Long Road Out Of Eden - The Eagles
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 74 Ratings

  • Summary: The band return with their first new material in 28 years.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. 80
    That band’s ambition is intact is remarkable--that they’ve made an album that captures the zeitgeist is maybe even more so.
  2. The album is savvier still, crafted to evoke the spirit and feel of the Eagles' biggest hits.
  3. For better or worse, it's the most predictable album of the year.
  4. Disc one sounds like the band's Desperado years left out in the rain--damp, shrunken and fetid, with songs such as Guilty of the Crime and Fast Company giving out as much spark as a dying novelty lighter.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 53
  2. Negative: 14 out of 53
  1. MartinD.
    10
    A fantastic double CD that warrants and rewards frequent playing. As good as anything they did 30+ years ago.
  2. ClayK
    8
    Randy Meisner (Take It To The Limit), Bernie Leadon (Earlybird, Train Leaves Here This Morning) and Don Felder (Hotel California) were also Eagles and I hope someday they will play together again for us. I'll be buying the CD after listening on YouTube, will cruise with it. Expand
  3. The album starts off very strong, with 6 "quality songs" in the first 10 songs. However, disc 2 was terrible. Out of the 9 songs on disc 2, none of them were a "quality song". In my mind, a quality song is a song that is worth listening to. My rating for this album would be much lower had the first disc not been so good. The songs I recommend listening to are: 2. How Long
    3. Busy Being Fabulous
    5. Guilty of the Crime
    6. I Don't Want to Hear Any More
    9. Fast Company
    10. Do Something
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  4. ToddV
    4
    The track "How Long" fools you into thinking that you're getting the old Eagles sound. After what seemed to be 2 hours getting through the rest of the album - you find out you were tricked. I don't hear even one more radio track. Wish it was much better. Expand

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