Eagles [Box Set]

RELEASE
March 15, 2005
LABEL
Warner Music

Album Review

Warner Strategic Marketing's 2005 box set Eagles is a limited-edition, numbered box set that contains CDs of all of the Eagles' Elektra/Asylum albums from 1972 to 1980 (including the double-live Eagles Live from '80), plus the 1978 seasonal single "Please Come Home for Christmas"/"Funky New Year," all packaged as mini-LPs with reproductions of the original artwork. That's it. No extra liner notes, no rarities (granted, there really aren't many rarities, but 2000's box Selected Works did have a handful of late-'70s oddities, none of which are here), none of their comeback hits from the '90s, so this can't be called a "complete recorded works." Even the remasters here are about five years old, dating from the early 2000s when remasters were snuck onto the market without much fanfare. All this means that the one reason to get this box is the packaging, which indeed is pretty impressive -- not only is the artwork faithfully reproduced, right down to the inserts, but On the Border has a textured cover, Hotel California has the gatefold, Eagles Live has raised type. It's nice, but it's something that only hardcore fans will truly find a bargain at a list price of $129.98. If they're willing to put down that kind of change for albums they've bought two or three times before, they will get a nice package, but most listeners will likely be content with the copies they already have in their collection.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Take It Easy
  2. Witchy Woman
  3. Chug All Night
  4. Most of Us Are Sad
  5. Nightingale
  6. Train Leaves Here This Morning
  7. Take the Devil
  8. Earlybird
  9. Peaceful Easy Feeling
  10. Tryin'
  11. Doolin-Dalton
  12. Twenty-One
  13. Out of Control
  14. Tequila Sunrise
  15. Desperado
  16. Certain Kind of Fool
  17. Doolin-Dalton [Instrumental]
  18. Outlaw Man
  19. Saturday Night
  20. Bitter Creek
  21. Doolin-Dalton/Desperado (Reprise)
  22. Already Gone
  23. You Never Cry Like a Lover
  24. Midnight Flyer
  25. My Man
  26. On the Border
  27. James Dean
  28. Ol '55
  29. Is It True
  30. Good Day in Hell
  31. The Best of My Love
  32. One of These Nights
  33. Too Many Hands
  34. Hollywood Waltz
  35. Journey of the Sorcerer
  36. Lyin' Eyes
  37. Take It to the Limit
  38. Visions
  39. After the Thrill Is Gone
  40. I Wish You Peace
  41. Hotel California
  42. New Kid in Town
  43. Life in the Fast Lane
  44. Wasted Time
  45. Wasted Time (Reprise)
  46. Victim of Love
  47. Pretty Maids All in a Row
  48. Try and Love Again
  49. The Last Resort
  50. The Long Run
  51. I Can't Tell You Why
  52. In the City
  53. The Disco Strangler
  54. King of Hollywood
  55. Heartache Tonight
  56. Those Shoes
  57. Teenage Jail
  58. The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks
  59. The Sad Café
  60. Hotel California [Live]
  61. Heartache Tonight [Live]
  62. I Can't Tell You Why [Live]
  63. The Long Run [Live]
  64. New Kid in Town [Live]
  65. Life's Been Good [Live]
  66. Seven Bridges Road [Live]
  67. Wasted Time [Live]
  68. Take It to the Limit [Live]
  69. Doolin-Dalton (Reprise II) [Live]
  70. Desperado [Live]
  71. Saturday Night [Live]
  72. All Night Long [Live]
  73. Life in the Fast Lane [Live]
  74. Take It Easy [Live]
  75. Please Come Home for Christmas
  76. Funky New Year