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Annoying Twit
05-25-2016, 05:42 AM
Could anyone recommend good songs to listen to in order to catch up with Joe's post-Eagles work?

Clearly I can listen to all of the albums, but focussing in on individual songs will be useful as I can loop a short playlist to get more familiar with them.

Funk 50
05-25-2016, 08:44 AM
In my opinion, to truly enjoy Joe's albums, you've got to invest some time in them, there aren't any shortcuts. As Paul McCartney sang "The love you take is equal to love you make".

I can give you a guesstimate of the tracks I listen too most;

There Goes The Neighbourhood
You Never Know : Rivers(Of The Hidden Fun : Rockets : You Made Your Mind Up

I've seen There Goes The Neighborhood sighted as Joe's masterpiece, just ahead of The Smoker.... album.

You Bought It You Name It
Class Of 65 : Shadows : Theme From Island Weirdos : Told You So

The Confessor
Rosewood Bitters : The Confessor : Slow Dancing : I Broke My Leg

Got Any Gum
In My Car : No Peace In The Jungle : Memory Lane

Ordinary Average Guy
The Gamma Goochie : Look At Us Now : You Might Need Somebody

Songs For A Dying Planet
Theme From Baroque Weirdos/The Friend Song : Certain Situations : Decades
(I love the whole album except Fairbanks Alaska which is one of my least favourite Walsh tracks)

To display the inaccuracy of this list. I've played every track on There Goes The Neighborhood and most of Songs For A Dying Planet more than anything on The Confessor album, excluding the period when I played The Confessor incessantly when it first came out.

Before Joe released his Look What I did! and Little Did He Know (:yuck:
compilation CDs I burned a few Joe Walsh compilations of my own:

I Like Big Hits
01 Song For A Dying Planet / Decades
02 The Confessor
03 Ordinary Average Guy
04 Theme From Boat Weirdos
05 Rosewood Bitters
06 In My Car
07 All Night Long
08 Space Age Whiz Kids
09 Two Sides To Every Story
10 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
11 Look At Us Now
12 Life's Been Good
13 Rivers Of The Hidden Funk
14 I.L.B.T.s (given the title I felt I had to include it :blush: )

Slight Misdemeanors
01 Down On The Farm
02 Midnight Moodies
03 In The City
04 Life Of Illusion
05 Funk 49
06 Turn To Stone
07 I'm Acting Different
08 Rockets
09 Indian Summer
10 Good Man Down
11 Theme From Island Weirdos
12 Wrapcity In English
13 Certain Situations
14 Theme From Boat Weirdos
15 Rocky Mountain Way
16 Ashes The Rain And I
17 Up All Night
18 Over And Over
Integrating the old and new material there.

The James Gang comp was a lot easier:

Laguna Rocks
01 Laguna Salada
02 Collage
03 I Don't Have The Time
04 Funk #49
05 Asshetonpark
06 Midnight Man
07 The Bomber
08 Take A Look Around
09 Wrapcity In English / Fred
10 Again
11 Tend My Garden / Garden Gate
12 There I Go Again
13 Thanks
14 Ashes The Rain And I
15 All The Same
16 Walk Away
17 Funk 48
18 Stop

Can't believe I omitted Bluebird :shrug:

Annoying Twit
05-25-2016, 08:50 AM
Thanks for this.