"The album was dominated by second-rank songs like The Disco Strangler, King of Hollywood, and Teenage Jail that sounded like they couldn't have taken three hours much less three years to come up with.
And both eventually came to realize that they had to give up the guise of observers and confess their roles as participants." ( Rolling Stone) Both Zevon and the Eagles have employed the desperado and the ghoul as anti-romantic symbols of the star caught in the devil’s bargain. "The Long Run, the Eagles first album in three years, is a chilling and altogether brilliant evocation of Hollywood’s nightly Witching Hour, that nocturnal feeding frenzy first detailed by Warren Zevon on his haunting Asylum debut ( Warren Zevon, 1976) and the equally powerful Excitable Boy.
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