Boston

an album that came and was popular during my first years of college. My roommates loved this album and played it all the time. Consequently, I hated it. Listening to it now, it is an ok album. I would listen to it if someone else put it on but I would not play it and certainly would not buy it. Listening to it again, it seems typical rock for the time and not my cup of tea

Boomer slop, its fine 2.5/5

Pretty good first track, rest I really hated. Not a good album in my opinion.

Not really

If i had a nickel for every mediocre album released in the mid 70s with over the top production, strong dad rock vibes and a space themed cover with a flying object, I would have two nickels. Which isn't much... ...But it's weird that it happened two times close enough welcome back Out Of The Blue...

😐 a bowl of oatmeal

Listened to this driving from the Cape to Boston, a ride I have done 100's of times, which during my early years almost certainly were done listening to these tracks via WZLX. Very similar in many ways to The Cars as far as its place in the Boston rock history. Both bands really clash with most other Boston culture and stereotypes. Boston is many things, but it is not glamorous, highly refined and all that upbeat. The Standells "Dirty Water" is more accurate, and of course they're from California. My point is, we could have used our own Springsteen but instead got BOSTON and this band sucks!

Reminds me of that time I had to explain to my mom what AOR was and realized I might be beyond saving.

Lame. I'm sure that they were cool at the time or whatever but I couldn't care less about this kinda stuff

Pas aimé, sûrement parce que je suis de mauvaise humeur, n'empêche très déçu beurk, fait le temps paraître long

Undisputedly one of the greatest rock bands in USA. With a small discography but huge sales, their debut album contains a 70s gem. The classic value of “more than a feeling”is evident from the fact that we know the song, we are moved by the energy and we remember the feelings it creates in us, while many younger people know the song itself and not the band .Favourite songs besides more than a feeling, foreplay/long time and hitch a ride

Nothing says 80s naff rock like Boston does

It's not trash. But any review that starts on that note means it ain't amazing. Put it this way, Boston finished and Spotify started playing me Chicago and my ears perked up.

nah

more than a feeling is popular and know it. album is more upbeat in an old way. some songs are very repetitive, but if your in that vibe its good. Not my favorit though. 2/5ish

It's fine!

Ehhhh

May not have aged well in the artistic canon but substantially more enjoyable than the junk from Lorde that came up on the list the day before 2.4

4/10

More than a feeling is a guilty pleasure the rest of this US corporate rock album wants to make me puke in particular the lyrics.

very something a dad would listen

The best way I can describe this album is as proto-21st-century computer-made music: a couple of "music scientists" in their lab attempting to engineer "the most perfect rock songs". So that's... basically the polar opposite of everything I love about music.

No like personalmente

i blame family guy and seth macfarlane for journey’s revival, and i blame that cradlesnatcher zach braff and scrubs for this getting popular again.

medicore, commerical, radio music. Not bad but not good

Fou cover, le seul UFO que je veux c'est celui en guitare

Seems like it was made for radio. Full of energy all the time, little bit cheesy though.

Tom Scholz recorded most of Boston's 1976 multi-platinum debut album in his Watertown, Massachusetts, home basement, not a professional studio. Working largely alone, the MIT-educated engineer and guitarist played most instruments and created his own equipment, crafting hits like "More Than a Feeling" in what became one of rock's most famous home-recording feats

Loud

Todays listen is Bostons debut album. I am going into this expecting good guitar work and bmbastic 70s rock and roll based on the hits I have heard before. I have always had Boston down as a band you cant escape from but one not a lot of people ctually listen to Boston was exactly as I expected. Very familiar yet slightly basicwith a lack of variety that can become boring. These tracks are al classic Dad rock tracks but they ack depth and variety, this album has the kind of music on a bang average radio station. Favourite tracks: More than a feeling is a great track. Least favourite tracks: Hitch a ride was a bit naff Album artwork: I love the album cover

Je n’ai pas vraiment apprécié car trop hard rock pour moi et parfois un son entêtant et repetitif, un peu trop agressif. Ce qui est dingue c’est que le groupe s’appelle boston en reference a leur ville et leur premier album boston fait parti des 10 albums les plus vendus avec 17 millions d’exemplaires. Un riff a meme inspire nirvana. Succes du au son hyper quali.

I personally don't like American rock. I find the production of this album interesting, especially considering it was done by only two people. However, musically, I think all the songs sounded the same. The lyrics were annoyingly positive, very American style. I won't put any songs on my playlist.

Corporate friendly rock n roll

This record represents so much that I detested about popular music in 70s and why it bums me out how much it has endured. How was this one of the best selling debut albums of all times, as Wikipedia tells us? Sold 20+ million copies worldwide? WHY??? Sure, there are earworms, and people who know what they're doing with their instruments and behind their mics. But every song is bloated, wayyyyy too long, and dismayingly self-indulgent. Yes, there are songs on here I would sing along to at karaoke night. But they would need to play the abbreviated version. However, if I never heard another song off here for the rest of my life, that would be fine too.

