This album combines all tracks that appeared on the 2 previously released Eagles greatest hits albums (Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) & Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2), along amongst other singles non included on the starting fourth dimension 2 compilations, album tracks together with the novel rail "Hole inward the World".
The Very Best Of was also released equally a limited-edition three-disc laid amongst the tertiary disc existence a bonus DVD containing the video for the novel vocal "Hole inward the World," equally good equally a making of the video featurette together with "Backstage Pass to Farewell 1."
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 on Nov 8, 2003 at reveal 3, amongst 162,000 copies sold. It spent 62 weeks on the chart. The album was certified together with awarded gold, platinum, together with double platinum records past times the RIAA on Dec 17, 2003, together with on Dec 13, 2004, it achieved triple platinum status. As of Dec 2007, it has spent over 325 weeks inward the Irish Album Charts, effectively non having left the nautical chart since its release. In the UK the album (as The Complete Greatest Hits) entered the charts on Nov 1, 2003 at its initial reveal 27 peak position, the album did yet re-enter the charts inward June 2006 when it peaked at reveal ix on the UK Albums Chart.
The work amongst assembling an Eagles collection inward 2003 is that at that spot already is a perfect Eagles collection: 1976's Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975). Although it spanned a mere x songs together with summarized solely the starting fourth dimension 5 years together with 4 albums of their career, it pulled off a nifty describe a fast ane on past times making the albums it summarized -- together with past times extension, the band -- seem improve than they genuinely were. By concentrating on large hits together with substituting album rail "Desperado" for "Outlaw Man," a unmarried that didn't have much nautical chart action, the collection captured the band's peak, making a convincing example for the band's strengths patch providing a compulsively enjoyable listen. Of course, the Eagles continued to accept hits after the 1976 release of Their Greatest Hits, scoring the biggest proper album of their career that rattling twelvemonth amongst Hotel California. After that, egos together with infighting hampered the band, leading to merely ane to a greater extent than album inward 1979's The Long Run earlier a disbandment inward 1982, which was followed 12 years afterwards past times a reunion, charmingly dubbed Hell Freezes Over, since well-nigh pundits predicted that's when the band would reunite. This isn't much novel Earth to encompass for a compilation, equally the spotty 1982 The Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 illustrated, but fifty-fifty amongst a box laid similar 2000's Selected Works, at that spot was room for a collection that contained all their large hits on ane or 2 discs: thence the nascency of Warner Strategic Marketing's 2003 double-disc Eagles collection, The Very Best Of.
There's footling interrogation that The Very Best Of does its project well, containing nearly all of the group's charting singles -- including the non-LP seasonal melody "Please Come Home for Christmas" together with omitting the purposely ignored "Outlaw Man" along amongst a brace of reunion-era singles that didn't brand much touching -- together with filling out the margins amongst album stone staples such equally "Doolin-Dalton," "Ol' 55," "Victim of Love," "In the City," together with "Those Shoes." It's a expert collection, eliminating the demand to ain actual Eagles albums past times containing all the cardinal songs from each effort, including the highlights from Hell Freezes Over. If at that spot are quibbles, the biggest is that the starting fourth dimension disc isn't nearly equally compulsively listenable equally Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), which covers the same ground, amongst the minute existence that after Hotel California the collection runs out of steam a footling bit, equally the Eagles audio to a greater extent than similar a collective of solo performers instead of a band -- but that's the run of their career, too. In whatsoever case, The Very Best Of is an fantabulous agency to larn all the Eagles' songs that affair on ane collection. [The Very Best Of was also released equally a limited-edition three-disc laid amongst the tertiary disc existence a bonus DVD containing the video for the novel vocal "Hole inward the World," equally good equally a making of the video featurette together with "Backstage Pass to Farewell 1."]
This packed double-disc is the slim alternative for fans who discovery the Eagles' vaunted greatest hits sets also footling together with the boxed set also hefty. Hit singles large together with medium are here, oftentimes ("One of These Nights," "Hotel California") soundless sounding definitive together with fifty-fifty tough. Large helpings of favorite album cuts are also included, along amongst a taster from a promised 2004 Eagles studio reunion. Unfortunately, "Hole inward the World," Don Henley's reply to September 11, feels merely equally empty together with entitled equally "Get Over It," the band's previous state-of-the-union message (from which the newer vocal represents a philosophical 180-degree turn). But for those seeking an overview of this Southern California juggernaut's successes, equally good equally telling comments from band members--mostly Henley together with Frey--in a well-designed booklet, Very Best volition to a greater extent than than do.
