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

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

Seems like he'd be right up their alley.

I would definitely do a Joel listening thread --- I love a lot of his hits, most of them, but I know almost nothing of album tracks and have visceral hate for River of Dreams etc.

But I'd also be happy with Styx or Chicago

I'm down with anything that has soaring highs and soul-crushing lows, basically

KISS would be v hard on the psyche...after Lick It Up it's all just various flavors of boiled garbage

Even more than the Eagles, which is saying something, Joel struck me as the middleweight most desperate to prove he could rock.

He couldn't, didn't, and should never have tried.

plus Joel has that asshole streak; he just can't help being a dick & judging the whole of humanity almost all the time

One more quick note about Lyin Eyes: You'd think that Frey, being such the mastermind arranger and all, would be able to keep a song like that under, I dunno, five minutes? six minutes?

He was doing so good with the ol' now-we're-in, now-we're-out, but fails obviously on this one. It just keeps going and going where it could've been another "already gone".

I hope none of you are blaming Joel for starting any fires.

its true that the only thing worse than being on don henley's payroll would be if you were on billy joel's payroll. i'll bet he goes through a lot of chefs.

what if you were a waiter or waitress at a restaurant and you went to take a table's order and don henley and glenn frey and billy joel were sitting at the table. with gene simmons. and stephen stills. then what do you do?

give them your biggest smile and instruct the kitchen staff to 'special sauce' every dish they put out for that table

Ask for Stills' autograph and quit.

or: chug all night

i'll bet he goes through a lot of chefs.

I think he's actually kept a pretty consistent band throughout his career. I know he only had one drummer up through the early 90s. A decent one, too, Liberty DeVitto, who seemed better than his surroundings. Then he sued Joel for royalties or something.

lol xp

plus Joel has that asshole streak; he just can't help being a dick & judging the whole of humanity almost all the time

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:50 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If only the whole of humanity had stopped lighting the audience:
http://youtu.be/PqY6mXULzpw

comment off that video: is this true? can anyone verify. sounds good...

"He was protecting his fans. This was filmed when he came to the Soviet Union to do a show behind the Iron Curtain. The concert lights were being used by the authorities to pick out audience members that were having too much fun, which is why he was yelling at them."

It is true. I was there.

If I was the waiter for that table, I'd say, "Yes, Mr. Joel, writer of 'Just a Fantasy'. Is there anything else I can bring you? It'll be on the house."

I remember some radio DJs talking about it when it happened, but the explanation I heard was that the crew filming the show was lighting the audience. Joel flipped out because supposedly the lights made the audience nervous about being targeted by the police or something.

And those Yamaha electric pianos weigh a fucking TON. Joel was a really strong motherfucker.

^^ JOEL SMASH!

that's 13 albums counting Fantasies and Delusions.

between that and attila, he basically started AND ended his career with his own journey of the sorceror. how perfect is that?

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

― scott seward, Thursday, 26 September 2013 02:37 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, he's much more popular than kiss or styx or three dog night, here - uptown girl in partic was a massive hit. think him and elton have even played wembley on the same bill together for one gigantic feast of dismal lachrymose guff

The Piano Man has this, I think. Chicago next if there's anyone left.

"Take It To The Limit"

http://www.randymeisneronline.com/images/eaglesRS75-03.jpg

http://youtu.be/YwASii2f5c8

when i was a kid i thought they were saying take it to the lemon

take it
to the lemon
one more tiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIme

that's all i have to say about this song

Something about the call and response parts e.g. "Nobody seems to care" gets under my skin. Good dog Randy.

monumental. this is the only country-derived tune they done that I adore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItlY6oIfRVg

herein, randy is a little hoarse on a few notes, but damn if he doesn't knock the realllly high ones out the park: I can see how he would be apprehensive about singing this live, in which case I would think you adjust what you sing to what is achievable. Of course, Don and Glenn probly said "NO! SING IT EXACTLY THE WAY IT IS ON THE CUT!" and this kinda tempo is what Henley can handle…second waltz on the record…