| 词条 | We're Ready | ||||||||
| 释义 |
| name = We're Ready | cover = We're Ready cover.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Boston | album = Third Stage | B-side = The Launch | released = December 1986 | format = 7" 45 RPM | recorded = 1981 at Hideaway Studios | studio = | venue = | genre = Hard rock, soft rock | length = {{Duration|m=3|s=58}} | label = MCA | writer = Tom Scholz | producer = Tom Scholz | prev_title = Amanda | prev_year = 1986 | next_title = Can'tcha Say (You Believe in Me) | next_year = 1987 }}"We're Ready" is a song written by Tom Scholz that was first released on Boston's album Third Stage (1986). It was released in December 1986 as the second single from the album, following up on the #1 hit "Amanda." "We're Ready" itself reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also reached #2 on the Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[1] Billboard Magazine also named it as the #24 "Top Rock Track" for 1987, one position ahead of another song off of Third Stage, "Cool the Engines."[2] It also reached #12 on the Cashbox chart.[3] In Canada, it reached the Top 25 in RPM magazine's Top Singles chart.[4][5] Lyrics and musicDescribed by New York Times critic Jon Pareles as a "rock ballad," "We're Ready" was written as early as 1981, earlier than the other songs on Third Stage except "Amanda."[6][7] The song ends with the sound of church bells, which are played by Scholz on electric guitar.[7] Critical receptionAllmusic critic Vik Iyengar retrospectively claimed that "We're Ready" is one of the songs on which Third Stage "works on all cylinders" and "sounds great."[8] Critic Mark Madden of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette noted that it is a "radio favorite" and described it as "a slightly harder rocker with an exhilarating vocal hook."[9] Lakeland Ledger critic Phillip Booth praises the impact of the dual lead guitar work on the song by Scholz and Gary Pihl.[10] Peter B. King of The Pittsburgh Press calls "We're Ready" Third Stage's best tune and praises the song as "a classic example of the invigorating, rocking but melodic music that is Boston's forte."[11] Jerry Spangler of The Deseret News regards "We're Ready" as one of the best songs in Boston's rock 'n' roll style.[12]"We're Ready" later appeared on a number of multi-artist compilation albums, such as Time-Life's Sounds of the Eighties: 1987 and Madacy's Best of the 80's.[13][14] It was also covered on the tribute album Smokin': A Bluegrass Tribute to Boston.[15] However, despite its success "We're Ready" was omitted from Boston's 1997 Greatest Hits album, for which the San Antonio Express criticized the package.[16] Charts
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Third Stage awards|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/third-stage-mw0000189203/awards|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2012-10-05}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Top Rock Tracks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JCgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA16&lpg=RA1-PA16&dq=%22we're+ready%22+boston&source=bl&ots=4_GPkC3Eb3&sig=fk4eebGEwC1k8-fO0xjef1VonMY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vohvUJSBDYmu0AHRyYFw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=%22we're%20ready%22%20boston&f=false|accessdate=2012-10-05|newspaper=Billboard Magazine|page=16|date=December 26, 1987}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993|author=Downey, P., Albert, G. & Hoffmann, F.W.|page=34|year=1994|publisher=University of Michigan|isbn= 1563083167}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|title=RPM 100 Singles|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0775&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3|date=February 14, 1987|volume=45|issue=19|accessdate=2012-10-05|publisher=Library and Archives Canada}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|title=RPM 100 Singles|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0778&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3|date=February 21, 1987|volume=45|issue=20|accessdate=2012-10-05|publisher=Library and Archives Canada}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Rock: Boston in Concert at Byrne Arena|publisher=New York Times|author=Pareles, J.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/04/arts/rock-boston-in-concert-in-byrne-arena.html|accessdate=2012-10-05|date=July 4, 2012}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|title=Third Stage|url=http://www.bandboston.com/html/album3_html.html|accessdate=2012-10-05|publisher=bandboston.com}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Third Stage|author=Iyengar, V.|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/third-stage-mw0000189203|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2012-10-05}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Boston's 'Third Stage' Worth the Wait|author=Madden, M.|page=15|date=January 16, 1987|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U89RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9m0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5475,3955139&dq=we-re-ready+boston+scholz&hl=en|accessdate=2012-10-05}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=Boston Proves a Point|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KLlNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6_sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3274,665333&dq=we-re-ready+boston+scholz&hl=en|newspaper=Lakeland Ledger|accessdate=2012-10-05|date=October 2, 1987|page=1C|author=Booth, P.}} 11. ^{{cite news|title=Boston Comes Alive at Arena|author=King, P.B.|page=B9|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YoMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RGMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4780,5145666&dq=we-re-ready+boston+scholz&hl=en|accessdate=2012-10-05|date=September 12, 1987}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=Former Musical Kings Attempt to Climb Back to the Top|author=Spangler, J.|page=8W|publisher=The Deseret News|date=October 31, 1986|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y8Q6AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-4MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6822,6807933&dq=boston+cool-the-engines&hl=en|accessdate=2012-10-09}} 13. ^{{cite web|title=Sounds of the Eighties: 1987|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/sounds-of-the-eighties-1987-mw0001440477|author=Kellman, A.|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2012-10-05}} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Best of the 80's [Madacy 2004]|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/best-of-the-80s-madacy-2004-mw0000205662|author=Phares, H.|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2012-10-05}} 15. ^{{cite web|title=Smokin': A Bluegrass Tribute to Boston|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/smokin-a-bluegrass-tribute-to-boston-mw0000096579|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2012-10-05}} 16. ^{{cite news|title=Don't Shoot! Give 'Greatest Hits' a Chance|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SAEC&p_theme=saec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFE7E8CD68C14A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|newspaper=San Antonio Express|accessdate=2013-08-11|date=August 1, 1997}} External links
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