Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Weiß nicht. Plätscherte größtenteils so vor sich hin, der letzte Song war echt nervig.
It's one song. Only one song. An inoffensive song, but it's the same song for an hour.
I dunno man, the talking guitar is cool enough I guess but otherwise this dude is a creepy horn dog with like 3 decent songs. I’m gonna turn to my talking shoes for this rating. Shoes say, 2 stars
I can’t for the life of me understand why the audience is so excited by this.
If it's an artist's defining moment, the highest-selling live album in history, and the album of the year for 1976 according to Rolling Stone, it surely has to be something noteworthy, right? However, unfortunately, it all is so decidedly mediocre: the lyrics, the songwriting, the vocals. The moments where there is a hint of emotion in the tracks occur when Frampton launches into one of his solos; otherwise, the songs just miss any kind of spark; it's all so tame and within the margins. It's a 3* album, but when compared to this 1001 list...
Insipid and bland AOR that's best left forgotten. I was aware of Peter Frampton, but had never dug into his back catalogue. Now I can tick that job off as not worth contemplating. The version of Jumping Jack Flash is horrible, really bad. But in the context of a mixture of forgettable songs and awful cover versions, it doesn't stand out like the atrocity it is. There's some generic guitar that's not completely unpleasant. Hence 2 stars, but only just.
M'eh.
I never got why this album was such a big deal. A live album of mediocre songs just doesn’t do it for me.
It came in the mail with samples of Tide.
Mega leiðinlegt!
Never understood the attraction here. I mean, it's fine 70's rock, but just not that amazing or groundbreaking.
😴
Blah blah blah
Frampton was once dead and now, he’s here, alive and in front of an audience. I guess I’m about to find out why this album was such a big deal? Maybe? Album oriented rock always seemed like the dumbest genre ever invented. So it’s rock, that appears on albums? Or does it just mean no hits? Who cares. Launch that big pig baby. Down into the AOR cellar with me. Ugh. Whatever. Slow paced rock with a piano. Who cares. David Bowie and Rod Stewart called and they’re both upset that big Pete bit their style. David is really mad considering he reanimated to tell me this. Bowie comes alive. Anything but listening to this song. It’s fine, but I can’t believe how much I’ve grown to hate piano in most music. Not my favourite instrument. Great in jazz, but gives everything else a major drift towards the riverboat. It’s finally over. Oh no. We’re getting funky. When a guy who looks like Peter Frampton says that, it’s never good. In fact it’s always bad. Is this just a doobie brothers rip off? Also I hate when fans clap along to music. Let the musicians play and sit there. Or dance. Whatever, but don’t attempt to be an instrument. The bass part was actually kind of funky. Damn you Pete. Not actually too bad. The wah pedal is out. The other thing I knew about Peter Frampton was the wah pedal. All from the Simpsons. As is most of my knowledge base. Anyway. This is boring. And long hoo boy. You wanna be molested? Huh? These rockstars really are wild. This song isn’t too bad. Again, pretty average. This feels exactly like a Tenacious D vocal delivery somehow. It’s honestly pretty good. The crowd loves it apparently. Itchy fingers manrtioned. The only Shakespeare quote I consistently remember. Did somebody get shot at the minute mark? Oh well. This is in the US after all. Please pass the corpse down the row and continue the Peter Frampton concert. This was a stinker. Oooh I know this song. It SUCKS. Prom music is the worst genre out there. Move over vocal jazz, 80’s prom movie scene music conjures up a unique brand of depression that a revolver couldn’t extinguish. Twelve thumbs down. Oooooh buddy we really have those ivories tinklin’ now. This is somehow worse. Go to the sun Pete. Random guitar section and the crowd went fucking nuts. That “pop” made for a pretty rad intro to this one. The first drop of heaviness accidentally crept in. This ends up being the riff to “Feel like Makin’ Love” which isn’t that bad a thing honestly. It’s a decent song. Not as boring. The intro makes the whole thing to be fair. Too long again though. I know Peter Frampton said the song was called Shine On, and also said Shine on 687 times )while I was trying to accomplish an infuriating computer task), but what is this song called? Need some help. Ooh a terrible version of Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Perfect. Guitar shop level riff playing. It sort of picks up from there but any return to verses is death. Is this an admission of cocaine use? I mean if it is, get some better shit. This album has like zero energy. And for a live album??? If this thing wasn’t live, oh boy. These songs are so mid. Bad ballad. 14 more minutes. It has some life. But just a small amount. Like a faint heartbeat on a coma patient. I think he done to the coma well too many times in the past couple days. Oh so “Funk Mann” is responsible for the keyboards. I know who to blame now. I despise you Mr. Mann. The rest of this reminds me of an excellent Simpsons episode, so that’s good on its own. It’s a pretty fun concert outro. I could play drums on this album. I may have. The 70’s were a blur. Good music doesn’t have to be complicated, but most of this record could be accomplished today with like two hours of practice and a YouTube search for “writ song.” Pete seemed like he was having fun and this is relatively harmless in the end. Not good, but did it really have to be? People had fun, whatever. As an album, I found myself asking “why?” But I think it sold incredibly well. Anyway, this mostly sucked for me but I can’t hate it too much as there was some charm outside of the dreadful piano and somewhat shabby playing. This truly was an album oriented around (soft) rock. I’m not sure I feel like you do, Pete, but I feel like I’m glad this one is behind me. 1.5-2 HIGHLIGHTS: All I Want to Be (Is by Your Side), Do You Feel Like We Do
I just don't get why this is such an essential "live album". Frampton is such a boring vocalist, the performances aren't as "electric" as a really great live album is, just boring, bland, bloated 70s rock that goes on too long.
Live albums shouldn't exist. Not especially live DOUBLE albums
As live recordings go, this is pretty great sound quality. That being said, Frampton isn’t interesting enough to warrant over an hour of listening.
Meh..
