Foreplay/Long Time

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"Foreplay/Long Time" are two popular arena rock songs commonly grouped together from the classic rock band Boston, on the 1976 eponymous Boston album. This song combines two disparate songs, "Foreplay" and "Long Time" although they are generally played as one on radio, and are listed as "Foreplay/Long Time" on the album, as one track.

[edit] Foreplay

"Foreplay" is the progressive instrumental prelude to "Long Time", primarily consisting of rapid triplet arpeggios on Hammond B3 organ with a bass part doubled by a piano, and drums, with lead guitar joining at the end. According to Tom Scholz, leader and producer of Boston, the synthesizer-like swoops were not produced with synthesizers, but rather by scraping a pick along a string of a guitar. It was written in 1969. In February of 1977, the song hit #22 on the U.S. charts, and #11 on charts in the UK .^[1]

[edit] Long Time

"Long Time" is the lyrical song preceded by "Foreplay". While it was released as a single, it is generally preceded by "Foreplay" on radio stations. It was one of the band's biggest hits, and remains popular to this day.