The Eagles [Their Greatest Hits]So obviously the booklet / back insert doesn't fit with the title, and it's another one of these albums that i have consolidated together with another, so that i've added the disc in question with Hotel California, makes space on my shelves, plus gets rid of that rubbish eagle skull cover, you can see the track listing on the back, in the white box with transfers that i made, on the whole a good job i think.
The Eagles were formed in 1971, and broke up in 1980, but then surprisingly reformed in 1994, and are still going, though i certainly don't think they're the force they used to be, they were cutting edge Rock revolutionaries in the mid seventies, now they're really Soft Rock oldies, but before Hotel California came a compilation album of their hits up to that point, bringing together a few short years in the early seventies 1971-1975, ten hits in America, i played this vinyl LP to death at the time, and there's lots of old memories involved with them, i thought they were so cool in those days, even the Asylum Records logo [a door in the sky] i thought was a fantastic esoteric statement.
It's been a long time since i played this album, but the memories came flooding back, the tracks i loved the best were 1-3 & 5-9, i guess that's all but two of them, and the one track that stands above the rest is the opener 'Take It Easy', a song written by Jackson Browne, and finished off by Glenn Frey,
Here's The Eagles playing Take It Easy on YouTube.
