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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 14-NOV-2000

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Take It Easy
2. Hollywood Waltz
3. Already Gone
4. Doolin' Dalton
5. Midnight Flyer
6. Tequila Sunrise
7. Witchy Woman
8. Train Leaves Here This Morning
9. Outlaw Man
10. Peaceful Easy Feeling
11. James Dean
12. Saturday Night
13. On The Border

Disc 2:

1. Wasted Time Reprise
2. Wasted Time
3. I Can't Tell You Why
4. Lyin' Eyes
5. Pretty Maids All In A Row
6. Desperado
7. Try And Love Again
8. New Kid In Town
9. Love Will Keep Us Alive
10. Sad Cafe
11. Take It To The Limit
12. After The Thrill Is Gone

Disc 3:

1. One Of These Nights Intro
2. One Of These Nights
3. Disco Strangler
4. Heartache Tonight
5. Hotel California
6. Born To Boogie
7. In The City
8. Get Over It
9. King Of Hollywood
10. Too Many Hands
11. Life In The Fast Lane
12. The Long Run
13. Long Run Leftovers
14. The Last Resort
15. Random Victims Part 3

Disc 4:

1. Hotel California
2. Victim Of Love
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling
4. Please Come Home For Christmas
5. Ol' 55
6. Take It To The Limit
7. Those Shoes
8. Funky New Year
9. Dirty Laundry
10. Funk
11. All She Wants To Do Is Dance
12. Best of My Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1912 in Music
• Brand: Eagles
• Released on: 2000-11-14
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: 1.62 pounds

Amazon.com
It's tough to forecast which bands are built for the long run. The Eagles emerged as part of a genre (country rock) that proved to be a passing fancy. And with two talented frontmen sharing the spotlight, how could artistic differences be fended off for long? But, of course, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and the boys had a juggernaut on their hands, generating a dozen top 10 hits in their initial eight-year spurt. Selected Works: 1972-1999 gathers all the highlights from the group in all of its '70s and early '80s glory on three discs, dubbed "The Early Years," "The Ballads," and "The Fast Lane." The handsome box is fleshed out with a live disc from New Year's Eve 1999. With striking packaging, extensive liner notes, and a surplus of vintage photos, Selected Works is a suitable retrospective on a band that defined the California sound and took it easy, and, in the process, took it to the limit. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews

I really wanted to love this box set....
but overall it is good rather than great.

First what is great is the sound quality of the digital remastering (far superior to originally released cds). Some reviewers complained about the non-chronological ordering of the songs but in my opinion this works really well, gives the set a sort of Eagles concert feel, and for long-time fans who are very familiar with the original albums, the sequencing is fresh and sheds new perspective on certain songs. The booklet of essays and photos are wonderful, as is the inclusion of previously unreleased live material on disc four (great versions of Peaceful Easy Feeling, Victim of Love and Best of My Love). And the set wisely ignores the relatively weak debut album, culling just the three "hits" plus Train Left Here This Morning.

However, what is bad about this set is that each disc runs 50-60 minutes (who's brilliant idea was that in an age of 80 minute capacity). This only serves to point out what is NOT included such as Seven Bridges Road, You Never Cry Like A Lover, I Wish You Peace, etc. The Millenium concert disc was particularly disappointing in this regard, since there was room for additional live versions of One of These Nights, Already Gone, Sad Cafe, Witchy Woman (none of which have ever been released whereas Hotel California is on every live release and could have been dropped) and at least one Frey solo song to help balance out the Henley material. Some reviewers complained about the inclusion of Dirty Laundry and other solo numbers, but I personally enjoyed hearing the Eagles play those tunes. Those fans are also forgetting that Walsh and Schmitt both orignally played on Don's first album (and maybe even on Dirty Laundry).

Casual fans should stick to the digitally remastered greatest hits volumes, hardcore fans should pick this up, and those in-between should find a used copy at a cheaper price.

Form Over Substance
This boxed set is a monument to greed. The Eagles WERE a class act, until this travesty. The "selected" music, 53 tracks, is spread over 4 CDs, with many notable omissions. This would have very easily made an excellent 2 CD set. Apparently the Holiday "fast buck" mentality prevailed. The remastering is fine, but what you are really paying for is a fancy cardboard box. The CDs themselves aren't even in regular jewel boxes, but open cardboard sleeves that insure maximum exposure to dust. The enclosed booklet is dominated by pictures, with little meaningful information or insight. If you are looking at boxed sets for gifts, there are many others far more worthy of your consideration. If you need prime Eagles, wait for their remastered individual albums. All of them won't cost much more than this turkey. "Selected Works" is only for those with a lot more money than sense.

Is it really worth it?
Unless you need the millenium concert, this offers very little to anyone who already has the previously available releases. The Millenium Concert features yet another version of Hotel California (do we need this?) and several Don Henley solo tunes (not the time or the place...please) but also features a nicely updated version of Ol' 55. Also notable are Take It To The Limit and Best Of My Love. By and large, most people probably won't find this collection worth the money. All of the original CD's were recently remastered. As far as unreleased material goes, maybe it just doesn't exist...what does exist are some stellar songs from the Hell Freezes Over video that were left off the CD version (Heart Of The Matter, Help Me Through The Night) and Seven Bridges Road...none of which were included here. If you don't own any Eagles CD's, this is a good collection...(but if you don't own most of them by now, what kind of fan are you anyway?)