Rating: - The reason behind the music...
There is a great article on Wikipedia about Boston, which can give you some insight on Tom Sholtz's way of thinking, and why there was an 8 year hiatus between Don't Look Back and Third Stage. No matter what people might think about Tom, his style of playing and technical contributions to the electric guitar have changed rock music, the way it is recorded, and how it is played. Although Brad Delp's vocals define Boston's characteristic sound, to say that there could be a Boston without Tom Sholtz would be naive. You have to imagine what it was like to hear the songs for the first time, when you had never heard a "dive bomb" before, to understand why so many guitarists looked up to the guy...
Anyways, this album's first side (yes, my first listen to it was on vinyl) is one of the best arranged sequences of songs I've ever heard, in my opinion. "Amanda" is such a powerful song, then to follow it with ... Read More
Rating: - A good and solid 3rd album
I remember buying this album(literaly) the first day it came out back in 1986. At first my feelings were so-so for it because I was expecting it to be a rocker like the first two albums. In time however, this album grew on me and it is on my top 25 list of my favorite albums of all time. I saw Boston live in concert in 1987 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas Tx in front of a crowd of 70,000 people. Boston was actually the headliner and it was in support of this album that Boston was touring and drawing large audiences. Every song in the album is good, except "To Be A Man" just didn't do it for me. The stand out tracks are "Amanda", "We're Ready", "Cool The Engines", "My Destination", and "Can'tcha Say/Still In Love", and "Hollyann". If you like Boston, this album is highly recomended. Pay no attention at the reviewers that keep saying that this album falls short in comparison to the first two. It's just that it is a bit ... Read More
Rating: - "The Long-Awaited Comeback"
After enjoying succes with "Boston" in 1976 and "Don't Look Back" in 1978 Boston seemingly disapeared and for the most part where unheard of.Boston experienced trouble with its original lineup as with the exception of guitarist Tom Scholz and vocalist Brad Delp everybody left.Then came the trials with the company and it seemed like it was the end and the album they were working on was never coming out.Then as a surprise it exploded on the charts in 1986 when it was finally released after an 8 year long wait.It was an instant classic and best of all the trademark Boston sound was still there.So many bands changed their sound to adapt to the 1980s sound but not Boston,it sounds like classic Boston and its just as good."Third Stage" provided plenty of great songs and the band's biggest hit : "Amanda" which reached # 1 in 1986.The album for some part featured a spaceship concept(songs 2 to 5)and another concept that is maturity(songs ... Read More
Rating: - Not bad
This was the first Boston album I heard. It came out in 1986 as I was starting my senior year in high school, and I was hooked. Later I discovered their earlier albums which are by far more memorable, but I still like Third Stage just because it was my first exposure to Boston, but for those who'd heard the earlier albums, they were not as impressed by this one. At least it's better than "Walk On". That was terrible!
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