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F4-THE DESERT SUN Fatal Spring CaXf-Saturday Novambar IS 1988 -I release the content comes as a major disappointment Eight years for this? Elenl Austin is a freelance musk critic based In the Coachella Valley Record Is reviewed cow tesy of the Record Alley But ndther "The nor "A New World offers much more than rock opera filler Both recall the pretentious orchestration of "Bohemian Rhapsody" Among the LPs remaining soup are "Still In and "Coding Engines" wherein rocket-launched rELENIP AUSTIN HalhaDaaartBaa Stage" by Bottom on MCA Records In 1971 the hard pop group Boa-ton released its self-titled first album and It became the fastest selling debut in history Going to number one of tbe charts It sold more than million copies Tbe similarsounding 1978 follow-up Look was considered a having relationship However this theme is not instantly recognizable Scholl repeats the same formula on at least three songs begins full of promise with intertwining acoustic guitars and Delp's choir boy vocals but this mellow prelude quickly turns Into an obnoxious yelping rocker To Be A alternates verses with bombastic Instrumental passages And the lyrics are too corny to take seriously Finally "Cantcha Say (You Believe In Me)" repeats the same soft melodic verse and hard pounding chorus approach Despite the fad that this tune employs a nice vocalspiano counterpoint this routine wears a little thin A couple of instrumentals decorate each side of this LP to let you know that Boston is a serious group arena-circuit concert tour When third effort was not released in 1990 as projected no one could determine what the delay was When Barry Goudreau released a solo album in 1989 it was rumored that Boston had broken up But there was no official word from the group Years passed and Boston slipped into the "Whatever happened to category Its record company Columbia sued the group for not delivering its third LP Tbe band countersued and switched to MCA Records Finally when everyone had either forgotten or given up on it Boston has at long last released its third record appropriately titled "Third After only being in the record stores for a month the album as well as the first single are both number one on the charts With its layered vocals and guitars is the quintessential Boston song Studio wii Tom Scholl coats the song with a slick overlay of acoustic and electric guitars Brad Delp's plaintive tenor is appealing in this shy declaration of love But the problem here is that the melody crops up two other times "My is powered by a very '80s Wurlitxer electric piano and a soaring guitar sola But the lyrics are incredibly corny and Braid vocals are strained and overblown The other done starts with a hesitant acoustic introduction that segues Into rippling organ fills The flavor evoked in the Instrumentation of "My is fleshed out lyrically in In fact It becomes quite dear that these guys wish to return to the optimistic hippie philosophies of that era: "In my mind I can see remainders of a past decade 'Just turn the world into our fantasy and we could give "Aquarius was really meant to Third seems to be a nebulous concept album loosely centered on an evolving romantic Record review sold only 3 million records Led by guitarist Tom Scholl an lfLT graduate and senior product designer lot Polaroid Boston which included vocalist Brad Delp second guitarist Barry Goudreau bassist Fran Sheehan and drummer Sib Heshian was Just a part-time band Boosted by phenomenal record sales Boston bypassed the smaller venues and went directly to Boston Disney atop record video lists guitar riffs glide over a simplistic metaphor for coding sexual pas- ion -I Think I Like has tbe potential to become the secood single from "Third Since little or no artlstk growth can be charted on "Third there remains only commercial Justification for Boston's return Longtime fans will be disappointed to lorn that Tom Scbolx and Brad Delp are the only remaining original members Barry Goudreau Sib Hashian and Fran Sheehan have ben replaced by drummer Jim Masdn and Gary P1U who trada guitar riffs with Scholl "I Think I Like "Third Is essentially Boston's debut recycled for the third time! 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