As a live album, it’s pretty good. It’s well mixed and the performances are solid but the songs themselves are just ok. I wouldn’t find myself going back to this or any other Frampton record to be honest.
aint no way there wasnt added crowd noise on this… show me the way out
The family guy episode that references this is more essential.
the talking guitar parts are corny as hell, but my heart sank even more when he pulled out the acoustic. how has he managed to convince us this was a rock record for 50 years? who can explain the staying power of this record? was it the wayne's world joke? lisa bonet and big mountain? spotify tried to sell me frampton comes alive keychains and throw blankets.
Not my style of music. Just average dad rock.
As I mentioned when pulling the Van Morrison live album - Live albums have no business being on this list. Neither does this album, which only has 1 good song, which is Show Me The Way. I’m tired.
It's 70s rock, no more, no less. I'm not a fan of live albums so this just sounds classic 70s rock to me. Good classic rock, i'm just a bit tired of this sound.
Pretty soul-less. I did like the guitar solo on "It's a Plain Shame".
Not for me Roy. Vastly overrated when it came out and hasn't aged well.
**An ok album, not for me. Too much screeching and wailing instead of real Music.
I was listening and thought a short 2 star review would be a bit mean. Side two cleared any doubts. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
In a lot of ways this feels like an archetype for the idea of Classic Rock. That is both good and bad, but leans more bad.
i never got why this album was so huge and listening to it again has not illuminated the question
Rather bland, poppy dad rock. It's not particularly bad, it's just not particularly interesting.
There are not many word combinations more demonic than "Hour long live hard rock album". Something I've noticed in my 3 years of going through this list, is the existence of a strange music magazine circlejerk around certain albums with 1-2 big singles. The dichotomy of seeing sentences like "This is considered by Rolling Stone to be one of the greatest live albums of all time" on the album's Wikipedia page, then opening Spotify and seeing that most of the songs don't even have 500k all-time listens usually tells me that I'm going to be listening to some grade-A boomer ass that has aged worse than asbestos-filter cigarettes. Okay anyways, this ain't that horrifyingly dogshit. The singles are pretty good and I had no idea that "Baby, I Love Your Way" was originally a rock song, because they keep playing the Reggae version in European radios so often that it haunts my dreams.
I may have gotten more out of this if I'd ever heard a Frampton song in my life.
Fine, I guess. As always, I don't really care for 99% of live albums, and this is no exception. In the words of High Fidelity: "...is that Peter fuckin' Frampton?" *sigh*
I know this is from the 70s but the audio quality/mixing is just terrible. Still don’t think live albums should be on this list except for a few exceptions. 3/10
Solid aber halt ein Kind seiner Zeit. War sicher ein tolles Konzert, damals.
Decent, not generally a fan of live albums
Yep. That sounds like one of the flavors of the 70s there. Single-handedly made the talkbox popular and overblown in one album. Sadly, it's a live album that's a better display of musicianship than of an overall amazing music experience.
Also known as "Frampton Is Barely Clinging To Life", this album is very much propped up by its (admittedly strong) electric guitar sound. The vocals are pretty variable, but none of them are convincing. At one point Peter Frampton sounds like a discount version of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, which isn't necessarily a good thing. At other points, Frampton sounds like discount Bowie. Lots of discounts here. Kind of makes me want to discount the entire album. And yet, the crowd is going positively wild for the whole performance. Even during the comparatively simple and repetitive acoustic instrumental Penny For Your Thoughts, you can hear giddy whoops from the audience like they're drunkenly cheering on their girlfriend at karaoke night. It's a little distracting, especially in some of the weak tracks like All I Want To Be and the cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash. You guys do know you don't have to cheer when the music isn't good, right? But despite all its flaws, the electric guitars on this album are honestly some of the best I've heard in 70s music. Show Me The Way is a highlight. 2/5 Key tracks: Doobie Wah, Show Me The Way, It's A Plain Shame
Really not my thing
dai non male, non conoscevo. non mi piace molto la voce e il modo di suonare la chitarra ricorda il mio,. non capisco il perche' di tanto successo. pero 'dai ascoltabile, non e' spazzatura
Frampton, my nemesis. Live albums, as always, are such a mixed bag. This reminds me of Cheap Trick's live album, of which my belief is that if your studio material sounds so boring that your live album is what gets the most attention, you might be doing it wrong. Frampton falls into this category. In paying attention to the album, I recognized similarities between Frampton and Aerosmith and the Doobie Brothers. And I hadn't realized before how much into progressive rock Frampton was. The instrumental sections were pretty solid! But jeez, I cannot get over how overhyped this album is.
This album made me realize how little Frampton I knew. I know and generally like "Show Me the Way" and "Baby, I Love Your Way", so I figured, how bad could the rest of it be? Well, after listening, I feel like I can say "not bad, but pretty darn average at best". Most of these songs sound like generic 70s soft rock, a genre that I baseline enjoy, but none of this really pushed me beyond that baseline. Also, outside of those couple of hits of his I mentioned before, I never realized that Peter Frampton is a pretty poor vocalist. There are many cringey vocal moments on this album. Truly, this is a live album where I don't really understand how it is one of the best selling live albums of all time. I also don't really understand what it was about this album that caused Peter Frampton to finally take off after four lackluster studio albums. To my ears, there isn't really anything noteworthy about this album in particular that would cause people to finally notice him.
Yes he's got a gimmick, but unremarkable.
they airbrushed my face
It's a 2.5 really. Soft rock from the seventies, immaculately played and in the case of Show Me and Baby I Love allied to diamond-hard songs. Elsewhere it can drift badly IMHO and so it's rounded down to a two. - a criminal cover of Jumpin Jack Flash and the self-indulgence encore vibes of the last track precluding any higher score.
Decent.
This album is a double-edged sword because it has a handful of tracks that are pretty good, but the rest of it really just annoys me. One reason why is because my father used to play this album a lot when I was a kid, and it was one of his least impressive albums that he would like to play, so I always had to listen to it. Secondly, I really associate this type of live album with your typical run-of-the-mill album that always seems to be playing in the background at a musical instrument store, especially with the sounds of the audience. Although it has tracks that I can’t deny are pretty good, it’s an album I will probably never go back to because I was burned out on it the first few times my father played it when I was a kid.
