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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 43 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5110
Category: Music
Artist: Boston
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Label: Sony
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 82241
UPC: 828768224120
EAN: 0828768224120
ASIN: B000EQ47HC
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Don't Look Back | | • | The Journey | | • | It's Easy | | • | A Man I'll Never Be | | • | Feelin' Satisfied | | • | Party | | • | Used To Bad News | | • | Don't Be Afraid |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Popular concensus is wrong: This album contains some of Boston's best May 25, 2009
Popular opinion is that this is the weak followup to Boston's classic debut album. The truth is that half of this album represents Boston's BEST work of all time, while the other half is filler. The first half of this album is terrific, from the opening chords of the title track to "Man I'll Never Be", this is ace stuff. The trouble lies entirely on side two, which is generally sub-mediocre. The hidden treat on this side is "Used to Bad News", which is a great sonic pop bon-bon. Tom Scholz' record label rushed him to release the record, and it's painfully obvious on the remainder of the second "side" (second half for you CD fans). Nonetheless, the good stuff is so good, I'm inclined to give the whole album 4 stars. Make your own compilation by jettisoning the remainder of side two and adding most of the first LP, and you have one for the guitar gods' time capsule.
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 A 70's Arena Rock Delight! April 22, 2009
Most of the time without question I go for a music that tends to be deep in thought or feeling. But there's no question this almost too easy to find album is still a lot of fun. What you'll find yourself getting here is 33 minutes of....pure classic hard rock. Big guitars,big singers,big harmonies and big anthemic hooks purely for the sake of it-no pretentious need to TRY make some big point-it's basic rock for the fun of it,THAT'S the point! "Don't Look Back" is just one of those tunes that you can really rock out to at a party."The Man I'll Never Be" is the slower and more sensative of the two starting as kind of a ballad while "It's Easy","Feelin' Satisified","Party" and "Used To Be Bad News" are just all full of fun and the love of life. "Don't Be Afraid" is kind of a variation on the title but has this really nice,kind of funky drum breakdown at the end. I will not but this as part of the music that saved it's era from disco because there was nothing to be saved from.Disco was born of funk and funk NEVER sucks so how could disco? That's my view on that but for it's place in rock n roll history this is a great little rock album that's full of life;great to party two or get you up,roused and moving on a dreary day!
Not Boston's best, but still a great album April 20, 2009
Boston (or Tom) had 10 years to perfect their debut album, and only 10 months to produce this followup. Many were disappointed by this effort, but very few bands have ever made back to back classic albums only a year apart. Zep did it, AC/DC has done it, the Beatles, Aerosmith, the Stones and maybe a few others.
Boston got so big, so fast, they were launched into that tier of arena rock stardom before they were ready, and suffered from unreasonable expectations.
Having said all that, this album is still a classic, and a must have for any real Boston fan. This remastered version is one of the few digitally remastered records from the 70's that actually sound better with the new technology. This is partly because Boston never buried any imperfections under an analog "wall of sound", and partly because Tom was so heavily involved in this remaster.
I'd recommend this to a Boston fan, but a casual 70's rock fan would probably be better off downloading the title track off a music download service.
Not quite as good as the EPIC LEGACY disc April 10, 2009
I purchased the original debut disc (the sound was so-so)and then when the EPIC LEGACY SBM discs came out...I snagged one....MAJOR MASTERING IMPROVEMENT!!!! These discs sound as close to perfect as perfect can be....I recently grabbed the latest "remaster" done by Tom Scholz himself because I was curious to see if the he could use technology to improve his masterpiece....
The LEGACY has a much fuller, transparent sound....the drums and bass are perfectly balanced with the music and voices....the bass isn't muddy and murky.....On the latest venture...I think Scholz was aiming at pleasing the lower budget stereo systems, where equalization control is minimal...I also feel the vocals and guitars are thinner and lack alot of mids...but that's how most producers today like to mix sound....alot of lows and highs and screw the mids.
All in all, it's a pretty good remastering job....and for the money...you can't go wrong. Now if you're like me and want the absolute sound and want to hear it the way it should have been mixed, you need to find the SONY LEGACY GOLD DISCS
If you can score an EPIC LEGACY disc of this....GRAB IT!!!! I got mine brand new for $19.95.....and I've seen it since go for well over $100.00 on here and ebay.
I also rated the debut remaster the same way....they could have been a double disc...as they were recorded in very much the same way.
Unmistakable Brilliance :) April 5, 2009
I used to have this CD 10 or 15 years ago. At a particularly low point I was forced to sell my entire collection for gas money on a move. Some how this was one of the last ones that I replaced. Lately I've been listening to this, and its 3 companion Boston CD's nearly non stop.
In the last 2 months I've been putting the finishing touch on my soon to be released book, "Desert Storm Diaries - Letters From Home" and listening to Boston has really helped put me back in my 1990 Gulf War frame of mind, since I listened to some of these same tracks during the war!
For more info on th book "Desert Storm Diaries - Letters From Home" please check out the blog http://carlincomm.com/desertstormdiaries/
There are plenty of reviews on this site for this CD, so I'll leave the track descriptions to them. For me, it just took me right back to being on the ship, smelling the salt spray and jet exhaust... good stuff!
Carlin
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