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

with Lou's death, I really don't have the heart to listen to today's bilge, especially as it's yet another Henley song about a bitch who's done him wrong. Henley and Frey will live to be 100 years old.

i listened to it, and if i had to apply the lou reed filter, i'd say i did it because i wanted to really feel the hate for don henley. and it worked!
i was ready to just dismiss it as complete garbage but dang this song is offensive
love the video "my first music video"

I interrupted listening to Berlin for this? By far, the worst decision I've ever made in my life.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/31/article-0-1187154E000005DC-12_634x380.jpg

So Joe Walsh is Ringo Starr's brother-in-law.

I knew Joe had been a member of the All-Starr Band, but this, I wasn't aware of.

Haven't listened to today's song yet. YouTube wanted me to sit through a 30-second spot for Acura, and I just couldn't do it.

Also ham radio recordings of Joe on his wikipedia page.

I've fallen behind on my listening so I just listened to everything from Learn to Be Still forward.

They are all terrible songs. I think How Long could be redeemed if it could be purged of the Walmartness of it and maybe change some of the stupid, stupid lyrics. Don does some vocal freestyling at the end of Hole in the World that is just repulsive, also did you look at the video? Look at their stupid faces in the video while they sing that song. They look like a sketch comedy troupe pretending to be a washed up shitty band singing some late-career self-important treacly mess of a song. Also that song is over four minutes long because by now, the entire band is made up of nothing but contempt for their remaining fans. Busy Being Fabulous is execrable. I couldn't get through the live version of Learn to Be Still. I could barely get through the 5 seconds of stage banter before they started playing. God I hate the Eagles.

And that's Paul McCartney's son, right? Have you ever in your life gone out on the town with the assistant sales manager your dad used to work with and that guy's brother-in-law? Maybe Sean won't return his calls.

i was wondering who the owl faced kid is! he looks miserable.

We can't all be "the cute one."

haha
what a strange life it must be to be son of the cute one. like eric stoltz in son of the fly.

http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pn004963.jpg

"A teenaged prostitute? Your drummer can't get by on his looks alone like me?"

lol

Lee626, not only did it debut at #1, it was the third best-selling record of 2007 and is 7x platinum.

Granted, it's a double album so 7x Platinum means 3.5 million shipped/sold, but still pretty shocking.

7x Platinum means 3.5 million shipped/sold

if 3.4 million copies of that double album were sitting in the basement of a walmart warehouse, it would still get to be 7x platinum.

But in the SoundScan era, do labels still claim shipped=sold?

last time i checked, and i admit it's been a minute, the riaa's gold and platinum awards were completely unconnected to soundscan.

ok just checked. still unconnected.

I wish that 3.4 million copies were languishing in Wal-Mart warehouses across this great nation. But chillingly, 2.6 million copies of this album were sold to paying customers the last 2 months of 2007 alone.

My guess is that, by now, well over 3 million copies of this album have actually been intentionally purchased.

citation on that 2.6 million number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States_since_Nielsen_SoundScan_tracking_began#2007.5B6.5D

take that, daughtry (and your mere 2.5 million)!

Don't cry for Daughtry. That 2.5 million figure is only for 2007. The album moved almost 5 million copies, eventually outselling our thread's heroes.

"Busy Being Fabulous": Rather than dwell on on the inherent misogyny in this song, I'd rather focus on how hilarious it is that Mr. Donster McSeriousPants is still writing songs about bimbos ditching his sorry ass. I could probably c'n'p my prior comments about the harmonies from here on out. This was fairly big on Country radio too, no?

GLENN: in the end, daughtry sold more albums, but we, um, well, you know...

DON: well, yeah.

It wouldn't surprise me if LRTE really did sell millions. Wal-Mart customers are their demographic.

I actually got a little knee jerk insulted on behalf of Walmart customers! I'm not even kidding!

Meanwhile, I thought to myself that people who would buy an Eagles CD at Walmart get what they deserve, just like ppl who voted for Rand Paul, whose poodly topknot indicates some affiliation with Don & the gang.

I don't think it's a demographic so much as, "Lessee, got detergent...Liquid Plumber...new bath mat...oh, huh, new Eagles for $10? Sure, what the hell."

In other words, the Eagles knew that no one, anywhere, ever would make a special trip to a store to buy their new record; the only purchasers would be those who were stocking up on dog food and socks at the time.

who wouldn't stock up on dog food and socks? People get hungry and cold.

