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DISCID=840abd09
DTITLE=Eagles / Long Road Out Of Eden - Disc 2 of 2
DYEAR=2007
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=Long Road Out Of Eden
TTITLE1=I Dreamed There Was No War
TTITLE2=Somebody
TTITLE3=Frail Grasp On The Big Picture
TTITLE4=Last Good Time In Town
TTITLE5=I Love To Watch A Woman Dance
TTITLE6=Business As Usual
TTITLE7=Center Of The Universe
TTITLE8=It's Your World Now
EXTD=Long Road Out Of Eden - Disc 2 of 2\n 2007 Eagles Recording Co.\n
EXTD=\nOriginally Released October 30, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW:  Jus
EXTD=t because it took them 13 years to deliver a studio sequel to the
EXTD=ir 1994 live album Hell Freezes Over, don't say it took the Eagle
EXTD=s a long time to cash in on their reunion. They started cashing i
EXTD=n almost immediately, driving up ticket prices into the stratosph
EXTD=ere as they played gigs on a semi-regular basis well into the new
EXTD= millennium. So, why did it take them so long to record a new stu
EXTD=dio album? It could be down to the band's notoriously testy relat
EXTD=ions -- Don Felder did leave and sue the band in the interim, set
EXTD=tling out of court in 2007 -- it could be that they were running 
EXTD=out some contractual clause somewhere, it could be that they were
EXTD= waiting for the money to be right, or the music to be right. It 
EXTD=doesn't really matter: there was no pressing need for a new album
EXTD=. Fans were satisfied by the oldies, and the band kept raking in 
EXTD=the dough, so they could take their time making a new album. And 
EXTD=did they ever take their time -- the 13-year gap between Hell Fre
EXTD=ezes Over and Long Road Out of Eden, their first album since 1979
EXTD='s The Long Run, was nearly as long as that between their 1980 br
EXTD=eakup and 1994 reunion. Far from indulging in a saturation campai
EXTD=gn for this long-awaited record, the Eagles released the double-d
EXTD=isc Long Road Out of Eden with surgical precision, indulging in f
EXTD=ew interviews and bypassing conventional retail outlets in favor 
EXTD=of an exclusive release with Wal-Mart, which is not only the bigg
EXTD=est retailer in America but also where a good chunk of the band's
EXTD= contemporary audience -- equal parts aging classic rockers and c
EXTD=ountry listeners -- shops. (The album was also available on the g
EXTD=roup's official website, eaglesband.com, via musictoday.com.)\n\n
EXTD=It was a savvy move to release Long Road Out of Eden as a Wal-Mar
EXTD=t exclusive, but the album is savvier still, crafted to evoke the
EXTD= spirit and feel of the Eagles' biggest hits. Nearly every one of
EXTD= their classic rock radio staples has a doppelgnger here, as the
EXTD= J.D. Souther-written "How Long" recalls "Take It Easy," the stif
EXTD=f funk of "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture" echoes back to the cle
EXTD=nched riffs of "Life in the Fast Lane," and while perhaps these a
EXTD=ren't exact replicas, there's no denying it's possible to hear ec
EXTD=hoes of everything from "Lyin' Eyes" and "Desperado" to "Life in 
EXTD=the Fast Lane," and Timothy B. Schmit turns Paul Carrack's "I Don
EXTD='t Want to Hear Anymore" into a soft rock gem to stand alongside 
EXTD=his own "I Can't Tell You Why." It's all calculated, all designed
EXTD= to hearken back to their past and keep the customer satisfied, b
EXTD=ut yet it often manages to avoid sounding crass, as the songs are
EXTD= usually strong and the sound is right, capturing the group's pea
EXTD=ceful, easy harmonies and Joe Walsh's guitar growl in equal measu
EXTD=re. The Eagles burrow so deeply into their classic sound that the
EXTD=y sound utterly disconnected from modern times, no matter how har
EXTD=d Don Henley strives to say something, anything about the wretche
EXTD=d state of the world on "Long Road Out of Eden," "Frail Grasp on 
EXTD=the Big Picture," and "Business as Usual." These tunes are riddle
