Hotel California (2013

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

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.

A couple of issues here one on Amazon the other on the pressing.Firstly, most of the reviews linked to this VINYL pressing relate to the CD version, neither use nor ornament, when purchasing a vinyl I want reviews about the vinyl, not the CD, come on amazon get your house in order here...Secondly, I have now had two pressings of this "high quality" 180 gram pressing, both have been awful, first one was warped so unplayable, second one has so many clicks, hisses and jumps at the beginning as to immediately ruin ones enjoyment of the format, persevere and you are rewarded with a flat lifeless example of what is classed as one of the Eagles finest albums, it sounds like it has been pressed from a sample taken from an iPod... I have this album on old standard vinyl, cassette tape and CD and all of these sound far superior to this pressing, what a shame, what a let down, what a waste of time.The manufacturer needs to go back to the drawing board, sack the idiot that re sampled this, sack the quality control (if there is one) and start again. Produce a quality vinyl, a quality that this album so richly deserves.Update, half way through track three on side two the album comes to life, someone obviously found the slider that adds the correct subtleties to the album, shame they didn't re-do the whole album all over again with this correct setting.I guess they either don't like the Eagles, vinyl or both. If you purchased this album as a route back into vinyl you would drop the format like a hot potato.UPDATE. UPDATE. UPDATE.Just got this on vinyl again, have to say it's darn near as perfect as you can get, obviously third time lucky.

An album I’ve always wanted but never got around to owning it.It’s great!

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!?!