Only one standout track

I can recognised the skill on display here I just don't like it at all

qué buena canción es More than a feeling, el disco no me gustó en general :( es un género que no me gusta tanto.

Сара 2.5 Марко 3

fav songs: more than a feeling smokin' exhausting, repetitive, radio 40/100

great start, but corny development

Hard Rock done in the most boring way possible. The kind of music your mates lame dad claims is the pinnacle of rock.

Rock classique bourrin sans nuances. Pas totalement mauvais, mais pas bon pour autant. 2-3 moments sympa mais le reste se ressemble énormément, de la musique de magasin de chaussures qui te donne envie de partir. 2/5

Rock for glade mennesker. Føles som plata bare har et gir. Ble slitsom i lengden.

Pretty tough to get through

too samey and not for me anyway

Longtime is good but very samey.

Not bad for a cock rock album

Meh

Meh, 1/8 liked

Glad I've listened to it. Glad I need not again. Last track quite good

Man, I'm supposed to LIKE arena rock. But I zoned out during this :/ Tracks I liked: peace of mind (only the guitars), something about you (again, only the guitars and beginning.)

I loved the start music of foreplay, but the rest isn’t my cup of tea

2.5

Bueeeee no me voló la cabeza pero tampoco mediocre. El primer tema es un clásico and i like it, el resto es medio meh (vale aclarar que es rock y yo no suelo escuchar ese género usualmente). Es otro que dado que no me interesa mucho, termina sonándome genérico, todo igual. Instrumentales que draggean on too long.

первая песня мемная. Ну они какие то ваще размазанные . Тяжело понять что здесь припев ,что куплет ну и т.д.Можно сказать "рокешник" в его привычном понимании . Ну и соляки таксебешные, в мираже получше были. 4 трек неплохой, а не забей, опять эти противные аккорды (похожи на мажорные). Честно, просто заебало это слушать . Это буквально просто самый стереотипный рокешник. НЕДОСЛУШАНО

2/3

More Than a Feeling enters the conversation for best first song off a debut album. Every song has gotten slightly worse. I will say that it's crazy that I recognize the first 4 songs though. It was a different time on FM radio when this came out. Thank god for streaming. The album is basically a 45 degree line down as each song is not as good as the one before it.

Ugh, More Than a Feeling is so overplayed I don't like hearing it. Rock, almost glam in places. Blues rock in others (Smokin') Wow, so generic I barely heard tracks changing.. Best track - Smokin 2 stars - nothing particularly memorable, and the style gets old so fast

Really just not my thing, I had no interest in this album and found myself completely zoning out on it while animating

Too much keyboard for me.

I actually really like More Than a Feeling. After that song it's cheesy forgettable radio rock.

Fine, I didn’t turn it off but I couldn’t tell you a thing about it apart from you’ll recognise the first song.

Not bad music per sé, but I fail to hear a real point of difference between this album and others released around this time that are also on the list.

Songzeile: A man came to the stage one night He smoked a big cigar Drove a Cadillac car And said "Boys, I think this band's outta sight" Manifest your destiny and be boring as fck.

One cheesily enjoyable tune the rest pretty forgettable.

I needed more than the feeling this gave me.

Rock!

Interesante, es un sonido que me gusta. Reminisencias de Fito quizás, ese rock juguetón. Me gusta porque es ruidoso, rrockerou pero tambien tiene ese elemento más pop, espacioso. De alguna forma siento que ya escuche esto... se habrán influenciado de alguien? Monotono? Sí, pero disfrutable. Likes: More than a feeling - Long time -

Klingt alles ganz gut, wenn man es sich nur einmal anhören muss

Leider nicht viel "more than a Feeling" ...

Going in I thought that I had a bit of a soft spot for this, but nah, not really. More Than a Feeling also sits alongside Hotel California and some other things in the "songs I would prefer to never hear again for the rest of my life" category. I sort of think of this advent of this kind of music as the beginning of something of a dead end path for a certain type of rock music. You can draw a direct line from this to hair metal. Probably the most remarkable thing about this record is that one guy played just about every instrument on it. I'll concede that Tom Scholz is incredibly talented, that I was pleasantly surprised by some of the soloism on the tracks I don't know well, and that Foreplay/Long Time is a banger. None of that really saves it for being boring commercially-packaged stuff designed to be played in arenas for uncs with purchasing power. Like they even basically say as much in Rock And Roll Band lol Unfortunately, it's also probably among the best that this style of music has to offer. Already has me groaning in anticipation that we're likely gonna have to listen to Foreigner 3 one man bands out of 5, and lucky that I can't give half stars. Edit: revisiting this it has to break to a 2 based on where I've ranked other stuff.

The mixing is really good. It's very well produced and fun but nothing earth-shattering.

I feel like I’m in a 70’s period piece about teenagers savoring the last days of their adolescence. The songs kinda blend together after a while. I like the guitar though.

