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

outstanding

That's awesome.

I'd like to imagine Christgau having a similarly contentious argument that ended with Henley hanging up on him over "Where's the Coke?"

Rong Night W Cranston was of course depicted in Felder's classick Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001), the only rock book I ever read at a single sitting (my incisive take is way upthread) dig https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91dCWCGNONL._SL1500_.jp

This should give you the cover image: https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Hell-Life-Eagles-1974-2001/dp/0470450428

co-sign on the Felder book, two sittings at a Barnes and Noble, very breezy read

Felder was just so much cooler than Henley/Frey, I think they were jealous, and also assholes of course, such nonsense they wouldn't let the guy sing Those Shoes

Like yeah maybe he isn't as strong a vocalist as Henley but he ain't chopped liver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysh4kcrTM5Q

TAKE THE RIDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nAH_oAjeg

You have the life every aspiring rock star dreams of, how do you go through it perpetually pissed off?

A couple moments from the review of last night's show in Houston (https://www.houstonpress.com/music/last-night-eagles-and-steely-dan-at-the-toyota-center-17494401)

Henley proved an amiable host, thanking fans for their decades long support. “We’ve been playing this music for 52 years,” he said to applause. Then promised a show with “no flashing lights, no confetti cannons, no butt-waving choreography. Just a bunch of guys with guitars.”

GLENN: Maybe *some* butt-waving choreography?

But the winner for most unpleasant four-word combo in the English language goes to...(cymbal-heavy Don drum roll)

As has been for several years, singer/guitarist Glenn Frey’s sizable hole caused by his 2016 death has been filled by his son Deacon Frey and country artist Vince Gill (both on vocals/guitar).

Of all the ways that could be phrased...

I mean, fuck, man...

You check out of Glenn Frey's sizable hole any time you like, but you can never leave

Wait, no, how about

Glenn Frey's sizable hole has a peaceful easy feeling

There are stars in the southern sky
Southward as you go
There is moonlight and moss in the trees
Down the glen frey's sizable hole

https://i.imgur.com/sZnEOCU.jpg

Smuggler’s ‘Roids

desperasshole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_in_the_World?wprov=sfla1

Sizable Hole in the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/nyregion/eagles-lyrics-trial-hotel-california.html

What a world we live in where Iggles ephemera has this kind of value

Eagles’ Don Henley ‘regrets’ cocaine-fueled night with 16-year-old prostitute who suffered seizure: ‘I wanted to escape’ https://t.co/vXUKC4pFRy pic.twitter.com/MDBYXXQYCV

— New York Post (@nypost) February 26, 2024

What a douche

He could have escaped with a pina colada...

Wait wasn’t 1980 the same year a girl hanging out with Walter Becker died via a coke overdose too? Or do I have that story wrong

After the duo returned to New York in 1978, Becker's girlfriend Karen Roberta Stanley, who was an employee of ABC Dunhill Records and personal manager for the band, died of a drug overdose in his apartment on January 30, 1980, resulting in a wrongful death lawsuit against him.

well, yeah

wait you guys think you would want to do tom petty like this? i brought it up somewhere else. any interest? someone or some two said they might. man, i couldn't hang with that massive elton john one you guys did. i was just too busy. but i would make time for petty. i don't know why i'm so fixated on him. total normcore! but i can't help myself.

Absolutely. So many good songs!

OK, Florida Man.

100% down for Petty

Here for that.

A couple years ago I Was tempted to start one of these for RHCP after one of their threads had very successful and funny revive, but I backed down after realizing how demanding it would be: Counting b-sides, bonus cuts, soundtrack & comp tracks, they have way over 200 songs! It would take about a month to get through Stadium Arcadium, and a little bit longer addressing their two most recent efforts. And you can't limit the scope, because the thread needs to be a California death march.

It may get boring because there won't be much to say about the shitty songs.

i'm thinking a more stipped-down petty? just the albums. group and solo. would that be cool? i don't think he had a ton of b-sides and odds & sods anyway? maybe i'm wrong. there are two early Mudcrutch singles that aren't that memorable. oh yeah latter day Mudcrutch. would have to include those albums. so, heartbreakers albums, 3 petty solo albums, 2 mudcrutch albums. and the she's the one soundtrack. gotta do that. that's as good as a studio album. there are 14 heartbreakers albums. that's not nothing.

well, yeah.

by the book petty can be kinda one-dimensional. but its all a part of his grand plan. to make people buy roger mcguinn albums.

LET'S DO IT

can't wait

man, an RHCP one would probably literally kill all of us. jesus. they would just find us all in different towns and cities. dead. rhcp playing quietly in the background. so sad.

okay, one a day. did we do weekends with the eagles? or can we take the weekend off?

also i am not good with pictures. i don't know. my computers are weird now. old laptops. my desktop at work isn't great. so if you guys want to post pictures have at it.

i can post YT vids. if someone else wants to go crazy and be more elaborate i'm happy to let someone do it. otherwise, i will just do it.

one a day with weekends off works for me!

you need your weekends for Northern Exposure reruns.

exactly <3

i could start tomorrow. or next week? no time like the present. do i embed videos or just do links? i did links on this thread but everyone has supersonic computers and phones now, right? i don't think i even remember how to do the link thing. i forgot how to do everything in my dotage.

also we would need a title. someone come up with a good title.

My Middle Name Is Earl: A Tom Petty Listening Thread

ooooh i like it

mine is corny

One of Those Things You Gotta Feel To Be True: A Tom Petty Listening Thread

The Collected Works of Charlie T. Wilbury Jr (Official ILM Tom Petty Listening Thread)

Was tempted to start one of these for RHCP after one of their threads had very successful and funny revive, but I backed down after realizing how demanding it would be

You sure you're up for Petty, then?

RHCP are uhhhh more taxing.

Damn the torpedoes. Perhaps both could have a... simultaneous release.

you guys vote for a winner title i'm gonna do some stuff here at the store but i'll be back in like 20 minutes.

i'm good with the earl one though!

You sure you're up for Petty, then?

For just listening to Petty? Well, yeah. But *running & maintaining a daily thread* on RHCP is another thing entirely (particularly for me in '22-3). I did the math again last night using the Spotify versions of their album catalogue (some of which have bonus tracks), and it weighs in at 225 songs -- which doesn't include some other stray material. Doing five tracks a week...that's almost *a year*.

Like I said upthread, California Death March.

haha pplains was totally making a joke. i laughed. read their post again.

anyway we are live. git on it pettyheads.

XP That darn internet humor!

This is the thread revive that made be think it was possible: Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Nice engagement, and most interestingly, a set of varying user opinions about what are the best parts of their catalogue.

Also. Chi-Peps!

https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/eagles-stolen-notes-trial-ends-don-henley-manipulated-prosecutors-1235624765/

At a hearing in open court on Wednesday, Justice Curtis Farber sharply criticized Henley and Azoff’s conduct: “It is now clear that both witnesses and their lawyers … used the privilege to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen.”

The judge said he was also troubled that prosecutors had been “manipulated” into bringing the charges, and questioned why they had not more thoroughly vetted the accusations and the evidence. But he praised them for dropping the case once new evidence had come to light.