I almost universally hate "best of/greatest hits" compilation CDs. The only exceptions are home made ones (the love and weird deep track picks often make those cool) and two from my youth: "ramonesmania" and Misfits "collection". So when my ex-wife asked to borrow my #boston greatest hits CD I was naturally confused. I didn't have a greatest hits collection. She was referring to their first album. If you've spent any time in an area with a classic rock radio station you are intimately familiar with every single one of these songs. Seriously, there isn't one song on this album that they hadn't played to death. Fortunately for the exposed this album is a manual for awesome production quality. While there are plenty of albums that I like all the way through I can't think of any other album that each and every single song on the record is a damn radio airplay single. Not one. Can you? There's plenty of lore surrounding the making of this record and their subsequent releases don't live up to this debut's standards. But damn, this is one great guitar and vocal driven album.
For the record: I freaking love rarities compilation CDs.
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