La unica que me gusto fue More than a feeling

Uninteresting and stupid lyrics but unoffensive for background music

Не моё, тупо восьмидесятые, афиг с more than I feeling

I know its classic, but i dont give a shit about it. Every song seens just generic. I guess it got Lost in time, diferently from others classics.

Ugh

Funky, og lidt meh

Sounds good but very similar to other artists of the era just not as iconic, its just not hitting as hard as other similar albums.

Album was okay Some songs were too long - 8mins Its dancey Fav songs - peace of mind and more than a feeling Least fav- Foreplay / Long time Overall: 2/5

I am the "dad" when they talk about dad rock. I'm 62 years old and listened to rock music even before it was called classic rock. In the 80's I discovered lot of other genres (thank goodness), but this album is the type I grew up on. That being said, I actually never liked Boston. I didn't own this album and generally changed the radio station when their songs came on, or at least never really paid attention. I just found them uninteresting. There was nothing that made me think, "I get why everyone loves this band." I let out a groan when this came up today from the generator. It's not that I hate Boston, it's just that I don't care. I've never willingly listened to this album before. I figured I'd know about three of the songs. Much to my surprise, I knew all but one. The only one I'd never heard before, Something About You, had the same riff as a bunch of the other songs. I didn't strongly dislike this record. Mainly I was bored. It was exactly what I thought it was.

Nja

I assume that if I liked classic cars I would love this. However, I am at best indifferent to cars of all types, much like this music.

such an uplifting album but i just found it funny. More Than A Feeling is the only one that matters.

This album is not offensively bad, but it's not good either. The lyrics are uninspired and bland, and there are unnecessarily long instrumental breaks on one too many songs. Overall an extremely boring album. Two stars. (Favorite track: More Than a Feeling.)

I can tell how it’s a classic album however its sound is a bit repetitive to me with the instrumentals. Giving this album a 2/10.

Had some good songs, not totally in love with it though, it mostly felt very generic to me.

haven’t listened before (but i think i knew all the songs) it’s so fine. so listenable. felt like i was at the mall. fav: first 2 minutes of foreplay/long time

Starts off as fun maximalist AOR. It’s hard not to like More Than a Feeling. After that it starts to all blend into a sound I quickly tired of. By Smokin’ I’d already felt like it had gone on for hours. It is also beyond cheesy. Just not a fan of this one.

I was brainwashed by the Boston-area radio stations of the 70s to think this was worth listening to. Turns out that the only local heroes they had were these guys and Aerosmith, at least until the Cars came along. It's not the harbinger of power pop, it's the last gasp of dinosaur rock.

1 is too harsh but I can't imagine ever listening to this again. 2 it is.

Quickly reached Boston fatigue. Not offensive, but I doubt I'll seek it out again anytime soon.

Royalty free rock music

I was prepared to hate this and it's...fine. More than a Feeling is the big single. There are sections reminiscent of Deep Purple, Eagles/Maiden style guitar harmonies, even some.full on Crimson style prog, but it"s all a bit dull. Can see why it would have been loved at the time, but do we need another 'History of the band in a song' track? A low 3 for fans of the style, a high 2 for me because I'm bored of it.

1976 no excuse. Long boring songs. Excellent musicianship.

Torture, saved by some tunes like the massive hit "More Than A Feeling" but not my kind of music and the first in a long while that I have been tempted to skip.

A couple of good tracks, but mostly pleasant American soft rock. Middle of the road country, bland.

Sorry I tried

I now understand why we needed punk.

Musik. Folk säger det är "dad rock", kanske om din dad är född på 40-talet. Detta är ju gubbrock!

There's a strange mix of nostalgia and familiarity with this album. Most of that comes from the fact that even after almost 50 years, it's difficult to live a normal life and *not* hear More Than a Feeling at least once a year, probably at the dentist's office or the pharmacy... Favorite: Peace of Mind Underrated: Foreplay / Long Time Would be glad to never hear it again: More Than a Feeling

I wish I could just close my eyes and slip away from this album! Seriously though, this is far from the worst thing I've heard so far in this run but pompous, overblown, overproduced, 70s arena rock is just not my bag.

Very loud

Did not enjoy

Really weird listening to this album because it feels like I'm listening to the entire credits of an early 2000's family comedy movie. I guess I like that feeling? But it also feels like a bore for that same reason.

oh I know this lol who doesnt, nice to see some stuff I recognize finally :> and 70's music over 80's any day lol i mean its ok? i dont personally like/listen to this kind of music, its just road trip music 4/10, there can be much worse, i do not like how everysong ends like the end of a album would

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it has one and a half good songs on it. the rest is cheese 1.5/5

I wore the grooves out on this when it came out, so it's difficult for me to disassociate the memories from the music. But I'll try... A good album, every song is a fun listen. What it lacks is any real passion, meaning, or message. But Hey! When you're a teenager blasting it through your headphones in your bedroom Rock and Roll is more than enough.

A light 2. There are some catchy songs, but the cheesy mid-70s radio rock thing just doesn’t do it for me.

Not terrible but not my bag.

