LROOE - which disc do you prefer?

[Jonny Come Lately]

I've never seen this done before. Simple question: which of the two discs from Long Road Out Of Eden do you prefer?

I'm really curious to know whether people tend to prefer one of the two discs, or if opinion is split down the middle. I'd love to hear why you choose one disc over the other, even if it's just because your favourite song is on that disc, or because your least favourite is on the other one - it doesn't need to exhaustive. If you genuinely can't decide, then I'd also love to know why (although I'm afraid this does mean you can't vote in the poll!)

I personally prefer disc two, as I think it's more consistent - I love the run of songs from the epic title track through to Last Good Time In Town. There are a few songs that can be a bit 'meh' for me on disc one, whereas I love virtually everything on disc two. Having said this, two of my three favourite songs are on disc one (How Long and Waiting In The Weeds), but I think more of my top ten would be on the second CD.

[Freypower]

I prefer Disc Two.

[Annoying Twit]

I've always preferred disk 2. Only a few replies so far, but it seems that others do too. Get votin' people. (For this, and for THAT too :) ).

[scottside]

I would vote for Disc Two also, mainly on the strength of the first three songs-"Long Road Out Of Eden," "I Dreamed There Was No War" and "Somebody." Disc One has more weaker songs, but the second disc isn't without any either.

[Funk 50]

Shortly after the albums release, I compiled my own single disc version of Long Road Out Of Eden. I've always played this in preference to the official discs.

01 Business As Usual [2]
02 You Are Not Alone [1]
03 No More Walks In The Wood [1]
04 Guilty Of The Crime [1]
05 Fast Company [1]
06 Somebody [2]
07 Waiting In The Weeds [1]
08 No More Cloudy Days [1]
09 Last Good Time In Town [2]
10 What Do I Do With My Heart [1]
11 Long Road Out Of Eden [2]
12 Center Of The Universe [2]
13 I Love To watch A Woman Dance [2]
14 Frail Grasp On The Big Picture [2]
15 I Dreamed There Was No War [2]
16 How Long[1]
17 It's Your World Now [2]

I reckon that's 8 from CD 1 and 9 from CD 2. ;)

[maryc2130]

I debated not voting on this because the original I had of Disc 2 skipped badly. But I recently replaced it, and I still prefer Disc 1 quite a bit over Disc 2. I still don't play Disc 2 very often, although I do like the songs on it.

Has anyone else had a problem with the quality of these CDs? The last couple of songs on Disc 1 skip, too, even on the one I bought not long ago. It's frustrating!

[Brooke]

It's too hard for me to vote as there are songs on both cds that I want to hear.

My favorite song of all is Waiting in the Weeds, which is on #1, but I must have LROOE, Somebody, CotU and IYWN which are on #2. I also really like HL, BBF, WDIDWMH and NMCD.

I do most of my music listening in the car and my new car doesn't have a cd player, so I solved the dilemma by making a playlist of my favorites. :shrug:

[L101]

I tend to listen to disc 1 more than disc 2 as most of my favourite songs are on it but most of the time, its on shuffle on my ipod so I never know what disc I'm listening to :grin:

[DivineDon]

Definitely disc 1 for me. Most of my favourite songs are on it.

Waiting in the weeds alone swings it for me.

[Funk 50]

I debated not voting on this because the original I had of Disc 2 skipped badly. But I recently replaced it, and I still prefer Disc 1 quite a bit over Disc 2. I still don't play Disc 2 very often, although I do like the songs on it.

Has anyone else had a problem with the quality of these CDs? The last couple of songs on Disc 1 skip, too, even on the one I bought not long ago. It's frustrating!

When CDs were first introduced, one of the promotion points, to ween us off vinyl, was you could eat your dinner off a CD and it'd still work. If you can't take it back to the shop, it's always worth trying a bit of soap and water. I'm sure there are defined CD, and CD player, cleaners available too.

