Eagles [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Track Listings

1. Take It Easy

2. Witchy Woman

3. Chug All Night

4. Most Of Us Are Sad

5. Nightingale

6. Train Leaves Here This Morning

7. Take The Devil

8. Earlybird

9. Peaceful Easy Feeling

10. Tryin'

Tracks:

Take It Easy
Witchy Woman
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Desperado
Tequila Sunrise
Doolin-Dalton
Already Gone
The Best Of My Love
James Dean
Ol' '55
Midnight Flyer
On The Border
Lyin' Eyes
One Of These Nights
Take It To The Limit
After The Thrill Is Gone
Hotel California

Tracks:

Life In The Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Victim Of Love
The Last Resort
New Kid In Town
Please Come Home For Christmas
Heartache Tonight
The Sad Cafe
I Can't Tell You Why
The Long Run
In The City
Those Shoes
Seven Bridges Road (Live)
Love Will Keep Us Alive
Get Over It
Hole In The World

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This packed double-disc is the slim option for fans who find the Eagles' vaunted greatest hits sets too little and the boxed set too hefty. Hit singles large and medium are here, often ("One of These Nights," "Hotel California") still sounding definitive and even tough. Large helpings of favorite album cuts are also included, along with a taster from a promised 2004 Eagles studio reunion. Unfortunately, "Hole in the World," Don Henley's response to September 11, feels just as empty and entitled as "Get Over It," the band's previous state-of-the-union message (from which the newer song represents a philosophical 180-degree turn). But for those seeking an overview of this Southern California juggernaut's successes, as well as telling comments from band members--mostly Henley and Frey--in a well-designed booklet, Very Best will more than do. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Dollars and (common) cents........2007-06-14

I'm going to rate this CD based on a $1 per song cost to total cost for the entire CD (Apple and Rhapsody charge $1 per song).
The Eagles are great. Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh. I'm sure glad Hell froze over for them. Not that their recordings as the Eagles have been any good since then, but at least we might get a chance to see them live in concert.
This CD is the 'Greatest Hits' I've been waiting for. No longer do you have to buy their 'Greatest Hits - 1971 to 1975' for $14 and also their 'Greatest Hits - Vol. 2' for $15, in order to get all of their best work. There are $16 worth of great songs on here, but it will cost you $20 for the CD on Amazon. The songs are: CD 1: Tracks 1,2,3,4,7,8,13,14,15 & 17; CD 2: Tracks 1,3,5,7,9 & 10.
Better yet, all of the songs I've listed are available on iTunes. So buy each of the 16 songs individually on iTunes and save yourself $4.
Hope this helps.
Darium June 2007

This Witchy Woman Loves this Album.......2007-06-05

Twenty hits from the Eagles make's sure you get your moneys worth. "Hotel California" & "Best of My Love" are my two faves, but I love them all. California rock and roll, gotta love it. I know this desperado type witchy woman does as she sips her tequila sunrise just before she takes it to the limit.

Eagles Rock.......2007-05-13

I love, love, love this CD. I will treasure it forever. It has all the songs I love and wanted to hear. I recommend it to anyone looking for a great Eagles collection. The Eagles Rock!

Great album to be a cornerstone of a music library.......2007-03-07

Confession time. I never grew up with the Eagles. Until I watched the live reunion DVD at a high end home audio shop, I only knew the names and some of the songs.

This is a darned good album that spans The Eagles portfolio of songs. The live album has a more refined sound due to age and experience of the band members BUT, this is a benchmark hits album of the original recordings.

Best Ever.......2007-02-10

This will probably become my favorite CD ever. I was wild about the Eagles' music as a kid, and I still love it!! I am so glad that I bought this CD.

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Fly with the Eagles
Flyin' High - 4 Ever
The title says it all!
A smooth shot of tequila
A 70's classic, but now obsolete

Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
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ASIN: B000002GVS
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Take It Easy
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One Of These Nights
Tequila Sunrise
Take It To The Limit
Peaceful, Easy Feeling
Best Of My Love

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The pre-Hotel California years were arguably the best for The Eagles (though there were, thanks to Joe Walsh, some stellar future moments). Their mix of country, folk, and rock had a harder, grittier edge, and helped define what would become known as the Southern California sound. There was just enough of a country feel in the beautiful harmonies of "Best of My Love," to blur the edges between the genres. "Take It Easy" and "Lyin' Eyes" could easily have come out of the new Nashville school, as well. The twang that characterizes the guitar intro to "Already Gone" and the leads in "Witchy Woman" and "One of These Nights," also pays tribute to country's guitar greats. Greatest Hits 1971-1975 houses a scant ten singles, but not only does it illustrate the magic of the collaboration between Glen Frey and Don Henley, it shows the breadth of The Eagles impact on the many who would follow their lead. --Steve Gdula

Album Description

From the original master tapes on 24 karat Gold disc. Booklet includes complete original artwork. 1993 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Fly with the Eagles.......2007-06-10

Great collection that you will enjoy. Its got some essential Eagle hits that really are gems. A fine collection of music from a fine collection of musicians.

Flyin' High - 4 Ever.......2007-03-09

This record ranks as the #1 best selling album in the American Music Industry, so I guess that speaks for iteslf. 41 million copies worldwide and still selling, probably indicates just how their music appeals to all young and old...
If you want an introduction to the Eagles buy this and also "Hotel California" and you'll be set.
Take It Easy is as fresh now as it was in 1973 (and still stands as the best ever Eagles song recorded - that opening "G" chord still sends shivers down one's spine!) Contains all the great stuff pre-Hotel California.
However, if you want a far more comprehensive collection of Eagles songs - buy the double CD "Complete Greatest Hits".

