I'm not sure I ever knew about the Ozark Mountain Festival. This is kinda blowing my mind:
Posters for the festival announced that some of the best bands in country and southern rock would be performing, including:
Bachman–Turner Overdrive Aerosmith Premiata Forneria Marconi
― Same old bland-as-sand mood mouthings (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
woah
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
FUCK THE SINGLES!! I WANT DEEP ALBUM CUTS!!
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
dude, just.......................................................relax
― i am.. a maven (Matt P), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
take it easy!
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
i think we're gonna do it all in order right?
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
Will someone call me back when it's time to take it to the limit?
― no fomo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
I can't tell you why
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
i can't wait for y'all to hear "chug all night" it's gonna be ILX rapture
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
show of hands who is already knotting their shirts at the midriff
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
"but I'd expect ilx to do this first for a band it likes a lot more."
see i was actually thinking yesterday that it would be fun for bands that i (and others here) have never listened to. except for, like, one hit. like Timbuk 3 or something. but then i remembered that a lot of groups i have forgotten about have put out a zillion records when nobody was looking. there might be 20 Timbuk 3 albums that i don't know about and there ain't no way i'm doing that. it would have to be a manageable discography.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
weirdly the eagles are like the perfect band to try this with
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
yeah, they are good. well, just thinking about songs that you've heard a million times until you don't hear them anymore can be a good exercise.
and i don't really want to listen to lots of timbuk 3 albums.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
somehow it feels like the Eagles made way more than 6 studio albums (7 including the 2007 post-reunion album) given their omnipresence
― Lee626, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
i was surprised that don henley didn't put out anything in the 90's. he must have been walking in the woods. 11 years between the end of the innocence and his album from 2000.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
He had some new bait songs on his hits package, and..."Get Over It".
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
the mellow don henley of the year 2000:
You could have given us the finger Much more constructively than that Now I sit here with the MTV And your bloated, Burmese cat We're being treated to the wisdom Of some puffed up little fart Doing exactly what I used to do Pretentions to anarchy and art He speaks the language of a warrior He mounts his misinformed attack He wears the clothes of a dissenter But there's a logo on his back And it's a hollow rebellion As rebellions mostly are It's just another raging tempest in a jar
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Those words are in English, but that verse makes no sense!
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
Henley in the '90s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJU94w_A9jc
In To The Limit, he mentions the video had to be edited down for consideration for airtime on MTV (yeah right) & VH1. "There was too much talkin' in it...the only white guy they want rappin' on MTV is Vanilla Ice."
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:11 (ten years ago) link
RAGH KIDS AND THEIR SAGGY PANTS RAGH
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
and we have to ask why these people are so bad and hated?
― no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:31 (ten years ago) link
that video is endless. i don't know if i could watch it all they way through. says the guy who wants to bathe in the eagles for the forseeable future...jesus, that does sound horrible. bathing in eagle water. the smell might never come off. you guys realize you will always be the person who knows to much about the eagles if you follow through with this. you might want to keep that on the down low. nobody will invite you to parties.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
Ha, are you actually planning to discuss every single song in the Eagles' discography?? That only registered now, somehow. Whoa.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link
they laughed at madame curie too. right in her face! but someone has to do the dirty work.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
This definitely feels like one of those "only Nixon could've gone to China" type things.
― pplains, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
I packed my suitcase, I'm totally ready.
- 1 pair unwashed bellbottoms- quaaludes- coke- ?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
mostly coke, weed, and tequila. maybe a learjet
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
idk why I think of them as a coke n 'ludes band but yr suitcase is p cool too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
Xpost...underage girl, Rimbaud poetry volume.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
*runs back to house, packs those things*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
ludes not specifically mentioned in the hoskyns book but who the fuck knows, i'm sure they were around
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
i always kinda wished i had tried a quaalude. they stopped making them during my drug years. i think. nobody had any anyway.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
see, Eagles make you wistful.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
They had a suitcase full of valium at that airport in the documentary, so if they weren't fucking with ludes specfically then boatloads of [insert downer]
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
that's kinda sad to have a suitcase full of valium. now valium i had PLENTY of during my drug days. thanks to my dad. he practically had a suitcase full. stressful times. for the both of us and for the nation. man, the eagles were bummed out.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:57 (ten years ago) link
cocaine leads you to the sad drugs i guess
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 02:59 (ten years ago) link
The eagles are perfect because there are 20 eagles songs everyone's heard a million times and 70 eagles songs most of us have never heard
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 03:26 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, even their "Very Best of" two-discer is about half stuff you don't hear much on the radio.
Before we move on to the next track, I just want to say I like "Take It Easy", and part of that stems from a story I heard somewhere about how Winslow, Arizona ended up in the lyric: Jackson Browne had been driving cross-country, picking up Route 66 to get to California when his car broke down in Winslow, and he had to stay there for a few days while it was repaired.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
cool story bro
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
:)
I'm thinking if we did an Eagles tracks poll, where you could include solo songs, that "Boys of Summer" would win.
― jetfan, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
I actually mostly like Take It Easy, at least until the speedfreak banjo gets on my nerves
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
so what are the rules: can we no longer discuss "take it easy" come tomorrow? or ever again? or are songs open for discussing going forward once they've been entered into the fray? also, will we have to start doing copious amounts of coke once they start doing copious amounts of coke?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
song a day should mean no bleedthrough imo
new song, new convo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
yeah, Take It Easy is great. I dig the famous Xgau article but the political criticism of the Eagles is sort of... outdated? we have all grown to like yuppie music, right? the albums review is still important though, the "And not always all that brilliant, either" part. which is why this "one song each day" project is so necessary. bring it on!
― g simmel, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 08:39 (ten years ago) link
"Witchy Woman"
http://ring.cdandlp.com/timburton007/photo_grande/113894224.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6gNHLOkfc
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
the guitars kinda rule.
i mean i can see other bands at the time listening to this and going DAMN SICK GUITARS and then hating the Eagles even more.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 11:29 (ten years ago) link
This is pretty great too. Greatest Hits was inevitably one of the handful of tapes my dad had in the car when I was a kid, and this was the song I liked. I think the woo-oo-ooos make for a killer hook. Also they suit a loping bass, like in One Of These Nights.
Lyrically it's not ideal, but if I give Dazed & Confused a free pass I can hardly complain about this.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link