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This album features "The Boys of Summer", arguably one of the best songs--and videos--of the 80's. Obviously, given the overall talent of The Eagles, it's safe to say Don Henley is talented. But that's an understatment. Check out his other solo work, and expecially listen to "Long Road out of Eden", the new Eagles ablum. Henley's voice will resonate through your soul.
The title track "Building The Perfect Beast" is full of patented Henley social commentary. Henley seems to take a lot of flack from people with similar musical tastes as my own, but I have always thought he was a great songwriter. Up until the early 80's Henley was best known for being the drummer, singer, and songwriter for The Eagles. Other highlights include the country tinged "You're Not Drinking Enough". Henley gets plenty of help on this album from well known musicians including most of Tom Petty's band, Lindsay Buckingham, Charlie Sexton and others. After The Eagles broke up in 1981 Henley went solo and had a very successful run of radio hits and platinum albums.
This is the kind of track that Henley does best and it really works here. Yes his music is fairly pedestrian, and he appears to be an average drummer, but I think his lyrics are often extremely clever and he has always been a great singer. My favorite song on the album, "A Month Of Sundays" is a song about a farmer loosing his livelihood in the Regan era 80's. "Beast" is his second solo record and although I think his next one was better this one was still solid. Several huge hits came from this album including "Boys Of Summer", "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" two songs that though massively overplayed were pure pop gems. "Sunset Grill" is another great song and serves as a kind of sequel to "The Sad Café" from The Eagles "Long Run" album.
This is not Henley's best album, but it has quite a few really good songs on it.
I bought it because I love "Boys of the summer". Thats all. Others songs are good but to be honest it is not kind of music that I like. So if You like rock, whatever it means, you are gonna enjoy it.
Finally, we get a 24-bit remastered version of the classic album and it sounds leaps and bounds better than the unremastered version. This album has always in my opinion been Don Henley's best work ever. But for years I was disappointed in the poor sound quality of this album on CD. All of the tracks have a vastly improved sound but it's the remastered version of "Boys Of Summer" and "Sunset Grill" that blows me away. If you like Don Henley's music you'll want to pick up this one.
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