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Eagles - Eagles (Hybrid SACD)
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Glenn Frey – vocals, guitars, slide guitar
Don Henley – vocals, drums
Bernie Leadon – vocals, guitars, banjo
Randy Meisner – vocals, bass guitar
1 SACD, gatefold jacket, 6-panel fold-in booklet
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Asylum Records
Recorded February 1972 at Olympic Studios, London, except "Nightingale" recorded at Wally Heider Recording, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Engineered & produced by Glyn Johns
Mastered by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA
Glass Mastered at Sonopress
Originally released in 1972
Reissued in 2024
Tracks:
- Take It Easy
- Witchy Woman
- Chug All Night
- Most Of Us Are Sad
- Nightingale
- Train Leaves Here This Morning
- Take The Devil
- Earlybird
- Peaceful Easy Feeling
- Tryin'
Awards:
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Ranked 207/500
1000 Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die - Ranked 262
Reviews :
"Balance is the key element of the Eagles' self-titled debut album, a collection that contains elements of rock & roll, folk, and country, overlaid by vocal harmonies alternately suggestive of doo wop, the Beach Boys, and the Everly Brothers. If the group kicks up its heels on rockers like "Chug All Night," "Nightingale," and "Tryin'," it is equally convincing on ballads like "Most of Us Are Sad" and "Train Leaves Here This Morning." The album is also balanced among its members, who trade off on lead vocal chores and divide the songwriting such that Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner all get three writing or co-writing credits. (Fourth member Don Henley, with only one co-writing credit and two lead vocals, falls a little behind, while Jackson Browne, Gene Clark, and Jack Tempchin also figure in the writing credits.) The album's overall balance is worth keeping in mind because it produced three Top 40 hit singles (all of which turned up on the massively popular Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975) that do not reflect that balance. "Take It Easy" and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" are similar-sounding mid-tempo folk-rock tunes sung by Frey that express the same sort of laid-back philosophy, as indicated by the word "easy" in both titles, while "Witchy Woman," a Henley vocal and co-composition, initiates the band's career-long examination of supernaturally evil females. These are the songs one remembers from Eagles, and they look forward to the eventual dominance of the band by Frey and Henley. But the complete album from which they come belongs as much to Leadon's country-steeped playing and singing and to Meisner's melodic rock & roll feel, which, on the release date, made it seem a more varied and consistent effort than it did later, when the singles had become overly familiar." AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
“Eagles was recorded at London's Olympic Studios with seasoned producer/engineer Glyn Johns at the helm. The result was a sonically compelling and richly textured recording, and MoFi's SACD excellent mastering provides superb detail, open dynamics, and extension, It's a bit dryer on top in comparison to the original LP, which, characteristic of that analog era, also has the slight advantage in acoustic warmth and texture. Nonetheless, and now 50 years on, a great effort by Mobile Fidelity.” Neil Gader, The Absolute Sound
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.84 / 5 ; The Absolute Sound : Music 4/5, Sonics 4/5