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

Recently started reading Warren Zanes' new biography of Tom Petty. Had no idea he went to high school in Gainesville w/both Bernie Leadon and Don Felder.

you would have known that if you had read all 5274 posts on this thread.

Hey, take it easy.

xp Well, yeah

The Baroness guy interview gives context for the "dad rock" wammy. Basically it was a piece about him later in life coming to grips with/coming to love a lot of the light rock he derided as a teen. Actually, I thought there was a lot of good/interesting/entertaining/perceptive stuff in here:

http://www.avclub.com/article/john-baizley-discusses-simple-beauty-dad-rock-and--229328

dang that documentary did wonders for their image

Once I realized that those guys were as openly self-involved as they sounded

not to really pick on the guy, but it was always obvious these people were huge narcissists. the doc didn't exactly make that revelation. trying to figure out why it's "cool" now. people posit that it is bc they are now unapologetic about it, as if in the past they were pretending to be kind of humble or something.

"the sultry stylings of Glenn Frey"

"the glistening genital warts on Don Henley"

Well, I think the doc did open a lot of eyes to a band many/most had only heard. There were a handful of songs I didn't even know were Eagles songs until I saw the doc.

Eagles = Dad Rock ... We're getting close to, if not past, the point where bands from the 70s are "dad rock".

Foo Fighters, Wilco, fathers taking their sons to see Straight Outta Compton... that's the era of Dad Rock we're now in.

yeah i had a deep and abiding hatred, had read multiple interviews where don henley gloated over the eagles having been more successful than the new york dolls so fuck the critics where are the new york dolls now huh, i knew these fuckers, and the doc was still revelatory. the first half of it is pretty great, i didn't finish the second half, just perfunctory rehab and reunion stuff. man between that doc's growing cult, their profile (and classic rock's profile in general) shrinking enough that they don't suffer from present overexposure, and stuff like blue jean committee i do wonder if somehow the eagles could be reclaimed. may god have mercy on our souls.

it's working out the way Henley planned: where are Foghat and Zep on AOR radio now motherfuckers!

great interview with DH on howard stern today

the era of Dad Rock we're now in.

i think at this point basically all rock is dad rock.

http://i.imgur.com/QYifvUP.gif

I mean, Well yeah.

"Get Over It" was blasting out of an apartment window in town a couple days ago.

BITCHIN A FIT

I have the first six Eagles albums on my iPod and tried shuffling them yesterday and was struck anew by the Grand Canyon-sized gulf in quality between anything they released as a single and anything they didn't. I mean, there's literally not one track on their albums where you can say, "Why wasn't this a single? It would have been a huge hit!" Everything that was a hit deserved to be a hit, but everything else was like having your face shoved into a mountain of rotting garbage.

Get over it!

Our knowledge was dearly won, Phil.

Oh really? Didn't know that "Chug All Night" had been released as a single. I'll have to look up its chart position and airplay when I get a moment.

uh

Special Tribute to The Eagles
Miranda Lambert – “Desperado”

How Can I Forget?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx9VRLBAo2E

Also, In The Wild, A FB Status from Huey Lewis that a friend of mine "Liked"

Glenn Frey of The Eagles and I were playing golf at Pebble Beach one time. Scott Ostler, the great sports reporter in San Francisco, said to us, “Well, between you guys, you must have written hundreds of songs,” thinking we had a bunch of songs we never released.
Glenn, who has had a lot of hit songs, said, “No, I have used everything I ever wrote.”
Writing a great song is not easy. If you write 10 good songs in your life, you are a hall of famer. - Huey

Well, yeah.

HUEY: Well, between me, Glenn, and Ray Parker Jr., amirite?

GLENN: Bet I could find a place to park her!

DON: Well, yeah.

It's the nature of the business...

http://www.tmz.com/2016/01/18/glenn-frey-the-eagles-dead/

WHAT

THE

FUCK!?!?

I was this close last week to saying something like "Bowie's dead, but hey, all members of the Eagles - past and present - are still alive."

He died of a broken heart.

DAVID: As an artist, I wanted to turn my death not into a celebration of my life and career, but into a celebration of the lives of everyone. We are all lost souls floating in a tin can, and yet, it's by joining together that we make this mysterious journey into something with meaning.

GLENN: I know I've joined together with a few lost souls in my day, if you get my drift.

DAVID: I'm sorry, what was your name again?

Now I know how Vaughan Meader felt in late '63...

awesome xp

Chug all night, Glenn.

haha, griss.

Henley still has TBS, who's the Shemp of the Eagles anyway.

irl lol @ Griss

Timothy 'Shemp' Schmidt

so this means Azoff will call MISTER Felder on Wednesday and ask him to rejoin the band, right?

"come on, do it for glenn. he hated your guts."

too soon to make intestinal jokes?

loll grisso

lol

Warm smell of colitis?

so this means Azoff will call MISTER Felder on Wednesday and ask him to rejoin the band, right?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, January 18, 2016 4:38 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

JD Souther, your moment is NOW.

Frey was a dickbag but he sang some a+ harmonies

^^^ should be on his headstone and/or should be the entirety of his eulogy.

I've mentioned this before, but in all seriousness I thought he had the best 'Country' voice in the band...it's just when the "Rock" part of the equation came to play the problems started.

Didn't we realize when we started this thing that when Frey lead the band with Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner this country rock synthesis was possiblee?