Frampton Comes Alive

American “geetar” rock

Blegh. Overkill. Clearly talented, yes, but this is not for me.

p372. 1976. 1 star. The epitome of big haired, open shirted, excessive mid 70s wankage. A live double album of bland, generic stadium rock, redeemed only by decent guitar work. And there is a closing 14+ minute monstrosity. Fuck no.

Hmm. Elevator music. Why does this exist? "Baby, I Love Your Way" is probably the only song worth listening to once. That's it. "It is one of the best-selling live albums in the United States." What the fuck is wrong with you, USA?

I did not enjoy this but at least now I get the Simpsons reference!

Frampton gets some decent tone out of his Les Paul electric guitar and the distinctly 70s keyboards are cool but the nondescript songs and Frampton's subpar singing voice make this collection a real slog to get through.

Sadly boring.

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.

Lightweight commercial "rock". Sorry, I can't. Nothing much to find here. Ah, and I don't care about the corny-ass talk box.

Mmh. Ein Live-Album. Nicht mein Ding.

I hate this style of rock music. It's just so bland and boring. He's singing about nothing in particular and there is virtually nothing interesting or exciting about the music. Add to this the fact that it's a muddy, poorly mixed live album with crowd sounds included? What a waste of time.

From the era of Corvettes and cold sores -- fad music for a fatuous time.

A particular style of music that I don't really get into. Soft rock, some country hints, white bloke vocals: my brain has heard too much of this on commercial radio. Some nice bass guitar work but I couldn't get through the album this time. It might have been an important album for Peter, but not for me. Sorry, Pete.

Live album with cover versions? Nah! But at least it created a learning interest in this big name of R‘n‘R.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to listen to this because this, even more than many albums on this list, is one everyone says you should listen to, and I never have. Obviously I’m familiar with “show me the way” and “baby I love your way” (and “jumpin jack flash,” but by someone else). But just because I’m familiar with a song doesn’t mean I like it! And even JJF is one of my least favorite Stones songs, so it hardly redeems the rest of this album. This is between a 1 and a 2; we’ll see what I choose.

Pretty boring, honestly

Dad rock in its most boring iteration. Tried to listen to the LP when I took over my dads record collection. Couldn’t make it through. Same story now. Sold the lp to a man in his sixties at a yard sale event. It is now where it belongs, in the record collection of a retired man. I hope he enjoys the guitar solos and think back on a life well spent.

one no

I hate Frampton. Always had, always will.

Except for 3 songs this one is awful. Perhaps the most overrated live record ever. It’s no wonder he became a studio guitarist and tour fill in the rest of his career.

Jeg er ikke særlig stor fan af klassiske rock live albums i første omgang, har meget sjældent den der følelse af at blive transporteret, det er som regel en second hand oplevelse. Den her blev kun mere uinteressant af at jeg ikke kendte nogen af sangene og det ikke rigtig er min stil. Skip

Man, I cannot stand Peter Frampton. He annoys the heck outta me.

white flag, couldn’t get through it. congrats on the historical significance but this isn’t reaching me at all.

Heard before: some I have such nostalgia for this record cover, picturing an imaginary older sibling separating stems and seeds in the gatefold. But when the music starts... eh. It's kind of tuneless, second-rate cock rock, everything bad about the 70s. I'd really rather listen to the Almost Famous soundtrack. Top Tracks: Show Me The Way, Do You Feel Like We Do, Baby I Love Your Way

first off it's a live album so the vocals are weak, then has long guitar solos which are a personal hatred of mine. not for me at all 1.4

Nope

The band plays tightly, but I wish the music leaned heavier into power pop and fully embraced the hard rock aesthetics heard sporadically. I also don't personally care for Peter's vocals and have never been a fan of the talk box. Despite enjoying a few songs more than I thought I would, I have very little desire to revisit this. One positive, I suppose, is how this album drove suburban kids crazy enough to learn some guitar licks and form punk bands. Thanks for showing us the way.

Live Albums are the worst.

Wow, I hated this. Didn’t like the voice, didn’t like the guitars, vibe sucked. Nope.

Not into live albums and not Frampton

Kuuntelin muutaman näytteen. Velvollisuus täytetty?

The epitome of dad rock. Now also live!

Very dated, very dull Live album

I can't stand live albums that sound like an audience member had a tape deck and made a bootleg, very poor.

hackery, pure foolishness, lame, bloated, bland, guitar that sounds like a voice… woweeee. this is a dated, stale album left out to bleach and rot in the sun. nah. no good.

thank fuck punk came along

Stopped listening after like 4 songs. Two things I really dislike: blues rock and live albums. I’m sure in it’s time this might’ve been interesting but I’m sorry I just do not care

Live album = 1 star

Kinda boring classic rock. Just doesn't really do much for me at all. It's inoffensive though.

Not a fan

Not a fan of live albums on this. Lazy way to add best of collections.

I don't like live albums

no

Perfect ending to the week, as in, I can focus on the new albums that came out this week that are all better than this live album that I will never listen to. Two in one week, who do they think we are?

Shite. Like, really shite.

Good for some people but not for me.

Didn't finish, wasn't in the mood for more 70s classic rock

Naw