Title: Joe, on the way down
Review: "There Goes the Neighborhood," released in 1981, marked the descent of Joe Walsh from progressive rock force to lightweight has been. The songwriting here is almost uniformly lackluster, save for "Life of Illusion," a catchy single that can be had on many of his anthology albums. The song "Things" typifies the kind of stuff that Walsh was writing at the time. It has an okay groove, but the lyrics are so utterly incosequential that you know the artist had run out of things to say. The problems with Walsh that started here would only get worse as the 1980s dragged on. A sad end for a once formidable artist.
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