The band "Boston". What was the big deal???

[tcsenter]

think kurt cobain listened to boston @ all? and i believe he himself admitted to ripping that song off.

Nothing Cobain did was original, not even being a suicidal heroin junky loser mistaken for a 'creative genius'. Only a hundred people did that before him. haha

 

[Challenger]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
challenger

but couldn't you say the same about chicago?? or journey??

You bet I like Journey and Chicago.I grew up in the "70s and it was a great time to listen to guitar rock.That was a time when you needed talent to sell music not a great videa or some hot talentless b!tch to shake her a$$.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
challenger

but couldn't you say the same about chicago?? or journey??

While both are/were good, neither was as clear and precise as Boston, nor as fast and hard, but upbeat.

And Delp's range and clarity was far better than even early Steve Perry or any singer from Chicago.

You could hear and understand every word Delp sang, without him sounding like he was over enunciating, like the singers from REO Speedwagon or Stix sounded.

 

[PlatinumGold]

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challenger

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You bet I like Journey and Chicago.I grew up in the "70s and it was a great time to listen to guitar rock.That was a time when you needed talent to sell music not a great videa or some hot talentless b!tch to shake her a$$.

I don't dislike boston btw, i listen to their music and enjoy it. but i just don't see them as being soo very special.

anyway, just something to nef about i guess.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

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challenger

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You bet I like Journey and Chicago.I grew up in the "70s and it was a great time to listen to guitar rock.That was a time when you needed talent to sell music not a great videa or some hot talentless b!tch to shake her a$$.

I don't dislike boston btw, i listen to their music and enjoy it. but i just don't see them as being soo very special.

anyway, just something to nef about i guess.

They were very special in their time. Remember, they lost the grammy in 1976 to the one-hit-wonder Starlight Vocal Band. (Afternoon Delight) So that should tell you the trash that was popular in their day.

 

[PlatinumGold]

They were very special in their time. Remember, they lost the grammy in 1976 to the one-hit-wonder Starlight Vocal Band. (Afternoon Delight) So that should tell you the trash that was popular in their day.

I'm still not convinced. i think it was more that they had such gaps between albums than anything else. if they had pumped them out one after the other i bet they wouldn't hold nearly as much a place in peoples minds.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

They were very special in their time. Remember, they lost the grammy in 1976 to the one-hit-wonder Starlight Vocal Band. (Afternoon Delight) So that should tell you the trash that was popular in their day.

I'm still not convinced. i think it was more that they had such gaps between albums than anything else. if they had pumped them out one after the other i bet they wouldn't hold nearly as much a place in peoples minds.

Sorry, I was there. Their first album created quite a stir. They were extremely popular in their day and their sound was very fresh. So much so that they were nominated for a grammy in the age of Disco.

I guess you had to be there.

 

[PlatinumGold]

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i guess. they must either be REALLY REALLY good or they have REALLY REALLY loyal fans.

i doubt there is any other band that has made such an impact on the music scene w/ only 4 albums, hence my original post, i just don't get it.

btw, i'm currently listening to bonnie raitt so that might give you a little idea as to the type of music i like.

 

[Challenger]

I was there and their first album hit the charts like a hurricane.If you went to a party Boston was played at least a couple of times a night and if it wasn't it wasn't a good partyI saw them in '77 and they were awesome souning.Since they only had one album out they asked the crowd if they wanted to hear them again and the crowd went wild!!!I pitty the kids today that have to listen to computer generated music and vocals.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
amused

i guess. they must either be REALLY REALLY good or they have REALLY REALLY loyal fans.

i doubt there is any other band that has made such an impact on the music scene w/ only 4 albums, hence my original post, i just don't get it.

btw, i'm currently listening to bonnie raitt so that might give you a little idea as to the type of music i like.

Bonnie is cool

I'm not really a "loyal fan" of Boston. In fact, Tom Shultz disgusts me to no end, and I really only like the music from their first two albums. As far as I'm concerned, Boston died after Don't Look Back.

 

[PlatinumGold]

They were very special in their time. Remember, they lost the grammy in 1976 to the one-hit-wonder Starlight Vocal Band. (Afternoon Delight) So that should tell you the trash that was popular in their day.

how about mike and the mechanics "the living years'

too depressing?? this is one of my all time favorite songs.

 

[Tallgeese]

Originally posted by: gistech1978
personally i hear the pixies in the smashing pumpkins more.
maybe its just me.
but im no expert on cobain by any means.
innaresting. the pixies were one of the most influential bands of the 80s and their music still holds up to this day and still sounds new and fresh.
better than 98% of the crap released in the past few years, thats for sure! hell even boston is better than 98% of the crap today too!
lol
sorry bostonheds.

The Pixies and their music were a catalyst for much of what happened with the Seattle scene.
Cobain was most definitely a HUGE Pixies fan and heavily influenced by them.
As were the Pumpkins...but to a lesser degree I think.
The Pixies absolutely kicks ass.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

They were very special in their time. Remember, they lost the grammy in 1976 to the one-hit-wonder Starlight Vocal Band. (Afternoon Delight) So that should tell you the trash that was popular in their day.

how about mike and the mechanics "the living years'

too depressing?? this is one of my all time favorite songs.

