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Frampton Comes Alive | 
 enlarge | Artist: Peter Frampton
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2948
Format: Live, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 70
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 540930
UPC: 731454093026
EAN: 0731454093026
ASIN: B000009HF2
Release Date: October 5, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW - Sealed IMPORT!!
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| Tracks:
| » | Something's Happening | | » | Doobie Wah | | » | Show Me The Way | | » | It's A Plain Shame | | » | All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side) | | » | Wind Of Change | | » | Baby, I Love Your Way | | » | I Wanna Go To The Sun | | » | Penny For Your Thoughts | | » | (I'll Give You) Money | | » | Shine On | | » | Jumping Jack Flash | | » | Lines On My Face | | » | Do You Feel Like We Do |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
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's Camel, but it wasn't until some of those tracks were recorded at a live performance in San Francisco and released as Frampton Comes Alive! that he became a household name. Buoyant pop, sentimental ballads, arena rock--this album has it all. The double-LP package set sales records and contained three bona fide radio hits ("Baby, I Love Your Way", "Show Me the Way", and "Do You Feel Like We Do?"), one of which, shockingly enough, was over 14 minutes long. No wonder that, to many, the two-and-a-half-minute songs of the Damned and the Sex Pistols felt like a breath of fresh air a year or two later. --Lorry Fleming
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 Most over rated album ever May 4, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
For years this album has been highly placed in the "best live rock albums ever" stakes. I 've read glowing reviews of how fantastic it is. I'd heard two songs from it "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Show Me The Way." I'd thought that they weren't exactly rock and indeed theuy were usually played on easy listening stations.
So I took the plunge and bought it. What a let down. I can't even begin to fathom how such lightweight, overdubbed, easy listening rubbish has wormed it's way into the "great live albums". Doobie Wah, Wind Of Change, Penny For Your Thoughts etc wouldn't be out of place on Terry Wogan's morning radio show on Radio 2.
I'm not denying Frampton is a good guitar player, but don't assault your ears with this pap, you'd be far better off with Humble Pie's Rockin The Fillmore.
 Unprecedented icon of rock history February 7, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
For many people interested in more vast range of music than just some boy/girl bands or one hit starlets from the actual charts Peter Frampton means the unprecedented icon of rock history. His extraordinary recordbreaking album "Frampton Comes Alive" more than 3 decades ago set a standard of live recording which still remains a goal for many rock performers, producers other professionals. This album became not only a brandmark or kind of a lighthouse in Frampton's career despite all Peter's later achievements - it definitely became an eternal milestone of rock history, a mark that every live recording was and still is measured with.
You feel yourself infected by wonderful flow of this music and atmosphere of the venue after the very first listening of the album - you find out that you're already seduced to listen to the disc again and again. It doesn't matter which tune you start with - "Show Me The Way", "Doobie Wah", "Baby I Love Your Way", a hardly longer than one minute guitar solo "Penny For Your Thoughts" or 14 minutes short song "Do You Feel Like We Do" - Frampton's music spreading from this album charms you for a long time (maybe for a whole life).
It's a great pity that we have no oportunity to get the feeling of Peter Frampton's rock shows in Seventies in DVD format - unbelievably performances were not filmed on video. But the available DVDs of Frampton live shows convinces that the guy still has the drive, the guts characteristic to many rock musicians of the Seventies.
The guts of the real (not producer-invented) rock performer - maybe that's the reason why I'm still listening to "Frampton Comes Alive" in my car on a way to my workplace - it loads "my batteries" with good mood and energy.
I can't help listening to Peter Frampton's voice and guitars not only because of memories - I'm young enough (I still remember a chill spreading down my back when I listened to the album for the first time in autumn of 1976). It's because of irresistible spirit of Frampton's live show, his brisk performing talent and a magical feeling of audience response, feedback of the happy crowds not saying about such a must for hit album like banal music virtues: catchy melodies and fine arrangements.
I know I will be listening to this album for one more reason - I simply respect Peter Frampton who worked really hard to make his way to stardom and success has came to him not by some lucky coincidence.
You may like "Keane", "Coldplay", "Franz Ferdinand" for they modern approach to the music or just their age (similar to listseners'), but on the whole when you compare the general impression of their music and live performance with Frampton's it becomes clear that Peter still is the best.
Probably his album "Frampton Comes Alive" is a musical wonder of the world.
Thank You for patience in case you just found out that reading sometimes may be a waste of time.
Whos frampton? August 22, 2002
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
Im only 18 so frampton is a bit before my time.I first heard about it on waynes world were they made the joke of everbody owning this album, of course this was lsot on me. Its a live mix of stadium rock and 70s style blues rock.
its full of classics. with begining trcks which just set the mood, then some amazing acoustic playing and then very powerful reock songs. this is without doubt one of the best live albums ever made. buy it to own a classic.
Does anyone remember the summer of 76? March 7, 2000
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
If you do the sun shone forever and this was THE album to play! Oh for great memories! Crank up the volume- go crusin in your car and see the flock approach ... Do you Feel Like We Do ? 14 mins of brilliance and Lines On My Face both CLASSIC! Show Me The Way was virtually played bare as the single to the release.Oh for the crackles of the vinyl! But this is classic without them! Remember the Voice Box and your air guitar impressions ? Wind Of Change - I Wanna Go To The Sun - Baby I Love Your Way. This is Stadium Rock at its best. It sold in bucketloads and held the record for a live recording for many a year. Buy a slice of History. Oasis move sidewards for a class Brit!
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