The Eagles new album deals with the war, consumerism, & dead journalism-available at Walmart NOW!

Eagles Album 'Long Road Out of Eden' Arrives At Wal-Mart

Band's Environmentally Friendly Packaged 20 Song Double-Album Releases October 30th

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAM09029102007-1.htm



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7067153.stm
The Times called it "wildly dated", while The Guardian said the double album "propels musical smugness to previously inconceivable proportions".

Billboard said fans would "not be disappointed" with the new opus.

The Christian Science Monitor newspaper said the album, which is said to have taken six years to make, was similar to previous material.

They opened their review with: "Good news: The Eagles haven't changed a bit. Bad news: The Eagles haven't changed a bit."

The band's new album deals with subjects including the war in Iraq, American consumerism and the death of journalism.

I'll probably love it. Probably love the new Led Zeppelin, too.

I could apply it to my home decor, too!

Wal-Mart sells more CDs than anyone in the U.S.

Henley's next album, 1989's The End of the Innocence, was even more successful. The title track, a collaboration with Bruce Hornsby, is a melancholy, piano-driven tale of finding bits of happiness in a corrupt world, and reached No. 8 as a single. The End of the Innocence was dedicated to all the farmers who were losing their farms because of the terrible loan conditions brought about by the Savings and Loan crises of the late 1980s. The lyrics called out then-President Ronald Reagan for pouring money into such defense projects as the missile defense shield rather than helping the struggling American farmer: "Oh Beautiful, for Spacious Skies but now those skies are threatening. Beating plowshares into swords for the this tired old man that we elected King."


Causes
In 1990, Henley founded the Walden Woods Project to help protect Walden Woods from development. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods was started in 1998 to provide for research and education regarding Henry David Thoreau.

Henley co-founded the non-profit Caddo Lake Institute in 1993 to underwrite ecological education and research. As part of the Caddo Lake Coalition, CLI helps protect the Texas wetland where Henley spent much of his childhood.

In 2000, Henley co-founded with Sheryl Crow the Recording Artists' Coalition, a group founded to protect musicians' rights against common music industry business practices. In this role he testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2001<2> and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in 2003.<3>

Henley is not always an idealist. In a March 2001 interview on Charlie Rose, he stated that "rock bands work best as a benevolent dictatorship," with the principal songwriters in a band (in the case of the Eagles, "me and Glenn Frey") being the ones that will likely hold the power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Henley#Personal_life

Maybe the exposure that walmart gives turned him, maybe all she wants to do is dance :shrug:

:)

Get Over It (from Hell Freezes Over)
(Frey/Henley)

I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin’ ’don’t blame me’
They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else
Spend all their time feelin’ sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma’s too thin; your daddy’s too fat

Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin’ and cryin’ and pitchin’ a fit
Get over it, get over it

You say you haven’t been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if I gave you some cash
The more I think about it, old billy was right
Let’s kill all the lawyers, kill ’em tonight
You don’t want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn’t owe you a thing

Get over it
Get over it
If you don’t want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, get over it

It’s like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You’re makin’ the most of your losin’ streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin’ everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I’d like to find your inner child and kick it’s little ass

Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin’ and moanin’ and pitchin’ a fit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it
Get over it
It’s gotta stop sometime, so why don’t you quit
Get over it, get over it

I would think its obvious that the OP was pointing out the irony of Walmart selling a CD about American consumerism.

No offense underpants, none intended.

And you don't expect people to point out the irony or to get snarky?

If any thread was a snarky magnet, this was it.

:loveya:

not really. don't touch me.

but I WILL NOT be buying their new album from Wally.

:shrug:

:thumbsup:

What do they want them to sound like? Justin Timberlake?

puh!

in Sacramento way back in the 60s

If the CD is only at Wal-mart, I'll never see it anyway.

And thought immediately that the second statement was pretty definitive prove that the first was incorrect.

Exemplify everything bad in rock-n-roll

Fuck the Eagles and the Cocaine cartels they made rich.

Buy it anywhere else.

would smile at them and sing "Hotel California".

I can still hear "Witchy Woman" and "Take it Easy" playing simultaneously ("double-tracking").:)

amazing. I will certainly buy their new CD and if I have to buy it at WalMart, so be it. By the way, the Chicks brought the house down with "I'm Not Ready To Make Nice", but this is Los Angeles. Natalie has lost a whole lot of weight and she looks terrific. What a show.

like I do. But hate Walmart, like me too. Then order the CD from the bands website.
http://www.eaglesband.com
I just did.

People sometimes overlook the obvious. WalMart hires people no one else in this WORLD would hire. Just saying.

I will look for it on itunes. Thanks for the heads up.