Not bad, but aggressively mediocre, and sometimes that’s worse
Oh lucky me, two live albums in a row. Just love the sound of people woo-ing on random moments. 2*
Probably would be a 3 if it wasn't live
I can't say that I actively disliked this, but I just don't understand why this live album needed to exist. It just sounds like any other ordinary concert from the 70s. Live albums should be for performances that are particularly amazing, or really showcase something special that can't be done at any old concert or in the studio. But this album doesn't have that, just a standard rock concert that happened to become a live album. I would give this a 3 for still being a solid enough listen, but I'll deduct one point for it being completely unnecessary for this to be a live album.
I’ve been curious about this album for a while, as it gets a regular name check on the Ken and Robin podcast as an essential feature of an RPG night. Turns out it’s a live rock album that ticks all of the tropes including a ‘Hello San Francisco!’ to a crowd of politely whooping American college students. The high point is a cheesy voice box guitar effect. The low point is a cover of Jumping Jack Flash that bears no discernible relation to the original tune.
Halfway through the first song I'm already yawning. This is pretty boring and innocuous pop rock from the '70s. Apart from the fact that it was a hit in the US in the late '70s, I really don't see what's so good in this album that I should listen to it before I die.
Oooh baby I love your ways. All kinda sounds the same. Idk would probably not listen unless I was forced.
I recognize that Peter Frampton is a supremely talented guitarist, the same way Clapton is. But I just don't enjoy listening to him play.
Boring, couldn't get through it, if it wasn't for baby I love your way, the whole thing would be a waste of time. May be worth keeping to help me nod off to sleep though absolute snooze fest.
svårt för live album generellt. ganska bra sound och röst och sådär. jag hade säkert gillat hans studioalbum bättre
boring but I liked the acoustic guitars soundscape
Gear: Moondrop Variations Artwork: Okay Hair Day Mix: okaye Live-Aufnahme Musik: okaye Gitarrenarbeit in okayen Songs Wertung: 🆗🆗/5
This reminds me of the hamster I had for a week when I was a kid, in that I did not care for it
Ihan ok
No soy muy de live albums
Not the biggest Frampton fan and this isn’t his best offering
A bit of a dud for me. I only liked the (overly) familiar hits for the most part. It was kinda cool to hear the audienxe reactions; so tame compared to modern shows.
Couldn't finish... but I do remember a quite nice guitar.
Live albums usually are not worth it, this one is no exception
It’s fine but nothing out of the middle of the road
meh
Sorry, just don’t get it…
Live albums are always hit or miss, and this is a miss
All about the guitar I'm afraid. Beyond this there is little else to warrant any attention.
I wanted to like it so much more than I did. I’d heard of this album so was excited for it to come up but it didn’t really do all that much for me. It wasn’t bad just felt very samey
I’m sorry I can’t sit through an hour and 17 minutes of this
Cheery, exciting, full of energy. But it left me flat. Friends grew up with Frampton in their lounge room and have much of a soft spot for his work. I will listen to him again but on the whole, for reasons I don't quite understand, I'm not that enthused.
I don't prefer live albums, and it wasn't really the vibes for my day.
Way too long. I knew a few songs and those were ok but this was not my jam overall.
This album was so big in college in the spring semester of 1976 (along with the S/T Fleetwood Mac album from summer of 1975). Either going to parties or delivering pizza and sandwiches to campus apartments, one of these two albums was played constantly. This is a great example of a double album that would have been a much better single LP. Some really fun tracks, but a lot of filler. And some of it, even big hit tracks like “Show Me the Way”seem kinda plodding and lifeless, even though it’s fun to sing along to. Haven’t listened to it in many years, thought at the outset of today’s listening that it would probably rate a 3, maybe a 4, but…
Dreary dad rock at its finest. Almost a 3rd star for Baby I Love Your Way.
Been kind of dreading getting this album, because I knew it would be on the list. I don't really care for live albums, or particularly long albums, and also it's Frampton. But this was fine, pretty accessible safe rock and roll. I was surprised by how many songs I recognized. This stuff is just boring and middle of the road. It was fine though.
Mostly average
Didn’t understand it. For me, it was plain pop album, to be fair, I didn’t read the lyrics.
Frampton is a good musician. That being said, I found most of the album to be monotonous. I think I would enjoy these songs more one at a time, but as an album there wasn't enough change up. I assume that we got the live version for the 16 minute outro where Frampton jams with the talk box. Aside from knowing a few of his songs before this listen, I already associated him with the talk box, and the final song of the album is the one I think of. I quite enjoyed that. It's an utterly bizzare sound, that is just so unique. Either that is why we ended up with the live album on this list or it was because Peter apparently survived an assasin's gunfire during "Wind of Change". Assuming that's where the name of the album comes from.
whatevs, not a huge fan before, good guitar but I'd rather have good signing and good music
So boring. What’s with the live albums.
Overdone
I listened to like half of this -- had heard some of those songs before. I don't like frampton too much, it seems.
I still can’t deal with the sound of that guitar. I know it’s considered iconic in many circles, but it actually bothers me. Like, it sounds silly. I mean the guitar sounds like it’s trying to do a funny voice. It makes me cringe. Definitely listenable otherwise, but mehhhh.
I didn't get this. Its live so I'm already not a huge fan of live albums, and honestly I didn't think it was very good, his voice gets masked by the loud "music". It had a few okay tracks but more just glossed over me. There was a funny moment where he was singing the chorus for show me the way (I think) and he turned the mic to the crowd and it was just dead air. Its a 2, I expect he has better non live albums but I will never listen to this again
not my thing
Thrift stores around the world weep at the thought of one more Frampton Comes Alive record.
Virkelig ikke særlig meget mig. Men så fandt jeg da også ud af hvem der skrev "Oh, baby i love you so" 🤷
Peter Frampton, of no particular fame whatsoever, had this live album as his breakout hit. I have no idea why or how, but it landed on the Billboard 200 and stayed at number 1 for ten consecutive weeks. Did somebody grease the palms of radio execs or was there just a few slow weeks in 1976? Either way, Frampton Comes Alive sold a gazillion copies and now it's the most popular live record in the used bins of record stores across America. Behold: a double album no one asked for. Highlights include the talkbox. That's about it. Most of this album is tied up in boring, unremarkable 70's rock. This includes a particularly unnecessary cover of Jumping Jack Flash.
