| 词条 | Cool the Engines | ||||
| 释义 |
| name = Cool the Engines | cover = Cool the Engines cover.jpg | alt = | caption = Cover to 12" promo single | type = single | artist = Boston | album = Third Stage | B-side = The Launch | released = 1986 | format = 12" promo single | recorded = 1981–1982 at Hideaway Studios | studio = | venue = | genre = | length = {{Duration|m=4|s=23}} | label = MCA | writer = Tom Scholz Brad Delp Fran Sheehan | producer = Tom Scholz | prev_title = Amanda | prev_year = 1986 | next_title = We're Ready | next_year = 1986 }}"Cool the Engines" is a song written by Tom Scholz, Brad Delp and Fran Sheehan that was originally released on Boston's 1986 album Third Stage. In the US it was also released as a 12" promotional single backed with another song from Third Stage, "The Launch," and as the B-side to the third commercially released single from the album, "Can'tcha Say (You Believe in Me)/Still in Love." It reached #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.[1] Blllboard also rated it as the #25 Top Rock Track of 1987.[2] It was also included on Boston's 1997 compilation album Greatest Hits.[3] Writing and recording"Cool the Engines" was written and recorded during 1981 and 1982.[4] Lead singer Delp described the recording of the song. He noted that often Scholz would write songs for Boston but since he was not a singer Delp had to adapt his singing style to Scholz' more keyboard or guitar-oriented arrangements.[4] And often had the melody for Delp to sing before completing the lyrics.[4] But for "Cool the Engines" the lyrics were complete and Delp had an idea for how to sing the song, and offered to try it out for Scholz.[4] Scholz liked that first attempt that he did not want to re-record it in fear of losing that version, even though Delp thought he may be able to improve on it.[4] In developing "Cool the Engines," Scholz recorded drum tracks and cut up those recordings bar by bar, creating an effect that Musician magazine calls "a kind of analog drum machine that only a seasoned tape splicer would dare attempt," going on to claim that it "worked wonders" on this song.[5] Scholz used the Rockman amplifier he invented to make his electric guitar sound like an "armada of axes."[6] Milo Miles of the Boston Phoenix praises Scholz' guitar playing on the song, stating that his "scaling arpeggios and wallowing (decorously) in the lower register" is superior to the then current work of Scholz' idols, such as Jimmy Page.[11] The meaning of the lyrics is open to interpretation. Miles claims that it can be interpreted as a plea against nuclear proliferation or to calm down in a tense situation.[7] In the liner notes to Third Stage, Scholz described the song as "a rocket ride at red line. 'If we don't take it easy now, we can kiss it all goodbye.'"[8] Critical receptionAllmusic critic Vik Iyengar retrospectively claimed that "Cool the Engines" is one of the songs on which Third Stage "works on all cylinders" and "sounds great."[9] Miles praises it as a "steamroller rave-up" that's "another guaranteed radio conquest."[7] Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls it a "powerful rocker" and a highlight of Third Stage.[10] Philip Booth of the Lakeland Ledger called it a "recent hit single that sounds more 80-ish than anything else from the hopelessly derivative new album."[11] But Dean Johnson of the Boston Herald claims that it doesn't "hit the peaks of [Boston's] early discs.[12] Jerry Spangler of the Deseret News claimed that examples of Boston's rock 'n' roll style "don't come any better."[13]"Cool the Engines" was featured in a 1999 episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast during a scene in which one of the characters flew the Boston spaceship.[14] Charts
References1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Third Stage Awards|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/third-stage-mw0000189203/awards|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2013-08-09}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Top Rock Tracks|newspaper=Billboard|page=Y-31|date=December 26, 1987|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JCgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA16&dq=boston+%22cool+the+engines%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mpAFUoL7HMWyygG_hoCQAQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADge#v=onepage&q=boston%20%22cool%20the%20engines%22&f=false|accessdate=2013-08-09}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Cool the Engines|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/cool-the-engines-mt0011944399|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2013-08-09}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|title='Third Stage' Proves a Charm for Boston|author=Hoekstra, D.|date=August 2, 1987|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3838294.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329181507/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3838294.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=March 29, 2015|accessdate=2013-08-09}}{{subscription required|via=HignBeam}} 5. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Musician|page=34|issue=99-100|year=1987|publisher=Amordian Press}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Boston: Heaven is a Reel-to-Reel Tape|author=Miller, C.|accessdate=2013-08-09|publisher=thirdstage.ca|url=http://www.thirdstage.ca/boston/articles/newspaper-and-magazine-articles/360-boston-heaven-is-a-reel-to-reel-tape}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite news|title=Pop-Pourri|newspaper=Boston Phoenix|date=October 21, 1986|author=Miles, M.|page=40|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X20tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tooFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6501,2051409&dq=boston+cool+the+engines&hl=en|accessdate=2013-08-09}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|title=Third Stage |url=http://www.bandboston.com/html/album3_html.html |accessdate=2013-08-09 |publisher=Boston |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608015731/http://www.bandboston.com/html/album3_html.html |archivedate=2012-06-08 |df= }} 9. ^{{cite web|title=Third Stage|author=Iyengar, V.|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/third-stage-mw0000189203|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2012-10-05}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=Boston's Third Stage Worth the Wait|author=Mervis, S.|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U89RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9m0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5475,3955139&dq=boston+cool+the+engines&hl=en|accessdate=2013-08-09|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=January 16, 1987|page=20}} 11. ^{{cite news|title=Boston Proves a Point|author=Booth, P.|newspaper=Lakeland Ledger|date=October 2, 1987|page=1C|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KLlNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6_sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3274,665333&dq=boston+cool+the+engines&hl=en|accessdate=2013-08-09}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=Boston's hits CD is wonder-full|author=Johnson, D.|date=June 6, 1997|newspaper=Boston Herald|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-56432167.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329181505/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-56432167.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=March 29, 2015|accessdate=2013-08-09}}{{subscription required|via=HighBeam}} 13. ^{{cite news|title=Former Musical Kings Attempt to Climb Back to the Top|author=Spangler, J.|page=8W|newspaper=Deseret News|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y8Q6AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-4MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6822,6807933&dq=can-tcha+say+boston&hl=en|accessdate=2013-08-11|date=October 31, 2013}} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Boston TV Appearance (sort of)|url=http://www.thirdstage.ca/boston/news/1999-archive/121-boston-tv-appearance-sort-of|date=November 2, 1999|publisher=thirdstage.ca}} External links
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