Boston: Boston [2006 Remaster] CD Track Listing

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Boston Boston [2006 Remaster] (1976)
Boston (Scholz Remaster)\n2006 Epic/Legacy\n\nOriginally Released September 1976\nOriginal CD Edition Released January 1986\nGold MasterSound CD Edition Released July 12, 1994\nSACD Edition Released July 4, 2000\nTom Scholz Remastered CD Edition Relased June 13, 2006\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Boston is one of the best-selling albums of all time, and deservedly so. Because of the rise of disco and punk, FM rock radio seemed all but dead until the rise of acts like Boston, Tom Petty, and Bruce Sprinsteen. Nearly every song on Boston's debut album can still be heard on classic rock radio today due to the strong vocals of Brad Delp and unique guitar sound of Tom Scholz. Tom Scholz, who wrote most of the songs, was a studio wizard and used self-dsigned equipment such as 12-track recording devices to come up with an anthemic "arena rock" sound before the term was even coined. The sound was hard rock, but the layered melodies and harmonics reveal the workof a master craftsman. While much has een written about the sound of thealbum, the lyrics are often overlooked. There are songs about their rise from a bar band ("Rock and Roll Band") as well as fond remembrances of summers gone by ("More Than a Feeling"). Boston is essential for any fa of classic rock, and the album marks the re-emergence of the genre in the 1970s. -- Vik Iyengar\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The album that virtually defined '70s FM rock has sold over fifteen million copies and featured the smash hits "More than a Feelin, " "Peace of Mind, " and "Let Me Take You Home Tonight." -- Donna DiChario\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA 70's touchstone, perfectly remastered., June 23, 2006\nReviewer: M J Heilbron Jr. "Dr. Mo" (Long Beach, CA United States)\nYou are readingthis, I hope, in order to decide whether or not to purchase this CD. \nYou are probably inordinately familiar with the album. It is an album, like "Rumours" or "Saturday Night Fever" or "Frampton Comes Alive", which captures and defines the bestand orst of an era. It sounds like nothing else of the time. \nSure, it has a little Queen, a little southern boogie, a little ELO even...but it'sa "Boston" sound, through and through. \nThere's no need to address the individual songs. \nYou know them. ou love them. You have them memorized.\nYou know that the end of the album gets a little weak, but you probablykept replaying that one side anyways. Or at least MOST of the time. \nSo,the BIG question is...how well is the remastering done? \nWell, yu know how some remastering cleans things up with such detail and precision you feel like you are in the studio? \nOr they expand the soundstage that you can "see" the players in their respective position? \nOr the studio trickery comes alive insideyour headphones, making your eyeballs swirl? \n\nNot here. Which is perfect. \nWhat Scholz and company have done is restore andpreserve the original warm sound. No more pops, clicks or scratches. No more tape hiss from your old 8-tracks or cassettes \nThe album never sounded "live" to begin with. There are no dramatic swoops, no bizarre effects.\nThe songs are mixed as a whole. Vocals are overdubbed, guitars are processed...this is not an attempt at reality, this is rock and roll fantasy.\nAndas such, it works phenomenally well. The instruments are warm and clear. The vocals soar operatically. \nYou'll sing along in your car or on your iPod in embarrassing fashion, and you'll air-guitar about half a dozen times. You won't be able to resit. \nYou'll recall all the fun you had in the seventies, and none of the bad fashion or haircuts. \nTime to buy now. Have a nice day!\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nWOW!, June 21, 2006\nReviewer: J. Thomas "jimmyjames8" (Out on the Lost Highway)\nIts been 30 years since going to the Record Bar and hearing Boston blasting out of some(Bose probably) speakers hanging on the wall. It didn't take with me at first and then it did and then they were just overplayed and over exposed. Fast forward to smmer of '78 and Boston is out on tour with Van Halen andthe Outlaws doing that O'rena Rock thing. They played a gig in the local college football bowl and damn near if not, blew VH off the stage. Pipe organ et al. \n\nNever owned the records and nevr played them on the air asa college radio DJ. We were far to progressive and hip for that. Fast forward a lifetime and I read that these discs are out as a Tom Scholz remaster. The guy was just way ahead of his time. A genius for sure. They don't lt knuckle heads into MIT. A guy from my high school with a perfect SAT score and an AF scholarship, flunked out and followed a Bhagwan around the globe for a while. \n\nThese discs are excellent. Guitars everywhere. Veryhigh production values. Pristne sound except for the original distortion. Bass guitar parts get better sounding and louder as you go thru both discs in running order. Kind of buried in the mix in the first few cuts. Minor quibles. If you are a Boston fan you will have to have tese discs. If you are 16 years old and wonder what all the fuss was about, you at least need to hear these discs and decide for yourself. Air guitar lessons will be the next step.