Nope
- lighthearted rock music - I don’t like that it’s live - pretty boring in general tbh - I like and recognize baby I love your way - ok some songs have non boring parts
Live albums are great if you like band that's playing.
Show Me The Way // Baby, I Love Your Way //
Una traccia l'avevo sicuramente già sentita prima, la più bella. Le altre meh
This album is basically 77 minutes of Peter Frampton just jamming on guitar. In his defense, he shreds. The downside is that it’s not particularly interesting to me, and is excruciatingly long. I can see the appeal, just not really for me. It’s interesting that this is basically the key piece of output from his career, and it’s a live album. The energy is pretty good on it, but live albums are tough. There’s a couple of great songs on here. Baby, I Love Your Way is iconic. As a whole it’s just fine though, I was ready for something else pretty quickly. The last song was a bit of a banger, I’ll give it that. Favorite song: Baby, I love Your Way Other: Show Me The Way, Penny For Your Thoughts, Jumping Jack Flash, Do You Feel Like We Do
Ganska trist - 2/5
Exactly what this list needed, more mediocre, live rock music from England in the 70s. Yawn
Yeah it's all good, but another live album
Vad har jag sagt, jag vill inte ha några liveplattor ifall de inte heter 101.
Don't really see why this one landed a spot on the list. 2
Decent enough. Not really for me.
# 50 : Live! It was ok, but to hear it without the atmosphere, it kind of loses something. 2.5 Stars Baby I Love Your Way
I never got this and still don't. Some of the songs would be pretty good but the live format doesn't do it any favours. Maybe you need to have been there?
Ach, DER hat Show Me The Way und Baby I Love Your Way geschrieben? Ich hab von dem sonst weder namentlich noch musikalisch irgendwas gehört. Und wohl auch nicht gar so viel verpasst. Fast drei Sterne.
Perus jamppa pamppa rock pop.... ei ärsytä liiaksi.. Varmaan hyviä biisejä noh tiiä siitä sitte kaikki samalta kuullostana.. Velipoika Ukrainassa kuolena.. heh.. puuro maistu sille kaverille... isä se sano poika syö talon käyhäksi heh.. sotahullu krääkkä ikää oli jo.. tartte murehtia.. innolla ukrainan hyökkäysvaihetta tässä seurantana...
Que tiempos aquellos en los que se dejó caer por el Homerpalooza🤣🤣🤣(PSP)
Yacht rock
I have opinions surrounding country music. I have opinions surrounding hard rock music. And I have opinions surrounding live albums. I switched this off due to being unable to bear this right now. Nevertheless, I did enjoy 'Something's Happening'; however, I will never purposely listen to any of these songs again. 3/10.
I thought I wouldnt like it and it didnt disappoint. Seems to be that brand of classic rock that excites people who dont really like music
This combines two of my least favourite things: Albums and dad rock. I don't know why I dislike live albums so much but I don't even like them by bands I love. And this is the worst type of live album: with all the showoff guitar solos and the crowd whooping, the crowd joining in and screaming. That shit's fine when you're at a gig. It ruins a record. Then the music itself: It's just so boring. I mean, man can play his guitar but I always find that a strange thing to build a sound. You can fine people who can play a guitar ridiculously well anywhere. If that's all you've got then what's the point?
Maybe you had to be there? This was just a subpar live album. Nothing really shone out here. It's standard boomer-era rock. Which I should love but the playing is fine. Inoffensive. Nothing really caught my ear. It just limps along.
Frampton- So 70’s! Kind of generic classic rock sounding. interesting that this is a live album. Probably I like this more than I would if it were a studio album. Band sounds good and the live arrangements translate well to the record for the most part. “Baby I Love Your Way’ is a great song. I guess that why it’s on here one or two hits that made the record sell really well. As an album it’s alright I guess but not really sure why it’s on here- I know it was very popular but aside from the use of the talkbox I don’t think it was a super original or influential album. Some of his best guitar playing may be in “Lines on my Face.” 2.5
Really average sounding record. The way people talk about this, I really thought there was going to be something interesting but not really at all. Also plain shame is weird and creepy but I guess it’s about him turning down underage sex?
I don’t get the hype. I’ll give you money was the best. Otherwise I felt like most of the songs didn’t even have true melodies
ei voi olla että tälle ukolle huurrataan ja taputetaan... löytyy KADUILTA... ÖRINÖIMÄSSÄ...kiinnostavempia artisteja... yleisö pitää ne nokat(!) suorassa... noh kelpohyvää.. kelpohyvää settiä, hyvillä sonicseilla. paska album heh (niin vitun objective. taas kerran) baby ilove your way
Ei tämä huonoa ole, mutta en tiedä, miksi yleisö hurraa noin hurmioituneena
Love ones are hard sometimes when you’ve not heard an album by that particular artist. Some songs were decent but I did zone out a little. Just not for me but I think if I knew more songs it’s be different
Passé rock (and I think that was the case back in 1976, too)
2.5
I don't care about it at all. The most basic of rock and roll. The talking box was a nice addition, but overall - I have no idea why it made it on the list. apparently it was extremely popular? I keep on realizing that I really don't like the 70s music.
A few songs on this are really good, the rest are meh. Personally, I don't much care for live albums in the first place, so this is a big pass for me.
There is some great musicianship on this record, but being live reduces production values, and the songs aren't strong enough to leave me wanting more.
Неплохой альбом, есть пара классных песен(Show Me the Way, Baby, I Love Your Way), но слишком затянуто и скучно
Ну чел поёт)))))))0) смысла этого альбома в 1001 я не понял, ибо ну слушать было вроде норм, но подзаебывало
klassisk
His skill is undeniable but I got ever so bored. I get it but I’m not into it.
