Eagles has issued so many greatest hits before. If you don't have one yet, this is the one to buy. For those who don't know, their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 is the best selling record of all time in the US! Sold more than Michael Jackson's "Thriller", Pink Floyd's "The Wall" or Led Zep's "IV". But the previous Greatest Hits does not have Hotel California, it does not have New Kid in Town, nor Heartache Tonight, nor Get Over It, nor Please Come Home For Christmas...and many more classics. This is the most complete collection so far. The band is still touring and still making records. Their latest one, "Long Road Out of Eden", though a very solid record, the only one that is clearly a greatest hits material is "How Long".

This is probably the best purchase i made with my money. Fantastic collection, very good music quality. There is no need to read reviews for a fine product like this. Just buy it.

I love the Eagles. I love this CD. And I LOVED the $3.99 price. Wish they would have let me buy more than one. But whatever the price - it you love the Eagles this is a no brainer.

The Eagles used to make great music. There is no doubt about that - much of it can be found on this release. Having said that, one has to wonder how often an artist(s) is willing to re-package the same material. There seems to be no limit to the Eagles' willingness to release and re-release the same material over and over again.

When you then consider the prices the Eagles charge for concert tickets and their exclusive deal with Wal-Mart (can you imagine Don Henley coming down off his high horse to make a deal with Wal-Mart? wow!) to release their new project, it seems obvious to more than a few of us that the Eagles (in their advanced ages) are more interested in padding the nest than advancing musically or making sure fans of their music don't get screwed.

When I see a repackaging job like this one, I just wonder at what point do these old guys have enough money? Or, from their perspective, can you ever have enough money?

The first CD takes the listener through "Hotel California," the title and leadoff song of the fifth album. This break is significant, for The Eagles became only the eagles with the loss of Randy Meisner and the addition of Joe Walsh. Firing Don Felder was also one of their dumber moves. Note that credits for "Hotel California" list Glenn Frey and Don Henley before Don Felder, indicating that they had more to do with writing the song than Felder, although in the credits on the original album Felder is listed first. In fact, Felder wrote all of the music himself, including the arrangements for each instrument. The stunning guitar duet that ends the song, in my opinion, represents the high point of their career.

Some of the songs have been remastered, unfortunately muting the msndolin and banjo contributions of Bernie Leadon. The song that loses the most in the recorded version versus the live performance is "Take it to the Limit." Again in my opinion, Timothy B. Schmit is a very poor replacement for Randy Meisner, whose range was greater - and voice truer -than any of the others, and Frey's version just doesn't make it. I also have a hard time recognizing some of the songs as "hits," but it is good to hear them again.

In short, if you like listening to The Eagles while you're driving the highway and want to change the CD player as little as possible, this is an excellent compilation. The collection is in chronological order, which none of the other "best of" releases have been. It enables the listener to follow the the changes in the band from the beginning, which I really like.

If you know some of the Eagles songs, this is a great record to add to your collection, especially if you do not have many of their records.

Every hit, and more, can be found on this record. If you do not have an Eagles record in your collection, but know any of their songs (and you probably do, Hotel California, Witchy Woman, Life In the Fast Line and others are ones for sure), then this the perfect record to pick up.

I had lost my copy of one their earlier Greatest Hits and was very happy I could replace it with this one.

