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!?!

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

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.

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.

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.