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【 Hotel California 】【 英文 】【 1976-12-08 】

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1.Hotel California

2.New Kid In Town

3.Life In The Fast Lane

4.Wasted Time

5.Wasted Time Reprise (提供)

6.Victim of Love

7.Pretty Maids All In A Row

8.Try and Love Again

9.The Last Resort



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Hotel California is an album released by American rock band Eagles in late 1976 (see 1976 in music). It is the first Eagles album without founding member Bernie Leadon, and the first album with Joe Walsh. It is also the last album featuring original bass player and singer Randy Meisner.

History

Hotel California was the Eagles' fifth album of original material and became a major commercial hit; since its release in late 1976, it has sold over 16 million copies in the U.S. alone, and is considered by some people to be their best album of original material. The album was at #1 for eight weeks in early 1977 (non-consecutively), and included two tracks which became #1 hits as singles on the Billboard Hot 100: 'New Kid in Town', on February 26, 1977, and 'Hotel California' on May 7, 1977.

Hotel California is one of the top 15 best-selling albums of all time in any category. This also makes them one of the top 5 best-selling bands in the United States, the list including three other rock bands or artists; - The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin, with Garth Brooks being the fourth.

In 2001 the TV network VH1 named Hotel California #38 on 100 Greatest Albums of all time. Hotel California was ranked 13th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 37 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

There are rumors that the song Hotel California was inspired by a hotel which carries the same name; located in Todos Santos, Mexico, roughly two hours north of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in the Baja Peninsula, however, Don Henley has denied the linking. Many references from the song seem true such as the 'dark desert highway' leading upto Todos Santos & the 'courtyard'. Today, the actual hotel is a tourist attraction because of the namesake to the song. There is a store across the street from the hotel which sells memorabilia linking the hotel to the song.

[edit] Themes

Hotel California touched on many themes, including innocence (and the loss thereof), addiction in general (and to drugs), death, the dangers, temptation and transient nature of fame, shallow relationships, divorce and loss of love, the end results of manifest destiny, and the 'American Dream.'

Members of Eagles have described the album as a metaphor for the perceived decline of America into materialism and decadence. In an interview with Dutch magazine ZigZag shortly before the album's release, Don Henley said:

「 This is a concept album, there's no way to hide it, but it's not set in the old West, the cowboy thing, you know. It's more urban this time (. . . ) It's our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of a little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole world, if you will, and to try to wake people up and say 'We've been okay so far, for 200 years, but we're gonna have to change if we're gonna continue to be around.' 」

The album's final track, the epic 'The Last Resort', was about the demise of society. Glenn Frey on the Hotel California episode of In the Studio with Redbeard explained about the track:

「 It was the first time that Don took it upon himself to write an epic story and we were already starting to worry about the environment...we're constantly screwing up paradise and that was the point of the song and that at some point there is going to be no more new frontiers. I mean we're putting junk, er, garbage into space now. 」

[edit] Album cover

The cover image is of the Beverly Hills Hotel.