The Sweet albums?

I know there was a thread about The Sweet's B sides a while back, but I've gotten some of the band's albums lately, and am blown away by the quality of the songwriting, musicianship and harmonies, that arguably rank up there with Uriah Heep and Queen's harmonies.

'Sweet Fanny Adams' is a pretty peerless heavy rock album, with some real standouts in 'Set Me Free', 'Heartbreak Today', 'No You Don't', plus even a hint of prog in the title track and 'In To The Night'.

'Desolation Boulevard' is another masterfully crafted album, with a very nicely worked out rendition of 'The Man With The Golden Arm' that showcases the drumming of Mick Tucker (even reminded me of 'Toccata' by ELP in parts!), and some proggy overtones again on 'Meddusa', plus some stonkingly heavy rockers in 'Breakdown' and 'Solid Gold Brass'.

Hard rock fans may scoff at the band's 'glam rock' image but the music contained on their albums ranks proudly amongst the best of 70s hard rock, imo.

Anyone else familiar with these albums?

Funny thing salmacis I was in the midst of answering you when I suddenly realised I had the whole Sweet Fanny Adams album without knowing it! ... the thing is I have three Sweet compilations (i pure early pop singles, the second a decent overview with Ballrom Blitz and Love Is Like Oxygen, and the third is a collection of excellent latter-day stuff ...

full track listing here: http://www.algonet.se/~sweetfa/cd_collection.htm

I only just realised that it has these 9 songs that make up the whole of the Sweet Fanny Adams album

1. Set Me Free       
2. Heartbreak Today       
3. No You Don't       
4. Rebel Rouser       
5. Peppermint Twist       
6. Sweet F.A.       
7. Restless       
8. Into the Night       
9. AC/DC 

... great stuff ... it's also got Fox On The Run, Lies In Your Eyes, Teenage Rampage, The Sixteens, Solid Gold Brass (which means half the stuff on Desolation Boulevard too) ...

A seriously underrated hard-rock band ... even with Ballroom Blitz being covered for Wayne's World and Def Leppard doing Action, I couldn't get people into this band ... as for myself, I now really want to hear Medusa and Man With The Golden Arm!

 

 

 

The remasters of these Sweet albums are absolutely brilliant- they rank up there with the Deep Purple ones in terms of re-evaluating a band and/or their albums (for example, I never really liked 'Burn' by DP until I got the stunning remaster; now I think it's one of the best!).

I know for sure the longer, and yes proggier, version of 'Love Is Like Oxygen' is on their album 'Level Headed'.

I believe that the longer version of 'Action' is on the album 'Give Us A Wink'. Something similar happens with the album 'Desolation Boulevard'- the original album features 'Fox On The Run' in a much different yet inferior version to the single version(their best ever song!), yet the single version appears on the remaster.

I got Level Headed today through the post.Only one listen but seems like an interesting album.'Air on A Tape Loop' has to be a prog track!