Having read David Fuller's review, I couldn't agree more...buy the gold disc! Worth every penny!

This album has, as of November 1999, become the biggest seller of all time: 26 million copies worth. Thriller is in second place at 25 million. And it's easy to see why. This perfectly captures the Eagles early years of country rock, before the Eagles turned all out rockers with Joe Walsh and Hotel California.

In fact, the ten selections are well sequenced flowing nicely together. Henley's vocals are judiciously split four per side. Each album is evenly represented on both sides of the LP.

The gold disc boasts superior sound, remastered directly from the two track stereo tapes. Curious is the fact that the track times are two seconds longer on each track. Compression on the orginal LP and CD perhaps? The jacket depicts the 3-D effect on the eagles skull, and features all the orginal graphics, including the LP labels.

One reviewer wished this CD could have been expanded. A couple of interesting facts: One, there were two singles from Desperado, Tequila Sunrise is on this, but Desperado was not a single. I'm glad it is on this. It is a track deserving of being on a greatest hits. However, the other single was Outlaw Man! Interesting!

Second, On The Border had three singles. Two of them are on this, but James Dean is not.

Lastly, we have a missing B-Side. The flip side to Take It Easy is a song penned by Henley-Frey called Get You In The Mood. To my knowledge, it is not on any Eagles album. I do not have much information on this 3:52 obscurity.

What we need is a comprehensive Eagles singles anthology. Let's hope we will get that, I mean the 30th anniversary is coming shortly. That's a hint!

The Eagles 1976's release Their Greatest Hits 1971-75 has recently become the biggest selling album of all-time topping Michael Jackson's Thriller. The album has moved a staggering 26 million copies and the fact that people are still consistently buying it 24 years after its release is a testament to the timeless nature of the songs. The songs are mostly in the country-rock vein from the wistful "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to the two-timing tale "Lyin' Eyes" to the supple number one hit "Best Of My Love". There are some harder number like the evil & dark sounding "One Of These Nights" and the smoldering "Witchy Woman". The band's success can be tied into the fact that Glenn Frey & Don Henley are extraordinary songwriters, the band are perfectionists in the studio, so their songs are painstakingly produced, Bernie Leadon, Randy Meisner and later Don Felder all are excellent musicians and they make picture perfect harmonies. An essential album.

This was a must have album in the 1970's, but it has since been superceded by their "The Very Best of" 2 CD set. This CD is simply a song for song re-issue of the vinyl album, so it only contains 10 songs from their early days. Which would be fine if this were a budget release, but it is not. The songs on here are great, but I think you would get a better value from buying "The Very Best of The Eagles" collection. It spans their entire career and includes 33 songs on 2 CDs.

I know they want to keep selling this CD since it is the biggest selling album of all time, but they need to cut the price or at least throw in a few bonus tracks.

By far, if you're a classic rock buff, this album is essential for your collection. In this greatest hits collection, there are only ten tracks to listen to, but these classics NEVER wear out on you. This collection also defines the early Eagles' creativity and diversity in their music. It really demonstrates that Glenn Frey and Don Henley are probably two of the best songwriters in classic rock history.

The album has classic rockers such as "Take It Easy" (an excellent song to drive and cruise to) and "Already Gone". Wonderful relaxing classics consist of "Peaceful, Easy Feeling", "Best Of My Love", and "Tequila Sunrise". The songs are so soothing, they almost take you to another place where one can relax and watch a sunset (or "sunrise") while sipping a strong drink. "Take It To The Limit" is a beautiful collaboration of the bands vocal talents and songwriting. The song that strikes me the most on this album, though, is "Desperado". Almost EVERY time I listen to this song, I get tears in my eyes. The song moves me with such original lyrics, absolutely incredible singing by Don, and flawless production. I have even found that you can slow dance very well with this song.

Throughout the album, you will notice that most of the songs have a country sound to them. Others use powerful orchestration, like "Desperado". However, this album epitomizes classic rock at its early beginnings. Buy this CD if you have any interest in classic rock.

I always heard how great and influential the Eagles were all my life so about a year ago i bought this CD and it had some of the songs that i liked on it such as One Of These Nights and Take It Easy, but after i listened to the whole album the first time i didn't see what all the fuss was about. I didn't think they were the best singers that i've ever heard or anything so i wondered why they were such legends. But the more i listened to it, the more i liked it....especially while i'm taking a long drive. Then i began to see why they were so good, its because of the great lyrics that they had and at the time it was a different style of music. Now they're one of my favorite groups of all time and they're not bad singers either. 2 of the 3 lead singers went on and had great solo careers. I liked it so much that i bought Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2