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

it's interesting how the pace of releases has slowed since the '70s. Taking two or three years between records used to be a huge deal, a sign to record cos. that the artist was getting lost in the studio(didn't Stevie Wonder put out ads apologizing for how long it took him put out "Songs in the Key of Life"?)

It was t-shirts:

There was huge anticipation for the new album which was initially scheduled for release around October 1975. It was delayed on short notice when Wonder felt that further remixing was essential. According to Stevie Wonder, the marketing campaign at Motown decided to take advantage of the delay by producing "We're almost finished" t-shirts.[6]

Ha, found this about the album we just finished on wiki while looking for something else (which turned out not to be on wiki):

While the band were recording the album, Black Sabbath were also recording the album Technical Ecstasy in an adjacent studio at Criteria Studios in Miami. The band were forced to stop recording on numerous occasions because Black Sabbath were too loud and the sound was coming through the wall.

http://flaggedforfollowup.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345201fa69e20133ec683d8a970b-500wi

xmas song doesn't do much more me.

bring on funky new year! that's gotta be good, right? eagles, funkiness, new years...what could go wrong?

Ha, found this about the album we just finished on wiki while looking for something else (which turned out not to be on wiki):

While the band were recording the album, Black Sabbath were also recording the album Technical Ecstasy in an adjacent studio at Criteria Studios in Miami. The band were forced to stop recording on numerous occasions because Black Sabbath were too loud and the sound was coming through the wall.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, October 9, 2013 1:55 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sabbath's worst Ozzy album. Now we know why!

The coke going around at Criteria that month must have been plentiful. Then again it was the 70's, in Miami at a recording studio, so probably not an incremental difference.

Buckets of oocaine came complimentary with the purchase of recording services.

"Sabbath's worst Ozzy album. Now we know why!"

proximity to Eagles! it all makes sense now.

The album included "Dirty Women", which remains a live staple, as well as Ward's first lead vocal on the song "It's Alright".[51]

"Guys! I was just watching next door and you won't believe what their drummer was doing!"

i like "it's alright" a lot - it's basically a solo lennon tune

I like both Its Alright and Dirty Women. Some of the other stuff is not great. They bounced back for Ozzy's swan song though.

dudes, total in the wild freakiness: i'm sitting on the front porch and i hear that loud eagle cry and an actual eagle flies toward me from across the street and goes over my house. a little scary. you think don sent it?

did the eagle hit on your girlfriend/steal your coke y/n

did the eagle have a curly little topknot?

IT WAS DON.
http://youtu.be/S4YZ45xqoTY

bald eagles adore oocaine iirc

"One of These Nights" is currently playing in the House of Pies I'm sitting in.

one of these pies
one of these crazy round pies

crusty round pies, dammit.

"One Of These Pies" kind of a superior title in my opinion.

You're gonna find out
that it's rhubarb
When you turn on the lights

Don: You see, the pie is a metaphor for the sweetness masking the corrupt nature of...

Glenn: It's not rhubarb pie, it's Eagles rhubarb pie.

I'd like to think Glenn would've thought this one was hilarious.

Because, you know what else they call pie?

I'd like to make a motion...

Let's do Don Henley solo.

seconded, but wish we could skip "Inside Job"

Nope. Building the Perfect Beast is solid enough to get us past the doldrums.

I vote no against that and will withhold the ILX budget, closing down all boards except for I Love "Football" and Cape of Good Hope in the process.

Timbuk 3 is tempting

sequestration finally hits ILM

i kinda really don't want to do billy joel...

i mean we all know enough of his songs don't we?

i mean you guys still can.

i kinda really don't want to do billy joel...

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 8:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...That's what Christie Brinkley said! <stiff Don Henley rimshot>

I'd do a Billy Joel thread, but I don't think my heart would be in the right place. And by that, I mean it would be in the right place.

After all, the MST3K guys were forced to watch those movies. I'd be all "check it out, another sax solo from Rico!" every day.

yeah doing henley AND FREY solo would be a way to eat every part of the pig, delay getting to 'get over it'. there's not a ton to get thru.

balls is dying to get to Frey's standards album.

it's a losing proposition
but one you can't refuse

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreyHenley85.jpg

Glenn: Folks really don't want to hear our views on Tabloid Television.

Don: Well, yeah.

pplains I would totally be on board with you doing the Joel thread, for the reasons you described :)

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreyHenley85.jpg

Dude, that TV movie they based on The Late Shift book suuuckked.

if we do solo stuff here then we have to listen to this:

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/r/randy_meisner-same.jpg

and this:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/32175781/Playin+It+Cool+timothy+b+schmit++playinit+coo.jpg

check out frey in this 2013 sundance interview. what a cagey man. you can tell he just wants to rip that suit off and fly free!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMW7fARPFo

in the mid-80s, Schmit suddenly became a 12-year old.

A 12-year-old ready to do whatever is necessary to ensure you have a great trip on The Love Boat

this is the best video ever made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-rngzNR4Z0

and so appropriate that the video quality is that of an old homemade vhs tape comp that someone had in the bottom of a box somewhere.

That's the most disturbing album cover I've ever seen! I think his two sinister henchmen appeared behind his shoulders immediately after the photo was snapped.

wow, that's like a folk memory of the early 80s pulped into one video: "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Mickey," "Hot for Teacher," etc.