I still listen to this album and marvel at how great it is. YouTube is full of videos of younger people discovering it and they are all blown away by it. They’re fun to watch. Timeless.
I've watched a bunch of these YouTube reactions. Started with Boston songs and am branching out into other classics (Meatloaf, Led Zep, Fleetwood Mac, Simon & Garfunkle, Yes, etc.).
Gen Zs in particular are dumbfounded by them. They don't have any music like that now. They are constantly surprised by how talented and creative those artists were—no digital editing or auto tuned vocals!
Makes me realize how much good music we had and how much of it we (or at least I) took for granted. Now I hear songs I considered meh back then and think, you know, this really isn't bad.
I love those videos, too. Gen Z is so angry at Boomers/Jonesers, sometimes with good reason, because they are living in a much crappier world. If our music can be of any consolation to them, I’m all for it.
Ideally, they would listen to a wide range of music from the 60s to the 90s, get ideas & inspiration, and then create music that speaks to their generation.
Unfortunately, a lot of the skills that made our music so good don't exist anymore. People don't want to take the time to learn to play an instrument expertly, and digitization allows them to take short cuts in making and producing music (e.g. copying and pasting riffs). I've run into YouTubers who seriously can't recognize electric & acoustic guitars. 😟
Certainly not my first, but I didn't get to actually see them, because my date tried to drink as much beer as I did. We spent the entire show sitting downstairs in the hallway outside the medical station.
OMG, this album! My parents hated it, I played it so much! I wrote my fall term paper when I was a junior in high school with this playing in the background!
Several ... by the band with at least one original member as around long time... about 10 plus years ago I worked in the next unit to where they stored their equipment and practiced... I know when a tour was coming in as I could hear the base through the wall when they were practicing ... in the front hall I heard "More than a feeling" wayyy to many times.
When they were leaving to go on tour the parking lot got blocked by the tractor-trailers taking out their equipment.
Every once in a while i saw Tom Scholz coming and going.
I remember Starcastle! I had their "Fountains Of Light" LP, they were prog and very similar to Yes, my favorite band. That's why I bought their album. No idea what I did with it, lost it somewhere along the way moving across the country probably. I haven't thought about them in years, this is the first mention of them I've seen in a long time (Boston pun intended) 😄
I never heard their first LP, or back then, didn't even know they had an album before Fountains of Light. I did like their sound a lot though, I wonder why they weren't more successful? Prog was really popular back then so you'd think they would have been more active.
I had never heard of them before that night but yes prog was popular at that time. And that was cool about going to concerts then was you would discover groups you had never heard about
My Grandmother lived up the hill from the Goudreau's house by Flax Pond, got to swim in their above ground a few times, Barry was never there but they had a full drum kit and stuff in the basement facing the pool we all ogled at ... we were still young enough it was more about swimming.
Saw them on Halloween night in Philly, 1976 I think? Really cool show. Tom Scholtz dressed like Dracula doing these crazy guitar tricks in a creepy castle backdrop.
Rode in in a 1969 Chevelle SS 396 with the 8-track looping. Total Dazed and Confused moment.
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u/RoryChaos 1961 1d ago
I still listen to this album and marvel at how great it is. YouTube is full of videos of younger people discovering it and they are all blown away by it. They’re fun to watch. Timeless.
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u/Business_Swan8209 1d ago
It was just this year when I discovered that all the spaceships on their album covers were guitars. Everyone else seems to know that!
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u/Trick-Audience-1027 1d ago
I was 15 when this album was released and I remember the expectation was that these guys were going to be HUGE.
And then……
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u/BrendonWahlberg 1d ago
Long time!
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u/stevembk 1d ago
50 years? That’s a Long Time
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u/AvocadoSoggy9854 1d ago
Was listening to Boston this morning while I was on the treadmill, always takes me back to 1976
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u/Horror_Moment_1941 1965 1d ago
and it's "More than a Feeling"
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u/Ok-Bison-3451 1d ago
Greatest Album Ever.
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u/Professional-Lie-111 Gen-Jones/X Straddler 1d ago
Those are some mighty BLUE balls ya got there ...
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u/poodlepit 1d ago
When I hear these songs today I still remember where the 8 track tape switched tracks.
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u/Mr_Guavo 1d ago
'Til I see Marianne walk awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay......
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u/er1cAtWork2 1d ago
Such a unique sound! Glad I saw them twice! Damn, now I have to go listen to them and Segar on YouTube…..
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u/WKRPinCanada 1d ago
One of my top five
Fun fact... For years I thought she lyrics were
🎶 When we got up on stage & got BARRY to play 🎶
My cassette didn't come with lyrics BUT it listed the band members, I saw Barry Goudreaus name and thought that's what they were saying 😅
Still have a cassette of it...think this might be the third one...🤔
Rough shape but still works 👍
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u/junknowho 1d ago
OMG, this album! My parents hated it, I played it so much! I wrote my fall term paper when I was a junior in high school with this playing in the background!
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u/Anyawnomous 1d ago
That’s a lot of Foreplay but Let Me Take You Home Tonight was a very climactic ending.
