Frampton Comes Alive! is the worst recorded music ever.

Also known as, "Love, Be Tender With My Fanny."

 

Frampton Comes Alive? Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide.

 

Frampton didn't even do the worst version of Baby, I Love Your Way, let alone the worst music ever recorded.

 

I won their album by calling into WABC. I remember they were the stars of what i think was the first episode of the the short-lived Howard Cosell 'Saturday Night Live!'

 

"Hook," off of that Blues Traveler album, is a tremendous piece of satire. John Popper is singing a Top 40 hit about how most Top 40 hits are moronic, simplistic cash grabs. He completely deconstructs the genre in 4 1/2 minutes.
And the best part about it?
It sucks you in exactly you like they wanted to. It's a slow, easy to listen to melody. You hear it 100 times, tap your feet, sing along to it before you ever really HEAR the words. Then you feel silly for letting that happen. Then you smile because you finally get the joke -- even while you're still singing along to it as a Top 40 melody, thus fulfilling Popper's lyric, "When I'm feeling stuck and need a buck, I don't rely on luck, because the hooook brings you ba-aa-ack."
It's a great, great song. One of my favorites.

As an aside, John Popper's story about having a heart attack while beating off is also tremendous, if you can ever find that episode of "Behind the Music."

 

#1 song on January 1, 1976, Saturday Night- Bay City Rollers

Wings - Silly Love Songs
Elton John and Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music

 

Don't be dissing Hootie

 

Shake, shake, shake ...

 

And disrespecting Frampton Comes Alive! is un-American.

 

Emma Stone did it better.

 

I liked Oh, What A Night. It had a weird way of making me feel nostalgic -- and I was in high school.

Amy was right on Fly, Robin, Fly.