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

Foreshadowing!

pickers just want to pick all day. not listen to don drone on about whatever the hell don would drone on about back then.

"Bernie, have you ever read the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson? There's some heavy stuff in there man"

(in Kiss' case, I think Simmons also saw the rock band as a superhero team like the Avengers)

That's true, and Paul Stanley was a Who fanatic, and saw Kiss as modeling themselves after the Who in terms of four distinct personalities.

Then he realized the members of Kiss didn't have personalities, so they all put on makeup.

then he realized the members of KISS couldn't play their instruments

then he realized the members of KISS couldn't actually write music

I mean... now that I think about it kiss is by far the least major classic rock band

There whole schtick is so perfect kinda cheap and lousy a band you'd win for knocking over 3 concrete milk bottles at a carnival

Can you be a classic rock band if only Americans like you (and maybe some Japanese)?

(I suppose so, I imagine some people over here think of Status Quo as a "classic rock band")

on classic rock radio, Kiss consists of only 3 songs: "Rock n Roll All Nite," "Hard Luck Woman" & maybe "Love Gun" or "Beth." even "I was Made for Loving You" is a bit too disco, as I've rarely heard it (this evidence is based on radio heard on drives to my folks in Connecticut)

I'd say Classic Rock plays

• Rock and Roll All Night
• Detroit Rock City
• I Love It Loud
• Beth
• Deuce

and either I Was Made for Lovin' You or Lick It Up, depending on how hairy the balls are on that particular station.

I've never heard Hard Luck Woman on a classic rock station. I had never heard it even until that Garth Brooks cover.

i think the Garth cover promoted it. never used to hear it back in the day but now have twice in past six months or so

& yes "Lick It Up" is a latter-day Kiss "standard"

when i worked overnights at the supermarket in connecticut in the early 90's the classic rock station I95 refused to play Nirvana or any other grunge and would just play Kiss's "Domino" over and over.

Haha.

I used to work with this guy who drove me nuts. Loved Classic Rock. Hated "grunge". "Why's it all gotta sound different? I don't care if it sounds the same, rock and roll was good 20 years ago and it's good today."

And, because he enjoyed music that "sounds the same", his favorite all-time classic rock and roll band was ......

.....

...

THE RAMONES.

Like I said, dude drove me nuts with his weird logic.

I was such a huge kiss fan when I was 7. I had the cards, the magazines, the marvel comic special (still remember the panel where Paul shoots "pure hate" at the bad guy from his eye.) It took almost a year for me to actually hear their music. God what a disappointment. This was supposed to be music made by demons and spacemen, this lame boogie shit?

I think it wasn't until Soul Discharge that I actually heard music that sounded like kiss should have..,

Lol "soul discharge" how gross!

Soul Discharge, swayin' to the music....

on the bootleg cover above, Leadon looks like he's contemplating jumping overboard

frey and the unseen head of henley look like they're debating whether or not to push him.

What KISS should've sounded like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2zIsnuAlw

oh sorry no embeds dang my bad.

I've listened to way too much Classic Rock Radio in my time, and the only Kiss songs I've heard with any regularity down here are "Rock'n'Roll All Night" and "Beth" (with the former appearing in three versions: the original, the Alive take, and the 80s remix). When it's 'deep cut' time, they'll drag out "Love Gun", "Detroit Rock City" or "Lick It Up". It's kind of amazing to think that at the time they were on the same popularity level as Zep, the Eagles etc. and now you'll hear two or three ZZ Top or Bad Company songs for every Kiss number on the air.

"Good Day In Hell": I like this, even singled it out for praise over on the other thread. Admittedly it's not that far removed from the anonymous Frey-sparked barband boogies of the first two albums, but what sets this apart is it's slightly more refined. Felder's slide is better. There's no pointless coda. I even detect a bit of an Outlaw Country influence (a Waylon cover would have killed). It's filler, but better filler.

Only Kiss I've ever heard on "classic rock" radio was "Rock 'n' Roll All Night." And that's on three different stations in the northeast and two in the midwest. I remember hearing "Detroit Rock City" and "Beth" when they were new, and "Lick It Up" was all over MTV for some reason.

Kiss - too dumb for classic rock radio.

i had so much fun one night watching different live video clips of gene's "famous" blood bass solos during Kiss shows. there is nothing like watching someone who had never learned how to play the bass play the bass for 30 years. so bizarre. on the other hand, some of them are inadvertent Boredoms-level dementia noise solos.

Haha, otm re: Boredoms.

Jon Lewis, my brother. I was a huge kiss fan as a kid, too. Card carrying member of the Kiss Army, Kiss lunchbox, plastic Paul Stanley mask/smock for Halloween K-2nd grade, Kiss COLORFORMS ffs. I had Mormon cousins who refused to enter my bedroom because of my Kiss posters. Went to my long-suffering grandparents' house to watch Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park because they could pick up NBC and we couldn't.

Terrible music, but great marketing to appeal to weirdo kids who liked demons and spacemen.

I think Kiss was to me what NKTOB was or Justin Bieber is to some kids, which just makes me smdh at all of us, really.

man phantom of the park, the night that aired was a BIG FUCKING DEAL.

when i do my eagles fanfic there's gonna be an awesome moment where Frey is like "how about a dose of... PURE HATE" and the death beams fly out of his eyes

LOL

It was SUCH a big fucking deal! Sometimes I think I will never be that excited about anything again and it makes me a little sad. But the again if I got that excited about something now, I'd probably have a heart attack.

things that could make me that excited again

about to see Scott Walker perform live
waiting on delivery of a rly nice guitar
being on a plane to new zealand
getting hired to write comic book scripts for a living again

It may be obvious, but I don't immediately get this?

http://i.snag.gy/6OTFS.jpg

He had a chainsaw he'd bring on tour w him for fucking up hotel rooms. It was a gift to him from Azoff.

Walsh was Pharaoh Sanders to Keith Moon's John Coltrane of fucking up hotel rooms.

Note the line about tearing out the walls in hotels in "Life's Been Good".

it's his least appealing trait to me, pretty fucking infantile

Ahhhhh, right.

http://gawker.com/woman-stabs-roommate-for-refusing-to-stop-listening-to-1335462841

"Best Of My Love"

http://images.45cat.com/the-eagles-usa-best-of-my-love-asylum-2.jpg

http://youtu.be/z_M_27ciAKI

best song on the album if you ask me. its so good you wonder what the hell happened.

sad that my picture didn't show up. damn internet.

here's another one.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0812/eagles_facial_b_g_mp_576.jpg

i mean its understated and tasteful and the arrangement fits so well and its performed in a no big deal way and its just really pretty and it flows nicely. i guess we should give all the cedit to souther. because almost everything else on this album doesn't fit that description.

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The setting is gorgeous. Insofar as I've a problem with it at all, it's with Henley's singing. Normally I want him on vocals, but not here - feels like it could've done with somebody cleaner for once to have everything bed down just so.

thought that pic was Randy Newman for a sec

you would not BELIEVE the ad i had to sit through to listen to this song in order to give it some kind of second chance
and even so, i'll say that it's among the least offensive hits
but i would much rather hear linda ronstadt singing it because don henley makes me sick

He had a chainsaw he'd bring on tour w him for fucking up hotel rooms. It was a gift to him from Azoff.

e.g. http://vimeo.com/64433918

http://images.45cat.com/the-eagles-best-of-my-love-1974-s.jpg