Album Description: Limited edition European pressing of this 1982 compilation comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 10 tracks. Warner. 2006.
Amazon.com: 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
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Rating: - More "fun" from one of the most atrocious bands ever
Previously the Eagles' success baffled me, but I think I've got it figured out now: they brought the right stuff (dull pointless pedestrian soft-rock) to the right place (California) at the right time (the '70s). Their continued popularity today is probably more out of nostalgia and/or peer pressure ("How can you NOT like them?" say the fans. "Greatest Hits 1 is the biggest-selling album ever! If you don't like the biggest selling album ever, you don't have good taste!") than anything else.
But what's the music like? Well, I've heard the band themselves hated this album. I hate it too. For one, there's the '"legendary" "Hotel California". A #1 hit like anything else they put out at a certain point. But it's embarrassing. Every element that gets praised even today is an element of it I dislike - I see the syncopated reggae rhythms as this forced, "Look at us, we can do REGGAE! We're DIVERSE!" thing; the lyrics ... Read More
Rating: - good album
"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.
Rating: - Not so great !
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.
Rating: - The title says it all!
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 ... Read More
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- More "fun" from one of the most atrocious bands ever
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