Boston
Boston
This is the first entry to the Hall of Fame to be selected entirely by votes from fans of 8-track Heaven. Boston, is, in many ways, the quintessential 8-track tape. Produced by the millions, it very likely found itself in just about every 8-track player in the country at one time or another.
Here are the nominators, and what they have to say about this classic cart:
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1. Gamal Lee Abdo 2. Chuck Miller 3. Becky Asbury 4. Kevin MacKenzie 5. Kelly Ginn
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1. There isn't a person alive who doesn't
know the tune to some Boston song off this album...what a rockin' album.
2. Not only was this one of the biggest selling records by a debut artist in rock history, with 17 million units sold to date (Hootie and the Blowfish, Alanis Morissette and Hanson have all released regional albums on minor labels before their major label monster debuts), but the inherent format of the 8-track -rearranging the order of the songs to fit the tape format - was probably anathema to what Tom Scholz had originally envisioned when the album was released. How ironic that an album that took six years to create and record was rearranged not along thematic lines, but by the lines of the 8-track.! 3. This is the fastest selling debut of all times!!! If you don't have this release... it's a MUST HAVE! Get it... NOW! You won't be sorry! If you want to hear kick ass tunes by a kick ass band.... listen to BOSTON! 4. I have to whole heartedly agree with the nomination of Boston's debut album. From beginning to end, one of if not *the* greatest album of all time. 5. If there has EVER been an album put together to become a "classic", the BOSTON debut album is definitely the one! Tom Scholz is a "master" at everything he does, and if any album has ever been worthy of any HALL OF FAME recognition, this one is it! |
Boston officially enters the 8-track Heaven Hall Fame on July 14, 1998.