2008 Woodie Awards
2nd disc of Eagles' new album 'won't disappoint'
By: Cyril Wood
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: Features
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With seemingly no time passing after the Eagles completed their Farewell tour, they signed a deal with Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. The result of this deal was a new Eagles album titled "The Long Road Out Of Eden," a two-disc set totaling 20 new songs, only to be released through Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.
In their prime, the Eagles produced some of the world's best-known songs, from "Desperado," soft country rock song "Tequila Sunrise," and the amazingly haunting and recognizable "Hotel California."
The first album opens with "No More Walks in the Wood." The song contains little instrumention aside from an occasional strum of an acoustic guitar, but it does feature amazing harmonizing vocals from the four members. The song, based heavily on the poem "An Old Fashioned Song" by John Hollander, is extremely environmentally concerned as the title obviously states. Many of the songs can be interpreted as being environmentally conscious, as well as others that try to make a political statement such as "I Dreamed There Was No War", found on the second disc.
When listening to this album, though, there is a strict division between the two discs. Much of the first disc is heavily country, for which the Eagles have always been known. No one can doubt that "Tequila Sunrise" or "Peaceful Easy Feeling" are much more country songs than they are rock songs. New song "How Long" immediately sounds like it belongs on country radio, as does "Busy Being Fabulous." The twangy guitars so accustomed to country music are found in full force on the first disc.
However, if you are not a big fan of that genre, it can get old pretty quickly. Nearly every song follows a slow tempo, which may leave many people asking for something a little more upbeat.
"What I Do With My Heart" sounds like the reincarnation of any boy band's song that was the theme at your middle school dance. At best, it's cheesy and overdone. The lyrics of many of the first-disc songs come off in a similar fashion. With lines like, "If you think Time is just a magazine," found in "Busy Being Fabulous," one wonders where those songwriters that wrote "Hotel California," a song that's been interpreted time and time again, are today.
In their prime, the Eagles produced some of the world's best-known songs, from "Desperado," soft country rock song "Tequila Sunrise," and the amazingly haunting and recognizable "Hotel California."
The first album opens with "No More Walks in the Wood." The song contains little instrumention aside from an occasional strum of an acoustic guitar, but it does feature amazing harmonizing vocals from the four members. The song, based heavily on the poem "An Old Fashioned Song" by John Hollander, is extremely environmentally concerned as the title obviously states. Many of the songs can be interpreted as being environmentally conscious, as well as others that try to make a political statement such as "I Dreamed There Was No War", found on the second disc.
When listening to this album, though, there is a strict division between the two discs. Much of the first disc is heavily country, for which the Eagles have always been known. No one can doubt that "Tequila Sunrise" or "Peaceful Easy Feeling" are much more country songs than they are rock songs. New song "How Long" immediately sounds like it belongs on country radio, as does "Busy Being Fabulous." The twangy guitars so accustomed to country music are found in full force on the first disc.
However, if you are not a big fan of that genre, it can get old pretty quickly. Nearly every song follows a slow tempo, which may leave many people asking for something a little more upbeat.
"What I Do With My Heart" sounds like the reincarnation of any boy band's song that was the theme at your middle school dance. At best, it's cheesy and overdone. The lyrics of many of the first-disc songs come off in a similar fashion. With lines like, "If you think Time is just a magazine," found in "Busy Being Fabulous," one wonders where those songwriters that wrote "Hotel California," a song that's been interpreted time and time again, are today.
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