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Eagles - The Very Best of the Eagles Audio CD

A fair review of the Eagles "The Very Best of the Eagles" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Eagles reviews here, or go back to the Eagles tabs.

Eagles Band: Eagles
Title: The Very Best of the Eagles
Rating:
Release Date: 1998-12-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Take It Easy 2: Witchy Woman 3: Peaceful Easy Feeling 4: Doolin Dalton 5: Desperado 6: Tequila Sunrise 7: Best Of My Love 8: James Dean 9: I Can't Tell You Why 10: Lyin' Eyes 11: Take It To The Limit 12: One Of These Nights 13: Hotel California 14: New Kid In Town 15: Life In The Fast Lane 16: Heartache Tonight 17: The Long Run

Good collection but wait for new "Best Of"
Except for one glaring omission ("Already Gone", one of my personal favorites) and two duds ("Doolin Dalton" and "James Dean"), this has all of the essential Eagles songs you'd want on a hits compilation. As only a casual fan of some of the Eagles music, this import collection was enough to satisfy me. However, now there's going to be a 2 disc "Best Of" that is coming out this fall that I will probably update my collection and replace this with. So any of you considering this collection instead might want to wait for that one instead because it has all the hits represented here plus the aforementioned "Already Gone" and some album tracks that are often played on classic rock radio like "In the City", "Victim of Love", etc.


A "Best Of" No-No
Rhino Records does a great job with their "Complete Greatest Hits," etc. Consolidating the accomplishments of one of the greatest bands in rock 'n' roll history onto one CD is criminal. , but this collection is incomplete, misrepresentative, and poorly arranged. Songs like "Doolin' Dalton" make the cut, but "In the City" (which, for some reason, was not on the second Greatest Hits collection) is again overlooked. Admittedly, the Eagles have had some strange collections ("After the Thrill is Gone" being included on the second Greatest Hits despite its 1975 release). So, because my review has been as helter-skelter as the arrangement of tunes on this CD, I will leave you with the recommendation of buying the individual albums or Greatest Hits collections.


Fine Eagles Collection For Those With More Money, Less Room
2," among music's top sellers and essential 1970s collections. Hard imagining anyone but wealthy, space-strapped Eagles fans taking this one-disc, price-prohibitive collection over "Greatest Hits 1971-75" and "Greatest Hits Vol.

Choosing "The Very Best of The Eagles" over those shortchanges vintage classics as "Sad Cafe'," "Already Gone," "After The Thrill Is Gone," and others. But the sequencing here is refreshingly out of chronological order, dropping Tim Schmitt's honest, aching vocal on "I Can't Tell You Why" above "Lyin' Eyes" chrome polished country. Sprinkling less familiar songs ("Doolin' Dalton," "James Dean") among Eagle standards shows creativity those hits sets lacked. Praising a mythical gunfighter and the "just too cool for school" film star allowed lead songwriters Glenn Frey and Don Henley to tap the musician-as-renegade image rock and country stars (Paul McCartney's "Band On The Run," Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings "Outlaws" projects) cultivated throughout the decade.

Other than that, the same California timepieces ("Life In The Fast Lane," "Hotel California," "Take It To The Limit") show up on both collections, here providing a more concentrated shot of what made this country-turned-rock band one of music's richest, most enduring supergroups: lyrics charting personal and political cynicism that defined the 1970s, set to melodies consistently straddling reflective country ("Best of My Love," "Peaceful Easy Feeling") and wailing, immaculately crafted hard rock ("Life In The Fast Lane"). If you need the room and have the money, "The Very Best of The Eagles" covers the hits nicely, but the two hits collections covers more ground for about the same price.


Eagles In One CD?
The reason I bought this CD in 1993 to 4 was that I was lured by some of the tracks that Part I and II missed such as Tequila Sunrise or James Dean. No, never do this to one of the greatest band in history. If you are a decent music fan and know it well about how to appreciate music this compilation is the one to avoid. Nevertheless if you are new to Eagles and enjoy current artists like Backstreet Boys, Enimem Westlife or so it can be recommendable. At least buying Eagles is better than buying none.

My favorite Eagles tracks of all time are included such as Take It Easy, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Desperado, One Of These Nights, and New Kid In Town.


All of the Classic Eagles
Hotel California,Life in the fast lane,Best of My love,&the Philly Sounding influenced Take it to the Limit. I can't tell you Why alone is Worth the Price alone. this is a must have in your collection. this best captures the Eagles. all of the essential Songs here.


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