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Track List
01) Amanda
02) We're Ready
03) The Launch
04) Cool the Engines
05) My Destination
06) A New World
07) To Be a Man
08) I Think I Like It
09) Can'tcha Say (You Believe in Me) / Still in
10) Hollyann
01) Amanda
02) We're Ready
03) The Launch
04) Cool the Engines
05) My Destination
06) A New World
07) To Be a Man
08) I Think I Like It
09) Can'tcha Say (You Believe in Me) / Still in
10) Hollyann
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3:58
2:55
4:23
2:19
0:36
3:30
4:06
5:13
5:10
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First Released
1986
Rock
Carefree
Rock/Pop
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Album
500,000 copies
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Third Stage is the third album by American hard rock band Boston released September 23, 1986 on MCA Records. The album was recorded at Tom Scholz's Hideaway Studio over a six-year period "between floods and power failures".
After winning a legal battle with Epic Records, Scholz switched his band's recording label to MCA. The first track on Third Stage, "Amanda", was actually written in 1980 (when Boston began work on the album) and became the band's only #1 single. The track reached and stayed at #1 for two weeks in November 1986. It was followed by the second Top 10 single from the album, "We're Ready," which reached #9 in 1987.
Third Stage went to #1 on the Billboard 200 where it stayed for four weeks. The album was the first CD-formatted album to be certified gold (500,000 copies) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was also certified gold in the LP format, making it what is believed to be the first album certified in both of these formats. In all, the album was certified four times platinum.
The album was a first in many respects: the first Boston LP to feature electronic drum samples, the first to feature songs not written by either Scholz or Delp, the first Boston LP without original members Barry Goudreau, Sib Hashian and Fran Sheehan (though Hashian and Sheehan were included in the early recording sessions and Sheehan received a writing credit), and the first (and only) Boston LP without the iconic guitar UFO dominating the cover art, though a small image of it is present. Original drummer Jim Masdea (who played on the demos that made a bulk of the first Boston album) plays drums on most of the album. This LP was also the first Boston recording to use the Scholz-invented Rockman guitar processor. No orchestral sounds or synthesizers were used on the album.
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Third Stage is the third album by American hard rock band Boston released September 23, 1986 on MCA Records. The album was recorded at Tom Scholz's Hideaway Studio over a six-year period "between floods and power failures".
After winning a legal battle with Epic Records, Scholz switched his band's recording label to MCA. The first track on Third Stage, "Amanda", was actually written in 1980 (when Boston began work on the album) and became the band's only #1 single. The track reached and stayed at #1 for two weeks in November 1986. It was followed by the second Top 10 single from the album, "We're Ready," which reached #9 in 1987.
Third Stage went to #1 on the Billboard 200 where it stayed for four weeks. The album was the first CD-formatted album to be certified gold (500,000 copies) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was also certified gold in the LP format, making it what is believed to be the first album certified in both of these formats. In all, the album was certified four times platinum.
The album was a first in many respects: the first Boston LP to feature electronic drum samples, the first to feature songs not written by either Scholz or Delp, the first Boston LP without original members Barry Goudreau, Sib Hashian and Fran Sheehan (though Hashian and Sheehan were included in the early recording sessions and Sheehan received a writing credit), and the first (and only) Boston LP without the iconic guitar UFO dominating the cover art, though a small image of it is present. Original drummer Jim Masdea (who played on the demos that made a bulk of the first Boston album) plays drums on most of the album. This LP was also the first Boston recording to use the Scholz-invented Rockman guitar processor. No orchestral sounds or synthesizers were used on the album.
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