Hotel California

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

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!?!

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.

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.

Order now fulfilled. Great quality. Great cd.....I do though now days skip one of the song...Ha Ha!

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!

Que si la escribieron en un hotel de la Baja Sur, que si se la plagiaron a Jethro Tull, que si habla de una secta satánica, que si describe la decadencia de Los Angeles.... hay muchas teorías sobre la canción "Hotel California", lo cierto es que esa canción es la responsable de elevar la carrera de los Eagles a un nivel de leyenda dentro de la élite del rock. Sin embargo, es tan solo la primera canción de un álbum musicalmente ecléctico y conceptualmente nostálgico y desencantado. El álbum comienza con la canción que le da título en un estilo descrito por ellos mismos como "mexican reggae" para dar paso a la única balada country del disco, "New Kid In Town". Posteriormente, tenemos la decadente pieza de rock basada en un riff de Joe Walsh, "Life In The Fast Lane", para luego terminar el lado A con un track de blue-eyed soul basada en el sonido de Filadelfia, "Wasted Time". El lado B comienza con una coda instrumental de la canción anterior y continúa con "Victim Of Love", track rockero grabado en vivo en una toma sin mezclas, a excepción de la voz. ¡Y aquí es donde el disco se empieza a poner bueno! Las últimas tres canciones del álbum son maravillosas: "Pretty Maids All In A Row", compuesta por Joe Walsh y Joe Vitale, es una canción nostálgica y evocadora que habla de la inocencia perdida, "Try And Love Again", de Randy Meisner, es una preciosa pieza emblemática de los 70s con una interacción de tres guitarras haciendo melodías, solos y arpegios, y finalmente la épica "The Last Resort", canción que dura 7 minutos y medio y que, según ellos mismos, habla de "cómo se perdió el Oeste". Esta edición viene en vinil de 180 gramos e incluye todo el diseño de arte original: la portada doble (gatefold), la funda de papel con la información de los tracks (no incluye las letras de las canciones, sólo la de la canción que le da título) y un poster de la banda. El sonido es muy bueno, no indica si esté remasterizado, pero las guitarras se escuchan cristalinas y el bajo se escucha muy bien. No dudes en comprarlo.

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イーグルスのレコードは持っていたのですがCDも欲しくなって購入。 録音も良く素敵な音です。 SACDを購入出来て良かった。

Artisticamente non posso aggiungere molto allaa descrizione di questo album, parliamo semplicemente di una pietra miliare della musica rock. Qualunque edizione di questo album decidiate di regalare a chi ancora non lo conosce (se esistono persone che non hanno mai ascoltato Hotel California ad esempio...) sarà sempre un regalo gradito.. In questo caso parliamo di una bella edizione giapponese in SACD, piuttosto cara, dedicati agli amanti dell'audio in alta fedeltà. Il CD è riproducibile anche da lettori CD standard perchè ha un layer inciso anche in classico formato compact disk, ma diciamoci la verità l'aacquisto ha senso solo se si possiede un lettore SACD. Questa versione consigliata solo ad appassionati.

Received with a cracked case, but nothing inside was damaged. It was sealed. It played both SACD stereo/multi channel and standard CD format (44k) just fine. Love the sound, but still like my vinyl version more. But these come really close. I have way too many old CD cases laying around so easy to replace.