Eagles reunite with Hell Freezes Over

11/8/1994:

First posted 3/26/2008; updated 9/16/2020.

Hell Freezes Over Eagles

Released: November 8, 1994 Recorded: 1994 Peak: 12 US, 28 UK, 11 CN, 23 AU Sales (in millions): 8.0 US, 0.1 UK, 12.1 world (includes US and UK) Genre: classic rock

Tracks: Click for codes to singles charts. Get Over It (10/22/94, 31 US, 4 AR, 21 AC, 4 CN, 74 AU) * Love Will Keep Us Alive (12/17/94, 22a US, 1 AC, 52 UK, 10 AU) * The Girl from Yesterday (11/12/94, 58 CW) * Learn to Be Still (1/21/95, 61a US, 33 AR, 15 AC, 9 CN) * Tequila Sunrise Hotel California Wasted Time Pretty Maids All in a Row I Can’t Tell You Why New York Minute (Don Henley solo song) (11/3/90, 48 US, 24 AR, 5 AC) The Last Resort Take It Easy In the City Life in the Fast Lane Desperado * Studio cuts. Chart figures are only for those songs not previously featured on any Eagles’ albums. Total Running Time: 72:36 The Players: Glenn Frey (vocals, guitar, keyboards) Don Henley (vocals, drums) Don Felder (guitar, vocals, mandolin) Timothy B. Schmit (bass, vocals) Joe Walsh (guitar, vocals, organ)

Rating: 3.582 out of 5.00 (average of 19 ratings) Awards:

About the Album: “The Eagles’ first newly recorded album in 14 years gets off to a good start with the rocker Get Over It, a timely piece of advice about accepting responsibility, followed by the tender ballad Love Will Keep Us Alive, the country-styled The Girl from Yesterday, and Learn to Be Still, one of Don Henley's more thoughtful statements.” AMG “Unfortunately, that’s it. Hell Freezes Over contains an EP’s worth of new material followed by a live album. The Eagles, known for meticulously recreating their studio recordings in concert, nevertheless released Eagles Live in 1980. Six songs from that set reappear here, and only one is in a noticeably different arrangement, Hotel California, which gets an acoustic treatment.” AMG “As was true on Eagles Live, the group remains most interested in their later material, redoing five songs from the Hotel California LP and two from its follow-up, The Long Run, but finding space for only three songs from their early days, Tequila Sunrise, Take It Easy, and Desperado, the last two of which were also on Eagles Live.” AMG “As such, Hell Freezes Over is hard to justify as anything other than a souvenir for the Eagles’ reunion tour. That, however, did not keep it from topping the charts and selling in the millions.” AMG

Resources and Related Links: Eagles’ DMDB Encyclopedia entry AMG William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide