Just so you know:  Joe Walsh doesn't "get" all this new-fangled "technology" like computers and stuff like that, and he isn't thrilled to have some "10-year-old tell him what to do."

Joe has released an amusing song called "Analog Man", which is all about his alienation from the digital age.  (--It's streaming at JoeWalsh.com.)  It's the first single from his album of the same name.  It comes out on June 5th and will be his first solo album in 20 years.  The last one, "Songs for a Dying Planet", came out in 1992.

Joe also played on "Long Road Out of Eden", the album that the EAGLES released in 2007.

Ironically, the song wasn't recorded in analog.  It was all done digital.

 

And just because they're so fun, here are the lyrics to "Analog Man":

 

"Welcome to cyberspace / I'm lost in the fog

Everything's digital / I'm still analog

When something goes wrong / I don't have a clue

A 10-year-old smartass has to tell me what to do.

 

"Sign on with high-speed, you don't have to wait

Sit there for days, and vegetate.

I access my email, read all my spam

I'm an analog man.

 

"The whole world's living in a digital dream

It's not really there, it's all on the screen

It makes me forget who I am

I'm an analog man.

 

"I'm an analog man in a digital world

I'm gonna get me an analog girl

Who loves me for what I am

I'm an analog man.

 

"What's wrong with vinyl / I think it sounds great

LPs, 45s, 78s

But that's just the way I am

I'm an analog man.

 

"Turn on the tube / Watch until dawn

100 channels / Nothing is on

Endless commercials / Endless commercials / Endless commercials.

 

"The whole world's glued to the cable TV

It looks so real on the big LCD

Murder and violence are rated PG

Too bad for the children / They are what they see.

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