Ok Fred Hampton
Re-review from before I joined a group "It's a live album... beyond the talky guitar thing there's no much remarkable here. I'm going to check out the studio albums next though."
Whoever made this list needs to accept that the 70s are over and it is time to MOVE ON there are genres other than rock out there just FYI buddy
Talented musicianship, boring songs, okay recordings. 2/5
Melodic show rock, not my thing
I don't know if these songs are any better on the studio albums, but this one really drags. Both dull and self-indulgent. "But the hooks!" No thanks.
Not a Frampton fan to begin with and the recording quality on this one does him no favors. Sounds entirely washed out compared to other live albums of the time, with no bass presence and brittle drums. The song selection is understandably hit-heavy, but when it’s just guitar and vocal in the mix there’s not a lot you can do with the set list to overcome serious sound design flaws.
they should have just signed sparky's magic guitar
Thought I didn’t mind this in the morning, but when I came back to it this afternoon I was like fuck sake not this again. So
This isn't commentary on the artist or the music. Live albums represent a "best of" category that should be independent, unless the crowd gives you something that adds to the music you wouldn't otherwise get.
60's jam band, guitar shit. Not my thing. Maybe I'm not high enough.
"Did you hear the one song that Frampton makes the guitar talk?" Sigh - if I had a penny for every time I heard that question in some form or another. It's there, at the end, milked for 10 minutes, it's OK, and I guess it's memorable, but the rest of the album isn't - quite a generic mid-tempo songs, and an absolute terrible rendition of 'Jumping Jack Flash'. Nope, I haven't grown into it more over the years, more like the opposite.
Genre: Rock and Roll Favorite songs: Baby I love your way
I hate double live albums
Understand why punk was invented a year later
When I first heard Auto-Tune, I was hoping that it was a technology that would quickly go the way of Peter Frampton’s talk box, but alas, we weren’t so lucky. After the first couple of songs I was thinking no lower than a 2, since the guitar playing is okay, as is his voice. But a few more songs in, I got annoyed with the way that lyrically, it’s one cliché piled on top of another as they plod toward a dumbed-down sing-a-long chorus. No better than 1, I thought. My co-judge agreed. But it ended with “Do you Feel…” with the afore-mentioned talk box, which is kind of catchy, especially since it became more-or-less obsolete the next year, and it has a decent opening guitar riff. I’ve gone to the gym in our hotel two days in a row, where they love to play horrible commercial late seventies rock. It would have been a pleasant surprise to hear PF's talk box. Back to a 2.
A bit lame, I dunno..
Of it's time, has not age well
I came to this album thinking Peter Frampton is generic classic rock. I mean, "Oooh baby I love your way" is a super cheesy song, and that mouth-guitar gimmick he does? I mean...c'mon. So, when I listened to this album I was SO close to giving it at least 3, if not 4, stars. It wasn't that bad, in fact, some of the songs were pretty darn good. I dug the way Peter and his band jammed out a lot of the tunes. It's not like he's bad at guitar, just nothing special. Also, I've mentioned many a time on here how much I do not like live albums. I mean, live albums are fine, but to me, they are not "true" albums. They, in many cases, are representative of an artist's best work. And, they are often poor audio quality...not to mention how annoying I find it when audiences can be heard singing or clapping along. Or some antic is happening on stage because the crowd is reacting to it, but that translates only to me being bored when I only have audio. So when I found myself kind of digging this one, I even thought, heck maybe this is a four-star album? But the more I thought about it, and the further I got into the album, I realized just because this is better than I thought and I found myself digging some of the songs, doesn't mean it's still not exactly what I expected it to be: generic classic rock. After all, it's the generic, appeal to the masses, formulaic rock here that has me thinking it's not too bad to listen to. By the end, I was tired of the formula and able to more clearly think about what's so special about this album. To me, nothing at all. It's fine, but it's just that...fine. Peter Frampton definitely has his place in the annals of classic rock. This was a big album. But, I think there's a reason it really took Frampton Comes Alive to propel him to stardom. There are some hits here, some catchy tunes, and some nice guitar playing. But the songwriting remains simple and cheesy. And aside from a few solid tunes, there's nothing to write home about.
Good music but personally not a fan of live albums
Not as good as I remember.
Not a huge fan
Best Song: Baby, I Love Your Way. Often, when listening to these older albums, I wonder if I coincidentally like the most famous song or if I just enjoy recognizing it. This one's no different. Worst Song: (I'll Give You) Money. Generic classic rock that could have been produced by absolutely anyone. Overall: It's not bad. Not great. Just is. And what it is, it is a bit too long.
Never got why this was so popular. Terrible version of Jumping Jack Flash is probably the lowlight
Overrated guitarist sings corny songs. Can’t even make out a lot of the lyrics because the singing sounds so muffled.
aight
prety boring ngl idrc
Gawd...
Helaas, live-albums kan ik slecht naar luisteren
Misschien dat je dit in zijn tijd moet plaatsen, maar ik hoor er niets in dat mij bij zal blijven.
Best leuk, maar op een gegeven moment ging het me toch een beetje tegenstaan.
Ik kon dit niet goed luisteren want Nieke werd er boos van aangezien ze het al eerder op de dag geluisterd had en me iets zou aandoen als ze het nog een keer moest uitzitten. Nou vond ik er eigenlijk ook geen reet aan na een paar nummers gehoord te hebben. Dus dikke doei Frampton!
Toen Arjan dit ‘s avonds wilde luisteren terwijl ik het al achter de kiezen had, heb ik de speaker overgenomen.
These cunts are going absolutely bananas for some mediocre (at best) guitar playing.
This was fine
Ehh aside from the couple hits this album is kinda garbage. Now stay the fuck away from me Frampton, I ain't got shit to say to you!
2.5 would be more accurate, just average for me
Tuntematon minulle! Pitkähkö! Eikä kyllä oikein napannut. Kovin keskinkertaista. 2/5
Ihan hyvä meno ja isoa soundia, mutta ehkä vähän pitkä näin simppeliksi rockiksi.
