It's got that theme. Very cool. It's on my iPod.

even if u liked some of his other pansy winey songs u still hated this....what a waste of talent....glenn frye is laughing his ass all the way to the top of the charts.....

i liked don henley better in the eagles,but its an ok song..listened to much worse.

This video was awarded best video ever by VH1 a few years ago.

don henley and the eagles are legends.

I like the beat i have always liked don henley

IT sounds familiar, i dont know this though

One of the classics.

love me some don henley!

Not a Don Henley fan but nice soft music

DJ SAMMY

one of my all time favorites. :D

Great song to drive to when on the radio. Great vocal and great lyrics. Echoes of the past amid a promise for the future. Who are "the boys of summer"? I don't think Henley's talking directly about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the late '40's through the early-to-mid '50's although I'm sure that he's aware of the reference. Actually, the analogy does fit. The book about those Dodgers is a look back at a time past. Gone.

yawn

Great song

love all of Don Henleys music He had some awesome tunes. rate it a 7

Great song, should have never been covered

Carried his songwriting talents from the Eagles straight into a solo career. Probably the most talented of the group.

Yes i love this song. This is my favorite 80s song.

I like the Atari's version better.

not a big fan of don henley

I got sick of hearing this song.

i have all of don henleys solo albums... this song is just amazing and sendz chillz up my spine ;) xx den NISI

This used to be one of my Faves!

One of my all time favorites; best summer of my life almost.

poot

I Love this song!

toms fav

This song is rated as one of the Top 100 videos of all time.  When I hear this song, it makes me remanice about my youth, lost love, past relationships etc.  and Henely has that awesome scratchy voice.  Great lyrics, great song.  I would say deffinately among the Top 10 80's songs!

Middle school

After more than 20 years this song still gives me the creeps. I was 19 when I heard it the first time, now I'm 40 (and still young).

Awesome song, reminds me of driving the freeway outside LA.

I agree that this song has an ominous quality about it, still it is a love song of sorts. The best lines in it for me also the 'dead head sticker on a cadillac' and 'don't look back, you can never look back.'

An 80's standard. An ominous melody with reat lamenting lyrics.

A great song by a great artist no matter how arrogant and narcissistic he may be. He is a great songwriter. Kamylienne, I agree that "the Ataris" suprisingly re-made this tune well. They did not mess with it too much like so many young bands will do, however like most times with most things, the original is the better work of art by far.

This was the only song connected with Henley and/or the Eagles that I could tolerate, even when it was getting constant airplay. The only problem was that the DJ's tended to cut off the very end, which was one of the best parts of the song to me.

A classic song that is still good to this day. It never feels dated to hear the Boys of Summer, and thats not an easy thing to say about songs from the 80's.

Alot better than that hack cover they overplayed for a long while.

Like the seagulls in the background!

This song just brings back all sorts of great memories of the summer flings of my youth.

This song is my absolute favorite song of all time!!!!! I grew up at the beach in NJ in the 80's and this song describes it perfectly.

I saw a dead-head sticker on a cadillac. That's my favorite line from the song. I actually prefer this song over anything the Eagles ever did as a group.

The Boys Of Summer is the first track on Don Henley's full-length effort Building The Perfect Beast (released in 1984), and the single remains the definitive song of that year's MTV rotation (winning best video I believe). The lyrics are timeless, representing the desire of all of us to recapture the past while knowing the attempt is futile, accompanied by somewhat haunting music. The song and LP are clearly Don Henley's best solo work and remain influential as evidenced by the number and diversity of artists who have interpreted the song (eg DJ Sammy, Ataris, Skin Of Tears, Juicy, Russ Freeman, and Codeseven). The Boys Of Summer charted in the U.S. for 14 weeks in 1984-85, peaking at #5.

I still love this song--I definately love the re-make from the Ataris as well, they pulled it off really well. I don't know which version is better; they're both good.