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Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
| Allmusic | | Just because it took them 13 years to deliver a studio sequel to their 1994 live album Hell Freezes Over, don't say it took the Eagles a long time to cash in on their reunion. They started cashing in almost immediately, driving up ticket prices into the stratosphere as they played gigs on a semi-regular basis well into the new millennium. So, why did it take them so long to record a new studio album? It could be down to the band's notoriously testy relations -- Don Felder did leave and sue the band in the interim, settling out of court in 2007 -- it could be that they were running out some contractual clause somewhere, it could be that they were waiting for the money to be right, or the music to be right. It doesn't really matter: there was no pressing need for a new album....full text |
| | Billboard | | The first Eagles album since 1979 rolls forth with the one-two punch of the harmony-laden "No More Walks in the Wood" and the familiar-sounding country rock of "How Long," a J.D. Souther song from the early '70s that could have just as easily been the follow-up to "Take It Easy." The rest is more vintage Eagles, cutting the usual wide stylistic swath from rockers ("Fast Company," Joe Walsh's Steely Dan-flavored "Last Good Time in Town"), country-flavored midtempos ("Do Something," "You Are Not Alone"), heart-rending ballads ("What Do I Do With My Heart," "I Love to Watch a Woman Dance"), funk ("Fast Company," "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture"), brow-furrowing introspection ("Waiting in the Weeds," "You Are Not Alone") and pointed socio-political commentaries ("Business As Usual," the epic 10-minute title track). It's all a testament to the durable Eagles footprint on the pop landscape.—Gary Graff...full text |
| | Uncut | | The standard-bearers of L.A. rock’s second wave, The Eagles were a streamlined hybrid of proven rock strategies. Their records combined the rich vocal harmonies and jangly guitars of the Byrds, Jackson Browne’s intimate confessionals and Randy Newman’s acerbic character studies – all put together with the painstaking precision of Steely Dan....full text |
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