Boston

A great album from a band that never was!

The album cover art alone is worth the purchase. The 1970's and the early 1980's music was and is fabolus.

8)

The best

Packaged well, great quality, awesome sound. You can’t go wrong with Boston !!!

I’m that 15 yo kid listening to a cassette tape on my portable tandy (Radio Shack) player, laying out on a picnic table in my parent’s backyard, with the early morning, early summer sun, shining down. All was right, perfect in my world. And it feels like the first time. Again.That cassette is long gone. So is the 8 track and the many vinyls afterwards. The hi res DSD lives on, gloriously. But nothing supplants the needle drop. Remarkable record considering it was their debut, but it plays like a “greatest hits” collection. I was also very fortunate to witness the band, with all original members, on more than one occasion, and I am here to tell ya They Were Great Live. Even during a downpour!

Best album ever, the reason it gets a 4 star rating is because the first record I got from Amazon was ether used or came from the factory beat up scratched and very dirty, Got a replacement they next day and it was new and in perfect shape. So...

This album is truly one of rock'n'roll's greatest. Produced almost single-handedly by Tom Scholz, in a home-brew basement studio, it broke upon the disco-drenched music scene of 1976 like a tidal wave. Indeed, the sound was unlike anything which had come before it; so different in fact that, when I first heard it, I didn't like it a bit. However, I gave the music a chance and, within a month, it had made an indelible impression on me and joined my short list of favorite albums which, at that time, included, the Moody Blues "Sacred Seven albums", the Eagles' "Desperado", Derek and the Dominoes' "Layla and Other Love Songs", the Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" and CCR's "Green River" and "Cosmo's Factory", none of which sounded anything like what Tom Scholz had turned out with Boston.To this day I find it difficult to describe what it is about Boston's music that makes it so unique. Yes, it's hard-driving, but that describes the music of a lot of other groups before and since, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, and Nazareth all come to mind. It is wonderfully melodic and showed that rock could be as complex as classical music, but so was the music being turned out by Uriah Heep, particularly "Salisbury", "Demons and Wizards", and "Magician's Birthday", along with others such as Queen. It has a depth of texture that very few bands of the period achieved, the only real contenders in that area being Uriah Heep and Queen. I suppose that, all things considered, it is the manner in which Tom Scholz brought all of these elements together, combined with Brad Delp's incomparable vocals, and the lyrics that spoke to a young romantic's heart, that gives the music its special appeal.This year, 2006, marks the re-release of a digitally re-mastered "Boston" and "Don't Look Back". The re-mastering was done by none other than the original genius himself, Tom Scholz and the results are incredible. There is a warmth to the sound that I've never heard before on either the original vinyl LPs or the CD releases from the 1990s. Tom has finally brought Brad Delp front and center and one is reminded of just how much of an impact his vocals had on the music. This is simply the music as Tom intended it to sound all those years ago. There have been no drastic changes, but the incremental improvements that digital technology can achieve have been combined in a such a way as to render the old releases archaic. The music has a life that reminds me of the impact it had on me all those years ago, after I'd settled down after my original rejection of the sound and really listened to what was going on. This re-issue brings the individual instruments to life in a way that I've never heard them before. One can hear the individual strings of the guitars, including the rhythm guitar, being struck, the cymbals shimmer as I've never heard before, the acoustic introduction to "Hitch a Ride" is so transparent as to sound unearthly. Thanks Tom.