I love Boston and this one of my favorite songs. Like most Boston songs, the meaning of the lyrics is straightforward. Be the person you can be, were intended to be, today. Don't be held back by previous successes or failures. Focusing on the past blinds you from the present and impedes your vision of the future.
Boston has affected me profoundly over the years. I can only describe their music as a spiritual rising. The lyrics, Tom's warm guitar tone and Brad's amazing voice have elevated me during the most difficult times in my life.
Tom Scholz is notorious for taking the better part of a decade to record each album. I was born in '74 and the first Boston album I remember coming out was "Third Stage" in 1986. My best friend was the first person I knew who had a CD player and I remember sitting in his room, listening to this album over and over. When I was 14, I could sing along and hit all the high notes in Hollyann! Alas, by the time I got to college, I could not longer impersonate a soprano, but my friends and I spent many an hour in the dorm, listening to Brad's majestic voice on Boston's debut album, desperately trying to keep up with this lyrical virtuoso.
I can honestly say I spent years hoping for the next Boston album just to get another glimpse of Brad's voice. When "Walk On" came out in 1994, I bought it immediately, went straight home to listen to it, and was disappointed when I realized the voice I was hearing was NOT the Voice of Boston. Fran Cosmo, who sang the leads, is a wonderful singer and he sounded great, but Brad was nonpareil.
I waited eight more years and picked up "Corporate America." Unfortunately, Brad only sang lead vocals on three of those songs, and the rest of the songs on the album sound so little like Boston's previous works that you would never guess it was a Boston album if you listened to it for the first time blindfolded. Of course, Brad died about 5 years later so I've given up the dream of another Boston album with his voice. The one true outstanding piece on the album is "I Had a Good Time."
Their latest release, "Life, Love and Hope," hasn't done much for me. Bummer.
@phantomlaw
[Boston has affected me profoundly over the years. I can only describe their music as a spiritual rising. The lyrics, Tom's warm guitar tone and Brad's amazing voice have elevated me during the most difficult times in my life.]
@phantomlaw
[Boston has affected me profoundly over the years. I can only describe their music as a spiritual rising. The lyrics, Tom's warm guitar tone and Brad's amazing voice have elevated me during the most difficult times in my life.]
I love Boston and this one of my favorite songs. Like most Boston songs, the meaning of the lyrics is straightforward. Be the person you can be, were intended to be, today. Don't be held back by previous successes or failures. Focusing on the past blinds you from the present and impedes your vision of the future.
Boston has affected me profoundly over the years. I can only describe their music as a spiritual rising. The lyrics, Tom's warm guitar tone and Brad's amazing voice have elevated me during the most difficult times in my life.
Tom Scholz is notorious for taking the better part of a decade to record each album. I was born in '74 and the first Boston album I remember coming out was "Third Stage" in 1986. My best friend was the first person I knew who had a CD player and I remember sitting in his room, listening to this album over and over. When I was 14, I could sing along and hit all the high notes in Hollyann! Alas, by the time I got to college, I could not longer impersonate a soprano, but my friends and I spent many an hour in the dorm, listening to Brad's majestic voice on Boston's debut album, desperately trying to keep up with this lyrical virtuoso.
I can honestly say I spent years hoping for the next Boston album just to get another glimpse of Brad's voice. When "Walk On" came out in 1994, I bought it immediately, went straight home to listen to it, and was disappointed when I realized the voice I was hearing was NOT the Voice of Boston. Fran Cosmo, who sang the leads, is a wonderful singer and he sounded great, but Brad was nonpareil.
I waited eight more years and picked up "Corporate America." Unfortunately, Brad only sang lead vocals on three of those songs, and the rest of the songs on the album sound so little like Boston's previous works that you would never guess it was a Boston album if you listened to it for the first time blindfolded. Of course, Brad died about 5 years later so I've given up the dream of another Boston album with his voice. The one true outstanding piece on the album is "I Had a Good Time."
Their latest release, "Life, Love and Hope," hasn't done much for me. Bummer.
@phantomlaw [Boston has affected me profoundly over the years. I can only describe their music as a spiritual rising. The lyrics, Tom's warm guitar tone and Brad's amazing voice have elevated me during the most difficult times in my life.]
@phantomlaw [Boston has affected me profoundly over the years. I can only describe their music as a spiritual rising. The lyrics, Tom's warm guitar tone and Brad's amazing voice have elevated me during the most difficult times in my life.]
I feel the same. You said it well.
I feel the same. You said it well.