The title says it all!.......2006-12-18

This album can afford to be out of print now that there's the surpassing THE VERY BEST OF THE EAGLES. Here are ten chart-risers that were previously released respectively on the band's first four non-compilation releases,THE EAGLES,DESPERADO,ON THE BORDER and ONE OF THESE NIGHTS.

A smooth shot of tequila.......2006-12-06

This album stops a bit early in the Eagles' career, just before the release of "Hotel California," and that's to its advantage because there isn't a dud on the album. After this, it was hit or miss for them. The standouts here are "One of These Nights," "Best of My Love," and the underrated, overlooked, and totally awesome "Tequila Sunrise." Great music for singing along in the car (especially the doo-doo-doos at the end of "Peaceful Easy Feeling").

A 70's classic, but now obsolete.......2006-11-03

This was a must have album in the 1970's, but it has since been superceded by their "The Very Best of" 2 CD set. This CD is simply a song for song re-issue of the vinyl album, so it only contains 10 songs from their early days. Which would be fine if this were a budget release, but it is not. The songs on here are great, but I think you would get a better value from buying "The Very Best of The Eagles" collection. It spans their entire career and includes 33 songs on 2 CDs.

I know they want to keep selling this CD since it is the biggest selling album of all time, but they need to cut the price or at least throw in a few bonus tracks.

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NOT ALL CD PLAYERS CAN PLAY THIS!
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The Eagles Big Comeback
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Release Date: 1994-11-08

Tracks:

Get Over It
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The Girl From Yesterday
Learn To Be Still
Tequila Sunrise
Hotel California
Wasted Time
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New York Minute
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Indeed, there were many who thought that it would take an event as cataclysmic as the one described in the album title to get these seminal '70s soft-rockers back together. But here they are, revisiting some of their most beloved tunes as well as four new ones, on this mostly live, largely acoustic disc. Frey, Henley, Walsh, Schmit, and Felder tackle iconic Eagles standards like "Hotel California," "Tequila Sunrise," "Take It Easy," "Desperado," and "Life in the Fast Lane" and new tunes like "Get Over It" and "Love Will Keep Us Alive" with the smoothly cocky assurance that originally made them icons. --Scott Schinder

Customer Reviews:

NOT ALL CD PLAYERS CAN PLAY THIS!.......2007-03-20

Imagine my disappointment when I ordered this highly praised CD, only to read on the case: "REQUIRES a DTS-Capable Playback System." I have three excellent music systems throughout my house, and not one is "DTS-Capable." I had to return the product. Note that nowhere in the description does it indicate that this CD can't be played on all systems.

Glenn Frey.......2007-02-13

"The Eagles will get back together, when hell freezes over!" (Glenn Frey,
circa 1982). Well, as we all know the Eagles did get back together in 1994 (recording 4 new songs), but twelve years later they still haven't released a new album. All we've been given, since they reformed, is a total of 7 new songs, two of which are only available on a live dvd, and one they didn't even write themselves (the mediocre "Love Will Keep Us Alive"). The only worthwhile contributions have been the country song "The Girl From Yesterday" and the country-ish "No More Cloudy Days" (dvd), both written by Glenn Frey. Come on, Glenn, quit these deadbeats and go to Nashville - record that wonderful country album you were always meant to do!

The Eagles Big Comeback.......2007-02-09

After 14 years apart The Eagles got back together in 1994 to record 4 new tracks and perform in concert for a TV special. "Hell Freezes Over" is the result of this project and in my opinion this is a must own for any fan of The Eagles. 3 of the 4 new songs are great ones. Don Henley's "Get Over It" is a great rocker and pretty much sums up my philosophy on life. Tim Schmit's "Love Will Keep Us Alive" is a rather average song, but it is brought to a higher level by Schmit's unique vocal style. No one cans sing songs like this quite like him. Glenn Frey's "The Girl From Yesterday" harkens back to the bands early country rock roots, and is a good tune with great lyrics. The other new track "Learn To Be Still" by Henley does not do a lot for me. The live section of the album is solid from start to finish. In fact I would say that this material blows the "Eagles Live" album from 1980 out of the water. The recording is pristine and the performances just about perfect. The band does an all acoustic version of Hotel California that incorporates a nice twist on the original song. My all time favorite Eagles song "The Last Resort" is majestic and even better than the studio version, and serves as the crowning moment on the album. "Tequila Sunrise", "Wasted Time", "Pretty Maids All In A Row", "I Can't Tell You Why", "Take It Easy", "In The City", "Life In The Fast Lane", and "Desperado" all appear here and all sound great. Don Henley's solo hit "New York Minute" is also included. This album would serve as a fine introduction to anyone looking to explore The Eagles. It also proved that the band was back in a big way. They have continued to tour on a fairly regular basis ever since.

Great service.......2007-01-05

DVD is great and I recommend this to anyone who loves the Eagles. I would recommend this seller.

Real to Life.......2006-12-28

I love this CD! Everything they sing about is so true to life. It's a great arrangement of songs.

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Welcome to the Hotel California
4 1/2 stars.
This isn't Wasted Time
Can't check out
Eagles at their absolute height.... bring back Felder!