Track listing
Disc one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Take It Easy" Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey 3:29
2. "Witchy Woman" Don Henley, Bernie Leadon 4:10
3. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" Jack Tempchin 4:16
4. "Desperado" Henley, Frey 3:33
5. "Tequila Sunrise" Henley, Frey 2:52
6. "Doolin-Dalton" Browne, Frey, Henley, J.D. Souther 3:26
7. "Already Gone" Tempchin, Robb Strandlund 4:13
8. "Best of My Love" Henley, Frey, Souther 4:35
9. "James Dean" Browne, Frey, Souther, Henley 3:36
10. "Ol' '55" Tom Waits 4:22
11. "Midnight Flyer" Paul Craft 3:58
12. "On the Border" Henley, Leadon, Frey 4:28
13. "Lyin' Eyes" Henley, Frey 6:21
14. "One of These Nights" Henley, Frey 4:51
15. "Take It to the Limit" Randy Meisner, Henley, Frey 4:48
16. "After the Thrill Is Gone" Henley, Frey 3:56
17. "Hotel California" Don Felder, Henley, Frey 6:30
Tracks 1–3 from Eagles (1972)
Tracks 4–6 from Desperado (1973)
Tracks 7–12 from On the Border (1974)
Tracks 13–16 from One of These Nights (1975)
Track 17 from Hotel California (1976)
Disc two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Life inward the Fast Lane" Joe Walsh, Henley, Frey 4:46
2. "Wasted Time" Henley, Frey 4:55
3. "Victim of Love" Felder, Souther, Henley, Frey 4:11
4. "The Last Resort" Henley, Frey 7:25
5. "New Kid inward Town" Souther, Henley, Frey 5:04
6. "Please Come Home for Christmas" Charlie Brown, Gene Redd 2:58
7. "Heartache Tonight" Henley, Frey, Bob Seger, Souther 4:26
8. "The Sad Café" Henley, Frey, Walsh, Souther 5:35
9. "I Can't Tell You Why" Timothy B. Schmit, Henley, Frey 4:56
10. "The Long Run" Henley, Frey 3:42
11. "In the City" Walsh, Barry De Vorzon 3:46
12. "Those Shoes" Felder, Henley, Frey 4:56
13. "Seven Bridges Road" (Live) Steve Young 3:02
14. "Love Will Keep Us Alive" Pete Vale, Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack 4:00
15. "Get Over It" Henley, Frey 3:29
16. "Hole inward the World" Henley, Frey 4:30
Tracks 1-5 from Hotel California (1976)
Track vi was a non-album unmarried (1978)
Tracks 7-12 from The Long Run (1979)
Track xiii from Eagles Live (1980)
Tracks fourteen together with xv from Hell Freezes Over (1994)
Track sixteen is a novel rail (2003)
Personnel
Glenn Frey – guitars, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals
Don Henley – drums, percussion, guitars, vocals
Randy Meisner – bass guitar, guitars, guitarrone, vocals (disc ane together with songs 1–5 on disc two)
Bernie Leadon – guitars, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, vocals (songs 1–16 on disc one)
Don Felder – guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, vocals (songs 7, 13–17 on disc ane together with songs 1–15 on disc two)
Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, organ, synthesizer, vocals (song 17 on disc ane together with all of disc two)
Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals (songs 6–16 on disc two)
Additional personnel
Steuart Smith – guitars (song sixteen on disc two)
Scott Crago – drums, percussion (songs 14–16 on disc two)
Willie Hollis – pianoforte (songs 14–16 on disc two)
Jim Ed Norman – piano, string arrangements (songs 4, 13, xv on disc ane together with songs 2, 4 on disc two)
David Sanborn – alto saxophone (song 8 on disc two)
Al Perkins - pedal steel guitar (song 10 on disc one)
There's footling interrogation that The Very Best Of does its project well, containing nearly all of the group's charting singles -- including the non-LP seasonal melody "Please Come Home for Christmas" together with omitting the purposely ignored "Outlaw Man" along amongst a brace of reunion-era singles that didn't brand much touching -- together with filling out the margins amongst album stone staples such equally "Doolin-Dalton," "Ol' 55," "Victim of Love," "In the City," together with "Those Shoes." It's a expert collection, eliminating the demand to ain actual Eagles albums past times containing all the cardinal songs from each effort, including the highlights from Hell Freezes Over. If at that spot are quibbles, the biggest is that the starting fourth dimension disc isn't nearly equally compulsively listenable equally Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), which covers the same ground, amongst the minute existence that after Hotel California the collection runs out of steam a footling bit, equally the Eagles audio to a greater extent than similar a collective of solo performers instead of a band -- but that's the run of their career, too. In whatsoever case, The Very Best Of is an fantabulous agency to larn all the Eagles' songs that affair on ane collection. [The Very Best Of was also released equally a limited-edition three-disc laid amongst the tertiary disc existence a bonus DVD containing the video for the novel vocal "Hole inward the World," equally good equally a making of the video featurette together with "Backstage Pass to Farewell 1."]
