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

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.

Three Dog Night covered a Danny Whitten song!

one of the biggest - i mean REALLY big - pop/rock bands in history and they are basically down to the one bullfrog song as far as most people are concerned.

"I believe we can Three Dog Night..."

Three Dog Night would be pretty interesting.

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.

This is beyond fucked up. David Foster Wallace footnoted anecdote fucked up.

If I were his wife, I think I would get stuck in a loop of "this can't really have happened, no it happened, I have to do something ot make it happen, it can't really have happened" and then have to spend some (all) my time under third party observation. It is just too cruel.

Fwiw, Kath's wife later spent many years in a relationship with Kiefer Sutherland.

"GUN! GET DOWN! Oh, sorry, honey, I'm just running lines for this new show called '24' that I'm auditioning for."

oh no lol

Three Dog Night would be very educational.

KISS are the obv follow up here, only problem is much larger catalog though i guess you could restrict it to everything up to the unmasking

If you do a KISS thread, you should charge everyone $19.99 a day to participate.

http://www.thedailyrock.com/wp-content/uploads/gene-simmons.jpg

Even aside from being a similar age I think Billy Joel is the nearest thing to a follow up thread

lot of deep cuts, critical reputation based on hits, having a lot of hits, genre experiments away from the piano man stuff

Of course this could pretty much be Elton as well. Joel feels very similar to the Eagles though in terms of his following/familarity in USvs.UK

I'm not sure Three Dog Night did anything in the UK apart from the big hit

KISS are the obv follow up here, only problem is much larger catalog though i guess you could restrict it to everything up to the unmasking

― balls, Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:31 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The thing with Kiss is that it's a pretty predictable trajectory until The Elder, and that's not even as left-field as the Eagles banjo martian song.

matters get pretty streamlined from this point on in the Eagles career iirc

oh man you know what though i don't know if i could handle months of gene simmons pictures...

KISS' songs just suck too much: a thread of this sort would be soul killing, far beyond even Chicago, which at least has a "decline and fall of jazz fusion" arc. even Joel would be preferable, as Joel can be weird at least.

A Joel thread would need to include the Hassles and Attila!

anyhow this future speculation shouldn't distract us from the excitement that Randy Meisner's million-dollar moment is upon us at last

A Joel thread would need to include the Hassles and Attila!

Oh God, don't tease me.

Billy Joel - To go from James Taylor troubadour to 70s FM sensation to 80s new wave and beyond, we could have a real good time.

AND his last album was in 1993. It's not like we have to go on forever here.

Wanna find an artist with a Journey of the Sorcerer up his wizard's sleeve? Allow me to introduce you to a little something-something called "Scandinavian Skies".

200 pictures of Billy Joel though. Hmmm. Gotta include some of Christie Brinkley and the pug maybe.

KISS' songs just suck too much: a thread of this sort would be soul killing, far beyond even Chicago, which at least has a "decline and fall of jazz fusion" arc. even Joel would be preferable, as Joel can be weird at least.

so far I've lost bicuspids and kidneys waiting for one good song on this thread

You haven't spotted one song as good as Hard Luck Woman yet?

Randy will break yr heart tomorrow, Alfred. if not, there's a Leadon-Patti Davis collab coming up.

"Randy Meisner's million-dollar moment" and "Randy will break yr heart tomorrow"… goddamn right…

Hotel california is indeed streamlined, but the Long Run? the weirdest, gacked-to-gills, frequnetly haunting rekkid that our boys did. and, by my estimation, by an enormous margin their best.

I will participate in the Kiss exercise! and it seems, based on that shit upthread that I will be the only one who is involved with this thread that thinks they're great! I daresay some of you may gain an heretofore unimagined appreciation. heaven knows no one HAS to to contribute.

how about 15 styx albums. that might be fun. who knows what lurks inside this album...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Styx_-_Cyclorama.jpg

PLUS, they are another popular band reviled AND beloved and only known for their hits.

styx isn't bad plus you get some vs and deyoung gives you a truly excellent douchebag. billy joel works really well also, similarities in stature and in douchebaggery w/ eagles and he's dynamic and ambitious enough to keep it interesting which i can't say about kiss that's for sure. plus catalog's really not that daunting. plus videos! yeah i'm strongly in favor of doing joel next.

veronica i like a lot of kiss also

Styx I'd do for sure. I have a head start as I've already read what's his name's memoir.

Joel also seems right. I think I like the eagles more than him! And it's a very instinctive gut dislike.

PRESSURE!

my earliest memory of billy joel is 1977 and hearing just the way you are. its a good memory! hearing it in the car for the first time in nyc. sounded good to me. so, my inital billy joel moment was a positive one. and i liked that album back then too. it had stories. i read the lyrics. i never read lyrics unless it was the beatles. a year later i was transcribing black sabbath lyrics into notebooks while listening to their songs. i got a lot of words wrong.

i bought this 45 when it came out. i didn't buy the album though. a friend of mine had the album.

http://www.8-track-shack.com/images/20101205201205-Untitled-149101202.jpg

that's 13 albums counting Fantasies and Delusions.

wait, does a britisher love a billy joel? does he sell out wembley when he plays there?

http://i.minus.com/ibm5X3MyEaa5o.gif