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It's no accident that The Eagles Greatest Hits might one day pass Michael Jackson's Thriller as the best-selling album of all time-- the Eagles made great singles. By contrast, their albums could be spotty and strained by self-conscious artistry. Hotel California was arguably the band's best single album--it was certainly the Eagles' biggest original disc-- and it also underscored the band's need to make a big statement. The title tune reflected the album's theme of paradise lost in California, painting this picture with a musical arrangement that punctuated strumming guitars with dramatic drums, and perhaps the band's most famous lyric: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." "New Kid in Town" was an equally fine albeit much more traditional Eagles ballad. "Life in the Fast Lane" aspired to hard rock but largely gunned its engine without taking off. The rest is okay, but nothing more than secondary Eagles songs that happened to be nestled into the album that came to define the `70s supergroup. --John Milward

Album Description

From the original master tapes on 24 karat Gold disc. Booklet includes complete original artwork. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Welcome to the Hotel California.......2007-06-10

This is quintessential Eagles. The CD is chocked full of tunes that made the Eagles famous. A fine collection any fan of the Eagles would enjoy. One of my favorite CDs in college. You can check out, but you can never leave. A classic line that really brought back my days of struggling through my first year adjusting to college and being away from home. A great CD, in my humble opinion.

4 1/2 stars........2007-04-07

the hotel california, baby. in my neck of the musical woods (been listening to a lot of john coltrane lately) you are supposed to dislike the eagles. pure snobbery. i will have none of it. this is a fantastic album. the closing number, "the last resort," is reason enough alone to have this thing in your home. an absolutely beautiful song. seven minutes and twenty-five seconds of exquisite songcraft. not really a dud song anywhere on the album, in fact. this is the eagles masterpiece. no doubt. commercial music that is heartfelt, emotional, and fine. don't be a snob. check it out.

This isn't Wasted Time.......2007-04-01

This is one of the Eagles two best albums(the other being Desperado) and that doesn't mean that their other albums weren't good, however, both of these albums really are great from beginning to end. Okay so the first three songs were/are played to death on the radio. This is another album that surprises me that it was a hit because it's so dark for the most part and doesn't sound like the other stuff that was being played on the radio at the time. A song like Wasted Time reminds me of an updated tourch song and not really anything like the Bay City Rollers or Tony Orlando And Dawn(big hits at the time). Originally this was going to be the last Eagles album but the record company had other ideas. This is also the first with Joe Walsh in the band and his main song on the album Pretty Maids All In A Row is the best song he's ever written. Randy should be pointed out for his tune Try And Love Again which is also the only song on here in which the band does it's country/rock thing. Once again, I would suggest going with the box set and getting the mini lp sleeve version.

Can't check out.......2007-03-13

Time has passed Bachman Turner Overdrive, Ted Nugent and thankfully, The Hansens by, for reasons that only the gods and Robert Hilburn know. Bands may have their peak, but they don't often stay at the summit for decades to haunt the listener with a new nuance or an unheard overtone or a lyric that takes on new meaning or a vocal that pulls a tear when years before it generated a giggle. Time proves the mettle of the band in the maelstrom of public opinion and in the pop culture mindset of society.

A review of Hotel California in the classic sense of a track-by-track critique is folly. It's like going to the symphony to discover that Mahler should be capable of more subtlety, or to take issue with the color of the Golden Gate Bridge. The CD (or the "album" as we remember it) is now a part of us. To take it down to its component parts is like pulling the cornerstone from the Chrysler Building out for inspection. Pick it apart all you like, but there's no replacing a masterpiece of memory. It's not going anywhere. It's the Petrified Forest of rock.

Great music, music that transcends, that transports, is for all time, and messing with the components risks an awakening of evil spirits, a cacophonous clash of cultural traps, a probable trip to the edge of the abyss. DON'T GO THERE. The Eagles are as they were, an aural collection, and recollection for the ages.

Eagles at their absolute height.... bring back Felder!.......2007-03-09

The title says it all. I scrouged $5 of pocket money from my parents in 1977 to buy the vinyl LP and it stayed on my turntable for about a year (only occasionally to be replaced for a breif moment by other greats such as Dark Side of the Moon). This is the Eagles at their peak and not a throwaway track on the album. 30 years later it is on my iPod. The title track is haunting and the ripping guitar solo at the end is a simply brilliant guitar interplay between two of the most under-rated and genius rock guitarists about, Joe Walsh and Don Felder. The album is a nice blend of hard ripping rock (Felder's solo on Victim of Love is simply "wicked" - supposedly done "live in the studio" with no overdubs) and lovely melodic softer tunes (I really like Randy Meisner's often passed over "Try and Love Again"). Only bands of the quality of the Eagles can do this variety on one album and pull it off. The guitars are alternatively, haunting (like Henley's vocals), melodic (like G.Frey) and hard edged. Lyics are bitingly cynical and still relevant today... how many people still say the famous line "...you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave?"
Eagles are also brilliant live. If you like this you will also like Joe Walsh's "You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind" CD and The Eagles Farewell 1 Live DVD (it's great except there's no Felder [boo-hoo], but otherwise Joe is great....). Try also Jay Ferguson's "Thunder Island" for more cruisier stuff from the same year.

