By: The Eagles
Release date: 1976
Standing track: Hotel California
If you go out and ask people what's one of the best rock album of all time, Hotel California will be one of the first names they will say and all for the right reasons. The fifth album by the band and the first to have the guitar legend, Joe Walsh, this album contains some of the best guitar work and lyrica... read more
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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 t0
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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
"the hits : life in the fast lane - hotel california - victim of love - the last resort - new kid in town "
Happy Vader posted a review 11 months, 3 weeks ago
“By: The Eagles
Release date: 1976
Standing track: Hotel California
If you go out and ask people what's one of the best rock album of all time, Hotel California will be one of the first names they will say and all for the right reasons. The fifth album by the band and the first to have the guitar legend, Joe Walsh, this album contains some of the best guitar work and lyrical content in the title track, Life in the Fast Lane & New Kid on the Block” read more
joelarocca added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago
"By: The Eagles
Release date: 1976
Standing track: Hotel California
If you go out and ask people what's one of the best rock album of all time, Hotel California will be one of the first names they will say and all for the right reasons. The fifth album by the band and the first to have the guitar legend, Joe Walsh, this album contains some of the best guitar work and lyrical content in the title track, Life in the Fast Lane & New Kid on the Block"
topshine added this to a list 1 year, 6 months ago
""In pursuit of note-perfect Hollywood-cowboy ennui, the Eagles spent eight months in the studio making Hotel California, polishing the vocals and guitars in take after take after take. As Don Henley recalled, "We just locked ourselves in. We had a refrigerator, a pingpong table, roller skates and a couple of cots. We would go in and stay for two or three days at a time." With guitarist Joe Walsh replacing Bernie Leadon, the band backed off from straight country-rock (glorious exception: "New Kid"