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

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?

cross posted from the Led Zeppelin thread...Robert Plant throwing some amazing shade @the Eagles and Jimmy Page in his Rolling Stone interview

"Plant stands up to leave, but turns on his heel. "Do you know why the Eagles said they’d reunite when 'hell freezes over,' but they did it anyway and keep touring?” he asks. "It’s not because they were paid a fortune. It’s not about the money. It’s because they’re bored. I’m not bored."

speaking of which, Robert Plant's entire solo catalog might kind of interesting

very few duds in Plant's solo catalog

yeah mostly i just was looking on spotify and he's done way more records that i knew

I would be up for participating in a Billy Joel listen-along. I'm not a huge fan but some people I know are and it would be interesting to see what all the hubbub is.

I mean, would the Eagles thread been annoying had there been this die-hard Eagles fan ILXor piping up for each song? Because I warn you, this is what's going to happen on a Joel thread.

i'm a billy diehard and while i may be piping up for each song, i can assure you not all my piping will be positive. i mean he did, to take one random example, record -- and actually release -- "until the night."

veronica kinda counts as a die-hard in the eagles listening thread, surely...she seemed to qualify as more of a fan than most of us, and it was kinda cool tbh

WELL wouldn't call myself a diehard but YEAH I find that act fascinating, eventually came around to loving a lot of their hits…

but the thing for me was getting that greatest hits update with the Crowe-conducted interviews 11 years ago, then a box of all their records from Rhino nine years ago…so my early walking around Ipod listening involved a lotta eagles and appreciating what they did well, recognizing that they indeed gargled dog balls at other times…Don's a lousy drummer, great singer, probly the most smug hypocritical guys to ever give a 15 year old girl so much coke to loosen her up that she ODed and called the pimp and said "this one is broken; send another" (I never get tired of mentioning that).

but I didn't listen to them shits every day last summer like you guys did… I don't think I'll have the commitment to listen to any of the guys you mention…

kiss would be kinda good too. like the eagles, they're polarizing, they're driven by two colorful egomaniacs, they have issues with ex-band-members, they're not particularly well-liked by dave marsh, and have a pretty high little-known-album-tracks-to-hits ratio.

come to think of it, billy joel fits that description too, except for the two colorful egomaniacs part -- he isn't two, and he isn't all that colorful -- and his unknowns-to-hits ratio is probably lower.

but either would make a nice east coast counterpoint to the west coasters who started this.

Kiss would be fun! That would have the (duuuuubious) benefit of a lot of excruciating songs.

billy joel fits that description too, except for the two colorful egomaniacs part -- he isn't two, and he isn't all that colorfu

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