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. 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
11. Please Come Home For Christmas

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11757 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Deluxe Edition
• Running time: 98 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

Not The Eagles That The Old Timers Knew But
I Gotta tell You It Is A Good album For True Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, And Timothy B Smihdt Fans.
The Eagles Have Changed Their Style But Still are One Of The Greatest Country/Southern Rock Artists To me In The World Today.
all of the songs on this album are amazingly done and performed very well.
it is well worth the buy for true eagles fans
and i love all the old music they wrote but times change!

Eagles High Flying Adored!
I was going to do this as a comment on a previous review but felt it more appropriate to make my own review. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion wherever they might happen to be from; however, I do feel that some reviews of this album have been unfair and unbalanced. I want to add my thoughts as I feel it would be a great shame if some of the negative reviews put others off buying what I believe is actually a great album.

The lyrical quality has been described by some as ridiculous with no catchy melodies; all I can say is these reviewers have very different ears from mine or my partner's!

"Long Road Out Of Eden" is absolutely loaded with great hooks which after a few plays really get inside you and permeate one's soul like no other current artist. I find the lyrics to be of unique quality with some fabulous imagery and some great rhymes and approximate rhymes. How can anyone not appreciate the loveliness of the following lines from "Waiting In The Weeds":

"And I imagine sunlight in your hair
You're at the country fair
You're holding hands and laughing
And now, the Ferris wheel has stopped
You're swinging on the top, suspended there with him
And he's the darling of the chic -
The flavour of the week is melting down your pretty summer dress
Baby, what a mess you're making

I've been stumbling through some dark places,
But I'm following the plough
I know I've fallen out of your good graces,
But it's alright now

And I've been waiting in the weeds
Waiting for the summer rain to fall upon the wild birds scattering the seeds:
Answering the calling of the tides eternal tune
The phases of the moon,
The chambers of the heart,
The Egg and Dart

A small, grey spider spinning in the dark,
In spite of all the times the web is torn apart"

Whilst some of the words/images are, not surprisingly, Americanised, I noticed that in the lyrics booklet they do at least spell "you're" correctly; not the invariably incorrectly used "your" - hurrah!

Perhaps some reviewers' education, experience or understanding of American culture (for, yes, they do have one) is insufficient to enable them really to appreciate this wonderful contemporary album; perhaps some of the references are just lost on them. I still can't find a bad track on the album.

I find the emotions and deep feelings that the Eagles conjure up on this album are unparalleled; every time I hear it I feel like I've just had a slice of Mom's apple pie, or taken a drive with Bo and Luke. I know of no other current singers/songwriters that encapsulate America and lost love so brilliantly; they are even courageous enough to bring the current conflict in the Middle East and the associated feelings about it into their music - whom else could do this with such style and panache?

If you love good music, brilliantly crafted songs and wonderfully sung harmonies, buy this album; if you like the Eagles at all I'll be very surprised if you regret it!!

Welcome back Eagles!
This is a very very good Eagles double album that grows on you with every listening. For me disk 2 is a stronger, more integrated unit with the title track a stand-out future Eagles classic (and Don Henley's lyrics are so, so good here). One major problem - missing Don Felder's cutting guitar solos.