Eagles "Selected Works: 1972–1999 (Box Set)"

Selected Works: 1972–1999 is a compilation box set by the Eagles, released in 2000. The box set consists of four CDs featuring their greatest hits, album tracks, previously unreleased live performances recorded on 29–31 December 1999 in Las Vegas and Los Angeles and a 44-page booklet. This set chronicles their work from their debut 1972 self-titled album Eagles to the 1999 millennium concert performed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, December 31, 1999.

Track listing

Disc one: The Early Days

1. "Take It Easy" Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey Eagles, 1972 3:31
2. "Hollywood Waltz" Bernie Leadon, Frey, Don Henley, Tom Leadon One of These Nights, 1975 4:01
3. "Already Gone" Jack Tempchin, Robb Strandlund On the Border, 1974 4:15
4. "Doolin-Dalton" Browne, Frey, Henley, J.D. Souther Desperado, 1973 3:26
5. "Midnight Flyer" Paul Craft On the Border 3:58
6. "Tequila Sunrise" Henley, Frey Desperado 2:52
7. "Witchy Woman" Henley, Leadon Eagles 4:11
8. "Train Leaves Here This Morning" Gene Clark, Leadon Eagles 4:07
9. "Outlaw Man" David Blue Desperado 3:29
10. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" Tempchin Eagles 4:16
11. "James Dean" Browne, Frey, Souther, Henley On the Border 3:36
12. "Saturday Night" Frey, Henley, Leadon, Randy Meisner Desperado 3:19
13. "On the Border" Henley, Leadon, Frey On the Border 4:28

Total length: 49:28

Disc two: The Ballads

1. "Wasted Time (Reprise)" Henley, Frey, Jim Ed Norman Hotel California, 1976 1:21
2. "Wasted Time" Henley, Frey Hotel California 4:55
3. "I Can't Tell You Why" Timothy B. Schmit, Henley, Frey The Long Run, 1979 4:53
4. "Lyin' Eyes" Henley, Frey One of These Nights 6:21
5. "Pretty Maids All in a Row" Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale Hotel California 3:58
6. "Desperado" Henley, Frey Desperado 3:33
7. "Try and Love Again" Meisner Hotel California 5:10
8. "The Best of My Love" Henley, Frey, Souther On the Border 4:34
9. "New Kid in Town" Souther, Henley, Frey Hotel California 5:03
10. "Love Will Keep Us Alive" Pete Vale, Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack Hell Freezes Over, 1994 4:02
11. "The Sad Café" Henley, Frey, Walsh, Souther The Long Run 5:33
12. "Take It to the Limit" Meisner, Henley, Frey One of These Nights 4:47
13. "After the Thrill Is Gone" Henley, Frey One of These Nights 4:49

Total length: 58:59

Disc three: The Fast Lane

1. "One of These Nights (Intro)" Henley, Frey One of These Nights 1:59
2. "One of These Nights" Henley, Frey One of These Nights 4:49
3. "Disco Strangler" Don Felder, Frey, Henley The Long Run 2:45
4. "Heartache Tonight" Henley, Frey, Bob Seger, Souther The Long Run 4:25
5. "Hotel California" Felder, Henley, Frey Hotel California 6:29
6. "Born to Boogie" Hank Williams Jr. Previously unreleased outtake from The Long Run sessions 2:16
7. "In the City" Walsh, Barry De Vorzon The Long Run 3:44
8. "Get Over It" Henley, Frey Hell Freezes Over 3:29
9. "King of Hollywood" Frey, Henley The Long Run 6:25
10. "Too Many Hands" Felder, Meisner One of These Nights 4:40
11. "Life in the Fast Lane" Walsh, Henley, Frey Hotel California 4:44
12. "The Long Run" Henley, Frey The Long Run 3:41
13. "Long Run Leftovers" Walsh, Henley, Frey, Felder, Schmit Previously unreleased 3:02
14. "The Last Resort" Henley, Frey Hotel California 7:29
15. "Random Victims, Part 3" Walsh, Henley, Frey, Felder, Meisner, Schmit Previously unreleased 9:42

Total length: 1:09:39

Disc Four: The Millennium Concert (A Night to Remember)

