"Better music through science" was the Epic Records-coined slogan that Boston leader Tom Scholz hated, but this masterwork of studio-happy, high-school-parking-lot music earned it. Scholz fine-tuned his overdubbed guitar orchestra to a pitch that a thousand subsequent album-rockers couldn't resist. And why should they? Where the band's later records were hardly worthy of note, Boston pulls together classic after classic: "More Than a Feeling," "Peace of Mind," "Hitch a Ride." The pseudo-cosmic ambience invites scoffs as the year 2000 recedes into the past, but it's really just part of the disc's charm. Let it take you home tonight.
01 More Than A Feeling 02 Peace Of Mind 03 Foreplay / Long Time 04 Foreplay 05 Long Time 06 Rock & Roll Band 07 Smokin' 08 Hitch A Ride 09 Something About You 10 Let Me Take You Home Tonight