Best Track on Boston's Debut Album ("Boston")

Foreplay/Long Time

but those first three all slay me

srsly, one of the best side-ones evar

I really need to pick up the remastered version of this album...

not a duffer in the lot...

I'd pick "Something About You", for it's incredible hook...(on the verse, no less)...

Damn, I hate it when a performer's best-known, best-selling song also happens to be my favourite. Such a blow to the ego. "I'm Mr. Big Music Expert, the man who knows more about music than anyone else in this here office, and there's more than 40 of us!" and yet I'm forced to share a favourite with the average civilian who owns five records and no record player, and who likes that one song but can't name any other by the artist. I reserve the right to act insufferably smug and obnoxious and say "Yeah, that's an OK song, but not nearly as good as [obscure B-side]", but I can't deny what I feel in my gut.

Which is all an incredibly long-winded way of saying that my second-favourite song is "Hitch A Ride". There's something so quintessentially '70s about hitchhiking songs. But really, I love that entire album, even after 30 years of FM radio playing the damn thing to death. (Except the last three tracks - I don't think I've ever heard 'em on radio, mysteriously enough.)

I hate it when a performer's best-known, best-selling song also happens to be my favourite

oh noes are you going to need CPR?

peace of mind has the PMA.

yet I'm forced to share a favourite with the average civilian who owns five records and no record player, and who likes that one song but can't name any other by the artist.

It just means the song in question is great so this doesn't bug me at all. Perhaps the next line of dialogue should be "Yeah, but the rest of the album is pretty ace too. Check it out." 'Cept for me, that one song is enough. Even though I think "More Than a Feeling" is one of the loveliest singles of the 1970s, the rest of Boston's oeuvre just doesn't move me. Always fascinating to ponder, though, like listening to someone explain how The Power Soak works.

yet I'm forced to share a favourite with the average civilian who owns five records and no record player, and who likes that one song but can't name any other by the artist.

i actually like it when this happens! it makes me feel like less of a goofball weirdo

The last song gets some airplay.

got a ton of airplay when the record was first released...

I've heard every song from this album on the radio. In fact, it was a radio spin of "Hitch A Ride" last summer that rejuvinated my interest in this record. (part of the reason why I voted for that song)

That said, I think this is one of the most overrated records ever made, albiet a fine one.

albeit

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I've never heard this album except on the radio. Have always wondered if it would be just mind-blowingly mind blowing on CD. Or if it would suck...

Smokin is a jam.

Have always wondered if it would be just mind-blowingly mind blowing on CD.

Get it, and wonder no more. Wear headphones. You will not be disappointed.

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VERY interesting results.

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2011/02/20/lawsuits_expose_details_of_delps_private_turmoil/?p1=News_links

More than a Feeling is my fav but I woulda voted "Piece of Mind" cuz I'm not burnt out on it whereas I am on More than a Feeling.

Weird thing about that story is the implication that the courts will ultimately decide what caused Brad Delp to take his own life.

HITCH A RIDE.