They Will Not Go Quietly: The Official ILM Track-By-Track DON 'n' GLENN Listening Thread

Source material for next Henley epic:

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having already endured "Long Road Out of Eden," it's pretty obvious, hearing these songs, who the main architect of that horror was.

^^Don even throws out the phrase "Business As Usual" on the "Workin' It" coda--a harbinger of atrocities to come.

worst song yet

"Goodbye to a River"

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http://youtu.be/wiCnkMt-Wyk

wait till you guys get to the part about the waters washing the arrogance clean

XPS How could a Henley jam called "Workin' It" not be?

we condescend
and in the end
we lose our very souls

I make a church out of words
as the years dull my senses
and I try to hold on to the world that I knew *organ peal*

I shall read this book one day

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"we condescend
and in the end
we lose our very souls"

the Eagles' epitaph, no?

Well, yeah.

Here we go, guys...

"Inside Job"

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http://vimeo.com/37721651

holy hell that was awful. Don channels Roger Waters as his most self-righteous and metaphorically blunt, adds lines like like "I am acquainted with the night." That middle section, I won't dignify it by calling it a 'bridge," where he keeps screaming the same lines again & again might be the single-worst Henley moment on record.

if that was a bridge he burned it.

Of all the days to fall behind on...Here goes

"Goodbye To A River": 'Arrogance unseen'? Don's upfront with that shit. I imagine this is the kind of song he wants to remembered for. I like the piano on this.

"Inside Job": He really likes the phrase "Business As Usual", don't he? Ooooh, an f-bomb. Don gettin' edgy with it, finding a way towards clumsier Rock Opera than previous. col otm re:the "doin' it" section--there's really no excuse for that to exist.

Tailor-made for one of those "Don Henley and the Minnesota/Cleveland/etc Orchestra" nights that draw non-classical folks to concert halls.

An Evening With Don Henley, and His Songs About Hating People Who Go To Orchestras

aren't we lucky! Uploaded just two weeks ago.

"They're Not Here, They're Not Coming"

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http://youtu.be/2rZxg-zG2Oc

Sample: "It's a cold, cold, cold, cold post-modern world."

Henley really seems off his rocker on half these dreadful songs. Six+ minute gut-dumps on whatever he's been irked about since the Reagan years, full of weird voices and asides and attacks on McNuggets and Oprah. Melody of one bit sounds like the "Meow Mix" commercial; makes you wonder if Don's the one who needs to turn off the idiot box for a while.

That title!

and "til we put away our hatred"!!! Fuck you, you hateful cunt.

"They're Not Here, They're Not Coming": Don was channel surfing one night, after giving the kids their customary bedtime rant with oral exam, and he happened upon a episode of "The X-Files". After briefly taking in Gillian Anderson, he got an idea...for this song. The 'cold x infinity' line is one of his most annoying earworms.

GLENN: "They're Not Here, They're Not Coming"--this is about his current sitch with the groupies, right?

DON: Well, shut up.

Exploring that "Henley Topic" channel. Maybe because it's a better encode, but I just noticed for the first time that he ad lib's "There's a new kid in town" right before "Johnny Can't Read" fades completely out.

In The Wild: "The Heat Is On" at a diner.

...and now as I leave it's "The Boys of Summer".

well at least it's not "Garden of Allah"

...or "Working Man"!

"Damn It Rose"

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7:13! "is this some kind of cosmic quiz?" guitar solo is a blessed relief, but over too soon. Some of this seems like a Dylan parody that Don wrote in the early 70s ("bloated Burmese cat").

inspirational lyric: "you could have given us the finger/ much more constructively than that"

Jesus Christ this album still has songs...

"Miss Ghost"

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http://youtu.be/nWqyLVSJtbQ

sounds like he, John Corey, and Stan were listening to the Wallflowers.

oh my dear God does this album need to end. I'd fund a survey to see if anyone, including die-hard Henley fans, Henley's wife and his collaborators, made it to the end.

"Damn It, Rose": Wow, on the opening couplet, our Donster lets out the most twang in his whole career. Other than that...well I let it play in full, but zoned out quickly. Good sonic wallpaper, I guess. Certainly less offensive than other tracks here.

"Miss Ghost": I believe that's Jimmie Vaughan on lead guitar, twangy blues licks/fills that are easily one of the most interesting and surprising sonic ideas on the album. "Here's to seeing through you..." textbook Henley. The tempo keeps this from being a total slog.

Only three cuts left...

Someone went crazy posting every link just 10 days ago...

"The Genie"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggBxnRxQUfA

Don's lawyers will crush him like a gnat any day now

my god when will the madness stop

wait, is he kinda ripping Bel Biv Devoe for the beat here?

well he would say his love is poison

"Annabel"

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and the end of this fucking album, titled, appropriately...

"My Thanksgiving"

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http://youtu.be/mYvzeGNEIHk

What a Turkey!

Going To To Do What No One's Done Since The Year 2000: Listen to The Last Three Tracks Of Inside Job IN ORDER.

"The Genie": Booming big beats give way tio Tsk-tsking Don. Christ, there's 5+ minutes of this thing. Oh man, those assertive backing vocals on the second chorus. And now he's shouting down arrogance. All yhat and an out of nowhere synth coda.

"Annabel": Don Henley watching you sleep is not a good thing. Is this about one of his kids? Imagine Henley as your dad. That'a part of why she gets judged in the song: honey, your dad's an asshole. Song's kinda pleasant tho.

"My Thanksgiving": "I always thought of you as a friend of mine"? Don thinks of people as friends? The chorus chords are pretty nice. Sitar action in the break! Have to say, this is one of the better tracks on offer.

I heard "In The Heart of the Night" in the wild (deli) and was sure this was Frey. But no, it's Poco, creating the solo-Frey template.

I'll return soon to start the slog through Frey's 1992 album. I need to get air.

Strange Weather in the air

"Silent Spring/Long Hot Summer"

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that looks like it comes from some alternate universe where glenn frey wrote comics for vertigo

had to bail from the last Don songs for reasons of sanity, but am back to finish out the set.

and...we start with a 5:17 track? oh, CDs you merciless bastards. Bit of a cusp piece here---late 80s synths (and disembodied "Tron" voices), layered w/some kinda-Frampton guitar (Glenn?). like the last Glenn solo, it's comes off a bit cut-rate sounding, even demo-ish in spots, esp. when compared to Don's slavishly-produced stuff.