Nobody's Perfect.

 

[Analog]

boston rocks.

 

[Corn]

LOL, way too funny. Last night I ripped a bunch of "classics" from my dusty cd collection to burn a disk for this morning's commute.

2 Boston tracks (foreplay/longtime and feelin' satisfied)
Journey (lights - feelin' that way/anytime)
Styx (Miss America - Queen of Spades - come sail away)
J Giles (love stinks - motor city breakdown)

Yeah, today I'm stuck in the 70's..........

 

[tcsenter]

I'm not really a "loyal fan" of Boston. In fact, Tom Shultz disgusts me to no end, and I really only like the music from their first two albums. As far as I'm concerned, Boston died after Don't Look Back.

I'm sure it would be as difficult for someone who grew up during the 90's to describe how that music was to someone who grew up during the 00's, especially the music that you listened to during those 'coming of age' years. Same for every generation...

Although I was still too young in the 70's, I had an older sister, so I snuck in to her room and listened to her albums when she wasn't home. OMG would she get mad! "Mom, please keep him out of my room! I swear I'm gonna put a lock on my door."

But being 14 in 1985, Boston's debut album was STILL very popular, with a new generation who wasn't old enough in 1976 to know who Boston was. We had a rock station out of Flint called WWCK 105.5 FM that played classic rock, hard rock, folk rock, and heavy metal, all that kickass stuff from the 70's and 80's. Meh, 105.5's format is now rap/hip-hop/pop. :frown:

I can kinda imagine Sholz going on a power trip, I've met more than a few people like him. Talented, yes, brilliant, perhaps, but so G-D arrogant nobody can stand to be around them for very long. I can hear Sholz now, "Get the f-ck out of my way, I graduated from MIT!"

Same thing happened to Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, though he was no MIT grad. He would actually say to the other band members things like "I AM Twisted Sister, the rest of you can be replaced."

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

But being 14 in 1985, Boston's debut album was STILL very popular, with a new generation who wasn't old enough in 1976 to know who Boston was. We had a rock station out of Flint called WWCK 105.5 FM that played classic rock, hard rock, folk rock, and heavy metal, all that kickass stuff from the 70's and 80's. Meh, 105.5's format is now rap/hip-hop/pop. :frown:

CK105! What a terrible radio station. I haven't lived in Flint for four years (lived there for over 23 years before I moved to Atlanta), so I don't know what it is like now, but it was a crap-ass Top40 station when I grew up there.

 

[tarheelmm]

Boston will always rock. Journey is another

 

[Rudee]

"Smokin" <--- The best Boston tune ever!

 

[tcsenter]

CK105! What a terrible radio station. I haven't lived in Flint for four years (lived there for over 23 years before I moved to Atlanta), so I don't know what it is like now, but it was a crap-ass Top40 station when I grew up there.

The format changed somewhere around....86-87 "ish".

For at least 15 years before, it was a rock station, the best damned rock station in Michigan; April Wine, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Alan Parsons Project, Bad Company, BOC, Bob Seger, Boston, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Dio, Eagles, Edgar Winter Band, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Manfred Man, Moody Blues, Kansas, Montrose, Meatloaf, Van Halen, The Doors, Santana, Nazareth, et. al.

Hey there's some names that should joggle a few recollections.

 

[jyates]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
boston rocks.

Ditto.....lots of memories from that 1976-1980 time period

Oh yeah....I'm old too 43

 

[PlatinumGold]

Ditto.....lots of memories from that 1976-1980 time period

Oh yeah....I'm old too 43

i'll be 38 in less than 2 weeks, so i'm not young anymore either.

but i wasn't much into the music scene when boston first album was realised.

 

[jyates]

hehehe.....I remember my first Boston was on 8 track tape. We
listened to it cruising around in my cousin's 1977 Trans Am.

Got the 2nd Boston album just a few weeks before moving into
the college dorm in the fall of 1978 and this guy had something
I had never seen before. It was called a "cassette deck".
I told him that format will never catch on......

So, it proves that I have been wrong......ONCE

 

[BigNeko]

but i wasn't much into the music scene when boston first album was realised.

How could you NOT hear Boston back then. More Than a Feeling was being played on just about every radio around back then. Along with Kansas-Dust in the Wind, Aerosmith-Helter Skelter (Beatles cover), Yes-Roundabout, Emerson Lake and Palmer-Still You Turn Me On, Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville.

BTW, listen to Barry Goudreau`s song Dreams Are All That I Have Of You. I`m sure he was lead vocal on More Than A Feeling, not Brad Delp.

 

[compudog]

Boston also pioneered making all sorts of cool noises without the aid of synthesizers. They used things like distortion pedals, "Leslie" organs, and those really cool speakers with the one driver that rotated to create tremelo (sp?) As JC pointed out, they had a lot of hits.