Hotel California [Import]

1. Hotel California

2. No Voy a Llorar

3. Acepto Mi Derrota

4. Me Tiraste Al Mar

5. Amores Extraños

6. Siempre a Escondidas

7. Querida Colegiala

8. Amor en Secreto

9. Por Amor

10. Peor de Mis Fracasos

11. Te Amaria

12. Este Castigo

13. Me Volvi a Acordar de Ti

14. Te Quiero a Ti

15. Telefono

16. Carcel de Dolor

Hotel California,Banda Dos,Magenta,Latin

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I don't mind checkin' in to this hotel
Welcome to the Hotel California
4 1/2 stars.
This isn't Wasted Time
Can't check out

Hotel California
Eagles
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002GVO
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Hotel California
New Kid In Town
Life In The Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Wasted Time (Reprise)
Victim Of Love
Pretty Maids All In A Row
Try And Love Again
The Last Resort

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It's no accident that The Eagles Greatest Hits might one day pass Michael Jackson's Thriller as the best-selling album of all time-- the Eagles made great singles. By contrast, their albums could be spotty and strained by self-conscious artistry. Hotel California was arguably the band's best single album--it was certainly the Eagles' biggest original disc-- and it also underscored the band's need to make a big statement. The title tune reflected the album's theme of paradise lost in California, painting this picture with a musical arrangement that punctuated strumming guitars with dramatic drums, and perhaps the band's most famous lyric: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." "New Kid in Town" was an equally fine albeit much more traditional Eagles ballad. "Life in the Fast Lane" aspired to hard rock but largely gunned its engine without taking off. The rest is okay, but nothing more than secondary Eagles songs that happened to be nestled into the album that came to define the `70s supergroup. --John Milward

Album Description

From the original master tapes on 24 karat Gold disc. Booklet includes complete original artwork. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

I don't mind checkin' in to this hotel.......2007-07-30

The title song has been played a million times, and yet, the guitar jam at the end never gets old. "New Kid in Town" is pretty awesome, isn't it? It's similar to the melody of "Tequila Sunrise" except longer and more interesting. I can't figure out WHY exactly it's more interesting.

I'm not a fan of "Life in the Fast Lane". It's an alright song, though. The songs on the album that weren't as popular as the ones I mention above are actually better. Seriously! "The Last Resort" is possibly the prettiest song I've ever heard the band do. Still, "Victim of Love" is my favorite song. I really like the riffs, vocals, and lyrics.

Well, you've heard at least half of this album before. Don't try telling me you haven't! Buy if you want to keep hearin' these songs some more.

Welcome to the Hotel California.......2007-06-10

This is quintessential Eagles. The CD is chocked full of tunes that made the Eagles famous. A fine collection any fan of the Eagles would enjoy. One of my favorite CDs in college. You can check out, but you can never leave. A classic line that really brought back my days of struggling through my first year adjusting to college and being away from home. A great CD, in my humble opinion.

4 1/2 stars........2007-04-07

the hotel california, baby. in my neck of the musical woods (been listening to a lot of john coltrane lately) you are supposed to dislike the eagles. pure snobbery. i will have none of it. this is a fantastic album. the closing number, "the last resort," is reason enough alone to have this thing in your home. an absolutely beautiful song. seven minutes and twenty-five seconds of exquisite songcraft. not really a dud song anywhere on the album, in fact. this is the eagles masterpiece. no doubt. commercial music that is heartfelt, emotional, and fine. don't be a snob. check it out.

This isn't Wasted Time.......2007-04-01

This is one of the Eagles two best albums(the other being Desperado) and that doesn't mean that their other albums weren't good, however, both of these albums really are great from beginning to end. Okay so the first three songs were/are played to death on the radio. This is another album that surprises me that it was a hit because it's so dark for the most part and doesn't sound like the other stuff that was being played on the radio at the time. A song like Wasted Time reminds me of an updated tourch song and not really anything like the Bay City Rollers or Tony Orlando And Dawn(big hits at the time). Originally this was going to be the last Eagles album but the record company had other ideas. This is also the first with Joe Walsh in the band and his main song on the album Pretty Maids All In A Row is the best song he's ever written. Randy should be pointed out for his tune Try And Love Again which is also the only song on here in which the band does it's country/rock thing. Once again, I would suggest going with the box set and getting the mini lp sleeve version.

