This whole album is a masterpiece in my opinion. Every song on it is great.

The fact that a 47 year old song is still being analyzed and discussed at this level should tell you something. I've been listening to this song for almost my entire life and will never get tired of listening to it :)

Now you know WHY those born in the 60s LOVE the 70s music...it's just fantastic and we got to hear it as it all came out...Heart, Journey, Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Boston etc etc etc...we were a very lucky generation to grow up listening to this music!

Such a great band, they named a city after them.

When you have heard a song hundreds of times, and you still can't stop smiling throughout... something is still right with the world :)

Hard to believe such a well put together song was written by Tom Sholz in his basement before they even had a contract. He played everything but the drums on the song. It took a perfectionist like Tom to blend all of the nuances together into a masterpiece. And it took someone with a voice like Brad Delp to sing it.

Greatest debut album in music history. The fact that every track from this album still receives constant rotation on classic rock stations speaks volumes!

The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is not a hall of fame without BOSTON !!!!

Dude, it is probably the only song that you can come away from feeling as you been skating on rainbows with fireworks coming out of your ears and ass like and adolescent who just discovered love.

I know Brad gets a lot of credit for his performance on this song, but Tom's songwriting, arranging, playing and production are just masterful. He was pushing the envelope with technology and creativity.

Brad's singing on the Boston Albums should be mandatory masterclass college course material! Never ever gets old. Amazing!! 🤘

❤I'm an aeronautical engineer and commercial pilot and love knowing how things work. I bought this album when it came out, and things that I love about this song were a mystery to me but no longer thanks to you. Thank you, love these analyses.

100 years from now, KZfaqrs will be reviewing the best 20 songs ever, and this one will still be on it.

A terrific analysis of one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever. Brad Delp's voice was unreal. Well done Fil.

i'm a black man and i honestly love every sing Boston put out

I was 18 & a senior in high school when this came out. There were several rock bands that either came out at that time or established bands with big hits...Fleetwood Mac, Kansas, Super Tramp, Journey and the like. It was a great time to be a teenager! This song will always be a favorite & I marvel at the voice, the guitar, the drums - it all came together to make a masterpiece!

Rick Beato did a wonderful "What Makes This Song Great" piece on this song as well. Your commentary makes a wonderful complement to it! I was in high school when this song came out, but got the remastered version for this Christmas--I'm 60 now, but cranked it in the car on the way to work!!

Every time it comes in the car radio, I jack up the volume and get goosebumps. I’m sure this song alone is responsible for some of my high end hearing loss! I’m 67 and I just never get tired of this song.

I can tell you that when this song came out in 1976, it was easily the best song on the radio! And it was completely different from anything that had come before it. It was groundbreaking you could say. Anytime someone asks "What song do you never get tired of?" More Than A Feeling is always the first song that comes to mind. P.S. I love how the song fades off into space, ty-ing it in with the album cover.

The story of how this album got made is amazing in itself, but I've thought it was poetic that the song about that special song that takes you back to some place in your life actually BECAME that song for so many people. The transitional changes are one of the main things that set this song apart from the crowd. They're not abrupt but work perfectly for this song. Truly one of the greatest of all time.

Absolutely loved Brad Delp. Big crush as a 13 year old girl. Got to see Boston when I was 16. Backstage pass (thanks to my cousin who was the concert promoter). I was so awestruck that I couldn’t even speak. 1977 was a banner year for me. What a loss when he took his own life. I hope that he found his peace.

Was in Spring Break in Daytona Beach when started being played nonstop. Hadn’t heard anything so beautiful as Brad Delp’s voice. Spectacular debut. Still blast first 3 albums frequently. RIP Brad you are legend

It puts a smile on my face, tears in my eye's, an ache in my heart, I close my eye's and I slip away.

I've heard many people sing this song, no one can reproduce what Brad did during "I closed my eyes and she slipped away." This is my favorite song of all time. The voice at the end is held with an actual tape loop, drowned into the reverb.

Stared at that album cover for 30 years and then one day a friend said you know those spaceships are guitars right? Mind blown. Never saw it like that.

It was revolutionary in the summer of '76 when Boston hit the radio. I really hadn't heard anything like it before. Fond, fun memories.

NO DOUBT IN THE WORLD... THIS SONG IS A MASTERPIECE!! I HAVE LISTENED TO IT COUNTLESS TIMES AND LOVE IT MORE EACH TIME! IMPOSSIBLE TO EVER GET TIRED OF THIS GREAT TUNE!!😊😊😊😊

great point about how Brad's voice compliments the guitar - indeed they at times seem to seamlessly blend into each other - as though his voice just becomes the guitar

I was 16 when this song came out. I never thought much of it. I'm 62 now, and I treasure the thoughts this song has been associated with through the years. Seeing it brought to light here simply and greatly increases the focus on it. Coming to understand the "nuts and bolts" of every song on this channel... PRICELESS. Phil, thank you, so much, for the work you do out here!

