There Goes the Neighborhood (album)

There Goes the Neighborhood
Studio album by Joe Walsh
Released	May 1981
Recorded	1973, October – November 1980
Studio	Santa Barbara Sound Recording (Santa Barbara, California)
Genre	Rock pop rock soft rock
Length	35:37
Label	Asylum
Producer	Joe Walsh George "Chocolate" Perry
Joe Walsh chronology
The Best of Joe Walsh (1978) There Goes the Neighborhood (1981) You Bought It – You Name It (1983)
Singles from There Goes the Neighborhood
"A Life of Illusion" Released: May 1981 "Made Your Mind Up" Released: 1981 "Rivers (Of the Hidden Funk)" Released: 1981 "Things" Released: 1981

There Goes the Neighborhood is the fifth solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and sometime-guitarist for the Eagles, Joe Walsh. The album was released in May 1981,^[1] by Asylum Records, three years after Walsh's album But Seriously, Folks... (1978).

The album features contributions from two Eagles' members Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmit as well as session musicians including Russ Kunkel, David Lindley, Bob Mayo, and Victor Feldman.

The album peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard 200. The album only spawned one charting single, "A Life of Illusion", which would become one of Walsh's most popular songs and reached No. 34 at on the Billboard Hot 100. The single also topped the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.