Can't check out.......2007-03-13

Time has passed Bachman Turner Overdrive, Ted Nugent and thankfully, The Hansens by, for reasons that only the gods and Robert Hilburn know. Bands may have their peak, but they don't often stay at the summit for decades to haunt the listener with a new nuance or an unheard overtone or a lyric that takes on new meaning or a vocal that pulls a tear when years before it generated a giggle. Time proves the mettle of the band in the maelstrom of public opinion and in the pop culture mindset of society.

A review of Hotel California in the classic sense of a track-by-track critique is folly. It's like going to the symphony to discover that Mahler should be capable of more subtlety, or to take issue with the color of the Golden Gate Bridge. The CD (or the "album" as we remember it) is now a part of us. To take it down to its component parts is like pulling the cornerstone from the Chrysler Building out for inspection. Pick it apart all you like, but there's no replacing a masterpiece of memory. It's not going anywhere. It's the Petrified Forest of rock.

Great music, music that transcends, that transports, is for all time, and messing with the components risks an awakening of evil spirits, a cacophonous clash of cultural traps, a probable trip to the edge of the abyss. DON'T GO THERE. The Eagles are as they were, an aural collection, and recollection for the ages.

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The album that forever changed my understanding of music.

Hotel California
Eagles
Manufacturer: Wea International
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EOUTUS
Release Date: 2006-05-08

Tracks:

Hotel California
New Kid in Town
Life in the Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Wasted Time (Reprise)
Victim of Love
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Try and Love Again
Last Resort

Album Description

Import pressing of their 1976 album Hotel California. Vinyl replica CD comes housed in a slipcase. Rhino UK. 2006.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Special Limited Edition Issue of the Southern California Band's Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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The album that forever changed my understanding of music........2006-11-11

She'd taped a cool new song off the radio, a friend told me a little less than 25 years ago; she'd play it for me when I'd come to her place after school.

The song was "Hotel California," and my perception of music changed then and there, once and for all. I didn't even really understand the lyrics -- I had barely begun to learn English, and apart from everything else I sure as hell didn't know what "colitas" meant. But understanding all the song's words wasn't necessary. From the first chords played by Felder and Walsh, this song was different from anything I had ever heard before. The layers of electric guitar riffs alternating with and ornamenting Don Henley's vocals, soaring in the chorus and culminating in a moving and evocative duet, touched a spot deep inside me that required no further explanation. Nor, really, did the other songs on this album which I instantaneously knew I had to have. I got the message conveyed in the raw edges of "Life in the Fast Lane," Joe Walsh's riffs throughout the song, the two guitar solos and Don Henley's sneering vocals, as well as I could hear the sense of loss in "Wasted Time," "The Last Resort" and "New Kid in Town."

This is not to say, of course, that the lyrics didn't matter to me once I was able to fully understand them. Rather, that understanding deepened my appreciation for the album; and yet another level of insight was added when I came to California for the first time in 1991. By that time I was an ardent fan, and although the Eagles didn't even exist as a band back then, their music has become an inseparable part of my memory of those months - particularly the album which bears the state's name and is so often called the quintessential California rock album (not only of the 1970s) that this description in itself is bordering on clich now, true as it may once have been.

Since the release of their 1976 studio album, the Eagles have published several other versions of "Hotel California," and I love them all. (I even -- sometimes -- like the ska version Don Henley and his incredible tour band performed during their 2001 "Inside Job" tour.) But ultimately, it all comes back down for me to the duet of those two electric guitars which forever redefined the way I listen to music.

