Long Road Out of Eden

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Long Road Out of Eden
Studio album by
Eagles
ReleasedOctober 30, 2007
Recorded2001–2007
GenreRock
Length90:46
Label
Producer
Eagles chronology
Eagles
(2005) 		Long Road Out of Eden
(2007) 		Live from the Forum MMXVIII
(2020)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic60/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB[4]
The Guardian[5]
Los Angeles Times[6]
Mojo[7]
Q[8]
Rolling Stone[9]
Slant Magazine[10]
Uncut[11]

Long Road Out of Eden is the seventh studio album by American rock band the Eagles, released in 2007 on Lost Highway Records as their first ever double album. Nearly six years in production, it is the band's first studio album since 1979's The Long Run. In between that time the band recorded four original studio tracks for the live album Hell Freezes Over (1994), "Hole in the World" for The Very Best Of (2003) and the Joe Walsh-penned "One Day at a Time" for the Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne DVD (2005), which Walsh later re-recorded for his 2012 album Analog Man.

It is the band's first album released following the dismissal of Don Felder in 2001, as well as their final album with Glenn Frey before his death in 2016.

The album produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: a cover of JD Souther's "How Long" and "Busy Being Fabulous", both of which were Top 30 hits on the country charts as well as Top 20 hits on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. The album produced five straight hits on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts with "How Long", "Busy Being Fabulous", "No More Cloudy Days", "What Do I Do With My Heart", and "I Don't Want to Hear Anymore".

The album debuted at No. 1 in the US after a last-minute rule change by Billboard (which also blocked Britney Spears' highly anticipated Blackout from topping the chart) and won the band two Grammy awards for "How Long" and the instrumental "I Dreamed There Was No War". The album became the band's sixth consecutive No. 1 album, and was the highest selling album of the year. It has since sold 3.5 million copies in the US alone. Being a double album with length exceeding 90 minutes, the album was certified 7× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 3.5 million albums.

  1. ^ Long Road Out Of Eden Reviews, Ratings, Credits and More at Metacritic Metacritic. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  2. ^ Long Road Out of Eden at AllMusic
  3. ^ Smith, RJ (October 10, 2007). "The Eagles: Long Road Out of Eden". Blender. Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. ^ Sinclair, Tom (October 26, 2007). "Long Road Out of Eden". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  5. ^ Rogers, Jude (October 26, 2007). "The Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden". The Guardian. London. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  6. ^ Powers, Ann (October 30, 2007). "Eagles take smooth ride on rough road". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  7. ^ "Eagles: Long Road Out of Eden". Mojo (169): 99. December 2007.
  8. ^ "Eagles: Long Road Out of Eden". Q. No. 257. December 2007.
  9. ^ David Fricke (November 1, 2007). "Long Road Out of Eden – Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  10. ^ Keefe, Jonathan (November 24, 2007). "Review: The Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden". Slant Magazine. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  11. ^ Bud Scoppa. "The Eagles – Long Road Out Of Eden – Review". Uncut. Retrieved December 16, 2011.