(07) - Boston - Corporate America (2002)

“Corporate America” is the fifth studio album by American rock band Boston, released in 2002.
This album featured important changes to the band's line-up, primarily the return of lead singer Brad Delp, who was absent on the previous full length album Walk On. Also, this album introduced both Anthony Cosmo and Kimberley Dahme, who introduced a fresh writing style to the ever-consistent "Boston" style. The album's titular song "Corporate America" is a criticism of corporate corruption, which it says has pervaded and perverted nearly every aspect of American culture and even daily life.
There's something very curious about Boston's fifth album--and the road the band has traveled from arena-rock heights to its current less-than-lofty status. Here, after all, is a band--really, guitarist-studio wunderkind Tom Scholz and company--that emerged from nowhere and set sales records with their 1976 self-titled debut. Since then, Boston's profile has shrunk with each successive, widely spaced release. Their first indie release may not be causing much of a stir, but it's a strange creation from Scholz and his crew, which includes Brad Delp, the voice behind "More Than a Feeling" and "Don't Look Back." Like the Boston of the '70s, this unit creates polished, epic-scaled rock. Scholz's inimitable icy, soaring leads and polished production (call it heavy steel) remain in the fore. But Scholz has a pretty serious agenda here. The CD jacket champions a vegetarian diet, animal rights, and environmentalism, while the title track is a screed against modern living, business misdeeds, and, well, "DVDs, SUVs, and cyberspace."

Tracklist:
01. "I Had a Good Time" - 4:15
02. "Stare Out Your Window" - 3:19
03. "Corporate America" - 4:37
04. "With You" - 3:28
05. "Someone" - 4:10
06. "Turn it Off" - 4:37
07. "Cryin'" - 5:19
08. "Didn't Mean to Fall in Love" - 5:14
09. "You Gave Up on Love" - 4:22
10. "Livin' for You (Live Version)" - 5:07

Label: Artemis Records
Genre: Hard Rock
Producers: Tom Scholz, Gary Pihl, Fran Cosmo, Anthony Cosmo
Country: U.S.A.