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Old 12-03-2008, 05:15 PM   #26 (permalink)
Son of JayJamJah
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I'd definitely agree Boston never reached the heights they did on their debut with subsequent albums --- MTAF was such an iconic track I think we all thought the album was going to be mostly filler. Boy was it not!
But I do think that although they sort of lost their way on "Dont look back", they got back on track years later with "Third stage", which is, I think, an underappreciated classic, almost conceptual in its nature, with most of the songs flowing into each other, so that it's basically one long track. Very ambitious for a band who had by then been largely forgotten, or written off as "that band that did More than a feeling", but I think it really worked.
Standout tracks for me were "Cool the engines", "To be a man", and the two ballads "Hollyann" and "Amanda". Great stuff.
Unfortunately they then blew it with "Walk on", but that's another story.
Sorry to hijack your thread!
Not at all, exactly the type of feedback I am looking for.
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