The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over (1994)

Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. It contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live in April 1994 for an MTV special. The album went to No. 1 on the Billboard album chart upon its release where it stayed for two weeks. It is the band's second live album behind their live album in 1980. The Eagles had reformed after a fourteen-year-long break up. The album proved to be as successful as the tour, selling over six million copies and releasing two Top 40 singles in "Get Over It" and "Love Will Keep Us Alive". The band's lineup consisted of the Long Run era: Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder, and Timothy B. Schmit. The tour would last from 1994–96 and became one of the most successful tours in music history.
The Eagles' first newly recorded album in 14 years gets off to a good start with the rocker "Get Over It," a timely piece of advice about accepting responsibility, followed by the tender ballad "Love Will Keep Us Alive," the country-styled "The Girl from Yesterday," and "Learn to Be Still," one of Don Henley's more thoughtful statements.
Unfortunately, that's the extent of the album's new material. Essentially, Hell Freezes Over contains an EP's worth of new material followed by a live album. The Eagles, known for meticulously re-creating their studio recordings in concert, nevertheless released an earlier concert recording, Eagles Live, in 1980. Six songs from that set reappear here, and only one is in a noticeably different arrangement, with "Hotel California" receiving the acoustic treatment.
As was true on Eagles Live, the group remains most interested in their later material, redoing five songs from the Hotel California LP and two from its follow-up, The Long Run, but finding space for only three songs from their early days: "Tequila Sunrise," "Take It Easy," and "Desperado," the last two of which were also on Eagles Live. As such, Hell Freezes Over is hard to justify as anything other than a souvenir for The Eagles' reunion tour. That, however, did not keep it from topping the charts and selling in the millions.

Track listing

01.  "Get Over It"  (Don Henley, Glenn Frey)  - 3:31 (studio recording)
02.  "Love Will Keep Us Alive"  (Pete Vale, Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack)  - 4:03 (studio recording)
03.  "The Girl from Yesterday"  (Frey, Jack Tempchin)  - 3:23 (studio recording)
04.  "Learn to Be Still"dagger  (Henley, Stan Lynch)  - 4:28 (studio recording)
05.  "Tequila Sunrise"  (Henley, Frey)  - 3:28
06.  "Hotel California"  (Don Felder, Henley, Frey)  - 7:12
07.  "Wasted Time"  (Henley, Frey)  - 5:19
08.  "Pretty Maids All in a Row"  (Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale)  - 4:26
09.  "I Can't Tell You Why"  (Henley, Frey, Timothy B. Schmit)  - 5:11
10.  "New York Minute"  (Henley, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, Jai Winding)  - 6:37
11.  "The Last Resort"  (Henley, Frey)  - 7:24
12.  "Take It Easy"  (Jackson Browne, Frey)  - 4:36
13.  "In the City"  (Walsh, Barry De Vorzon)  - 4:07
14.  "Life in the Fast Lane"  (Henley, Frey, Walsh)  - 6:01
15.  "Desperado"  (Henley, Frey)  - 4:17

Credits
Don Felder – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, vocals
Glenn Frey – electric and acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
Don Henley – drums, acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals
Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals
Joe Walsh – electric and acoustic guitar, slide guitar, organ, vocals

Additional personnel
John Corey – piano
Scott Crago – percussion, drums
Timothy Drury – keyboards, vocals
Stan Lynch – percussion
Jay Oliver – organ, keyboards, piano
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
Gary Grimm – percussion
Brian Matthews – electro-theremin
Al Garth – trumpet on "New York Minute"
Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra – backup on "New York Minute"

Production
Eagles, Elliot Scheiner, Rob Jacobs, Stan Lynch – producers
Joel Stillerman – executive producer
Carol Donovan – program producer
Beth McCarthy – program director
Audrey Johns – program line producer
Rob Jacobs, Elliot Scheiner – engineers
Charlie Bouis, Carl Glanville, Barry Goldberg, Andy Grassi, Tom Trafalski, Tom Winslow – second engineers
Todd Bowie and Chris Buttleman – guitar technician
Ted Jensen – mastering
Rob Jacobs, Dave Kob, Dave Reynolds, Elliot Scheiner – mixing
Adam Armstrong – vocal technician
Ted Jensen – editing
Don Davis, The Eagles, Jay Oliver – horn and string arrangements
David Hewitt – live recording coordinator
John Halpern, David Skernick – photography
Keith Raywood – production design
Robin Sloane, Janet Wolsborn – art direction
Dwaine "The Peachin' Trucker" Wise – road manager
Andrew Lopez – head driver

Notes
Release date: November 8, 1994
Recorded at: The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, Sound Interchange, Toronto (Studio tracks) Warner Burbank Studios, Burbank, California (Live tracks)
Genre: Country Rock
Length: 72:36
© 1994

Label - Geffen Records