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Topic: Boston
Posted By: jean-marie
Subject: Boston
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 10:12
don't know about further releases but difficult to choose from the first two, think i'll go with the first one because of more than a feeling 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 15:41
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Debut album is great, it gets my vote. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 15:49
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Impossible for me to choose. I do have a soft spot for Third Stage though. "Hollyann" is far better song than "Amanda."
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 16:39
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I like Don't Look Back more than the others. -------------   
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 16:43
| anyway the band was great on stage, saw it on stage after the second album release , incredible!!! |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 17:37
| Voted for the debut-also saw them in concert in the summer of 1977 at the Ottawa Civic Center, Ottawa, Canada, with a gigantic flurescent backdrop of the debut cover-remember it as a fantastic concert! |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 19:10
saw them on october 1979 in paris,it was powerful and perfect , guitars , keys , vocal harmonies ,i remember of a keyboards part sounding like big church organs ,realy impressive
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 20:46
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lucas wrote:Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 20:49
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Definitely the debut, one of the best debuts ever actually. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 02:42
| "Third stage" here, I thought that was as close as they got to prog. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 10:45
"Easy livin', and i've been forgiven, since you've taken your place in my heart" Am i right about the reference? |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 10:55
Spot on presdoug, I am that person.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 10:57
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Oh gawd.... Specialist subject "The bleedin' obvious" ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 10:59
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 15:33
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 15:40
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My Boston joke is calling that overplayed song Moaning A Feeling. I thing Mary Anne is walking away now. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 17:10
 What do you call an overweight supervisor? A Bosston. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: April 01 2011 at 01:29
| For some reason I've always had a thing for "Don't Look Back". |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: April 01 2011 at 06:06
Okay, I know many of you will now beat on me, but that's okay. No vote, I think Boston is one of the most over rated bands ever. Except for creating their signature "Live" arena rock sound in the studio-thanks to Tom Sholes engineering abilities and creation of his own effects-I find their music dull and boring. I saw them live twice-my wife and her sister are big fans-and almost fell asleep both times. I think a lot of their popularity comes from when they got noticed-a fairly weak period in rock. If they had been around in the late 60's or 70's I don't think they'd have been very popular. Just my opinion. You can yell at me now. 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 01 2011 at 06:51
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I confess to never being a fan of the band either. But to say something nice: nice cover art. They were having popular success around the time I was getting into prog, and I was dismissive of more popular stuff. The irony was that the prog giants were also starting to do more commercial stuff around the same time.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: April 01 2011 at 12:22
| Yeah, the cover art was nice. They had talent, but they were a product of a time when the industry was becoming more corporate and the music became "product" rather than something creative, That's a major reason a lot of the prog giants were doing more commercial stuff. It was the only way they could survive with the big labels. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 01 2011 at 13:50
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come on!! give me some more industry crap! i love boston, not creative? POP MUSIC has often been creative and so was BOSTON , IMO it's progpop
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 09:39
It's my opinion. I was a musician in the 80's playing prog and no labels wanted anything to do with us because we weren't "POP" enough. I don't find Boston creative or interesting, and with the exception of Foreplay I don't find them proggy. Yes, there are "POP" bands that have been and are creative, I just don't think Boston was one of them. I have no issue with you or anybody else liking them, I'm just making a comment based on my experience and feelings.
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 09:55
 at the time ,and of course i know business was behind boston ,but it didn't spoil my pleasure, i was just joking after a few strong belgium beers
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 10:27
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I looked them up on the Wikki and the articles says they have prog elements or something to that effect. Who am I to argue against that? But you know, I was exposed to a lot of pop growing up what with the radio and everything, so I'll never disparage well crafted pop. I'm just not sure it's out there these days, but I'm an old fart and not really looking anyway.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 12:31
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it's ok i can understand all those thinking ther's no prog in boston, but ther's a big difference between boston and .....i don't know... the bangles, am i right to hear boston as more prog than the bangles?
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 12:41
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Boston are definitely creative, Prog or not. The idea that they aren't is absurd imo. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 13:05
 you're sometimes my best friend
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 21:02
No worries! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 12:07
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Among those celebrating Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 150th anniversary over the weekend was Tom Scholz. The MIT alum and mastermind behind the formerly mega-selling band Boston performed with the Pops at Symphony Hall, wearing a tuxedo shirt and playing his signature Mighty Mouse Les Paul guitar. (In his intro, Pops conductor Keith Lockhart recalled how Boston’s first LP was the soundtrack to his senior year of high school.) Scholz played a new song, “Last Day of School,’’ on the Symphony Hall pipe organ. He played four songs on guitar to a sold-out house backed by the orchestra, ending the set with “To Be a Man’’ from the “Third Stage’’ album. ------------- 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 13:16
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Always had a thing for Don't Look Back. What? no Walk On? No Corporate America? They wouldn't have gotten many voted, but they DO exist y'know
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 13:23
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i went with Do't Look Back because my favourite Boston song is Party.
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 13:50
| Thought I'd give "Third stage" a boost. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 16:10
I'm bloody well annoyed that the brilliant Barclaycard advert which used More Than A Feeling now has Cilla Black 'Down Town'. What complete imbecile came up with that   Anyway as it should be ok its a bit off topic  the making of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t4IshMNRsA&NR=1" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t4IshMNRsA&NR=1
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Posted By: cannon
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 16:32
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Thier debut, a classic. Has to be one of the most overproduced albums in rock history. With that being said some overproduced albums work, like Boston's s/t debut and some don't like A Bat Out Of Hell.
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 17:36
| I'm listening back to these three albums right now, they aged well, still enjoy them as much |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 09:04
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Haven't heard Third Stage, but the first two are fantastic. Not sure which one is better. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 09:27
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The only song I still like by this band is More Than a Feeling. That song is just perfect. The rest have gotten old, though I liked them a lot when I was younger. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 09:57
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Catchy guitar riff when on the radio, but corporate rock to the hilt. This stuff is so artificial....takes years to record one solo! Give me James Blood Ulmer, hell give me any jazz or blues guitarist outside of Larry Carlton and Earl Klugh, any day over that Tom Schnoz nerd. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 13:07
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 01:47
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More Than A Feeling is still one of my favourite songs. The track that used to get played on the Friday Rock show though was Foreplay/Long Time. Has one of the best instrumental intros influenced by Kansas (The Spider) perhaps?
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