MFSL "Frampton Comes Alive" 200 Gram Virgin Vinyl Pressing LP NM
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Frampton's multi platinum "Comes Alive" was originally released by A&M records in 1976. It went straight to the top of the charts and stayed there for a loooong time. It had good reason to do so - it is straight ahead, fun, good feeling, happy times rock and roll and it's never sounded better than it does here. Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs hit a home run with this one. It sold out in the 1990s and has been on the secondary market for years. This is a double album with a gatefold presentation. Both the LPs and jacket are in absolutely Near Mint condition.
In the summer of '76, nothing was in the air like Frampton Comes Alive!, the ultimate example of the double-live album with gatefold cover — it was supposed to be just a single album until A&M Records took the unusual step of insisting on a second disc. Frampton, a journeyman Humble Pie guitarist gone solo, happily obliged. "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Show Me the Way" and most of all "Do You Feel Like We Do" came to life in the live setting (all 14 minutes of it). Even the crowd noise sounds sensational. Frampton Comes Alive quickly became the biggest-selling album of all time until the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack topped it. "A year before Frampton Comes Alive! we had released the studio version of "Show Me The Way" as a single…and it totally tanked," Frampton told MusicRadar. "It was pretty strange to put out the live version and watch it go through the roof. It was still the same song. What had changed? AOR was the big radio format at the time. And they were playing Frampton Comes Alive! like crazy. If you put on an AOR station — any station — you’d hear pretty much all the songs from that record." David Menconi
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