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Eagles Hotel California 2LP 45rpm 180 Gram SuperVinyl UltraDisc One-Step UD1S MFSL MoFi 2023 USA

Artist: Eagles
Title: Hotel California
Catalog Number: UD1S 2-028
Label: Asylum Records
Reissued by: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Barcode: 821797202824
Edition: MoFi UltraDisc One-Step UD1S
Original release year: 1976
Reissue year: 2022
Number of discs: 2
Revolutions per minute: 45 rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Limited Edition: Yes
Numbered Edition: Yes
Total Item Weight: 1185gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: October 18, 2023
Collection: MFSL Original Master Recording
Note: Never eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: No


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Unit Price: 143,00 €

Reference: MF45S028BX

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The moment the instantly recognizable intertwined guitar passage on the title track to the Eagles' Hotel California begins, the record's genius becomes obvious all over again. Ranked the 118th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, the 1976 landmark is a music staple immune to shifts in trends, eras, and styles.

 

 

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rated 118/500

 

  • Strictly Limited Edition Box Set
  • Numbered Edition (17.500 units)
  • UltraDisc One-Step UD1S
  • 180 Gram High Definition SuperVinyl
  • 2LP 45rpm Pressed at RTI, USA
  • Cut on MFSL Gain 2 Ultra Analog System
  • Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
  • Cut by Krieg Wunderlich
  • Deluxe gold-foiled box set
  • Contains special jackets

 

 

The Third Best-Selling Album in History Receives a Profound Upgrade Befitting Its Timeless Status Via Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set: Eagles Hotel California Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes and Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl .


26-Time-Platinum Concept Album Plays Like an Epic Cinematic Film: Songs Boldly Address Consequences and Chaos of American Mythology, Celebrity, Art, and Entitlement


Grammy-Winning 1976 Blockbuster Marks Debut of Guitarist-Vocalist Joe Walsh: Includes Iconic Title Track, "New Kid in Town," "Life in the Fast Lane," and "Victim of Love".

 

1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe


The moment the instantly recognizable intertwined guitar passage on the title track to the Eagles' Hotel California begins, the record's genius becomes obvious all over again. Ranked the 118th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, certified by RIAA as the third best-selling LP in history, and considered the foundation on which the Golden State's mid-‘70s music scene was built, the 1976 landmark is a music staple immune to shifts in trends, eras, and styles. Fearlessly addressing the chaos and consequences of American life, its songs remain strikingly prescient and gain creedence with each passing day.


Mastered from the original analog master tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and limited to 17,500 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP vinyl box set ensures you will want to permanently check into and never leave this particular Hotel California. Up to the herculean task of standing head and shoulders above all prior reissues, this collectible edition plays with extreme clarity, organic richness, tube-like warmth, massive dynamics, and microscopic levels of detail. You'll be able to practically smell the colitas and feel the breeze in your hair. Songs come across with an epic sweep and feature immersive, front-to-back soundstages that allow the music unprecedented air, roominess, and separation. As for the noise floor? It's basically as invisible as the spirits that waft in the corridors of the unforgettable title song.


Aesthetically, the premium packaging and presentation of the UD1S Hotel California pressing befit its esteemed status. Housed in a deluxe box, it features gorgeous foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. From every angle, this UD1S reissue exists as a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners who prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in everything involved with the album, from the renowned cover art to the meticulous finishes.


Indeed, the opportunity to zero in on all the particulars of the 26-million-selling Eagles record dubbed "a legitimate rock masterpiece" by vaunted Los Angeles Times scribe Robert Hilburn has never been better. A global phenomenon that marked the band debut of guitarist-singer Joe Walsh, Hotel California continues to resonate and connect with listeners of all generations taken by its narrative depth, stark directness, picturesque melodies, daring majesty, and ardent emotionalism. Adorned with a breathtaking exterior photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel that serves as the simultaneously haunting and alluring cover art, and rounded out by a rear-cover shot of the Lido Hotel lobby that reinforces a notion that teeters between permanence and transience, Hotel California is brilliantly tied to a specific place that functions as a universally understood metaphor for the American Dream.


Confronting the darker undercurrents and oft-ignored constructs attached to that romantic notion, the record's songs revolve around a host of shared themes: excess, mobility, stability, illusion, fame, destruction, and idealism included. Notably, Hotel California appeared at a crucial junction in American history: During the country's bicentennial and amid escalating controversies related to the Vietnam War, energy crisis, and governmental corruption. That the Eagles manage to channel such cultural, social, and economical matters into a cohesive, stately, big-picture statement is alone a stupendous feat. That the album's reach, boldness, vitality, accessibility, and understated intensity have never waned make it a marvel.


Reflecting on Hotel California 40 years after its original release, and indirectly explaining its enduring appeal and increasing relevance, singer-songwriter Don Henley confirmed the record pertains to the "loss of innocence, the cost of naiveté...the difficulties of balancing loving relationships and work, trying to square the conflicting relationship between business and art; the corruption in politics, the fading away of the Sixties dream of ‘peace, love and understanding.'"


It can be argued that Henley and company squarely hit on and drove home those ideas in the surreal title track, chart-topping "Life in the Fast Lane," and grand "The Last Resort" alone. But that would miss the forest for the trees. Experienced as an unbroken whole, complete with the pristinely shot imagery and physical grooves, Hotel California unfolds like a geography-conscious saga by James Michener and plays like color-saturated movie shot on 70mm film by Martin Scorsese. It's about our collective and individual decisions – and the shape of our past, present, and future. And, just like that conjured by our imaginations, Hotel California continues to take on a life of its own.

 


More About Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step and Why It Is Superior


Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) technique bypasses generational losses inherent to the traditional three-step plating process by removing two steps: the production of father and mother plates, which are created to yield numerous stampers from each lacquer that is cut. For UD1S plating, stampers (also called "converts") are made directly from the lacquers. Since each lacquer yields only one stamper, multiple lacquers need to be cut. Mobile Fidelity's UD1S process produces a final LP with the lowest-possible noise floor. The removal of two steps of the plating process also reveals musical details and dynamics that would otherwise be lost due to the standard multi-step process. With UD1S, every aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the best-sounding vinyl album available today.


MoFi SuperVinyl


Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever devised. Analog lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world's quietest surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label's engineers hear in the mastering lab.

 

 

Musicians:

 

Vocals, Electric Guitar – Don Felder
Vocals, Bass – Randy Meisner
Vocals, Drums – Don Henley
Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Keyboards – Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh

 

 

Track Listing:

 

01. Hotel California
02. New Kid in Town
03. Life in the Fast Lane
04. Wasted Time
05. Wasted Time (reprise)
06. Victim of Love
07. Pretty Maids All in a Row
08. Try and Love Again
09. The Last Resort

 

Click here to listen to samples on YouTube.com

 

 

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