Selected Works: 1972-1999

Disc 1
1	Take It Easy 3:30
2	Hollywood Waltz 4:01
3	Already Gone 4:15
4	Doolin Dalton 3:26
5	Midnight Flyer 3:58
6	Tequila Sunrise 2:52
7	Witchy Woman 4:11
8	Train Leaves Here This Morning 4:07
9	Outlaw Man 3:29
10	Peaceful Easy Feeling 4:15
11	James Dean 3:37
12	Saturday Night 3:19
13	On the Border 5:14
Disc 2
1	Wasted Time (Reprise) 1:20
2	Wasted Time 4:54
3	I Can't Tell You Why 4:53
4	Lyin' Eyes 6:20
5	Pretty Maids All in a Row 3:58
6	Desperado 3:32
7	Try and Love Again 5:10
8	The Best of My Love 4:34
9	New Kid in Town 5:03
10	Love Will Keep Us Alive 4:02
11	The Sad Café 5:33
12	Take It to the Limit 4:47
13	After the Thrill Is Gone 4:49
Disc 3
1	One of These Nights (Intro) 1:59
2	One of These Nights 4:49
3	Disco Strangler 2:45
4	Heartache Tonight 4:25
5	Hotel California 6:29
6	Born to Boogie Out-take from "The Long Run" Sessions 2:16
7	In the City 3:44
8	Get over It 3:29
9	King of Hollywood 6:25
10	Too Many Hands 4:40
11	Life in the Fast Lane 4:44
12	The Long Run 3:41
13	Long Run Leftovers 3:02
14	The Last Resort 7:29
15	Random Victims, Pt. 3 9:42
Disc 4
1	Hotel California The Millennium Concert 6:57
2	Victim of Love The Millennium Concert 5:01
3	Peaceful Easy Feeling The Millennium Concert 5:23
4	Please Come Home for Christmas The Millennium Concert 3:02
5	Ol' 55 The Millennium Concert 5:20
6	Take It to the Limit The Millennium Concert 4:02
7	Those Shoes The Millennium Concert 6:12
8	Funky New Year The Millennium Concert 3:45
9	Dirty Laundry The Millennium Concert 5:54
10	Funk 49 The Millennium Concert 3:47
11	All She Wants to Do Is Dance The Millennium Concert 5:20
12	The Best of My Love The Millennium Concert 5:06

Barnes & Noble

The Eagles' zillion-selling Greatest Hits albums rank as the music industry's great warhorses; but they only tell part of the story of Southern California's rock monarchs. This career-spanning retrospective adds whole other chapters. The cleverly-sequenced four-disc set reprises all the smashes that made the band a radio staple for the past three decades, and peppers them with equally enticing album tracks. So hits such as "Take It Easy," "New Kid in Town," "Life in the Fast Lane," and their magnum opus "Hotel California" are set off by tunes such as "Doolin' Dalton," "Sad Café," and "King of Hollywood." Rather than order the tunes chronologically, the set groups them thematically -- with one studio disc devoted to rockers, one to ballads, and one to the group's more country-flavored material. Since the Eagles were never known as one of rock's more prolific flocks, fans might not expect Selected Works to hold much in the way of studio oddities. But it turns out the band did have a handful of offbeat items squirreled away, and those tracks spice up the proceedings, particularly the choogling "Born to Boogie" and the ten-minute "Random Victims Part 3," a mad-scientist splice of outtakes that holds together surprisingly well. The set's fourth disc -- which presents highlights from the "Millennium Concert" the Eagles staged in L.A. last year -- will be the most interesting to Eagles scholars who already own the major albums. Most of the songs culled from the gig are versions of their radio hits -- and some also appear in studio form in the box -- but ear-opening cuts, such as their rendition of Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" and Joe Walsh's reprise of his James Gang hit "Funk No. 49," will keep listeners on their toes. Selected Works also includes a well-appointed 44-page booklet graced with liner notes by Glenn Frey and arrives packaged in a unique canvas-bound box. David Sprague

All Music Guide

The relative sonic neglect suffered by the Eagles' catalog was the fault of the band's consistent success -- with the original albums and hits collections still selling year after year, why bother to upgrade? Finally, however, longtime Eagles producer Bill Szymczyk remastered their albums in 1999, and the band put together a box set. Including most of their hits (the exception is "Seven Bridges Road") and lots of album tracks, the four-CD set regroups the Eagles' material into three categories: "The Early Days," which consists of 13 tracks from their first four albums; "The Ballads"; and "The Fast Lane," i.e., rhythm songs. The fourth disc is drawn from their millennium concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. While their early albums balanced the contributions of their members, "The Early Days" is dominated by Glenn Frey and Don Henley; that means a few worthy efforts are missing, but the selection is generally good. "The Ballads" is a straightforward collection of popular slow songs. Along with their more uptempo hits, "The Fast Lane" contains what little unreleased material there is, but anyone hoping for greatness is going to be disappointed. The Eagles have gone out of their way in "The Millennium Concert" to perform songs out of their usual repertoire, including several solo hits and both sides of their 1978 seasonal single, "Please Come Home for Christmas" and "Funky New Year." Much of this is minor or atypical material, but at least the unusually animated band members were trying (though it sounds like there was plenty of studio overdubbing). The overall result is a nearly four-hour collection that is something of a hodgepodge. There are enough rarities to bait the hook for hardcore Eagles fans, but not really satisfy them, and casual fans will probably be better off with the two single-disc hits collections. William Ruhlmann

New York Times

What this box really points out, though, is the coolness of Glenn Frey, the singer and guitarist who embodied the swinging 1970's sensualist with the utmost grace. Ann Powers