The String Quartet Tribute to the Eagles

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The String Quartet Tribute to the Eagles

Manufacturer: Vitamin Records
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ASIN: B0000CC85T
Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

Peaceful Easy Feeling
Hotel California
Desperado
Lyin' Eyes
Best Of My Love
Take It Easy
Tequila Sunrise
I Can't Tell You Why
Take It To The Limit
Dustbound Train

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Tracks:

Hotel California
New Kid in Town
Life in the Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Wasted Time (Reprise)
Victim of Love
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Try and Love Again
Last Resort

Album Description

Japanese remastered reissue of 1976 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Elektra. 2004.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

Best And Most Authentic Sounding Edition Of Hotel California.......2007-07-29

I was glad it did not take me long to find an edition of Hotel California where I was happy with the sound. My first CD of course was the original unremastered release. I liked the authentic sound in the sence that all of the instruments were in the right proportion to one another including the singer but I noticed the loudness was not there. It was as if someone had the output volume down during the dubbing process even though I had my amplifier volume up high. Well, I was happy enough but then I tried the gold version and for me there was too much treble. And I like treble! But the Bass was not there as much. Then I realized I would keep on listening to the unremastered CD. After all it did have greater clarity that the original L.P. (that was my thought anyway at the time). Then I saw the 1999 remastered edition available and I thought I'd try that. But in this case some instruments were highlighted more than others with great clarity but not how I wanted to hear it. I felt like I was listening to it from a different angle and nothing was like I remembered. Next came more listening to the original unremastered version. I was mostly content but the thought came to mind..Isn't there a louder more dynamicyet authentic sounding recording of Hotel California. I wanted something closer to the original master but with the same original proportion given in the song to each instrument as well as to the the singer. In other words ,I did not want to be fixated on an acoustic guitar when the singer was sounding as if he were in a different room. So my chance came when I bought this Japanese remastered vintage collectors L.P. sleeve edition. It is loud and clear and it sounds like there is no tape hiss. The bass comes through as well as the treble. So, the sound is what makes this CD worth buying but the packaging is great also. Everything I remember about the Sleeve and even the record lable on the CD itself is there to be found in this edition. So make sure you buy it while it's still around.

You Can Check In Any Time You Like.......2006-01-28

"Hotel California" the song is so great, it could pretty much carry the album, but it doesn't need to. While I also enjoy the other songs, "Hotel California" is so good that it causes everything else on this album to be eclipsed, even though much of the rest of the music is very good. The Eagles created a series of very good songs, but when they recorded and released "Hotel California," I think every listener realized that it was destined to be a great song from the beginning. Surrealistic, clearly southern California desert influenced, a song that becomes great because it is musical art accessible to nearly everyone.

While "Hotel California" is a great song, several other songs on this CD are excellent. "Life in the Fast Lane" and "Victim of Love" show some of the influence that Joe Walsh had on the previously country-flavored Eagles, as does the guitar heavy ending of "Hotel California."

Several songs fall into the ballad category, such as "New Kid in Town," Wasted Time "and" Try and Love Again Then there are the other songs, including "The Last Resort," which is a preachy song, but also a pretty song about the environment.

The problem for The Eagles was that one song pretty much defined this album, and the group. Try listening to this album without "Hotel California," and you will find some decent, well-played songs. Many of the lyrics are very inspired, and this would have been a hit-making album. Add back "Hotel California," and you have an album that becomes a musical icon for a group and a generation. I love this song (like nearly everyone else that likes the Eagles), but this album is more than one song. As an album, it is one of my favorite Eagle albums. However, come for the Hotel, stay for the other courses...

This particular version is imported from Japan. While the Japanese are known for their expertise in re-mastering music, I do not believe they have substantially improved on the quality of the original. At least, I am unable to tell much of a difference. However, my stereo is not of audiophile quality. My recommendation is to review the breadth of offerings available for this CD and choose the version that fits your budget and need for quality.

Remastered and in mini-lp sleeve! Good stuff!.......2005-08-19

As a guitarist myself, I have a soft spot for guitar-oriented bands and the Eagles for one were lucky enough to have a whole bunch of very good guitarists. Don Felder who was responsible for practically all of the title track, Glen Frey, the second track, Joe Walsh, made all the tracks that little bit better and Timothy B. Schmidt on bass.

