So...if LROOE had been released as a single disc album...

[thelastresort]

I get some of the arguments that the album itself would have been artistically better as a whole if it was just one album but I don’t think that means that much in my opinion. More eagles songs is a good thing in my mind. Some were flawed but I don’t think any are that bad. Especially since it was their only full album since the break up and their last one. Had they had some previous unreleased material that would be fine but they aren’t big on that kind of thing

I'm the opposite. Another example is The Long Run: hamstrung beyond all description by the inclusion of Teenage Jail, Greeks and Disco Strangler, simply because they needed to fill the album up. Less is more in these instances. I would rather have heard 70 decent-to-superb Eagles songs than 70 decent-to-superb Eagles songs and 25 utterly tepid hogswash Eagles songs.

[FannyBeTender]

I'm the opposite. Another example is The Long Run: hamstrung beyond all description by the inclusion of Teenage Jail, Greeks and Disco Strangler, simply because they needed to fill the album up. Less is more in these instances. I would rather have heard 70 decent-to-superb Eagles songs than 70 decent-to-superb Eagles songs and 25 utterly tepid hogswash Eagles songs.

..........I actually love every single song on that album lol . I might be one of the few who does lol .

The Long Run just "clicked" with me and is my favorite Eagles studio album.

Now LROOE....a single album probably would have worked better.

[YoungEaglesFan]

[QUOTE=thelastresort;372036]I'm the opposite. Another example is The Long Run: hamstrung beyond all description by the inclusion of Teenage Jail, Greeks and Disco Strangler, simply because they needed to fill the album up. Less is more in these instances. I would rather have heard 70 decent-to-superb Eagles songs than 70 decent-to-superb Eagles songs and 25 utterly tepid hogswash Eagles songs

I understand that but I feel that a full double album would have been than a single album. A middle ground could have been achieved I guess but I don’t think there that many bad songs on it. I don’t like a couple but I don’t they are terrible songs. They aren’t good but they aren’t terrible. Songs like disco strangler and teenange jail are terrible in my mind.

[chaim]

It's fun to see which songs people would pick. But it's a funny thing about double albums that soon as someone says they actually should have released the album as a single album, the problem with this kind of thinking (I've seen this about Hot In The Shade on a Kiss forum) is that usually it becomes clear that everyone should have a special single album done for them. Remove some songs and make the album better for one person, and you'll make it worse for another person. Ob-la-di ob-la-da would be the first song I'd remove from the so called White Album, but it's probably somebody else's favorite song ever.

Back to LROOE. Guilty Of The Crime, Somebody and It's Your World Now (musically) are songs I could easily do without, but I like the other songs enough to enjoy it as a double album.

[BillBailey1976]

Here's my songs
1. How Long
2. Busy Being Fabulous
3. Waiting in the Weeds
4. Long Road Out of Eden
5. Guilty of the Crime
6. Fast Company
7. What Do I Do With My Heart
8. Business as Usual
9. I Don't Wanna Hear Anymore
10. It's Your World Now

As sad as it is...I found it hard to come up with enough songs for a single album. The whole thing is so dis-jointed.
If I hadn't added a Tim and Joe Song just because I know if they'd done a single album they would have had one lead each, I'm not sure I could have filled it out.

[BillBailey1976]

It's fun to see which songs people would pick. But it's a funny thing about double albums that soon as someone says they actually should have released the album as a single album, the problem with this kind of thinking (I've seen this about Hot In The Shade on a Kiss forum) is that usually it becomes clear that everyone should have a special single album done for them. Remove some songs and make the album better for one person, and you'll make it worse for another person. Ob-la-di ob-la-da would be the first song I'd remove from the so called White Album, but it's probably somebody else's favorite song ever.

Back to LROOE. Guilty Of The Crime, Somebody and It's Your World Now (musically) are songs I could easily do without, but I like the other songs enough to enjoy it as a double album.

I think "Somebody" might be up there with the worst songs they have done.Whatever Glenn was trying to do with is voice...he failed on that one.

[YoungEaglesFan]

I think "Somebody" might be up there with the worst songs they have done.Whatever Glenn was trying to do with is voice...he failed on that one.

I like the song a lot. I don’t like the weird voice thing but as a whole I like the song. I’m surprised some people hate it but I feel that way about other songs too

[Brooke]

Somebody was a favorite the first time I heard it! I love Glenn's versatility on it!

But, as you said, to each his own.

[shunlvswx]

At first, I didn't like Somebody, but it has grown on me. Maybe it was that little change in Glenn's voice in certain parts of the song was probably the reason I didn't like it. Just like I don't like Fast Company(I still don't like it to this day) because Don doesn't sound like himself throughout the song.

[Freypower]

I think "Somebody" might be up there with the worst songs they have done.Whatever Glenn was trying to do with is voice...he failed on that one.

He only does that in the line 'and it's calling you home'. It's a bit unfair to hate the entire song based on just that. it was such a thrill to hear him sing an uptempo song on the album, although he didn't write it. And I got to see it performed - twice - before it was unceremoniously dropped.