Reviews for the Very Best of the Eagles

Eagles
Very Best Of

Release Date: 1994 | Tracklist

Released 2001 on Elektra Entertainment.

Maybe not what you lot'd expect me to listen to, but my dad is a bit of an Eagles fanatic, and this is largely the sort of stuff I grew upwards with, so I actually like them, in spite/because of their shortcomings and corniness. They're not an astonishing ring by any stretch, but they're skillful. My main trouble with them is their abiding cashing in. I'm pretty sure this is i in a sizeable line of Best Of compilations for The Eagles; it just happens to be the i I own.

Quick round-upwardly of the grouping for the uninitiated; they're ostensibly a country ring, though much of their material seems to me to lean more towards soft rock territory, but never mind. Wait lots of low-key tunes, harmonised backing vocals - naught as well difficult on the ear. A good guitarist though, in a relaxed sort of way, in Don Henley.

ane - One of These Nights (4:51)
The title runway from one of their albums, I'm really not such a fan of this vocal. Despite starting with a nice, bass-driven and very easily recognisable introduction, I never really got into it much.

2 - Take It Easy (3:32)
This is more similar it, a more upbeat, rockier song, from their self-titled record. The focus is very much on vocals and lyrics, as is much of their stuff, and one of their groovy strengths is having lyrics that aren't oversimplified, simply are peachy for singing forth to; Take It Piece of cake exemplifies this. Information technology's specially fun to lucifer his wonderfully southern emphasis, note for notation - only try information technology on the line "Well I'm a-standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, such a fine sight to see/It's a daughter, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford, slowin' down to take a expect at me." I'd call this a classic track.

3 - Hotel California (6:29)
Ah, perhaps the classic Eagles rails. Chances are, if you inquire someone about the Eagles, if they know them at all, it'll be this vocal. Pretty much everything nearly it seems to be infused in popular culture, including that the Hotel is a metaphor for drugs. Whole stand-up routines have been based on information technology ("Yes, I went to see The Eagles. They had the sheer balls to open with Hotel California. 'Da

mn right, we got about vi thousand songs, we can follow information technology!'"); it's merely that kind of vocal. The song itself is actually really good also, though not my favourite. Practiced guitar solo as well.

4 - New Child In Town (five:03)
This is a lighter-hearted, gentler runway, especially following Hotel California. I'm not a big fan of state music semi-ballads, but as far every bit land music semi-ballads become, I'd have this over a lot of others.

5 - Heartache This night (four:26)
This was i of my dad'southward favourites, especially for driving, so I've heard it a lot. A very lot. I think I would've liked information technology anyway though, if I'd heard it independently, as it'southward another of the rockier songs, and it's mid-paced, tricky, and similar to Take It Easy in being fun to sing along to. Just modest problem is the clapping in the groundwork, which sounds so blatantly sampled or mechanical (even if it isn't, that's what it sounds like), and really annoys me for some reason.

vi - Tequila Sunrise (2:54)
Another good song. Slower than Heartache.., but not a ballad; more just a chillout vocal. Not much to say about it otherwise, equally it's only three minutes long. Decent though.

7 - Desperado (three:37)
In my opiniong, one of their best songs. Opening with instantly memorable piano, the vocal proper starts with a lonely-sounding cry of the song's title; the vocals and lyrics are once more focal points of the song, but for in one case they're matched by the instruments - the pianoforte to start off with, what sounds like strings later on. The "normal" instruments don't come up in until a long while after. This was some other of my dad's favourites; it was his song, assigned to him by the patrons of his pub (forth with some Beatles vocal I can't remember the proper name of).

eight - All-time of My Love (4:34)
This is some other ballady thing, defective in any kind of refinement, in the vein of New Child in Town. I generally can't be bothered with it.

nine - Lyin' Eyes (half dozen:21)
Something of a fan favourite, though I'1000 non such a fan - an instantly recognisable get-go, and it breaks into something more of a country sounding song that others. The subject area matter is classic country textile, too - a cheating woman. At half-dozen minutes, it's a bit overlong, and sometimes it seems a picayune also inoffensive to bear, but still I like it. I'd suggest skipping it after well-nigh 4 minutes though.

