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

It's a good format for a thread, but I'd expect ilx to do this first for a band it likes a lot more. I feel like we are being drawn to The Eagles like a dog is drawn to a rotting carcass.

ILM kinda does this with its readers polls, counting down to the most favorite song.

But with the Eagles, I don't think anyone wants to be caught casting that ballot.

Sure, though this way we talk about *every* song? I suppose we can enjoy working ourselves into an ecstasy of disgust.

I was watching a punk documentary tonight and they showed a big blow-up of the Jubilee chart with a big white box at no.1 where The Sex Pistols should've been. There at no.2, top of the charts by default, rides Hotel California.

the morbidity of this project has a joan didion-reckoning-with-california vibe i dig

Well, at least this thread got "What's Up" out of my head.

was either this or a bullet.

by the end of this thread we will all have had either a divorce, rehab, lawsuit and/or ridden in a corvette with a drug dealer. and released at least 1 solo album.

Forget it Veg, it's Freytown!

I'm looking forward to meeting Stevie!

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I'm not sure I ever knew about the Ozark Mountain Festival. This is kinda blowing my mind:

Posters for the festival announced that some of the best bands in country and southern rock would be performing, including:

Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Aerosmith
Premiata Forneria Marconi

woah

FUCK THE SINGLES!! I WANT DEEP ALBUM CUTS!!

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relax

take it easy!

i think we're gonna do it all in order right?

Will someone call me back when it's time to take it to the limit?

I can't tell you why

i can't wait for y'all to hear "chug all night" it's gonna be ILX rapture

show of hands who is already knotting their shirts at the midriff

"but I'd expect ilx to do this first for a band it likes a lot more."

see i was actually thinking yesterday that it would be fun for bands that i (and others here) have never listened to. except for, like, one hit. like Timbuk 3 or something. but then i remembered that a lot of groups i have forgotten about have put out a zillion records when nobody was looking. there might be 20 Timbuk 3 albums that i don't know about and there ain't no way i'm doing that. it would have to be a manageable discography.

weirdly the eagles are like the perfect band to try this with

yeah, they are good. well, just thinking about songs that you've heard a million times until you don't hear them anymore can be a good exercise.

and i don't really want to listen to lots of timbuk 3 albums.

somehow it feels like the Eagles made way more than 6 studio albums (7 including the 2007 post-reunion album) given their omnipresence

i was surprised that don henley didn't put out anything in the 90's. he must have been walking in the woods. 11 years between the end of the innocence and his album from 2000.

He had some new bait songs on his hits package, and..."Get Over It".

the mellow don henley of the year 2000:

You could have given us the finger
Much more constructively than that
Now I sit here with the MTV
And your bloated, Burmese cat
We're being treated to the wisdom
Of some puffed up little fart
Doing exactly what I used to do
Pretentions to anarchy and art
He speaks the language of a warrior
He mounts his misinformed attack
He wears the clothes of a dissenter
But there's a logo on his back
And it's a hollow rebellion
As rebellions mostly are
It's just another raging tempest in a jar

Those words are in English, but that verse makes no sense!

Henley in the '90s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJU94w_A9jc

In To The Limit, he mentions the video had to be edited down for consideration for airtime on MTV (yeah right) & VH1. "There was too much talkin' in it...the only white guy they want rappin' on MTV is Vanilla Ice."

RAGH KIDS AND THEIR SAGGY PANTS RAGH

and we have to ask why these people are so bad and hated?

that video is endless. i don't know if i could watch it all they way through. says the guy who wants to bathe in the eagles for the forseeable future...jesus, that does sound horrible. bathing in eagle water. the smell might never come off. you guys realize you will always be the person who knows to much about the eagles if you follow through with this. you might want to keep that on the down low. nobody will invite you to parties.

Ha, are you actually planning to discuss every single song in the Eagles' discography?? That only registered now, somehow. Whoa.

they laughed at madame curie too. right in her face! but someone has to do the dirty work.

This definitely feels like one of those "only Nixon could've gone to China" type things.

I packed my suitcase, I'm totally ready.

- 1 pair unwashed bellbottoms
- quaaludes
- coke
- ?

mostly coke, weed, and tequila. maybe a learjet

idk why I think of them as a coke n 'ludes band but yr suitcase is p cool too

Xpost...underage girl, Rimbaud poetry volume.

*runs back to house, packs those things*

ludes not specifically mentioned in the hoskyns book but who the fuck knows, i'm sure they were around

i always kinda wished i had tried a quaalude. they stopped making them during my drug years. i think. nobody had any anyway.

see, Eagles make you wistful.

They had a suitcase full of valium at that airport in the documentary, so if they weren't fucking with ludes specfically then boatloads of [insert downer]

that's kinda sad to have a suitcase full of valium. now valium i had PLENTY of during my drug days. thanks to my dad. he practically had a suitcase full. stressful times. for the both of us and for the nation. man, the eagles were bummed out.

cocaine leads you to the sad drugs i guess

The eagles are perfect because there are 20 eagles songs everyone's heard a million times and 70 eagles songs most of us have never heard

otm

Yeah, even their "Very Best of" two-discer is about half stuff you don't hear much on the radio.

Before we move on to the next track, I just want to say I like "Take It Easy", and part of that stems from a story I heard somewhere about how Winslow, Arizona ended up in the lyric: Jackson Browne had been driving cross-country, picking up Route 66 to get to California when his car broke down in Winslow, and he had to stay there for a few days while it was repaired.

cool story bro