- rock, hard rock, classic rock
- 37 min
- 10 tracks
- MCA Records
Third Stage is the third studio album by the American rock band Boston, released on September 24, 1986, on MCA Records. It is the band's first album on the MCA label, and was recorded at Boston co-founder Tom Scholz's Hideaway Studio over a long, strained, six-year period "between floods and power failures".
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Spare, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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Tracks
- 1Amanda4:17
- 2We’re Ready3:58
- 3The Launch2:55
- 4Cool the Engines4:23
- 5My Destination2:20
- 6A New World0:36
- 7To Be a Man3:31
- 8I Think I Like It4:07
- 9Can’tcha Say (You Believe in Me) / Still in Love5:14
- 10Hollyann5:12
10 tracks, 37 minutes.
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- Boston
- Label
- MCA Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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