1. "Hotel California" Felder, Frey, Henley Henley 6:57
2. "Victim of Love" Felder, Frey, Henley, Souther Henley 5:01
3. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" Tempchin Frey 5:23
4. "Please Come Home for Christmas" Charles Brown, Gene Redd Henley 3:52
5. "Ol' '55" Tom Waits Frey and Henley 5:20
6. "Take it to the Limit" Frey, Henley, Meisner Frey 4:02
7. "Those Shoes" Felder, Frey, Henley Henley 6:12
8. "Funky New Year" Frey, Henley Henley 3:45
9. "Dirty Laundry" Henley, Danny Kortchmar Henley 5:54
10. "Funk 49" Jim Fox, Dale Peters, Walsh Walsh 3:47
11. "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" Kortchmar Henley 5:20
12. "The Best of My Love" Frey, Henley, Souther Henley 5:06

Total length: 1:00:39

Don Henley "The Last Worthless Evening (Single & Video)"

"The Last Worthless Evening" is a song written by John Corey, Don Henley, and Stan Lynch. It was a single recorded by Henley in 1989 that reached number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was included on Henley's third album The End of the Innocence that same year.

The Los Angeles Times described the song as "a romantic plea to move on from the hurt of old relationships." The Washington Post called the song an "intriguing ... hard-edged love ballad." The track was one of the reasons that the Yardbarker named the song's album as one of the top 25 solo albums to come from the former member of a "legendary band" in 2023.

Henley played the song during his appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 28, 1989.

Don Henley "The End Of The Innocence (Single & Video)"

"The End of the Innocence" is the lead single and title track from Don Henley's third solo studio album of the same name, released in 1989. Henley co-wrote and co-produced the song with Bruce Hornsby, who also performed piano. Both artists regularly include the song in their live performances. The single peaked at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming his fifth solo top-10 hit on the chart. "The End of the Innocence" also became his fourth number-one single on the Album Rock Tracks chart. In Canada, it reached number three on the RPM Top Singles and Adult Contemporary charts. The song received Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

The black-and-white music video for the song was directed by David Fincher and earned Henley an MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1990.

Henley ensured there would be two political comments in the video:

• At the line "they're beating plowshares into swords, for this tired old man that we elected king," there shows a series of campaign posters of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• At the line "lawyers clean up all details," a television set playing the congressional testimony of Oliver North appears on-screen.

Don Henley "The Boys Of Summer (Single & Video)"

"The Boys of Summer" is a song by the American musician Don Henley. The lyrics were written by Henley and the music was composed by Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was released on October 26, 1984, as the lead single from Henley's album Building the Perfect Beast.  It reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, number one on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart, and number 12 in the UK Singles Chart.

The music video won several awards. "The Boys of Summer" was also performed live by Henley with the reunited Eagles; a version is included on the group's 2005 DVD Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne.

Mike Campbell, the guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, wrote a demo for "The Boys of Summer" while experimenting with a LinnDrum drum machine. He showed it to Tom Petty, but Petty felt it did not fit with the record they were working on, Southern Accents. At the suggestion of the producer Jimmy Iovine, Campbell played it for Don Henley, the vocalist and drummer for the Eagles, who wrote the lyrics and recorded the vocal. They re-recorded the song after Henley decided to change the key.

"The Boys of Summer" uses a repeating guitar riff. It was recorded in the key of F♯ major with a tempo of 88 beats per minute. Henley's vocals span F♯3 to A♯4.

The lyrics appear to be about the passing of youth and entering middle age, with the nostalgic theme of "summer love" and reminiscence of a past relationship. In a 1987 interview with Rolling Stone, Henley explained that the song is about aging and questioning the past—a recurring theme in Henley's lyrics (cf. "The End of the Innocence", and "Taking You Home".) In an interview with NME in 1985, Henley explained the '"Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac" lyric as an example of his generation selling out.

I was driving down the San Diego Freeway and got passed by a $21,000 Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the right-wing upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie – all the guys with the blue blazers with the crests and the grey pants – and there was this Grateful Dead "Deadhead" bumper sticker on it!

The song's title is taken from Roger Kahn's 1972 book about the Brooklyn Dodgers, which was in turn taken from a Dylan Thomas poem

"The Boys of Summer" reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart for five weeks. It was his most successful hit in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart. A re-release of the single in 1998 also reached No. 12.

Billboard called it "dance oriented pop swimming in synths and reverberating guitar."

In 1986, Henley won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song. "The Boys of Summer" was ranked No. 416 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. "The Boys of Summer" is included in The Pitchfork 500, Pitchfork Media's "Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to Present."

