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Review of Selected
Works These perfectionist, studio-tanned Eagles never started anything they couldn't finish, so this four CD overview can't offer any better vault material than a three-minute medley of unfinished riffs and 10 minutes of studio banter. But in divvying up hits among three of the discs, the band made a smart compromise between chronological and thematic approaches. First comes an Early Years disc, then getting into the Felder/Walsh epoch, one of ballads-life in the car-pool lane and on the soft shoulder, respectively. The case for Don Henley and Glenn Frey as So Cal Lennon and McCartney is certainly made, though proportionality results in arguable selections (like Ringo, Timothy B. Schmidt must get his due). The fourth disc, an abridgement of the reunited combo's L.A. millennium-eve concert, captures their curious tendency to exactly recreate studio arrangements, though any opportunity to squeeze in "Funk 49" can't be bad. B+ Thanks to Tim W. for typing : ) |