Corporate America Boston

BUY THIS ITEM

  • Add To List uiAction=GetAllLists&page=List&pageType=list&ean=699675114220&productCode=MU&maxCount=100&threshold=3

CD

  • Release Date: 11/05/2002
  • Label: ARTEMIS RECORDS
  • UPC: 699675114220

Listener Rating: (10 ratings)

See All Detailed Ratings

 
  • Overview
  • Tracks
  • Editorial Reviews
  • Customer Reviews
  • Details & Credits
Track List
Click on LISTEN or link to hear an audio clip.
To listen to samples you'll need a Windows Media Player

Corporate America

1LISTENI Had a Good Time 4:15
2LISTENStare Out Your Window 3:19
3LISTENCorporate America 4:37
4LISTENWith You 3:28
5LISTENSomeone 4:10
6LISTENTurn It Off 4:37
7LISTENCryin' 5:19
8LISTENDidn't Mean to Fall in Love 5:14
9LISTENYou Gave Up on Love 4:22
10LISTENLivin' for You 5:07

About this Artist

Editorial Reviews

For all the bad press heaped these days on vintage stadium rock, Boston's Artemis debut resonates with a crisp, fresh energy that's hard to find in the downscale aesthetic of post-punk. As Tom Scholz fans might expect, a metallic sheen gleams across the surface of each track, adding luster to resonant anthems like the politically correct title track as well as more intimate acoustic moments on "With You" and elsewhere. (The same sleek textures coat the album's one live track, a cover of "Livin' for You" that's marred only by the electronic snare drum, which sounds distressingly like the zap of a toy space gun.) Acoustic guitars glisten in fields of dewy reverb, while Scholz's electric leads and fills project a streamlined muscularity. The vocals, delivered by a rotating cast of guests, range from arena stratospherics to whispery folkisms; in the fashion of Phil Spector, Scholz is more concerned with blending them into his timbral landscape than with encouraging interpretive profundities. But that's fine, for Boston has always centered on one man's sonic fantasies, and for better or worse these are undimmed and as assertive as ever, even in the era of Corporate America. Robert L. Doerschuk, All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

Corporate Americaby Anonymous

Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

September 17, 2003: This ain't your father's "Boston" or "Don't Look Back". Easily their most risky and unrewarding album yet; maybe Tom Scholtz could've named it "The Green Party Album" - aside from "Had a Good Time" (how many of you were duped by Big Corporate Radio on that track???), there isn't much to this album for Boston fans. Maybe we're just out of touch ...

Corporate Americaby Anonymous

Reader Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

August 06, 2003: Boston is an excellent band in fact I recently saw them in concert at there second stop The Glens Falls Civic Center and they were absolutley great they sound just as good live as they do in the studio if not better and after hearing them play songs from Corporate America I knew I must own this it was completley awsome Boston definatley rocks.


More Customer Reviews