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

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not having to listen to an Eagles song tomorrow is reward enough

omg pplains!

pplains that is awesome

I kinda fell off the wagon with the last album, but the majority that I participated in was super fun (within the context of subjecting oneself to listening to the Eagles every day)

scott you get some kind of major award for your commitment and awesomeness

a heroic effort from the start, scott. this thread should be in the internet hall of fame. and you should reward yourself with some vintage 1969 spirits and some colitas.

also i would like to request that the final two words on this thread, whenever it is irreversibly done, be "well" and "yeah." and then the thread should be locked.

DON: We're very flattered that a bunch of guys on the 'net wanna spend talking about her catalog. It's about time we got our due.

GLENN: Like the time you thought Stevie Nicks was due?

DON: Well, yeah.

hey all! we did it. i'll never forget the people i served with, we are bound by unseen scars we carry.

well this last song is completely fucking vapid and boring, a fitting end. this last double album was just dreadful to get through, it's pretty damn hard to make an album this bad. in a way i almost hate all these type of songs, the just dull generic shit more than the really bad stuff because at least the bad stuff ends up being kinda fun to make fun of how shitty it all is.

the 70s was fun though! they were really a window into a world that is gone now, the whole shitty curdled coke addled hippie dream drying out and dying in the sand, then having its corpse carted off in a private jet.

thanks bernie, don, and joe, without out your tasty licks i don't know if i could have done it.

didn't like the eagles before, not i can genuinely say i hate them. what fucking frauds, it disgusts me that this bunch is sometimes spoken of as "classic" rock or a great band. they are pathetic turds compared to so many other artists that operated in their general milieu.

still a few songs that aren't ruined, hotel california, one of these nights, already gone, but still looking back it's remarkable how shitty every one of their albums was.

fuck, man...the eagles.

well,
yeah.

get over it!

(lol)

i don't know whether to blame my son and his minecraft networking or those friggin' dodgy russian music sites that had eagles songs on them for all the malware and trojan backdoors my laptop has been experiencing. kinda think i'll just blame the eagles.

that last album was sorta this band's way of saying: oh you thought you had it bad BEFORE...we'll show ya...

haha you got computer vd from don and glenn

DON: A lot has happened since that summer of 1971. It is amazing and gratifying that so many people, all over the world, still love these songs and come out in droves to hear us play them. I live in Texas now, and sometimes, late at night, when I’m pushing the cart around the supermarket, I’ll hear one of our records and think, “I left here 33 years ago, did all that, and here I am back again… now, what did I come here to buy?”

GLENN: Valtrex, dummy.

DON: Well, yeah.

"It's Your World Now": Somebody's been listening to the Mavericks! Yes, It's our world now, hopefully one with less Eagles music.

Scott, you are a hero. There should be a section of trees in Walden dedicated just to you.

W___, y___.

There should be a selection of trees ripped from Walden in Henley's private Texas forest for you.

^^You just have to get past Henley's Private Bear Security Force to claim them

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"Come and get 'em, bitch!"

Here they are.

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can someone find the first appearance of "Well, yeah" on this thread?

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

i feel like Bernie was the heart of it. He wasn't the most important member or whatever but yeah I dunno. something about his whole boho folk surfer vibe was cool

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gotta wonder if Bernie thought going in that he was going to be the driving force of the Eagles when they started out. He had the impressive credentials, he had three songwriting credits on their first album vs. on mere co-write from Henley.

it's shocking how much Frey and Henley got away with w/their 2nd-rate talents. [ . . . . ] , having a producer who was able to make even their crummiest stuff sound professional at least.

― col, Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Even there, their instincts were just awful. Recall how their sophomore album tanked upon initial release, and their third album's singles were treading for water too ("James Dean") until "Best of My Love", the third single from the LP, topped the charts. "Best of My Love" was one of the two songs they recorded for On The Border produced by Glyn Johns before they sacked him because they wanted to get away from that country-rock sound he favored, the sound that broke them huge.

In the wild: "The Sad Cafe" on jukebox auto play in a diner.

Fitting.

I'm sure this is somewhere on this thread but a friend posted it on FB and i thought it was appropriate:

http://gawker.com/woman-stabs-roommate-for-refusing-to-stop-listening-to-1335462841

I still think we should do Styx

I'm ready for 1977-1986 Elton!

Bring on Billy Joel

I think you three are still seeing the stars and not seeing the light.

well, yeah

How about Loverboy?

I think you should just keep doing this thread, over and over again, forever.

"You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave."

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DON: I've always admired existenalism and Jean-Paul Sartre. It really spoke to us as these L.A. translants.

GLENN: It musta been fiction. Henley, you ever head of a "respectful" prostitute?

DON: Well, yeah.

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Some of you still suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

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that picture, wow, just 100% pure, uncut Henley. Terrifying

don't need image of "uncut Henley" thx

D:

"The Last Worthless Foreskin"

Johnny Come Lately, the foreskin in town

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Eagles in the wild:

Last night eating alone at a sandwich place, their Xmas song came on right after 'Santa Baby'

Heard "Already Gone" the other day. It's a song I've always confused/conflated with "Take it Easy," but it occurred to me that, you know, I really don't mind "Already Gone." Not written by any of the Eagles, of course. Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlcOs3fCN3M

Eagles in the wild: stopped at a gas station late at night, and "Heartache Tonight" was playing in the background.

That's ominous!

"I'm gonna have to Fill Up Tonight/Fill Up Tonight I know..."

more like a shitty cap to a terrible holiday. Gawd, is it too much ask for Henley & Frey to lose all their money in a ponzi scheme or something? They'll make it back anyway - but just a financial punch to the gut.

Y'know, I don't know if I've heard any wild Eagles even once since this thread started - certainly none since Labour Day. Other than a few seconds of "Hotel California" during the occasional "Q-107 plays the classics!" commercial. Guess I should get out more.

I just assume "Hotel California" is always playing somewhere on the radio.