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The Sweet The Sweet (1973)
Originally Released 1973\nRazor & Tie CD Edition Released February 9, 1999\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: 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, the band finally hit it big with the single "Little Willy," which hit number three on the U.S. pop charts. With the success of that single, management at the band's U.S. label, Bell Records, felt it was time to treat the market to an LP, so they gathered together some earlier U.K. chart successes (along with some B-sides) and rush-released the ten-track album simply titled Sweet. [Razor & Tie resurrected the album along with five bonus tracks. The sound has been digitally remastered and the CD contains in-depth liner notes related to the original release. This CD release will give the listener a taste of Sweet when they were just a singles band.] -- Keith Pettipas\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nSugar and Spikes, October 24, 2004\nReviewer: Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) \nI owned the original "The Sweet" Bell album as a teenager and loved it, wore it out completely. I had a mid-life crisis a while back and HAD to have "Hellraiser" again (the band I fronted in high school included it in our sets), so I sprung for one of Amazon's used copies of Sweet's American debut. It's interesting to listen to it again with older and more seasoned ears, with all the silly bubblegum double entendres the Chinn/Chapmann team were so wickedly good at. I mean, "Wig Wam Bam," REALLY! \n\nOn the otherhand, the fact that Sweet was bristling at their forced bubble-glam image early on is obvious on this CD. The Connolly-Scott-Tucker-Priest originals mixed in with the Chinn/Chapman insta-hits show the band champing at the bit to escape the silly Indian headgear so they could get on stage and rock. "New York Connection" and "Need A Lot Of Lovin'" show that Sweet were far more interested in sounding like Slade than the Bay City Rollers. \n\nWhile certainly not indispensable, "The Sweet" show just how fun workmanlike songcraft could be, and also provides an interesting P.O.V. into Sweet's evolution.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nMy first introduction to Sweet, one of my favorite bands, October 15, 2003\nReviewer: Thomas Muckinhaupt (Erie, PA United States)\nI remember hearing "Little Willy" back when I was 12. It seemed pretty "bubble gum" at the time, but I had read that Sweet wrote great heavier music. This album is in no way as good as "Desolation Boulevard" or "Give us a Wink", but is a very good representation of the transition to harder rock. "New York Connection" is an excellent song with a great lead from Andy Scott, one of the most underrated guitarists ever!! "Done Me Wrong Allright" is a barnstormer, as is "Man From Mecca". The early tunes that are bonus tracks such as "Poppa Joe" and "Jeannie" are too poppy and cheesy for my taste. They should have included the original "Need A Lot of Lovin" that was on the original 1973 album version on Bell and also one of the greatest hard rock songs in the Sweet canon, "Burning", a true classic. Still an essential purchase though.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nAmazed This Was Re-Issued, September 19, 2004\nReviewer: Neal H. Buck (Columbia, MD USA)\nI owned the vinyl LP of this album for years and played it to death. Except for "Wig-Wam Bam," I liked all the tracks. It was especially good to hear some of their early hard rock songs. It also includes some very interesting songs like "Man From Mecca" and "Spotlight" that transcend the typical heavy style. And "YNWFLM" is a beautiful CSNY-style ballad. The one strange thing about this re-issue is that they included the LIVE version of "Need A Lot of Lovin'" from "Strung Up" instead of the studio version my LP had. The bubblegum bonus tracks are OK if you wanted to hear what they sounded like before they "grew up."\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nFirst effort, September 11, 2003\nReviewer: Scott Rogers (Ga.) (Gainesville, Ga United States)\nthis album is interesting because it has "Hellraiser" on it. Anyone who's heard this song knows that Motley Crue lifted the ENTIRE lick for one of their crappy hits. For hardcore Sweet fans only, and because it contains a slew of Nicky Chinn/Mike Chapman drival, I give it only two stars. The band does better in the future writing their own material. Maybe not album sales-wise, but the albums written by the band members are WAY better than this. ONLY 'Desolation Blvd' comes close with the Chinn/Chapman team, but that songwriting duo's featured only on one side of the LP. Most Sweet fans prefer the "Give Us A Wink" LP.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nPre Blitz Gold!, June 2, 2000\nReviewer: Ralph Quirino (Keswick, Ontario Canada)\nHow infuriating for us Sweet fans! Trying to find that 1 essential collection with all the key hits on it proves to be both costly and confusing! Too often, imported titles run us a pretty penny with only a handful of really amazing tunes while far inferior so-called "hits" sets contain trashy rerecordings. Here, Razor & Tie have done fans a service: this set collects the band's pre-"Blitz" hitz on a single, very affordable, very listenable glam-rock disc that's a hoot at parties. From the silly stuff like "Co Co" to "Wig Wam Bam" and "Blockbuster", this set is the missing link for fans who only know Desolation Boulevard. They'll be amazed at how much more fun the band was before they went all fake-metal trippy. Add this one to Desolation Boulevard and Give Us A Wink and you've got the best stuff they ever set to record. Kudos to Razor & Tie!\n\nHalf.com N/A
This misc cd contains 15 tracks and runs 45min 36sec.
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