The Long Run
Eagles
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Long Run | Eagles | 3:41 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | I Can't Tell You Why | Eagles | 4:53 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | In the City | Eagles | 3:44 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | The Disco Strangler | Eagles | 2:44 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | King of Hollywood | Eagles | 6:25 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Heartache Tonight | Eagles | 4:26 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Those Shoes | Eagles | 4:54 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Teenage Jail | Eagles | 3:44 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks | Eagles | 2:20 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | The Sad Cafe | Eagles | 5:35 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Songs |
iTunes Review
The Eagles followed up the landmark success of Hotel California with their hardest-rocking album to date. By 1979, the gauzy country of On the Border and Desperado seemed like a distant memory, replaced by the sneering, searing rock of “Heartache Tonight” and “These Shoes.” Glenn Frey and Don Henley had once made Los Angeles sound like a carefree oasis, but songs like “In the City” describe a city that has grown dangerous and suffocating: “Nothing grows, and life ain’t very pretty / No one’s there to catch you when you fall / Somewhere out on that horizon / Faraway from the neon sky / I know there must be somethin’ better.” The onslaught of punk and disco made it hard for the Eagles to maintain their identity, and though “The Disco Strangler,” “King of Hollywood,” and “Teenage Jail” are ostensibly about the sleazy ways of others, it is hard not to read these songs as a reflection of the Eagles’ own state of mind. Nevertheless, Timothy B. Schmit’s “I Can’t Tell You Why” brings the album a touch of delicacy worthy of Al Green. The good times were almost over, but this portrait of suspicion and exhaustion is vivid, and “The Sad Café” brings the perfect bittersweet ending to a decade dominated by the Eagles.
Recent Customer Reviews
A worthy swan song
by monitorboyI loved seeing the Eagles get back together for Hell Freezes Over, the subsequent concert tours and the new album, but this is where they should have left it.
True, It is not Hotel California, but than again nothing else is either. The band is conhesive, but it is the individual songs that shine: Timothy B. Schimdt's "I Can't Tell You Why" is beautiful ballad full of loss and uncertainty. "In The City" showcases Joe Walsh's guitar and voice in a tale about the grimy, dangerous city and the hope for a better place beyond. There are songs about the sleazy back alleys and Klieg Lit boulevards of Los Angeles ("King of Hollywood," "Those Shoes"). Then we end with "The Sad Cafe." Reminding us of past glories, hylcion days and bohemian nights of the early 1970s, it is a fitting elegy for the that period directly after the people's movements of the 1960s. Bitterly ironic is the timing--coming out in 1979. Reagan would be elected the next year, ushering in the go-go 1980s and the ascendance of Neo-Conservativism that changed the domestic and foreign policy landscape forever. America had changed and so had the Eagles. The Long Run reflects the shifting sands in personal and public lives. It should be seen and appreciated in this light.
Long Run
by showgunI'm a professional musician and I know good music when I hear it. This album is awesome. I remember the day I first heard it. It was a cloudy saturday in 1979, while cleaning my apartment, I heard the long run on the radio and immediately jumped in the car and went to buy it. It was actually the perfect album to prevent repetition from the Eagles. There was a change in the band and naturally it showed in their music, in a great way! Any negative reviews I feel, are from people that are younger, (not of age when this album came out) as the sales of this album showed millions agreed with me in 1979. But we're talking about a time when REAL MUSIC was still being created and computers were new and not being used to put out samples instead of music. While Teenage Jail is a standout hit, Those Shoes really rocks and more accentuates Joe's guitar playing! Note the talk box. ALL of the EAGLES albums are great and they're still rock'n!
One of the best.
by billybobbiilybobbillybobThis album will never be as great as Hotel California or Their Greatest Hits, but it is still great and Those Shoes, The Long Run, and In the City are my favorites. They all have great guitar, bass, vocals, and most of all drums.
Biography
Formed: 1971 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Eagles
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hotel California | Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | 6:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Take It Easy | Eagles | 3:32 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Desperado | Desperado | 3:37 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Please Come Home for Christmas | Please Come Home for Christmas / Funky New Year - Single | 2:58 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Life In the Fast Lane | Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | 4:45 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Southern Rock, Hard Rock, Pop, Soft Rock, Pop/Rock, Arena Rock
- Released: Sep 24, 1979
- ℗ 1983 Elektra/Asylum Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
