Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3320 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-28
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Their back-catalogue is studded with impeccably crafted country-rock gems, so virtually any Eagles greatest hits compilation is guaranteed not only to be chock-full of killer songs but also to have left off a fistful of personal favourites. In many ways, though, this 17-track compilation provides a more consistently enjoyable alternative resumé of their career than the recent four-CD box set, Selected Works. Country rock was invented, depending on whom you ask, by The Byrds, The Everly Brothers or Rick Nelson, but it was The Eagles who transformed it into a multi-platinum business and ultimately spawned the Nashville hat act syndrome. It's hard to hold even that against them though when the fresh Southern California breeze blows through "Take It Easy", when the New Mexico sunset is perfectly evoked by the opening arpeggios of "Hotel California" or when the four-part vocal harmonies kick in on the ultimate cheating song, "Lyin' Eyes". Throw in "One of These Nights", "Take It To The Limit" and "Tequila Sunrise", and it's more like a history of the entire genre than a single artist compilation. --Johnny Black

CD Description
Compilation of the American country-rock act's greatest hits. Formed in 1971, they are still immensely popular. Includes such classics as 'Hotel California', 'Lyin' Eyes', 'Desperado' and 'New Kid In Town'. Drummer Don Henley has also released four solo albums.

Customer Reviews

My Mum got me into this music
This album had been in the CD cabinet for quite a while! Then last Christmas when we had family around my mum brought it out. I lisened to and i thought it was bloody brilliant! There has been very few albums in which you could lisen to every song and it would be great. 'Hotel california' and 'taking it easy' are the most well known songs from the album but 'new kid in town' most of the other tunes are class! Why buy the latest bands album with a few good songs, when you can buy The Very Best of the Eagles and actully get an album in which every song is excellent!!

Beware the words "Digitally Remasterd"
This is an album that as the advert goes "does exactly as it says on the tin" It is The Eagles and it is their greatest hits. The songs have been remastered however which means the rough edges have been smoothed off, the i`s have been dotted and the t`s have been crossed and the songs are made generally more easier to listen too. The only trouble is that it is like giving Macbeth a feather duster to kill the Scottish king with. The songs may have been brought into the twenty first century but they lack that raw gutsy emotionally charged feel that made the original songs such classics.

Okay these are still brilliant songs by a brilliant band but if you wanted to play The Eagles to your Granny I`d play this C.D. However, if like me you were brought up on heavy rock discos air guitaring to the solo of Hotel California then I`d stick to the original albums.

Greatest hits certainly, very best probably not
In terms of coverage of the Eagles' principal hit singles and other best known songs, this compilation (actually only a slightly rehashed version of that issued some five years ago) can't be faulted. It epitomises the band's trademark country-rock sound of harmonious vocals and guitar backing, and will be ideal for the interested, although not dedicated fan. It's archetypal West Coast rock, with many memorable songs which have stood the test of time and become minor classics - and which even brightened up the west coast of Lancashire throughout the mid 70s, courtesy of the bands I and my friends played in!

However, as with most artists their greatest hits are not their very best records, and the Eagles are no exception. This collection probably just about manages to prevent the band being stereotyped as the epitome of every country rock cliché. Thus for every track that veers towards C&W (such as Tequila sunrise, Peaceful easy feeling, Take it easy or Lyin' eyes) there is another which is an orchestrated ballad or hints at R&B, soul, or even reggae (try Take it to the limit, One of these nights, I can't tell you why, or Hotel California). Overall, therefore, a reasonable balance is achieved and the result is very pleasant listening, although chronologically the tracks are all over the place and do not show the band's stylistic development over time. I'm also mystified as to how the rather jarring and forgettable James Dean made it into this collection.

For this to have truly been a Very Best compilation, however, a second CD would be needed, including more obscure but indispensable songs selected from all six original albums (Make your own list but don't hold your breath - such a compilation will never be issued). Instead, we committed fans will have to keep playing all the original albums to really hear the very best of the Eagles.