SOMEBODY'S GONNA
HURT SOMEONE
BEFORE THE NIGHT
IS THROUGH
The Long Run
is the sixth
studio album
by American
rock band
The Eagles
It was released
in 1979
by Asylum Records
in the United States
and
the United Kingdom.
This was the first
Eagles album
to feature bassist
Timothy B. Schmit,
who had replaced
founding member
Randy Meisner,
and the last full
studio album to
feature
Don Felder
before his
termination
from the band
in 2001.
This was the band's
final studio album
for
Asylum Records.
It also turned out
to be their last
studio album
during their
original tenure,
as the Eagles
disbanded in 1980;
even though they
reunited in 1994,
they did not release
another studio album
until 2007's
Long Road Out of Eden.
Three singles
were released from
the album,
"Heartache Tonight",
"The Long Run",
and
"I Can't Tell You Why".
"Heartache Tonight"
Background
The album was
originally intended to be
a double album.
However,
because the band could not
come up with enough songs,
the idea was scrapped.
The recording was protracted;
they started recording in 1978,
and the album took
18 months to record
in five different studios
before it was
finally released in
September 1979.
According to Don Henley,
the band members were
"completely burned out"
and
"physically,
emotionally,
spiritually
and creatively exhausted"
from a long tour
when they started
recording the album,
and they had few songs.
However,
they managed to put together
ten songs
for the album,
with contribution from
their friends
JD Souther
and
Bob Seger
who co-wrote with
Frey and Henley
on
"Heartache Tonight".
Souther also got
songwriting credit on
"Teenage Jail"
and
"The Sad Cafe".)
According to Henley,
the title track
was in part a
response to
press articles
that said they were
"passé"
as disco was then
dominant and punk emerging,
which inspired lines such as
"Who is gonna make it/
We'll find out in the long run".
He said that the inspiration
for the lyrics was also
"irony",
as they wrote about longevity
and posterity
while the group
"was breaking apart,
imploding under the pressure
of trying to deliver a
Randy Meisner
decided to leave the Eagles
after an argument in
Knoxville, Tennessee,
during the
Hotel California Tour
in June 1977
He was replaced by
Timothy B. Schmit,
who brought an
unfinished song
to the band,
"I Can't Tell You Why".
Schmit wrote the song
based loosely on his
own experiences;
both Henley and Frey
liked the song
and they completed
the song together.
Joe Walsh
also contributed the song
"In the City",
which was first
recorded by
Walsh
for the
movie soundtrack for
The Warriors,
where it was credited
only to Walsh,
not the Eagles.
Don Felder
wrote the tune for
"The Disco Strangler"
using a four-on-the-floor
disco beat
as the basis for
the composition.
Henley wrote the lyrics.
Henley intended the song
to be an antidote
to disco
as both he
and the rest of the band
disliked disco,
which was the
most popular
musical genre
p at the time.
The song
"The Sad Cafe"
was inspired by
the Troubadour nightclub
in Hollywood
where the Eagles
once played,
and also by
Dan Tana's
restaurant that
they frequented,
while
"The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"
was written as a
homage to Sixties
"frat rock"
such as the song
"96 Tears"
by ? and the Mysterians.
The album was
produced by
Bill Szymczyk,
although the Eagles
were listed as
co-producers
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