Tom Petty was astounded by the track's success. One day, he and Campbell were out on a car drive to listen to a mix of their song "Don't Come Around Here No More", but turned on the ignition and heard "The Boys of Summer". Campbell changed the station in case the song would upset Petty, but another station was also playing the song. Petty enjoyed listening to it and regretted initially turning it down.

The music video to "The Boys of Summer" is a French New Wave-influenced piece directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Shot in black-and-white, it shows the main character of the song at three different stages of life (as a young boy, a young adult and middle-aged), in each case reminiscing about a past relationship. Interspersed with these scenes are segments of Henley singing the words of the song while riding in a pickup truck. The boy is dressed in a style typical of the 1950s, the teenage lovers are dressed in a style characteristic of the early 1960s while the middle-aged man is dressed in the style of the 1980s. As a boy in the 1950s, the protagonist practices playing the drums, suggesting musical aspirations; as a teenager in the 1960s, he walks down a beach with his girlfriend whom he kisses passionately; and as a middle-aged man in the 1980s, he appears to be an executive of some sort who is comfortable, but unhappy in life as he sits at his desk remembering his youth. The young boy in the video is played by a seven-year-old Josh Paul, while the girl is played by Audie England. Interspersed with these scenes are segments of Henley articulating the words of the song while driving in a convertible. At its conclusion, the video uses the post-modern concept of exposing its own workings, as with a wry expression Henley drives the car away from a rear projection screen.

The video won the Video of the Year at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards (leading Henley to comment at the Awards the following year that he had won for "riding around in the back of a pickup"). It also won that year's awards for Best Direction, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography. The Best Direction award was presented to Mondino by Henley's then-former Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey.

Don Henley "Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits"

Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits compilation album by American singer-songwriter Don Henley, released in 1995. The album was the first compilation album released by Henley and it covered hits from all three of his solo albums throughout the 1980s. The album features three new songs, "The Garden of Allah", "You Don't Know Me at All", and Henley's cover of "Everybody Knows". The collection peaked at No. 48 on the charts and reached platinum status. "The Garden of Allah" reached No. 16 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

The photograph on the cover half-jokingly depicts Henley as a cigar-smoking used car salesman, which Don himself was asked about by David Letterman following a 1995 performance on The Late Show. Henley explained that the picture and album title was a subtle satire on the record industry.

Track listing

1. "Dirty Laundry" (Henley, Danny Kortchmar) – 5:36
2. "The Boys of Summer" (Mike Campbell, Henley) – 4:45
3. "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" (Kortchmar) – 4:28
4. "Not Enough Love in the World" (Henley, Kortchmar, Benmont Tench) – 3:54
5. "Sunset Grill" (Henley, Kortchmar, Tench) – 6:22
6. "The End of the Innocence" (Henley, Bruce Hornsby) – 5:14
7. "The Last Worthless Evening" (John Corey, Henley, Stan Lynch) – 6:05
8. "New York Minute" (Henley, Kortchmar, Jai Winding) – 6:34
9. "I Will Not Go Quietly" (Henley, Kortchmar) – 5:41
10. "The Heart of the Matter" (Campbell, Henley, J.D. Souther) – 5:21
11. "The Garden of Allah" (Corey, Paul Gurian, Henley, Lynch) – 7:02
12. "You Don't Know Me at All" (Corey, Henley, Lynch) – 5:36
13. "Everybody Knows" (Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 6:10

Aerosmith "Big Ones (Japan Edition)"

Big Ones is a compilation album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on November 1, 1994 by Geffen Records. Big Ones featured 12 hits from the band's three consecutive multi-platinum albums, Permanent Vacation (1987), Pump (1989), and Get a Grip (1993), as well as the hit, "Deuces Are Wild" from The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience (1993), and two new songs, "Blind Man" and "Walk on Water", which were recorded during a break in the band's Get a Grip Tour. These songs were also included on the band's 2001 compilation album, Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology. Big Ones is the band's second best-selling compilation album, reaching #6 on the Billboard charts, and selling four million copies in the United States alone. The album quickly became a worldwide hit reaching the Top 10 in nine countries before the end of the year.

In March 1987, Aerosmith began working at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for the album that became Permanent Vacation. The recordings were completed in May, the album was released in August, and reached #11 on the Billboard 200. The album released several singles including "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (#4 on the Mainstream Rock Charts, #14 on the Billboard Hot 100), "Rag Doll" (#12 Mainstream Rock Charts, #17 Hot 100), and "Angel" (#2 Mainstream Rock, #3 Hot 100).