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The aim was to do for country what Saturday Night Fever did for disco. The result was that bars from Kona to Kalamazoo suddenly had mechanical bulls, and slickers walking around in cowboy hats. You might also pinpoint this as the moment in time when "country" music suddenly went cosmopolitan, paving the way for Garth Brooks. Johnny Lee's "Lookin' for Love" was one of the decade's biggest singles, and this album briefly made a star of Mickey Gilley (whose Texas club provided a home for that alpha bull). Fans of Bob Seger, Jimmy Buffet, the Eagles, Dan Fogelberg, and Bonnie Raitt may want this collection for the tunes they lack elsewhere. And it sure recalls an era. But please don't call it "country." --Bill Holdship

Customer Reviews:

Where were the good songs?.......2007-05-21

I love this movie, and I like the songs on this soundtrack, but, there are some songs that were in the movie that realy need to be on the soundtrack, but, they, for some reason left them out. Such as the intro song, "Texas", by Charley Danials. But, overall, it is a good album.

you made my day........2007-05-14

I have the music on 8track but, haven't been able to play it for years, no 8 track player. Now the music is back. Good customer service.

Great Service.......2007-03-16

Love the sound track of this movie. Takes me back to my
younger days!! Some really good memories! Thanks!

Urban Cowboy Music Lover.......2007-03-10

at last I found my Urban Cowboy music... love the movie and the music

Very Very Good.......2007-02-12

I'm not a country music fan in the least. But I saw this movie at least 3 times and it was superb. I thoroughly enjoyed the music. There are several good artists on this soundtrack like Dan Fogelbert, Bob Seger, Anne Murray, The Eagles, Johnny Lee. Charlie Daniels, Kenny Rogers and a few others. Every song on this ST is excellent. Even if you're not a country music fan like myself, this is one good CD to have in your collection of movie soundtracks.

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good album
Not so great !
The title says it all!
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The hits, take two.

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This second collection of hits features a hardening of sorts for these laid back southern California rockers. The emphasis shifts away from the lazy, rolling rhythms of the first collection to the tighter and harder-edged material contained herein. Part of the blame may be the inclusion of James Gang veteran Joe Walsh who adds noticeable lead guitar work and galvanizes Don Henley and Glenn Frey into taking greater chances. "Hotel California" is the obvious potboiler, but "Heartache Tonight," "Life in the Fast Lane," and "The Long Run" are close runners-up. Timothy B. Schmit's vocals on "I Can't Tell You Why" return the band full circle to their mellow, country-rock roots. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

good album.......2007-07-05

"Seven Bridges Road" is my favorite Eagles song, yet I never had a copy of it. I had a few copies of the early Eagles albums on vinyl and later on cassette, but this was the first Eagles CD I added to my collection. I purchased this CD mainly because I couldn't find any other way to get a copy of "Seven Bridges Road". I listen to the whole album often. Turns out, I like the later day Eagles hits even more now than when they were on the radio all the time.

Not so great !.......2007-04-18

I am not a fan of the band, I have listen to this cd a couple of time and I am not very pleased with it. There is just a couple of good tracks, not enough for me to keep this cd. I will use it as a gift for somebody who will listen to it, because I won't if I keep it.

The title says it all!.......2006-12-18

As I said in my review for the first compilation,this album can afford to be out of print now that there's the surpassing THE VERY BEST OF THE EAGLES. There are ten chart-risers on this set(on hit parade between 1976 and '80) like the first set has. SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD is a live track derived from a 1980 concert(the band was still promoting THE LONG RUN). It could have used PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS which many radio stations played every Christmas season since 1978. HOTEL CALIFORNIA tracks include the title track,NEW KID IN TOWN,LIFE IN THE FAST LANE and VICTIM OF LOVE. Tracks from TLR are the title track,I CAN'T TELL YOU WHY and HEARTACHE TONIGHT(co-written by Bob Seger,a longtime friend of the band's lead guitarist/vocalist Glenn Frey's and drummer/vocalist Don Henley's). This set was released in 1982 when Frey and Henley were just experiencing success as solo artists(the Eagles disbanded the previous year). Frey put out NO FUN ALOUD on the MCA label and Henley remained with Asylum putting out I CAN'T STAND STILL. Henley signed with Geffen thereafter and still records on that label today.

Greatest Hits not as great as they could be..........2006-10-14

First off, I love the Eagles. If you're just getting into the Eagles, I think this and the first Greatest Hits are a good way to start. However, for people like myself, who know the band in and out, this isn't so 'great'. "After the Thrill is Gone" shouldn't be on here. The addition of "Those Shoes" would have been much better. I am also not fond of the inclusion of "Seven Bridges Road". I know they play the song at a lot of their shows, but it's not their song. I think "Wasted Time" would have been a great choice. Sadly though, the two Greatest Hits CDs have been rendered almost-useless by the 2003 The Very Best Of. This is still worth the money.

The hits, take two........2005-10-10

Obviously this goes well with the previous hits collection, but Volume 2 stands on its own also. It's just another ten songs that everybody knows well. The biggie here of course is "Hotel California", but tracks like "Seven Bridges Road" and "Life In The Fast Lane" are classics too. Again, they're all great. I miss many songs from this era, specifically "In The City", but a ten track album was typical for the time this was released. Now that we have the 33 track "Very Best Of The Eagles" this isn't so essential, but it's still a sweet 45 minutes.

Tonight Not Again/Live at Eagles Ballroom (CD & DVD)

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I love this guy
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ASIN: B0002IQNW4
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

Tonight, Not Again
Not So Usual
Dialogue
No Doubling Back
You and I Both
Absolutely Zero
1000 Things
Common Pleasure
Curbside Prophet
Sleeping To Dream
Unfold
No Stopping Us
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His charm and excitement has been captured in its entirety on Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live At The Eagles Ballroom, a very special two disc set including an audio CD of his concert from Milwaukee's Eagles Ballroom, plus a video DVD of the concert plus tons of backstage and behind-the-scenes Mraz goodness.

