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

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.

But few terrible songs, so it wouldn't be as much fun.

It certainly wouldn't

i feel like Kansas or Styx would deliver

Have you ever read the Wikipedia for one of those bands? How do you feel when you get to that A New Rebirth (1997-2002) section and realize there's still another half-page dedicated to this band who had a couple of Top 5 hits in 1983?

Who am I talking about, Kansas? Styx? Journey? Toto? Asia? Yes, exactly.

"The Sanctuary Records Years"

Haha, is it time for scott to ask this question once more?

How Much Money Would It Take For You To Listen To All These Asia Albums?

Seems like we need a band:
• generally considered to be pretty crap
• with a few undeniable solid gold tunes
• and proper chops
• who hate each other
• at least one of whom is an asshole
• but have some decent stories

The Eagles aren't unique in this are they?

Styx fits all of those. IDK enough abt S'tramp or Chicago to say re them.

elton idea was basically the ten years in hell:

A Single Man (1978)
Victim of Love (1979)
21 at 33 (1980)
The Fox (1981)
Jump Up! (1982)
Too Low for Zero (1983)
Breaking Hearts (1984)
Ice on Fire (1985)
Leather Jackets (1986)
Reg Strikes Back (1988)

I could go for a Billy Joel or 80s Elton thread. With Chicago, I feel like there'd have to be a cut-off point, like maybe just the Terry Kath years because there's a few records with no hits and likely few other redeeming qualities.

Best (worst) Chicago story has already been told; beyond that, I don't think there's very much that's interesting about them.

xp, exception for Too Low For Zero, the one great brief-return-to-form record amongst those ten

we must not lose sight of the fact that Chicago have more than 20 studio albums including a swing band album and Christmas albums.

and that it's impossible to tell them apart from the album covers

styx have 15 studio albums.

that's why the post-peak Elton's intriguing: he put out an album a year? What's on those things, besides the Top 10 hit each one (er most) produced?

Styx I'm curious how the sub-Andrew Lloyd Webber stylings of D. De Young developed alongside the Midwest rawk of Tommy Shaw and the Panozzo brothers

Cornerstone was the first album I ever owned.

so many great styx haircuts...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tUtFVvOLDj0/UjB6J9dpp4I/AAAAAAAAE7w/6ErbLmOyCno/s1600/styx.jpg

Classic poll:

DEFINITIVE CHICAGO ALBUMS POLL