Hit after hit on this album, they came out of nowhere and mesmerized the masses. Your hair looks great btw. 👍

This song is a perfect antidote to depression. It’s a Ray of sunshine, every single time!

Shortest 28 minute video I've ever watched. What an epic and timeless song.

Tom Sholz was just a genius to put this whole album together in his basement almost by himself. Incredible. The intro actually was two twelve strings and a clean electric.

I love your passion for this song. Your absolute joy jumps off the screen.

That high D is epic, then when Brad takes it to the high E, it is mind-blowing. I love how it is so closely married to Tom's guitar that they sound like one!

I can still hear Boston cranked up on my brother's radio shack 8 track player in his room back in '76 when released. I was blown away with their sound and how crips the vocals and guitar were. I was 12 and in 6th grade but grew up on classic rock as we had a couple great local radio stations who played full albums. I'd go with my brother in his '77 ford mustang II, pop in Boston's 8 track tape and crank it up on his jensen speakers with the windows down and cruise around town. Being a teen ager cranking tunes back in the day was magic. It took you to another place. In fact, every time I hear the song "Rock and Roll Band", I wait for the click that moved it from one track to the next back in the day as it was recording on 8 track. I have two 22 boys and both of them can't stand their generation's music. They grew up listening to my classic rock from my childhood etc and totally embrace it. One wishes he could go back to the 70's and live through all of this. I did and wouldn't have traded any other time in history. It was a BLAST.

The first time I heard More Than a Feeling by Boston was in 1976 on the way home from school on the school bus seem like every kid on the bus ask the bus driver to please turn up the radio when this song came on. Boston self-title debut album Boston is one of the best debut rock albums of all time.

I'm 62, and this song was an anthem for my generation. I also use this song (and this whole album) as a basis to turn 20-somethings onto '70s and '80s rock. Thank you for the breakdown, your passion shows!

this song grabbed me in 1976 and never let me go.

The most amazing thing of his voice and the instruments is at you put it, their “relevancy”. That point where you can no longer differentiate between the vocal and the instrument where they are so closely aligned. That bit has always been my favorite parts to this song.

I was 12 when this song came out. At 58, I still don't tire of this song. Delp was brilliant, and Tom is a genius. He literally invented equipment in order to get the sounds we hear on the album.

I was 12 years old when this album came out. I saved up my allowances for about a month and the first album I ever bought with my own money was the picture disc of this album. I had no idea what I was buying. I just knew the music was the best I'd ever heard and it had space ships the size of cities shaped like guitars blasting away from Earth and heading for the stars... I had to have it!!!

Class of 1976 here. The emotions elicited by this masterpiece cannot be explained.

Yeah this song still gives me chills after listening to it for over 30 years

Tom is a genius. When they came out, it was like wow, I'd never heard anything like it, loved every song.

This album was way ahead of its time. It blew me away when I first heard it. Luckily I got to see them in concert way back then. Brad's vocals were incredible. He is one of my favorite rock vocalists of all time

I've seen you analyze so many artists with polite grace and insight. You have totally geeked out on this one. And that just makes me smile. Boston was amazing.

"This whole song is melodic". Your enthusiasm for this song is obviously 100% genuine! You make some great observation in analyzing it. I consider this probably THE single greatest song in rock history. There are so many appealing elements in More Than A Feeling. When I first heard it, the rock power & amazing dynamics coupled with unprecedented melodicism was just undeniable.

For a non-musician like me, it is a timeless masterpiece. Thanks for helping me to appreciate it on a higher level. ✌️

I'm from Boston MA. Brad Delp had a band called Beetlejuice. Did nothing but Beatles tunes in clubs all over New England. He could sound like Lennon and MCarteny Long after the 70s Really an amazing singer.

Tom Scholz is a genius, and so underrated by the industry. He wrote and performed most of this in his basement...alone! Incredible. The addition of Delp was perfection.

I am still sad that we Boston fans loving him did not help Brad. RIP

Well, no wonder this is such a driveway song for me! If it's on the car radio, I just sit there til the last note, even if I have reached my destination, even if I'm late.

What a band. When they first came out, I was like "Wow"! What great era the 70's were for music, with the likes of Boston, Kansas, Aerosmith, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John and so on.

