new boston album in the works

[mdmatt4ever]

http://www.bandboston.com/flashsite8_7_08.html


cool. hopefully a late 2010/early 2011 release and hopefully better than the last album corporate america

 

[razoredge]

These guys seemed to have fell off the map nearly as quick as they hit it. I was surprised and pleased to see a few people mention their first album in a few best albums threads. It was quite memorable.

 

[Badbird]

There still around?

 

[mdmatt4ever]

These guys seemed to have fell off the map nearly as quick as they hit it. I was surprised and pleased to see a few people mention their first album in a few best albums threads. It was quite memorable.

they actually were pretty huge for a long time. the brains behind the band (guitar player tom scholz) is almost as anal as axl rose when it comes to production and perfecting the songs. i gurantee he's been working on these tunes since at least 2004. their album third stage gives a detail of the years the songs were worked on and most of them were worked on for 4-5 years. the bands 2nd album don't look back was released more than 2 yearas after the first and Tom said it was arushed effort that the record company forced him to release.

anyways to show how huge they were here are their album sales, release dates and peak chart position:
-self titled: 1976 17 million #3
-don't look back: 1978 7 million #1
-third stage: 1986 4 million #1
-walk on: 1994 1 million #7
-greatest hits: 1997 2 million #47
-corporate america: 2002 ???? #42

 

[mdmatt4ever]

also forgot to mention michael sweet from stryper is a member of boston now

 

[razoredge]

That was the absolute smoothest guitar sound we had heard at that time. One of my musical aquantences is useing the Rockman units. I remember being less enthoused about Boston each album, cant say exactly why. Still love to hear Foreplay such an epic opener

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Has it been 10 years already? lol jk.. just seems like they come out with a album almost every 10 years because of Tom... anyways I don't consider them Boston without Brad... and we know he isn't coming back...

 

[mdmatt4ever]

its really ever 8 years.the album walk on didn't have brad and that was a pretty good album. i was hoping boston would have made an album with the lineup they had in 1996 but instead they just made 2 great new tunes for the greatest hits albums and then a few guys left and we got the crappy corporate america album. that album had about 5 good songs and they were all the ones tom wrote. for some reason he let 2 other band members write and sing songs so there is 1 tune with a female vocal that sounds like a tune from a lillith fair and some tunes that sound like fake oasis.


anyways these 2 great tunes from the greatest hits album are some of my favorite boston tunes:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9NUnJvWbew&feature=related[/ame]

 

[zabu of nΩd]

That was the absolute smoothest guitar sound we had heard at that time. One of my musical aquantences is useing the Rockman units. I remember being less enthoused about Boston each album, cant say exactly why.

Because each album sucked about 10x as much dick as the one before it.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Because each album sucked about 10x as much dick as the one before it.

I know this is bad to say but maybe that is why Brad offed himself

 

[razoredge]

lesson in being funny taken

now do you have anything to add to the topic ?

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

used to like them til i heard their songs too much on the radio... now i change stations when their songs are played... I do still like Amanda though because it's rarely if ever played on the stations....

 

[mdmatt4ever]

used to like them til i heard their songs too much on the radio... now i change stations when their songs are played... I do still like Amanda though because it's rarely if ever played on the stations....

thats how i am. my favorite boston song is "something about you"

 

[razoredge]

I dont hear them enough to be bothered by it, usually not listening to stations that still play the same catalog they had in the 70's. Foreplay still gets me cranked and foreplay/longtime dates back to my first post graduation years so represents that particular time period in memory stimulus. Same as certain songs by the Cars, Rush, Dire Straits, Kansas, ect. The 76-77-78 years. "Party in my Pants", "If I had a Rocket Launcher"... all great Friday night drive home from work music.

Foreplay also has that brooding, building intensity Hammond B3 sound much like Deep Purples Lazy intro so it just clicked with me. I do miss that sound

 

[Matt]

Their first is one of my favorite albums of all time. However, I've only heard newer songs which are even decent.