In October of 2003, The Eagles became the latest addition of great veteran bands from the 1970s to get their own 2 disc best of collection entitled The Very Best of The Eagles.
The Eagles' set came in the wake of the success of other veteran rock acts' 2-disc best ofs like Pink Floyd's 2001 2-disc best of Echoes : The Best of Pink Floyd, Queen's 2002 3-CD best of The Platinum Collection, The Rolling Stones' 2002 best of 40 Licks, Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne era 2-disc makeover of We Sold Our Soul For Rock and Roll with extra tracks entitled Symptom of the Universe and The Who's 2-disc The Ultimate Collection as examples, all of which came in the wake of the successful Beatles 1 collection in 2000.
Disc 1 of this Eagles best of covers the cream of the crop of their early years from 1971-75 with one from 1976, in fact, the whole Greatest Hits 1971-75 disc is on disc one with classics like Take It Easy, Witchy Woman, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Tequila Sunrise, Desperado, Already Gone, Best Of My Love, One Of These Nights, Lyin' Eyes and Take It To The Limit this time in chronological sequence. There are also great album tracks on disc one which are Doolin-Dalton, Midnight Flyer, On the Border, James Dean and Ol' 55. Also two songs which appeared on the second Eagles Greatest Hits Volume 2 album close disc one which are After the Thrill is Gone and the masterpiece classic Hotel California.
Disc 2 picks up with more from Greatest Hits Volume 2. First, there's the hard rocking Top 15 hit Life In The Fast Lane, the Top 30 Seven Bridges Road, Victim of Love (a hard rocking album cut), the Top 10 hits I Can't Tell You Why and The Long Run, and the #1's Heartache Tonight and New Kid in Town and the ballad The Sad Cafe. Then there are some more album tracks Wasted Time, The Last Resort (one of my all time favorite tracks), Those Shoes and In the City.
Also, this collection features the album debut of the band's 1978 Christmas single Please Come Home for Christmas (a live version is available on their 2000 box set Selected Works).
In 1994, the band reunited and scored two more hits on their comeback album Hell Freezes Over which were the pretty ballad Love Will Keep Us Alive and the hard rocker Get Over It which did well on the Adult Pop and Mainstream Rock charts respectively.
Finally, the collection ends with the new ballad which is the stirring Hole In The World which was written after the 9/11 tragedy.
The song is great and initially was the major reason why I bought this album but also having Please Come Home for Christmas' studio version was the icing on the cake!
When The Very Best of The Eagles came out, it peaked at #3 here in the US (shame it didn't overthrow Clay Aiken) and has sold four million copies in the US alone immediately showing that The Eagles are still popular, even today and sold music because of music and not their looks (something music lacks today).
If you want both Eagles greatest hits albums, buy The Very Best of The Eagles because it is a) cheaper than buying individually b) it features extra songs not on the two hits albums and c) the sound is incredible with the remastering.
Highly recommended!

Any 2 disc Eagles 'best of' that fails to include 'Try and Love Again,' 'I Wish You Peace,' 'Hollywood Waltz,' 'My Man,' 'Saturday Night,' and 'Twenty-One' is highly questionable. That goes double when something like 'Those Shoes' gets included. This collection over-emphasizes the final period of the Eagles and thus neglects the first four albums. I have no idea what the purpose was in so doing, but I do know that such steers casual listeners to see the band as being exactly what Henley and Frey made it, rather than what is was in the early days, which is what made it great and wildly successful.

Anybody who likes the Eagles enough to purchase a 2 disc 'best of' needs to own the first five albums. The Eagles should do fans a favor by creating a special 'best of' that includes everything on this disc 2 beginning with 'Please Come Home for Christmas.' It could add another song from The Long Run so that no one ever feels any need to purchase that disjointed mess, and it could add 'How Long' and the title cut from the new double album.

Then we would know that Henley and Frey both care about the fans and have fine critical discernment.

This two CD set is truly a 'very best of' collection.

The Eagles were clearly the supergroup of the 1970s. If any other band was bigger during that decade, I can't think of who it would be. This album has all of their biggest hits and lots of others as well. It includes the following: Take It Easy, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Desperado, Already Gone, The Best of My Love, Lyin' Eyes, One of These Nights, Hotel California, and many more.

This is a must have for any classic rock fan who does not already have several other Eagles' albums.

The Eagles have been awesome, to my mind, since at least 1974 when I picked up their then "Greatest Hits" album on my way to start college. The band's smooth harmonies, desert themes and edgy country-rock style attracted me then and still keeps me interested. This 2-CD set includes all the great, early FM radio hits: "Lyin' Eyes," "Peacfeul Easy Feeling," and "Tequila Sunrise" among many others. The later hits are here as well, like "Hotel California" and "In the Long Run," showcasing the group's continued prowess, musical evolution and harder edge. But there's plenty more to the Eagles than their hits -- just like there's more to a taco than the hot sauce. This compilation includes plenty of tunes that didn't make the radio hit list, but are terrific listening -- "Doolin'Dalton," "Hole in the World," and "Sad Café" for a few.

