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

When threads collide:

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Think we've seen that one before, but oh no pretty mama, what they gonna do in those shirts.

"Can we be shown pictures of weirdos with Mike Love and Don Felder's guitars?"

felder = irl victim of Love

:D

No Henley & Mike photos? There truly is not enough Love in the world.

I'll show myself out...

In the wild: As I typed my post to the CVS obscure singles thread, the Jack In The Box muzak channel began playing "How Long".

ew

DON: The industry sucks so bad that we're lucky when fans get to hear our music by whatever legal means at their disposal. I'm told "How Long" off our last album is a big CVS hit.

GLENN: "How long" is right -- 20 minutes on my last visit just to buy a pack of Trojans!

DON: Well, yeah.

I can just picture someone going to CVS to buy condoms and changing their mind after hearing 'How Long'

it's the perfect aural contraceptive

you just wrote and conceived the commercial!

Heard "Old '55" in Kroger yesterday ...

... but it was the Tom Waits version! Kroger, you never cease to amaze me.

If I had one ILM wish, it would be that I had been in this group when you did this, I would have been right with you people every torturous step of the way. Bless yr hearts, this thread brings me profound joy.

^^We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

also I need to say that I have a sleep disorder and I need to have something very familiar and bland and comforting on TV to help lull me to sleep and when the Eagles doc is on Showtime On Demand, it's my go-to soporific. Every single night.

this is the thread that i deserve

― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 22, 2013 6:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, yeah.

I had to take a long drive through isolated backroads at 2am last weekend and for my soundtrack I chose The Complete Eagles Greatest Hits

perfect saccharine-creepy music for a creepy landscape

I went on a rare road trip to a company retreat last week. When I do so, I have to leave the Honda and its CD player behind and take the car with only a tape deck.

Went into the garage closet and boy, there was Greatest Hits Vols. 1 and 2 staring me in the face. The decision just hung in the musty air for a few moments.

But I wound up taking Anthrax Attack of the Killer Bs. Again, my cassette choices aren't as wide as they used to be.

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ILXOR 1: "Man, this thread sure does feel like the road to –"

ILXOR 2: "– well, yeah."

I'm watching the doc!

They just recorded Desperado. They still like each other. Don 'n' Glenn have said nice things about Bernie and Randy.

Eagles in the wild: "I Can't Tell You Why" in Grocery Outlet. It felt right.

breaking Ned Doheny reissue news:

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/05/12/los-angeles-royalty-ned-dohenys-separate-oceans/

in the wild: ghastly solo Frey, "Soul Searchin'," playing in the supermarket

Numero should totally go after Longbranch Pennywhistle.

He always imagined that a female singer would turn the song on its head – “some smoldering babe who coincidentally sings her ass off” – but it never happened

this totally happened and it rules

sorry prob more for doheny thread

forgot he wrote Chaka's "What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me"!

so...col and I wanna start a Rod Stewart 1976-1991 listening thread? You guys in?

JO-EL imo

higher percentage of innaresting to terrible songs in the Rod discography imo

I'd be down for Rod. That timeframe lines right up with where I lose track with him aside from some of the big hits. That Elton thread was fun, even if I followed way more than I partook.

I'd start Rod at 1974, generally regarded as the start of his post-classic period, or maybe '75 when he changed labels and moved to the US.

B. Joel though needs to start right at the beggining with the Hassels though.

I have the Razor & Tie Hassles comp. They had some good tracks! And they set the stage for...

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i can't muster any interest for rod

def will be on board if Billy Joel ever becomes a thing

Meanwhile, over in Eagles-Land: I've been watching "China Beach" on the newly issued individual season dvd sets, and came upon this in the wiki section about the music edits they had to make:

Episode 187056, "Try and Love Again," Eagles, 2:00. Replaced with version of same song by Randy Meisner, who WROTE the song when he was IN THE EAGLES.

Capitalization not by me.

You all saw what I posted on the "photos of people together blah blah blah" thread, right?

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Thought that was Uptown Girl for a sec, but it's the new Mrs. Howard Stern.

Feel like I should be recused from any decision made about the next thread if WMJ is in the running.

joel has the potential to tell me something about american masculinity similar to the eagles. plus i had a job in this kitchen once where the chef literally only listened to out of order on repeat, turning what had been a small, perverse pleasure of mine into soulkilling torture. i don't think i could go there again. a little voice inside my head says 'don't look back, you can never look back'.

An Eagles song on China Beach? That's pretty anachronistic, right? I mean, that show didn't exactly go on until the Fail of Saigon.

yeah i saw that pic and did a double take thinking it was brinkley also

Weird how he surrounds himself with women who look like Christie Brinkley or himself.

XP-The last season of "China Beach" used the then-novel fractured timeline conceit, with storylines taking place in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

how does china beach hold up? been tempted to watch it again. dana delaney. actually that might be an idea for a book club for ppl too lazy or stupid to read a book: 80s america comes to grips w/ vietnam pop culture. maybe stretch it to include apocalypse now/the deer hunter/coming home (maybe not coming home) at the beginning, and i dunno (jfk? JFK!) at the end, have tv episodes that used vietnam in some way as a plot point (yes i am thinking of miami vice here), watch a few representative or lolsome episodes of tour of duty, dl some cbrs of 'nam, get some stan ridgway and paul hardcastle playing, some bitusa (wait - i know what we end w/ - YEAH THEY COME TO KILL THE ROOSTER AW YEAH YKNOW HE AIN'T NEVER GONNA DIE NO').

I do not remember the flash-forwards on China Beach at all!

Dana Delaney walking around the subways in NYC, going to parties where's there's an actual hog's head in the refrigerator...

YEAH THEY COME TO KILL THE ROOSTER AW YEAH YKNOW HE AIN'T NEVER GONNA DIE NO').

But it wasn't a rooster, it was really a baby!

"China Beach" has held up fairly well. It gets too schmaltz-y at times, but overall it's been worth the effort. It seems like I've been going through a period of watching "TV that was on in my house went I went to bed as a child"--first "Crime Story", now CB, perhaps Hill Street next...

*I can imagine an '80s version of ile having a thread called 'dana delany - damn, damn, damn does this woman look good'

i'm in if it's billy and it will potentially ruin my life for however long it takes to finish. rod stewart in the '80s strikes me as 15 percent fun, 85 percent torture. neither one of 'em is enough of an a) asshole, b) musician, c) weird icon and d) complete mystery to ever compete with the eagles though.

China Beach holds up because late 80s/early 90s Marg Helgenberger