Happy Christmas from me and supergroup Boston. My song of the day, played here on my record player—my favorite Christmas present from last year—is "More Than a Feeling."
This song came out when I was 5 in 1979. Neither of my parents listened much to rock music, so it didn't dawn on my consciousness. I became aware of Boston's "More Than a Feeling" in high school when I watched John Hughes' "She's Having a Baby." The movie has a great soundtrack, which is par for the course for everyone's favorite '80s director.
It didn't show up on the soundtrack album, which I purchased and loved for its array of really good tunes by the likes of Kate Bush ("This Woman's Work", the Jesus and Mary Chain ("Haunted When the Minutes Drag"), Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music fame ("Crazy Love"), Everything But the Girl ("Apron Strings") and the tunefully eccentric "Full of Love" by Dr. Calculus, among others.
Instead, a snippet of that famous guitar and drum riff was played in a flashback when the story's protagonists, played with likable verve by a young Kevin Bacon and the lovely Elizabeth McGovern, first laid eyes on one another at a teen party.
I'd like to say I'm all indie all the time, because it sounds way cool, but sometimes I dig some infectious stadium rock and "More Than a Feeling" fits the bill and then some.
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