Originally reluctant to pick up this collection, I have grown to love it. It's a wonderful and not at all musty memento of a band whose great work is as timeless as a desert night

This is another great collection , all of the Eagles older greatest hit's on 2 cd's , great packaging. A++++++++++++++

A compilation of the best Eagles songs on two CDs. If you're missing songs from your collection, or you don't have ANY Eagles CDs, buy this one!

The Eagles were a perfect pop rock band in the sense that they possessed a sound that was radio friendly, non offensive and melodic. It was a sound that appealed to a wide range of people. For these reason's also, many people see them as 'stiff' and their songs were more of a 'product' lacking 'soul'. The truth of the matter is that the Eagles had a gift for writing some real memorable pop rock tunes and were master's at producing a hot single. Their albums, however, tended to suffer from inconsistencies with those hit songs often being the only real songs worth hearing on that particular recording. The Eagles were a SINGLES band and this collection is the best representation of their work.

By containing 33 songs this collection outdoes the previous 20 songs that could be found on their first two single disc greatest hits albums. This collection has all of those songs plus 13 other album tracks to give you the most complete overview of their work, other than the boxset. You get the classics "Take it Easy", Witchy Woman" and "Lyin Eyes" alongside the few great album tracks like "Doolin' Dalton", the Tom Waits penned "Ol' 55" and "James Dean". The set also contains 6 songs from what was probably their best album "Hotel California" including "Wasted Time", "Life in the Fast Lane", "New Kid in Town", and the title track and also the best 6 songs from the dismal "The Long Run" including the title track, "I Can't Tell You Why", Joe Walsh's "In the City" and "Heartache Tonight".

The two bad points about this collection are that the 3 songs tacked on at the end of disc 2 after the Eagles reconciled just aren't up to snuff with the rest of the material and the inclusion of their Christmas song "Please Come Home For Christmas" is unnecessary on a hits collection and again disrupts the flow of the second disc. The first disc, however, is flawless.

Unless you're a die-hard Eagles fan, this has all that you will ever need.

I BOUGHT THESE CD'S BEFORE FOR MY HUSBAND A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND HE RECENTLY BROKE THE 2ND ONE. SO I PURCHASED HIM ANOTHER SET....HE LISTENS TO IT EVERY NIGHT.........

Eagles suck in the rock world, they have a couple of rock songs but they are rock band......listen to hole in the world and you will agree. They sould like nsync....

The whole reason i bought this cd was to be able to listen to it in my car. However, it will not play at all in the car. Lower quality cd's and cd's that are made at home quality will not play on my cd player, so I thought by ordering them on Amazon I would get new cd's that were good quality.

Awesome album for Eagles fans. This 2 disc set has all of their greatest hits.

This album is so amazing. We just keep listening to it over and over again. A must-have for all Eagles fans!

WHAT CAN YOU SAY WHEN IT'S CLASSIC MUSIC. THIS WAS A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR MY 72 YEAR OLD MOTHER, WHO LOVES THE EAGLES.

TDhis is Super buy. I don't believe a single Eagles recording has been left off. You cannot go wrong purchasing this!!!

We have thoroughly enjoyed these two CDs. They take us back to the days when these songs first came out. True nostalgia!! A must for any Eagles fan!!

I got this CD for Christmas, because I liked a few of the Eagles songs and figured I would try it out. Little did I know that I would be listening to this CD over and over. Almost every song on the CD is good, even the songs that werent "major" hits. The Eagles have a way of writing songs that are very catchy, but also very identifiable with anyone.
The first CD definetly contains most of their major hits, and in my opinion best songs. The 2nd CD contains a few "filler" songs, but other than that, every penny was worth it!
The Eagles have very few what I call "Filler" songs or songs that were not hits that they add to their albums.
I would say that the only other CD I found that has so many good songs on it, is the Journey Greatest Hits CD, which also has no real "filler" songs but were all hits on the radio.

A fine set of recordings, but I have to admit that I liked Disc 1 better than Disc 2.

One needs very little to get through life. Depending on your preferences, one might need food, sex, a dog, bible or dictionary-- possibly a car.

