Frampton Comes Alive!
5 Comments
- ISBN13: 0731454093026
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Amazon.com
If you were challenged to name five rock albums that epitomized the ’70s, Frampton Comes Alive! should probably top the list. Former Humble Pie guitarist Peter Frampton recorded a few perfectly fine albums with his band Frampton’… More >>
If you liked this post, you might also like the following articles:
this should be called “frampton comes crappy”. lame! buy some rush rut ragoo flo,
Rating: 1 / 5
I must admit, if you want to hear a 70s version of Avril Lavigne, this is definately the album for you! From the first strains of the awful “Baby I Love Your Way” to the final noises of the unspeakably bad last track, Peter Frampton demonstrates no guitar playing skill what so ever. Any @sshole can plug their guitar into an effects pedal and make a bunch of weird noises on their guitar. Yet this overrated hack somehow made a name for himself by making a bunch of redundant sound effects on his guitar. People think he is a “virtuoso” just because he has an effects pedal on his guitar. ***NEWSFLASH!!!*** Talking into your guitar like he does on “Do You Feel Like We Do” does NOT take any talent! ANYBODY could have played that song and it would have sounded exactly the same! Speaking into the effects pedal on a guitar takes no more talent than speaking into a microphone!
Want to hear some REAL guitar playing? Go pick up anything by Jason Becker, Dream Theater, or Yngwie Malmsteen. These guys could blow Frampton off the stage! They could blow Frampton away with the stroke of their big toe on the fretboard! Now I’m not sure how much of a compliment that is, considering that most five year old kids could play circles around him, but one thing is for sure: Peter Frampton has NO talent what so ever.
Rating: 1 / 5
I just can’t imagine listening to it again. I could swear I hear some yodeling in the background. He sure does know his ukelele though. OK, OK, the xylophone stuff is pretty good. The spoons and bells are alright too. I just think it’s prententious and arrogant. The banjo doesn’t even work! Oh, and that harpsicord! Just awful! It sounds like he has one of those vibrating things for his throat. I geuss it has it’s moments – but not vary many of them.
Rating: 2 / 5
Quite possibly one of the most overrated live albums of all time (despite being a best-seller), Peter Frampton Comes Alive! is over-the-top, schmaltzy, and dated AOR that deserves to be placed in the same catagory as Journey and Styx. Please note that Amazon actually couples this as a “Better Together” (ugh) with Boston’s debut. That speaks volumes right there.
Possibly my attitude has to do with not being born and raised in the pre-punk ’70s, but c’mon now, this album is fluff. The existence of this album and similar horrors makes me appreciate my Ramones, Damned, and Stiff Little Fingers albums all the more. Just about every excess of ’70s arena rock is here–long pointless guitar solos, slick production (is it just me or does the audience applause sound suspiciously fake?), lyrics that pander shamelessly to sentimental impulses, schmaltzy keyboards… about the only thing missing is a 20-minute drum solo. Do You Feel Like We Do is way too underwritten to sustain attention for 15 minutes. Baby I Love Your Way and Show Me The Way could’ve only been radio hits in the ’70s.
Frampton’s a mediocre vocalist, and not even his much-ballyhooed guitar playing is that great. His main gimmick is abuse of the “talkbox,” (a form of guitar distortion which vaguely emulates human speech) which is hardly anything to write home about, and sounds immediately like a product of its time. He’s otherwise competent, but he just doesn’t have the mastery of catchy riff writing, melodic invention, or pure technical prowess that Jimmy Page, Frank Zappa, and Robert Fripp do (respectively).
Despite my love of punk, I’m no stranger to quality ’70s “classic” rock. I can appreciate Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Ac/Dc, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, early Cheap Trick, even some Van Halen on occasion. But Frampton Comes Alive! represents a lot of that era’s worst trends with very little to redeem it. If it’s a ’70s live album you want (with all the implied baggage of that label) buy Led Zeppelin’s How The West Was Won, The Allman Brothers’ Live At The Filmore East, Frank Zappa’s Roxy And Elsewhere, and King Crimson’s USA. Or of course, just pick up The Ramones’ It’s Alive and pretend the whole double-LP live album craze never happened. It’s up to you.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve been racking my brain to come up with an album, other than something really obvious like a Bay City Rollers record, to illustrate just how awful 70s radio music was, and what we kids had to put up with.
And then I remembered this.
To quote another shocker, Stephen Caratzas (May 10 2000) took the words right out of my mouth.
Rating: 1 / 5
Leave your response!
Categories
Recent Comments
Most Commented
Recent Posts
Tags
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
Copyright © 2009 by LiveAlbumReview.com Powered by WordPress | Log in | Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS) | Arthemia theme by Michael Hutagalung