"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.

[5] 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.

'"[4] Allmusic 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.

[10] Daily Press contributor Billy Warden states that the song "sounds like 'Born to Be Wild' bucked off a Harley-Davidson and onto a Saturn-scraping space scooter.

"[11] 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.