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Eagles - Hotel California (1976) (SHM-CD Remaster 2008)
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Warner.2008
Those who call Hotel California an example of Southern California decadence are getting it wrong. It's about decadence, a much different thing. For all the excesses detailed by the band's biographers, it's a fact that leaders Don Henley and Glenn Frey ran a tight ship, crafting songs, albums, and the band's stage show for maximum sonic and emotional impact. In 1976, following four increasingly sophisticated and successful albums of unassailable country rock, Henley and Frey crafted Hotel California, the album of their career. They put to good use both the band's plangent lead guitarist, Don Felder, and rock vet Joe Walsh to give the Eagles a new, harder-rocking authority ("Life in the Fast Lane"), without giving up a certain chamber-rock classicism ("Wasted Time"). And then there's the celebrated title song, the hit "New Kid in Town," and Henley and Frey's ambitious summation, "The Last Resort."...B. Wyman
The Eagles took 18 months between their fourth and fifth albums, reportedly spending eight months in the studio recording Hotel California. The album was also their first to be made without Bernie Leadon, who had given the band much of its country flavor, and with rock guitarist Joe Walsh. As a result, the album marks a major leap for the Eagles from their earlier work, as well as a stylistic shift toward mainstream rock. An even more important aspect, however, is the emergence of Don Henley as the band's dominant voice, both as a singer and a lyricist.
Hotel California was the first Eagles album to feature Joe Walsh. By combining with Don Felder, they created a potent tandem and pushed the band to a harder sound. Like many other residents in the state, the band are not native Californians. Despite that fact, they have become synonymous with Southern California. On this album, they examine all the high and lows of the land of hopes and dreams. The word classic is thrown around a little too often, but the album's title track is one of only a handful of songs that are worthy of the title. From the opening guitar riff, to the cynical and vivid lyrics to the closing guitar coda, the song is a tour de force.Don Henley sings with a snarl in his voice and Mr. Walsh and Mr. Felder trade guitar licks in a can you top this fashion. The song is a masterpiece, became their third number single, won the 1977 Grammy for Record of the Year and one never tires of hearing it. New Kid In Town was the album's other number single and Glenn Frey sings with a smooth charm. The song perfectly captures that breezy Southern California soundthe Eagles made famous. Life In The Fast Lane is the infamous rocker that details the hedonistic lifestyle of the late 70's that the band wholeheartedly embraced. Wasted Time is pretty ballad and the orchestral reprise of the song leads into a stinging rocker Victim Of Love.Joe Walsh's Eagle lead vocal debut is the suprisingly sweet Pretty Maids All In A Row. Randy Messiness' swan song with the band is the soaring Try Love Again. The album's closer, The Last Resort, almost matches the title cut in power and brilliance. It tells of the pilgrimage from the east coast out to California and that it has to offer.Hotel California was the band's peak and one of the best albums of the 70's.
Codec: flac
Size: 262 MB
Genre : Rock
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Tracklist:
01 Hotel California 6:30
02 New Kid in Town 5:03
03 Life In The Fast Lane 4:46
04 Wasted Time 4:56
05 Wasted Time (Reprise) 1:23
06 Victim of Love 4:09
07 Pretty Maids All In A Row 3:58
08 Try And Love Again 5:10
09 The Last Resort 7:28
