loading
reading
writing
saving
searching
BOSTON 1976 Original CD - $10 (Fullerton)
QR Code Link to This Post
(On Amazon $12.00)
Boston 1976 - CD / Remastered
Original Release Date: 1976 / Run time: 37 minutes / Date First Available: September 2, 2000
Track Listings - Lightly Scratched
1 More Than a Feeling
2 Peace of Mind
3 Foreplay / Long Time
4 Rock & Roll Band
5 Smokin'
6 Hitch a Ride
7 Something About You
8 Let Me Take You Home Tonight
"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 recedes into the past, but it's really just part of the disc's charm. Let it take you home tonight.