracklisting for the Greatest Hits.

So far I've been surprised at how little I've been irritated by hearing these tracks again. But this is still just lousy: this the cloddish, rotten, stupid Eagles; the meathead Eagles, the pestilent Eagles. I can picture George W. Bush, driving around Midland in '75, knocking back a few cans of Coors, blasting this awful piece of shit while he tailgates someone. God, even the guitars sound hateful.

Unmitigated shit. The worst track they ever recorded. Fuck rock music.

Even changing it to Ed Gein doesn't help.

the AOR template in that intro. an intro that would start a thousand bands. or at the very least 38 Special.

no offense to 38 Special.

pseudo-scientific formulae and lots of charts prepared to distill that intro into a radio format. and thus post-1974 the million dollar rock radio game threw out anything that didn't adhere to the formula. no more freeform no more r&b no more nothing that didn't sound like the intro to "james dean".

0:00-0:02 are a lot like 0:02-0:04 of Anarchy In The UK, it's not just a template for AOR

Apart from this song being irredeemable shit, the drum mix -- that Henley was intent on controlling, hence the break from Glyn Johns -- is so insanely awful. Why is the hi-hat panned hard right? In what physical placement situation would anyone, ever, hear it like that?

i'd say the first 24 seconds of the song are a fair representation of what was to come.

Dear god in heaven this is gross.

the fade-to-feedback is *also* a template for Anarchy In The UK, what is this?

one guitar riff in the verses is basically just the Beatles' "Birthday." agree the drum mix is whack, but it's just one of many problems with this turkey

it reminds me of country music that i hate. "rockin'" country. did any country people ever cover this song?

not that i hate all rockin' country. just a certain type. are you ready for some football rockin' country.

I like the drum riff during the guitar solo.

Were these guys listening to Skynyrd?

The lyrics are complete garbage.

Were these guys listening to Skynyrd?

It sounds like a forced pseudo-homage. And as with everything else Glenn Frey ever sang, this song would be vastly improved if Ronnie Van Zant was the vocalist, even with the garbage lyrics.

This is not the template for the sex Pistol cmon. It's gonna be hard enough to wade through all this shit, let's not try sub xhuxk made up stuff

lol this song.

Thread fully pays off with everybody's reactions to James Dean.

"Why is the hi-hat panned hard right? In what physical placement situation would anyone, ever, hear it like that?"

If you are standing directly in front of the kit facing towards the drummer?

Not even. This is panned so far right that, as you're facing the kit, your head would have to be where the snare drum is.

it does make me feel like that in a sense

i have never heard this song in my life, but i got to the point where someone says JAYMES DEAN JAYMES DEAN and i started laughing
do people like this song?

this band continues to baffle me

so like Henley-Frey to think James Dean is a useful metaphor for, well, anything

LL I almost emailed you this a.m. to warn you not to participate in the Eagles thread today for the sake of yr sanity

i know one person who heard this song and said EUREKA!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A2DBY92CYAAciWB.jpg

It's just so VAPID
i have experienced a good amount of monday morning self loathing for even listening to 55 seconds of it. that's as far as i got.

that is my favorite picture of kenny loggins