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nGreat remaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, June 15 2006\nReviewer: Chi Fan - See all my reviews\nBelow is a letter from Tom Scholz posted on Boston.org regarding the remastering of thisalbum and the follow-up, Don't Look Back, but before I get to that I havea few comments. \n\nI have loved this albm since it's debut in 1976 and I have always felt that the last song "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" sounded different from the other songs and now the liner notes of the remastered "Boston" verify that belief. On all of the other songs, with few excptions, Tom Scholz played all instruments except drums. Barry played a lead here and Fran played a bass there, but that is about it. That is, except for "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" where Tom only played the organ. I mention this because I remembe folks complaining about "Third Stage" and "Walk On" stating that they could tell a difference between these latter albums,which noted Tom as the player of most of the instruments, and the earlierones where Boston was "a band." Little did they know hat it was the samemethod. \n\nA letter from Tom Scholz regarding the newly remastered Debutalbum and Don't Look Back! \n\nWhat the Deuce IS UP With Boston? \n\nMy apologies to you all for the unintentional silence about Boston activities and plans,especially concerning a reissue of the first two Boston albums.Oddly enough I was just beginning a letter like this, when that topic jumped onto my computer, forcing me to drop everything, including communicating with all of you. \nSo now you know Ido see postings on these sites! Not all of them, but enough to know your collective feelings about Boston, and btw, thank you. \nEven though half of what I read is dead wrong and theother half I disagree with (you knew I was hard to please...), it'sreally gratifying to know that so many people appreciate this music and the message behind it. Those of you who just write to say encouraging things, please believe that you have saved me from giving up many times! \n\nSo, after the 2004 Boston tourended, I set about recording some new material. Some of it sounds more like old Boston, some sounds more like later albums, all of it has me excited. Unfortunately I was hampered from working effectively in the studio by complications from a back inury in 2003. \nIt seemsI may have been the victim of something my doctor referred to as acetaminophen poisoning. I used Tylenol regularly on and off the tours for some time, and as I have since read about, this apparently may have wreaked havocwith he health of some important organs. No, I don't mean the Hammond orthe pipe organ, I mean mine. \nFortunately I'm now doing much better and back to full strength, and full speed in the studio...OK, I know what you're thinking, just keep it to yoursef! \nI had to hold up recording for a couple of weeks last year for some overdue studio repairs; three months later I was nearly finished soldering, drilling, and banging when I discovered the announced Sony Legacy Boston reissue on line. (Funny howex-band members who haven't played in Boston for 25 years knew about these plans ahead of time...) I was mildly surprised to find out that two albums embodying all of my writing, performing, producing and engineering work from the 70's had been "remstered" by someone I didn't know, with added live recordings mixed by someone else I didn't know, and I hadn't even heard it! WhenI finally did hear it, I wished I hadn't. \n\nAlthough I got used to getting screwed royally by business types in the msic world, the audacity of this particularly inconsiderate liberty with my art got my attention very quickly. \nAlthough I was pretty sure there had been a violation of my rights using the name Boston for this abomination, I decided to try the diploatic, peaceful approach, averting another war and creating something really valuable in the process: A comprehensive remastering of the two oldest albums to bring the old mixes up to the standards of 21st century recordings. \nFortunately my real maager did a great job of quickly getting Legacy to see my point of view, and change their plans. \nNow I know there are those of you who would go out and spend good money (oxymoron) for anythingthat says "new unreleased Boston," but before you go offon me for committing new releasus interuptus, I want you to know you owe me BIG TIME! The so called new material consisted of two Philly KBFH (despite what you may have read elsewhere) not-our-best-night renditions of Smokin' and FPLY/LT,plus a trasy discard I used to toss in on the first tour 'cause we didn't have enough music for a full set! They didn't even have the name right!