Eagles' Lover / RE: (TV) (OT) Gratuitous Eagles insult

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

Unfortunately, one of the relatively new Boston Globe critics [IMHO a woman
with 'lousy' taste], gave it a rave.

Need to be daily subscriber, so entire review here:
 

Supergroup's double album proves long and strong  By Sarah Rodman, Globe
Staff  |  October 28, 2007

An entire generation has passed since the Eagles closed the book on their
recording career with 1979's "The Long Run." In the interim, members Don
Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit have enjoyed solo
flights, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, toured
intermittently, and watched the first volume of their greatest hits become
the best-selling album in US history.

Any fears that the extended hiatus would reveal a calcification of the
band's genre-defining sound are put to rest immediately on the new album,
"Long Road Out of Eden," with the gorgeous, solemn opener "No More Walks in
the Wood." With simple acoustic accompaniment and with shiver-inducing
harmony, the quartet offers an aching elegy for young love, national
innocence, and natural beauty lost.

It is an auspicious beginning for a double album so strong it's almost
irritating that it took so long to release it. Bolstered by all-star support
- including guitarist Steuart Smith, who also lends a songwriting hand -
"Road" does what the best Eagles albums always did: distill disparate
personalities into one unified front.

There are rueful Henley tunes about the evil that men do (best exemplified
by the chill wind that blows through the masterful title track), Frey and
Schmit's tender-hearted love songs, and Walsh's kooky rockers.

Of the 20 tracks, three are head-and-shoulders standouts. "Fast Company," a
cautionary funk tune, bristles with Henley's mischievous falsetto and punchy
horns. The autumnal "Waiting in the Weeds" crystallizes that sense of a
crucial moment passing without us knowing it and offers a mellotron-esque
keyboard sound that shimmers with regret. And "It's Your World Now" offers a
peaceful, easy fade-out as the men who have traded the fast lane for family
life pass on their hopes for the future: "It's your world now/ Use well your
time/ Be part of something good/ Leave something good behind."

"Road" isn't just long on sweet harmony, bittersweet musings on love, and
unabashed bitterness about the state of the world, however; it's also just
plain long, too long by about six songs. Henley has said that the album's
overstuffed running time is the price of democracy, but "Eden" could have
benefited from a dash of dictatorship.

But what is an Eagles album without a bit of rancor and filler? And, besides
after waiting 28 years, it seems silly to complain about too much music. 
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