Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
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- 1. Take It Easy
- 2. Witchy Woman
- 3. Lyin' Eyes
- 4. Already Gone
- 5. Desperado
- 6. One Of These Nights
- 7. Tequila Sunrise
- 8. Take It To The Limit
- 9. Peaceful, Easy Feeling
- 10. Best Of My Love
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1990-10-25)
- Publisher: Elektra / Wea; 1990
- Label: Elektra / Wea
- Studio: Elektra / Wea
- Sales Rank in Music: #1072
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48 of 54 people found the following review helpful:  A greatest hits that could have taken it to the limit, By Brian O'Marra (Little Rock, AR USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) (Audio CD) Having read David Fuller's review, I couldn't agree more...buy the gold disc! Worth every penny! This album has, as of November 1999, become the biggest seller of all time: 26 million copies worth. Thriller is in second place at 25 million. And it's easy to see why. This perfectly captures the Eagles early years of country rock, before the Eagles turned all out rockers with Joe Walsh and Hotel California. In fact, the ten selections are well sequenced flowing nicely together. Henley's vocals are judiciously split four per side. Each album is evenly represented on both sides of the LP. The gold disc boasts superior sound, remastered directly from the two track stereo tapes. Curious is the fact that the track times are two seconds longer on each track. Compression on the orginal LP and CD perhaps? The jacket depicts the 3-D effect on the eagles skull, and features all the orginal graphics, including the LP labels. One reviewer wished this CD could have been...Read more 57 of 68 people found the following review helpful: The greatest "Greatest Hits" album of them all, By This review is from: Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (Audio CD) Having sold well over 14 million copies to date, this is now the biggest selling record of all time. Not bad for a band of talented but unknown musicians who were originally gathered together by a record producer to be Linda Ronstadt's back-up band. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the "Greatest Hits" album concept, because they tend to be superficial selections of what got radio play, and often don't represent the artist's best work. Never has that been less true than it is here, though. This is a great greatest hits package because it also is representive of the best work the Eagles did between 1971 and 1975. The Eagles recorded a total of only six studio albums before disbanding to pursue solo projects after the release of 1979's THE LONG RUN. This album draws from what is commonly noted as being the pre-Joe Walsh era--the first four albums, including THE EAGLES, DESPERADO, ON THE BORDER, and ONE OF THESE NIGHTS. Originally, banjo/mandolin player and...Read more 13 of 15 people found the following review helpful: A 70's classic, but now obsolete, By A Fan (VA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (Audio CD) 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. |
