The Longrun is an Eagles music of their sixth studio album.
In 1979 Rolling Stone wrote, “General, The Lengthy Run is a synthesis of earlier macabre Eagles motifs, with cynical new insights which might be underlined by slashing rock & roll…(it) is a bitter, wrathful, troublesome file, stuffed with piss and vinegar and poisoned expectations. As a result of it’s steeped in recent, dangerous materials and unflinching self-examination, it’s additionally the Eagles’ finest work in lots of, a few years.”[14]The Globe and Mail decided that “the Eagles’ fawning synthesis of assorted sorts of rock and that roll sits much less nicely the smoother it will get.”[15] The New York Occasions acknowledged that The Lengthy Run “is neatly balanced amongst customary Eagles rockers, reasonably shallow social commentary, ballads and novelty numbers,” and famous that the band’s “imply streak” has “by no means been so obvious.”
Reviewing the album retrospectively in AllMusic, critic William Ruhlmann wrote that the album was a “main disappointment, despite the fact that it offered a number of million copies and threw off three hit singles,” including that the album “reportedly was deliberate as a double album earlier than being truncated to a single disc. Wiki
