The Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden Album Review

Long Road Out Of Eden by The Eagles, Album Review

Long Road Out of Eden is the seventh studio album by American rock band the Eagles, released in 2007. For the first year after the album’s initial release, it will be available in North America exclusively via the band’s website, and through Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club retail stores. Internationally, it will be commercially available through traditional retail outlets.

The Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden Track Listing

Disc one

1. “No More Walks in the Wood” (Don Henley, Steuart Smith, John Hollander) - 2:00
2. “How Long” (J. D. Souther) - 3:15
3. “Busy Being Fabulous” (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) - 4:20
4. “What Do I Do With My Heart” (Glenn Frey, Don Henley) - 3:54
5. “Guilty of the Crime” (Frankie Miller, Jerry Lynn Williams) - 3:43
6. “I Don’t Want To Hear Any More” (Paul Carrack) - 4:21
7. “Waiting in the Weeds” (Don Henley, Steuart Smith) - 7:46
8. “No More Cloudy Days” (Glenn Frey) - 3:50
9. “Fast Company” (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) - 3:59
10. “Do Something” (Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit, Steuart Smith) - 5:09
11. “You Are Not Alone” (Glenn Frey) - 2:24

Disc two

1. “Long Road Out of Eden” (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit) - 10:17
2. “I Dreamed There Was No War” (Glenn Frey) - 1:38
3. “Somebody” (Jack Tempchin, John Brannen) - 4:09
4. “Frail Grasp on the Big Picture” (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) - 5:46
5. “Last Good Time in Town” (Joe Walsh) - 7:07
6. “I Love To Watch a Woman Dance” (Larry John McNally) - 3:16
7. “Business as Usual” (Don Henley, Steuart Smith) - 5:31
8. “Center of the Universe” (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Steuart Smith) - 3:42
9. “It’s Your World Now” (Glenn Frey, Jack Tempchin) - 4:22

Bonus tracks on the Deluxe Collector’s Edition

10. “Hole in the World” (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) - 4:13*
11. “Please Come Home for Christmas” (Charles Mose Brown, Gene C. Redd) - 2:58

* Bonus track also included in the standard UK edition.

The Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden Review from Amazon.co.uk

There can barely be an Eagles fan on the face of the planet, after waiting patiently for the best part of 30 years–ignoring the piecemeal (and some might say mean-spirited) sprinkle of new songs on 1994’s Hell Freezes Over–that doesn’t crave every last minute of this epic stack of original work. But then there also hasn’t been a double album in history that couldn’t have been improved by shedding at least some of its load and tucking its jeans into its cowboy boots. Long Road out of Eden is no exception to that rule. Much of the first disc passes by in a shuffle of fairly standard, although admittedly enjoyable, mid-beat country-rock (see especially “Busy Being Fabulous”) and the appearance of a drum machine on the second hints at a frankly unnecessary dalliance with 80s MOR pop–and one they’d already avoided by splitting the first time around. It’s music made by professionals, but lacking the classic, cinematic poise that has made Hotel California a mainstay on the best albums of all-time lists. But then the ambitious reach of the wind-swept, politically charged 10-minute title track really pulls things back, while the pleasant calypso drift of “It’s Your World Now”, near a cappella melody waterfall of “No More Walks in the Wood” and moody blues swagger of “Somebody” prove there’s still just enough wind beneath these wings. –James Berry

Six years in production, ‘Long Road Out Of Eden’ is the seventh studio album from country rock mainstays The Eagles. Recording began a full 22 years after the release of their previous opus with a tweaked line-up (following Don Felder’s dismissal in 2001) and some instrumental augmentations. Lead single ‘How Long’ adheres to the musical templates the band is known for, but album tracks such as the ten-minute epic title track showcase the wider scope of earlier successes such as ‘Hotel California’. Eagerly anticipated by their ageing fanbase, ‘Long Road Out Of Eden’ is a worthy continuation of the Eagles story.

Released October 30, 2007
Recorded 2001-2007
Genre Rock, Country
Length 90:53
Label Eagles Recording Company II
Producer Eagles, Steuart Smith, Richard F.W. Davis, Scott Crago, Bill Szymczyk

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