where to start with Sweet

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so, i really love "fox on the run". what is the best sweet LP to start with?

― nutrasweet glider, Monday, 10 October 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

I would recommend starting with this "Best of Sweet" record (yeah, the cover is ugly as sin, but it's a good album), and seeing which phase you like best. When I first got into them, I liked their early Chapman/Chinn stuff better, but after a few years of listening to this comp, I found that the later stuff was good too, just different. "Fox on the Run", incidentally, is one of their first post Chapman/Chinn songs, while "Little Willie" and "Ballroom Blitz" is from the earlier period. This CD might help you decide where you want to investigate.

― richard wood johnson, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Search: SWEET thread! AAAAAAAAOOOOORIGHT FELLA-TH! LET'TH GOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Desolation Blvd.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Ah, but which one?

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Sweet

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Which one by Sweet?

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

not the start or the end but middle.

― retroboy, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm not asking you who's on first. Andy, Mick, Steve?

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Allright fellas, let's go!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

and the man in the corner.............

― retrogurl, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

And the man at the back said
Everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz

― Alexander Graham Bell, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

BLOCKBUXXSTER

"YOU BETTER WATCH OUT IF YOU GOT LONG BLACK HAIR!!!!"

Need I say more?

― Mary Poppins Came To My Fartyard (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 27 December 2008 11:28 (seventeen years ago)

Totally fucking ridiculous early 70's UK Glam rock! What could be better than that? Bowie? Well, I guess...

― Mary Poppins Came To My Fartyard (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 27 December 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

Never really saw Sweet as an albums band so I'd always go with a compilation, although Desolation Boulevard is pretty good at covering their FM Rock/Peter Frampton phase. Of the earlier stuff, the run of singles from Hellraiser to Action is about the best, all recorded after Chinnchapp. The album Sweet Fanny Adams has some of those singles on it but is pretty patchy.

― The Strawman that hilariously sets fire to itself (Sven Hassel Schmuck), Saturday, 27 December 2008 12:51 (seventeen years ago)

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