Hotel California (2013

This is without a doubt the biggest album of the Eagles career; and if anybody has actually and does continue too listen to the whole album it is not difficult to hear why!! Stand out tracks are there for sure; the title track - well, that really goes without saying, just listen to it and you'll understand. Then we have "Life In The Fast Lane" , "Wasted Time" & "New Kid In Town". They were the hit singles; so most everybody knows them. That is almost half the album too - we only have nine tracks in total and one of them is an instrumental reprise of little more than a minute in length! It is without further doubt the memorable & classic album it has come to be and truly deserves to be remembered and appreciated as. You have great melodies accompanied by the guys amazing harmonies. You get to hear lead by more than one of the guys too; though admittedly the main front man here is of course Don Henley; - but you also get the now late Glen Frey on "New Kid In Town", Joe Walsh does "Pretty Maids All In A Row", he does this rather good live too - check out "Hell Freezes Over" DVD. The we have "Try And Love Again" by Randy Meisner. For those who don't know Meisner was with the Eagles 1971-77. All I can really finish by saying is; if you want to hear, certainly one of the best albums ever recorded then here it is!!! So, what are you waiting for; an invitation!?!

I think all serious music lovers can reel off 2-3 classic LPs as they read this. Wings Band On The Run, Supertramp Breakfast in America, Fleetwood Mac Rumours and of course the above. All music lovers should of at least have 1 of the above. ( well, if you were alive and kicking then ) I won't even bother naming Beatle LPs. This is a great Album which you can sing along too at home or in the car. It is also an Album that gets in your head and your humming it all bloody day. Annoying not only for you but colleague's friends and yourself. But you will find yourself putting it back in the car CD on the way home. Because it is that good. An incredible Album to buy before you feel you have to buy the whole back catalogue and what came after (Double CD THE COMPLETE GREATEST HITS ) Will do the job in that respect. But this Album does the job for all moods. As for the title track......absolutely outstanding and totally unforgettable, much like the Album.

fab cd. My old one had vanished form my collection. so I replaced it

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Have owned a vinyl copy of this album since it was released. I also have a remastered CD version. Both sound good, and the quality of the music has stood the test of time very well. But I decided that a version on SACD, with both stereo and surround sound layers, was impossible to resist. And it does not disappoint. NOTE you need an SACD-capable disc player to get the benefit of buying this. If you don't have such a machine, save yourslef some money and just buy the regular CD. The original album was well recorded, which is a good start point for the DSD encoding of this disc. So what you get is the original album, in excellent quality sound. Have not listened to the standard CD stereo layer, as I know already what that is like. Instead I have listened to the stereo and surround SACD layers. Verdict? As good as I'd hoped it would be! And no addtional tracks - demo versions that they discarded because they were rubbish or any other such - just the original nine songs. A surprise extra was that inside the Japanese outer wrapping was an additional insert within the standard case insert. This contains the lyrics of all nine songs in English and Japanese. The standard insert has the lyrics of only the title track.

I have an admission to make. I like this album. I'm aware that this will leave me open to accusations of fitting into a white middle-aged middle class stereotype. Surely these are the only people who would happily admit such a thing. I can probably sing along to all the songs and I look forward to listening to it. The album is definitely of it's time and limited in its appeal, especially to younger listeners but I think it deserves its place as a "Classic" 70's album. The back sleeve describes the songs as editorials on the "singular state of mind called Southern California". With such pompous descriptions it's no wonder that many people think the album is overrated. The Eagles undoubtedly took themselves and this album very seriously but the music is excellent and I think this manages to overshadow any high falutin statements that the band intended to make. To go through the songs one by one- - Hotel California - Full of tortured metaphors this song sums up the theory behind the album as a whole i.e. California may look great but scratch the surface and there are some pretty unhappy people there. The music is very catchy though and it and some of the lyrics will stay in your head for a long time after hearing it. - New Kid in Town - one of the weaker songs. Possibly a description of the fleeting nature of fame. Possibly as experienced by band members, who knows - Life in the Fast Lane - an in your face description of how the beautiful people live. I don't think any of the Eagles lived a monastic existence at the time so I hope they were being ironic as they pass comment on a doomed high living couple - Wasted Time - one of my favourite songs on the album. A sad, sympathetic song about a singleton on her own again and scared that she'll never find "the one". I suppose we've all been there. - Wasted Time (Reprise) - Instrumental. Perhaps added to bring the first side of the album to a mellow close. - Victim of Love - About the cut and thrust of the 70's dating scene. Wonders what people are really looking for beneath all the glitz - Pretty Maids all in a row - Written by Walsh and Vitale. A meeting with an old friend prompts the writer to wonder how he has got to where he is in life and where the time has gone. - Try and Love Again - Again a song about lost love though we are left with the impression that Meisner will battle on and somehow find a young lady with a shoulder to cry on! - The Last Resort - At over seven minutes long this really is an editorial. On over development in California no less! I doubt Don Henley was living in a cardboard box at the time so you might say that people in glasshouses etc, etc. Yet again the music is very good so I won't criticise too much. So I certainly like this album and would recommend it, though perhaps only to people of a similar vintage to myself!

