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Given the extraordinary amount of airplay HOTEL CALIFORNIA garnered in the mid-70s and early '80s, it comes as quite a surprise to hear how fresh this recording sounds on DCC's 24k gold disc version. Familiar tracks benefit from the enhanced soundstage and control room-clarity of this exceptional digital remastering, revealing something of the actual recording studio room sound on many tracks.
A steady growth suddenly mushroomed into a monster as the Eagles, along with Fleetwood Mac, epitomized AOR in the early 70s. This record is supposedly a concept album but most of the purchasers merely enjoyed the accessible songs while driving down to the coast in their Volkswagen Caravanettes with 2.4 children. Joe Walsh was added to give gutsy guitar in the wake of the country flavour of Bernie Leaden, while Randy Meisner grew in stature as a writer with 'Try And Love Again' and 'New Kid In Town'. The title track still bites as Henley's voice blends with Walsh's epic solo.
Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida and the Record Plant, Los Angeles, California from March to October 1976.
The Eagles: Glenn Frey (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Don Felder (vocals, electric & slide guitars); Joe Walsh (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Randy Meisner (vocals, guitarron, bass); Don Henley (vocals, drums, percussion).
Engineers include: Bill Szymczyk, Allan Blazek, Ed Marshal.
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.108) - Ranked #37 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...The highlight is the title track, a monument to the rock-aristocrat decadence of the day and a feast of triple-guitar interplay..."
Q (Magazine) (p.111) - "Recorded with new guitarist Joe Walsh, these autobiographical tales of druggy hedonism and angst comprised their strongest suite." Hotel California Music | List Price | $18.97 (You save $3.18) | | Category | Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs, Country Rock | | Label | Elektra | | Orig Year | 1976 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2296  | | CD Universe Part number | 1095176 | | Catalog number | 103 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Bill Szymcyzk | | Recording Time | 43 minutes | | Personnel | Joe Walsh - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Don Henley - vocals, drums, percussion
Glenn Frey - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Don Henley - vocals, drums, percussion
Don Felder - vocals, electric & slide guitars
Randy Meisner - vocals, guitarron, bass
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Eagles Hotel California Songs Hotel California Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews No Regrets!!
If you even think you like the Eagles, this is a must have album!! I bought the vinyl when it originally came out, and I am very glad that I now have it on CD. The quality is unsurpassed. No regrets here, and I'm sure that you won't have any either.
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I heard this album a few years ago and I love it! Joe Walsh's voice and guitar in "Pretty maids all in a row" is amazing and "Wasted time" is one of the greatest ballads ever. "Hotel California" is a classic for american rock lovers!!!
Submitted by Luciano (Bahia Blanca, Bs. As. Argentina)
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The Eagles' creative pinnacle is a modern metaphor for everyday existence. "Hotel California" was the musical masterwork of a group of highly underrated intelligent musicians. I appreciate the impact of this album at age 50 far more than I did when it was released. All the songs flow together nicely making it an exceptional "concept album". A motion picture should be made out of this one.
Submitted by Will-T (Lawrenceburg IN)
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As a 41-year-old mother of two adolescents, it is my duty to ensure my children are scholars of classic rock. By far, this album is the primer to any good musical education. Both the album and the single "Hotel California" have passed the test of time and still favorites of today's youth. I'm a college-educational professional that listens to the album at least once a day. My kids have their friends listening and learning the chords that Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey made legendary on this album. By far, the favorites are "Try and Love Again" and "Last Resort". It took until my adulthood to appreciate "New Kid in Town" and "Wasted Time." I thank my late father for ensuring that I embraced this album as a child - I'm now passing it on as there is NOTHING in today's music that comes close to the achievements on this album!
Submitted by Wendy1966 (Cypress, Texas, USA)
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Purchase Hotel California CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Eagles Long Run CD (1979)
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THE LONG RUN, the Eagles' long-awaited follow-up to their hugely successful HOTEL CALIFORNIA, was the celebrated group's final studio album. By the time THE LONG RUN was released in early 1979, the laid-back West Coast rock scene that The Eagles had dominated throughout the decade had pretty much run ...
