![]() ![]() Henley comes off as a grumpy know-it-all. Joe Walsh gets 2 songs and he waste one of his chances on a weak cover. They waste 10 minutes on the title track that goes nowhere. Words to describe the production: "polite", "Slick""clean", "flat". Maybe they'll do us all a favor and wait another 28 years before going down this road again. Glenn Frey is still a fine singer, but most of his offerings are silly love songs. All those years of self-destructive behavior have pickled Joe Walsh's mind his songs are quickly forgettable. Tim Schmit's 'I Don't Want To Hear Any More' is a warmed over 'I Can't Tell You Why,' and it wasn't even written by him - Paul Carrack is the doctor who originally tried to give life to this dead patient. To say nothing of their concert ticket prices. ![]() Listening to him rip the Bush Administration on album centerpiece 'Business As Usual' while the band cozies up to Walmart to make the most bang for their buck is laughable. The only decent songs are the ones written with Don Henley, which is no surprise based on his successful solo career, but even he offers more misses than hits. Listening to him rip the Bush Administration on album centerpiece 'Business As The vocals are great, the playing is good, but The Eagles appear to have lost their lyrical and melodic acumen. They audited the data to weed out double sales.” A comment from Virgin Megastore wasn’t available by press time.The vocals are great, the playing is good, but The Eagles appear to have lost their lyrical and melodic acumen. The question now is, how did Virgin Megastore get their hands on the album, and did these sales contribute to the Eagles’ Billboard chart-topping 711,000 copies? Mayfield says, “SoundScan was aware that this was happening. When we asked one clerk why the album was so expensive at Virgin, and whether the discs might be imports, he whispered into the phone that he “thinks they were hard to get.” A small record store in Nebraska told us they were re-selling discs that were purchased at Wal-Mart. While it is a double CD, the price is strikingly higher than Wal-Mart’s tag of $11.88. The fact that the albums were selling out came as a surprise, considering the CD at Virgin came with price tags ranging from $18.99 to $24.99. Of the Virgins carrying the album, most started selling it today, one week after the album’s release, while two said they started selling the CDs on October 30th, the same day as the “exclusive” Wal-Mart on-sale date, with one store even “selling out” their fairly large stock. We called eight Virgin Megastores in five different states, and discovered seven had Long Road in stock, although none of them had the album prominently listed in their in-store inventory directories. “Someone told me it was the third-best seller for Virgin.” “We’re aware of that - I’ve heard that some stores here are selling imports,” Billboard charts editor Geoff Mayfield tells Rolling Stone. Not only that, it didn’t take speakeasy tactics to secure a copy some stores were boasting the album by the dozen in front display cases, where new releases are usually showcased (see above, a shot from a New York City Virgin Megastore boasting a price sticker of $18.99). We investigated these claims and discovered that the CDs are indeed being sold outside of Wal-Mart. But then we heard whispers that people were finding the new “exclusive” album at small mom-and-pop record stores and, remarkably, big chains like Virgin Megastore. When the Eagles announced that they would exclusively sell their new double album Long Road Out of Eden for an entire year at Wal-Mart (and their own Web site), fans across the nation - especially those in Wal-Mart-less towns like New York City and Los Angeles - wondered how they’d get their hands on copy without journeying to the retail giant.
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