Don't Look Back
| Boston
Don't Look Back
Don't Look Back is the second studio album by American rock band Boston, released in 1978 on Epic Records. The album reached No. 1 in the US and No. 9 in the UK, and the title track is one of the band's biggest hits, reaching No. 4 in 1978 on the Billboard Hot 100. -Wikipedia
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Classic Rock Review
During the choruses Scholz’s layered riff builds, offering a new variation with each iteration and the climatic lead section, while Delp’s layered vocals are well formed and melodic throughout.
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Pop Matters
2006 - As was the case with Boston, Scholz's efforts are perfectly married to Delp's vocals, so much so that it's impossible to imagine anyone else singing Boston songs.
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All Music
Boston sounds inspired on the anthemic title track. Other standout tracks include "It's Easy" and "Man I'll Never Be." The hard-rocking "Don't Be Afraid" closes the album.
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Thirdstage
It stands as a watermark for the arena rock of the late ‘70s, sharing the stage with bands like Van Halen and other legendary bands.
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Only Solitaire
Don't Look Back is simply a dull, primitive exercise in self-plagiarizing. And they're not even plagiarizing everything on Boston - only the most obvious elements.
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My Rock Mix Tapes
I agree that Boston do sound more confident and the sophomore release does possess a more joyful vibe but I have an emotional attachment to the first one, so don’t listen to me, really.
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AV Club
“Don’t Look Back” encapsulates all the ups and downs of realizing that you can’t make the album you wanted to make. The music is uplifting, and the aftertaste is deflating.
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Daily Vault
any of these songs could have also been on Boston's debut album, so after an album and half of the same songs, the second half of Don't Look Back loses momentum. This could have been solved with a better arrangement of the songs themselves.
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Beat Patrol
Don’t Look Back isn’t a departure from, but a consolidation of, the sound introduced on Boston’s dazzling debut album. Once again, mastermind Tom Scholz has marshaled a Mormon Tabernacle Choir of guitars, reworking almost imperceptibly his rich weave of ringing acoustic tones, piercing electric notes and low-register but high-voltage riffs
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Only Solitaire
There's some undeniably catchy stuff on Boston's third album.
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