Maybe the Eagles CD is for the dog.

...the dog they got after they got rid of Randy Meisner

Also, Long Road Out of Eden was a holiday season release, and what the hell else are you going to get the uncle/cousin/sibling you rarely see or think about?

who wouldn't stock up on dog food and socks? People get hungry and cold.

Exactly. The Eagles correctly reasoned that only those already in Wal-Mart buying staples would impulse-buy their record on a whim/at the checkout.

i also like to think there was a sticker on the cd that said "not INCLUDING TAKE IT EASY AND HOTEL CALIFORNIA," with the "not" in 2-pt type and everything else in 36-pt type.

I like the idea of your average shopper hate-buying the record as a last-minute gift for someone they dislike.

I plan to do this for several ILXers.

Alas, they were truthful, and included today's song as one of the selling points:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0166/1048/products/eagles_eden_1_1024x1024.jpg?0

good price, though

Not sure what kind of message they're trying to send with cheap record prices and batshit ticket prices.

grandpa's birthday is just around the corner

They were going hard after the Kate Bush Aerial demographic with that sleeve

Back cover's pretty sweet too:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0166/1048/products/eagles_eden_2_1024x1024.jpg?0

10:15, the horror

Oh no there are a lot more songs left on this album.

oh shit didn't notice that. I was too busy getting worried about having to listen to a song called "I Love To Watch a Woman Dance."

I think I am going insane because I just spent 20 minutes writing this.

Grandpa Receives Eagles CD for his 60th birthday

A Barberton, OH man has received the latest recording by the 1970s legends of excess, The Eagles, from his 4 year old granddaughter. He received the CD at a family gathering held at his favorite restaurant, Applebee's. Other restaurant patrons recalled the silver-haired father of two (grandfather of 4) as he drank a few too many Jack and Cokes. "He was getting louder and louder, and I thought he might vomit," said one concerned patron. Another patron sitting at a nearby table claims that Grandpa was beginning to lose his temper with one of the waitresses after she asked him politely not to touch her. His daughter Amy tried to distract him by handing him a gift. The retired accountant laughed as he opened the gift from his granddaughter Kayleigh, who was his daughter's baby. Kayleigh was 4, but she was the well-liked youngest child and always referred to as "the baby" by her extended family. After opening Kayleigh's gift, a CD by grandpa's favorite band The Eagles, Grandpa beamed and thanked his "little Kayleighbear" for her thoughtful gift and began to "tell stories about the old days, just like he always does", laughed Amy. To date, Grandpa has not opened the CD because he doesn't know how to operate a CD player, but he continues to appreciate the thoughtfulness of the gift.

would make beautiful liner notes if they ever do a follow-up

thank god they'll be occupied with this tour until 2015

Which means a new album at Wal Mart in 2020.

When you drive from Little Rock to Chicago, there's this section of the route with no interstate. You basically spend hours in the foothills of the Ozarks going up and down hills, crossing unlit railroad tracks and keeping an eye on the 55 MPH speed limit.

Finally, you come out on Interstate 55 which leads up into the Missouri Bootheel and the New Madrid fault line. You turn right at I-57, cross the Mississippi, barely skirt Kentucky and enter Illinois, which is at least the state in which Chicago is located. Home free, finally.

Except just a mile or so after the Cairo exit, you see the sign that says "Chicago . . . . . . . 371". You can make the trip dozens of times and on each one, you'll feel just plain ol' deflated when you calculate how far you still have to go.

Anyway. That's how I felt when I saw this morning that not only do we still have at least two weeks of this catalog left, but one track is ten minutes and fifteen seconds long. :-(

<i>I like the idea of your average shopper hate-buying the record as a last-minute gift for someone they dislike.</i>

I think this accounts for 20% of its sales. Harried shopper, two weeks before Christmas, ticking off the gifts she's bought while in line at the cash register, realizes she's forgotten to buy for her sister's stupid boyfriend. Sees "Long Road Out of Eden" in a display box. "I think that schmuck likes the Eagles. Is this a live album? Only $12? Fuck it." In the cart it goes.

Also ham radio recordings of Joe on his wikipedia page.

Joe talks ham radio and morse code in this show: http://youtu.be/0vyjXClQnLs