BOSTON - GREATEST HITS contains several of the band's most memorable hits, including "More Than A Feeling," "Don't Look Back," "Amanda," and several others. I'll respectfully disagree with another reviewer who lamented the inclusion of "Rock & Roll Band" on this album; to the contrary, this is one of the band's signature songs in terms of style, instrumentation, and energy. What I don't get is the inclusion of tracks that fall remarkably short when compared to the rest of the music on the CD--singles like "A Man I'll Never Be" and "Tell Me," the very first song.

Overall, BOSTON - GREATEST HITS will placate and please the band's legions of fans, but this must be said: if you really want to listen to Boston's "greatest hits," look no farther than the group's debut album, aptly titled "Boston."


Higher Power, Lower Expectations.   May 1, 1999
16 out of 19 found this review helpful

I've been a Boston fan for 23 years. It's too bad that it took them so long to come out with a Greatest Hits album. The album is fine, but I personally think they missed quite a few classic cuts such as "Hitch A Ride", "Let Me Take You Home Tonight", "Can'tcha Say/Still In Love" and "We're Ready". Their fourth effort,"Walk On" didn't impress me much, which explains why G.H. contains only one song from that album "Livin' Without You". It's great to here Brad Delp's harmonious voice on "Higher Power".Fran Cosmo and David Sikes have good voices, but could never compare to Brad's. Tom Scholz has a creative twist on "The Star Spangled Banner/4th Of July Reprise". Little disappointed,but long live Boston!


Guitar Greats   April 23, 2001
Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

Boston's Greatest Hits collects all the band's best and it is a tremendous group of songs. "More Than A Feeling", "Don't Look Back", "Long Time", "Cool The Engines", "Amanda" and the rest are FM rock radio staples and classic all. The new songs don't add anything to the mix (although the "Star Spangled Banner" is interesting), but the rest is pure cream. since the band only has four studio albums, I would suggest for a few extra bucks you buy their first three, Boston, Don't Look Back & Third stage (Their fourth, Walk On is not needed) and you will get the full scope of their guitar pyrotechnics and vocal histrionics.


good but not great   November 30, 1999
retrowens (Alabama, USA)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful

I didn't really know Boston till about a year ago when my stepdad told me to borrow his Boston tapes. More Than A Feeling and Foreplay/Long Time became 2 of the best songs i've ever heard and i also liked some of the others like Amanda and Peace of Mind. So i bought their Greatest Hits. I listened to it and found out it wasn't that great, especially with the new songs (Higher Power is the only good one). But it does have all of the Boston songs that I liked except for Something About You. So to make it short, this is a good cd but if I could do it over, I would just get Boston's debut and the Don't Look Back album.


Skip It unless you REALLY, REALLY want the song Higher Power   November 2, 1999
Paul Campbell (New Jersey)
10 out of 18 found this review helpful

Higher Power is a pretty cool song that doesn't a whole helluva like the Boston we all knew and grew up with, but if you want it very badly then that is the only reason to buy this disc. Otherwise, just buy the debut and Third Stage and if you have nothing better to do with you money buy Don't Look Back as well.