Eagles – One Of These Nights

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Eagles – One Of These Nights, numbered-edition hybrid SACD.

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Eagles – One Of These Nights

Eagles - One Of These Nights

One of These Nights occupies an important, unique place in the Eagles’ discography given it represents the final album the group made before releasing the bajillion-selling Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) compilation.

The timing is telling.

A coming-out party for Glenn Frey and Don Henley’s songwriting skills, the studio record – the band’s fourth, and its first to hit #1 on the charts – signifies the group’s ascent to superstar status.

Home to three massive singles (the title track, “Lyin’ Eyes,” and “Take It to the Limit”) and nominated for four Grammy Awards, the quadruple-platinum 1975 effort solidified the Eagles’ Southern California-reared sound and made the band a household name.

Mastered from the original analogue tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and limited to 10,000 copies, Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP vinyl box set takes One of These Nights to the limit.

And then some.

Playing with reference sonics and a practically indiscernible noise floor thanks to MoFi SuperVinyl’s special formula, it provides a rich, dynamic, transparent, and three-dimensional view into a release that moved country-rock ahead by leaps and bounds – and paved the way for the Eagles’ ascendancy to global superstardom.

The opportunity to zero in on the particulars of the Eagles’ golden harmonies, distinct vocal timbres, and cohesive interplay has never been better.

Visually, the premium packaging and presentation of the UD1S One of These Nights pressing befit its esteemed status.

Housed in a deluxe box, it features beautiful foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendour of the recording.

From every angle, this UD1S reissue exists as a curatorial artefact meant to be preserved, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners that prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in the art – and everything involved with the album, from the renowned cover art to the meticulous finishes. As much as any Eagles LP, the connection between the imagery and the music and the band on One of These Nights runs deep. No wonder it led to a Grammy Nomination for Best Album Package.

Devised by West Texas artist Boyd Elder, the striking skull-and-feathers themed piece gracing the front of One of These Nights represents where the Eagles have been and where they were headed. Album art director Gary Burden explained: “The cow skull is pure cowboy, folk, the decorations are American Indian-inspired, and the future is represented by the more polished reflective glass beaded surfaces covering the skull.”

Moreover, Elder had met the group years earlier when Henley and company performed at one of his gallery openings in California. MoFi’s UD1S box set allows Elder’s vision (and Burden’s debossed treatment of the image) to pop and appear as if it was a stand-alone object.

Of course, what’s inside the sleeves, and in the grooves, proves equally compelling. Though One of These Nights marks the final appearance of band co-founder Bernie Leadon on an Eagles LP and contains three of his tunes, the record’s tremendous success owes to Frey and Henley’s timeless contributions.

Taking the next step in their maturation and evolution, the pair crafted several songs while living together as roommates in a rented house in which they converted a music room into a recording studio.

The duo’s bond and chemistry pulse throughout the record – particularly in the tight arrangements, tasteful instrumental flourishes, and seamless blending of the folk, country, and rock elements.

The musical combinations and partnership not only produced the Eagles’ first million-selling single (the slow-dancing “Take It to the Limit,” co-written with bassist-vocalist Randy Meisner) and the Frey-led cheating classic “Lyin’ Eyes,” but the famed title track, which nods to the era’s nascent disco scene as well as Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philly soul platters.

Frey named “One of These Nights” as his favorite Eagles composition of all-time; Meisner’s high harmonies alone send the track into a galaxy of its own. Speaking of the latter, Leadon’s instrumental “Journey of the Sorcerer” ventures into another universe and was soon used by Douglas Adams as the theme to his “The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” radio series. Inspiration and creative experimentation also dragged the Eagles into the blues.

Another Frey-Henley gem, the self-probing “After the Thrill Is Gone” serves as a response song to B.B. King’s signature track and more evidence the band was turning the lens inward for lyrical narratives. Like everything on One of These Nights, the song confirms the Eagles were breathing rare musical air.

More About Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step and Why It Is Superior
Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s new UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step, bypassing two processes of generational loss. While three-step processing is designed for optimum yield and efficiency, UD1S is created for the ultimate in sound quality.