The work that Felder and Walsh do on the first track, especially the solos (Felder the first and Walsh the second part, both at the end) and that familiar harmonised ending to the main solo was just inspired stuff. Ditto the guitar work on "Life in the Fast Lane."

Overall, the sound quality of this Japanese disc is quite good although not great but good enough. 4 stars because of this and because my favourite Eagles tracks it just so happens are not here ("One of These Nights", "I Can't Tell You Why" and a few more)but that doesn't make this a bad album. Have to admit to suffering from having listened to too much of the first track over the years and that's probably why the rating suffered.

Maybe you don't have the same hangups so why not get it and see for yourself? Cheers!

4 1/2 Stars.......2005-03-07

I heard the three hit singles from Hotel California waaaay too much on the radio back in 1977. And now Classic Rock stations play the song "Hotel California" so much that I have to turn the radio off when it comes on, or else get sick of what is actually a great song ("Stairway To Heaven Syndrome" psychologists call it). I was, however, a big fan of the album from the git-go, hearing it for the first time in late-December 1976, when the album was played in its entirety by the local rock station.

Falling out of love with Classic Rock sometime in the late 70's, I didn't listen to it much again until recently. Hearing it now, I enjoy "side" 2 much better than side 1, which puts me firmly in the minority of most Eagles fans. This may be due to my overexposure to the radio hits on side 1, but also because I love the Joe Walsh and Randy Meisner songs on side 2. They provide a nice break from Don Henley's singing, which is great but tends to produce "listener fatigue" when he handles too many of the lead vocals (and lest you think I'm not a Henley fan, "The Boys Of Summer" is one of my all-time favorite songs, period).

"Pretty Maids All In A Row" is somewhat reminiscent of Joe Walsh's work on his first (and best) solo album, 1973's Barnstorm. "Pretty Maids," like most of Barnstorm, is a nice deviation from Walsh's more well-known guitar rave-ups. It was written with Barnstorm-mate Joe Vitale, and has a dreamy, richly-textured production, utilizing piano (Walsh) and synthesizer (Walsh & Glenn Frey). It also has some nice percussion work from Henley and, as usual, heavenly background harmonies.

"Try And Love Again" is one of my favorite Eagles songs, and easily the most underrated song on this album (I even love the syntactic faux pas of the title). Great vocals and guitars. It has been called the Eagles' last country-rock song, but to me it sounds more like a hybrid of early-70's Southern California Rock and mid-60's Merseybeat/Searchers-style Pop (with the bright, ringing guitars and chord structure built around the loping D major). It also provides Frey with one of the best guitar solos in the Eagles canon, which is quite a feat considering the great players, past and present, in this band. I'm not sure why this track was never released as a single - maybe because Meisner was on the way out? Too country-rock, which the Eagles were trying to move away from, partly to win over rock critics (some success) but mostly to broaden their fan base (much success)? It's too bad that Meisner didn't use this type of musical setting as a starting point for what looked to be a promising solo career, rather than releasing a series of (mostly) lame, generic rock albums. Not that he would have sold any more records, but it would have made a few of us happy. Regardless, I have missed his great vocals (lead and harmony) on subsequent Eagles recordings, and I haven't even mentioned his talents as a bass player. Oh well, Meisner fans among the Eagles' throngs appear to be few and far between. But if you need proof, compare his vocal performance on "Take It To The Limit" with Frey's more recent renderings. The difference between good and goose-pimply.

As good as the individual Eagles are as lead vocalists, they seem to be even better as background singers. In fact, when I think of the "classic" Eagles vocal sound, I think of their background harmonies, whether it's Meisner's soaring high-harmony or Henley and Frey's vocal blend, which seems to take on a separate voice all its own (for a great example of this on a non-Eagles track, listen to Dan Fogelberg's "Someone's Been Telling You Stories").