Also overrated. I don't understand the appeal of live albums anymore.
Pretty dull on the whole, not list-worthy in my book. The three 'hits' are alright though - I do like a good talk box solo.
It was okay, not a fan of the live format in this case
This was ok, feels like a filler album to make the list up to 1001 though.
All I Want to Be and Wind of Change were the low water mark for me on this album. Baby I Love Your Way is sounding schmaltzy now though it was definitely the stuff of slow dances in middle school. I Wanna Go to the Sun is pretty miserable. Money, Shine On is the same. The Only song that stands for me is Do you feel, and honestly I feel it's gimmicky.
San Francisco has a lot to answer for.
I've never understood how Frampton went from a somewhat struggling solo career to selling eleven million copies of this. Having heard it in full for the first time I can remember, I still don't understand. It's kind of peak mid-70s rock, I don't know why the live versions of these songs sold so well when their studio originals didn't, I have no great urge to hunt up those studio originals now, nor indeed to hear this album again. Points for obvious ability and skill and all that, but I don't care.
Pues es un buen en vivo. Sólo conozco de antes Baby, I Love Your Way y el resto de las canciones no son malas pero para mi nada memorables. 2.5 que bajo a 2 porque seguramente mañana no recordaré este album.
"I Want You. Show Me The Way". Un incontournable à écouter à cause de cette pièce et parce que cet album a tellement été vendu. On le retrouve dans pratiquement toutes les ventes de garage. Par contre ça reste un album live avec tous ce que je n'aime pas d'un album live.
nah
Live 70’er rock, et par kendte sange. god energi
Frampton seems to be very good at coming up with catchy hooks/riffs, and very bad at turning those into full interesting songs. That won't stop him trying for FOURTEEN BALL-ACHING MINUTES though!
A live double album? What did I ever do to deserve this? Fucking Frampton. He's got a couple of bops, no doubt. But listening to one of them for 4 1/2 minutes on the radio is the correct dosage. I hate listening to people clap and whoop and holler during recorded music.
grocery store music
No good. Nothing special
somewhat boring, 70s rock background music. What's special here?
another guitar man
70s rock - ok but not really my thing
Except for the songs that get radio play, this album is drab. No wonder punk rock happened.
2.5
Boring. Live album. Brit who was bigger in the USA than he was in the UK. Paved the path for Bush to pull the same trick. Boring. Baby I love your way is also a war crime.
A professional live performance and competent noodling but didn't really excite me and got really quite boring by the end. 2/5.
2.5
Fine, but quite boring. Again, why was this so popular? (And far too long… If he wasn’t very successful, why did he get a lavishly produced live album, and who is watching?!)
Not a huge fan of live albums in general and this one is particularly annoying in that the crowd is continually hooting and howling and whistling in the middle of the songs, which was absolutely a conscious choice to mic them and incorporate that element prominently in the mix. The guitar playing seems to be the centerpiece here but unfortunately I feel like the songs themselves are just mediocre so that it all comes across flat. The final strike against it is that it's simply unnecessarily too long as a double album.
so bad
Original dad rock.
Esta algo sobrevalorado, de esa epoca hay mejores, Paris de Supertramp y Seconds Out de Genesis por ejemplo.
Meh
ugasio sam nakon 3 pjesme iskreno
I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn't 77 minutes of Frampton with his effing talk box, but it was still a mediocre guitar rock concert. There were about half a dozen songs that the crowd pretended to like, a self-indulgent not-that-great Stones cover, and a couple of good tunes. Oh, and a talk box finale that made me want to play in traffic. Best track: Baby, I Love Your Way
V lame.
WHAT A SLOG. I mean I enjoy these songs out of context and think the playing is great. Even in terms of being a live record, this is atrocious. The only thing saving it from a 1 is the excellent talent displayed.
This is another one I never actually listened to. I was actually embarrassed to admit that I never heard it. The way some people talked about it, I thought this was some iconic, Queen at Live-Aid, type of show that I just never experienced. Alas, I am disappointed. Maybe if I had seen the show live - or even on TV - I'd feel differently, but I don't get it. It was good. Just good. I thought Peter Frampton "coming alive" would serve to set him apart somehow. It doesn't. The songs are good "70's rock playlist" material - I don't think I'd ever complain if someone played them at a party. His vocals are okay, but definitely not compared to some of the other singers of the day. Likewise for his guitar playing - he's really good, but probably not even top 10 among others that were touring in the mid-70s. (Although "Penny for Your Thoughts" was technically impressive). Maybe I built it up too much in my head? But I don't think so.
Meh.
Op zich leuke muziek, maar voor mij dan liever het origineel dan de live uitvoering. Zoiets is alleen leuk als je erbij was. Ik vind nu de zang wat tegen vallen. Favorieten is natuurlijk "Show Me The Way" **
It's a live album... beyond the talky guitar thing there's no much remarkable here. I'm going to check out the studio albums next though.
Meh
Loved Peter growing up but listening to this today I felt the songs were running into each other..not much variance or variety
As usual, dreading the receipt of a live album. It seems this is the only Frampton album on the list though, so I'll have to make do. This has the recognizable hits, which were nice, and it makes me wonder if I've even heard the studio versions of these tracks? I don't know, and frankly I'm tired. Still, better than the Deep Purple live atrocity recently. A few hits I'll walk away with, but two live albums in a week feels like punishment. Favorite tracks: Show Me the Way, Baby I Love Your Way (what is this guy's obsession with ways?), Penny for Your Thoughts. Album art: Honestly, a hazy close-up does more for me than the typical live performance photo. The exclamation mark is funny. Like an old-timey spinning newspaper headline. 2.5/5
meh
U know how i feel abt these jam albums. Also im becoming harsher i feel like a grumpy old man
Don’t like live recordings
Too twangy for my liking
I liked the one famous song, the others were ok. Not sure I'd choose to play
Eh
don't get it
I didn’t get passed the first song mainly because I had a lot of meetings yesterday but also because I didn’t like it.
Not great songs. Fairly boring guitar
i didn't find this super interesting.