I was 12 when this came out. In 47 years, I've never tired of hearing it. Other vocal coaches reviewing this song missed the fact that Brad did all the vocals. He is in death what he was in life, one of the greatest male vocalists in Rock history. And Tom is a genius, literally. He invented equipment in order to get their sound. :-D

I was a professional drummer. I retired in 2018 at age 53. I was 10 years old when this album was released. Most of my musical heros were guitar players or vocalists. I do want to thank you. This has been the most comprehensive video I have ever seen to explain why this song sparks so much emotion in me. Amazing

I used to listen to the Boston album on tape in my car for years in the mid 80s and often wondered then if anyone else was still listening. All these years later people still are listening

This whole album is awesome! RIP Brad and SIB ❤️🥲

Just when you think Brad Delp can't hit any higher notes, he proves that he is just warming up. His ability to move between Chest, Head, and Falsetto is so transparent that only the best vocal coaches can catch it. Brad was an amazing performer, both studio and live, and it is hard to tell the difference. That is the mark of true talent. I love watching the Official Video and how the band members interact with each other. Also love watching Drummer Sib Hashian. He is a brute of a guy banging away on the drums. Yet, he too provides delicate vocals. It is hard to drum and sing at the same time. Tried that myself in Seattle during the 80's with several rock bands. It is harder than it looks.

Brad got his impeccable musical ability by joining every single choir he could from the moment he hit grade school and church. So many of the 70s-80s singers had something extra from performing multiple musical disciplines.

Great song choice, I was 21 when this came out in 1976. I have always liked this style of song, Boston, Chicago etc and I still do. Thanks Fil for the analysis very informative and no interference with pitch correction, great stuff and very life-like with all the flats and sharps which helps make the song great.

I totally.agree Fil! His voice blends with the guitar so perfectly! Best and most beautiful rock song I had very heard!

First show I ever saw. Bradley Delp is missed more than ever. This was the theme music to America's bicentennial. The whole world came to Boston in order to see the Tall Ships parade. The hatch shell became, forevermore, home base for the 4th of July, fireworks and the Overture from Wm Tell. We were young once, all of us, and it was grand. Godspeed to Sib and Brad.

This song IS perfection! Brad’s vocal is effortless

The entire brilliant debut album by Boston ticks every box.

That flat note Brad holds bending up into the guitar part still absolutely slays me after almost 50 years. So emotive and powerful.

I graduated high school in '76, age 18. This concert was so much FUN! Knew every word, anticipated every part of every song, and extatically sung my heart out!! The next school day, I proudly wore my new Boston concert shirt! 😃 Fil, thank you for taking me away to a much happier, care-free world of harmony, never boring. 😀 Jennifer San Francisco Bay area USA

Phil this is one of those songs that act like a time machine for me. And transport me back to a different time. When my only concerns were, my bell bottoms, my Aquanet-assisted Afro and was my ride cool enough. That was fun thanks, Phil.

I remember this song being on the radio when I was about 10 years old, and whenever the line, "I closed my eyes and she slipped away" played, I would feel tears welling up. I was only ten, but I could viscerally feel that bittersweet nostalgia of Maryanne walking away. I still feel it today. This video has helped me to understand how the various musical choices, not just the lyrics, contribute to that feeling. :)

Brad Delp could sing better than any other at that moment in the rock music industry. He could hold the note on this song forever. I’m so glad you are doing this song. Boston was it back in the day. It sends me back to the 70s. I grew up listening to this band. I’m still in love with this song now. The range is absolutely incredible. They are not given enough credit.

I LOVE TO SEE YOUR ENTHUSIASM IN DOING THESE VIDEOS. YOUR SMILE IS THE REAL DEAL. I LOVE IT WHEN YOU SMILE & YOUR TEETH SHOW. MUSIC IS SUCH A GREAT EXPRESSION OF JOY. WE ARE MADE UP OF VIBRATIONS. I WOULD NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT MUSIC. THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY LIFE EXPERIENCE EVEN BETTER. GOOD MUSIC ELEVATES OUR VIBRATION. THE HIGHEST VIBE=LOVE. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

My Aunt & Uncle were music junkies. They had an incredible record collection. When they played this album it took my little 8 year old soul to a different place in the universe. Thanks Fil✌💜

Who didn’t have this album? I was in HS when this album came out. Who wasn’t sad when Brad Delp died? His voice was a one of a kind. Great analysis & I feel your absolute admiration for the musicians & Brad in this masterpiece!

Never autotune this music. It will destroy the sound of this beautiful talent.

This has never aged. Tom Scholz was a multi-skilled genius. For Brad Delp to end his own life was tragic. I remember the first time I heard this track on the radio when it first came out. It just blew me away. It still does. I probably appreciate it more now than I did at the time when I knew nothing about the technical side. I still don't know much but recent discovery of both your videos and those of Rick Beato (who has also reviewed this track) have opened my eyes even further and added an even greater appreciation of music and musicians especially as I have two acoustic guitars, one electric, a mandolin and a ukulele and I struggle with all of them! Oh, and while I'm here, thanks for the Rory Gallagher reviews. Saw him live many times and news of his death really shook me. I have an extensive collection of his stuff. First time I saw him was at the Isle Of Wight with Taste, in 1970 just before they split up. Even in his day, many hadn't heard of him as he shunned the limelight, preferring the smaller venues which were always packed. He was just mesmerising. Totally committed. A man of total integrity and as you have noted, a style and sound all of his own.

