Frampton Comes Alive! is the worst recorded music ever.

I can't believe it took 29 replies on a 1976 thread for "Convoy" to come up.

And "Show Me The Way" on the Frampton album is a great fucking song. Everyone is slagging the album because it was waaaaay overplayed.

 

I always mentally connected "GYOW" and "Rumours" with winter '76, but infallible Wiki says they weren't released until Jan. '77.

"Night Moves," for that matter, only made it by a couple weeks -- released Dec. 12, 1976.

1976 really did suck, music-wise.

 

Mother of God. That was hot.

 

FWIW - The Bay City Rollers made their North American premiere on first episode of ABC's Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, featuring the comedy talents of Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray and Christopher Guest. They were dubbed the Prime Time Players. Another show - originally titled "Saturday Night" on NBC - dubbed their regulars as the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" in response.

And now you know.....the rest of the story.

 

Frampton is more a headscratcher than offensively bad. It's kind of boring pop-rock.

The big offense of that year was the Boston album. It's awful, and it's still overplayed.

 

Frampton is one of the few artists whose best/biggest-selling/most significant album is a live one. I'd put Cheap Trick, KISS, the Allman Brothers, B.B. King and James Brown on that list too.

 

Johnny Cash with Folsom, as well.

 

Yes, the live album that captured the dynamic of live music and is still the gold standard did come out in '76:

 

The best song released in 1976:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7vzLZd7TY

And the dirtiest (by the same band):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSm1U7BdR6A

 

Love this, one of the best live albums ever made..."Let's play some ol' honk..."

 

Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" fits that profile as well.

 

Pure Prairie League had a great live album.
Double album, actually. Peak performances throughout.