I lean toward enjoyably dopey self-indulgence, myself, but I was part of the target audience when it was released.

Enjoyably dopey mid-70s pop-rock for sure. This was a major anthem when I was a teenager and Frampton Comes Alive is still on my iPod and always will be.

Anybody who can make a guitar talk... even if it's dopey talk... is okay with me.

Nobody can rank on Peter Frampton.

Not liking his music is akin to hating summer.

You want, you NEED the pure, undiluted 70's vibe.

If you've got real balls, listen to I'm In You.

Best song ever:

I'm in you/
You're in me/
Cuz you gave me the love/
the love that I never ha-ad/
yeah you gave me the lo-o-ve/
love that I....never had!

Time stops for me with that song.

Not liking his music is akin to hating summer.

Hmm. Well, I do like some of his music - DYFLWD?, I'll Give You Money, Somethin's Happeneing, and it's been a really long time since I've heard Doobie Wah abut I recall liking it - but some of it makes me retch. Specifically, I'm In You and Baby You're In My Way I Love Your Way are both nausea-inducing. And I hate summer, a lot.

So where does that leave me?

Hoisted a girl on my shoulders so she could chuck her bra at him. This was in 1999. Yes, we are shameful hussies for summertime fairground song.

I vote enjoyable dopeyness. Maybe jonmc can come in here and defend the indefensible... or is this not sufficiently RAWK for him? I can never tell where his taste is headed next.

Of course, you have to put the emphasis on the dope part of dopeyness when you are talking about Peter Frampton's music, but I guess that goes without saying. That is, after all, when you hear the guitar really talk to you.

I like the Frampton, but "Do You..' was never my favorite. "Show Me The Way" was better. I especially like the stuff he did when he was in Humble Pie (which secures his RAWK! cred for eternity).

Humble Pie was fun, as I recall.

And say what you want about him, but dude's got a sense of humor about himself. He did The Simpsons, he played Humble Pie's road manager (!) in Almost Famous, and now he's got this Geico commercial.

I stopped listening to the fourth side because I thought DYFLWD was so weak. Overall, though, the only other flaw with that album was mixing the audience so damnably high. Otherwise it is just this side of the perfect 70s pop concert album, that being Kiss Alive!. Both got heavy rotation stacked on my automatic record player.

Listen to Frampton's solos on Humble Pie Rockin' The Fillmore and you will hear a few instances of a slightly altered scale that in a more developed form, gave his solos on Comes Alive their distinctive feel.

Humble Pie was fun, as I recall.

Their version of Ray Charles' "Hallelujah, I Love Her So," always gets me hyped. Before that he was in a teenybopper act called the Herd in which he was made lead singer because of his pretty-boy looks. To ditch that for the greasy biker-rock of the Pie is a pretty cool move, in my opinion.