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

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?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/10/article-2624890-1DB6794C00000578-186_634x508.jpg

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

I think Billy is more in the spirit of the eagles thread, I know it's post peak but I genuinely consider rod one of the greatest rock artists of all time

The problem is I don't have many good things about Joel's accepted good songs.

Limiting Joel 1980-89 is the only way I could do this.

I do think we need an ILX thread that mentions Storm Front a thousand times.

hahahaha

how about mid-70s and on Santana?

REO Speedwagon?

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I will say this, it's got to be all or nothing.

No any of this so-and-so from July 1972 to April 1986 or anything. We did the Eagles - B-sides included - from "Take It Easy" through The Long Road Out of Eden. I'm not going to be on my death bed thinking, Well, you know, I guess we didn't listen to every .38 Special song in that thread, now did we?

You will die alone.

well, yeah.

I will say this, it's got to be all or nothing.

THIS. another point in joel's favor is that the catalog is finite and at the same time not much larger than the eagles considering. something like kiss or styx could be interesting but there we're looking at a situation where we get to a point where we think we're nearly done surely and it turns out we're only a quarter of the way thru (imagine if the post-reunion eagles had released twice as many albums as the pre-reunion). plus access might not be easy, all of wm. joel's work (well maybe not the pre-solo stuff) is readily accessible, on spotify, etc.

styx could be interesting because weren't they some kinda weird corn-fed cod midwest fake prog thing at first? (i'm sure xhuck has written about this before)

they're interesting in that they recorded not a single good hit.

yeah there are prog elements (even their new wave move was a prog rock opera). you also get the interband feuding and dennis deyoung could hold his own in a douche off w/ joel, henley, frey, gene simmons. i'm just worried there's too many post-"peak" albums, this thread got so not as much fun when we hit the reunion years and styx had a top ten hit in 1990, i can't imagine they just decided to pack it up soon after that.

just looked at Rush's discography, and man they never really slowed down

Styx has four post-breakup/reunion records (and, inexplicably, eight live albums). If we do Styx, we should set a cutoff point.

being that they were from outside Chicago, "corn-fed" doesn't really do it. What's the Chicago version of "cornfed?" Kansas is pretty much the alpha and omega of cornfed prog.

but indeed Styx were midwest prog until Deyoung turned them into Manilow prog-metal, which of course Tommy no like, and then like more than a few acts that immediately preceded punk-new wave, half-heartedly took a hard left turn into devo-dom, re: "Mr Roboto" and "music time."

alright, though I think LA hack-era Rod would be a fine and far more humane thread, I'm okay with Joel.

joel really seems like the best choice. but I fear all lols will be tinged with a hint of klosterman.

OK OK enough: I'll listen to any B. Joel if it means no Styx.

If we do Joel, we're starting with Attila, right?

ugh. a vote for solo Joel only---otherwise you might as well include the 3 Hassles records too

atilla owns the zone

just looked at Rush's discography, and man they never really slowed down

― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:42 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aside from maybe a slight lull in the 90s they've been pretty consistently good too

but they don't belong in this conversation imo

Aw, no Styx? No Attila?