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Title: What Makes This Song Great? (Boston, 'More Than A Feeling') -- Rick Beato
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynF ... L6Vw9B0aiM7ryfXV_&index=4&t=0s
Published: Jul 11, 2019
Author: Rick Beato
Post Date: 2020-04-04 13:17:03 by Liberator
Keywords: Music, Rock, Boston
Views: 27890
Comments: 109
Poster Comment: Rick Beato's intricate breakdowns of songs, music, and techniques is pretty cool. Boston's first album (1976) in my opinion is a Top 10 of all time. Still nothing sounds like it, never has since. Boston was its own genre. Summer of '77. Second album (1978) was good as well. I remember the anticipation of this second Boston album, buying it immediately. That was pretty much the end of Boston (aside from the single, Amanda), on their third album ten years later in 1986.
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#1. To: Liberator (#0)
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Good time for music, on the cusp of disco dying out and the punk rock scene exploding. Boston was unique in a lot of ways and their songs were a combination of Power-Pop, hair-band metal and soaring harmonies and were so far ahead of their time, production-wise Scholz was quite a perfectionist, one of the reasons it was so long between albums, or so I've heard. Check out this demo from 1975: Oh, just found this out : Scholz was a top student and a member of the varsity basketball team, he graduated from Ottawa Hills High School in 1965. I grew up in Maumee,(OH), maybe 8 miles from there. I may have seen him play hoops when I was 12.
I like Boston. Don't love them but I do like their music. I'm more into harder rock as I'm sure you know.
"Harder"? Or more satanic? I hate to burst your bubble, but...do you know anything about symbolism? OR, Ozzy's affectionate lyrics and ode to THE one and only, 'Mr Crowley'? (do you know who HE was?) I'm only the messenger. https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/ozzy.htm
Seems Boston is in "Jesus is Saviour's" Hall of Shame. Right from your own site you referenc. Boston: promotes fornication, wild immoral parties, drug abuse, indifference, smoking pot, lead singer commit suicide in March 2007 (left a suicide note saying, "I am a lonely soul") https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/shame.htm
Boston: promotes fornication, wild immoral parties, drug abuse, indifference, smoking pot, lead singer commit suicide in March 2007 (left a suicide note saying, "I am a lonely soul") I'm glad you paid attention and looked the site over and found some truth. However IF we are going to measure the relative "shame" between Boston's rock lyrics and Ozzy's, Boston's lyrics do not promote a blatant brand of evil and depression, the worship of Satan, or promoting suicide like Black Sabbath (Ozzy was sued FOR causing actual suicides, wasn't he?) If you want to compare and parse the actual music, everyone identifies most of Ozzy's musical compositions and themes as darkening the soul and purposely casting demonic palls upon the spirit. He's a creepy magician casting spells over teens. Boston's music? Not so much. In fact, not at all. Their music, chords and melodies are upbeat and harmonious. It mostly celebrates the spirit and life.
You are making stuff up. You ask so here are some Ozzy Black Sabbath lyrics. "After Forever" Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved? Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you? Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school? When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool? Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool? Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared at the end of our days Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say If they knew you believe in God above? They should realize before they criticize that God is the only way to love Is your mind so small that you have to fall In with the pack wherever they run Will you still sneer when death is near And say they may as well worship the sun? I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe? You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate Or will you still jeer at all you hear? Yes! I think it's too late.
Believe what you want. Ignore what you want. You have free will.
Who is the one ignoring. You are. Here is another founding member. In a brand new interview with The Weeklings, BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler was asked if he got any backlash over SABBATH singing a message of repentance and God being the only way to love on the "Master Of Reality" album. "No," he responded. "People always like to find the 'evil' in the music, so they'd quote the 'pope on a rope' part out of context, as usual. People like to find negative in everything. We weren't interested in writing songs about the 'nice' things in the world; everyone else was writing about that. We wanted to inject some reality into music. I think if we'd been called WHITE SUNDAY we'd have had a totally different reaction. Butler also talked about his thought process behind writing the lyrics to the SABBATH song "After Forever", which some historians have called the first real Christian rock song. "A lot of it was because of the situation in Northern Ireland at the time," he explained. "There were a lot of religious troubles between the Protestants against the Catholics.
Not even close.
Nice call on REAL Christian rock music. Of course, 'Turn Turn Turn' uses Ecclesiastes for its lyrics Id always associated 'Jesus Is Just Alright' with the Doobie Bros version. Just a few others: 'Get Together' (The Youngbloods) 'Spirit in the Sky' (Norman Greenbaum) 'Put Your Hand In The Hand' (Ocean) Hard to find live version:
Above is the late Dan Peek's ('America') Christian version of 'Lonely People'. He quit America over his beliefs. Read Dan Peek's book/bio. Inspirational account and story of his faith.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestBoston's first album (1976) in my opinion is a Top 10 of all time. Still nothing sounds like it, never has since. Boston was its own genre. Summer of '77.
#15. To: Deckard (#1)
Good time for music, on the cusp of disco dying out and the punk rock scene exploding.
#25. To: A K A Stone, Deckard (#15)
I'm more into harder rock as I'm sure you know.
#27. To: Liberator (#25)
https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/ozzy.htm
#33. To: A K A Stone, Deckard (#27)
Seems Boston is in "Jesus is Saviour's" Hall of Shame. Right from your own site you referenc.
#35. To: Liberator (#33)
between Boston's rock lyrics and Ozzy's, Boston's lyrics do not promote a blatant brand of evil and depression, the worship of Satan, or promoting suicide like Black Sabbath (Ozzy was sued FOR causing actual suicides, wasn't he?)
#37. To: A K A Stone (#35)
#40. To: Liberator (#37)
Believe what you want. Ignore what you want. You have free will.
#51. To: A K A Stone, Liberator (#40)
Butler also talked about his thought process behind writing the lyrics to the SABBATH song "After Forever", which some historians have called the first real Christian rock song.
#65. To: Deckard, ALL (#51)
#66. To: All, Deckard, Stoner, Watchman, A K A Stone (#65)
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