we should celebrate by starting over again :D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
^^^ frail grasp on the big picture
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
carved on my tombstone iirc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
Well, Yeah
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
what would Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn say?
https://apnews.com/3c0b39a1bb5b4e44aafe2c4e05a4b67f/Beating-King-of-Pop,-The-Eagles-have-No.1-album-of-all-time
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 August 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
DON: “We are grateful for our families, our management, our crew, the people at radio and, most of all, the loyal fans who have stuck with us through the ups and downs of 46 years. It’s been quite a ride.”
GLENN: "Don't forget the ins and outs."
DON: "Well, yeah."
― pplains, Monday, 20 August 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
ug what a bummer
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 August 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of assholes
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
Are we maybe down to one (living) asshole still in the band?
― dow, Monday, 20 August 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
The new RIAA cert for the Eagles' Greatest Hits album is absurd and doesn't mean what most people - including almost every source reporting it - think it means. I'm a total music charts/sales geek and I could break it down in detail, but suffice it to say that A) this is U.S.-only sales; worldwide, Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time by a very large margin and B) RIAA certifications no longer reflect actual album sales and have become almost meaningless to anyone outside the industry. They're now a weird amalgam of album sales (physical and digital), digital singles sales, and streams. Thriller has likely still sold more copies, even in the U.S.
― It's like an Christian pop (thewufs), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
Yep.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
good to know. that makes me feel better
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
in short: take it easy, everyone
No doubt the Eagles have sold more than the last time the RIAA certified those albums, but "selling" isn't streaming, and selling matters not a whit in 2018.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
THIS FUCKING PICTURE
https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:621b972b2d3049ad9bf361b83b46c6ae/800.jpeg
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 August 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
is Don playing bongos on his guitar there
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 August 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
GLENN: Not the first time he awkwardly slapped some bongos...
DON: Well, yeah.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 August 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Greatest comment I've seen about the Eagles today, on a friend's FB page about this:
The public like them because their lyrics are decipherable and make singing along easy. Say what you want about their other abilities, but those guys could enunciate.
― Eliza D., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
Hey, everyone. Pleasant Plains here with a new song from the Alternative Nation. Coming out of Boston, the same stomping grounds of Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, Buffalo Tom and Throwing Muses, here's Evan Dando and THE LEMONHEADS with their latest, TAKE IT EASY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp8dh6n0t-E
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
heard "peaceful easy feeling" in the wild today. this makes me want to hear it again. evan dando should stick to suzanne vega, charles manson and love positions covers.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link
He's definitely learned how to help himself.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
Well, yeah
Eight months before HBO’s Leaving Neverland documentary raised new questions about Michael Jackson’s legacy, executives at the late pop star’s record label and estate were pondering another unexpected -- and unrelated -- development involving his business.
Jackson’s 1982 album, Thriller (33 million copies sold), had just lost the status it held for almost a decade as the best-selling album of all time in the United States, ceding the title to the Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 (38 million), according to the RIAA. Though the two albums have jockeyed for the top spot since the 1980s, trading the lead five times, executives from both Jackson’s estate and Sony Music were stunned by the news that Their Greatest Hits had gained nine new platinum certifications in a single day from the RIAA for the years 2006 to 2018 -- meaning 9 million additional U.S. album sales had been made or discovered over those 12 years.
“After Thriller being the recognized No. 1 album seller in the United States for a decade, we were obviously surprised and concerned when we were overtaken despite all metrics we use stating otherwise,” Sony Music Entertainment CEO Rob Stringer said in a statement earlier in 2019, before the documentary premiered. “All we are asking for is transparency in the process so we can understand how sales numbers changed so dramatically at such short notice.”
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
apart from Thriller and the Eagles GH perpetually displacing each other, there is another thing that MJ and Don Henley share, which is what I thought of when I read the first clause of the opening graf…no doubt Henley has been mucho nervous for the past 1 1/2 years…
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
veronica, he's a victim of love
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
ha ha imagining the day Twitter is like "The Boys of Summer guy got arrested for what?"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Truly, it is The End of The Innocence...
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
all she wanted to do is dance!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PzJw95Y.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ygkSwBj.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
On the floor.
In the round.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
This guy just left this Half-Price Books after loudly looking for The Long Run on CD. He was asking people, made them search the database, first in-store, then all of the locations in the city. Seriously jonesing to no avail--ended up saying he was going to eBay.
THE LONG RUN
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
Should've made him blow a gasket by going, "Dude, just get Greatest Hits Vol. II".
― pplains, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link
today's final jeopardy clue:
"Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had 'the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock' & was an 'unflattering portrait of the milieu.'"
contestant 1: (nothing)contestant 2: rumours (not quite spelled out on his screen)contestant 3: exile on main st.
alex: well, no*
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 26 July 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
*it's possible that's not exactly how alex phrased it
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 26 July 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
if contestant 3 ever comes in my record store, oh man, he’ll have a fierce rolling of the eyes likes of which he won’t soon forget
― budo jeru, Friday, 26 July 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 July 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
LA-situated? ....Exile?O_o
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 July 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
Rumours a good guess!
― pplains, Friday, 26 July 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
No sorry the answer is Greatest Hits Vol. 1
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
The answer is Dowse Myself in Kerosene.`
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
Eagle in the Wild: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-walsh-nixes-concert-after-gop-ties-revealed-191977/
― jbn, Monday, 26 August 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
???
How about https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-eagles-to-launch-40th-anniversary-tour-in-2012-176670/
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
The Joe Walsh lineup of the James Gang haven’t cut an album since Thirds in 1971. “We should record at least four things playing the way that we used to,” says Walsh. “I don’t want to use Pro Tools and I want to overdub, because you can’t do that live. But if we can do at least four things new and get them on the Internet, I think with that and a cross section of the old stuff, we’d have all we need to go out and try and kick some ass. I hope we get to do that in the first half of 2012. I really hope it works out.”
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
Heh, especially with his namesake running for President, I thought it was Walsh’s ties revealed, not the event’s.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
Joe Walsh has a rather decent tune on Sheryl Crow's latest.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
IN THE WILD: "New Kid in Town" AND "Try and Love Again."
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/71457152/siren_400x400.gif
I like "New Kid in Town."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
They're touring next year boasting shows featuring a full performance of Hotel California plus 'A Greatest Hits set', all w/'Orchestral Backing'.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
TS: "with an orchestra" vs. "on ice" as the ultimate shark-jump tour shtick
― solos that go widdly widdly widdly (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
The orchestra is proving to be a big selling point on the current Who tour. Unfortunately, it’s treacly, predictable as fuck, and pointless. So, while those qualities detract from a Who show, they’ll likely vastly improve an Eagles performance.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Well, there are loads of Eagles songs with orchestration already.
DON: I'm looking forward to going out on the road with the orchestra. We'll finally be able to present our music as Glenn and I had originally envisioned, but were unable for whatever reason to present as such, in concert on prior tours.
GLENN: We always had the budget for orchestras, but drugs, girls, Budweiser, and girls with drugs and Budweiser don't pay for themselves, ya know!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 October 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link