Customer Reviews:

I love this guy.......2007-03-21

Jason MRAZ is very soulfull and fun. Very talented. I love his music!!!!!

simply the best.......2006-12-21

This is by far my favorite Mraz album. I love all of them, but after being introduced to this, I was blown away. This is a must for any fan and if you're thinking about buying this, just buy it, you won't regret it! Mraz is such a talented performer, a wonderful vocalist/guitar player and he is by far one of the most kind, humble people you will ever meet.I've been lucky enough to see him in concert multiple times and every time was just amazing.

A must for fans of Mraz!.......2006-11-09

This guy's amazing to listen to on CD, and even better live--if you can imagine that! With a unique mix of attitude and charm, meaningful lyrics and captivating vocals, he gets you higher than his falsettos. If you're a fan of Jason, then you will definitely want this CD, as it contains tracks not found anywhere else. Reason enough to get this CD are the tracks "Not So Usual" and "Unfold". You'll want to listen to this one over and over.

I can't turn it off.......2006-09-04

I was already a fan of Mraz before this, but after I bought this i don't want to listen to anything else. This live show is incredible both audio and video. Java Joe's is good too with just him and Toca but listening to him with the full band is incredible. If you have a passing interest in Mraz, start with this. If you have a serious interest and you don't have this, do not hesitate and get it immediately.

Mr. AZ.......2006-08-22

Saw Mr. AZ for the first time, as an opener for the Stones and loved him. Might I add, I am 60 years old. Never too old to learn a new musician.

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whatever happened to Saturday night?
One of the seventies' landmark albums.....
The Eagles' best
Way better than Hotel California!
The Eagles' sophomore set

Desperado
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ASIN: B000002GYW
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Doolin-dalton
Twenty-one
Out Of Control
Tequila Sunrise
Desperado
Certain Kind Of Fool
Doolin-dalton (Instr.)
Outlaw Man
Saturday Night
Bitter Creek
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If ever a group of musicians had a clear vision of where they wanted to go and how to get there, it was these southern California boys who built a steady rolling FM hit factory on basic tenets of Gram Parsons's invention of country-rock. For their second album, the group decided concept was most important and set out to portray themselves as keepers of the old West--their outlaw image a natural for those born unto rock and roll soil. The hits are lazy, decadent, and unrepentant; "Tequila Sunrise" and the title track, feature the flawless harmonies and strong vocals of Glenn Frey and Don Henley. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

whatever happened to Saturday night?.......2007-04-01

This is one of the Eagles best albums. All the songs are strong and for me, the problem with some of the Eagles songs is that they sound too much like all the other soft rock songs of the 70's(check out some of the songs on their first and The Long Run). This album though dosesn't have that problem with every tune being a classic. This is one of those albums that you put in and before you know it, it's over. the version I would recommend is the version in the box set where all of their albums are made to look like the original lps from when I first owned them.

One of the seventies' landmark albums............2007-03-27

"Desperado" was one of the most important albums of the seventies in that it firmly established the Eagles as something more than Linda Rondstadt's backup band. From the title track to "Saturday Night" (a live version of which is done very well on 1980's "Eagles Live"....) there isn't a stinker amongst the mix. In fact, one of my favorite lines from the album is from "Certain Kind of Fool: "....and it's a certain kind of fool that likes to hear the sound of his own name....." (How many politicians and celebrities can we apply THAT to...)

All in all, it's a very enjoyable album in the Poco/Pure Prarie League vein.....

The Eagles' best.......2007-03-25

This has been my all-time favorite album since it was released. There are other Eagles songs that are at the highest level (well, excluding chants by spiritual masters), but this is unique in having the entire album revolve around one theme. I can do without the cacophonous (sp?) ending of "Out of Control", but overall the album is unsurpassed.

Way better than Hotel California!.......2007-01-17

I'm not really a fan of this kind of music, you know country pop. The only country music I listen to is bluegrass. Anyway, the lyrics are really cheezey but I don't care. Great playing, great melodies, and great singing. Do not buy Hotel California! This is so much better! Hotel California is quite possibly one of the most overated albums ever!

The Eagles' sophomore set.......2006-12-18

Here on the Eagles' sophomore set,released in 1973 are three Top 20 hits,the title track(later covered by Kenny Rogers and Linda Ronstadt,separately),DOOLIN 'DALTON and TEQUILA SUNRISE. Those songs were recycled for the 2003 double-CD compilation VERY BEST OF THE EAGLES. The four members from left to right in the cover photo: Don Henley,Joe Walsh,Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon sure look tough in the photo! The other songs are good.

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what I wish this was....
The Eagles Live Nothing Mindblowing But Good For What It Is
"Easily one of the best live records ever released"
The first live effort from The Eagles over 25 years later
EAGLES play very well live, but there are problems with this album

Eagles Live
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002GXJ
Release Date: 1989-10-03

Tracks:

Hotel California
Heartache Tonight
I Can't Tell You Why
The Long Run
New Kid In Town
Life's Been Good

Tracks:

Seven Bridges Road
Wasted Time
Take It To The Limit
Doolin-Dalton (Reprise II)
Desperado
Saturday Night
All Night Long
Life In The Fast Lane
Take It Easy

Customer Reviews:

what I wish this was...........2007-05-29

Many people have already commented on the improved sound quality of the remasters, the overdubs/post-production of the "live" work, and the, by cd standards, very short song selection (recall this was originally a double vinyl back in the day). Some of the live versions here are spectacular (e.g. this is my favorite version of the many Hotel California's available - check out the second guitar solo!).

