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Greatest Hits |  | Artist: Boston
Label: Sony Legacy
Category: Music
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 720
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 886973334324
EAN: 0886973334324
ASIN: B001N26GG6
Release Date: January 27, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | I Had A Good Time | | • | Higher Power | | • | More Than A Feeling | | • | Peace Of Mind | | • | Don't Look Back | | • | I Need Your Love | | • | Cool The Engines | | • | Party | | • | Feelin' Satisfied | | • | Foreplay/Long | | • | Amanda | | • | Rock & Roll Band | | • | Smokin' | | • | A Man I'll Never Be | | • | The Star Spangled Banner/4th of July Reprise |
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| Customer Reviews:
Nice collection of sets from Boston July 18, 2010
OH TAY (Sacramento CA 95820)
Like it, as I liked Boston. These is a nice collection of many of Boston's best tunes and it's sells for a very reasonable price.
Most of what I want from Boston November 16, 2009
jblyn (Maryland, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Boston was always a guilty pleasure of mine. I say "guilty" because I like to think that good RAWK music, in whatever subcatagory, also means the presence of good songs. The component parts of Boston are exceptional, particularly the late Brad Delp's formidable vocal range and Tom Scholz' swirling concoctions of layered guitars. So how come such a great SOUNDING band has such (mostly) lame songs? Come on, if your idea of great SONGWRITING is "Smokin'" or "I Need Your Love," you really need to get out more.
That said, this collection, beautifully remastered by Scholz himself, has more songs on it that hit the mark than don't, even with the aforementioned, "Smokin'" and "I Need Your Love" included. The title track from the band's 2nd Album, DON'T LOOK BACK, is one of their best from their "classic years," and such songs as "Cool The Engines," "Higher Power, "Foreplay/Long Time" and "I Had A Good Time" feature all the audible reasons why the lyrics don't matter. The two songs where both lyrics and performance mesh great are---what else?---"More Than A Feeling," the classic Scholz signature song with the most unmistakable guitar hook in the world (next to Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water"), and "A Man I'll Never Be," which for my money has some of Scholz' most powerful guitarwork and Delp's finest vocal, with the best lyrics on a Boston song to boot.
The two omissions that seem bizarre to me are "Hitch A Ride," featuring one of the best guitar solos ever, and "We're Ready," also a scorcher. But, hey, what IS here is just fine, mostly, and for this non-raving fan is just the ticket when I want to hear the guys from Beantown.
Real Good Remaster! October 23, 2009
Wilx218x (Dallas, Tx USA)
I'm not going to write about the songs, because I'm sure that there is nothing I can write that Boston fans haven't read. I'll just concentrate on the sound quality of this 2007 remaster. Well all the songs sound real good. The vocals on "I Had A Good Time" in my opinion sound more clear than the original. The opening guitar riff of "Feeling Satisfied" sound better than any previous versions. On "Higher Power" there is actually a different guitar lick than the original after Brad Delp sings 'The world is spinning, and I'm not afraid'. There is also a variation of the drums after Fran sings 'Let me love you...' Anyways, the tracks do sound exceptional. What bothers me is that there was around 8 minutes left on the cd; enough room for at least another song. I think "We're Ready" was a top 10 hit back in 1986. They could have added that one.
 Can a greatest hits album be too long?? May 31, 2009
Reinaldo More (Coral Springs, FL USA)
Boston always was ahead of their time in terms of sound and composition, and Tom Scholz's combination of chops and electrical engineering geekiness provided guitar tones and ensembles that shaped the future of rock guitar recording. I bought this CD because I wanted to have the seminal Boston pieces in my collection. This CD certainly provides these in excellent remastered sound quality. So far so good. However I wish that the four or five "filler" songs from their less popular work were omitted (or placed at the end of the disc instead of at the very beginning!!). The disc would have been better without these songs.
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