Premonition

Critic Score
Based on 2 reviews
1986 Ratings: #185 / 208
User Score
Based on 3 ratings
1986 / Release Date
LP / Format
Virgin, Atlantic / Label
Pop Rock, AOR / Genre
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Kerrang!
Sure, ‘Stop’ has some brutally honest guitar heroics, but most of the songs promise more in the eloquence of Pete's writ(h)ing than is delivered on the nail.
SJCTurntable
36

An unquestionable improvement upon his previous release, this album, nonetheless continued Frampton’s lack of critical success in the Eighties. Without any doubt a product of its time, from the album cover to every track, it smacks of MOR eighties soft rock. Overproduced and instantly forgettable, including his biggest commercial single of the time, ‘Lying’, the album only lifts above complete mundanity with sporadic flourishes of Frampton’s guitar work. The artist ... read more

MFC4AFoS
61

Peter Frampton: a man whose musical legacy as a solo artist is mostly made up with a live album and whose music apart from 1 or 2 studio releases gets completely discarded it seems. I found this album specifically through a funny list on this website on mid album covers. Great list and i grabbed a few albums from there to review from the 80s and as it turns out, i liked most of them. No real masterpieces, but some cool song finds at least. So seeing that silly mask on the cover of this one and ... read more

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