WEA missed an opportunity with the re-release to do something special with this album, but maybe they can do it for an anniversary edition sometime soon. As many people know, the material from this album came from two tours. One in 1976 to support Hotel California with Randy Meisner still in the group, and the other to support The Long Run in 1980 with Timothy B. Schmidt. So they have the "source" tapes for additional songs from each tour.

What I wish for is the first disc to be comprised of 1976/77 tour setlist and the second disc to be a 1980 tour setlist. Since they no doubt played many songs on both tours, they could choose from the "definitive" versions of some of the hits, and then round out the rest of the discs with songs that were only played on one of the tours. That way we could get "Try and Love Again" and "Pretty Maids all in a Row" on the 1976/77 disc, and "King of Hollywood" and "Sad Cafe" on the second disc. I think Eagles fans would love to have something like this and it would be a mega-seller for the band/record company.

The Eagles Live Nothing Mindblowing But Good For What It Is.......2007-02-08

This two disc live album was mostly recorded on "The Long Run" tour, and if I remember correctly was actually released after the band had called it a day. There are also a few tracks that are from the "Hotel California" tour as well when Randy Meisner was still a band member. As a swan song it is a decent document of the band's career, although the vast majority of the album is taken from the previous two studio albums. The album is recorded well and the performances are flawless. The Eagles have always been able to re-create their studio sound in a live setting and don't usually stray too far from the original studio versions. In fact most of the solo's are played pretty much verbatim from the studio version. So what do you get here that you wouldn't get from owning "Greatest Hits", "Long Run" or "Hotel California"? Not really a lot. Surprisingly the album contains not one, but two of Joe Walsh's solo hits in rowdy versions of "Life's Been Good" and "All Night Long". There is also one new (at the time) song called "Seven Bridges Road" that really showcases the band's tight vocal harmonies. The only other non single album track is Henley's "Saturday Night" which is nothing spectacular. A bunch of the big hits make up the rest of the album, again played pretty much just like the studio versions. I like this album and think it is a nice look at the band as it was at the time, but I would not say it is essential for Eagles fans.

"Easily one of the best live records ever released".......2006-07-13

I'm not really much for "classic rock" because it's all been overplayed to death. But you don't hear these selections played on the radio as much as you do the studio versions of these songs. Further note, these live versions (even if there might be overdubs; who doesn't overdub if you want to put out something decent?) sound better than their studio counterparts at times. These guys are already multi-millionaires, but I must give credit where it is due.

Look at "Take it to the Limit" (way better than the studio version; more energetic singing by Randy Meisner and that Aaahhhhaaa!!! scream at the end of the tune... Incredible, and not on the studio version) and the addition of some of the solo stuff from Joe Walsh fits in really great, giving the album a rock n' roll party feel that a regular Eagles set would not have had. The ommission of the boring "Tequila Sunrise" and "Midnight Flyer" or whatever these other country and western tunes are, is just fine by me.

Further, look at the great interplay and encouragement conveyed among all members: Henley, Frey, Schmidt, Meisner and Walsh. Some of the best musicians you'll ever assemble in one place for not only playing their instruments, but also singing in harmony. It's like Blue Oyster Cult times two. I also think of my mother's personal favourite (even surpassing stuff by "Nana Mouskouri") "Saturday Night"... What a beautiful song that you won't find on any other compilation albums from the band.

Perhaps the only thing that would have made this more complete would have been adding "In the City" and "Victim of Love". Still, when I look back this CD, it stands out even more so than any of the Eagles studio recordings done over the years, be it this or that greatest hits. The remaster is superb, as well.

If you really analyze it, there may not be a better live recording out there in terms of setlist, sound quality and vibe. And many people must know that there have been some great live records released over the years: "Kiss: Alive", "UFO: Strangers in the Night", "Judas Priest: Unleashed in the East", "Molly Hatchet: Double Trouble Live". Now these are real rock n' roll live recordings full of high quality versions and energy! But I feel the Eagles Live may be the best of the best. If it weren't for "One of these Nights", "Victim of Love", "Those Shoes", "Love Will Keep Us Alive" and "Victim of Love" having been included on the "Very Best of the Eagles" I'd have gotten rid of it and just kept this CD because the other ones sound far better on here. Verdict: Five stars. Maybe even the best Live CD ever released.

The first live effort from The Eagles over 25 years later.......2006-01-17

The Eagles' seventh album Eagles Live was released in November of 1980.
By 1980, The Eagles were going through a schizophrenic time. The band had another chart-topping album out of The Long Run but inner tensions between drummer Don Henley and guitarist Glenn Frey reached fever pitch. The strains of keeping up with success were taking a toll on messieurs Henley, Frey, Don Felder, Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmit.
Before splitting up, the band decided to release a live album recorded from its 1979/80 Long Run Tour with some tracks recorded from the pre-release tour in support of Hotel California from November, 1976.
The 1980 portions consists of spirited versions of Hotel California which is arguably better than its studio counterpart with Don Felder's excellent Gibson double neck guitar and Joe Walsh's Fender Telecaster work, a rocking Heartache Tonight, a soulful I Can't Tell You Why, a soul-tinged The Long Run featuring some excellent alto sax work from Phil Kenzie(whom played on Al Stewart's Year of the Cat and Time Passages albums), a laid-back unplugged Saturday Night, a stellar Life in the Fast Lane and the closing extended rocking Take it Easy which is better than its studio counterpart with some excellent guitar work from Walsh at the end.
The 1980 portion also included the band's take on two of Walsh's solo tracks Life's Been Good(arguably better than the original) and the then new track All Night Long which buried the sterile sounding version on the Urban Cowboy Soundtrack. Lastly, it featured the acoustic Seven Bridges Road which was a country number the band would play in rehearsal(see the 1977 Hotel California concert film for proof) and would be the band's last hit for 14 years.
The songs recorded from 1976 featured New Kid In Town and Wasted Time which were at the time the performances were recorded unreleased, an unEarthly version of Take It To The Limit with original bass player Randy Meisner hitting an A flat to F Sharp near the end and given a STANDING OVATION for it. Lastly, Doolin-Dalton Reprise II was an orchestral interlude to Desperado which was a good version.
Eagles Live upon release hit #7 on the album charts and quickly hit Platinum status. Millions have been sold since then(I helped the cause when I was 8 when my folks got me this on cassette as a Christmas present and then on CD and now the remastered CD).
Recommended for real music fans unless you are a certain reviewer who gets a kick out of countering my reviews(I know who you are so don't counter)!