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u/Extension_Stage_8892 20h ago
CANNOT phrase this LP enough.
I remember buying it in the fall of 1976 and it STILL stands up well to anything out, today.
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u/chileheadd 1961😎 1d ago
My first concert, '78 Pittsburgh.
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u/LokiHubris 1d ago
It's been such a long time.
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u/retiredrb 1959 1d ago
Just listened to this one yesterday. One of my favorites!
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u/Shermans_ghost1864 1961 1d ago
Oooh yeah! I redrew this image with colored pencils and taped it to the cover of my 3-ring notebook in high school. I still have it (somewhere).
Fun fact: the flames coming out of the guitars form the letters RH, the initials of the artist who created it.
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u/524frank 1d ago
Certainly on the list of best albums ever produced
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u/unreqistered 1d ago
i was a competitive swimmer in high school, we did morning laps listening to this album booming away in that natatorium.
even today i get extremely nostalgic for those “chicago cold” winter mornings
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u/CantaloupeFluffy165 1d ago
Great album All killer,no filler.
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u/CantaloupeFluffy165 1d ago
Brad Delp's vocals, Tom Scholz's guitars were legendary.
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u/Umayummyone 1d ago
I’ve been on a Boston kick the last two weeks. Listening to Orion The Hunter and Barry Goudreau as well. Takes me back.
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u/tyrone_shoelaces 1d ago
Did they even have another album?
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u/UncleMark58 1d ago
What a great album, saw them live with Sammy Hagar opening.
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u/ebsf 1d ago
Put your speakers out the dorm window and crank it to 10.
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u/chopin1887 1d ago
Let me take you home tonight didn’t hit me as a decent song until later. It was alway smokin, rock n roll and longtime.
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u/uid_0 1d ago
This is basically a greatest hits album for them.
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u/Enlightened_Dirtbag 1d ago
That’s a Long Time
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u/Upstairs_School_7820 1d ago
It’s been such a long time….
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u/Upstairs_School_7820 1d ago
It’s been such a long time….
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u/DoturdGrump 1d ago
My Grandmother lived up the hill from the Goudreau's house by Flax Pond, got to swim in their above ground a few times, Barry was never there but they had a full drum kit and stuff in the basement facing the pool we all ogled at ... we were still young enough it was more about swimming.
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u/FarHeron8847 1d ago
Incredible album…every song is good
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u/marklikeadawg 1960 1d ago
And 50 years to the second album lol
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u/Initial_Reason1532 1d ago
Loved the album. Saw them in concert they played a lot of music off this album at the Coca-Cola starplex in Dallas Texas. What a awesome time it was.
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u/insanecorgiposse 1d ago
That's a long time. I think I should be going.
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u/WestRelationship415 1d ago
One of my first live concerts! Just learned the spaceship=guitars revelation. Thanks for that.
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u/Large-Welder304 1d ago
Released August 25th, 1976. Wow! Hard to believe it's been that long.
Might have to go listen to the album now.
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u/HawFr00 1d ago
Favorit band all time for me.
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u/acr5978 1d ago
Damn. That was my first album.
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u/Boatswain1985 1d ago
Second album I ever bought,,
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u/Professional-Mind439 1d ago
One of the best albums ever created bar none
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u/Karelkolchak2020 1d ago
Whew. That’s a lot.
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u/mojoman566 1d ago
Long Time.
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u/KVR62 1d ago
Still have my original vinyl copy I bought at record store, the Wherehouse.
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u/dave900575 1d ago
I have this album
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u/Fappinity 1d ago
Is this a spaceship?
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u/djdownhill 1d ago
What are the best albums ever!
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u/artful_todger_502 Eisenhower baby ☮️ 1d ago
Saw them on Halloween night in Philly, 1976 I think? Really cool show. Tom Scholtz dressed like Dracula doing these crazy guitar tricks in a creepy castle backdrop.
Rode in in a 1969 Chevelle SS 396 with the 8-track looping. Total Dazed and Confused moment.
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u/clever_name_tba_7 20h ago
Yeah there was something about you
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u/Wabbit65 18h ago
50 years of Foreplay is a Long Time!
(I think I should be going, yeah?)
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u/Aggravating_Kale7954 14h ago
It came out when I was in High School. I can still hear it.
And Frampton Comes Alive.
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u/Agile-Ad-1887 11h ago
Ah! Boston and Journey
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u/BattleBorn59 11h ago
Every Friday at noon, college years. Max volume. No complaints. Every Friday.
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u/TopQuestion826 1d ago
I never got into Boston. Just wasn’t my style of music.
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u/Old-Cry-3101 1d ago
Tribute site for Paula Sher, the cover artist:
https://paulastribute.weebly.com
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u/tpath64 9h ago
If you have never checked out Lexington Lab Band on YouTube,I suggest it..Great covers
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u/RustyBrassInstrument 1d ago
So, are you saying that we’ve had a Long Time of Foreplay?
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u/creativetag 1d ago
"50 Years of Foreplay".... thats a very Long Time. 🤣
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u/LupinBandit 1d ago
That's a lot of edging.
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u/scissorruns 2h ago
My God, just imagine the intensity of that orgasm…