Hol ich nach, kein Bock, keine Zeit. Eher nichts für mich.

114/1001 :: Boston - Boston Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Rating: 4 Listen before you die: No Nothing says Classic Rock radio like these Boston tunes. And while I find a lot of this album pretty cheesy there are definitely “Hot Licks” on here too. Some of the playing is kinda impressive inparticular the guitar work. But overall it’s too over the top especially the singing. Lastly, I’m still baffled that this spaceship with a city in it is the actual artwork. It’s so bad it’s practically iconic at this point.

37 minutes of background music for deodorant commercials.

I of course knew More Than a Feeling and I recognized a couple others. This is the type of music I don’t enjoy. I throw this band in with Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Journey as music that is tolerable, but that I don’t ever need to hear again.

The dad rock cringe is REAL.

just barely a 2

This sounded like a poor man's Eagles. Apart from the slay cover art, this album gave me guitar hero PTSD.

1 connue 1 bien ***

loud, dumb, cheesy, self indulgent, and all the album tracks are just worse versions of the singles. but it doesn't outstay its welcome and those singles are fairly fun

Clásico pero ahí está

Not quite my tempo. 2/5

Was this bad? No. Was this good? No. Just a very generic album, the sort of thing to pop up if you asked a Siri with no invasive knowledge of its owner "play me a rock album".

One-track album

More than a feeling aside this a lot of samey "rawk" music. Still the feeling pervades that it would improve with further listens. There aren't enough minutes or hours in the day for that though. 2 thumbs down.

Boston made the whitest record in rock history. It’s so white it should come with a bottle of sunscreen and a pair of cargo shorts. Scholz engineered the thing like he was calibrating medical equipment. The guitars are so polished they could blind you, the harmonies stack straighter than a row of filing cabinets, and the melodies march along in neat diatonic lines as if afraid of syncopation. Every ounce of grit and groove has been bleached away. It’s antiseptic rock: precise, polished, and utterly safe. Metallica were white, but their whiteness was brutal, disciplined, menacing. Nirvana were white, but their whiteness cracked, bled, and screamed its way into catharsis. Boston’s whiteness is sterile, like a dentist’s office waiting room. It gleams, but it never swings. The debut impresses as an engineering product, but as art it sits too clean, too careful. It’s the showroom car you admire for its wax job but would never actually want to drive. It removed the soul from rock, but it didn't add anything back.

2,5

I confess, that I have a soft spot for the pop rock of More than a feeling, but after it the album didn't really match that level.

For two first songs I was sure I won't be able to finish this album. Those songs were pain and agony for me. Luckily rest of the album had better vibes and even little progressive moments.

Those progressive parts of this album were decent. Otherwise this was just ok, nothing more.

One world hit, the rest I find disappointing. The contrast is simply too great.

one awesome song surrounded by a bunch of mediocre ones

Great 1st song. Weak album.

Surely no one would ever put this album on?

A career built on a chorus.

idk man. It was fine. 4/10 because I definitely don’t need to hear this before I die. 27/08/25

All by one person and a computer

OK, I tried to be fair here, but while the first leg of this album is DENSE with classics, generally everything from Rock & Roll Band through that trash pile of a final song are either middling or bad. Really, the best moment on this whole album is Foreplay. Not one I'll come back to but, again, appreciate the first leg. 2/5

This was so corny and had most of what I don’t like in bad rock. The lyrics were not thoughtful and it had so much clapping. I have heard most of this way too much on classic rock radio and the few songs I hadn’t heard were more of the same. I won’t give it one star because I am reserving that for truly painful experiences but this was not a fun listen.

forget about the songs themselves here for a sec: tom scholz has a masters from MIT?? he worked at polaroid?? he outfitted a mad scientists lair of diy music equipment to make the perfect rock song?? he conspired with the rest of the band to hoodwink the record company and get their unadulterated demos on the album?? this became the second highest grossing debut album of all time for a north american band?? lol. lmao, even. i like the story of boston more than the album itself, and the album itself isn't half bad. having just emerged from under a rock where i've been living for the past three or so decades, i can hear why people think these songs sound overplayed. this is a ceremonious and benevolent 2. highlights - more than a feeling

Mwah, niet super leuk maar ook niet stom

It's solidly fine, it's like every other 70s rock band. More Than A Feeling is catchy enough. 2/5 stars.

the longest 37 minutes of my life

A little bit middle of the road soft rock - beige

Only one good song

Har et MEGET nostalgisk forhold til More Than a Feeling, men ved sgu ik helt, resten af måske liiige lovlig 70er

I would class myself as a classic rock listener but I never really got this album. For all it's pioneering of that area rock sound and the massive amount of airplay on American FM rock radio, More Than A Feeling is the only really memorable song. Maybe the polished production sort of polished the soul out of this album, probably why I never bought it back in '76.

I expected easy going ‘yacht rock’, so the proggy elements of Long Gone… were interesting, but overall, it didn’t do much for me. It kind of reminded me of Manic Street Preachers and I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. It probably sounds less dated today than it did twenty years ago - maybe I’ll listen again in twenty years’ time to see how it’s faring. Maybe I won’t.

