Track Listing

1. Tell Me
2. Higher Power
3. More Than A Feeling
4. Peace Of Mind
5. Don't Look Back
6. Cool The Engines
7. Living For You
8. Feeling Satisfied
9. Party
10. Foreplay Long Time
11. Amanda
12. Rock 'n' Roll Band
13. Smokin'
14. Man I'll Never Be
15. Star Spangled Banner/4th Of July Reprise
16. Higher Power (2)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3556 in Music
• Released on: 1997-06-09
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
When Boston's self-titled debut landed in the Top 5 in 1976, their combination of powerful lead and background vocals, up-front guitars and slick production made the world safe for corporate rock. Twenty years hence, Boston mastermind/studio geek Tom Scholz has been releasing records and touring onan average of once every seven years, going through a handful of vocalists and engaging in major court battles for recording freedom. All this leads up to the GREATEST HITS package, a mixture of old and new Boston that is like a time capsule of '70s rock riffs. An Up-With-People message found in the newer material ties in with Scholz's support of PETA, evidenced by pictures of photogenic animals dotting the CD booklet.

Customer Reviews

Useless package of great music
Even something as simple as a Greatest Hits compilation takes time when Tom Scholz is involved. Originally scheduled for release to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of Boston's debut album, the project was pushed back nearly a year and became the first Boston album to feature computer generated artwork and a ship at rest. Songs from the fourth cd, Walk On, are absent, as is any rational for a greatest hits package. Given the wide availability of second hand copies of all of Boston's previous four albums, Scholz and Sony used three new songs as bait to lure in consumers who otherwise have no need to waste their money on a greatest hits package. "Tell Me" is a mid-tempo ballad written by Scholz and featuring David Sikes on lead vocals. The song has nothing to recommend it and had it been released previously would not have been on a greatest hits package, quite unlike Higher Power, a foot-tapping rocker that opens with a quiet guitar shuffle before blasting off with the chorus and finishing with guitar and harmonica solos. The third "previously unreleased" track was in fact circulating among Boston collectors for a number of years, a 1994 promo-only instrumental of the US national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, added here most likely because there were no other finished tracks on Scholz's shelves. Equally useless and not likely to be listened to more than once is the album's final track, a radio edit of Higher Power. Altogether, this is an uninspired compilation and except for Higher Power is for the consumer a complete waste of time and money.

Buy the first 3 albums
Buy the first three albums.
Don't buy this album because: it misses out some of the best bits of the other albums, messess up the continuity between songs that the other albums half relly on (being partially conceptual in track listing terms), it includes songs that do not have the original singer and therefore feeling on them, and because you can get hold of the first three albums on CD really cheaply anyway.

The first three Boston albums are brilliant. Not even the artwork on this album has the same feeling, being computer generated, which completely goes against the original ethic of the band. There's a decided air of someone making a fast buck (and lack of repsect for the band) about the whole product. Go and buy the first three albums.

The greatest tracks from the masters of harmonious rock.
A truly magnificent collection from Boston. Great rock combined with harmony and melody, somehow the music has been given such increduble depth that there is always more to hear at each listen. Boston created their unique sound with their own instrument development. An absolute must for anyone serious about rock!