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

"Gotta Find Me A Better Day"

I been gettin' lonely, too much these days.
I been gettin' lonely, I guess I better get away.
But where can I go that's real? Life's a stage on a ferris wheel.
And the actors are all fighting just to see who gets the lead in the play.

Oh, no, no.
I gotta' find me a better day.

Talk about down, I feel so lonely.
Talk about down, I'm startin to worry.
Don't really want to be all alone. I can't get along with the chicks at home.
The world just don't seem right, my head is spinnin', and I hate what's goin' down.

You gotta' find me a better day.

Oh, gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
You gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
You gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find, gotta' find,
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find, gotta' find,
Gotta' find,
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
Gotta' find me a better day.
[repeat to fade]

I could totally see a high school hardcore band writing something like that.

oh god i can't stop. i'll stop. life's a stage on a ferris wheel! for your information.

well, that's why kids liked them so much. they were kid-like. but i stand by their music. and terry knight knew how to make stuff sound awesome. the album they did with zappa sounds good too.

i'm a big fan of terry knight in general. terry knight and the pack were amazing. he produced question mark & the mysterians. i like the stuff on his label, brown bag. i like his production of grand funk and bloodrock.(even though things didn't end well between him and those bands) he was knifed to death in texas.

rory gallagher irish tour 74 fucking slays

also JUST IN TIME GUYS AND GALS!!!!

http://www.stereogum.com/1525322/win-eagles-the-studio-albums-1972-1979-vinyl-box-set/giveaway/

i even like his bonkers paul is dead song that capitol was insane enough to put out.

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

yeah irish tour is the bomb. i like a lot of his records. with taste and without.

Pop market is selling the CD version of the Eagles box for $29.99 today (one day only special).

i kinda wish we could do kansas instead of genesis. genesis are already taken really seriously by people. i only know like three kansas songs. i've never listened to an album. it would be a brave new world. there have got to be choice kansas deep cuts. right? plus, great fashion and solo album art.

http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/9-4-13-LPs2/51243.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1j8sjIbWzLY/UfP-qwU4eeI/AAAAAAAAGPc/iPzZvCxvRMw/s1600/kansas+s+walsh.jpg

Wow that guy likes himself and his chest a lot. xp

Haha I thought he was skateboarding, not doing a handstand on a keyboard.

they've aged well too.

http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2012-02/228294380-23225316.jpg

kinda curious about 80's Kansas...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Kansas_-_In_the_Spirit_of_Things.jpg

good Lord, that's like the fourth-tier superhero team you call when everyone else is tied up somewhere (xp)

They scored a MIDI-infused eighties hit

Avengers Kansas

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

i experienced an excellent kansas deep cuts moment at the billboard film and tv music conference a year ago, when judd apato was reminiscing about his favorite bands when he was a teenager and started singing "portrait (he knew)" from point of know return. kansas would be fun! on the other hand, i once owned that steve walsh solo album and, despite that amazing cover, um, no.

apatow, dammit.

How about Styx? I've never owned a Styx album, barely know the songs outside of the hits - indeterminate membership from the 90s onward. Also, WTF is this:

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

Think we should poll this? So far contenders for next track-by-track thread are:

Styx
Kansas
Genesis
Chicago
Journey

I'm sure I left a bunch out.

if we're gonna do cheesy prog, we should maybe do supertramp.

Not Kansas! Please!

I love that Kansas album cover Scott posted! Wikipedia seems to indicate it was designed by Storm Thorgerson? I often don't like Storm Thorgerson's record covers (that Styx carrot thing is a good example) but that Kansas one is fantastic.

Billy Joel was under consideration as well.

I've never heard any Kansas but I've got a sad feeling that album would not live up to its cover.

don't forget late 70s-late 80s Elton John.

Agree that Genesis is almost "too respected" for this sort of thing. Kansas would kill me.

Whatever the choice is, I believe the basic requirement should be "band members hate each other"

Styx/Kansas could be pretty cheesy indeed but I love 'em anyways at least they aren't coke-fuelled balls of sexist hate like Glenley & co. (At least not in the '70s - I can't speak for the 80s stuff where Walsh or Livgren (whichever one) went all Xtian.

Instead of Grand Funk OR Kansas, let's do Mark Farner's and Kerry Livgren's contemporary Christian discographys.

For the worst GFR lyrics, "In Need" or "Mr. Limousine Driver" are pretty high up there. The latter is about Mark requesting his chauffer to concentrate on his driving while Mark can get busy with his ladyfriend in the backseat. The former is about a HS buddy of Mark's asking him how much money he currently makes. Great songs though!

That Steve Walsh cover is making me feel irredeemably insane

I saw an old high school friend, just the other day,
He didn't ask me how I'd been, he asked me "how was my pay? "
Now, do you call this a friendship, judging from what he said?
If you do, I've a real tip: ain't nobody gonna' know about my bread.
Ain't nobody gonna' know about my bread

Best suggestions though are:

styx
supertramp
chicago
joel

I still vote for late seventies/early eighties Elton -- it's fun!

elton also a good idea

Farner must've been a cheap bastard - doesn't even offer the limousine driver 50 bucks or anything, just invites him to look away and do a crossword puzzle or something!

You wouldnt know if he was cheap or not because aint nobody gonna know about his bread.

Especially not THE MAN

This is supposed to be fun?

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Supertramp is kind of intriguing

how about Alan Parsons Project?

Scott would love that! iirc

Especially not THE MAN

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, October 18, 2013 5:18 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mark was not a fan of the man. Especially when he got heavy.

I never want to do this again.

actually I'm kinda into Journey....just because I'm curiuos about the early days

Journey are too good for this treatment

i feel like Pearl Jam is a post 90s band that could kinda fit this. they probably have like 10 albums since i stopped paying attention.