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Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed
Those who call Hotel California an example of Southern California decadence are getting it wrong. It's about decadence, a much different thing. For all the excesses detailed by the band's biographers, it's a fact that leaders Don Henley and Glenn Frey ran a tight ship, crafting songs, albums, and the band's stage show for maximum sonic and emotional impact. In 1976, following four increasingly sophisticated and successful albums of unassailable country rock, Henley and Frey crafted Hotel California, the album of their career. They put to good use both the band's plangent lead guitarist, Don Felder, and rock vet Joe Walsh to give the Eagles a new, harder-rocking authority ("Life in the Fast Lane"), without giving up a certain chamber-rock classicism ("Wasted Time"). And then there's the celebrated title song, the hit "New Kid in Town," and Henley and Frey's ambitious summation, "The Last Resort."
TRACK LISTINGS
1 Hotel California 6:30
2 New Kid in Town 5:03
3 Life In The Fast Lane 4:46
4 Wasted Time 4:56
5 Wasted Time (Reprise) 1:23
6 Victim of Love 4:09
7 Pretty Maids All In A Row 3:58
8 Try And Love Again 5:10
9 The Last Resort 7:28
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