Boston vs. Rush

AMANDA

the funny thing about Third Stage is that while it rocks considerably less than the two albums before it, at times sometimes I prefer it as it seems like it has more of a individual personality than the prior two albums, even if some of the songs are admittedly bland.

"We're Ready" is fucking sweet and I wish they did more songs like it. "To Be a Man" and "My Destination", though, god are those bleh.

lol that Boston had an album called Corporate America

Boston may be the only band of the four with songs that can justifiably be described as outright bleh.

Like, I don't like much Pumpkins, or listen to much later SY, but neither congress close to bleh IMO. I think Rush is pretty much bleh free.

I second that bleh-notion

Lol writing on phone waiting to get on cruise where I can already tell there are more rush and Boston fans than sp or sy, or have even heard of sy.

Boston's ballads were the worst thing about them. They pretty much avoided them on the s/t but then shit on later albums like "A Man I'll Never Be" and lord was that nauseating(though I like "Amanda").

though the s/t has dreck on it too. "Hitch a Ride" is such middling boredom, "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" had an annoying chorus...

I guess when it boils down to it the reason I still like the album is "More Than a Feeling" (tho I could die happy not hearing it again), "Peace of Mind", "Foreplay/Long Time", and "Smoking".

"Rock and Roll Band" is lame because they wrote it as this cutesy meta tail of their gritty rise to stardom but actually they got their first recording contract before playing a live gig. Yeah, granted *we* in the authorial sense isn't always literal but it was clear in the lyrics of the song that they were trying to paint themselves as some band that came up through the bar scene when they weren't.

Oh, and the chorus sucks.

your cruise mission: convert them.

"what if I told you....."

Have you heard the Good News (about Billy's 4 star album)?

"let me leave some materials with you...this is Daydream Nation. It might mean nothing to you, but once upon a time, it changed my life. Oh, you can go ahead and keep it, I have it on vinyl anyway."

Just played arcade fire over the pa.

only one of these bands has been on incessant earworm repeat for the last three days

With that "Corporate America" thing, I remember reading the articles. Wasn't that Boston getting all left-wing and anti-globalist? I remember that because their music seems so un-hippy and unnatural.

Believe it or not, I read a lot of articles on Boston at one time - because the guy was an engineer and I grew up with an engineer in my house - my dad. So I wanted to learn how an engineer thinks about music. Conceptually, it's interesting but it doesn't move me.

It's like Tom went to MIT to learn how to engineer the best corporate rock band.

it was clear in the lyrics of the song that they were trying to paint themselves as some band that came up through the bar scene when they weren't.

I know what you mean: even though Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Florida, they did "Sweet Home Alabama." They're dead to me now.

Wasn't the first Boston album recorded largely in his basement?

All but one song and the vocals, yep. The one song not recorded in his basement was done in an LA studio as a decoy for the label people who didn't want him recording in his basement.

Also, haha:

While Boylan arranged for Delp to have a custom-made Taylor acoustic guitar for thousands of dollars on the album budget, Scholz recorded such tracks as "More Than a Feeling" in his basement with a $100 Yamaha acoustic guitar.[2][3][7]

"check out these UFOs! I bet this band sounds like they're from outer space!"

^ preceded one of the biggest disappointments of my older siblings' CDs scavenging

Rush.

I don't have strong feelings about any of these bands, but I once saw a chicken walking across the front lawn of Brad Delp's (former) house, so my vote for Boston should be construed as a write-in vote for the chicken.

I'd rather read about Boston than I would a lot of other people, as crap as I think their music is.

Boston and the Sierra Club article below. Scholz is also a PETA member.

http://www.sierraclub.org/boston/scholz_interview.asp

http://i.imgur.com/Ng7wTtB.jpg

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http://www.grubgrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Boston-Market-1-Chicken-Meal.jpg

and then Geddy Lee had it roasted onstage...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/2704497420_84a5f26858.jpg

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lol rush fans

love that ilx has basically turned into a rush fanclub

CONFORM OR BE CAST OUT

I agree with Rush winning but how the FUCK does Boston beat SP

I wanna take this fucking poll
and shove it up your hole

Honestly, this is the largest concentration of SP fans I've ever seen. I always assumed their stature was roughly equivalent to that of, say, REO Speedwagon.

holmes is the mean age of your community like 57

It's pi.

But it has more to due with the fundamental overwhelming blandness in approach both bands share.

You Can Tune a Piano But The End is the Beginning is the End

Wow @ results. I voted for Sonic Youth in the end.

(Not complaining though.)

Boston wants more sunlight
But Rush ignores their pleas

RIP that old song they used to play

i also like that the results form a descending scale of progness

prog
art
unprog
smurf turds

boston haters got some soul searching to do

*peels out of thread in red barchetta*

still 11 too many

http://www.birchcommunityservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bruschetta.jpg

mmm, barchetta