Long Road Out of Eden
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Performer: EaglesPerformer: Don Henley
Performer: Glenn Frey
Performer: Joe Walsh
Performer: Timothy B. Schmit
Edition: Music CD
Format: CD
Published: 2007
CD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Music Label: Eagles Recording Company
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- No More Walks In the Wood
- How Long
- Busy Being Fabulous
- What Do I Do With My Heart
- Guilty Of the Crime
- I Don't Want To Hear Any More
- Waiting In the Weeds
- No More Cloudy Days
- Fast Company
- Do Something
- You Are Not Alone
- Long Road Out Of Eden
- I Dreamed There Was No War
- Somebody
- Frail Grasp On the Big Picture
- Last Good Time In Town
- I Love To Watch a Woman Dance
- Business As Usual
- Center Of the Universe
- It's Your World Now
Free Music Notes for Long Road Out of Eden
Free Music Review: The Good and the Bad
Hit: 2 Stars
I purchased this double CD a couple of days after it hit the Walmart shelves. I was a big fan of the Eagles back in the 70s, when the band was still very much a Country Rock outfit, a band born of the sounds of the Byrds. The Eagles were an infinitely more popular version of the Flying Burrito Brothers, which featured Bernie Leadon along with former Byrds Chris Hillman and Graham Parsons, as well as pedal steel wizard Sneaky Pete. I note those things so that it is clear I do not come to this review as one who recently discovered the Eagles, or even discovered them when Joe Walsh replaced Bernie Leadon, or even discovered them when One of These Nights came to dominate the charts.
There are two great things about Long Road Out of Eden: (1) its massive sales at Walmart alone proved that recording artists can bypass the now bloated, even musically hostile, music industry, make their won contracts with retailers, and do well financially; (2) it is defintely superior to The Long Run, which still sounds to me like a series of outtakes (some disspirited performances and some half finished songs, some songs that ring as pale imitations of past work, some that seem desperate to 'be hits') from One of These Nights and Hotel California.
Over the long run, #1 above easily will prove the more important. My hope is that Walmart and Target both work similar deals with various recording artists, which should help free music from the tentacles of corporate board room that at the least emasculates it in the process of homogenization.
The bad about Long Road Out of Eden is that it easily is only the 6th best of 7 Eagles studio albums of new material. To be fair, considering how awful 'rock' is today, how simultaneously perverse and teeny-bopper MTV/VH1 is, as well as how cliched and poppy 'official' Nashville Country has become, the 5th best all time Eagles record is still better than almost everything else released. But at the end of the day, this album must always be compared ultimately to the first 5 Eagles albums, as well as the 1960s Byrds albums, the 1970s Jackson Browne albums, the first two Flying Burrito Brothers albums, and 1970s Southern Rock classics. And when those comparisons are made, Long Road Out of Eden pales to insignificance.
Yes, there is a full album's worth of first rate - not brilliant - material, but it takes two discs to provide it. The shorthand way to see the problem is to know that JD Souther's 1970s song 'How Long' is the best track, is, in fact, the only one I would consider a worthy, uplifting addition to any of the first five Eagles albums. The harmonies sound great, but the songs overall fail to be more than entertainingly adequate. Three or four are very weak, and that many more are insignificantly stronger.
What all that makes me think about is what is missing from the Eagles as now constituted. I doubt there is any chance Frey and Henley will ever make any acknowledgment that the path they have blazed has guaranteed a pop-rock sound, replete with PC posturing and songs that are superficial compared to their great days. That being the case, I would like to see Bernie Leadon, Randy Meisner, and Don Felder get togther for some picking and grinning. My guess is that whatever came from such time playing together again at least would feature sounds more authentically Country Rock than what Frey and Henley have delivered after so long a wait.
Long Road Out of Eden Poster
Disc 1 1. No More Walks In The Wood 2. How Long 3. Busy Being Fabulous 4. What Do I Do With My Heart 5. Guilty Of The Crime 6. I Don't Want To Hear Any More 7. Waiting In The Weeds 8. No More Cloudy Days 9. Fast Company 10. Do Something 11. You Are Not Alone Disc 2 1. Long Road Out Of Eden 2. I Dreamed There Was No War 3. Somebody 4. Frail Grasp On The Big Picture 5. Last Good Time In Town 6. I Love To Watch A Woman Dance 7. Business As Usual 8. Center Of The Universe 9. It's Your World NowWhat a long, strange wait it's been. Don Felder has left, a generation has grown into adulthood, and at long last, Eagles return with a new studio album, their first since 1979's The Long Run. Given the interim, though, fans couldn't possibly have asked for more. The two-disc, 20-track Long Road Out of Eden not only retains the entire menu of the Eagles' staple sounds--effortless, multi-part harmonies; colorful, if not intricate, guitar embellishment; meticulously crafted songwriting; squeaky-clean, almost geriatric production--but many of these songs also viscerally recall past hits from Eagles' or the extant members' solo records. Like revenant doubles, "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture" echoes "Life in the Fast Lane," "How Long" channels "Take It Easy," the guitar arpeggio threading through "Center of the Universe" hints at the ubiquitous "Hotel California," and "Business As Usual" could have been culled from the cutting room floor from Don Henley's The End of the Innocence. The effect of all this familiarity is one of masterfully crafted self-tribute with one eye riveted on posterity, calculated to please both the deep-pocketed who can still afford the Eagles' concerts and those who'd given up on ever hearing new material again. --Jason Kirk
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