Back to Hotel California. I think "The Last Resort" is a great closer, but Henley almost ruins it by getting preachy in the final verse. I said almost. It's still a great song, even though you know it was written by a smug millionaire rock star (sorry Don, at least I didn't call you a hypocrite or a - gasp - liberal, and actually "smug" may be unfair).

It goes without saying (I know, I've already said it) that the guitar work on Hotel California (by Frey, but especially Don Felder and Walsh) really kicks this album up a notch. And that's coming from someone who loved Bernie Leadon's Clarence White-inspired playing on all those great early Eagles songs (e.g. "Take It Easy").

For some reason, the Eagles are loathed by most alt-country and "progressive" country bands - probably stemming from Gram Parsons' and several prominent rock critics' dislike of them - while being embraced by many current Country Radio artists and fans. Emmylou Harris and Chris Hillman don't even like the term "country-rock" and look like you poo-pooed on their cowboy boots if it's mentioned to describe their music (they prefer Parsons' term "Cosmic American Music" - which I don't think will ever catch on). But to be honest, Gram must have been a little envious of the radio play the Eagles were getting, while he was getting virtually none. Current Country artists, such as Toby Keith, certainly have more in common with the Eagles (at least Henley and Frey) when it comes to arrogance and the personal dislikability factor.

But unless you enjoy throwing the baby out with the proverbial bathwater, you have to give the Eagles, and this album in particular, its due. And if you haven't heard the DVD-Audio version in surround sound, then you need to. Awesome. Now, excuse me while I go online and purchase a pair of tickets to their current farewell tour. Anybody have a spare $400?

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I don't mind checkin' in to this hotel
Welcome to the Hotel California
4 1/2 stars.
This isn't Wasted Time
Can't check out

Hotel California
Eagles
Manufacturer: Dcc Compact Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000016O
Release Date: 1992-08-19

Tracks:

Hotel California
New Kid In Town
Life In The Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Wasted Time (Reprise)
Victim Of Love
Pretty Maids All In A Row
Try And Love Again
The Last Resort

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Album Description

From the original master tapes on 24 karat Gold disc. Booklet includes complete original artwork. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

I don't mind checkin' in to this hotel.......2007-07-30

Welcome to the Hotel California.......2007-06-10

4 1/2 stars........2007-04-07

This isn't Wasted Time.......2007-04-01

Can't check out.......2007-03-13

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An essential for any music lover

Hotel Roselynn
Watsonville Patio
Manufacturer: FMA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000K2MD
Release Date: 1999-09-14

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Hymn Of A Hummingbird
A .45 To Pay The Rent
Think It Over
Spiral
Caught In The Moment
About You
Houses Painted White
In My Car
Her Dress Hangs There
Waves
Interstate Ten

Album Description

2nd release from Watsonville Patio. Heartlfetl lyrics & tangy guitar riffs.

Customer Reviews:

An essential for any music lover.......2000-05-11

Full of tart and heartfelt lyrics, not to mention tangy guitar riffs full of feeling, Hotel Roselynn is a must have in anyone's cd collection. Having been fortunate enough to see this band live, I can attest to the pure skill and raw emotion Watsonville Patio puts forth in every song. This energy and enthusiam for music is not only apparent when seeing this band live, but is shockingly apparent on Hotel Roselynn as well. It is not often one can find a band which satisfies the listener both in concert and on CD. The lead singer of Watsonville Patio has a voice which contains tint of a somewhat Stevie Nicks quality and the band only serves to enhance the overall talent of this group. Sure to slowly, but steadily become a house-hold name, Watsonville Patio, and their CD Hotel Roselynn, is simply a recording one cannot pass up.

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The Raleigh Ringers

The Raleigh Ringers

Manufacturer: Raleigh Ringers
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000067V0H
Release Date: 1995-11-01

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Stairway to Heaven

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Customer Reviews:

The Raleigh Ringers.......2006-11-03

I've got lots of upbeat classical stuff, but the sounds and tingling on this CD are fantastic. A great mix of traditional and contemporary pieces. This CD is a real ringer!