The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1978 Page: 5 of 14
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Records: Boston Fails Expectations
Don't Look Back
Boston
The new album by Boston
has been anxiously awaited by
fans of their first album, but
not so anxiously awaited by the
fans1 pocketbooks. Don't
Look Back is the first in a series
of albums that will be priced at
S8.98. The question is: Is the
new Boston album really worth
$8.98?
When listening to this album
you should try to judge it by its
quality alone: Don't compare
it to the original Boston album
or you might feel cheated. All
the songs except "Used to Bad
News" are written by Tom
Scholz, who has done
everything for the group except
the singing and the laundry.
The first side is definitely the
better of the two. "Don't Look
Back," the title cut and one of
the better songs on the album,
features the same driving
guitar, deep harmony, and
strong beat that made the first
Boston album a success.
Scholz does some good guitar
work throughout this cut.
"The Journey" is a very short
instrumental that fails to
generate anything at all. It acts
as a prelude to "A Man I'll
Never Be" just as "Foreplay" is
a prelude to "Long Time," the
sucessful song off the original
Boston album. Unfortunately,
"The Journey" lacks the same
quality and originality as its
predecessor.
"A Man I'll Never Be" is one
of the few songs on this album
that is not reminiscent of the
first album. This is a good song
that is very melodic. Unlike the
Houston Ballet
Season Opens
The Classical & The Contemporary
Two consecutive weekends
of classical and contemporary
ballet will open Houston
Ballet's 1978-79 season
September 21-24 and
September 28-October 1, 1978,
in Jones Hall.
Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday, September 21-23, at
8:00 p.m. , and Sunday,
September 24, at 2:00 p.m., the
season opens with a varied
program of premieres: The
Archaic Moon, a world
premiere by Norman Walker,
modern American dancer and
choreographer, will share the
bill with two American
premieres, The Lady and the
Fool, a dramatic ballet by John
Cranko, legendary director of
the Stuttgart Ballet, and
Summer Solstice, a nostalgic
ballet for three dancers to the
piano music of John Field.
Summer Solstice is choreo-
graphed by Barry Moreland,
whose Scott Joplin ballet,
Prodigal Son (In Ragtime)
received its American premiere
by the Houston Ballet last
May.
On September 28, 29 at 8:00
p.m., September 30 at 2:00 and
8:00 p.m. , and October 1 at
2:00 p.m. , Houston Ballet will
present its major new classical
production for the season, a
lavish staging of The Sleeping
Beauty, by Ben Stevenson,
Houston Ballet's own Artistic
Director.
Tickets for these performan-
ces are now on sale at the
Houston Ticket Center, all
Foley's Top Ticket Center, and
at Top Ticket centers in
Green way Plaza Underground
and The Galleria II, and the
House of Jeans in Galveston.
Telephone for Houston Ticket
Center: 227-3625. For other
ticket information, dial 960-
TOPT. For toll-free telephone
orders, dial 1-800-392-3794.
Thirty minutes before each
program half-price student
tickets are available on a rush
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typical Boston cut, "A Man I'll
Never Be" doesn't contain the
heavy, driving rhythum
provided by guitar; however,
Sid Hashian provides a good
rhythm on the drums. This
song ends differently from the
carried-out, fade-away repeat
used by the majority of the
other Boston songs.
Side Two would have been
better if they had left it off.
"Feelin' Satisfied" is the only
song on Side Two that is worth
mentioning. It is highly
reminiscent of "Long Time": it
features the same clapping
motif and heavy metal guitar
that made"Long Time"
famous. The bass drum
provides the syncopation. All
these items make this a real
Rock song and one of the best
on this album.
The last three songs, "Party,"
"Used to Bad News," and
"Don't Be Afraid" are, on the
whole, very blase. "Used to
Bad News" features some good
keyboard work, by Tom
Scholz, of course. Besides that,
the song lacks anything special.
"Don't Be Afraid" has a good
Rock 'n' Roll section in the
middle, but after that it falls
back into the same poor quality
that has made the Central
Kitchen famous. Taken as a
whole this album is of decent
quality, compared to many
others on the market, but
compared to the original
Boston album it fails to satisfy
the expectations of the Boston
fan.
by Charles Chambers
Oygene
Jean-Michel Jarre
This fantastic LP, its title
being a French spelling of our
word "oxygen," can best be
called transcendental.
Interpretations of the work can
be based on several levels: a
thematic one (the one used
here); a tonal one; and an
"absolute" one. But all
approaches emphasize the
development of its beginning
melodies that are carried
throughout the whole work.
A "liberal" listener can
discern passages in Oxygene
that seem to depict a beating
heart, inhaling and exhaling
lungs, arid flowing blood—all
synthesized. Even so, other
interpretations are possible
namely, an atomic one, in
which separate thematic
passages of the album could
describe various stages ot
compound-building, polymeri-
zation, and even ionization.
But enough for the SF
interpretation....
Although classified by some
critics as being "easy listening,"
thus implying that it is mere
background music, this album
proves to be a challenge and a
topic of conversation. So, find
a copy and listen for vourself.
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Heard, Michelle Leigh. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1978, newspaper, September 14, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245378/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.