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

Skynyrd might be a good one (up to the plane crash, that is). Relative to the Eagles, they have the inverse proportion of duds to great stuff. About 70 songs or so, give or take demos/alternate takes.

I would rather hear the worst pre-crash Skynyrd song on repeat all day than hear "Lyin' Eyes" one more time

yeah, part of me kinda likes the thankless task nature of this thread. skynyrd would be too much of a treat. maybe we should have a nomination thread after this. if anyone really wants to do another one. what if we did elton john: A Single Man up to Sleeping With The Past. roughly ten years in hell. i probably know like one song. 11 albums i've never heard. that might be thankless enough.

That's a great idea!

Good point re: Skynyrd.

Skynyrd would be great

Nah I had wilderness years Elton in mind!

I think these threads are probably more fun/interesting with artists whose catalogs seem like turds from a distance, but closer inspection reveals gummi bears within said turds. Skynyrd would be all gummi bears, no turd.

i can't imagine ever submitting myself to this again
dnw turds

THere are a lot of Skynyrd haters on ILM, at least there used to be.

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I've picked up about six good tracks from this thread that I'd never've heard otherwise. I'll have enough for an alternative Greatest Hits by the time we're through. It's worth it imo.

The Eagles are a unique case:

• They've got a catalog that's mainly reviled on the basis of a big library of radio staples, and leaves a bunch of their work unheard.
• There's plenty of 'vs.' in this band: all of them wrote and sang, had different styles/strengths/weaknesses to debate over.
• Loads of intrigue and insanity in their back story to discuss.
• No other rocker has successfully documented his residences as Glenn Frey.
• Two Words: Joe Walsh
• One more word: Banjo
• Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

If we weren't all of a particular age, Guns N Roses would be fabulous for this.

There's plenty of 'vs.' in this band: all of them wrote and sang, had different styles/strengths/weaknesses to debate over.

This especially. I don't know how I'd handle an Aerosmith thread, knowing that there wasn't going to be any "Journey of the Sorcerer" coming up to break it up a bit.

i just thought elton might be good cuz he was one of the biggest pop stars ever and hey wait a minute here's 11 albums in a row that nobody remembers at all.

Exactly!

i'm down with an Elton in the Wilderness thread, because I also have no idea what's on any of those records except the few radio hits.

thread guaranteed to drive anyone participating in it insane: Chicago, song by song I through XVII.

Wow. OTM.

actually Elton had a lot of radio hits in the eighties!

It's the album tracks that scare me.

"'25 or Six To Four' What is respectively the amount of suicides and how many survivors after the Chicago listening thread is over?"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Carnac.jpg

chicago seconded!

or, rather, II'ed.

Why stop at XVII?

Congestive heart failure.

"Why stop at XVII?"

the last Cetera album. end of an epoch (I know this because a college roommate of mine loved Chicago, and would go off on the vast inferiority of Chicagos 18 through whatever in hell # they were at in 1992)

i would do chicago. literally. i would do everyone in chicago. but yeah i would do that. someone else has to post 400 chicago songs though.

Timothy B Schmidt should have replaced Cetera in Chicago

ii would do chicago. literally. i would do everyone in chicago

keep it in your pants, sailor

I think I can speak on behalf of my city when I say that Chicago would do you back, scott.

The first however many regional ILX Chicago threads were named after Chicago albums, until we ran out of albums.

I'm not sure what other band would entice me back into a thread like this, but I'm not entirely sure why I decided to go along for this Eagles ride, either.

JOURNEY OF THE SORCERER made it 100% worthwhile, though, so I am not complaining.

Gah, next thing you know someone will suggest Journey.

Skynyrd way too good for this game. Likewise, say, ZZ Top. Chicago/Elton ... I know nothing about those acts. Billy Joel could be fun ....

Really, the Eagles are some weird exception, massively popular (thanks to the hits collection and reunion) yet sitting on a trove of deep cuts because people only listen to the hits, because there are a lot of them and really that is enough.

Maybe Steve Miller band.

we could do Kiss after all the Kiss talk. that would be excruciating enough for me.

kiss is gd for britishes imho, ie they are not v. well known here at all (two top ten singles, two top ten albums, nothing higher than #4)

The British already had Slade, and we Yanks will be forever poorer for not accepting them with open arms.

idk, the technical chops are a big part of why the eagles are so good for doing this - even their worst songs are bad despite something good going on in the background. If Kiss are as amateurish as you all say, that thread'd be a real grind

"We did it all for the glory of love"
- everyone still alive at the end of a Chicago torture experiment.

KISS is a good'un.

just try and remember who the hell is in chicago. you thought you had problems with eagles...

look away
baby look away

baby what a big surprise will always be my fave chicago tune i think? i always liked it when i was a kid cuz it reminded me of the beatles.

Kiss sucks. Too uniform, I think. It'd be like doing the Ramones.

just try and remember who the hell is in chicago. you thought you had problems with eagles...

― scott seward, Wednesday, September 25, 2013 6:09 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just thinking about this yesterday, since Chicago's coming to town in November! The dj, introducing "Beginnings," said, "Just imagine how this'll sound at Proctor's, with those great acoustics, and the horns, wow, it'll be amazing!" The only remaining original members are the horns and the keyboardist. Cetera's been out for a while, the drummer was fired in the 90s, and the original guitarist (of whom Hendrix was supposedly a fan) accidentally killed himself in front of his wife and a few friends after demonstrating that the clip in the gun he was playing with was empty, and thus, the gun was safe. "See?" he said, pointing it at his head and pulling the trigger. There was a bullet in the chamber.

Steely Dan could be good. A lot of meat on that animal.

I mean, I wouldn't consider myself a Chicago fan by any stretch, but this shit is all-time:
http://youtu.be/4PvN7ujfj2w

Also http://youtu.be/hRu3NFKBkt0

everyone already drools all over steely dan on ilm though.

Yeah, Steely Dan is like film's house band.

i don't think i've ever listened to a chicago album. i'm more of a chase guy. or blood sweat & tears.

i actually think three dog night would be perfect! a zillion top ten hits and NOBODY knows their other songs at all. people don't even remember half of their top ten hits.

The band registered 21 Billboard Top 40 hits (with three hitting number one) between 1969 and 1975. It helped introduce mainstream audiences to the work of many songwriters, including Paul Williams, Hoyt Axton, Laura Nyro, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Leo Sayer.