Boring! There’s like two interesting tracks on here and they’re the first two. Sounds like the soundtrack to a shitty outdoor market in the north side of Chicago where they try and scam you into paying 10 dollars to enter. The story about how this album was made is very cool and Scholz is clearly a talented musician but the music is BORING!

Boston is kind of a fascinating case study to me. They are a band who was led, in part, by Tom Scholz, who was an absolute studio wizard who invented all sorts of pioneering recording techniques and home studio devices, however, what they used all this innovation for just doesn't feel like especially interesting music. Boston just kind of sounds like the cleanest, catchiest, most accessible arena rock possible, like this really feels like archetypal "dad rock" to me. And honestly, that audio engineering skill clearly went somewhere, this album does sound really good. Making an album sound this immaculately, spotlessly clean is no small feat, and even though I don't really like Boston, it's hard to argue that the work didn't pay off. Just about every song here was a hit on some level. A lot of them still get airplay on local classic rock stations across America (and beyond) to this day. And the songs are also there, like yeah, everything here kinda, sorta sounds the same, but every song does hit real arena rock highs. Depending on where you live, you would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard More Than A Feeling, it's just unbelievably catchy. Honestly, if you're into this, more power to you, because you are probably having more fun than me, just in general.

Meh

I can see how it influences a lot of modern music. Its not my vibe but its not bad.

I think there's a finite amount of Boston a person can listen to. I reached my limit in 1988.

Some class some ass

Boring.

I was willing to hear this out because it’s not immediately disgusting to me but then I realized that I was only two and a half songs into the album even though I felt like I’d been listening to it for at least half an hour. So actually maybe not.

Other than the first song this just isn't my vibe.

Classic rock, reminds me of listening to Petra. I like solos in general (although a bit cheesy) and the solos in Hitch a Ride, Foreplay/Long Time, and More Than a Feeling were amazing... a guilty pleasure. More Than a Feeling had iconic riffs, and definitely heard parts of this song before not realizing where they were from. Loved the intro to Foreplay/Long Time as well.

Ay, I'm reviewing here, pal. Get this shit out of my earholes. Okay, okay. A little harsh given that I've listened to a minute of this album. I just have no idea how to introduce my reviews when I have no familiarity with the subject matter in question. I'm sorry, municipality of Boston. That being said, I get the impression that Boston are a band who don't demand much research into their background or craft as musicians. Rather, they're more focused on delivering some feel-good, rockin' hard rock tunes of a hard variety, which I can respect. There are some good moments in here. "More Than a Feeling" is competent on the whole, with some very good performances and vocals - the growling guitar hook during the chorus is especially good. "Foreplay / Long Time" is another good tune with some more great guitar hooks. The song is way longer than it ever needed to be, though I'd be lying if I said that the length didn't give the music an epic component. The organ on "Smokin'" and a few of the other tracks is also quite good. A notable victory considering that I usually have very little interest in the instrument. Yet, many of the songs on this album fail to go the full mile for me - especially during the latter half of the album. I think many of the songs on this album are much longer than they needed to be. I'm undecided on the place that arena/hard rock albums have on this list. On one hand they're immensely popular and are representative of the time that they came from, but on the other hand I feel like the influence of this genre is minimal, with the sound being much more commercial than creative. I also don't think that hard rock bands are "iconic" in the same respect that other popular musicians are, which I think is largely owed to the lack of an image or persona that these acts have. Still, as an archetypical (and an admittedly competent) hard rock album, I still think that there's merit to the inclusion of this album. It was massively successful, after all.

Thought this would be a lock for a 1 for me. Expected to hate every song and ended up hating 1 or 2, being indifferent to 3 or 4, and slightly enjoying Hitch a Ride, Something About You, and Let Me Take You Home Tonight. It's almost like their sincerity and theater kid-ness won me over in the end. If they kept going and were even more kitsch they would probably end up in Thin Lizzy territory which is my favorite of these kinds of bands. Fav song: Hitch a Ride

Track 1 is a classic. The rest doesn't come close. Listening on phone speakers as we're away so probably not giving it the best platform.

Classic rock cliché monstrosity. Mostly, it’s pleasant and occasionally fun to listen to but the lyrics just fall so flat. Obviously there are guitar solos galore. Sometimes they even make up a centre motive of a song - see Hitch a Ride’s simultaneous lead guitar solo. Foreplay has got to be one of the most annoying intros ever. The one thing that is actually charming to the record is its proto power pop character in some of the songs (cf. Peace of Mind). Hitch a Ride is a song where the genres (classic rock and power pop elements) come together quite well. Overall, better to stomp your feet than to pay close attention to the tunes. Sometimes (of course, that’s my retrospective impression) the songs are just so boilerplate, it hurts (esp. rock’n’Roll Band). I feel like that the band didn’t have much to say at all. With 38 minutes, the record is still too long - it could have been trimmed and it would have probably ended up being a more concise and enjoyable experience - that holds especially true for the B-side.

