Boston and past record collections

There has been a record collection here as long back as first started buying and receiving them as presents which I can fairly confidently say goes back to around 1971 where in the main it was seven inch singles and the odd album I was bought todays large multi-format collection that takes in compact discs, the odd pre-recorded cassette and records of all sizes.

It's always been subject to change as interests expanded and the means of buying them improved and as other formats came and went such as MiniDisc and Cassette Singles.

I've always liked the melodic highly skilled played rock of Boston ever since they broke out in 1976 but it wasn't until the early 80's that at I got a copy of this their first album which lasted until I caught up with the compact disc revolution by the late 80's and that left.

This was the home of the classic More Than A Feeling single.

As my interest in vinyl returned this century I did get an original American edition that sounds really good outdoing my cd.

The second Boston album was originally released in September 1978 and my original copy was bought around the same time as the first, then replaced a few months later with a Dutch edition that sounded fuller and then removed back in 1988 for a cd.

This album was the home of Don't Look Back and A Man I'll Never Be and really was meant to had been longer as the group felt they wanted more time to complete the songs and record compnay wanted a new album.

This returned to the vinyl collection this century in an American first pressing with gatefold form

There was a nine year wait and a change of record label to Don't Look Back's follow up so it was hardly surprising many of the songs go back musically to the early 1980's although this was a August 1986 release and it's probably some may even had ended up on group leader Tom's idea of what Don't Look Back should of been.

This album was the home of the smash hit Amanda and for all those years it was a big success commercially.

I bought my copy back in 1986 on UK MCA but like much else by two years time it had gone as a thriving market in lightly used cds at a third or less plus more lower priced reissues so much of the lp collection including it went.

After over thirty years an original Japanese pressed edition has returned to the collection finishing off the Boston on vinyl section.

It's OBI.