EAGLES play very well live, but there are problems with this album.......2005-10-14

First of all, they need to put this album on one disc, because it's under 80 minutes, and it's really a rip-off to pay that much for just 78 minutes. The first issues of the first two CHICAGO double albums were two disc sets, and they cut them down to one disc, so it can be done. Also, is this a Joe Walsh concert? Or an EAGLES album? I don't want to hear "Life's been good" (even though it's a cool song), or "All night long" on an EAGLES live album. Let him play that stuff at one of his solo concerts!!! When you have so many great tunes, why do you waste precious album time playing Joe's stuff. "Lifes been good" takes about 9 minutes of valuable space on this live album. They could have got two of their great songs done in that 9 minute period. Tons of their stuff was left off like "Witchy Woman", "In the City", "One of these nights", "Lyin Eyes", "James Dean", "Already gone", "After the thrill is gone", "Sad Cafe", "The last resort", and "Tequila Sunrise" to name a few. If they would have originally made it a 3-record set, instead of two, they could have got those tunes, plus a few more on this album, but hindsight is 20/20. Walsh is from my hometown Wichita, Kansas, so I shouldn't come down on him too hard for them playing his solo songs. When you get through my ton of gripes, they do play the songs that made it onto this album pretty darn good in my opinion. One great thing that came from this album was the great accopella (I'm not sure I'm spelling that right) tune "Seven Bridges Road", which was one of the few EAGLES songs that my Dad really got into. It had never appeared on any previous EAGLES albums before. I wish they would have left off the songs "Saturday night" and "Doolin-Dalton (Reprise II), because I've never really liked them that much. When I first purchased this album I hadn't ever bought "Hotel California" before, so "New kid in town" and "Wasted time" were real treats for me at that time. They play "Hotel California" very close to what it sounds like on the studio album, and really about all the rest of the tracks are the same as well. This could have been a much better "Live" album, but if you're going to only go by how good they play the material, this is played superbly and should get the full five stars, but I'll remove one because of the gripes that I had over the song selection and the other things that I mentioned.

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Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
Passable copies - little to impress overall in interpretations
The Trouble With Tributes
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Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles
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ASIN: B000002L1S
Release Date: 1993-10-12

Tracks:

Take It Easy - Travis Tritt
Peaceful Easy Feeling - Little Texas
Desperado - Clint Black
Heartache Tonight - John Anderson
Tequila Sunrise - Alan Jackson
Take It To The Limit - Suzy Bogguss
I Can't Tell You Why - Vince Gill
Lyin' Eyes - Diamond Rio
New Kid In Town - Trisha Yearwood
Saturday Night - Billy Dean
Already Gone - Tanya Tucker
Best Of My Love - Brooks & Dunn
The Sad Cafe - Lorrie Morgan

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In 1993, Nashville's biggest young stars--Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, and others--recorded an album of Eagles songs called Common Thread. When the disc went platinum, everyone hailed it as the rebirth of country-rock. If you listened closely, though, you heard neither the down-to-earth twang of country nor the metallic aggression of rock & roll. What you heard instead was the romantic sweetness of pop. More specifically, the Eagles represented the southern California pop tradition of harmony-drenched groups like the Beach Boys, the Mamas & the Papas, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. It's a wonderful tradition, but it's misleading to call it something else. Out there in the hinterlands you can still hear authentic country-rock, an exhilarating combination of blunt adult storytelling and blazing guitars as practiced by the likes of Joe Ely, Shaver, the Bottle Rockets, Mike Henderson, and Jason and the Scorchers. Real country-rock remains a marginal commercial force, however, and the real money is in the new Nashville version of southern California harmonies. Call it "suburban pop." --Geoffrey Himes

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Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles.......2007-01-10

This is the best. We had this on a cassette and replaced it with a CD so that we could continue enjoying the music.

Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles.......2007-01-04

A remarkable and most enjoyable CD for one's collection

Passable copies - little to impress overall in interpretations.......2006-05-01

The Eagles while they may have been country in origin were ultimately class purveyors of pop music that like Fleetwood Mac of the 1970s was an easy fit onto AM radio channels or programming. This CD in providing a number of country artistes (not all well known) the opportunity of doing covers of Eagles songs thus could have been an interesting "back to the roots" concept.

Sadly this is not reflected in the final output - what we have is a series of current popular country artises doing almost faithful note for note copies of the originals and adding very little new or different in the process on personal interpretations apart from vocal style. The only one who differs for the better is Alan Jackson on "Tequila Sunrise" where his jaded delivery catches better than the original the vacuous life style it depicts.

