EAGLES - Asylum Album Box Set (NEW)

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BOX-SET IST NEU UND NOCH VERPACKT IN ORIGINAL PLASTIK-FOLIE, VERSAND IN DER SCHWEIZ IST IMBEGRIFFEN IM PREIS.------------ Main specs Title: Box Set Performer: Eagles (The) Genre: Rock & Pop Sub Genre: Country Rock Release Date: 23/05/2005 Recomended Retail Price: 76.99 GBP Original Release Year: 2005 Label / Distributor: Rhino / Cinram Logistics Producer: Bill Szymcyzk; Glyn Johns Pieces in Set: 9 Studio / Live: Studio Stereo: Stereo Format: Performer EAN: 81227968120 Catalogue Number: 8122796812 Additional notes Album Notes: The Eagles (Rock): Don Felder (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Bernie Leadon (vocals, guitar, steel guitar, banjo, mandolin); Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Randy Meisner, Timothy B. Schmit (vocals, bass guitar); Don Henley (vocals, drums, percussion). Titles on disc 1 1.: Take It Easy 2.: Witchy Woman 3.: Chug All Night 4.: Most Of Us Are Sad 5.: Nightingales 6.: Train Leaves Here This Morning 7.: Take The Devil 8.: Earlybird 9.: Peaceful Easy Feeling 10.: Trying Titles on disc 2 1.: Doolin Dalton 2.: Twenty One 3.: Out Of Control 4.: Tequila Sunrise 5.: Desperado 6.: Certain Kind Of Fool 7.: Doolin' Dalton (instrumental) 8.: Outlaw Man 9.: Saturday Night 10.: Bitter Creek 11.: Doolin' Dalton/Desperado (reprise) Titles on disc 3 1.: Already Gone 2.: You Never Cry Like A Lover 3.: Midnight Flyer 4.: My Man (Mon Homme) 5.: On The Border 6.: James Dean 7.: Ol' 55 8.: Is It True Is It True 9.: Good Day In Hell 10.: Best Of My Love Titles on disc 4 1.: One Of These Nights 2.: Too Many Hands 3.: Hollywood Waltz 4.: Journey Of The Sorcerer 5.: Lyin' Eyes 6.: Take It To The Limit 7.: Visions 8.: After The Thrill Is Gone 9.: I Wish You Peace Titles on disc 5 1.: Hotel California 2.: New Kid In Town 3.: Life In The Fast Lane 4.: Wasted Time 5.: Wasted Time (reprise) 6.: Victim Of Love 7.: Pretty Maids All In A Row 8.: Try And Love Again 9.: Last Resort Titles on disc 6 1.: Long Run 2.: I Can't Tell You Why 3.: In The City 4.: Disco Strangler 5.: King Of Hollywood 6.: Heartache Tonight 7.: Those Shoes 8.: Teenage Jail 9.: Greeks Don't Want No Freaks 10.: Sad Cafe Titles on disc 7 1.: Hotel California 2.: Heartache Tonight 3.: I Can't Tell You Why 4.: Long Run 5.: New Kid In Town 6.: Life's Been Good Titles on disc 8 1.: Seven Bridges Road 2.: Wasted Time 3.: Take It To The Limit 4.: Doolin Dalton 5.: Desperado 6.: Saturday Night 7.: All Night Long 8.: Life In The Fast Lane 9.: Take It Easy Titles on disc 9 1.: Please Come Home For Christmas 2.: Funky Year The Eagles reputation was made on the stellar repertoire they recorded from '72-'80, which is presented here in one collection for the first time. It all began in the early '70s when the band soared above their origins as harmony-heavy roots-rockers to emerge as the defining artists of the influential Southern California scene. They delivered four consecutive #1 albums that decade; three are contained herein (the fourth was their 1976 Greatest Hits). Ultimately they became one of the all-time biggest acts in contemporary music. This highly desirable box set contains the entire Eagles catalogue from that era, including the classics: Eagles (1972), Desperado (1973), On The Border (1974), One Of These Nights (1975), Hotel California (1976), The Long Run (1979), Eagles Live (1980), plus a bonus disc featuring the seasonal favourites 'Please Come Home For Christmas' and 'Funky New Year'. The albums are reissued in their original running order, each with replica LP sleeve packaging featuring the original vinyl artwork and gatefolds, plus pull out posters and extras! The Eagles' original vinyl Asylum Records catalog, including each of their albums between 1972 and 1980, will be released as the Eagles Box, a limited-edition, nine-disc set including the debut of their "Please Come Home For Christmas/Funky New Year" single on CD. The Eagles Box will showcase each of their first seven albums, from 1972's self-titled debut to the band's 1980 two-disc Eagles Live. Each disc will be packaged in a CD replica of the original vinyl album (including original album cover art and original posters) and will be enclosed in a retro, gatefold jacket. The track listings duplicate the original albums. A limited edition of 20,000 numbered units of the Eagles Box will be available in the U.S. beginning March 15, 2005, for a suggested retail price of $129.98 ($116.99 at Amazon). The Eagles continue their "Farewell I" tour this March and April. The Music The Eagles evolved from a highly personal, touchingly sincere Western-rock band ("country-rock" is