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Sweet but incomplete

Pieter | Johannesburg | 07/11/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Sweet was one of the most successful UK bands of the 1970s. Their first hit was 1971's Funny Funny, a singalong bubblegum ditty. That same year they had another huge success with the clever pop number Coco, a song about a gibbon with sweet hooks and gorgeous harmonies. As the 1970s progressed, their sound evolved into a type of bubblegum metal, power pop or glamrock.



They always had the best hooks, their harmonies were tops and the expert production assured them regular top 10 status for a good many years. Songs like Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Fox On The Run and Teenage Rampage are rowdy and tuneful little teen anthems which still sound fresh today.



Not everything here is great, since Poppa Joe, Alexander Graham Bell, Little Willy and Wig Wam Bam are disposable and lightweight pop. The worst omissions (not sure if they were all released as singles) are Restless, Set Me Free, Sweet FA, Mother Earth and their huge 1978 hit Love Is Like Oxygen.



The superior Sweet collection from the glam era and late 1970s when their sound gained a harder edge, is titled The Best of Sweet whilst the album of choice for the early pop period plus some memorable album tracks is Very Best of Sweet. Although it isn't comprehensive, this Greatest Hits album does contain most of their most successful songs."

Ho Chi Minh is wrong!

pete | Spain, England, Greece, Italy... | 05/01/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This revier claims that the sweet ripped of David Bowies Gene Jeanie. Sorry, but the so called "Bowie riff" was not origanal when bowie did it, countless blues ands rock acts of the 50's and '60s already used that riff long before Bowie or the Sweet ever did (for example, Honeybus use that very same riff in the mid-1960s). Anyone who points there finger at the sweet for "ripping off Bowie" knows nothing about the many songs that already used the riff and therefore Bowie was ripping off the song where he had heard it. Anyway, the sweet did a much better job of using it than Bowie did."

Sweet things come in packages

.Richard | england | 12/31/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"the glam rock band that came after marc bolan and t.rex exploded with their glitter boogie..the sweet follow in the same vein as marc having soaring solo's and clean vocals..this band rocks and it features the hillarous single "little willy" and the smash

"ballroom blitz" and "teenage rampage" it features my favorite song "wait until the morning comes" these guys surely knew how to write catchy melodies rock on.."