The Very Best Of (Eagles album)

For the 2001 compilation, see The Very Best of the Eagles.

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The Very Best of Eagles (released as The Complete Greatest Hits in the UK and Australia) is a two-disc compilation album by the American band The Eagles, released in 2003.

This album combines all tracks that appeared on the two previously released Eagles greatest hits albums (Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) & Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2), along with other singles not included on the first two compilations, album tracks and the new track "Hole in the World".

The Very Best of Eagles was also released as a limited-edition three-disc set with the third disc being a bonus DVD containing the video for the new song "Hole in the World," as well as a making of the video featurette and "Backstage Pass to Farewell 1."

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 on November 8, 2003 at number 3, with 162,000 copies sold. It spent 62 weeks on the chart. The album was certified and awarded gold, platinum, and double platinum records by the RIAA on December 17, 2003, and on December 13, 2004, it achieved triple platinum status. As of December 2007, it has spent over 325 weeks in the Irish Album Charts, effectively not having left the chart since its release. In the UK the album (as The Complete Greatest Hits) entered the charts on November 1, 2003 at its initial number 27 peak position, the album did however re-enter the charts in June 2006 when it peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Take It Easy" (Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey) – 3:29
2. "Witchy Woman" (Don Henley, Bernie Leadon) – 4:10
3. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" (Jack Tempchin) – 4:16
4. "Desperado" (Henley, Frey) – 3:33
5. "Tequila Sunrise" (Henley, Frey) – 2:52
6. "Doolin-Dalton" (Browne, Frey, Henley, J.D. Souther) – 3:26
7. "Already Gone" (Tempchin, Robb Strandlund) – 4:13
8. "Best of My Love" (Henley, Frey, Souther) – 4:35
9. "James Dean" (Browne, Frey, Souther, Henley) – 3:36
10. "Ol' '55" (Tom Waits) – 4:22
11. "Midnight Flyer" (Paul Craft) – 3:58
12. "On the Border" (Henley, Leadon, Frey) – 4:28
13. "Lyin' Eyes" (Henley, Frey) – 6:21
14. "One of These Nights" (Henley, Frey) – 4:51
15. "Take It to the Limit" (Randy Meisner, Henley, Frey) – 4:48
16. "After the Thrill Is Gone" (Henley, Frey) – 3:56
17. "All by Myself" (Eric Carmen, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Henley, Frey) – 4:56
18. "Hotel California" (Don Felder, Henley, Frey) – 6:30

Tracks 1–3 from Eagles (1972)

Tracks 4–6 from Desperado (1973)

Tracks 7–12 from On the Border (1974)

Tracks 13–16 from One of These Nights (1975)

Track 17 from Desperado (1991 reissue bonus tracks)

Track 18 from Hotel California (1976)

Disc two

1. "Music" (John Miles, Henley, Frey) – 5:53
2. "Life in the Fast Lane" (Joe Walsh, Henley, Frey) – 4:46
3. "Pretty Maids All in a Row" (Gary Moore, Felder, Walsh, Joe Vitale) – 4:16
4. "Wasted Time" (Henley, Frey) – 4:55
5. "The Last Resort" (Henley, Frey) – 7:25
6. "New Kid in Town" (Souther, Henley, Frey) – 5:04
7. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (Charlie Brown, Gene Redd) – 2:58
8. "Heartache Tonight" (Henley, Frey, Bob Seger, Souther) – 4:26
9. "The Sad Café" (Henley, Frey, Walsh, Souther) – 4:49
10. "I Can't Tell You Why" (Miles, Henley, Frey) – 4:56
11. "The Long Run" (Henley, Frey) – 3:42
12. "In the City" (Walsh, Barry De Vorzon) – 3:46
13. "Those Shoes" (Felder, Henley, Frey) – 3:48
14. "Seven Bridges Road" (Live) (Steve Young) – 3:25
15. "Still Got the Blues (For You)" (Moore, Felder, Henley, Frey) – 4:09
16. "Love Will Keep Us Alive" (Pete Vale, Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack) – 4:00
17. "Get Over It" (Henley, Frey) – 3:29
18. "Hole in the World" (Henley, Frey) – 4:13

Tracks 1-6 from Hotel California (1976)

Track 7 was a non-album single (1978)

Tracks 8-13 from The Long Run (1979)

Track 14 from Eagles Live (1980)

Track 15 from The Long Run (1991 reissue bonus tracks)

Tracks 16 and 17 from Hell Freezes Over (1994)

Track 18 is a new track (2003)

Personnel

• Glenn Frey - Guitars, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals.
• Don Henley - Drums, percussion, guitars, vocals.
• Randy Meisner - Bass guitar, guitars, guitarrone, vocals. (disc one and songs 1-5 on disc two)
• Bernie Leadon - Guitars, Lap Steel, banjo, mandolin, vocals. (songs 1-16 on disc one)
• Don Felder - Guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, vocals. (songs 7, 13-17 on disc one and songs 1-15 on disc two)
• Joe Walsh - Guitars, Slide Guitar, keyboards, organ, synthesizer, vocals. ("Hotel California" and all of disc two)
• John Miles - Piano, vocals. (songs 6-16 on disc two)

Additional personnel

• Steuart Smith - Guitars. (song 16, disc 2)
• Scott Crago - Drums, percussion. (songs 14-16 on disc 2)
• Willie Hollis - Piano. (songs 14-16 disc 2)
• Jim Ed Norman - Piano, keyboards, arrangements.
• David Sanborn - Tenor Saxophone.

Production

• Producers: Glyn Johns, Bill Szymczyk, Eagles, Elliot Schiner and Rob Jacobs
• Engineers: Allan Blazek, Michael Braunstein, Glyn Johns, Ed Mashal, Bill Szymczyk, Michael Verdick, Don Wood
• Assistant engineers: Allan Blazek, Howard Kilgour
• Remastering: Ted Jensen
• String arrangements: Jim Ed Norman

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Austrian Top 75 Albums	43
German Albums	56
Netherlands Top 100 Albums	29
Norwegian Top 40 Albums	29
Swedish Top 60 Albums	8
Swiss Top 100 Albums	71
US Billboard 200	3

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australian Top 50 Albums	17

Chart (2006)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart	9

Chart (2007)	Peak position
New Zealand Top 50 Albums	5
US Catalog Albums	1