Bit of a snoozefest. Sounds very 70s. Preferred the middle/second half. I don't really get live albums either - doesn't really capture the excitement of being there, and the production and sound is just bad. Extra cred cos I love Baby I Love Your Way.
No saves, repetitive vibes were off
Didn't like this one
really did not think this was anything special. the beginning of the album was all the same sounded really watered down. wasn’t really in the mood.
American “geetar” rock
me opening 1001albumsgenerator.com today "is that peter fucking frmpton?"
Peter Frampton barely Alive should be the title.
Boring is worse than bad and it was soooooo dull.
album rock super classico e anche abbastanza noioso, non aggiunge nulla al rock più vecchio
not a fan at all but coming to learn its not bad by this lists standards. would probably be 1.5
you will not make me listen to this i refuse
The most insidious of milquetoast yacht rock.
like mid not very memorable
Asi nikdy nepochopím, čo na takejto hudbe vidia američania...
Life is way too short for this garbage
If ever an album title was in dire need of an exclamation mark It surely had to be Frampton Comes Alive! Frampton Comes Alive! Run for the hills Frampton Comes Alive! One more time Frampton Comes Alive!
This album put me in a bad mood. It’s a legit rock and roll band playing pop music so banal and superficial (lyrically and melodically) that it could be marketed to the parents of toddlers. Such a waste of their musical talent and our time and attention.
c'est encore du live </3 j'aime pas première écoute en live
Not a huge fan. Catchy and easy to listen to music, but just not my catch. Also didn’t like the “want to be molested. who cares how old you are”
Long and boring live album. Bleh.
Generic crap
Barf me out! Gag me with a spoon!
A mystery. Mediocre songs, good but not great singing, no great musicianship present. Fair to poor studio songs, some made better by live versions. I didn’t get all the hoopla then, and still don’t.
So another famous 70s rock album I never listened to. Wow, starts so bad. Tepid, vapid, sounds like shit too. It's going to be a long hour. I have been fairly open-minded during this process, but this may be the worst album so far. Only positive, I have more context for that Simpsons joke. 1.5 rounded down Heard before? 1 song Owned: No: 38/146 (26%) Will I get? No
My God. This was so much for so long. I feel beaten. There are some long albums on here but this was a chore.
Live album? You know that's a 1 star. Sorry pete
? Dachte der Name sagt mir was, Radio Rock Gitarrengott, Doppelalbum und live nö?? c
Ehhhhhh
This was soporific, even the version of Jumping Jack Flash. A live Seventies rock album? No thanks.
Christ, this was bloody awful. The oh so enthusiastic handclaps ten seconds in should have served as a warning sign. This isn't really a live album, is it? I could have tolerated the post-production feel if the songs stood up. But they were shit. I bailed on track five - quite an achievement.
Lowkey stale.
Did not listen
Another artist I had never heard of, but who was apparently huge in the 70s. It makes me once again realize the extent of my ignorance. While I’m glad I could tick another box in my “stuff I needed to learn about” list, I can’t say I enjoyed it. I’m sure this album was relevant at some point, and Frampton is certainly a competent guitarist (although not a very good singer), but it hasn’t aged well in my opinion. This kind of music has been so rehashed over the years that it just feels super generic now. It’s too cheesy for me, and the fact that it’s a live album (and a super long one at that) is not helping – the good parts, like the surprising “talking guitar” in Do You Feel Like We Do, are drowned into an ocean of average stuff. The recording quality is dubious, and the "soft ballads" are terrible. I had a hard time finishing it. And then there's the dreadful cover picture, where Frampton looks like he's either dead or masturbating... I considered rating it a 2* for historical value, but I was so bored by the end of the album that I just can’t. 2/10
Frampton Comes Alive is awful for many reasons. - The title and album cover are weird and creepy. - The songs are really boring. Stale, old fashioned dad rock, not relevant in the 21st century. Name a good song on this album. I’ll wait… - The fact that this is a live album doesn’t help (not a dealbreaker though). - The sound quality is awful. You can barely hear his voice. - Far too long. Frampton spends a lot of time pleasuring himself with his guitar. Nearly as bad as Derek and The Dominos. It could have been half as long. - How on earth did this album shift 8 million copies? A lot of music fans in America must have had low standards in the 70s (I think they did!) or they were seriously disappointed. This was crushingly dull, annoying inane, completely pointless and just downright annoying on occasion. Sometimes I think this list is trolling us.
Not beating the dad rock allegations
Ok
In the immortal words of Ian St. Ian (referring to Peter Frampton) “worthless bastard” Take that talk box out of your mouth Peter it’s annoying.
MEU DEUS que vontade de me agredir com uma barra de ferro até nunca mais lembrar da existência de rock pau mole ao vivo
rock para papais que se achavam legal demais na adolescência. deus abençoe o punk por ter existido e destruído essa concepção de rock fudido aí
Reading the Wikipedia it seems like this album is included just out of shear popularity and supposed quality (not a particular significant moment or genre defier or anything else.) Listening to it I just can't figure out why it's so popular. It seems fine, there's some okay songwriting and some skilled if cliche guitar work, but utterly unremarkable. If it wasn't for finding it under this context I would be sure that this was a record just for the Peter Frampton purists.
Yeah no, I don't think I'll be able to finish this. Not my thing at all. I like the drums and riffs though.
You already know which three songs are the listenable ones, and the rest is not very good, and one of those three songs is way better in the radio edit version because who can listen to fifteen minutes of cheesy talk box stuff.
Could be great but I’m sticking to my 2 disc rule. If it don’t fit on one then don’t release it
The curator(s) of this sure love a live album. Please stop it.
Some nifty guitar playing on some bland as hell pop rock. The talk box is a fun gimmic for a few minutes. Everything about this was done better by better bands, but it was SO commercially dominant and culturally ubiquitous so you get why it gets included in lists like this (especially by guitar rock biased critics who treat this more seriously than other disposable bubblegum pop just because there's a Les Paul involved) even if it doesn't really stand up.
tedious
no thank you
Peters frampt ass all hair and solos!