EXTD=d with 21st century imagery, but sonically they play as companion
EXTD=s to Henley's brooding end-of-the-'80s hit The End of the Innocen
EXTD=ce, both in their heavy-handed sobriety and deliberate pace and t
EXTD=heir big-budget production. That trio fits neatly into the second
EXTD= disc of Long Road Out of Eden, which generally feels stuck in th
EXTD=e late '80s, as Walsh spends seven minutes grooving on "Last Good
EXTD= Time in Town" as if he were a Southwestern Jimmy Buffett with a 
EXTD=worldbeat penchant, Glenn Frey sings Jack Tempchin and John Brann
EXTD=en's "Somebody" as if it were a sedated, cheerful "Smuggler's Blu
EXTD=es," and the whole thing feels polished with outdated synthesizer
EXTD=s. \n\nNone of this is necessarily bad, however, as it's all exec
EXTD=uted well and the doggedly out-of-fashion sonics only make the so
EXTD=ngs more reminiscent of the Eagles' older records, especially if 
EXTD=their solo work from the '80s is part of the equation. If that se
EXTD=cond disc does seem a bit like the Eagles' lost album from the Re
EXTD=agan years, the first disc recalls their mellow country-rock reco
EXTD=rds of the '70s -- that is, if Joe Walsh had been around to sing 
EXTD=Frankie Miller's blues-rocker "Guilty of the Crime" to balance ou
EXTD=t Henley and Frey's "Busy Being Fabulous" and "What Do I Do with 
EXTD=My Heart," a counterpoint that serves the band well. That first d
EXTD=isc is the stronger of the two, but the two discs do fit together
EXTD= well, as they wind up touching upon all of the band's different 
EXTD=eras, from the early days to their solo hits. It's designed to pl
EXTD=ease those fans who have been happy to hear the same songs over a
EXTD=nd over again, whether it's on the radio or in those pricey conce
EXTD=rts -- listeners who want new songs that feel old, but not stale.
EXTD= That's precisely what Long Road Out of Eden provides, as it's an
EXTD= album meticulously crafted to fit within the band's legacy witho
EXTD=ut tarnishing it.  -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUS
EXTD=TOMER REVIEW\nRoss P. Hyland says: \nIn Brief: This double album 
EXTD=is a welcome return to the studio from Eagles. I think it contain
EXTD=s some excellent material that is as good as anything they have d
EXTD=one (title track/ Busy Being Fabulous/ Frail Grasp on the Big Pic
EXTD=ture) However I do think they should have been a bit more ruthles
EXTD=s with the track selection. "Long Road Out of Eden" could have be
EXTD=en a masterpiece as a single disc release. As a double album I th
EXTD=ink the boys are just trying to please all possible diversities i
EXTD=n their fan base. There are the edgy songs that I mentioned, that
EXTD= remind me of Hotel California. Sadly, there are some pretty sapp
EXTD=y radio friendly "luv songs" in there as well. I've got no object
EXTD=ion to an authentic love song but there is some really cringewoth
EXTD=y syrup here. Worst of all is the overt country feel to some of t
EXTD=he songs. The further Eagles get away from POCO the better. A tou
EXTD=ch of country influence is great in Eagles music, but pure countr
EXTD=y music songs grate in contrast with the rest of the album.\n\nLo
EXTD=ng Road Out of Eden is an essential buy. Definitely. But there is
EXTD= a fair bit of filler in amongst the gems...... Now how can I mak
EXTD=e up my own compilation CD when the disc I bought and paid for ha
EXTD=s anti-copy protection and will not allow loading onto my compute
EXTD=r??. \n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\n"Long Road Out of Eden," the ten-m
EXTD=inute centerpiece of this two-CD, twenty-song album, epitomizes e
EXTD=verything that is familiar, surprising, overstretched and, in man
EXTD=y ways, right about the entire set. The song echoes the title hit
EXTD= of 1976's Hotel California, the Eagles' defining monument to mir
EXTD=age, money and no escape. But this time the desert is overseas an