\nThese "bonus" track mixes were obviously not made by Boston. Hearing the huge stereo Boston mix style suddenly diappear when the live cuts started was a little scary (even our live sound is carefully mixed in wide stereo, as most of you know first hand). But the real kicker was a technical problem with Brad's vocal track that showed up as a very distracting costant, weird phasing. \nAnd that wasn't the worst part: the studio recordingswere just transfers to digital using the same EQ moves I prescribed for mastering them 30 years ago when everything had to be done manually, and not very precisely by moder standards. Not only could I hear no improvement, the overly hot sibilant portions that were listenable on vinyl and tape were now nails-on-blackboard piercing. Anyway, if you haven't figured it out yet, I didn't like it. \nOne good thing though, thnking about live Boston made me realize I have to dig out some tapes and put together some high quality mixes of our tour arrangements; some of them were totally cool. Dude. \n\nSo, we got Sony to retransfer from the original stereo analogue mix taps (not the EQ'd 2nd gen copy companies tend to use) to 24 bit digital, and went to work in Protools going over every second of those mixes til we were nearly batty. It took Bill Ryan and me eight straight LONG daysof work, which btw was precisely whn I was supposed to be in the FL Keyscelebrating my birthday. Finally we made the final adjustments with Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital, then I joined Kim Hart and Gary Pihl working on the photos and booklet layout revisions. I think you'll lke the new pics. \nSomewhere in between I wrote a little bit about the famous demoand the making of the first album I call "Make Extra Money Working at Home in Your Own Basement," and also clarified and expanded the credits sections. David Wild of Rlling Stone fame also wrote an excellent piece from afan's perspective for each album. \n\nBut the exciting story is what you're going to hear when you put this CD in your player. The difference is amazing to me. The guitars jump out of the speakerson those power chords, Brad's voice is full and warm in the mix like it should have been, the bassis tight and now you not only hear it, you feel it! I never liked these old mixes on 16 bit CD; now they sound great. \nHopefully most of you will listn to this directly from the CD, not an MP3! Don't get me started....Now exactly when that will be possible via actual release Sony is not saying, but they were in enough of a hurry to ruin my b-day vacation, so presumably it will be very soon. Most ecent rumor: mid May. \nBtw, lest you think I'm trumpeting here to get sales up, be assured Brad and I don't get treated any better financially from this than we did form the original release. You don't think that just because we wrote it, performedmost of the tracks, and produced it we get most of the money do you? \nBut it was worthtaking the time for this. I've always wanted to make those albums sound good on CD, and the chance arrived. It's good to work on your birthday. \n\nTom Scholz \n\Half.com Details \nProducer: John Boylan, Tom Scholz \n\nAlbum Notes\nBoston: Brad Delp (vocals); Tom Scholz (guitar, organ); Barry Goudreau (guitar); Fran Sheenan (bass); Sib Hassian (drums).\n\nRecorded at Foxglove Studios, Watertown, Massachusett; Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California; The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California between 1975 and 1976.\n\nRecorded on a simple 12-track recorder as a demo, it was so good that the record company released it. Tom Scholz masterminded the project i his spare time; little did he know that this record came to define AOR, andwould become a hi-fi store standard demo disc. Since that time, this record-breaking debut has sold 15 million copies in its homeland. Sholtz put so much effort into making t, he has managed only three further records in22 years. "More Than A Feeling" still chills in a corny sort of way and the harmonies are pretty impressive.
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