★★★★★
Shamelessly issued to cash in on the History Of The Eagles movie/DVD, this clamshell 7" box re-presents the band's six Asylum label LPs in basic mini-sleeve wallet packaging with no extras and no sleevenotes. The incentive is clearly price - which, from a straw poll of internet vendors, is not much more than you'd once have paid for a single disc by the West Coast harmony-pop masters...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-05-24
★★★★★
One of these nights, book yourself a room at the Hotel California, order up a few Tequila Sunrises, push play on the first of three discs of this belated Eagles documentary and settle in for a long run watching the history of a band that took it to the limit, and often beyond, in a 40 year and still going strong career...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-05-01
★★★★★
Sound: Well, it's only taken the Eagles 28 years -- during which time they've loosened their loads, stopped letting the sound of their own wheels from driving them crazy, checked out of the Hotel California, and ditched a whole bunch of witchy women -- to record a follow-up to their last studio album, The Long Run, and with this long-awaited double-disc, Long Road Out Of Eden, the one-time new kids in town are definitely taking it easy. Too easy -- the peaceful, easy feeling is now a coma...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Every office has one. The guy whose cubicle you quickstep past, to avoid his opinions: Television is debasing our culture. People don't recycle. Politicians lie. Let's call this guy Henley. He'll tell you and tell you, and tomorrow he will say it again. Long Road Out of Eden, the Eagles' first studio record since 1979, feels like Don Henley's testament. The title cut is a 10-minute ballad where he explains what's wrong with the U.S.: fat cats, oil companies, SUVs, cell phones, beef brisket...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
This new Eagles box set is a thick tombstone that contains all six of the Eagles' studio albums plus a 1980 live record and a rare Christmas single. Inside, each album is packaged as a CD miniaturization of the original vinyl release, right down to reproducing the stippled-cardboard cover of 1974's On the Border...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Established them as international superstars and has now surpassed Thriller as the best-selling album of all time. The collection offered no new tracks, though, and the original albums were so self-contained, its random running order jars. STANDOUT TRACKS: "The Best of My Love," "Already Gone"
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
The inevitable, fairly lavish box set. Three themed CDs (The Early Days, The Ballads, The Fast Lane) cover the history comprehensively, some of the songs taking on new life in different settings. Moreover, irrespective of their distinctly '70s personal lifestyle, the sheer timelessness of the Eagles' canon shines through. A fourth CD is a concert from New Year's Eve 1999: Band and self-congratulatory audience deserved each other. STANDOUT TRACKS: "Hotel California," "Tequila Sunrise"
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
The title came from the circumstances under which Henley famously estimated the Eagles would reunite. Hell offered four new tracks, no Szymczyk and a live set from MTV. It reached number 1, and the subsequent so-called Greed Tour grossed $135 million, but the glories it traded upon were long past. STANDOUT TRACK: "Life in the Fast Lane"
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
"Well I'm a-running down the road, trying to loosen my load/I got seven women on my mind" remains as good a way as any to announce yourself. The Eagles' most country album was recorded in London with the Who's producer, Glyn Johns. Divine vocal harmonies throughout. STANDOUT TRACKS: "Take It Easy," "Peaceful Easy Feeling"
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22