I Fear Boston

I've got two words: "Foreplay/ Longtime"

I acquired their first album on vinyl today for a couple of bucks. Sheer brilliance.

The drummer for Boston on their first record has some really, really big hair.

http://isuisse.ifrance.com/tealc/Boston/bostgrp.jpg

I once considered doing a twee four-track version of the first Boston album (this was years before Ryan Adams covered Is This It?), but it didn't get past learning the chords to "Peace of Mind."

TS Plane Problems of Rock Stars: Tom Scholz v. Gary Numan

Nah, he just had to Cool the Engines.....

Nothing terribly exotic, just a Beech Bonanza

I'm listening to Boston's Greatest Hits right now, and I just felt like pointing out that they are severely awesome. (Also, anybody else notice that "Corporate America" is pretty much the same song as "Higher Power" on the greatest hits?)

I think Boston are conceptually brilliant, but there is no point in buying their CDs or mp3s because their music only seems to "work" outdoors, unless you live in a large barn. This may only be true if you were a kid in the seventies. Also I think the cover of their first album is brilliant, I keep staring at the color contrast.

Boston is primo driving music.

B-b-but what about "Amanda"?

Amanda is brilliant schmaltz.

I myself CANNOT STAND driving with Boston playing. I am trying to figure out this group, like I said I think some of their music is brilliant, I love the idea of some huge album made by some mechanical engineer from MIT, this is fantastic but to me it is like a piece of architecture.

I like hearing Boston while driving....when it is playing in someone else's car. This is why I respect the unique "genius" of them.

I like Kansas in this way too, I really think "dust in the wind" is fantastic and again they have amazing album artwork.....but playing them in the house is not the same effect.

Try driving faster.

While I think Boston makes great driving music, I prefer to listen to them while walking. It makes me strut.

haha journey does this for me (strut while walking), much more than boston

I was a kid in the seventies when Boston was everywhere. You didn't even have the choice to hate it or not. I wonder what it would be like to be twenty or thirty years old and just get into them. I am not putting down younger Boston fans, I just wonder if the experience is the same, like, can you stand to listen to them on tiny little computer speakers?? Or maybe you listen to them at your dad's house and not your dorm room or apartment whatever.

Of course I listen to forties or fifties music all the time ....but then again I also had relatives who lived in the old houses with the old hi-fis, so I do have some sense of what it was like to listen to that music the first time around. Should I feel like a fraud for listening to that stuff because I wasn't around then?

This is why I changed my mind about live albums, I used to think they were worthless but now I realize that they are a piece of history in the way a studio recording is not and I enjoy the outdoor ambience that is on those recordings.

I think Boston are amazing partly because their sound implies the outdoor atmospheres in which those records were originally played.

kids getting into them 20-30 years later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gheg27qu3y4

The first cover says, "look at me, I am PERFECT!" Use of black, orange and sky blue is particularly memorable.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/BostonBoston.jpg

The second cover says "I am an inferior product headed right for you!"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Boston_-_Don%27t_Look_Back.jpg