Eagles - The Best Of Eagles (1985)

Tracklist

1.  Take It Easy - 3:28

     Written-By – Browne, Frey

2.  Peaceful, Easy Feeling - 4:15

     Written-By – Tempchin

3.  Desperado - 3:31

     Written-By – Henley, Frey

4.  Tequila Sunrise - 2:51

     Written-By – Henley, Frey

5.  Best of My Love - 4:32

     Written-By – Souther, Frey, Henley

6.  Lyin' Eyes - 6:22

     Written-By – Henley, Frey

7.  Take It to the Limit - 4:49

     Written-By – Meisner, Henley, Frey

8.  One of These Nights - 4:51

     Written-By – Henley, Frey

9.  Hotel California - 6:30

     Written-By – Felder, Henley, Frey

10.  New Kid in Town - 5:05

       Written-By – Souther, Henley, Frey

11.  Life in the Fast Lane - 4:45

       Written-By – Walsh, Henley, Frey

12.  Heartache Tonight - 4:24

       Written-By – Seger, Souther, Henley, Frey

13.  The Long Run - 3:41

       Written-By – Henley, Frey

                                                      

Companies, etc.

Record Company – WEA Records S.A.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.

Copyright © – WEA International Inc.

Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

Published By – Copyright Control

Published By – Chappell Music Ltd.

Produced For – Pandora Productions Ltd.

Manufactured By – G.P.I. S.A.

Printed By – Ορφανός - Σκαλτσάς

Lacquer Cut At – G.P.I. S.A. – W523

Credits

Producer – Bill Szymczyk (tracks: A5 to B6), Glyn Johns (tracks: A1 to A4)

Notes

Released: 1985

Genre: Country Rock

Runtime: 59:04

Label - Asylum Records 

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

The Eagles - Eagles Live (1980)

"Eagles Live" is the first live album by the American rock band Eagles, a two-LP set released in 1980. The Eagles unofficially disbanded on July 31, 1980 after their concert at Long Beach. However, the band still owed Elektra/Asylum a live record from the tour. "Eagles Live" was mixed by Glenn Frey and Don Henley on opposite coasts - the two decided they could not stand to be in the same state, let alone the same studio, and as Bill Szymczyk put it, the record's perfect three-part harmonies were fixed "courtesy of Federal Express." "Seven Bridges Road" was released as a single and would become a top-40 hit. The song was a showcase for the band's close harmony singing; the first and last verses feature all five Eagles singing in five-part harmony. Although "Eagles Live" includes four tracks recorded in the fall of 1976 (thus allowing for the inclusion of departed singer Randy Meisner on "Take It to the Limit"), the bulk of the album comes from the end of the Eagles' 1980 tour, just before they broke up, and it reflects their late concert repertoire, largely drawn from "Hotel California" and "The Long Run". The occasional early song such as "Desperado" and "Take It Easy" turn up, also such curiosities as two extended selections from Joe Walsh's solo career, "Life's Been Good" and "All Night Long." At least Walsh introduces some live variations to his material; the rest of the Eagles seem determined to re-create the studio versions of their songs in concert, which may work for them live but almost makes a live recording superfluous. The previously unrecorded rendition of Steve Young's "Seven Bridges Road" is welcome, and the album would have benefited from more surprises as well as a livelier approach to a live recording.

Side one

1. "Hotel California" (Felder, Henley, Frey)  - 6:55

     Recorded July 29, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

2. "Heartache Tonight" (Henley, Frey, Bob Seger, Souther)  - 4:35

     Recorded July 27, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

3  "I Can't Tell You Why" (Schmit, Henley, Frey)  - 5:24

     Recorded July 28, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Side two

1. "The Long Run" (Henley, Frey)  - 5:35

     Recorded July 27, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

2. "New Kid in Town" (Henley, Frey, J. D. Souther)  - 5:45

     Recorded October 22, 1976, The Forum, L.A.

3. "Life's Been Good" (Walsh)  - 9:38

     Recorded July 29, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Side three

1. "Seven Bridges Road" (Steve Young)  - 3:05

     Recorded July 28, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

2. "Wasted Time" (Henley, Frey)  - 5:40

     Recorded October 22, 1976, The Forum, L.A.

3. "Take It to the Limit" (Henley, Frey, Meisner)  - 5:20

     Recorded October 20, 1976, The Forum, L.A.

4. "Doolin-Dalton (Reprise II)" (Henley, Frey, Jim Ed Norman)  - 0:44

     Recorded October 21, 1976, The Forum, L.A.

5. "Desperado" (Henley, Frey)  - 4:04

     Recorded October 21, 1976, The Forum, L.A.

Side four

1. "Saturday Night" (Meisner, Henley, Frey, Bernie Leadon)  - 3:55

     Recorded July 28, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

2. "All Night Long" (Walsh)  - 5:40

     Recorded July 27, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

3. "Life in the Fast Lane" (Henley, Frey, Walsh)  - 5:10

     Recorded July 31, 1980, Long Beach Arena

4. "Take It Easy" (Jackson Browne, Frey)  - 5:20

     Recorded July 27, 1980, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Released:  November 7, 1980

Recorded:  October 20, 1976 - July 31, 1980

Genre:  Country Rock, Live

Length:  77:10

Label:  Asylum

Producer:  Bill Szymczyk

Personnel

Glenn Frey - Guitars, keyboards, vocals

Don Henley - Drums, percussion, vocals

Don Felder - Guitars, vocals

Joe Walsh - Guitars, keyboards, vocals

Randy Meisner - Bass guitar, vocals

Timothy B. Schmit - Bass guitar, vocals

Jage Jackson - Guitars, percussion

Phil Kenzie - Saxophones

Vince Melamed - Keyboards, electric piano

The Monstertones - Backing vocals

Albhy Galuten - Synthetizers

J.D. Souther - Guitars, piano

Joe Vitale - Drums, percussion, keyboards, electric piano, organ

Jim Ed Norman - Piano, conductor, arrangements