This is theoretically a great live album, the playing is very good, the crowd is excited, and the live energy seems right, however there is just one problem that keeps me from enjoying this album. Even though all the live album trappings are correct, I just don't like *any* of these songs. It's really a shame, because Frampton and his band are clearly talented, but I just hate his songwriting. I don't usually resort to this, it feels cheap, but I truly thought this was an incredibly boring album, for pretty much its entire 78(!!!) minute runtime. This is pretty much all polished, but middle of the road rock music, and I just feel nothing while listening to it. And honestly, hearing these live recordings kind of makes me feel like I'm going crazy, like to me, every song just feels like the most milquetoast '70s rock imaginable, followed by an *improbably* thunderous crowd response every, single, time. And I guess this makes sense on some level, as this was like the best selling album ever for a little bit. But then I am forced to wonder why it sold so damn well? Like there was more interesting music out there. And Frampton playing with his Talkbox isn't enough to save this either, he does a fine job but still, it can't fix the songs. To recap, as someone who doesn't really like Peter Frampton, this does nothing for me, even though the makings of a great live album are theoretically there there just isn't the meat to support it on any level.
Just moved to the suburbs and got my copy in the mail, white on!
Shite
If ever there was an overrated record....Jesus. People talk about this like its As good a live record as Made In Japan...Anyway...not for me.
What a noodling, overindulgent, sappy piece of shit. I bet most of our problems today are the result of the people who were conceived while terrible people fucked to this garbage.
He can play but I don't like what he's playing and then it's also live?? Noo
In a nutshell: Boomer bait. Early Boomers would go weak at the knees for this Peter Frampton album. As a Millennial who only knows of Peter Frampton from The Simpsons episode Homerpalooza, my response is "meh". The book entry by Tim Jones says that it "epitomizes post-Vietnam escapist sunshine rock". There was a post-Vietnam malaise, sure but sunshine rock? It's more soft rock mixed with prog and psych rock wankery. It's because of Frampton and others of his ilk (*cough* Eagles) we have classic rock radio fodder. I mean, the crowd clearly loved it. They were hooked by a "talking guitar" and a veiled rip off of "Listen to the Music". Sold 16 million albums. Technically very good as I can't hear many overdubs. But it's not powerful or charismatic like other live albums on the list. Overall: 1/10
I made it nearly an hour in but really couldn’t finish. I was just bored to tears. I remember this album being a ubiquitous mega hit in 1977 when I was first starting to notice popular music. Thank god my little 7-year-old ass has the sense to prefer Saturday Night Fever and disco over this dreck. “Show Me the Way” is ok. I’m teetering between a 1 and 2. I’m going 1 - I don’t like it.
I’m convinced this crowd will clap for anything.
Breezy songs about nothing as a vehicle for endless guitar noodling. Still, this hour of Dad Rock for Boomers is solidly performed and would have garnered two stars except that it's a live album which drops it to one.
How many late GenX/Early Millennials named Jennifer and Kevin were conceived to ‘Baby I Love Your Way’? The world may never know.
Worse than I thought it would be
Livealbum
Dull, corny, 3-major-chord nonsense. I had been scared to listen to this for many years, and my fears were completely justified.
Aside from the fact that I don't think Live and Best Of albums should be included here, I also don't ever want to hear another song off this album ever again. I also never wanted to hear any song to begin with. When I was growing up, classic rock stations played Frampton way too much. Like at least once a day. Once a month is plenty. Once a year is optimal.
Dont think live or "best of" albums should count in a list like this
no
Not a fan of live albums in general and this one didn't win me over. Couldn't finish it.
Peter Frampton sucks. Why did you make us listen to this?
Richard Becomes Asleep
Live music is meant to be listened to in person. People who listen to live music at home baffle me. "Let me listen to a worse quality version with background noises!!" It's not 1976 anymore pal, get a grip. Each song sounds the same, in a bad way. Even just listening to one song by itself, I feel nothing, it's completely unrecognizable music. I'm going to lose my mind at the time of writing this. I'm going to start skipping through the tracks, I can't stand 80 minutes of this. The music gets a 2/5, but since it's live it gets a 1/5. Also, Doobie Wah is a stand in jojolion and that fight isn't that good and fuck jojolion.
Live albums don't really have a place here.
Peter Frampton's boomer ramblings and irritating stage personality made this live album a real slog. There is zero reason for this album to be nearly 2 hours long.
Look, most of the music I love basically boils down to a British person jerking off with their guitar yet I still could not hang with this absolute slog. One star.
Frankly exhausting. I don't know if I get it, as this came across as absurdly long winded, unoriginal, and boring. Just because something is live doesn't mean it's good or important.
I hate whoever kept whistling, you justify my disdain for live albums. Boring as hell, overly self indulgent--I get that the only thing you know how to do is play guitar, but that doesn't mean I want to hear you do so in a badly recorded snooze-fest of an album. If this was a studio recording it would be a 2/5, but instead it gets a 1.5 rounded down--it's not as bad as some of the 1 stars I've given before, but I hate how boring it is and I can't imagine this being a top 1000 album of all time.
return of cracker...bro makes the most middling sounds you've ever heard and the crowd loses their fucking mind 2/10
not my kinda thing :/
mej
Schreeuwerig live-album van muziek dat ik niet ken. Best leuk gedaan en vast kwaliteit maar ik zie de meerwaarde van live plaat niet zo als je origineel niet echt kent. En zeker niet als het beetje 13-in-een-dozijn 70's rock betreft. sterretje voor de moeite 5/10
Liian pitkä
I have never listened to Herd or Humble Pie, but I find the immense popularity (particularly in the USA) of this album rather astonishing. The music is pretty bland and just kind of washes past me. Maybe this is a personal taste thing? But frankly it brings into question what actually gets an album into the list. An album may be a consummate example of musicianship but nevertheless doesn't actually chime with the listener. Are huge sales figures and popularity enough to get on the list? I'm usually looking for a challenging or influential album, something that prompts others to shift boundaries. So, anyway, Frampton Comes Alive! just leaves me a bit cold.