What's The Story?
The only album that sold better in the US than the source of this gem was Guns 'n' Roses' Appetite For Destruction. Boston first hit the selves in 1976, and literally every song from it is still all over classic rock radio today.
Who's To Blame?
An adoptive father in California who I've never met in real life (or IRL, as the kids say)
Why ♥ It?
The reason for the slashed title is because this is actually two separate songs, more or less.
The first couple minutes are full of classic rock wankery. It's an awesome explosion of power chords, cymbals, and an organ solo. It's a headbanger, through and through.
The second part, Long Time, contains exactly the same fare that made Boston among the greatest selling acts of the 70s: Brad Delp with honest vocals & great harmonies, and Tom Scholz with a mixture of acoustic and electric sounds that gel wonderfully. Also, another trademark Boston chorus that the entire Western world had in their head for a decade.
Foreplay / Long Time is like taking the Battle of Helm's Deep from the Lord of The Rings trilogy, and appending the entirety of Pulp Fiction afterwards; it starts by blowing you away, and then gives you what you know to expect from one of the world's best.
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