![]() Grein described the transition from "The Journey" to "It's Easy" as "appropriately jarring" due to the latter song's fast boogie guitar introduction. "The Journey" was released as the B-side of the "Don't Look Back" single. Barry Goudreau, who played rhythm guitar, was the only musician on the track besides Scholz. The song was the only one on the album without a drum track, and so it was the only song on which drummer Sib Hashian did not appear. According to Scholz, the song had being lying around for years before he found "the right theme to match the music". He compared "The Journey" to David Bowie's work during the late 1970s. Emerson said that the organ sounds church-like and that the guitars sound "ghostly", making the track sound "eerie and alienated". Grein referred to it as having an "almost religious" tone, anticipating that some listeners would find it "pretentious" but stating that he found it an effective interlude between the harder rocking songs "Don't Look Back" and "It's Easy". Billboard writer Paul Grein cited "The Journey" as an example of science fiction-like music on Don't Look Back that is consistent with the guitar-spaceship cover art of the album (and single). He described it as, "I'm floating through space, cruising in an airplane over the clouds". ![]() In 1987, Scholz cited it as his favorite song on any of Boston's first three albums, but wished that it were longer. "The Journey" is a short instrumental track that links the opening title track and the third track, "It's Easy". 4, 31 and 46 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. "Don't Look Back", "A Man I'll Never Be" and "Feelin' Satisfied" were all released as singles, reaching No. Brad Chadderton of The Ottawa Journal praised the album for its heavy, innovative and melodic guitar lines for Brad Delp's vocals and for lyrics that contain philosophical meaning, calling Don't Look Back an improvement over the debut album. Emerson also pointed out contradictions between the lyrics of certain songs, such as the line that "I'm much too strong not to compromise" in " Don't Look Back" versus the line in "A Man I'll Never Be" that "I can't get any stronger", or the line "Emotions can't be satisfied" in "A Man I'll Never Be" versus the title itself of " Feelin' Satisfied". Emerson noted a theme of Scholz expressing his anxieties, particularly with making this album, as evidenced by lines about being unsure about measuring up as man in "A Man I'll Never Be", and the line "I've been used/But I'm taking it like a man" in "Used to Bad News" (a song written by Brad Delp). Ken Emerson of Rolling Stone said that the album consolidated the sound of the band's debut album but was less pretentious than Bruce Springsteen's 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. The album was listed erroneously as Arrival in the cassette inserts of some other CBS releases at the time promoting albums available from the record company and its associated labels.īillboard described the album as "an equally superior effort that further refines this group's ability to play hard rock underlined by a sweet, melodic base". Original release ĭon't Look Back was originally to be titled Arrival, but Boston members discovered that ABBA had already released an album by that name, so Don't Look Back was chosen instead. Their next album, Third Stage, was not released for another eight years, by which time the band and record label had parted ways and were fighting a courtroom battle that Boston ultimately won.ĭon't Look Back's two-year gap marks the shortest between two Boston albums to date.ĭon't Look Back was recorded during 19 at Scholz's Hideaway Studio, except for the piano on " A Man I'll Never Be", which was recorded by engineer Dave Butler at Northern Studio in Maynard, Massachusetts. He also said that the album "was ridiculously short. Guitarist, producer and primary songwriter Tom Scholz claimed that Epic executives pushed him and the band into releasing the album before they felt it was ready. This album also marked the beginning of the band's legal fight with its record label, Epic. The album sold over four million copies in the first month of its release, and was certified 7x platinum by the RIAA in the US. 9 in the UK, and the title track is one of the band's biggest hits, reaching No. Don't Look Back is the second studio album by American rock band Boston, released in 1978 on Epic Records. ![]()
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