ten - Have It To the Limit (four:46)
A confusing rail - it's slower than the majority of Eagles songs, however I notwithstanding seem to think of it as one of the rockier tracks they accept. Information technology's more in the chillout area of songwriting though, as opposed to a carol, and I similar it. Hints of strings all over the place, too. A lilliputian too repetitive towards the end, but hey, it's The Eagles.

eleven - I Tin't Tell You Why (4:55)
Now this is a ballad, but it'south a expert one. Starts off sounding fairly dark, but the lyrics, and the song in general, turn out to be really catchy, in a muted kind of way. Once more, non much to say, but it's a actually good song.

12 - Peaceful Piece of cake Feeling (4:17)
Slightly faster paced than the terminal few songs, and definitely (rather than meandering, like the last three) both a adept vocal and a fan favourite. Catchy, besides. Probably best known amongst the cyberspace faithful as the song which provoked 1 man to bash his friend over the head with his guitar, when said friend proved unable to play the correct chords for it.

13 - James Dean (3:38)
This is more or less a full-on rock vocal, and I honey it. Fast, with electrical guitar, and lyrics about the coolest of the cool, James Dean. Again, really catchy, and contains the incredibly ace line "Well, talk about a low-down, bad refrigerator, yous were just also cool for school." Recommended.

fourteen - Doolin' Dalton (three:29)
The center of this compilation isn't very good, but it starts off potent, and they seem determined to end that way also, as they increase the quality of the songs more than towards the finish. This is a slower, mournful song (replete with harmonica), just it's merely total of Wayne and Eastwood manner country cool ("Lay downwardly your lawbooks now, they're no da

mn practiced.").

xv - Witchy Adult female (4:11)
Some other obviously drug-related vocal (along with Hotel California), and one of the more interesting, likewise. Starts off with a very Native American feel to the music, which never really lets upwards throughout. It's obviously a chip of a novelty consequence, but that doesn't finish it being fun. The drug in question is heroin, I recollect (references to "see how high she flies", and "drove herself to madness with a silver spoon").

xvi - The Long Run (3:42)
Of the last 7 tracks on the album, this is easily the least impressive. Strikes me as Eagles-by-numbers (despite the unlike approaches they seem to take to different songs). That's not to say it's especially bad, it's just not particularly good either, so information technology's taking up rather valuable space on a Best Of compilation.

17 - Life in the Fast Lane (four:45)
Easily the closest thing to difficult stone on here, and maybe the closest they e'er come up. Starts off with a actually cool riff, and from the very outset it'southward only an all ahead stone song - a solid main riff and fiercer than usual vocals, and lyrics about an off-the-rails relationship between two hot-headed people. A "cool in a corny way" song, definitely, simply I similar it. Any younger people here may well recognise this as existence sampled in a song on Limp Bizkit'south Chocolate Starfish.. album.

So there you lot go, a quick overview. Basically turn to the Eagles if you desire corny music and tricky lyrics, mixed in with the occasional decent ballad (and the occasional all-out vivid song, such as Take It Easy or Hotel California).

Equally a Best Of though, there are other things to be taken into account. Overall, it seems to striking about of the major Eagles classics and fan favourites, just there are a few central problems:
1 - There's a few too many songs I could happily take off, if I was compiling my own Eagles Best of - The Long Run, New Child in Town, One Of These Nights, All-time of My Beloved - which doesn't seem to make a very convincing case for it being a All-time Of.
2 - No Wasted Time! Possibly the best Eagles track ever :(
3 - There's nothing hither, such equally special liner notes or even lyrics in the booklet, to make this worth ownership over any other Eagles compilation, or preferably the live album (/DVD) Hell Freezes Over, which not only is a smashing alive album, but features the premiere of Wasted Time every bit a new vocal.

Information technology'southward this terminal signal which really keeps the score downwardly. In terms of selection of tracks, and the music itself, this is a strong 3.5, but as a Best Of, it's unfortunately nothing special.

2.5/5

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