a misnomer) to a collection of jaded superstars. This evolution played against the band's strengths and shined harsh light on their weaknesses. Ask any filmmaker: lighting is everything. From the Eagles' original position as a pleasant, unimposing, and lightweight outfit, they could slip in truths without seeming heavy, contrived or pretentious. They had charm. By the time of their highly publicized recruitment of guitar hero Joe Walsh, the Eagles could no longer creep up on anyone. The Eagles went from overachieving upstarts to defending champions. This is a familiar transformation in sports: the underdog rises through the pack and becomes champ. Every other team gets particularly geared up to play the champions - every team sends its best pitcher against them, even on three days rest. Beating the champs gives a struggling team hope. The defending champion mentality affects the champs as well: they feel the pressure of heightened expectations. They don't play to win, they play not to lose. The joy of playing gets lost somewhere. The team may bring in high-priced hired hands to shore up perceived weaknesses, but they also may forget how they got to the top in the first place. All of the above happened to the Eagles, the first rock band of the free agent era. The problem wasn't Walsh per se, it was the "now they'll really achieve greatness" mentality that accompanied him into the group. There was an ease to the pre-Walsh Eagles. They moved as a unit. They functioned as a pack. The latter-day Eagles felt more like high-priced session men backing up each other's projects than a group of peers. The band's sound changed along with its mentality. Their pre-Walsh albums (up through One of These Nights) breathed. There are spaces in the surface of the music which afford clean, dry ventilation, like cotton or fine spun wool. The holes closed up on Hotel California and the material didn't breathe: it was slicker but caused discomfort in the long run. The band changed stylistically as well. When they traded the bluegrass-based Bernie Leadon for the '70s-rock based Joe Walsh, they lost their contact with the desert: their source of high-lonesome inspiration. Gone were the banjos, the pedal steel, the fancy finger picking that informed even their most un-Western material. The falsetto R&B vocals of "One of These Nights" were "Western" R&B vocals. When the Eagles looked out over the city lights of L.A. in "Lyin' Eyes" or "Hollywood Waltz'" they saw the city for what it really was: an irrigated desert. They saw the ancient smoke of the indian's campfires backing up against the San Gabriel Mountains. The Eagles traded this view for a windowless luxury suite at the Hotel California. When I listen to to warm dry breezes of "Peaceful Easy Feeling," or "Tequila Sunrise," or "Lyin' Eyes," I remember an incident from my childhood: When I was 10 my family lived a few doors down from an open field of Southern California sage, tumbleweeds, sun-beaten dust and desert critters. Kids rode dirt bikes and flew kites and went on hikes and searched for old spent shells from the WWll firing range. We lived where Southern California confronted its former self. One fall day, I went to the field to practice my boomerang - the real thing that my grandmother had brought back from Australia. I gave the stick a mighty heave and it swung out in a beautiful, soaring arc. Unfortunately my trajectory was off and the boomerang landed in a forbiddingly tangled mess of prickly brush. Heedlessly I charged through the crackling brown tangle, and spotting the hole that the boomerang had neatly sliced through the brush, I reached down to claim my prize. I was momentarily confused when my hand connected with something smooth, firm and circular. Then it rattled. I nearly yanked my arm out of the socket as I extracted it from the hissing brush in an exaggerated umpire's "you're out" gesture. To my added horror, the rattler had lodged a fang in my shirtsleeve and it came twisting out of the tangle following my arm. Freaked, I swung my arm over my head in a feverish calf-roping motion and the writhing menace broke free, pinwheeled through the air and landed with a pronounced thud somewhere behind me. I sprinted all the way home - feet barely touching the ground - slammed the door behind me, and threw up. The desert is not to be trifled with. The field was replaced some years later by a luxury mobile home park with begonias and imported palms: a mobile Hotel California - pretty good analog for your Eagles before and after. Though the hits collections are fine, for the real fan the context of each of these albums is worth having, although the price is a bit steep.