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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 10/29/2007, 12:28 pm Post subject: Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden |
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In 9 days the Eagles will release their first all new recordings album; a double album, in 28 years. The album will be priced at $11.99 at Wal Mart.
To me, the Eagles are the greatest recording artist of all time and the previews are excellent Eagles materials.
I've seen the Eagles in concert a half dozen times including thier first tour and Hotel California.
I'm almost emotional about this! |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 10/29/2007, 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 11/12/2007, 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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After 28 years, this new recording is #1 in the nation. Who else on the planet could do that? Nobody, that's who. |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 11/12/2007, 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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The Who? |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 11/12/2007, 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Davis2001R6 wrote: |
The Who? |
No. The Who couldn't have done it.
Youngin's! |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 11/12/2007, 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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IGO wrote: |
Davis2001R6 wrote: |
The Who? |
No. The Who couldn't have done it.
Youngin's! |
Well, I'm with Tim. Think The Who could give the Eagles a run for their money. _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 11/13/2007, 7:19 am Post subject: |
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IGO wrote: |
After 28 years, this new recording is #1 in the nation. Who else on the planet could do that? Nobody, that's who. |
Wasn't the new single #1 on the Country Charts before they even released the album?
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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threedogz
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 668 Location: Chandler
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Posted: 11/13/2007, 10:00 am Post subject: |
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I heard the new song on Sirius Radio and its pretty darn good.
A new album will have a new tour. They are awesome in concert. _________________ You can never eat too much candy... |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 11/13/2007, 11:39 am Post subject: |
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threedogz wrote: |
I heard the new song on Sirius Radio and its pretty darn good.
A new album will have a new tour. They are awesome in concert. |
Heard the same thing on Sirius myself. They are playing them on the New Country Channel - http://www.sirius.com/newcountry .
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 11/13/2007, 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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GTG wrote: |
IGO wrote: |
After 28 years, this new recording is #1 in the nation. Who else on the planet could do that? Nobody, that's who. |
Wasn't the new single #1 on the Country Charts before they even released the album?
GTG |
Well as much noise as I've made about this here, I've only just bought the CD tonight and I've listened to 3 songs. Rock yourself to sleep is a minor hit so far and I think the other one is a hit on Country but I don't listen to country stations so I'm not up on that. I listened to parts of several songs on the internet but really want to listen in a caual way to make determinations. One thing for sure, it is the Eagles now I just got to see if these ol birds still have it. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 11/13/2007, 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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threedogz wrote: |
I heard the new song on Sirius Radio and its pretty darn good.
A new album will have a new tour. They are awesome in concert. |
No tour dates scheduled. If they do tour, these will be some of the most expensive tickets in concert history as the last tour often brought $500 a head.
I paid $4.50 for my first Eagles concert ticket (Eagles/Eagles) and $17.50 for my last which was the long run tour. Funny, this is only their 7th full on new effort in a recording. |
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IGO
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Posted: 11/18/2007, 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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OK. I thought I'd drum up more die hard Eagles fans in here but I didn't. Oh well, I've given the new "Album" a serious critic and I’m going to drop a review here anyway, just in case this recording gets popular with other hikers here later on. Pretty opinion oriented thread, hope ya’ll don’t mind.
I started hiking while the Long Run Tour was on the road and The Eagles have been a favorite of mine sense their first album 7 years earlier. On the first album is a song called Peaceful Easy Feeling. “I love the way your sparkling ear-rings shine against your skin so brown. I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight with a million stars all around” I’ve associated the Eagles with backpacking and the desert south west from day one, hence all the blabbing on this forum.
There will never be another Desperado or Tequila Sunrise because this is not the Tequila Sunrise generation but I was seriously interested to see if these old birds still had what it took to compose and deliver music of that caliber. They do, and for that I am ecstatic. I really didn’t expect it.
The Eagles made some of the great rock-n-roll tunes of our time but their masterpieces were their ballads. If I want Rock-n-Roll I more closely associate that with Aerosmith and Uriah Heap or Linkin Park. Ballads/Eagles and there are 3 on this CD that would have put this recording straight over the top if it were released in 1975 and that is what I was looking for. Fact is, it’s gone straight over the top today as it is the number #1 CD on the charts right now. I don’t know if younger listeners are buying the thing or if the baby boomers are all buying their first new CD in 10 years but the CD is selling wonderfully.
On that note, the double CD has 20 new songs of which 8 are ballads or medleys, 9 are rock/pop, 3 are country or country rock loosely classified. IMO, there are 4 songs of exceptional merit on this recording. They are 3 ballads: Waiting in the Weeds, No More Cloudy Days and Center of the Universe. All of these tunes made my all time top 100 list already. There is another one; a party song with whom else as front man, Joe Walsh called Last Good Time in Town. These tunes are exceptional to me.
Of huge merit, How Long is headed for the top in the Country Charts and is nominated as a top CW video for the year. No more walks in the Wood and especially Long Road Out of Eden are pure-D 1968 anti-Viet Nam (Ooops) I mean anti-Iraqi war songs. The rest of the music is classic Eagles or fill…every album has’m. If you like the Eagles…..buy this. |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 11/18/2007, 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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IGO wrote: |
OK. I thought I'd drum up more die hard Eagles fans in here |
Got one here. One of my favorite numbers of all time is their acoustic Hotel California from the Hell Freezes Over CD; have it on 5.1 DTS...awesome! _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 11/18/2007, 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Took big ones for those guys to come on stage after 14 years and play an accoustic version of one of the top selling Rock-n-Roll songs of all time. It too was a masterpiece and showed newer listeners that the Eagles could keep up with the times and be timeless at the same time. That is one of the hardest hitting (kick-drum/sub-woofer) tunes out there still. LOL.
Oh, I just bought another copy of Hell Freezes Over too. At Wal-Mart Super Store yesterday, Eagles CD's, all their recordings, took up two columns top to bottom on the shelves. Holy poooo! |
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lzyboy
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 201 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 11/18/2007, 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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IGO wrote: |
I’ve associated the Eagles with backpacking and the desert south west from day one, hence all the blabbing on this forum. |
I was going thru an ugly, ugly divorce, struggling at being a good single dad, trepidation about being able to keep my job, and a plethora of other "character building" situations at the peak of the Eagles popularity. I've always associated every song with heartache, despair, the bar scene and cheating spouses, so there you go.
Give me Jimmy Buffett any day. Or the Who...
By the way IGO, you work for Wal-Mart? Lotta plugs in there... just wondering... |
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