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

Styx is made for this. I have their Behind The Mysic episode memorized, I watched it so many times

but I still would love it to be Billy Joel

jfc i had never heard that story before

“I think it was Miss Oklahoma and we ended up spending the night together and in the middle of the sex, it was like a hot dog splitting and you know, I found myself in the emergency room with my penis in my hand waiting to be stitched up.”

Styx is made for this. I have their Behind The Mysic episode memorized, I watched it so many times

Hahaha me too! My favorite part: "The audience is beer, quaaludes, and 'show us your tits!' and I have to go out there and say, 'But Kilroy! What about the children of the world?'"

What is the general critical consensus on Styx? The Eagles were loved by a big swath of the general public and mostly hated by critics; Styx had lots of hits but I don't have a good read on what the music cognescenti think of them. I do know their eventual intra-band warfare rivaled the Eagles'.

"Dennis DeYoung is the Brian Wilson of Styx."

Styx are pretty universally ridiculed.

I can't think of anyone who is the Brian Wilson of any band other than the one he was in. BW is unique.

Styx is disgusting whereas the Eagles have flashes of brilliance, like gold teeth in turds.

'Desperado' v 'Renegade'

I am kinda curious to know which Styx songs some of you will compare to Big Star.

i think a chicago one might turn up a few deepcut gems but i fear the brass

also i want to write the name "guercio" multiple times

Chicago wilderness years scare me more than actual wilderness

I am kinda curious to know which Styx songs some of you will compare to Big Star.

― pplains,

I laughed because this comparison is what makes ILM a shiny happy place.

early styx albums are rad. i dig them a lot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Styx_-_The_Serpent_Is_Rising.jpg

you get a little bit of everything with styx. hard rock, symphonic prog suites, broadway ballads, electro, power metal, pop, tommy shaw's hair, robots.

styx next for sure

Every night I tell myself I'm going to be a blue collar man.

"The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"

http://www.donhenleyonline.com/images/DHenleyGlennLRHug.jpg

http://youtu.be/Ms0VIKlp0CU

What a odd little tune.

if "Teenage Jail" was their dig at Sabbath/metal and "Strangler" a fuck-you to disco, was this their go at New Wave? Guess so: the organ seems to be a reference to Steve Nieve/Jimmy Destri. Dumb and a bit leaden, and having Henley sing never helps, but by Eagles standards this is fun.

Yeah does sound a bit like the Attractions

YouTube says backing vocals by Jimmy Buffet!

I suspect it's not a new wave dig though. Perhaps: they are drunk/high & someone says "the Greeks don't want no freaks" and everyone cracks up & it becomes a thing for a few days and they decided to make it a sing as a goof... So they just jam out a little old Seger 2 chord garage rock throwaway

DON: I thought it'd be a good idea to write a fun song about how ancient Athens and Sparta weren't exactly copacetic with each other.

GLENN: They sure were funny lookin' in those days!

DON: Well, yeah.

hahaha
this song contains the word "barfin"

they were courting the animal house vote with this song. eagles frat boys at heart.

yeah, they probably watched Animal House with Buffett and then went into the studio and grunted this one out quickly.

Wish there was a certain word to describe "second song to play during end credits of B-movie, right before awkward fade into the score."

This is sort of like alternate reality where Elvis Costello is a frat boy.

The barrel really was empty, huh?

they're chopping up the barrell & using it for firewood at this point

still appalled by Stevie Nicks dating both Henley and Walsh. Give to me your leather indeed.

still fond of this thread i started many moons ago:

TS: whenever i call you friend -vs- stop draggin' my heart around -vs- leather and lace

I'm as big a Nicks fan as you'll find on ILM (consult the archives) but this spongy kitsch is too much for me -- and Henley admitting he's scared and sometimes cries is too big a leap of faith for me.

― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

ha! i almost cut & paste that here.

When I first started buying albums my mum advised me that if I'd just wait a few years, bands put everything good on a Greatest Hits anyway. It's like she grew up with The Eagles.

When I first started buying albums my mum advised me that if I'd just wait a few years, bands put everything good on a Greatest Hits anyway

And now we're in an even better golden age, where many bands' entire worthwhile catalog can be found in a 5-CDs-for-$20 set from Amazon!

she should've been more vague with the second bit, then she could say she predicted file-sharing

whenever i call you friend easy

This song is dumb.

I think it really says something about the Eagles that when they actually do a 2:20 song, the 'song' part is over at like 1:40. Could use a cheesy guitar solo on the coda to go with the chant. This is also were Henley starts on the path to making full-fledged New Wave tracks w/Danny Kootch, members of the Go-Go's etc. with less leaden results.

Don: We'd heard a little about Elvis Costello, who was beginning to make some waves over here, as our friend Linda (Ronstadt) began dipping into his songbook for her albums of the time.

Glenn: Not to mention we heard Costello had been dipping into Bebe Buell, and we all wanted in on some of that action!

Don: Well, yeah.

I'll donate all I have and anything I could steal to compile these dialogues.

i wonder who out of that socal circle was the first to get into elvis costello - buckingham was a fan, ronstadt obv, nicks a huge fan (she's said on a few occasions that 'green shirt' is one of her favorite songs period). i wonder if that's how petty worked his way in - similar to ec but not quite as 'punk' in attitude, byrds fandom a obv connection.

The memoir by Buckingham's ex describes a night out to see Elvis C. As the most trad of the punk fellow travelers and blessed with Ronstadt's support, it's easy to see the attraction(s).

she's said on a few occasions that 'green shirt' is one of her favorite songs period).

from a summer '94 ish of Details, right?

In Please Kill Me, Buell tells a story about doing a modelling gig in London around '75-76 for Elizabeth Arden and how she fell in love at first sight with this guy she saw deliver some stuff to the studio. A couple years later she is shocked to see him again on stage at Hollywood High.

she is shocked to see him again on stage at Hollywood, high.

i've seen it in like four or five interviews (sometimes unprompted), she LOVES that song

xpost...and then she looks him up the next day and she gets him stoned on proper marijuana for the first time and they tool around LA and then she follows him back to England and...many years later E.C. says some nasty stuff about her in some liner notes.

and yeah ec's talent and trad leanings were apparent enough, plus my aim is true is about as socal friendly an album punk/new wave was gonna hand them

Buckingham seems like the most punk guy of all the L.A. FM crew

Stuff like "What Makes You Think You're the One" isn't far off from new wave