Eagles - On The Border
(Numbered Hybrid SACD)
NUMBERED SPECIAL EDITION
With its name indicative of the music’s boundary-testing diversity and Southwestern inspiration, On the Border finds the Eagles embracing a harder edge that establishes the band as a group that knows how &mdash and wants &mdash to rock. Glenn Frey, Don Henley, new member Don Felder, and company immediately announce their intent on the defiant album-opening hit “Already Gone” and never look back, crafting a record that from start to finish is arguably their most consistent and balanced effort. The double-platinum
set ultimately established the Eagles as a commercial force whose musical range transcended the calmer country-leaning style they perfected on their first two LPs. Throughout On the Border, the Eagles are in no mood to mess around.
Mastered from the original analog master tapes and packaged in a mini-LP gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of On the Border provides a lively, dynamic, and transparent view of a record whose influence continues to grow. The opportunity to zero in on the particulars of producer Bill Szymczyk’s raw production – let alone the band’s golden harmonies, vocal timbres, and cohesive interplay – brings the brilliance of the performances into full relief. Listen, for example, without limits to how Szymczyk’s approach stamps the throttle-twisting “James Dean” with a leather- and-jeans cool befitting its protagonist. And how the slide-guitar- fueled “Good Day in Hell” boasts its own mean streak. Filled with revealing details, On the Border has never sounded so good.
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