Some radiostations in The States offer to listen to online for FREE the new album of the EAGLES Long Road Out Of Eden that will be available on October 30, 2007 in the stores after a 28 years old hiatus (their last olo effort).
Fans who have waited since 1979 for a new studio album from the Eagles surely won’t be disappointed with “Long Road Out of Eden,” which arrives Oct. 30. The two-disc set, which will be available exclusively at Wal-Mart in North America, bears the Eagles Recording Co. imprint.
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The album features a wealth of Don Henley/Glenn Frey co-writes and a broad palette of musical styles most representative of the band’s “Hotel California” and “The Long Run” eras, a mix of lengthy set pieces and more Cali-rock, radio-oriented gems. The set, which opens with the gentle but foreboding harmony-fest “No More Walks in the Wood,” is part social commentary, part examination of the human condition and part re-introduction of the band via new and powerful songs.
Disc one primarily serves as the latter. Debut single “How Long,” a J.D. Souther original, maintains an easy-rolling “Already Gone” vibe, but gives little indication of the strength of the material to follow. “Busy Being Fabulous” is a mid-tempo twanger featuring the familiar Henley vitriol, and the percussive “What Do I Do with my Heart” boasts an earnest Frey vocal and a gorgeous, swirling bridge.
Joe Walsh is the featured vocalist on the piano-driven, chugging boogie “Guilty of the Crime,” followed by Timothy B. Schmit on the sweeping, rhythmic Paul Carrack ballad “I Don’t Want To Hear Anymore.” Frey’s “No More Cloudy Days,” a melancholy but ultimately optimistic midtempo, is already familiar to concertgoers, and Frey’s “You Are Not Alone” closes out the side.
But the showstoppers are “Fast Company,” which has a “Those Shoes” feel and some killer horns, the call-to-action ballad “Do Something,” with steel guitar and loads of harmony, and “Waiting in the Weeds,” an acoustic-based ballad featuring a brilliant Henley lyric, vibrant imagery, haunting instrumentation and well-crafted vocal arrangements.
Disc two begins with the 10-plus minute epic title cut, an apocalyptic cautionary tale that blends desert imagery, spiritual overtones and wry observations on consumerism.
The Frey instrumental “I Dreamed There Was No War” (which recalls, oddly, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) is followed the spooky, paranoid rocker “Somebody.” Next up is another American body-blow in “Frail Grasp on the Big Picture,” an adventurous funk-rock powerhouse with biting takes on religion, journalism (”dead and gone,” according to the Eagles), sex, money and politics.
Walsh’s “Last Good Time in Town” is an infectious (even danceable) romp, while Frey’s warm vocals drive home the pure romance of the acoustic waltz “I Love to Watch a Woman Dance. But soon it’s back to biting with the pulsing rocker “Business As Usual.” The vaguely Beatles-esque “Center of the Universe” offers observant perspective on enduring love, and Frey wraps the set with the bittersweet “It’s Your World Now.”
“I thought I’d be above it all by now, in some country garden in the shade,” Henley sings on “Business As Usual.” As this album demonstrates, the Eagles are clearly not ready to kick back in the shade.
The Eagles have sold more than 120 million albums worldwide, earning four #1 U.S. singles and four Grammy Awards. Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 is the best-selling album of all time, exceeding sales of 29 million units. The band’s Hotel California and Their Greatest Hits Volume 2 have sold more than 16 and 11 million albums respectively. Eagles were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Eagles will be performing six nights in October with the Dixie Chicks as a Grand Opening celebration for the new NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles.
Disc One:
01 No More Walks In The Wood
02 How Long
03 Busy Being Fabulous
04 What Do I Do With My Heart
05 Guilty Of The Crime
06 I Don’t Want To Hear Anymore
07 Waiting In The Weeds
08 No More Cloudy Days
09 Fast Company
10 Do Something
11 You Are Not Alone
Disc Two:
12 Long Road Out Of Eden
13 I Dreamed There Was No War
14 Somebody
15 Frail Grasp On The Big Picture
16 Last Good Time In Town
17 I Love To Watch A Woman Dance
18 Business As Usual
19 Center Of The Universe
20 It’s Your World Now
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