EXTD=d oil is the new champagne. When drummer Don Henley sings, "Now w
EXTD=e're driving dazed and drunk" in a grainy, plaintive voice, it is
EXTD= an entire nation at the wheel, "bloated with entitlement, loaded
EXTD= on propaganda." \nThat is brassy censure from a band that, in th
EXTD=e Seventies, embodied Hollywood vainglory, shining its klieg-ligh
EXTD=t guitars and vocals on the low roads through high living with an
EXTD= often wicked insight that only comes from knowing each mile inti
EXTD=mately. But there is a potent restraint to "Long Road Out of Eden
EXTD=," in the bleak, hollow mix of acoustic guitar and electric piano
EXTD= in the verses and the overcast sigh of the harmonies. There is e
EXTD=mpathy, too, for the soldier on night patrol, with dirty work to 
EXTD=do and everything to lose. "I'm not counting on tomorrow/And I ca
EXTD=n't tell wrong from right," Henley sings. "But I'd give anything 
EXTD=to be there in your arms tonight." That's not self-interest -- ju
EXTD=st the purest need. \n\nThe resemblance in title between this alb
EXTD=um and the Eagles' last studio record, 1979's The Long Run, is no
EXTD= coincidence. Henley and singer-guitarist Glenn Frey, the band's 
EXTD=surviving founders, have always written and sung about asphalt an
EXTD=d distance --: getting as far from responsibility as possible, cr
EXTD=awling home, bruised and maybe wiser, when the fun runs out. And 
EXTD=making Long Road Out of Eden was a protracted haul in itself. Hen
EXTD=ley, Frey, guitarist Joe Walsh and singer-bassist Timothy B. Schm
EXTD=it reportedly worked on the album for six years, and the Topanga-
EXTD=country gallop "How Long" goes back much further. Written by vete
EXTD=ran compadre J.D. Souther, it is a previously unrecorded relic of
EXTD= the group's early-Seventies live sets. \n\nBut the Eagles' origi
EXTD=nal studio albums were all models of clenched-gleam detail, and L
EXTD=ong Road suffers from sprawl. "Center of the Universe" makes the 
EXTD=most of its bare bones -- the circular-staircase effect of the gu
EXTD=itars -- and "Waiting in the Weeds" lets the lyrics carry the imp
EXTD=atience ("I heard some wise man say that every dog will have his 
EXTD=day/He never mentioned that these dog days get so long"). But Sch
EXTD=mit's sweetly sung spotlights are Eighties-ballad sugar. Walsh's 
EXTD="Last Good Time in Town" is a wry cantina-swing sequel to "Life i
EXTD=n the Fast Lane" -- staying home apparently is the new going out 
EXTD=-- and he cuts through the salsa-lounge grooming with James Gang-
EXTD=era guitar. Seven minutes, though, is a long time to sing about d
EXTD=oing fuck-all. \n\nHenley and Frey still find easy pickings in ba
EXTD=d behavior. In "Fast Company," Frey affects a Prince-like falsett
EXTD=o over a chilled-funk stroll, playing an old-timer who can't even
EXTD= remember the action he used to get. "Busy Being Fabulous" is cla
EXTD=ssic Eagles saloon-band shine about an errant filly, except this 
EXTD=one is a mom who can't tell the difference between raising kids a
EXTD=nd being one. And Henley may be having a grim laugh at the Eagles
EXTD=' own expense in the materialist rant "Business as Usual": "A bar
EXTD=rel of monkeys, a band of renown/But business as usual is breakin
EXTD=' me down." \n\nNothing, of course, is business as usual in the m
EXTD=usic industry, and the Eagles, now running their own label, have 
EXTD=chosen Wal-Mart as the album's exclusive retailer. There is an in
EXTD=evitable contradiction in buying a record that attacks corporate 
EXTD=greed and blind consumerism in songs like "Do Something" and "Fra
EXTD=il Grasp of the Big Picture" from a superchain with a bleak recor
EXTD=d on employee rights and health care. But Long Road Out of Eden i
EXTD=s available direct at Eaglesband.com for $11.88, a bargain even w
EXTD=ith the misfires -- and worth it for the title song alone.  DAVID
EXTD= FRICKE  (Posted: Nov 1, 2007)
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