The best song of all time? If not, it’s definitely in the conversation, a rock masterpiece, in my personal top 5, never get tired of hearing and I’ve been listening since it came out.

The inspiration for this song was the song "Walk Away Renee" by the Left Banke, according to T Scholz. The chords that transition back to the intro after "walking away" are the same in the Renee song. I was there when this album came out and what a breath of fresh air, after years of disco.

Highschool, this whole album 👌 Nostalgia city.

@ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1127">18:47</a>, I agree. There is so much cool stuff going on in this song. My memories of this song are so precious. I remember when Doug, my boyfriend, Dale, his best friend, or, one of his best friends, used to hang out driving around listening to this song - probably on 8-track.

For a band to create (in advance) such an amazing album, without a record deal...and then for EVERY SINGLE SONG to eventually wind up being played on Classic Rock Radio (the 'real' classic rockers, anyway)...ICONIC. I had the great joy of spending time with Brad and the guys (during my radio career) with his local project BeatleJuice (late 90s-early 2000s). One of the nicest, most humble people ever. It was such a joy to observe him having conversations with fans, long into the night after those shows. And that voice...

Tom was a Genius, not just for his music, but for choosing another. Genius, Mr. Brad Delp,

The song is a masterpiece. I listened to the song the first time in 76 or 77, and I haven´t grown tired of it since.

I’m 58 years old…the first time I heard this song was when the album came out. I was 12 years old and wasn’t a musician yet but there was something magical about it and it made me want to learn how to play guitar. I’ve been obsessed with the music of Boston ever since, and More Than A Feeling is my favorite song to this day. My opinion is that it’s an absolutely perfect song. The vocal melodies are beautiful, the guitar tones are amazing, the guitar solo is a song in and of itself, the drums are solid and the bass, as in all Boston songs, is melodic but still keeps a solid bottom. Sorry for babbling on…I can talk about this song all day.

This is one of those songs that I do not tire of. That opening verse is exactly the way many of us start our day, getting lost in music. Such good imagery.

I could be brain dead and if you played this song to me, I would still tap my foot to keep time to the song. Most people who love Boston could name this song with just one note or less.

I so appreciate your analysis from a sheer musical perspective. I get many people are fans of the music. But you show a genuine understanding of musical theory and the musical voice. You hear things everyone appreciates but you pull it out and highlight it on its own. That shows a deep understanding of music. Do you have an advanced degree in music? Or are you just that gifted?

I recall when this first came on the radio back in '76 - it was like a breath of fresh air for rock & roll, a sound so distinctive and instantly likeable. It still holds up very well after 48 years!

The whole album delivered on every level.

I am 52 years old i remember my dad buying this album when it was released in August of 1976.I had just turn 6 years old, one of my favorite albums of all time.❤❤

I agree i was a teenager in the 80's i didnt know what good music was until I heard this song at a friends brothers basement party. I was like what is this!!!... this song opened my life up to discovering all kinds of great classic rock music . I still have this vinal record that I bought in 1985. I love hearing your explanaitions of the techniques and musical theory. as someone who loves to sing I have only sung by ear without any understanding of music theory before

I grew up listening to Boston and I'm still amazed at what a masterpiece this album is. I could see your excitement during your analyses ❤

I'm 72, have heard this song probably a thousand times, and it still makes me feel good (almost) every time. Thanks for giving me even more appreciation for it.

A song this good could not be made today, they'd autotune it to death and take all the life out of it. Definitely in my top 3 favorites of all time.

I've listened and danced to this song every night for years and still listen to it. Its a great song.

No autotune and no AI. This song is the new classical music.

I don't know what I enjoyed more about this video, Fil: your expert analysis, or your near constant grinning, like you're hearing this masterpiece for the very first time.

This was a phenomenal album, and Boston was such a great band. Hard to believe they lost the Grammy for best new group to Starland Vocal Band, with their One Hit Wonder status!

I'm always impressed that Phil mimics the vocals that impress him.

Best song of all time? Not sure ....but I'll tell you what...it's WAY up there (in the top 5) for me! Edit: This whole ALBUM was damn great..... "More Than a Feeling" "Peace of Mind" "Foreplay/Long Time" "Rock & Roll Band" "Smokin'" "Hitch a Ride" "Something About You" "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" Every song was a masterpiece.....

Boston first 3 albums are absolute MASTERPIECES . Huge vocals guitars organ drums sounds....what we need is another band that sounds like them!