Hotel California | 
| Manufacturer: Elektra Records
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $8.91
Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 7927
Genre: album-oriented-rock-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0
ASIN: B0011Z78R6
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 188 more reviews...
 This is not [Remastered] as advertised November 22, 2008
This CD has not been remastered. It's an analog rip and has no polishing done like "One of These Nights" or "Eagles" releases.
If it says it's remastered then it should be remastered. Plus, there's no dynamic range to this Hotel California release "none" these people going on about "Henley's drums" really don't get it or have a good set of headphones.
I love the Eagles and always will. But, be prepared to crank up the volume with this weak audio (un)mastered release.
 Don't be a critic if you cant Hear October 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I Am Mainly Writing a review on this not just because of the fact that this album in any format has the best sound quality , performance , production and writing of any album in the analog era! . but it sets the standard of other recordings of all time .
I cant believe anyone would say that this is a waste of time to listen to this album .
Also the use of surround sound is also fantastic here .
Henley's drums are Back Beat to the true dynamics of what cd's and other high resolution formats should sound like .
Masterpiece October 9, 2008
I'm not going to compare Hotel California to any other album. This is simply their greatest album. Nearly flawless but, like the subject, not quite perfect.
I love the concept of California being heaven and hell. I bought this album in December 1976, and then left for California right after Christmas. That trip was planned, by the way, not a result of listening to the album. I believed in the concept of California as heaven on earth. Everything about SoCal was so great in 1977. It was the place to be. But of couse it really wasn't. I saw it in awe, with eyes wide open, and missed or overlooked some things. And that's the concept of this album, almost a warning that things aren't all they're cracked up to be.
I can easily see the direct connection to the "California Concept" in most of these songs. Wasted Time, Victim of Love and Try and Love Again, maybe not so direct. There was so much radio airplay on the first three songs of side one but they really delivered the message. Maybe the more casual fans didn't realize what else they were missing. At that time there were plenty of radio stations that played deep album tracks and even the entire album. So there was ample opportunity to hear the other songs, and I think some people missed out on great music by not hearing the rest of the album.
To this day I think that The Last Resort is the best song the Eagles ever released. Glenn Frey supposedly said that this song is Don Henley's best work. I think this song speaks volumes about the virtues and promises of California, and how it was ruined by greed. I mean, to be in Southern California at that time was fantastic beyond words. It was where I wanted to be. It was, to me, paradise. A few years ago, a friend of mine said, "LA isn't what it used to be. Know what I mean?", and I did. I did know what he meant. It's sad, because I guess I just have this fond remembrance of what things were like in LA when Hotel California was a new release.
I've always liked Victim of Love better than Life In The Fast Lane. It's recorded live in the studio. On the record, there's even an inscription in the vinyl around the label that reads, "V.O.L. is five piece live". It's refreshing to hear something so raw when everything else on the album is so polished. But polished is good, too. Wasted Time is so soulful and heartbreaking, and may be my second favorite song of the album. It's lush and polished and it works. Even the brief Wasted Time Reprise (which seemed way out of place the first time I listened) works on this album.
New Kid In Town is also great because it's all about "What have you done for me lately?", which was so LA at the time and even more so now. It's delivered so smoothly that it shows how subtle the change is from being on top of the world one day to being a nobody the next. Of the singles released from the album New Kid In Town has to be the most pop-oriented song. It's really more like their previous singles than Hotel California and Life In The Fast Lane. To this day I like New Kid In Town better than those other 2 songs.
Another reviewer said this was a rather dark themed album for the late 70's. That's probably true because the late 70's were all about doing anything you could get away with just to have the right amount of fun. Hotel California as a whole was saying that a good time wouldn't last forever, we're gonna run out of land and resources and it will be too expensive to enjoy. Maybe it was too dark, but that lifestyle got out of control and further ruined Paradise On Earth.
I still love visiting, especially Southern California. This will sound goofy, but it truly does give me energy that I don't get anywhere else. But, for me, it really isn't the same as it was. That's what Hotel California was saying way back when.
Rare breed May 15, 2008
Bought DVD audio because of a new Acura. Excellent sound but the concept of DVD-Audio has never caught on.
one of the best dvd-audio's And album May 13, 2008
not only is this album great musically but this dvd-a sounds amazing with terific surround. better sound than my LP.
get ready to relax with this one.
|
|
|