Blah. I respect this album but it’s not my jam.

Perfectly fine 70s cheesy rock.

I'm not a big 80s rock guy. Or classic in general

More Than A Feeling is a true soaring classic but the rest of the album seemed samey FM rock.

OK, but showing its age

In the end…meh. Hilary got it: it’s aggressively fine

Dismayed that I know almost every song here. I guess my people do come from Boston

It was alright. Quite generic but fine enough for the era.

I knew 6 of the 8 songs on this album just from driving around for years with classic rock radio. Couldn't tell you song titles or that they were all by Boston though. It's fine? Just because I know these songs doesn't really make me want to listen to it all the time. The making of the album was an interesting story, but it's still just mid to late '70s arena rock and that's mostly a meh for me.

This album is by a band named Boston.

Sounded like an albun of terrible advert songs!

Hot like a cup of Malted Milk on a Sunday evening. Sexy like big pants and support stockings. Groovy like guttering.

Middle of the road dad rock. 2.5

Uninspired rock with lengthy 70's like solos.

Not for me.

Not a big fan, bit dad rock

Infuriatingly shallow and pretentious classic rock. I feel like the genre is too broad: Bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd should not be categorized w/ this irritating bullshit.

Started of well then felt like every rock song that people ever tried to publish in the earth. For its time peehaps it was good but feels more or less outdated

As per usual with me and hard rock/AOR type things, I'm not exactly keen on this but it's not the worst I've heard in the genre, if anything it's carried by genuinely good performances and a fun sound, but I think I prefer it as a random song I hear when I go to the store than I do as a full album.

Hat mich bis auf den Klassiker nur wenig abgeholt

less than a feeling. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

I like that this was recorded in a home studio, but that’s about it. Not for me!!!

Wimp rock.

sounds like generic 80s rock, which I guess makes this ahead of its time because it released in 1976

More than a feeling is notable mostly for familiarity. On the whole the album is just full of wanky 70s rock which is arguably one of my my worst genres. Its close to being unbearable. 2.5 stars but not worthy to be upgraded to 3

Classic 70’s rock.

Incredible opening track but otherwise loud and boring. Would be a killer 45 of More Than A Feeling/Rock & Roll band.

I like more than a feeling, but found the rest too cheesy.

Generic as fuck but fine

i do not care for guitar solos

I feel more or less the same about this band as I do about the city of Boston.

Highlights Include: "Smokin'" Kind of boring unfortunately.

Painfully tedious listening. Some nice keyboards but god, this is the definition of soft rock in its most vanilla form.

La única canción memorable es la primera. La banda alcanzó su cima en la primera canción de su primer disco.

Boring.

- classicrock/ arena rock 70s vibes - catchty vocal melodies on "Rock & Roll band" - dont like the high screamy vocals too much - nice driving guitar riffs on "Smoking" - lot of close reverb on the vocals - gitarren solo manchmal ertränkt in vibrato in den bends - bisschen southern vibe auch ist irgendwie nicht so meins -

All the cheese and none of the fun of ELO

Better than expected...but expectations were low.

All a bit samey unfortunately.....

King of the dad records.

2.5 i get y people like it. People are lame

Kinda meh

Surely an album for lovers of hard rock. But me? I'm picky with my hard rock. I didn't care for this album

Meh not the biggest fan except for that one song

ah was sölli da sege isch das albumd alinghi? wells absolu ah mir verbigsleglet isch, so schnell dasis gar nöd fest bemerkt han abgseh vones paar wassersprützer wo vo windgushes ah mich anetreit worde sind ich weiss gar nöd was das für es genre isch, aber wemmer en ganze song drüber schribt wommer am bettle isch dasmer eh person zu sich hei neh chan (für was au immer) muesi leider sege: hey nei

Something is missing?

What makes this album an album that I need to listen to before I die is beyond me. It is neither good nor bad. It was just popular at its time I guess.

2 sterne

In one ear, out the other. It's just so boring.

Middle of the road.

Kann 'more than a feeling' nicht mehr hören. Ansonsten auch nichts besonderes.

Too much rock in this list

Clearly influential, but sounds cliche for it...

First time listening. Highlights: nah

Aw man I mean this just isn't music that aged well, at least not for me. There's some fun to be had, but really it just isn't anything special. Reminds me of old rock radio, and I think that's where it belongs.

Pretty interesting how I knew pretty much every single song from this album despite I've never sought it out - show's how popular and huge Boston was. Still, nothing remarkable for me - it's a good example of music that if it was on the radio, I wouldn't change the station. But I wouldn't really ever choose to listen to it

Surprised how many of these songs I knew just from radio play. It's fun stuff, nothing crazy.

Iron clad proof that I can appreciate the hell out of something without really liking it. Must have been a wild rode when this came out. All incredible songs and back to back to back is wild. Must have changed the game when it came out. BUT! not really my vibe. Just can't get down in a satisfying way to this stuff. Too soft.

