Forget arguments about whether the Eagles are good or not.
That's irrelevant.
Bottom line is that this boxed set SUCKS. You get three CDs of
vintage material that each run about 60 minutes, plus a redundant
and unnecessary (in light of the Hell Freezes Over album, not to
mention Eagles Live) 4th CD of material recorded live at their
unconscienably expensive Millenium Concert.
So, in terms of career retrospective, you get 180 minutes of
material for a 4CD price. What you really want, and what the group
and label should have offered if this wasn't yet another blatant
money grab, would be either a full 2CD set (160 minutes), or a
generous 3 CD set (240 minutes). In fact, most/all of the original
studio material would fit on 3CDs. Add to that a 4th CD of
unreleased demos/outtakes/whatever and you'd have a set worth
something. The one that's available is just a mugging.
Kwad