is Peter Frampton looked down upon, in this movie ?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — High Fidelity
dah_prince — 13 years ago(May 05, 2012 12:27 PM)
in the scene where Lisa Bonet is playing 'Baby I love the way', Rob (Cusack) remarks: "Is that Peter f###### Frampton?". And proceeds to seemingly indicate a prior dislike for the track.
not that it's important, however not being a 70's music expert, i wonder how Peter Frampton would be regarded by all the music 'snobs' in this movie, or even from their counterparts in real life? Is he respected/revered, or disrespected? -
aerosmith777 — 13 years ago(June 10, 2012 08:00 PM)
It probably depends on who you ask. Clearly, Rob & his two buddies are not Peter Frampton fans in the movie. Although, Rob's line later was "I always hated that song." so it might just be that he hates that particular song, but not all of Frampton's work.
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cwatson6387 — 13 years ago(August 08, 2012 03:53 AM)
I'm sure Peter Frampton would have been too successful (and good looking) to be liked by the guys, however they might profess to liking some of his earlier less well known work when he was in The Herd or Humble Pie.
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TheLightFantastic — 13 years ago(November 03, 2012 07:50 AM)
I doubt Frampton would care. He's been around long enough to know and understand that not everyone loves his music.
I'm not a music snob by any means but I can't stand "Baby I Love Your Way" either. It's a decent song but it was remade by some band in the 90s and their version was played like every 15 seconds. Radio has a way of ruining decent songs by ramming them down our throats. -
Naughty-God — 12 years ago(August 04, 2013 10:44 AM)
Peter Frampton was a massive commercial rock star back in the 70s, but there were many in the rock music critic circles who derided his style and mass appeal as an example of Rock n Roll losing its way after the 60s. The Eagles were also criticized for this as well even though they have massive commercial following.
Rob's sentiments reflect that criticism that we would call snobbish but he would consider his opinion as dignified and anti-establishment.
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bhoover247 — 12 years ago(August 21, 2013 03:02 PM)
Peter Frampton was in a really cool band in the 70's called Humble Pie. Peter Frampton left this band and became a mega star with a trendy album that every teen in the 70's owned called Frampton Comes Alive. It was lame but sold millions. Oddly enough Humble Pie's first release after Frampton left was a great song called "Thirty Days In The Hole". Do yourself a favor and youtube this forgotten classic and you will understand why Frampton is considered a sellout.
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Naughty-God — 11 years ago(May 22, 2014 05:12 PM)
Considering the dire straits that modern popular music is in right now, it's kinda hard to look back at gifted musicians like Frampton and consider him a sellout when most of his repertoire was all his own creation, yet in today's music scene more popular and wealthier "artists" are winning all types of music awards left and right, yet they're thrice the rip-off artist and sellout Frampton ever was (ie - John Legend, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, FallOut Boy, modern Country music as a whole, etc.)
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captskidmarkgoatcabin — 9 years ago(July 12, 2016 11:44 AM)
Frampton Comes Alive was 2nd only to Stevie Wonder's monster Songs In The Key Of Life in 1976.it (FCA!) reached #1 four separate times..an amazing feat for a toatal of 10 weeks at #1. It is considered a classic and one of the biggest selling live albums everhardly lame.
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NotASpeckOfCereal — 12 years ago(November 19, 2013 09:56 AM)
I worked in record stores around the time that Frampton Comes Alive came out and I can tell you that it was easy to get sick of it since it was played so much and was produced to appeal to screaming teens that were largely female.
That and the knowledge that the record was something of a fake. Many of the musical tracks were re-recorded in the studio and much of the audience sounds came from other concerts (John Denver concerts, if I remember right). So it wasn't an honest live performance.
However, as a guitarist, I can tell you that Frampton is relatively respected in that world.
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dano40-1 — 10 years ago(January 02, 2016 09:53 PM)
???? Frampton's only crime was becoming popular, there is a certain type of dumb fan that can't stand their private band becoming popular, and most of the material on 'Frampton comes Alive' was material that was recorded on earlier Frampton albums, when Frampton was still a small time artist known only by a few people in the UK. Frampton comes Alive, and Humble Pie live at the Fillmore are easily two of the best live Rock albums recorded in the 1970's.
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Ironman54 — 12 years ago(January 16, 2014 08:14 AM)
The album was considered by most dudes as the musical equivalent of a 'chick flick'. Although I owned every Humble Pie album, saw them many times in the early 70s, I wouldn't have been caught dead owning the album. I actually took my then significant other and her gf's to the Comes Alive tour concert - even bought the tickets, but I waited outside. I remember being nervous about running into any of the guys I knew as I headed out to my car to wait it out. 'Snob' ? Nah. No law saying I/we have to buy into someones elses latest money making idea and nothing snobby about making the decision not to either. Frampton made a bunch of cash off it after after years of paying his dues - I can't hate him for it. And he did 'pay' for his selling out. Females were wild for him/his 'look' but then all his hair started falling out and he went bald.
Even the Universe felt a need to punish him for the transgression
HP's 'Shine On', 'The Light', 'A Song for Jenny', 'BIG GEORGE' and later, post Frampton tunes like '30 Days' are still some of my favorites - you never hear them in classic rock rotation.
Damn, time to head over to youtube and get reaquainted .. good times !! -
bhoover247 — 12 years ago(January 17, 2014 03:40 PM)
Funny story. I wonder if Humble Pie would have ever made a song like "30 Days In The Hole" if Frampton had stayed in the band. Steve Marriott was a better singer than Peter Frampton, but Frampton gets credit as a better guitar player. Frampton lost his rock credibility with the release of Frampton Comes Alive with its pop sound and teenage girls screaming in the background.
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coorsbeer — 12 years ago(March 17, 2014 11:58 AM)
The album sold over 10 million copies. I doubt that only females bought it. It's a decent album that somehow caught the country's fancy in 1976. Yes I am a male, and yes I still have the LP. Some of the songs are lame, and some are pretty good.
Frampton wasn't a sellout. He left the Herd/Humble Pie to make his own music which is not the first time that has ever happened in the rock era. He put out several studio albums that didn't sell squat so he wasn't doing all that well before the live album came out.
I have to laugh long and hard about the dude who bought a bunch of tickets to the Frampton concert but didn't go in. What high moral standards you have!!! I'm sure the girls were really impressed..or not. -
MurphAndTheMagicTones — 11 years ago(April 07, 2014 10:57 PM)
I think the closest thing we've had to a modern-day equivalent of Frampton Comes Alive is when U2 put out
Vertigo
in 2000. It would have been a much better song for most people but for the fact you could not escape it for the longest time.
You think of how much you've heard Pharrell Williams'
Happy
in the last year; that doesn't even compare to the oversaturation of
Vertigo
or
Baby I Love Your Way
.
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