Overall a disappointment, though as easy background or alternative music (unless you cannot do without the originals to listen to) it is well recorded and passable. If country interpretations of pop songs as a genre is of interest then try "Come together - America salutes the Beatles" which shows how the idea can be made to work.

The Trouble With Tributes.......2006-02-26

The trouble with all-star tribute albums to past superstar artists and bands is that oftentimes they are done purely for money, attention, and a sense that certain of those artists can one-up the artists being paid the "tribute" to; and often, the results don't come close to measuring up to the originals. Such, I'm afraid, is the case with the 1993 COMMON THREADS album, where Nashville artists give their props to that renegade bunch of desperados who occupied the Hotel California for most of the 1970s, the Eagles.

The brainchild of Eagles manager Irving Azoff, who saw how revered the band had become amongst the Nashville hierarchy of the Nineties, COMMON THREADS also functioned as a charity album, whose profits went to the Walden Woods Project, of which Eagles drummer Don Henley was a particularly prominent supporter. Were it not for that one particular aspect, COMMON THREADS would be as much an aberration as a lot of other tribute albums of its type. Even as this album already stands, however, and even though it caused hell to freeze over and the Eagles to reunite, the artists here still fall well short of what the band originally did.

What seems to have happened here is that each of the artists got so caught up in the idea of doing songs from the Eagles' massively successful catalog that they thought they could get off by copying almost note-for-note and by arrangement what the band had done; one listen to Travis Tritt's version of "Take It Easy", and Vince Gill's take on "I Can't Tell You Why" seems to indicate this. In other cases, they sound terribly anemic, as in Clint Black's version of "Desperado", where he sounds like second-rate John Denver (and I think John Denver could have done this far better than Clint Black). And hearing faux-Eagles wanna-bes like Little Texas doing "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and Diamond Rio doing "Lyin' Eyes" is no substitute whatsoever for the real thing.

The womenfolk don't have it much easier either. Lorrie Morgan simply sounds out of place on "The Sad Cafe", seemingly not having any idea about the song's mournful inspiration; and Tanya Tucker's toughness on "Already Gone" is quite dull. Suzy Bogguss' take on "Take It To The Limit" is a bit better, but it won't make anyone forget the Randy Meisner-led original. And Trisha Yearwood's version of "New Kid In Town" is okay, but she sounds like she's trying to do it the way she thinks her idol Linda Ronstadt would, and it's not totally successful either.

In the end, the inability of contemporary Nashville artists to really understand the Eagles lies in the fact that there is a very wide gap between the Eagles' sound of the 1970s and the way contemporary Music Row does things. Though classified as "country-rock", the Eagles also mixed in elements of bluegrass, surf-rock, R&B, disco, and even Tex-Mex a time or two, styles that are largely alien to contemporary Nashville. As Linda herself, around whom the Eagles originally formed in 1971, has said, it is a part of the diverse spectrum of California music: "California music is a real hybrid, very specialized, and it doesn't have anything to do with Nashville." This is something that I'm not sure these artists really understand, and why I can't give this album a better rating.

Nearly Flawless Covers.......2005-12-21

I picked up "Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles" when it originally came out. Back then, I was a sucker for Nashville's commercial country engine and this album seemed to fit the bill. Laden with 90's Country stars, I figured this album would be great. Of course, back then I thought it was. However, my tastes have changed over the years and my love of commercial Nashville has turned into hatred. Posers like Mr. and Mrs. Faith Hill, Big and Rich, and Shania Twain have stolen the spotlight from real Country artists by cranking out easy-to-digest pop songs and passing them off as Country. Even with my transformation though, I've grown to love this particular album more over time. In fact, most of the artists on this project have either been drawn deeper into traditional Country or their careers have faded into dust. I guess Nashville got lucky on this album by picking artists that weren't molded for stardom but found it in their own right.

For instance, take Little Texas. They were probably one of the most popular commercial outfits to be plugged by Nashville. Pretty boys with long flowing hair and an "aw shucks, ma'am" mentality when interviewed, Little Texas was groomed for the spotlight. With that said, their take on "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" is one of the most honest and, in my opinion, one of the best songs on this entire album. They've been busted up for quite sometime now, but this cover will always be a gem in my book. Though they were very commercial, they were very good at what they did.

A group who also basked in the light of commercial Country even though they were solidly grounded in the old hillbilly, mandolin-drenched twang was Diamond Rio. They were and still are one of my favorite bands. They have a "high lonesome" quality in all of their songs that shows the listener that they still remember what makes Country music great. Their cover of "Lyin' Eyes" is the best song on this album. Their talent has kept them near the top of Country music to this day.

Alan Jackson, Clint Black, and Brooks and Dunn also take some solid stabs at a few of the Eagles' tunes. Jackson puts a good country spin on "Tequila Sunrise" and Black shoots straight on "Desperado." Kix Brooks handles the vocals in "Best Of My Love," and I'm glad he did. His voice fits that tune nicely.

There are plenty of other artists on this album that do a grand job. Travis Tritt's "Take It Easy" and Billy Dean's "Saturday Night" deserve special recognition as one takes a huge Eagles hit and makes it his own while the other takes a relatively unknown to the mainstream Eagles tune and gives it a wonderful rendition.

Fans of California's light country and rock should enjoy this album. This may be a little bit too soft for Southern rockers. Of course, just tell the modern Country fan that this is great stuff and just like sheep they'll probably gobble it up. Oh, and if you're into labels, this is California country, not country-rock or "pop" as the Amazon reviewer argues. Check out the Flying Burrito Brothers or the Desert Rose Band if you don't believe me.

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