The Sweet

OK, I picked up The Best of The Sweet the other day, and I think it's pretty good. Anybody else here fans of The Sweet? I'm newly discovering them so any particular songs I should know about?

woohoo! i see you have a good ear for music ;-) i love the Sweet too, particularly 'Ballroom Blitz' 'Fox on the Run' and 'AC/DC' o and 'my generation' enjoy! xxx

Of course I have a good ear for music! :D Fox on the run and Love is like oxygen are my favs so far!

love is like oxygen a classic!

i love FOTR and LILO - you gotta hear the long version of Oxygen

there's some other greats in there
teenage rampage
ballroom blitz
wigwam bam
co-co
hell raiser
little willy

Been listening to their Greatest Hits cd almost 24/7 the last few weeks. Great stuff!

<B><font color=#ff7f00>Brenski</B> wrote:

i love FOTR and LILO - you gotta hear the long version of Oxygen

there's some other greats in there
teenage rampage
ballroom blitz
wigwam bam
co-co
hell raiser
little willy

Hey thanks for recommending the long version of Oxygen! It's great!

yea the sweet were a great band, they were huge in the early 70's,
anyone see that docu about the lead singer how he ended up penniless living in a small flat in glasgow, it showed some kids throwing stones at him walking down the street, he died not long after, ive been meaning to get that greatest hits album tho, cool stuff...........ballroom blitzzzz

<font color=#FF399> Linda Of The Valley wrote:

The Sweet...did they do 'Action'? Maybe I'm wrong...

They sure did. My 2 fave albums from them are Sweet Fanny Adams and Live At The Rainbow (which should be purchased purely for the extremely high harmony Roger style vocals alone). Excellent band. Pity two of are dead now (Brian Connolly and drummer Mick Tucker)

the sweet were fantastic,great band only second to queen
the hits are fine but the albums you need to listen to for real rock pleasure are
Sweet F.A
Give Us A wink
Off The Record

On the album sleeve of give us a wink it says
"Queen Are A Bunch Of Winkers"
Queen And Sweet Were Always Competeing or thats how the press tried to make it

sir john wrote:

the sweet were fantastic,great band only second to queen
the hits are fine but the albums you need to listen to for real rock pleasure are
Sweet F.A
Give Us A wink
Off The Record

On the album sleeve of give us a wink it says
"Queen Are A Bunch Of Winkers"
Queen And Sweet Were Always Competeing or thats how the press tried to make it

Thanks for the info! I'll be looking for those!

Yeah, still listen to their music, with the likes of:-

Alexander Graham Bell
Poppa Joe
Hell raiser
Wig wam bam
etc.etc.etc.

Great stuff..

I'm a Sweet fan from way back. Great to see lots of other Queen fans like Sweet too. The current UK version of the band released a covers album jsut a couple of months ago. Its called New York Connection and has a great version of their original b-side. Its also got some other great covers including Because the Night, Sweet Jane and New York Groove. They have done an absolutely super version of You Spin Me Round with Sweet FA sounding guitar. Not a song I would have thought they would have covered or expected to like.

well done on reviving a 7½ yr dead, thread

if you wanted to talk abou the Sweet why not start a new one?

this has to be a new "regurgitate expired stuff" world record.... even Howard Carter, on breaking into Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 found something newer than this thread

Well what can I say ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8iyNvJ78GM

or maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNM8N5sn07o ?