The Very Best Of

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Eagles

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There have been Eagles compilations before but this by far the best. It contains all the songs that could be found on earlier British and American compilations, plus a few songs never before included on any of them. And everything has been digitally re-mastered, sounding better than ever.

All the famous songs are here including Desperado, Take it to the limit, Lying eyes, Hotel California, Tequila sunrise, New kid in town and Best of my love to name just a few.

Aside from the obvious songs, you also get Please come home for Christmas (a song that has since become a standard), two songs from their Hell freezes over album (Love will keep us alive and Get over it), their recently recorded Hole in the world and several great album tracks, of which I particularly like Midnight flyer and Victim of love. A nice booklet with extensive liner notes is also included.

If you only buy one Eagles collection, make it this one. It has everything that most people will ever need, although there are still plenty of interesting songs on the original albums that couldn't be included.

Any 2 disc Eagles 'best of' that fails to include 'Try and Love Again,' 'I Wish You Peace,' 'Hollywood Waltz,' 'My Man,' 'Saturday Night,' and 'Twenty-One' is highly questionable. That goes double when something like 'Those Shoes' gets included. This collection over-emphasizes the final period of the Eagles and thus neglects the first four albums. I have no idea what the purpose was in so doing, but I do know that such steers casual listeners to see the band as being exactly what Henley and Frey made it, rather than what is was in the early days, which is what made it great and wildly successful.

Anybody who likes the Eagles enough to purchase a 2 disc 'best of' needs to own the first five albums. The Eagles should do fans a favor by creating a special 'best of' that includes everything on this disc 2 beginning with 'Please Come Home for Christmas.' It could add another song from The Long Run so that no one ever feels any need to purchase that disjointed mess, and it could add 'How Long' and the title cut from the new double album.

Then we would know that Henley and Frey both care about the fans and have fine critical discernment.