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

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.

plus, there is a monkey.

First there is a monkey
Then there is no monkey
Then there is

The '80s were so weird....

Was cheeziness really considered cool back then?

Somehow the pop music of the '60s, '70s, and '90s seems to have aged much better; there are relatively few '80s records that have a timeless feel to them IMO.

you do remember what the 90's could look like, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_09f42saa8

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.

I was just rescreening Ridgemont but with the commentary on and both Heckerling & Crowe talk about all this inescapable "Eagles music" that Universal made them fill most of the soundtrack with. When the dance band starts in on "LITFL", Crowe says, "There's the Eagles again" and laughs as Heckerling groans.

Speaking of the 80s, look at this great Eurotrashy fan vid for this Henley jam. Terrific Ferrari Rock that deserved a club mix: http://youtu.be/y9ut5nc9X04

there are relatively few '80s records that have a timeless feel to them IMO.

wrong thread

well, i guess "The Boys of Summer" approaches timelessness

Let future Muzak programmers worry about timelessness.

"Funky New Year"

http://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eagleslongrun15.jpg

http://youtu.be/o3Z1w7vBMKQ

nice to hear don in such pain. now you know how we all feel....

this rips off Bowie's "Fame" a fair bit ("Fame" played by guys on quaaludes). Though it sounds like it was some studio goof they cut in one take and threw on a B-side, with this lot you know they probably spent a month on it.

Oh no I thought you were all joking about funky new year.

wait till we get to "Groovin' Groundhog Day"

Meanwhile, Timothy B. Schmit is watching the band he left after nearly a decade, Poco, finally break big with "Crazy Love" and "Heart of the Night", just after he jumped ship to the Eagles. Wonder if Tim listened to "Funky New Year" whilst holding back his gag reflex, thinking 'hmm, maybe shoulda stuck it out with Poco a bit longer and not have to put up with Henley and Frey'....

Well that's when Satan appears and shows him the royalty checks from Greatest Hits Vol. 2.

Hey, I made you all a little something.

You want it before we get started on their final album of the 70s or after we wrap it up and head to Hell or Eden or wherever.

i could really really do without henley's "uunh! aah!" in the first chorus. i'm going to be having nightmares about that for a while.

When he says that even his hair hurts, I do take him at his word.

He has a hairache.