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

Johnny Come Lately, the foreskin in town

http://i.imgur.com/X3z6doo.jpg

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.

It woke me up on my clock radio the other day. I slammed the whole thing off instead of snooze, thinking "No one should begin a day like that."

We were late.

Oh shit, "Hotel California" is Houston's third favorite/greatest Classic Rock song according to this listener countdown on air as I type.

STH or FB #1?

FB #2 STH #1 HJ #4

Layla @ 5 would be my guess.

Layla was #28. YSMANL by AC/DC #5

HJ #4

when did that become the go-to beatles song for the top 10 of a classic rock countdown? didn't the automatic top beatles entry used to be ADITL? what happened america??? or is this just a houston thing?

As leader of the ILX Floyd faction, did CN get into the top 10?

IIRC, HJ actually ended up being the Beatles biggest single in America. ADITL is #32 on this list. As for the Floyd, CN is #34, but ABITW2 was #6.

Here's the list: http://www.937thearrow.com/pages/2013Top500.pdf

At least Walsh's RMY finished higher #165 than the next highest Eagles song: LITFL at #178

when did that become the go-to beatles song for the top 10 of a classic rock countdown? didn't the automatic top beatles entry used to be ADITL? what happened america??? or is this just a houston thing?

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WLS in Chicago (not a "classic rock" station, because that marketing term didn't exist yet) in the late 70s/early 80s used to a "Top 500 of All Time" countdown every Memorial Day weekend. For years it was a foregone conclusion that "Hey Jude" would be #1; "Stairway" finally hit #1 in 1986, despite rarely being played on that station.

"Hey Jude" was at the time the longest song to hit No. 1. One of the best compromises between Top 40 and AOR stations.

ACDC makes perfect sense at No. 5. I guessed Layla since the other four songs in the Top 5 all top the six-minute mark, if not much more so.

(I can't stand "Hey Jude" though. "Hotel California" 100 times past that one for me.)

this classic rock part of the conversation reads like total insanity

but it's insanity i understand. i grew up listening to cleveland rock radio and i know hey jude was always on because as a child i was plagued with an earworm that somehow melted mr rogers' "won't you be my neighbor" with the better better better better waaaah part of HJ. won't you be my neighbor neighbor neighbor neighbor waaaah, na na na na na na na na and so on.

for basically my entire life. cursed!

and it seems only fitting that this little anecdote was brought to you by the eagles.

Well, yeah.

Naaa na na

na-na-na-naaa...

na-na-na-naaaa...

well, yeah.

On closer inspectiong, there's no solo Frey on that list. The H is definitely not O.

"Hey Jude" was at the time the longest song to hit No. 1. One of the best compromises between Top 40 and AOR stations.

i totally get the hugeness in its time of HJ and i've got nothing in particular against the song. but i remember rock and, later, classic rock stations adopting ADITL as the essential beatles multilayered epic "statement" song, kind of like HC, which in its time was not particularly bigger than any of the other eagles #1's (all of which, including HC, topped the chart for exactly one week, no more). HHJ strikes me as more power ballad than multilayered epic statement and, therefore, a less likely choice for classic rock radio countdown canonization.

"HJ strikes me...," that is. "HHJ" would, i guess, be the 12-inch remix.

ghosts of eagles in the wild: i keep hearing songs in random places that sound like they're going to turn into "witchy woman" but then they don't. today it was an african song playing behind the dj on "morning becomes eclectic." saturday it was one of the marching bands at the ucla/usc game.

That thread scarred me. I feel like I was off the Ho Chi Minh trail fighting Vietcong.

On closer inspectiong, there's no solo Frey on that list. The H is definitely not O.

final score:
JW 3
DH 2
GF 0

i'm ok with that!

(xp) yes! my unstated subtext was "i have post thread stress syndrome. please help me."

Xp I was surprised at ANL's placement, as I rarely heard it on any classic rock radio around here despite it featuring heavily in our one-time official movie.

Withy Woman would be a miserable slog as marching band music. Except the part where the drums are cool, I guess.

I took aerobics with my mom in the 80s and "all she wants to do is dance" and "the heat is on" both figured prominently in the playlists for one of the classes. Both songs put me in mind of white hightop Reeboks and the aerobics move known as "the pony."

GF 0?

More like GTF0, ami rite

And for the record:

77 | James Gang | Funk #49

if this were a perfect world that song would be top 10

The classic rock canon poll is going to be such a fun slapfight.

as long as everyone doesn't abbreviate all the songs so I don't get confused about what we're talking about

;_;

Wow, both the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix did HJ, awesome.

but seriously, that's gonna be my new thing to get insomnia over, trying to find the longest identical set of initials between two popular but unrelated songs.

I wondered why there was a discussion about Ronnie Lane's "How Come" on the Eagles thread.

http://thequietus.com/articles/14176-vince-clarke-erasure-favourite-albums?page=8

CLARKE: I got into The Eagles late, about 1990 or something. I started hearing them a lot on the radio, I'd known their songs but hadn't paid any attention to them in any detail. Then when I started listening to them properly, I thought, "Yeah man, that's pretty damn cool".

DON: Well, yeah.

vocals aside, about half of 'building the perfect beast' sounds like an erasure premonition

EAGLES IN THE WILLLLLD for my first time since thread start!

"Lyin 'eyes" on satellite tv 70s-rock station now playing while visiting with friends & in-laws

I heard "Take It Easy" at the local pizza restaurant on Monday.

Not exactly Eagles but the local hipster coffee shop (which usually never has music) has just recently started piping in Pandora or something -- on Christmas Eve they were blasting "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" and one of the girl baristas was trying to get the boy barista to dance with her. He (correctly) refused.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/booty-call-director-jeffrey-pollack-667682

He was dressed in jogging clothes and carrying an iPod, which was still playing the Eagles when the police arrived. Hermosa Beach police captain Tommy Thompson told EasyReaderNews.com that police do not suspect foul play, and it is believed Pollack died of natural causes while exercising. He was an avid runner and softball player.

GLENN: Ouch.

DON: Well, yeah.