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

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

I think the Dean obsession was specifically Frey's going back to his years as an asshole child.

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

I haven't heard, or even thought about, this song since high school, but yeah this is really a clumsier prototype of "Footloose" isn't it?

James Dean
James Dean
Kick off the Sunday shoes

omg it's true

a low down bad refrigerator

is there some kind of international tribunal at the Hague for crimes against songwriting? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this song

yeah i always think of footloose when i hear this song.

James Dean
James Dean
Kick off the Sunday shoes
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, September 16, 2013 10:40 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol

1974 was a pretty big year for not getting the 1950's.

haha otm

I don't know if I can say thanks for this, but I spent the last 5 min with

everybody cut every body cut everybody cut every body cut everybody cut every body cut
everybody cut
every body cut
ED GEIN!

worst weird al song ever

(xpost) Wow, yeah Happy Days debuted in 1974 too. Coincidence, or...

Loool LL

Reading about this song I thought I'd never heard it, but then I played it and it was like ooooooh, right, this thing. If I don't hear it for another 20 years maybe I can go back to thinking I've never heard it.

I'm not even sure I ever knew it was the Eagles. It would pop up late at night on the rawk radio.

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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

Always thought this was more a rip-off of Ballad of John & Yoko.

I think I tolerate this one more than the rest of you guys. It's just too cheesy to fully hate (see also "Crocodile Rock" and, well, I did start this thread years ago Tributes to 50s Rock’n’Roll and Doo Wop by Rockers form the late 60s and early 70s (A List)).

Glenn & Don from the Crowe interview:

JAMES DEAN
GLENN: Again, all from that same night when we’d gone to see Tim Hardin. As Desperado became a concept album with an Old West theme, “James Dean” got shelved. When it came time to do On the Border, we got “James Dean” right off the shelf and said, “Let’s finish this.” I always thought the best line in “James Dean” was “I know my life would look alright if I could see it on the silver screen.” You just don’t get to do that.

DON: I sat there and listened to the guys talk about James Dean. They had evidently studied him and knew much more about him than I did. I had seen most of Dean’s movies, but I somehow missed the whole icon thing. The mythology never quite reached my part of East Texas, but I pitched in and ended up with a writing credit — although the song was mostly Jackson’s, I think.

I like how Henley doesn't 'get' James Dean, despite seeing "most of (his) movies". Dude, there's only three--which one'd you miss? FWIW, PBS used to show a doc about the making of Giant that the Don-ster narrated.

I sat there and listened to the guys talk about James Dean.
lol
they're total airheads