★★★★★
Love it or hate it, the Eagles' catalog of hits endures as much for its worldview as for its '70s L.A. country-rock catchiness, and Eagles drummer Don Henley's solo career suggests that this worldview was largely his. Moving from hedonist ("Take It to the Limit") to guilty hedonist ("Life in the Fast Lane") to ex-hedonist ("The End of the Innocence"), Henley is now a proud anti-hedonist, a stance he announces on Inside Job...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Love it or hate it, the Eagles' catalog of hits endures as muchfor its worldview as for its '70s-L.A.-country-rock catchiness,and Eagles drummer Don Henley's solo career suggests that thisworldview was largely his. Moving from hedonist ("Take It to theLimit") to guilty hedonist ("Life in the Fast Lane") toex-hedonist ("The End of the Innocence"), Henley is now a proudanti-hedonist, a stance he announces on Inside Job...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Sound: This is the 1995 collection of Don Henley's greatest hits from his post-Eagles (and pre-Eagles reunion) career taking tracks from 1982's I Can't Stand Still, Building The Perfect Beast (1984) and The End Of The Innocence (1989). It's a selection of slick pop-rock which for the most part remains very 80's sounding, unlike the timeless music from the Eagles...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Bitch bitch bitch, bloat bloat bloat. Six of 10 tracks run over five minutes, and not 'cause he's building a groove, although the anti-ripoff "Gimme What You Got" does appropriate a JB riff, which I guess is ironic, or totally unconscious. Nope, Don wants drama and plenty of it--seven of 10 instrumental intros are 30 seconds plus, with three up around an L.A. minute (as distinguished from a "New York Minute," 'cause Don says your life can change in one of those)...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Makes sense that Henley's candid self-involvement should prove of more intrinsic interest than Glenn Frey's covert self-pity, but nobody capable of the distinction figured it would get as interesting as this. If there were anything to actually like about the guy, his complaints and revelations might even be moving. As it is, let's call them strong--like primo tequila, or the smell of an old jockstrap.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Bashing Don Henley, long a popular sport, reached its peak last year when the singer practically painted a bull's-eye on his chest by participating in exactly the sort of moribund Eagles reunion he swore he wouldn't. So the solo-career recap Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits arrives at a moment when it's useful to remember that, along with Bruce Springsteen, Henley is one of just two '70s superstars who've managed to maintain a career as a great singles artist for grown-ups...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Where Glenn Frey seemed content on No Fun Aloud to be the entertaining lone wolf, Don Henley, his former collaborator in the Eagles, howls at a much darker moon on I Can't Stand Still and plays both the romantic raconteur and the commentator with a conscience.The LP's eleven tunes are sequenced to take aim at personal and political targets. The songs on side one reflect upon life as a single man (or Eagle)...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
On his first two solo albums (I Can't Stand Still and Building the Perfect Beast), Don Henley made yearning his great theme. Something had disappeared that could never be recovered -- the Sixties? the Eagles? love? hope? -- and songs like "The Boys of Summer" and "Long Way Home" summoned the deep ache of that loss. On The End of the Innocence, Henley edged closer to acceptance and a renewed sense of possibility, especially on the album's masterful closing song, "The Heart of the Matter...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
On The End of the Innocence, Don Henley's first album in nearly five years, the former Eagle explores what happens to individuals and the society they live in when "'happily ever after' fails" and the seemingly intractable realities of the world set in. Probing and ambitious, the record raises provocative questions of the sort not typically encountered on pop albums. Is innocence distinguishable from naiveté? How do valid personal and political hopes get perverted into debilitating fanrasies? A...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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