Contains only three cuts from the U.K. release. The U.S. version (issued a year after the British release) includes the still-cool hits "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox On The...
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Sweet hit the peak of their powers on Desolation Boulevard, a wonderfully lightweight collection of fizzy melodies and big, dumb hooks. Essentially, the album consists of...
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Building on the momentum caused from the runaway success of Desolation Boulevard, Sweet forged ahead and shoved Give Us a Wink out to satisfy their growing legions of rabid...
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With completely derivative singles like "California Nights" and the last gasp hit "Love Is Like Oxygen," it's clear that the band's creative burst was short and "sweet."...
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Sweet struggled to earn credibility as album artists and/or score hits after finally wresting themselves free of songwriting/production team Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman in...
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With former More lead singer Paul Mario Day taking over the vocal duties from Brian Connoly, Sweet's Live at the Marquee actually stands up quite sufficiently throughout the...
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Recollections of Britain's arch-glam gods generally inspire two theories of their producers, Mike Chapman and his partner, Nicky Chinn. Either they knew just what they were...
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While the band's energy is clearly winding down--the single "Funk It Up (David's Song)" is a lame attempt at white boy Wild Cherry-styled funk--"She Gimme Lovin'" shows...
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A compilation of Sweet rarities, outtakes, and live/TV performances, Blockbuster ought to be a shambles. Instead, it stands proud among the best of the many Sweet...
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One of the original glam rock bands, Sweet released a number of successful singles in England between 1970 and 1973 before making a breakthrough in North America. In 1973,...
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Sweet's '70s British glam-rock sound is revamped on this remix album, with overlays of industrial, drum 'n bass, and goth catapulting Sweet's sound toward the millennium,...
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Although Brian Connolly is best known, before his chart-topping career as frontman with the Sweet, for replacing Ian Gillan in Wainwright's Gentleman, he was also a jobbing...
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Although they were often dismissed as a fluffy singles group in their day, Sweet crafted a handful of strong albums in the mid-'70s that sported some surprisingly muscular...
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Having made their LP debut with half an album's worth of repackaged oldies, Sweet then followed through with an entire disc of the things, drawing from both their own recent...
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After the international success of the self-produced "Fox on the Run," Sweet broke away from songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman in an attempt to shake their "pop...
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Sweet hit the peak of their powers on Desolation Boulevard, a wonderfully lightweight collection of fizzy melodies and big, dumb hooks. Essentially, the album consists of...
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This British collection rounds up 20 artfully overwrought teen anthems from the glam rock pinnacle of Sweet's career (1973-1977). The pageboy-and-satin-jacketed Brits were...
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The Best of Sweet on Camden is a fine 18-track collection of material the group recorded for RCA between 1970 and 1973. Included is the worldwide blockbuster "Ballroom...
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