Product Description

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 suchas 'Hotel California'. Eagerly anticipated by their ageing fanbase, 'Long Road Out Of Eden' is a worthy continuation ofthe Eagles story.

Track Listing

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. Lately (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 Now
10. Hole In The World

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #193 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-29
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Special Edition
• Running time: 95 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

Overdue for retirement
If I had written this shortly after buying it I would have given it two of three stars in the hope that it would improve on further listening. That has not been the case. It has got progressively worse. It may be my taste but the joy that came through in their earlier Albums (including the best, Desperado) is completely lacking here. For comparison with another elderly rocker, listen to J J Cale - now that's what I call music.

Peter

Play the first CD, bin the second
Well, apparently 50% good is OK by current academic standards, but to me it's a failure. Two CDs on this album of which the second, for me, is a self-indulgent whine by a set of Californian millionaires.

CD1 has a mix of tunes which, while not epochal or in any way up to the standards of Hotel California is perfectly acceptable easy-listenting: the AOR mix Eagles fans possibly remember or have matured into. The single ("How Long") is classic of its genre and should be acknowledged as a well crafted example of such. OK. No problems. 4 out of 5 for CD1.

CD2 fails to get anywhere near CD1 either musically or artistically, The first four tracks are essentially a critique on the Iraq war which is both tedious and - for those of us with longer memories - entirely derivative of similar works in the 1960s by other wealthy rock stars protesting Vietnam. Little changes, apart from the artist's mansion's location. The best track on CD2 ("I love to watch a woman dance" is, predictably, neither written nor arranged by The Eagles.

All in all a pleasant enough diversion, but not worth the hype.

SUPERB!!!
This is the best album I have bought in a long time. It's a double album and there is not one track that I don't like. There are some beautiful songs and the more I listen to them the more I love them. I'd thoroughly recommend this album for pure easy listening. I've always liked the Eagles and they've proved they've still got what it takes with 'Long road out of Eden'. SUPERB!!!!