Hell Freezes Over [Live]

Eagles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 1994)
• Original Release Date: November 8, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B000000OU0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (148 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,027 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #21 in Music > Classic Rock > Supergroups
  • #26 in Music > Rock > Country Rock
  • #56 in Music > Pop > Soft Rock

Track Listings

1. Get Over It

2. Love Will Keep Us Alive

3. The Girl From Yesterday

4. Learn To Be Still

5. Tequila Sunrise

6. Hotel California

7. Wasted Time

8. Pretty Maids All In A Row

9. I Can't Tell You Why

10. New York Minute

11. The Last Resort

12. Take It Easy

13. In The City

14. Life In The Fast Lane

15. Desperado

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

77 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audio Nirvana -- Great "System Test" CD, March 4, 2001

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Randy Given (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hell Freezes Over (Audio CD)

This recording is one of the best pop recordings available on CD. When analyzing high-end audio equipment, this is one of a handful that I absolutely must audition with.

Clear, tight, dynamic, you name it. Listen to the beginning of track 6, "Hotel California", especially right after 32 seconds into the track. If you have a really good system, you will probably get your hairs to stand on end.

Oh, the music itself? First class, of course. The best songs of the Eagles and all sound nice. My favorite is "Pretty Maids All In A Row" with "New York Minute" and "The Last Resort" just behind it. Of course, "Hotel California" sounds great, almost better than the original recording.

This album MUST be in your collection if you like popular music or even classic rock.

58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Album From An Amazing Group, May 30, 2000

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Bruce Lee - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hell Freezes Over (Audio CD)

"For the record, we never broke up..." those seven words start out the concert portion of this album and from the music, it's almost believeable. One of the 1970's most famed rock groups, who broke up over disputes and promised not to reunite until Hell Froze Over, have come back together for their reunion concert and it's amazing. It's a stripped down, more intimate show than their first live album, but that's one thing that makes it so amazing. They have nothing but their instruments to make them sound good. And they sound awesome.

The standouts on the album include "The Last Resort," which is possibly the best song, "Life In the Fast Lane," and a chilling version of "Desperado." But let's not forget the most famous song from the album...a stripped down and amazing version of "Hotel California," which far surpasses the original.

The four songs at the beginning, which are new studio recordings(but are shown live on the video version) should be satisfying enough for anyone. They range from hard rocking to original Eagles country-rock.

Overall, this is THE must have CD for any Eagles fan...heck, for ANY MUSIC fan.

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eagles Comeback, November 21, 2000

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hell Freezes Over (Audio CD)

In an interview shortly after the Eagles had official ceased being a band, Don Henley was asked when the band might possibly play together again and his response was "when hell freezes over". That quote provided the name for the 1994 reunion tour & this live album that was recorded for an MTV special. Even though it had been about 14 years since they last played together, you would never know it. Their playing is crisp and their harmonies are picture perfect. Instead of playing it safe, the band mixes things up right away by playing an all-acoustic version of their rock classic "Hotel California". The song opens practically unrecognizable with a Spanish sounding guitar fill before sliding into the familiar opening riff. The drums are replaced by congas and instead of the dueling electric guitars, Don Felder & Joe Walsh trade acoustic licks off of Mr. Felder's 6-string and Mr. Walsh's 12-string. Instead of changing a song for change's sake, they breath-takingly deconstruct an all-to-familiar tune. The rest of the live tracks are not nearly as ambitious, but they are played with a lot of verve and you can tell the band is really enjoying themselves. Other standout tracks include a beautiful "I Can't Tell You Why", a majestic "The Last Resort" and a raucous "Life In The Fast Lane". The four new studio tracks that open the album are solid, but not necessarily outstanding. "Get Over It" is good rocker with typical Eagles stinging criticism, "Love Will Keep Us Alive" has a nice Timothy B. Schmidt vocal, "The Girl From Yesterday" touches on their country roots and "Learn To be Still" sounds like it was a leftover from Mr. Henley's The End Of The Innocence album. The new tracks are basically just an appetizer for the main course of the concert tracks. Some people may have doubted them, but the Eagles showed they could still soar above most bands with this album and playing together for them is just like riding bike, you never forget how to.