Just as Mobile Fidelity pioneered the UHQR (Ultra High-Quality Record) with JVC in the 1980s, UD1S again represents another state-of-the-art advance in the record-manufacturing process. MFSL engineers begin with the original master recordings, painstakingly transfer them to DSD 256, and meticulously cut a set of lacquers. These lacquers are used to create a very fragile, pristine UD1S stamper called a “convert.”

Delicate “converts” are then formed into the actual record stampers, producing a final product that literally and figuratively brings you closer to the music. By skipping the additional steps of pulling another positive and an additional negative, as done in the three-step process used in standard pressings, UD1S produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today.

The removal of the additional two steps of generational loss in the plating process reveals tremendous amounts of extra musical detail and dynamics, which are otherwise lost due to the standard copying process. Every conceivable aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the most perfect record album available today.

MoFi SuperVinyl

Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever devised.

Analogue 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.

Track List:

One of These Nights
Too Many Hands
Hollywood Waltz
Journey of the Sorcerer
Lyin’ Eyes
Take It to the Limit
Visions
After the Thrill Is Gone

Eagles - One Of These Nights

Limited Edition Hybrid SACD

Mastered from the original analogue tapes!!

Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD helps take One of These Nights to new limits.

Playing with reference sonics and incredible clarity, it provides a rich, dynamic, transparent, and three-dimensional view into a release that moved country-rock ahead by leaps and bounds – and paved the way for the Eagles’ ascendancy to global superstardom.

The opportunity to zero in on the particulars of the Eagles’ golden harmonies, distinct vocal timbres, and cohesive interplay has never been better. Everything about the record continues to resonate and connect with multiple generations, including the striking cover art.

Devised by West Texas artist Boyd Elder, the now-familiar skull-and-feathers themed piece that graces the front of One of These Nights represents where the Eagles have been and where they were going.

Album art director Gary Burden explained: “The cow skull is pure cowboy, folk, the decorations are American Indian-inspired, and the future is represented by the more polished reflective glass beaded surfaces covering the skull.”

Moreover, Elder met the group years earlier when Henley and company performed at one of his gallery openings in California.

MoFi’s UD1S box set allows Elder’s vision, and Burden’s debossed treatment, to pop and appear as if it was a standalone object.

Of course, what’s inside the sleeve proves equally compelling.

Though One of These Nights marks the final appearance of band co-founder Bernie Leadon on an Eagles LP and contains three of his tunes, the record’s tremendous success owes to Frey and Henley’s timeless contributions.

Taking the next step in their maturation and evolution, the pair crafted several songs while living together as roommates in a rented house in which they converted a music room into a recording studio.

The duo’s bond and chemistry pulse throughout the record – particularly in the tight arrangements, tasteful instrumental flourishes, and seamless blending of the folk, country, and rock elements.

The musical combinations and partnership not only produced the Eagles’ first million-selling single (the slow-dancing “Take It to the Limit,” co-written with bassist-vocalist Randy Meisner) and the Frey-led cheating classic “Lyin’ Eyes,” but the famed title track, which nods to the era’s nascent disco scene as well as Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philly soul platters.

Frey named “One of These Nights” as his favorite Eagles composition of all-time; Meisner’s high harmonies alone send the track into a galaxy of its own.

Speaking of the latter, Leadon’s instrumental “Journey of the Sorcerer” ventures into another universe and was soon used by Douglas Adams as the theme to his “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” radio series.

Inspiration and creative experimentation also dragged the Eagles into the blues. Another Frey-Henley gem, the self-probing “After the Thrill Is Gone” serves as a response song to B.B. King’s signature track and more evidence the band was turning the lens inward for lyrical narratives.

Like everything on One of These Nights, the song confirms the Eagles were breathing rare musical air.

Track List: Eagles – One Of These Nights

1. One of These Nights
2. Too Many Hands
3. Hollywood Waltz
4. Journey of the Sorcerer
5. Lyin’ Eyes
6. Take It to the Limit
7. Visions
8. After the Thrill Is Gone
9. I Wish You Peace

 

Additional information

Version

180G Vinyl, SACD

Brand

Mobile Fidelity

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