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I am a HUGE BOSTON fan, but I gotta say this is a disapointment. Inspired by the CD exchange, I purchased my first CD in like 2 years.

If this was someone new or another band I'd never heard I'd be very pleased, but Damn man, this is BOSTON! I figured it was a given that it would rock but it's pretty mellow. Only a few tracks even sound like them. The best thing about Third Stage & Walk On was that the sound didn't change at all, pure old time BOSTON.

They even have a chick in the band for the first time in history.

That must be it then, I'm blaming the chick.

All in all an excellent album but not what I expected.

Meanwhile, I am surprised at your surprise. As far as I can tell, every Boston album after the first one.... sounded like the first one.

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BTW, I love the first one. Have it on vinyl and bits both.

I'm surprised that your surprised by my surprise, since I WANT every album to sound like the first.

I've listened to it several times now, and it is great! But there's pretty good great, and oh my god I'm having an irregular heartbeat great. There are 3 tracks on the album I could send anyone, and BOSTON would be furthest from their mind in a guessing game. And these 3 are excellent.

A couple more are BOSTONish, and the rest are sort of watered down BOSTON. It really sucks that I'll have to wait on average another 4 years for a new one.

Sounds to me like Boston kind-of did what YES did after the reformation.

After that, YES was more like 'YEAH' instead of YES....