Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits

Don Henley - Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits

Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits
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Artist: Don Henley
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1995-11-20
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Dirty Laundry
  2. The Boys Of Summer
  3. All She Wants To Do Is Dance
  4. Not Enough Love In The World
  5. Sunset Grill
  6. The End Of The Innocence
  7. The Last Worthless Evening
  8. New York Minute
  9. I Will Not Go Quietly
  10. The Heart Of The Matter
  11. The Garden Of Allah
  12. You Don't Know Me At All
  13. Everybody Knows

Free Music Notes for Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits

Free Music Review: These really *are* the greatest hits
Hit: 5 Stars

All but two of the recordings on this album are taken from four older albums: BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST (4 of 13), THE END OF THE INNOCENCE (5 of 13), I CAN'T STAND STILL (1), and TOWER OF SONG (1). That is, they're the same recordings, not re-recorded or rearranged to 'get a musically superior version'.

Speaking for myself, knowing that and being able to get "Dirty Laundry" with a sampling of songs from BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST is all I needed to know to persuade me that this album was worth pursuing. Henley's got a gift for coupling good music with clever lyrics, and he sings clearly enough that I don't have trouble following what he's saying. (Which means, of course, that the arrangements aren't drowning out the vocals with percussion, a plus.)

Four of the first five songs strike me as perfect for playing over the summer holidays in hot weather.

"Dirty Laundry" (from I CAN'T STAND STILL) Good song to listen to when the scandal-mongers have been unusually busy in the media. "I make my livin' off the evenin' news/Just give me somethin', somethin' I can use/People love it when you lose/They love dirty laundry..."

From BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST (see): "The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants To Do Is Dance", "Not Enough Love in the World", and "Sunset Grill", of which the last is my favourite of this group. "Let's go down to the Sunset Grill/watch the workin' girls go by/Watch the basket people walk around and mumble/stare out at the auburn sky..."

From THE END OF THE INNOCENCE (see): "The End of the Innocence", "The Last Worthless Evening", "New York Minute", "I Will Not Go Quietly", and "The Heart of the Matter", the last of which is a contender for best breakup song. "I'm learning to live without you now/but I miss you sometimes/The more I know, the less I understand/All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again..."

Really, if you like Henley's music at all, you should know enough by know to persuade you whether this album is worth your time, if you don't have the individual albums from which most of the songs were drawn.

"The Garden of Allah" Recorded in 1995; the sense of the title is roughly any supposed earthly paradise. Fairly slow tempo, minor key as the Devil appears, lamenting simpler days past. "Vainly reaching for the bottle full of empty Edens/branded specially for the ones/who had come with great expectations/to the perfumed halls of Allah/for their time in the sun..."

"You Don't Know Me at All" Breakup song. "I gave you everything on a silver tray/Could've been a fool forever, but I'm not made that way/And after all these years, I think it's time to say goodbye/I'm doin' you a favour, I will not help you live a lie/And believe me, if you think I'm gonna catch you when you fall/you don't know me, you don't know me at all."

"Everybody Knows" (from TOWER OF SONG) The only piece on this album that Henley didn't compose as well as perform.

Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits Poster

Just as Don Henley's work with the Eagles in the 1970s chronicled a culture that was rapidly spinning out of control, his '80s output cataloged and criticized a decade of greed, cruelty, and prurient interest in the misfortune of others. But this is music, not journalism, and despite the overt seriousness of such songs as "Dirty Laundry," "All She Wants to Do Is Dance," "The Boys of Summer," and especially the somber, elegiac "The End of the Innocence," Henley's field reports were tuneful in the extreme. The two new tracks on Actual Miles--"The Garden of Allah" and "You Don't Know Me at All"--didn't quite click, but otherwise this greatest-hits package couldn't be more solid. --Daniel Durchholz

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