Long Road Out of Eden
| Eagles
Long Road Out of Eden
The seventh and most recent studio album by American rock band the Eagles, released in 2007 on Lost Highway Records. Nearly six years in production, it is the band's first studio album since 1979's The Long Run. Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
-epitomizes everything that is familiar
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All Music
-an album meticulously crafted to fit within the band's legacy without tarnishing it.
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Slant
They’re proving that they’re still commercially relevant, but the calculated, tepid Long Road Out of Eden isn’t likely to influence another generation of musicians.
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BBC
Long Road… is no miserable trudge through worthy protest songs, it’s also a (predictably) sleek vehicle for all the things Eagles fans love.
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Uncut
This could have been edited down to an all-killer single album.
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Variety
For their first album of all new material in 28 years, the four standing members of the Eagles have a pretty good memory of what made them special in the first place.
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The Guardian
Self-importance is a given in the world of soft rock, but the Eagles' double-disc comeback propels musical smugness to previously inconceivable proportions.
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Independent
Almost three decades after their last studio album, The Eagles re-group with this unwieldy two-CD offering, which replaces all previous contenders as the textbook case of a double album that would be better as a single album.
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Mix
There are a few minor missteps—some clichéd love ballads and a bit of over-earnest social commentary from Mr. H—but most of what’s here is pretty damn good; definitely an unexpected surprise.
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Louder Sound
It’s certainly no Hotel California, but the country rocker How Long rolls back the years, No More Cloudy Days is Frey at his best, and the album’s title track, written by Henley, is a powerful 10-minute meditation on spirituality and American imperialism.
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Entertainment (IR)
It's hard to believe that anyone under the age of forty could be interested in this album. Truly, truly dire.
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Entertainment Weekly
Except for references to cell phones or the current war, it’s so sonically and lyrically in sync with the ol’ Eagles oeuvre, the past quarter century may as well not have happened
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