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

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

sez you

http://makeagif.com/media/5-13-2014/nUYiIH.gif

omg

pplains otm

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.

Kiss has the perfect band dynamics and personalities, but unlike the Eagles where there were a handful of undeniably great tracks to look forward to mixed in with the crud, just about every Kiss song in depressingly mediocre or worse.

Joel would work - the music is OTM for this exercise, the lyrics will give us plenty to discuss, but it must include every studio track including Hassles (only 2 albums & a few singles) and Attila.

garage rock starts of later, um, titans are always fun and i've always been curious about what attila actually sounded like (w/o being curious enough to actually seek it out). i was wondering if by the time we got to 'piano man' we'd actually welcome it, thinking that it might've taken awhile for joel to find his voice since even 'piano man' doesn't seem there yet (easily one of my most hated dylan pastiches), but nope - first song, first 'billy joel' album is 'she's got a way', about as billy joel a song as you can get (though the hit version is actually a live version from many years later, similar to mccartney and 'maybe i'm amazed')(and you know joel would welcome that comparison).

Attila is just your basic 1970 metal band, but without guitars or bass

sez you

haha. one thing billy has going for him that neither kiss nor the eagles have is a pretty good catalog of videos. so there's that to talk about too, once we hit the 1980s.

Rod gots videos.

being that they were from outside Chicago, "corn-fed" doesn't really do it.

That it doesn't, particularly because they were from inside Chicago (the Roseland neighborhood on the south side). Pierogi-fed, or kielbasa-fed, maybe.

Eagles in the wild: "Love Will Keep Us Alive" at Walgreens this morning. A woman collapsed in the perfume aisle.

Lot of corn in Illinois, not sure where that's going.

man pierogies are delicious though

The .gif ppplains posted solidified my support for a Joel thread.

me too

yeah, the possibility of more

and it captured the spirit of this thread on some level I can't quite explain.

I would love to do Styx because I dislike them intensely but there are some good Tommy Shaw songs that were totally ruined by the taint of Dennis DeYoung, they would be fun to dissect.

But yeah, I can sense the beauty of doing Billy Joel, too.
Count me in for anything. I so wish I had been in on this Eagles extravaganza.

the taint of Dennis DeYoung

^ should be the title if we do a Styx listening thread

Lotta similarities between Joel and DeYoung. They're both show-tuney overenunciators who keep trying (and failing, but, to their credit, hilariously) to "prove" that they "can" "rock."

Thin ice, Tarfumes. Billy Joel never said that he was the Brian WIlson of Billy Joel, for example.

so when is someone gonna start this fire?

always been burning, afaic

well, yeah. but still...

So no Rod then...

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1424995.ece/alternates/s615/Rod-Stewart.jpg

You guys remember this classic Don response:

Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention -- and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It's a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes.

The folks at Eagles Online Central disagree with our conclusions:

Don has always been very eloquent with what he says. He rarely made a statement that wasn't poignant, which is very detailed in the song writing. He wanted to be a journalism major, he's a smart dude! Not to mention pretty damn cute.

and

These are killing me, Don showed him. Don doesn't have much patience with fools, good for him.

Well,

Speaking of the 'toilet roll incident', there's a programme here where two hoteliers go around other establishments giving tips on how to improve and increase their market and the first thing one guy does is go into each ensuite to see if the toilet roll is around the right way, a la Don!!

Also, I read somewhere that according to feng shui the toilet roll should be coming towards you to create 'harmony' in your bathroom and increase your finances - the other way means money rolling out of your purse! As Don doesn't seem to be doing too badly in the old finance department, maybe it works?

Alright, EOC has my attention. What toilet roll incident?

from: http://dirtylaundryblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/we-have-excerpt.html

In between takes, Don had become a prolific letter-writer. In one he composed to the studio maid, he insisted that the floral toilet paper be put on the roll the other way around so it rolled off the top, pointing out that if it was meant to come off the bottom, the little pink flowers would have been printed on the undersides of the sheets. Where you would see them.

In the industry, to be the receiver of a "Henley" (one of those letters) is to be considered a part of a special club. Some insiders have framed their "Henley"s and hang them in their offices or lounges.

so what else is meant to come off Don's bottom

In the wild: "Dirty Laundry" on the muzak at Northern Tool + Equipment.

GLENN: Yup, Don's the tool and I'm the equipment!

DON: Well, yeah.

Some insiders have framed their "Henley"s and hang them in their offices or lounges.

Facing which direction?

Found this while looking for something else: Dennis Miller introducing the Donster & "Dirty Laundry" at the first Clinton inaugural ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NmYpJ2R9Ps

90s singularity

does the guitar lick in this randy newman cover from the doobie brothers' 1971 debut remind you of something as much as it reminds me of something?

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

Yes. Yes it does.

wow. but who was the thief? Felder or Walsh?

I believe the movie said it was riff walsh would warm up to before shows.

Walsh got his.

Compare this (1969) at :20 http://youtu.be/Jpovr2IQpjc
to this (1971) http://youtu.be/K3OurDXdlic

In the (very) wild: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2014/05/stacey_keith_stripper_memoir.php

Choice bit:

Was Ms. Keith not so smart -- her IQ is around 140, and it shows in conversation and in her writing -- her book might just be a tawdry tale that includes an impromptu Malibu blowjob with Don Henley, surreal photo shoots with Hollywood creeps like Russ Meyer, and a near-rape by a construction crew.

you can read some of the book in preview, including poor Ms. Keith's initial encounter with the Donster:

"He jogged towards me, said hi, then stopped to catch his breath, which was an obvious ploy...He wasn't in the greatest shape and didn't seem to spend a whole lot of time in the sun. He had a generic face...

'Are you training for a marathon?'I asked, coy but ready to bolt if he said something weird.

'Bad knees," he said. Maybe to prove his point, he braced his hands on them and grinned up at me. 'Do you know who I am?'

'No.'

'I'm Don Henley."