Product Description

This marked the transition from a nifty country rock band to a rock combo with the potential for world domination. The music was a tad sweeter and less ironic, a morsel rockier with Top 40 friendliness. Tracks such as 'Take It To The Limit' and 'Lyin' Eyes' have been played far too much on the radio. They need to be rested in place of Bernie Leadon's unusual instrumental, 'Journey Of The Sorcerer' (used as the themeto BBC Television's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy), or the other great Leadon song, 'I Wish You Peace'. Financially,the Eagles never looked back after this, but the critical snipers were out in force.

Track Listing

1. One Of These Nights
2. Too Many Hands
3. Hollywood Waltz
4. Journey Of The Sorcerer
5. Lyin' Eyes
6. Take It To The Limit
7. Visions
8. After The Thrill Is Gone
9. I Wish You Peace

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21642 in Music
• Released on: 1985-04-25
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Eagles exploded on the charts in 1975 with One of These Nights, the first of four straight albums by the band to reach No. One. The album was their most varied to date, with the discofied title track, the stately waltz "Take It To the Limit" and the tough, cynical country rocker "Lyin' Eyes". The album contains a couple of unusual numbers as well, including Bernie Leadon's psychedelic banjo showcase "Journey of the Sorcerer" and "I Wish You Peace", which Leadon wrote with his then-girlfriend, future first daughter (by virtue of her parents, Ron and Nancy Reagan) and nude model (courtesy of Playboy), Patti Davis. --Daniel Durchholz

Customer Reviews

They don't make em' like they used to
The 70's was a decade of excellent music, where creativity was at it's peak and for alot of groups good songwriting was at the forefront.

The quality of this group astounds me. The reason I went for this album is because the title track is catchy, but meaningful. My other favourites are Hollywood Waltz (superb lyrics, that really sums up some people), Lyin' Eyes (A superb classic), Visions (great rock song) and After the Thrill is Gone (a beautiful, apt song that instantly struck a chord with me). The whole group write, sing and play such fantastic songs and they all possess decent singing voices.

Unlike some groups the Eagles sing with feeling and you can tell they mean what they sing. It's no wonder Lyin' Eyes won an award "The cheatin' side of town" is such a great lyric.

I highly recommend this to people who like prog rock and music with feeling.

One of those classic must-have albums
There are some great tracks on this CD. It's a must-have if you're a big Eagles fan, obviously. If you're not so much, one of the best-of albums is probably a better bet; to get the classic Hotel California etc.
But if this one is going cheap, or if you liked some other stuff by them, this will certainly not dissappoint. Played non stop in my CD player for a few months;
a great buy

The first of four straight #1 albums
Musically, "One Of These Nights" is a little less diverse than its predecessors "Desperado" and particularly "On The Border". Where "On The Border" went from hard rock to bluegrass in the wink of an eye, "One Of These Nights" is a somewhat more focused record.
Sure, Bernie Leadons two contributions, the ballad "I Wish You Peace" and the weird but stately 7-minute instrumental "Journey Of The Sorcerer" don't quite fit in with the rest, but the other seven songs fit reasonably well onto the same album.

The highlights are unquestionably the three singles - Frey and Henley always knew wich songs to pick for single release. "One Of These Nights" the song and "One Of These Nights" the album both hit #1, and "Lyin' Eyes" and "Take It To The Limit" were top 10 hits as well.
The title track is a dance-friendly rock song which is often described as "disco-like". It's not a disco number, though, so don't worry, it's actually more of a funk tune if you want to call it anything other than just plain rock n' roll.
"Lyin' Eyes" is one of Glenn Frey's patented, shuffling country rockers with a great sing-along chorus, and "Take It To The Limit" is a grand, melodious stop-and-go ballad, sung by bassist and co-writer Randy Meisner.
Meisner also takes the lead on "Too Many Hands", written by himself along with guitarist Don Felder (a bit of an odd couple, but it's a fine, mid-tempo country rocker).
And Felder does his only lead vocal with the Eagles, on the album's hardest rock song, "Visions", co-written with Don Henley.

Don Henley takes the lead on "One Of These Nights" and the mellow but thoughtful "Hollywood Waltz" - the only song written by both Frey, Henley and Leadon, and, bless them, a real waltz. (I hate it when people call a song "The something-or-other Waltz" or "This-and-that Blues" and the song is a dime-a-dozen pop song with none of the characteristics of either waltz or blues!)

Glenn Frey's only solo lead vocal is "Lyin' Eyes" (he consciously chose to step back a little and let Henley handle the lead vocals on most of the songs they wrote together), but he shares the lead vocal duties with Don Henley on the fine ballad "After The Thrill Is Gone".

The arrangements and the playing is better than on "On The Border", and although the quality of the songs is not as continually high as on "Hotel California", this is certainly one of the Eagles' two or three best albums. The singles are superb, and although the album tracks may not all be great, none of them are less than good.
"On The Border" is well written, tremendously well played, beautifully sung, and highly recommendable.