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Desert Island Comes Alive!

What do you feel like you do wanna listen to?

Show Me the Way	6 votes
Baby I Love Your Way	0 votes
Do You Feel Like We Do	4 votes
Breaking All of the Rules	0 votes
I'm In You	0 votes
Wind of Change	0 votes
Something's Happening	0 votes
I Wanna Go to the Sun	0 votes
Lines on My Face	0 votes

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 28 2008 09:57 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 28 2008 09:59 AM

With no one to relate to, 'cept the sea, you are stuck on a desert island and have to take along one of the following Peter Frampton songs. Which? Why? Write-ins acceptable (EDIT: I left out a clicakble choice fgor Doobie Wah, but post the vid below anywhoo). Show Me the Way Baby I Love Your Way Do You Feel Like We Do Breaking All the Rules I'm In You Wind of Change Something's Happening I Wanna Go to the Sun Lines on My Face Write-in: Doobie Wah

seawolf17 Jul 28 2008 09:58 AM

I knew I was going to vote for "Do You Feel Like We Do" before I even opened the thread. Rawk.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 28 2008 10:04 AM

Don't miss the Framp's free show this Thursday at Coney Island!

metirish Jul 28 2008 10:10 AM

Voted " Do You Feel Like We Do" , I got the 25th Anniversary Edition as a gift in 2001 and played it all that summer , still a great listen on a summers day.

AG/DC Jul 28 2008 10:24 AM

Can't imagine the voice processor/guitar solo wouldn't grow really old really fast on the island.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 29 2008 07:36 AM

Two votes? Boo! I hope this is related to the fact that it's so hard to distinguish one Frampton tune from the next. But choices must be made. In the ballad category, "Wind of Change" is the surprise victor over BILYW and easy vanquishor of the icky "I'm in You" Frampton was all angry after failing to followup Alive! properly and torching his career in that gay Sgt. Pepper project. He also had a bad car wreck, though I don't recall whether that was before or after "Breaking all the Rules" but that is Peter at his most metallic.

Vince Coleman Firecracker Jul 29 2008 07:49 AM

I always hated this song. But now I kind of like it.

AG/DC Jul 29 2008 08:09 AM Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Jul 29 2008 08:29 AM

I went mid-tempo with "Baby I Love Your Way." (I think I actually meant to vote "Show Me the Way," but I'm old and got confused while yelling at a cloud.) He had the looks, the gimmicks, and the chops. The reason he didn't stay on top was he didn't really have a whole lot of good songs. A super live LP allowed him to take the few he had from his first few albums and pack them all together and stretch them out for 20 minutes, giving the illusion of a pop star with a bag of tunes. False expectations followed. He was a good blues player, and with a sense of humor could have been bringing the boogie for years like ZZ Top or George Thorogood. "Doobie Wah" was sort of a step in this direction. But as a soundalike to the the Doobie Brothers "Listen to the Music," it didn't distinguish him. I'm guessing from the title that it was an intentional soundalike. You don't just steal from a guy named Skunk Baxter without expecting there to be reprisals.

sharpie Jul 29 2008 08:25 AM

I saw Peter Frampton with his band, Frampton's Camel, touring behind their first album. I remember liking a song called "White Sugar." A bunch of friends of mine went to the show that became "Frampton Comes Alive." Reaction was decidedly mixed. By the time it came out I was loathing him -- "I'm In You" is still one of my least favorite songs. While I agree with AG/DC that he has some chops (I liked his playing with Humble Pie) I still turn him off every time one of his songs come on the radio -- don't make me vote on this one.

AG/DC Jul 31 2008 11:54 AM

Sounds like a vote for "White Sugar" to me.

sharpie Jul 31 2008 12:00 PM

OK fine, dish me up some White Sugar.

AG/DC Jul 31 2008 12:08 PM

In the cover category, youtube is full of him donig versions of "Black Hole Sun," some with the voicefilter on the guitar, some without.

Rockin' Doc Jul 31 2008 05:26 PM

Lots of fond memories come to mind whenever I hear tracks from Comes Alive. I like several of the sonngs from the album, but I cast my vote for Do You Feel Like We Do.

Frayed Knot Jul 31 2008 05:33 PM

'Lines on My Face' -- that's the one originally done by 'The Corderoy Pillows', right?

cooby Aug 03 2008 12:06 PM

Just a normal redblooded American 70's teenage girl, of course I was wild about Peter Frampton. Man, he was skinny though, wasn't he? Listening to him takes me back; I usually stop what I'm doing just to listen to Show Me the Way if I am lucky enough to hear it. Shortly after that, I'm In You came out, and though I didn't like it as much, the glow for Peter was still there enough that I remember it fondly. Might have some thing to do with whom I was seeing though. By the time the Joe Walsh-ish Do You Feel Like I Do and Baby I Love Your Way came out, I was pretty well over him. The rest, I don't even know.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 04 2008 09:53 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 05 2008 08:09 AM

I'm not a huge Frampton fan, but I can listen to him. An excellent guitarist ... classic rock and roll formula for tone --- a Gibson guitar plugged into a stack of Marshalls ... does better in concert than in the studio. Popularized the Heil Talk Box used first by Stevie Wonder, Jeff Beck and Joe Walsh in the early '70's I vote Do You Feel Like We Do. Recommended listening besides Comes Alive - Humble Pie Rockin' the Fillmore.

AG/DC Aug 05 2008 05:58 AM

His last best hope for a comeback was 1986's Premonition. Clothes, hair, lighting, arrangement on the lead single all scream 1986, but the cliched changes and lyrics just scream "I'm out of original songs."

seawolf17 Aug 05 2008 08:03 AM

And hey, part of "FCA!" was recorded at the old Commack Arena, so I'm definitely cool with that.