Then in April 1989, the band went back to Little Mountain Sound Studios to record songs for their next studio album, Pump. The recordings were completed in June 1989, the album was released in September, and reached #5 on the Billboard 200. Several other singles were released from Pump including "Janie's Got a Gun" (#2 Mainstream Rock, #4 Hot 100), "Love in an Elevator" (#1 Mainstream Rock, #5 Hot 100), "The Other Side" (#1 Mainstream Rock, #22 Hot 100) and "What It Takes" (#1 Mainstream Rock, #9 Hot 100). In May a song was recorded during the sessions for Pump called "Deuces Are Wild", however it was not released on the album and was not released until the 1993 compilation album, The Beavis and Butt-head Experience.

In January 1992, the band began recording at A&M Studios in Los Angeles, California. The recordings at A&M ended in February and in September the band began recording again at Little Mountain Sound Studios. The recordings at Little Mountain ended in November, and Aerosmith's next studio album, Get a Grip was released in April 1993 and went to #1 on the Billboard 200. The singles released from Get a Grip included "Amazing" (#3 Mainstream Rock, #9 Top 40 Mainstream, #24 Hot 100), "Cryin'" (#1 Mainstream Rock, #11 Top 40 Mainstream, #12 Hot 100), "Eat the Rich" (#5 Mainstream Rock), "Livin' on the Edge" (#1 Mainstream Rock, #18 Hot 100, #19 Top 40 Mainstream), and "Crazy" (#7 Mainstream Rock, #7 Top 40 Mainstream, #17 Hot 100).

In April 1994 the band went to The Power Station in New York City, New York and started recording the songs "Walk on Water" and "Blind Man". The group then completed the songs in June at Capri Digital Studios, Capri, Italy. "Blind Man" reached #3 on the Mainstream Rock Charts, #23 on the Top 40 Mainstream, and #48 on the Hot 100 in 1994. "Walk on Water" reached #16 on the Mainstream Rock Charts in 1995.

There were no songs from Aerosmith's first Geffen release, Done With Mirrors (1985), despite the hit "Let the Music Do the Talking" which reached #18 on the Mainstream Rock Charts.

For his review of Big Ones for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album a high rating because he felt that the album captured the "comeback" of Aerosmith. However, he felt that the songs did not match the "rawness" of the band's earlier material, and seemed a little too "mainstream", with rampant over-production and too many power ballads. Robert Christgau did not think the album included enough songs from the album Get a Grip, and did not like that it excluded "My Fist, Your Face." However, he did like the two new tracks, "Walk on Water" and "Blind Man." Tom Sinclair thought well of the album in his review for Entertainment Weekly because it showed that they could mix hard rock and funk-based blues, and that they were more than just the American version of The Rolling Stones. He'd have given the album a higher rating had it not included the song "Angel".

Track listing

Big Ones

1. "Walk on Water" (previously unreleased) Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw 4:54
2. "Love in an Elevator" (from the album Pump) Tyler, Perry 5:33
3. "Rag Doll" (from the album Permanent Vacation) Tyler, Perry, Jim Vallance, Holly Knight 4:24
4. "What It Takes" (from the album Pump) Tyler, Perry, Desmond Child 5:10
5. "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (from the album Permanent Vacation) Tyler, Perry, Child 4:23
6. "Janie's Got a Gun" (from the album Pump) Tyler, Tom Hamilton 5:29
7. "Cryin'" (from the album Get a Grip) Tyler, Perry, Taylor Rhodes 5:07
8. "Amazing" (from the album Get a Grip) Tyler, Richard Supa 5:55
9. "Blind Man" (previously unreleased) Tyler, Perry, Rhodes 3:57
10. "Deuces Are Wild" (from the album The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience) Tyler, Vallance 3:33
11. "The Other Side" (from the album Pump) Tyler, Vallance 4:03
12. "Crazy" (from the album Get a Grip) Tyler, Perry, Child 5:14
13. "Eat the Rich" (from the album Get a Grip) Tyler, Perry, Vallance 4:09
14. "Angel" (from the album Permanent Vacation) Tyler, Child 5:04
15. "Livin' on the Edge" (from the album Get a Grip) Tyler, Perry, Mark Hudson 6:20

Total length: 1:13:15

Japanese and European edition bonus tracks

1. "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (Live) Tyler, Perry, Child 5:20

Total length: 1:18:35