Who bought Frampton Comes Alive?

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  1. At 50, my very first copy of FCA is on its way home. An original UK pressing in NM condition.
     
  2. rednoise

    rednoise Senior Member

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    Boston
    I was the target demographic in '74. I liked the album well enough (and my college rock band played a couple of songs from it, one of them being "Something's Coming") but I never felt the need to buy it. It was so ubiquitous - on the radio, at every party, dorm room, house, etc. - that having my own copy seemed unnecessary.
     
  3. should have asked who didn't
     
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  4. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Who didn't?
     
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  5. FFF

    FFF Forum Resident

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    As a teenager in the 70's and again last year. Saw him live back then too :wave:
     
  6. brimuchmuze

    brimuchmuze Forum Resident

    It wasn't released until '76 :)
     
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  7. brimuchmuze

    brimuchmuze Forum Resident

    I was only thirteen when it came out, and not yet into buying LPs. But this was never my thing, and I've never owned a copy or heard anything beyond what was played on the radio.
     
  8. Never needed to. Everyone else I knew had it. I, being the guy that wanted to try something different, bought Bowie, Roxy Music and King Crimson.
     
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  9. Scott in DC

    Scott in DC Forum Resident

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    I didn't own FCA until the Mobile Fidelity vinyl version came out ten or whatever years ago. I was a teenager in the 70s and FCA, like Bob Seger's Live Bullet and Kiss Alive! were all over the radio. I agree with those of you who said that you really didn't need to own these albums because they were playing those songs on the radio and you also heard your friends playing it.

    It is a good album and I enjoy playing it every so often. Frampton seems like a great guy and he seems very down to earth. He doesn't come across like someone who over did it with drugs and alcohol. I have seen him live in recent years and have seen some live performances from recent years on TV and Youtube and he seems happy and fully engaged in giving people a good show. I have a lot of respect for him and wish him the best.

    Scott
     
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  10. Alien Reg

    Alien Reg Forum Resident

    I bought it. 1976? On cassette. One of the very few occasions I bought an album just because everyone else had it. A desperate attempt to be normal? As with the other few occasions, it was a mistake. Just didn't like it. Gave it away to someone. When Frampton followed up with I'm In You, I felt the need of a purgative. Rattus Norvegicus did the trick.
     
  11. Steel Horse

    Steel Horse Forum Resident

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    Me and all of my friends owned it back in the day. But I have never seen any other Frampton record in real life. :laugh:
     
  12. Rodney Toady

    Rodney Toady Waste of cyberspace

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    Frampton probably wasn't quite that big a thing here in Finland back in the 70's, because I have no recollection whatsoever of ever having heard anything from Frampton Comes Alive on the radio. I knew of Frampton and this album, but the only Frampton song I'm sure I heard at the time was I'm in You. To this day I have never heard Frampton Comes Alive.
     
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  13. Kiss73

    Kiss73 Forum Resident

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    This is one of the few albums that I have a continued guilt for not owning!!!

    One day.....
     
  14. audiotom

    audiotom I can not hear a single sound as you scream

    Location:
    New Orleans La USA
    Owned the earlier solo albums as they came out
    Wondered why frampton wasn't more. Popular

    Bam - oh songs really amped up in a live setting

    I guess it was
    Bob Mayo on the keyboards, Bob Mayo


    I've seen Frampton open for number of people over the last 10 years and he always puts on a great show is verygenuine, excited and down to earth with the audience
     
  15. Nad 214

    Nad 214 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Ohio
    Can't vote cause it doesn't apply to me as I was 22 when it came out. I bought it on day of issue. Still have it.
     
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  16. I was a teenager in the 90s, about 20 years after the album was released. I still own my 2nd hand LP copy which I picked up at a record fair somewhere around 2005.
     
  17. kevin5brown

    kevin5brown Analog or bust.

    This

    And I only got it, because I'm a huge Humble Pie fan, and finally relented. :hide: :D It *is* better than all the singles that came out back then from it. Do You Feel Like We Do is a great tune.
     
  18. Moshe

    Moshe "Silent in four languages."

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    Never.
     
  19. Duke Fame

    Duke Fame Sold out the Enormodome

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    Any opinion on which CD version is the better one to get? I know that as far as a regular redbook there is the 2 CD original, a 1998 Doug Sax remaster on 1 disc and then a 25th (I think) anniversary on 2 discs with expanded track listing.
     
  20. BeSteVenn

    BeSteVenn FOMO Resident

    I never owned it in the 70s, but I have picked up a couple of different CD editions at the thrifts.

    I have several other of his albums on CD. To my ears each one is excellent and much more enjoyable than FCA.
     
  21. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I prefer the single edits.
     
  22. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    One of the remastered CDs have less crowd noise.

    When the album was first released in 1976, they added extra crowd noise to add excitement. But, in the 90s, someone got the bright idea to release a version without the additional crowd. So, it's hard to tell exactly what is what now.
     
  23. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

    Location:
    Smogville CA USA
    My brother
     
  24. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

    Location:
    Smogville CA USA
    “I’ll get to keep the “Frampton Comes Alive”,
    But YOU can have the “Sgt Pepper’s” soundtrack!”
     
  25. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialist™

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    B.C.
    The earliest one, this one.
     
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