Critics Slam New Eagles Album

The Eagles’ new album; Long Road out of Eden has yet to arrive on my front door mat having been pre-ordered from Amazon a couple of weeks back. I’ve heard several of the tracks on the radio, so I know what I’m getting; I’m getting what it says on the tin; The Eagles reconstituted. This, it seems, is what the critics don’t like about it:

You can take the Eagles out of the 1970s, but you can’t take the 1970s out of the Eagles. That, at least, is the conclusion of US critics who have greeted the band’s first album of original material in 28 years with less than open arms. “Good news, the Eagles haven’t changed a bit,” wrote The Christian Science Monitor. “Bad news: The Eagles haven’t changed a bit.”

Um.. Yes… that’s exactly why it will be popular with the music buying public. And the band will be well aware that it is the music buying public who matter, not the critics who are nothing more than bitter, twisted creeps with no talent themselves. Those who can, do. Those who can’t become parasites – critics in other words. I never read critical reviews, preferring my own opinion to that of some jumped up, pompous self opinionated twat who thinks that their opinion is in some way more valid or more important than yours or mine – it is neither.

If you like it, buy it. If you don’t, don’t. Either way, ignore the critics – if you take any notice it only encourages them.