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?
― Same old bland-as-sand mood mouthings (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 September 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
James DeanJames DeanKick off the Sunday shoes
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 September 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
omg it's true
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 September 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
a low down bad refrigerator
is there some kind of international tribunal at the Hague for crimes against songwriting? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 September 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah i always think of footloose when i hear this song.
― scott seward, Monday, 16 September 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
James DeanJames DeanKick 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
― lucille baller (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
1974 was a pretty big year for not getting the 1950's.
― Brad C., Monday, 16 September 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
haha otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
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 cuteverybody cut every body cutED GEIN!
worst weird al song ever
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
(xpost) Wow, yeah Happy Days debuted in 1974 too. Coincidence, or...
― Same old bland-as-sand mood mouthings (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Loool LL
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
I'm not even sure I ever knew it was the Eagles. It would pop up late at night on the rawk radio.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
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― pplains, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
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 DEANGLENN: 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.
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.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 September 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
I sat there and listened to the guys talk about James Dean. lolthey're total airheads
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 16 September 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Jackson Browne wrote some of this offal?
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Monday, 16 September 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Most of it, according to Don! Hey, they can't all be "Before The Deluge" or "Lawyers In Love"!
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Legal Eagles in Love
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
i saw legal eagles at the movies. redford is such a lump.
― scott seward, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
robert redford is the eagles of acting.
and that's one of Redford's better performance!
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
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― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
me too! but darryl hannah and her fire dance to that rod stewart song were amusing, and that made me think of jackson browne. weren't they married? why did my parents take me to see legal eagles?!
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
you wanna see Browne and Hannah dance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knVbfhmME1g
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Didn't realize Browne wrote this. That means there's only one degree separating "James Dean" and "All Tomorrow's Parties."
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
it must be awesome to be Jackson Browne and have Daryl Hannah doing her watercolors while the big man clomps on your hardwood floor.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
there are apparently no degrees separating "you're a friend of mine" from the friends theme song
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 16 September 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
"Always thought this was more a rip-off of Ballad of John & Yoko."
yes! I had the wrong beatles rip-off
― col, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
http://home.comcast.net/~leslienoelani/TNI.html
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 16 September 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Jackson: "...It's bullshit! I did not hit her! I did naaaaaht! Oh hi, Glenn."
http://youtu.be/ISXiFJS9D5A
Glenn: "I'm just sittin' up here chuggin', you know."
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 September 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
In a brief digression, Lou Barlow has things to say about Don Henley and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance."
― Marlo Poco (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
"Ol' 55"
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/288046/Tom+Waits.jpg
http://youtu.be/Fcqfcw3kmoI
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
oldmanhatdudejpeg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
oh man i am feeling lou on the zach & cody theme song. ugh. i will find myself just repeating a phrase from it at home like a lunatic and i can't stop myself.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Lickety Splitly sounds like a fkin Sid and Marty Krofft character
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
brutal lyrics throughout on this one
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
this totally sucks all the soul and feeling from the original. But i'm still glad the Eagles recorded it, because as a result I heard the song when I was very young and liked it enough to make me (and undoubtedly countless others) seek out more from this Tom Waits guy early on.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
The harmonies kill when they kick in on the chorus, but yeah, thanks Glenn for sucking the marrow out for us.
Like the "cars are all passing me / trucks are all flashing me" part. That was actually a good line before Glenn Stiller got a hold of it.
http://youtu.be/ZXunos4IXDU
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
And holy shit, I just realized the Eagles changed that line!
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
"What does he mean the trucks were flashing him? Like a guy in a trenchcoat? Ha, ha, you hear that, Bernie? No, let's make it where 'the lights are flashing', that will make more sense to the listener."
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
AVC: It’s a little ridiculous that this song has electric drums on it when Don Henley is a famous drummer.
Don Henley may be a famous drummer, but he is not, nor should he be, famous for his drumming.
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
plodding drum-kit owner
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
The last two days have been grim.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Usually I like pedal steel, but somehow it increases the suckage here ... the Waits version is by no means top-grade Waits, but it sure sounds good compared to the vacuum-sealed Eagles version. Waits' 55 is rusted out and barely rolling, the Eagles' was rented for a photo shoot.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
this song is just zzzzzzzzz to me and it kinda just makes me wish i was listening to johnny rivers slow dancin' and swayin' to the music.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah, pretty ghastly. Hate the way Frey sings "freeway CARS and TRUCKS" and then Henley comes in as if he's been wheeled over to the microphone. Seems to go on for like 10 minutes, too. It probably was Waits' biggest source of royalties until Rod Stewart came along, though
― col, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
lots of people covered his songs back then. he must have been doing okay. i know this isn't the only cover of this song from the 70's.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
or at least i THINK i've head other covers of it? i might be wrong. seem to recall some folkies that did it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link