This packed double-disc is the slim alternative for fans who discovery the Eagles' vaunted greatest hits sets also footling together with the boxed set also hefty. Hit singles large together with medium are here, oftentimes ("One of These Nights," "Hotel California") soundless sounding definitive together with fifty-fifty tough. Large helpings of favorite album cuts are also included, along amongst a taster from a promised 2004 Eagles studio reunion. Unfortunately, "Hole inward the World," Don Henley's reply to September 11, feels merely equally empty together with entitled equally "Get Over It," the band's previous state-of-the-union message (from which the newer vocal represents a philosophical 180-degree turn). But for those seeking an overview of this Southern California juggernaut's successes, equally good equally telling comments from band members--mostly Henley together with Frey--in a well-designed booklet, Very Best volition to a greater extent than than do.
Track listing
Disc one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Take It Easy" Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey 3:29
2. "Witchy Woman" Don Henley, Bernie Leadon 4:10
3. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" Jack Tempchin 4:16
4. "Desperado" Henley, Frey 3:33
5. "Tequila Sunrise" Henley, Frey 2:52
6. "Doolin-Dalton" Browne, Frey, Henley, J.D. Souther 3:26
7. "Already Gone" Tempchin, Robb Strandlund 4:13
8. "Best of My Love" Henley, Frey, Souther 4:35
9. "James Dean" Browne, Frey, Souther, Henley 3:36
10. "Ol' '55" Tom Waits 4:22
11. "Midnight Flyer" Paul Craft 3:58
12. "On the Border" Henley, Leadon, Frey 4:28
13. "Lyin' Eyes" Henley, Frey 6:21
14. "One of These Nights" Henley, Frey 4:51
15. "Take It to the Limit" Randy Meisner, Henley, Frey 4:48
16. "After the Thrill Is Gone" Henley, Frey 3:56
17. "Hotel California" Don Felder, Henley, Frey 6:30
Tracks 1–3 from Eagles (1972)
Tracks 4–6 from Desperado (1973)
Tracks 7–12 from On the Border (1974)
Tracks 13–16 from One of These Nights (1975)
Track 17 from Hotel California (1976)
Disc two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Life inward the Fast Lane" Joe Walsh, Henley, Frey 4:46
2. "Wasted Time" Henley, Frey 4:55
3. "Victim of Love" Felder, Souther, Henley, Frey 4:11
4. "The Last Resort" Henley, Frey 7:25
5. "New Kid inward Town" Souther, Henley, Frey 5:04
6. "Please Come Home for Christmas" Charlie Brown, Gene Redd 2:58
7. "Heartache Tonight" Henley, Frey, Bob Seger, Souther 4:26
8. "The Sad Café" Henley, Frey, Walsh, Souther 5:35
9. "I Can't Tell You Why" Timothy B. Schmit, Henley, Frey 4:56
10. "The Long Run" Henley, Frey 3:42
11. "In the City" Walsh, Barry De Vorzon 3:46
12. "Those Shoes" Felder, Henley, Frey 4:56
13. "Seven Bridges Road" (Live) Steve Young 3:02
14. "Love Will Keep Us Alive" Pete Vale, Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack 4:00
15. "Get Over It" Henley, Frey 3:29
16. "Hole inward the World" Henley, Frey 4:30
Tracks 1-5 from Hotel California (1976)
Track vi was a non-album unmarried (1978)
Tracks 7-12 from The Long Run (1979)
Track xiii from Eagles Live (1980)
Tracks fourteen together with xv from Hell Freezes Over (1994)
Track sixteen is a novel rail (2003)
Personnel
Glenn Frey – guitars, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals
Don Henley – drums, percussion, guitars, vocals
Randy Meisner – bass guitar, guitars, guitarrone, vocals (disc ane together with songs 1–5 on disc two)
Bernie Leadon – guitars, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, vocals (songs 1–16 on disc one)
Don Felder – guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, vocals (songs 7, 13–17 on disc ane together with songs 1–15 on disc two)
Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, organ, synthesizer, vocals (song 17 on disc ane together with all of disc two)
Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals (songs 6–16 on disc two)
Additional personnel
Steuart Smith – guitars (song sixteen on disc two)
Scott Crago – drums, percussion (songs 14–16 on disc two)
Willie Hollis – pianoforte (songs 14–16 on disc two)
Jim Ed Norman – piano, string arrangements (songs 4, 13, xv on disc ane together with songs 2, 4 on disc two)
David Sanborn – alto saxophone (song 8 on disc two)
Al Perkins - pedal steel guitar (song 10 on disc one)
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