Boston

The Compact Disc (CD) I ordered was delivered quickly. Packaged well & arrived with no issues. It is in brand new condition & was still sealed in its factory plastic. Flawless transaction! Great Price & Great Seller. The CD has several good songs on it & brings back a lot of good memories from my youth. Rock On! \m/

I just found out the first two Boston albums were remastered, read a few reviews, and took the plunge. I was concerned because not all remasters are made equal. Many give up proper dynamic range and "musical purity" to simply pump up the bass and the overall disk volume. Ugh. But not here! I'll put this same review on both albums, because my review would be identical anyway. It's been said by many that Boston and Don't Look Back are meant to be listened to as a pair, and it's easy to believe with their short run times. This is a proper remaster, you can have absolutely no fear. If you're still listening to the original CDs, you can feel confident to replace them with these. If you're like me and have been listening to these albums occasionally for decades, you might find yourself realizing something. Your mind has trained itself when to cringe at certain points - the overly loud, shrill cymbol crash, organ note, or vocal peak that occasionally ruins the moment when you're really cranking it (and who can listen to a Boston album quietly?). One time I realized this was when I was jamming along to A Man I'll Never Be and caught myself cringing for that final, loud organ note...for no reason. Instead I was surprised by a nice, warm note to complement the song's crescendo, which has lost none of it's power. This happens a lot with the 2006 remasters of these two albums. They're so much more listenable, and "crankable" than before. The bass is more noticeable - not pumped up for the subwoofer crowd, but proper, tight bass that better fills the bottom end without smothering the overall sound. And that's another benefit - there is excellent separation between the instruments, so you can really get into those guitars, Brad's awesome vocals, everything; yet they still come together to make a harmonious whole. Although the bass has always been there, the back of my mind has been saying "Yeah, there's the bass, just doing it's job, nothing to see here." But when I listened to these CDs for the first time, I actually NOTICED the bass for the first time. Yes, almost 40 years later, I realize that Long Time has a simple but really groovy bass line. Buy these without fear, and expect to hear these albums like they were brand new all over again.

One of the best albums of the 70's, and maybe the best debut album of all time

Good CD replacement. So happy

Good CD.

This album is truly one of rock'n'roll's greatest. Produced almost single-handedly by Tom Scholz, in a home-brew basement studio, it broke upon the disco-drenched music scene of 1976 like a tidal wave. Indeed, the sound was unlike anything which had come before it; so different in fact that, when I first heard it, I didn't like it a bit. However, I gave the music a chance and, within a month, it had made an indelible impression on me and joined my short list of favorite albums which, at that time, included, the Moody Blues "Sacred Seven albums", the Eagles' "Desperado", Derek and the Dominoes' "Layla and Other Love Songs", the Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" and CCR's "Green River" and "Cosmo's Factory", none of which sounded anything like what Tom Scholz had turned out with Boston. To this day I find it difficult to describe what it is about Boston's music that makes it so unique. Yes, it's hard-driving, but that describes the music of a lot of other groups before and since, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, and Nazareth all come to mind. It is wonderfully melodic and showed that rock could be as complex as classical music, but so was the music being turned out by Uriah Heep, particularly "Salisbury", "Demons and Wizards", and "Magician's Birthday", along with others such as Queen. It has a depth of texture that very few bands of the period achieved, the only real contenders in that area being Uriah Heep and Queen. I suppose that, all things considered, it is the manner in which Tom Scholz brought all of these elements together, combined with Brad Delp's incomparable vocals, and the lyrics that spoke to a young romantic's heart, that gives the music its special appeal. This year, 2006, marks the re-release of a digitally re-mastered "Boston" and "Don't Look Back". The re-mastering was done by none other than the original genius himself, Tom Scholz and the results are incredible. There is a warmth to the sound that I've never heard before on either the original vinyl LPs or the CD releases from the 1990s. Tom has finally brought Brad Delp front and center and one is reminded of just how much of an impact his vocals had on the music. This is simply the music as Tom intended it to sound all those years ago. There have been no drastic changes, but the incremental improvements that digital technology can achieve have been combined in a such a way as to render the old releases archaic. The music has a life that reminds me of the impact it had on me all those years ago, after I'd settled down after my original rejection of the sound and really listened to what was going on. This re-issue brings the individual instruments to life in a way that I've never heard them before. One can hear the individual strings of the guitars, including the rhythm guitar, being struck, the cymbals shimmer as I've never heard before, the acoustic introduction to "Hitch a Ride" is so transparent as to sound unearthly. Thanks Tom.

Best album ever, the reason it gets a 4 star rating is because the first record I got from Amazon was ether used or came from the factory beat up scratched and very dirty, Got a replacement they next day and it was new and in perfect shape. So...

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