Frampton, Peter - 1976 - Frampton Comes Alive! (2CD)

At the time of its release, Frampton Comes Alive! was an anomaly, a multi-million-selling (mid-priced) double LP by an artist who had previously never burned up the charts with his long-players in any spectacular way. The biggest-selling live album of all time, it made Peter Frampton a household word and generated a monster hit single in "Show Me the Way." And the reason why is easy to hear: the Herd/Humble Pie graduate packed one hell of a punch on-stage — where he was obviously the most comfortable — and, in fact, the live versions of "Show Me the Way," "Do You Feel Like I Do," "Something's Happening," "Shine On," and other album rock staples are much more inspired, confident, and hard-hitting than the studio versions. [The 1999 reissue in A&M's "Remastered Classics" (31454-0930-2) series is a considerable improvement over the original double CD or double LP in terms of sound — the highs are significantly more lustrous, the guitars crunch and soar, and the bottom end really thunders, and so you get a genuine sense of the power of Frampton's live set, at least the heavier parts of his set, rather than the compressed and flat sonic profile of the old double-disc version. Frampton and the band sound significantly closer as well, even on the softer songs such as "Wind of Change," and the disc is impressive listening even a quarter century later. Of course, one must take this all with a grain of salt as a concert document — as was later revealed, there was considerable studio doctoring of the raw live tapes, a phenomenon that set the stage for such unofficial hybrid works as Bruce Springsteen's Live/1975-85 and countless others.]

		1		Introduction/Somethin's Happening	Frampton	5:56
		2		Doobie Wah	Frampton, Headley-Down ...	5:43
Composed by: Frampton, Headley-Down, Willis
		3		Lines on My Face	Frampton	6:59
		4		Show Me the Way	Frampton	4:32
		5		It's a Plain Shame	Frampton	4:03
		6		Wind of Change	Frampton	2:57
		7		Just the Time of Year	Frampton	4:21
		8		Penny for Your Thoughts	Frampton	1:34
		9		All I Wanna Be (Is by Your Side)	Frampton	3:08
		10		Baby, I Love Your Way	Frampton	4:41
		11		I Wanna Go to the Sun	Frampton	7:15
		12		Nowhere's Too Far (For My Baby)	Frampton	4:49
		13		(I'll Give You) Money	Frampton	5:46
		14		Do You Feel Like We Do	Frampton, Gallagher, Siomos ...	13:46
Composed by: Frampton, Gallagher, Siomos, Wills
		15		Shine On	Frampton	3:29
		16		White Sugar [#]	Frampton	4:43
		17		Jumpin' Jack Flash	Jagger, Richards	7:40
		18		Day's Dawning	Frampton	3:34

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