Sorry for nipping off topic

Track wise CD2 edges it. If you factor in the length of the tracks, I spend much more time listening to CD 2 (roughly 30% more) :eyebrow:

[WalshFan88]

Disc one by quite a bit...

I've never been a fan of this record and the 3 songs I liked off it are all on disc one.

How Long - the classic country twang sound with an upbeat tempo

Busy Being Fabulous - a more contemporary modern country song

Guilty Of The Crime - a fun Walsh tune

TBH, the only two I listen to nowadays are How Long and BBF. I feel those are the best songs on the album and I personally don't care for the songs that I feel have too much of that Henley "Dirty Laundry" vibe where he's complaining about something or they just seem to be to far removed to what I like or expect from the Eagles. LROOE to me was a record that had mostly songs with strong heavy lyrical content that was serious and had a message and TBH, that's the last thing I look for in a song. I like fun, light rockers or at the very least informal party songs that aren't so deep and serious. I look to music for fun and something to make me laugh or smile or relate to. And for me, I live out a different life through. And songs like Fast Company and the like ain't it, just to be honest.

That said, I'm warming up to "Somebody" after FP talked about it recently in another thread. For me it was a lost diamond in the rough that is a lot of Henley talking about subjects I have no interest in and suck the fun right out of you. Which is probably why I'm not a lyrics guy and am a instrument/music guy. I like fun and light songs, or if they are going to have deep lyrics, have them be interesting enough to both catch my attention and not put me off and give me a reward for listening with some good guitar based stuff. Hotel California being a great example. It's not a fun rocker about partyin', but there was something there to keep me interested and WAIT for that solo. I think HC is the exception more than the rule in my case. Generally, I'm more of an Already Gone-type song guy.

[UndertheWire]

I'm finding it hard to choose between the two. I like songs on both but there are few that stand out as favourites. Maybe "What Do I Do With My Heart" and "Somebody", so that's one each. My disc 2 has "Hole in the World" so that gives it a slight boost and I prefer "Last Good Night in Town" to "Guilty of the Crime".

Like Austin, I don't look to music for social and political messages and the Henley songs that are more about the lyrics than the music don't do a lot for me. That's said, I like the title song but disc 2 also has the scolding "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture".

[Jonny Come Lately]

Sorry, meant to get back to this earlier. I submitted my original post in a bit of a hurry due to a sudden change of plan for that day and intended to revisit this.

I think some very interesting points about the two discs have been raised so far. In my first post I said that although I considered disc two to be my favourite, two of my top three songs are on disc one, which could seem a bit contradictory, so I thought it would be a good idea to look a bit deeper into the album. If I was to name my top ten songs from the album I think I'd go for:

How Long
Busy Being Fabulous
Waiting In The Weeds
Do Something
You Are Not Alone
Long Road Out Of Eden
Somebody
Frail Grasp On The Big Picture
Last Good Time In Town
Business As Usual

So, five songs from each CD... once again, this doesn't seem very conclusive! :lol: However, given that there are eleven songs on disc one, whereas only two, I think this provides some justification. I think it may come down to the weaker songs on each disc - I like all of the songs on disc two (if I had to pick a 'weakest' it would be ILTWAWD, mainly because I don't think it's very 'Eagles'-ish, as a song it's fine), whereas on disc one I'm not a great fan of Fast Company and although I really like the harmonies No More Walks is a bit awkward melodically.

I personally love Don's social commentary songs, for their lyrics and their music, although I can understand why Austin and UtW feel the way they do. I think the title track is absolutely brilliant, one of the best songs they've ever done. Frail Grasp just really appeals to me. I think I'm on the same page as Don sense of humour-wise (rather dark and twisted!), so that probably helps! Business As Usual has is probably the track that has grown on me most. Again I love the lyrics, but I also dig the riff (especially on the intro) and the guitar solo. I say this not to be 'contrary' or anything like that, but I think these songs are a big part of why disc two is my favourite.