Another re release? Another re master of something that's probably been re released and re mastered already? Sounds great, then again it always did already. Great if you don't already have the re mastered re master of the remaster. Cheap enough I guess? Truly classic feel good album. Unmissable. But like most re released remastered remasters they could have done so much more than a lousy single CD of live stuff most fans already have. And the box set is way overpriced too. Regardless of what's in it. It surely does not justify the price. Fans will always lap it up. But in reality they are just getting fleeced. If you have money to burn byvall means shell out for the fancy box set that really dosent feature anything that exciting. If your a new Eagles fan buy the single CD and spend the rest on the incredible "History of The Eagles" 2 DVD set, and find out what the fuss was, and still is all about.

A couple of issues here one on Amazon the other on the pressing. Firstly, most of the reviews linked to this VINYL pressing relate to the CD version, neither use nor ornament, when purchasing a vinyl I want reviews about the vinyl, not the CD, come on amazon get your house in order here... Secondly, I have now had two pressings of this "high quality" 180 gram pressing, both have been awful, first one was warped so unplayable, second one has so many clicks, hisses and jumps at the beginning as to immediately ruin ones enjoyment of the format, persevere and you are rewarded with a flat lifeless example of what is classed as one of the Eagles finest albums, it sounds like it has been pressed from a sample taken from an iPod... I have this album on old standard vinyl, cassette tape and CD and all of these sound far superior to this pressing, what a shame, what a let down, what a waste of time. The manufacturer needs to go back to the drawing board, sack the idiot that re sampled this, sack the quality control (if there is one) and start again. Produce a quality vinyl, a quality that this album so richly deserves. Update, half way through track three on side two the album comes to life, someone obviously found the slider that adds the correct subtleties to the album, shame they didn't re-do the whole album all over again with this correct setting. I guess they either don't like the Eagles, vinyl or both. If you purchased this album as a route back into vinyl you would drop the format like a hot potato. UPDATE. UPDATE. UPDATE. Just got this on vinyl again, have to say it's darn near as perfect as you can get, obviously third time lucky.

You know the music. We all do. This review is for the quality of the vinyl. This sounds fantastic. Excellent pressing, whisper quiet and it all sounds so warm and wonderful. I’ve ordered a lot of vinyl and was just checking a box for must haves when I ordered this. Once I put it on, I was amazed at how good this one sounded. If you’re on the fence about this, do it, you won’t regret it.

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Hay discos importantes… y luego está Hotel California. Lanzado en 1976, este álbum no solo consolidó a Eagles como una de las bandas más grandes del rock estadounidense, sino que redefinió el sonido del rock de estadio con una mezcla impecable de country, rock, soft rock y una dosis elegante de oscuridad lírica. Escucharlo en vinilo —en esta reedición— es redescubrir un clásico en su formato más cálido y envolvente. Desde los primeros acordes de la canción que da título al álbum, “Hotel California”, queda claro que estamos ante algo monumental. La introducción acústica, el ambiente casi cinematográfico y el legendario solo dual de guitarras de Don Felder y Joe Walsh han convertido a esta pieza en una de las canciones más icónicas de la historia del rock. Su letra ambigua —sobre el exceso, la fama y el desencanto del sueño californiano— sigue generando interpretaciones décadas después. Pero el álbum va mucho más allá de su tema principal. • “New Kid in Town” muestra el lado melódico y refinado de la banda, con una interpretación vocal impecable de Glenn Frey. • “Life in the Fast Lane” aporta energía pura, impulsada por un riff poderoso y una crítica directa a los excesos de la vida acelerada en Los Ángeles. • “Wasted Time” y su reprise orquestal revelan una madurez emocional poco común en el rock comercial de la época. • “Victim of Love” y “Pretty Maids All in a Row” añaden matices más crudos y personales. • El cierre con “The Last Resort” es una reflexión profunda sobre el idealismo y la destrucción del paraíso, una despedida solemne y brillante. En términos históricos, Hotel California marcó el punto culminante creativo del grupo y simbolizó el paso del country-rock ligero de principios de los 70 hacia un sonido más complejo y ambicioso. Fue el primer álbum con Joe Walsh como miembro oficial, lo que fortaleció el trabajo de guitarras y dio al grupo un carácter más contundente. La reedición en vinilo permite apreciar mejor los arreglos, las armonías vocales —sello distintivo de Eagles— y la producción meticulosa de Bill Szymczyk. El formato analógico resalta la profundidad de las guitarras y la riqueza de las voces, haciendo que cada escucha sea más inmersiva.

First thing I did after opening shipping box was check for any damage. I found no damage to box and to the LP Album so I opened it and put it on my stereo and it sounded great. Great sound and great music. I would definitely recommend buying this album.

Fantástica edición híbrida. 5.1 SACD con calidad