Vanskelig å finne et album mer 2.5/5 enn dette

very fun glam rock, but not my thing

So this is what Bon Jovi sounds like to non-Bon Jovi fans, huh?

I thought it was very Hezzy music but I do like some of them. Wouldn’t listen myself

I will never be like “man, I want to listen to Boston today.”

Can’t do it

i understand it is both technically and commercially enormously successful but there is really not a single interesting thing about this album

Populist rock; empty energy.

Feels like a mean rating as I did like this album but I don’t see myself coming back to it. More Than A Feeling is a banger though obvs - was hoping for more forgotten big hitters on the album but didn’t get that.

I was feeling like it could be a 3 for the first couple of songs. But by the end, I was just ready to listen to something else. Nothing specific that I didn't like. I just didn't find much to enjoy after the first song.

When I was a kid first looking at records (but without the money to buy any), the the covers that caught my eye were Meatloafs's Bat Out of Hell and Boston S/T. Both cool covers on pretty average (but massively successful) albums. 40 years (and lots of record collecting later), I still don't own a copy of either, with no strong desire to do so. Once I actually heard them, I was like "meh". More Than A Feeling is a terrific single which I don't mind listening to when it comes on the radio. Big crunchy riffs, good hooks, soaring vocals and my favourite bit; the OTT pick slide leading into the chorus But the album overall is overproduced pap with nonsense lyrics and little to recommend. It's like flavour less Queen. And probably led to the fashion to over polish rock in the late 70s and 80s. A malignant influence but not hateful.

An all right album but I don't see much great stuff.

I get why people love this but I hate it. Points for banging keys 🎹

Fine. After the three singles, it's all bland rock. Sounds like Uncles Strong 4 to a light 4 Album cover 9/10 You went to your 9 class, went to the film production festival and hung out with Trent. You had him guess the top ten elephants

Shite but ‘More than feeling’ is a rasper

Wasn’t sure if I had listened to any of the songs on this album besides More Than a Feeling. They all sort of sound the same to me. Your typical classic rock album. I feel meh about it.

It's very mediocre and I'M SICK OF HEARING MORE THAN A FEELING!

it is there. it is not bad but it doesn’t have quite enough could i write poetry to this? n

Technically good, but not enough variety.

20240903 Boston – Boston 2/5 This album is the definition of Dad/Uncle Rock. A very 70’s sound, self-produced album, with an interesting story behind its creation, but nothing too memorable apart from the opener “More Than a Feeling”. It sounds kind of generic, like something created for the soundtrack of a coming-of-age or road trip movie at the time, and most of the songs are forgettable. One of the positives of the album are the guitars, very melodic and with interesting riffs and solos; and also, the atmospheric and epic landscapes created in some points on the, for the rest, very generic rock songs. An attempt was made in “Foreplay/Long Time” to create something more interesting, but on its 7:48 minutes it lacks depth, novelty. Again, very easy listening but plain album. Music perfect for a commercial. Favourite songs: More Than a Feeling, Foreplay/Long Time. Least favourite songs: Peace of Mind, Smokin’.

Nicht schlecht aber halt aus den 70er

No tan mal dad rock, aunque algo plano

Very dad rock. Nothing wrong with that it’s just not my thing. Except for the first song, their big hit, I found this pretty bland. 2/5

Listening to this makes me fe like I should be speeding down a road in a Camaro, hanging out the window and smoking a doobie. That is possibly neither good nor bad, but it is certainly not me.

Very samey

more than a feeling is great, the rest are okay

Ok.

Once again, there's one stand out track, everything else is a bit less memorable

Un buen primer intento

Cheese

Snore

Good. Not stunning. Bored by middle.

I listened to this yesterday. Don’t remember a single thing.

The playing is quality, the production is great and the songs are basically all hits. That said, it all just sounds like stuff I don't like. Even the aforementioned great production doesn't fit my tastes at all. When I used to turn on the OG classic rock stations, I was looking for Zep, Floyd, Stones etc. I'd always turn the dial when shit like this came on. Hard to believe that so many of those "turn the dial" songs are from this record. P. S. "More Than a Feeling" cost this album a whole star on its own.

Nice classic rock album, still new to the era so find it a bit too crowded for my personal listening but will give it more listens in the future.

Eka biisu jees ja sit meh

Ah the cheese that is Boston. I have more than a feeling this gets no more than 2 stars from me.

eh, nothing really special besides the very famous single

Other than the one song, most everything on this album is pretty ho-hum.

Oh, this sounds like a band named after a place!

con este genero en concreto (rocknroll) no consigo conectar, m parece que estan arriba todo el rato y no te permite fluir o experimentrar mas sensaciones. monosensacional y agotador (no t permite descansar en toda la cancion y desde mi punto de vista tiene que haber mas giros, pausas y descansos para seguir el hilo y experimentar la cancion al maximo) critica al genero, no al disco en concreto Aun asi, m gusta pero con restricciones

This just does not touch anything I want touched.

