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Boston | 
 enlarge | Artist: Boston
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  229 reviews
Sales Rank: 57733
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 074643418829
EAN: 0074643418829
ASIN: B000002572
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | More Than a Feeling | | • | Peace of Mind | | • | Foreplay/Long Time | | • | Rock and Roll Band | | • | Smokin' - Boston, Delp, Bradley | | • | Hitch a Ride | | • | Something About You | | • | Let Me Take You Home Tonight |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
"Better music through science" was the Epic Records-coined slogan that Boston leader Tom Scholz hated, but this masterwork of studio-happy, high-school-parking-lot music earned it. Scholz fine-tuned his overdubbed guitar orchestra to a pitch that a thousand subsequent album-rockers couldn't resist. And why should they? Where the band's later records were hardly worthy of note, Boston pulls together classic after classic: "More Than a Feeling," "Peace of Mind," "Hitch a Ride." The pseudo-cosmic ambience invites scoffs as the year 2000 approaches, but it's really just part of the disc's charm. Let it take you home tonight. --Rickey Wright
Album Description
2 of the biggest selling albums in rock history - Originally re-released as digi-packs in '06, these are the jewel cased versions @ 4.90 dp. Both albums are 8 trks & have been remastered from original tapes, by Tom Scholz. Same photos & liner notes as previous. Online campaign & database mailout.
Album Details
Limited Digipack Remaster with New Liner Notes.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Indeed, if you don't know Boston, you don't know Classic Rock July 29, 2008
Jonathan Mares (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are many good reviews for this records: take a look for yourself, 260 good ones to about 20 bad ones. As far as the bad ones go, you never what style of music they like; they may not listen to rock at all, but be Hip Hop or Classical enthusiasts. It is just so wrong to say that Boston is cliche and uninteresting. First of all, the fact that people still listen to this music 30 years later means a lot; many bands don't even live past 5 years (look at all the pop, hip-hop, and so called "rock" bands that play on mtv and on the radio). Boston has one of the most interesting music ever played. It is complex, melodic, harmonic, and beautiful. Just compare the guitar tabs with for example "Boys like girls" music. Boston's music is very difficult to play, while this so called modern rock boys like girls is simple and repetitive. In fact, this is the only album I have listened to that I like every song on the album. It is true that the future quality of the music has declined, but for people who say that Boston is short lived and not dynamic, I disagree once more. If you listen to Corporate America, none of the songs have the bright feeling of their first album. Not to say it is worse, it is just different. "I had a good time" is their best "new" Boston song, which is equally as worth buying as this album. There is also no way someone can see Brad Delp is bad. His voice is like Freddie Mercury's. It is powerful and impossible to immitate. Besides that, who else invented his own recording equipment? (I am talking about Tom Scholz). This band is a must for every Classic Rock listener. There is no possible way a person who likes music like The Eagles, Queen, Pink FLoyd, Led Zeppelin, or The Police can say that this does not belong in a classic rock collection.
And yes I live in New York, and no, I am not a Red Sox fan.
Boston January 7, 2008
Harry Brewer (S'port, La.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
How good do you have to get to consider an album to be essential? I'm not sure but I know what I like & as good as this album is, for some reason, I don't come back to it. I listen to it & I go: Man, what an album; there's not a bad thing on it! And yet.... it may be a month before I listen to it again.
As far as arena rock goes it doesn't get much better than this. These songs were ready to go live the minute they were created. Tom Scholz is a genius, more ways than one, Brad Delp an incredible singer. I imagine the rest of the group doesn't matter that much because all the rest of the original lineup has come & gone.
Boston is a very good album & an incredible debut. So..., why don't I listen to it more often?
 enough is enough October 8, 2007
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
While Boston had lots of success (and we can't deny it) when it comes down to it, these songs have been beaten to a bloody pulp thanks to overexposure. "More Than a Feeling" may have been a great listening experience when it came out, but now it's been played SO many times I just wanna scream every time it comes on the TV or radio. "Peace of Mind" is right behind it. If I have to hear these songs ONE MORE TIME!!!
"Foreplay/Long Time" is yet another song we've heard more often than not. While I like the instrumental bit "Foreplay", the song morphs into a typical, commercially-smooth overexposed nightmare of a song with "Long Time". The rest of the tracks on the album are better, but again, how many times have we heard them? Thousands of times. "Smokin" and "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" are still tolerable, at least.
If you're starting your 70's rock collection with this band, it's gonna be a VERY long and mediocre ride.
THIS SHOULD BE IN EVERYONES COLLECTION September 26, 2007
Troubadorbrews (Salem, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You can't truly love Rock-N-Roll and not have this CD in your collection. What a fenomenal debut album. This is definitely one of the top 20 of all time.
The most influential rock album of the 70's April 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Was this album the beginning of "arena rock"? Yes it is.It's also safe to say that this was the first "melodic" hard rock album.This album marked the first time that hard rock incorporated elements of pop.This album sold very well in 1976 considering it had some stiff competition mostly from Peter Framptom's live album.This album really stood out because of it's high tech edge complete with sci-fi sound effects.The high pitched vocals and guitar riffs also sounded great and made this album sound completely different from any other rock album made during this era.
This debut album from Boston helped to pave the way for other bands such as Foreigner,Survivor,Toto,Journey and 38 Special that would make a similar type of rock that would become radio friendly and quite frankly,this album had an influence that would set the standard for rock music well into the 1980's.
If you don't have this album,you need to buy it.You cannot go wrong.Every single song is perfect and is a staple on classic rock radio even today.A lot of 80's metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest would draw on the influences of this album as well as artists across other genres.Rock music fans of all generations will find something to like on this album.People who listened to this album as children are now listening to it as adults.I can remember my dad playing this album on 8-track in his car and that's how I was turned on to it.It is amazing that more than three decades later,the production and sound have held up very well and it has now received a long awaited remastering by the band's founder and guitarist,Tom Scholz.You cannot call yourself a true fan of rock unless you own this so buy it today!!
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