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The title track finds the band flirting with the disco-funk sound they would pursue further on their subsequent album ONE OF THESE NIGHTS. "The Best of My Love" is the kind of flawlessly constructed '70s radio staple for which the term soft-rock was invented. The band's cover version of the Tom Waits ballad "Ol' 55" was perhaps the furthest from its origins any Waits composition would get until Rod Stewart took ...
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Don Henley's slinky, eerie "Witchy Woman" is another highlight, as is the languid, lovely "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" (both tracks appeared on THEIR GREATEST HITS 1971-1975, along with "Take It Easy"). But there are other gems tucked away here too, like the Bernie Leadon/Gene Clark-penned "Train Leaves Here This Morning." EAGLES is a varied, ...
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"Twenty-one" is Flying Burrito Brothers-style country-rock, "Out of Control" is amped-up blues-rock, whereas the title track is a plaintive, melancholic piano ballad (abetted by a string section). Don Henley plays a bigger part on DESPERADO, lending vocals and co-writing much of the material, including the opener "Doolin Dalton" and the ...
| | Incognito 100o And Rising CD (1995)
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Singer Maysa Leak has left the fold, but Incognito's big, brassy British soul remains the same on 100 DEGREES AND RISING. Electric pianos lay down jazzy R&B vamps, strings sweep in with graceful accents, and horns play with and respond to the vocals, all over a variety of percolating funk beats. Put these parts together and you might call it acid jazz. It's a modern name for music that sounds like they used to make it--group-driven, roots-conscious and, above all, sophisticatedly soulful. And the superb new trio of vocalists that contributes to this, the band's fifth album, slides right in as part of the collective.
As the title implies, sweat drips and tension bubbles beneath the smooth surface of 100 DEGREES AND RISING in the tradition of all great urban soul. From the foreboding stabs of strings that kick off the opener, "Where Did We Go Wrong," like something out of the old sound of Philadelphia, Incognito honors that tradition. "Roots (Back To A Way Of Life)" announces itself with a blast of brass straight out of Earth, Wind & Fire's "Shining Star." "Too Far Gone," an electric piano ballad featuring a marvelously melancholic vocal turn by Barry Stewart, has the feel of early Stevie Wonder. And Incognito can simply lay back and groove too: "Barumba" is Spanish soul, and "After The Fall," one of the album's three instrumentals, has a breezy flugelhorn feel, like Chuck Mangione overhauled and reimagined by the Brand New Heavies.
Principally recorded at Trident 2 Studio, London, England.
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Req's Car Paint Scheme is a rare collaboration between two labels with competing interests but quite different audiences. Released by the perfectionists at Warp, who issue quality experimental techno with an unerring success rate, the tracks on Car Paint Scheme were selected by Damian Harris, the label boss of Skint -- the former home of Req and a label who saw the wheels come off their big-beat machine at the beginning of the millennium but continued releasing quality material from Lo Fidelity Allstars and Fatboy Slim. From the liner notes, it becomes clear that Harris played the editor on a set of tracks that, in some cases, Req had recorded years earlier; considering that the usual Req LP flaunts a certain thrown-together quality anyway, listeners could be forgiven for surrendering to a certain dubiousness. ...
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| | Janis Ian Revenge CD (1995)
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Ian's newly authoritative grown-up sounding vocals are superb throughout. Some of the songs here ("Ready for the War," "Take No Prisoners") deal with sex in military terms, and "Stolen Fire" is a beautifully written and very adult examination of marital infidelity (she's against it). All is not sturm und drang, however; "The Mission" is a dry-eyed yet almost optimistic story-song about a homeless shelter, and "Take Me Walking In the Rain" is a catchy pure-pop ditty, like an adult version of an old Phil Spector epic.
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Make Amends was conceived in a small dorm room in late June 2005, when three students of the Academy of Art University met to try out something new. Darren, on bass, had been playing for a few months with good friend Madison, who played guitar. The two had recently befriended a new student, Meghan, who had expressed a desire to get back into singing, after a long hiatus from choirs and vocal ensembles. Upon completion of their first song, they chose the name "Make Amends" after a prose piece ...
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