Listening to this turns me into a middle-aged American dad pumping his fists into the air to this and screaming "hell yeah, man" to every single guitar solo on this.

Ihan kovia melodioita, mutta tää ei oo kyllä mun juttu. More than a feeling, Smokin' ja Rock & Roll band kovia ralleja

generic 70s rock

Way overproduced.

Only know one song, maybe because I was 10 years old in 1976. More than a feeling. And some lovely covers of it. But it is a typical representative of its time. 👍🏻

Я не знаю, что там происходит на радио в условной Монтане, но если песни вроде More Than A Feeling там играют до сих пор, дайте три! Я предпочту такой вот знакомый, американский хард-рок песням Flowers и прочему кринжу, заполняющему все такси, не-хипстерские заведения и т.д.. Великая песня! которая тянет этот в целом средненький альбом. Очень фронт-лоудед. Снова потрясающе записано, и снова не слишком интересно. Лучшая песня - More Than a Feeling.

Meh.. didn’t connect with this

1 good song, rest crap

More Than A Feeling bumps this to two stars, but this era of arena rock is so sanitary and boring.

Boring.

Boston is one of those weird bands where one guy is sorta the whole band, even though people associate bands with the lead singer — who in this case is just really a guy who can carry a tune better than the MIT nerd who wrote all the music and created all the tracks in his basement. Man, this stuff is slicker than cat shit on linoleum. There’s no real nutritional value … it’s basically the Hostess Twinkie of 70s anthem rock — just designed for mass consumption in some factory (in Boston) and then shipped out to fatten up a bunch of American teens. It’s a formula that’s been streamlined and repeated over and over. That doesn’t mean that Twinkies don’t taste good …

Still don't like rock

Appreciate the skill, but didn't land for me as an album.

The epitome of MOR, there's nothing inherently bad about this album. It's just dreadfully dull, I'm afraid.

some bangers, the B-side tracks have alot of similar motifs to the hits but aren't as good which make the m feel watered-down, lightweight 70s rock paved the way for hair metal. fav tracks: more than a feeling, peace of mind

I got bored. But I promise you that if any of these songs came on in the corner bar where I was knocking back beers with friends of a similar age to myself, three things would happen: 1. More than a few of us would end up singing along without realizing it. 2. All of us would make fun of each other for that. 3. Someone would snort beer through their nose. File under “music to accompany scenes of 70’s kids washing their car on the street or driveway, preferably an orange car. “ Alternately I could see it as a wide shot of 70’s American high school kids walking through doors at school. I imagine those kids got bored with this as well.

Meh

Other than the one song it was just a bit average. I felt like I was listening to a musical theatre soundtrack or something.

Love the album art. The music sounds nothing like it.

Not my cup of team, but some iconic songs for sure.

Sikke noget pik-rock. Ikke helt min vibe

Is it terrible? No. No songs made me actively want to skip them, but no songs made me want to listen to them either.

Very overplayed classic Rock station band. As a kid it was fun to jam to it on Guitar Hero, but now it's just old-guy rock n' roll.

You can't mistake Boston for anyone else, although the keyboard parts hint of an ELP influence. I appreciate the DIY effort of Tom Scholz, but the music itself is obnoxious, with throwaway lyrics. By the end of the eight tracks here, it all sounds the same.

I'll start with the positive: this album is an amazing technical achievement. Even with today's more sophisticated digital recording equipment, a producer would find it a challenge to match the quality and precision that Tom Schulz captured in his basement studio. That said, the music here is too smoothed out, too polished, and every song is in a happy major key. It's Lite Rock, and, after listening to "Boston", I long for the rough edges, the distorted guitars and screaming vocals, that I associate with Rock music.

Anthemic for sure, not sure it's particularly exciting. Look I didn't pay a lot of attention. Sorry Boston. Two and a half. Fave track: More than a Feeling

"gastropub" background music

OK - kinda like every song sounds similar though

This is pretty horrible. So bad it doesn't even become good. I did appreciate the church organs on Smokin' but would generally rather eat my foot than listen again.

This is one of those records where I knew every song off of it - simply through Classic Rock radio osmosis- without knowing they were all Boston songs. They all sound basically the same. No edge. Saccharine.

soulless americana although i guess some of it is kinda catchy

More than a feeling and a bunch of bullshit

“More Than a Feeling” is a banger but the rest of the album fell flat for me. Not my fave era of classic rock either.

Not my cup of tea in terms of genre, but interesting to hear other tracks by the band that I was unaware of.

Classic rock, really nothing special

All I can think off when I hear this type of music is ensembles of teenagers standing on stages, à la Glee or Pitch Perfect. It’s just a bit too MOR for me. I’m not sure that they were.as big in the UK or maybe flew outside my peripherary. Although ‘that obvious track’ has turned up on so many ads and soundtracks it’s now impossible to hear without it turning into an ear worm and overstaying its welcome. I am sorry for their tortured history though. I’m not sure the longevity or legacy of this record could ever make up for that.

More than a feeling - lovely stuff