Released in September 1976, "More Than a Feeling” stood out for its signature guitar riff and layered vocals. The song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Dec. 25, 1976, remaining on the chart for 19 weeks. In 2025, Ultimate Classic Rock ranked the Boston hit as one of the top 100 classic rock songs of all time, noting that the band “burst into the airways” with their lead track “in the fall of America's bicentennial celebration of 1976.”
“More Than a Feeling” firmly established Boston as one of the biggest rock bands of the 1970s.
He also revealed he and bandmate Brad Delp were rejected by record labels many times before he made a last-ditch effort with “More Than a Feeling.”
Scholz once noted that Epic Records executives had previously passed on his music.
Scholz said he was thankful that fans still love the song decades later.
The song seemingly inspired a future iconic rock riff
Boston went on to inspire future rock bands. Fifteen years after “More Than a Feeling" was released, Nirvana ushered in the mainstream grunge scene with their song “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain later noted the similarity, telling Rolling Stone, “It was such a cliched riff. It was so close to a Boston riff or ‘Louie Louie.’ When I came up with the guitar part, Krist [Novoselic] looked at me and said, ‘That is so ridiculous.'”
Scholz didn’t consider Nirvana’s riff to be a ripoff. He told the outlet he took the similarity as “a major compliment even if it was completely accidental.”
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