6/13/2023 0 Comments Long road out of edenPoint taken.īut Long Road… is no miserable trudge through worthy protest songs, it’s also a (predictably) sleek vehicle for all the things Eagles fans love. It’s also beautifully rounded off by a short guitar instrumental called "I Dreamed There Was No War". It’s their "Hotel California" for the new age a surreal nightmare of excess in foreign parts. A doomy, weary drag through Bush’s Iraq, painting an impressionistic portrait of homesick soldiers lost in the desert and blind to the region’s historical significance, while their commanders try to keep the spirit of the States alive with barbeques and pecan pie: 'bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda'. The title track – a ten-minute centrepiece – is the key text here. Walsh's guitar stings like a bee, and you’d be hard-pushed to date this as an album that comes a full 28 years after their last studio effort were it not for its subject matter. Both strengths seem utterly undiminished. While to many the Eagles - and their reputation of a somewhat hedonistic heyday - represent all that went wrong with the Californian dream, it’s also undeniable that not only were these guys players of the highest calibre, they also were not bad at critiquing their own peer group: sniping at coke-fuelled egos from the heart of the white powder maelstrom. Luckily it's all been just about worth it… The difference of course is that Bruce and Shakey have been churning out work on a regular annual basis throughout the 21st century, whereas it took Henley, Frey, Schmit and Walsh a whole SIX years in the studio to get this double album on the shelves. With the Boss and Old Neil back on form, here comes the real West Coast contingency also fired up about war in the Middle East and reflecting on the ageing process in fine style. This is proving to be a big year for elder statesmen of yankee 'Legacy Rock'. Being a double album with length exceeding 90 minutes, the album was certified 7x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 3.5 million discs. It has since sold 3.5 million copies in the U.S. The album became the band's sixth #1 album and was the highest selling album of the year. and won the band two Grammy awards for "How Long" and the instrumental "I Dreamed There Was No War". The album produced five straight hits on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts with "How Long", "Busy Being Fabulous", "No More Cloudy Days", "What Do I Do With My Heart", and "I Don't Want to Hear Anymore". Souther's "How Long" and "Busy Being Fabulous", both of which were Top 30 hits on the country charts as well as Top 20 hits on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. The album produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: a cover of J.D. Nearly six years in production, Long Road Out of Eden is the first studio album from the Eagles since 1979's The Long Run, and along with the four original tracks on 1994 Hell Freezes Over, and two records in 20 with "Hole in the World" and "One Day at a Time", the only original material since. Long Road Out of Eden is the seventh studio album by the Eagles, released in 2007 on Lost Highway Records.
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