But friend and foe alike, I say unto you: This is something you must have to live. Don't go home without it!

Great CD!! There is not one song in this CD that I do not like. I can listen to it over and over again. The Eagles are amazing.

Great collection--the interviews with Don Henley & Glenn Frey about the songs are fascinating (I enjoy hearing about where the singers/songwriters were living & what they were doing at the time the songs were written, their influences, etc). The 40+ page booklet also has a lot of Eagles photos, including early members Randy Meisner & Bernie Leadon (many of which I hadn't seen before). HIGHLY recommend for any Eagles fan, whether you own the original albums or are discovering their music for the first time. "One of These Nights" still makes me smile, & "Wasted Time" still gives me chills when I listen to it, even after all these years. Definitely a keeper!! :D

Grew up on the Eagles and revisiting them again for the first time in a long time has been a complete JOY. There are only a couple songs I didn't already know...and simply grew up with James Dean and One Of These Nights, etc.

Beyond the nostalgia, these are simply wonderful songs...skillfully written and nearly flawlessly executed, especially vocally.

How anyone can hate this band is beyond me.

This 2-CD set features every key Eagles song from their first album and through the latter stuff, but what really struck me was the sound. The remastered sound has more prescence and rings out with more seperation. You don't realize how many hits they had until you go through this collection. As far as songwriting, singing, production values, and playing their instruments, I'd be hard pressed to think of another American band that tops them. Songs like: Take It Easy, Tequila Sunrise, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Desperado, New Kid In Town, Ol' 55, James Dean, Lying Eyes, I Can't Tell You Why, Hotel California and so many others have never sounded better. If you have room for only one Eagles CD, THIS IS THE ONE!

It is too bad that the Eagles chose to sell their new album only at Walmart but I guess that's where the record biz has badly gone. I can't go into that place or buy from there. It is only about product and not music in a place like Walmart. I will shop the few remaining record stores and Amazon from time to time for CDs Hopefully the Walmart thing will be exclusive for a short time? At least McCartney with Starbucks was not an exclusive thing in terms of sales.

I'm going to rate this CD based on a $1 per song cost to total cost for the entire CD (Apple and Rhapsody charge $1 per song).
The Eagles are great. Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh. I'm sure glad Hell froze over for them. Not that their recordings as the Eagles have been any good since then, but at least we might get a chance to see them live in concert.
This CD is the 'Greatest Hits' I've been waiting for. No longer do you have to buy their 'Greatest Hits - 1971 to 1975' for $14 and also their 'Greatest Hits - Vol. 2' for $15, in order to get all of their best work. There are $16 worth of great songs on here, but it will cost you $20 for the CD on Amazon. The songs are: CD 1: Tracks 1,2,3,4,7,8,13,14,15 & 17; CD 2: Tracks 1,3,5,7,9 & 10.
Better yet, all of the songs I've listed are available on iTunes. So buy each of the 16 songs individually on iTunes and save yourself $4.
Hope this helps.
Darium June 2007

Twenty hits from the Eagles make's sure you get your moneys worth. "Hotel California" & "Best of My Love" are my two faves, but I love them all. California rock and roll, gotta love it. I know this desperado type witchy woman does as she sips her tequila sunrise just before she takes it to the limit.

I love, love, love this CD. I will treasure it forever. It has all the songs I love and wanted to hear. I recommend it to anyone looking for a great Eagles collection. The Eagles Rock!

Confession time. I never grew up with the Eagles. Until I watched the live reunion DVD at a high end home audio shop, I only knew the names and some of the songs.

This is a darned good album that spans The Eagles portfolio of songs. The live album has a more refined sound due to age and experience of the band members BUT, this is a benchmark hits album of the original recordings.

This will probably become my favorite CD ever. I was wild about the Eagles' music as a kid, and I still love it!! I am so glad that I bought this CD.

Put out a boxed set of their first four albums then you will have:
The Very Best of the Eagles.

Henley, Frey, Meisner, Leadon and Felder.

When Joe Walsh came aboard and then Timothy Schmitt I had had enough with the latter mention. "I Can't Tell You Why? The Eagles?...hardly.

The Eagles lost their unique sound with Hotel California.