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Very Best of Sweet [Original recording remastered]

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  • Audio CD (17 Jan 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Bmg
  • ASIN: B0006L5RXS
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,137 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Blockbuster
2. Hell Raiser
3. Ballroom Blitz
4. Teenage Rampage
5. Co-Co
6. The Six Teens
7. Love is like Oxygen
8. Papa Joe
9. Funny Funny
10. Turn It Down
11. Alexander Graham Bell
12. Lies In Your Eyes
13. Action
14. Its It’s the Sweet Mix
15. Little Willy
16. Wig-Wam Bang
17. Fox On The Run
18. Restless (Bonus Track)
19. Set Me Free (Bonus Track)
20. Burn On The Flame (Bonus Track)

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Sweet were one of the biggest glam-rock bands of the 1970's, and 'The Very Best Of Sweet' is a compilation of their finest moments. Combining ostentatious stage attire with catchyrock riffs, The Sweet were one of the frontrunners of the glam explosion that dominated the early 1970's. This release includes the hit singles 'Blockbuster', 'Ballroom Blitz' and'Wig Wam Bam'.

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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars From bubblegum pop to glamrock, 9 April 2005
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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Sweet was one of the most successful UK bands of the 1970s. They started out with Funny Funny in 1971, a singalong vocal pop hit and that same year they had another huge success with the clever pop song Coco, a song about a monkey, with sweet hooks and gorgeous harmonies.

As the 1970s progressed, their sound evolved into a type of bubblegum metal, power pop or glamrock, as on the brilliant Blockbuster, Hell Raiser and Ballroom Blitz. The very best tracks are the aforementioned, plus the amazing Fox On The Run.

Not everything is great here, since Poppa Joe, Alexander Graham Bell, Little Willy and Wig Wam Bam are disposable and lightweight pop. But their 1978 hit Love Is Like Oxygen is much more mature, a type of tuneful hard rock.

The album includes some of their best album tracks like Restless, Set Me Free and Burn On The Flame, that display Sweet's more serious hard rock side. Overall a very enjoyable mix of vocal and hard edged pop plus some serious glam rock excursions.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars All the hits and more., 18 Jan 2005
By Gary Slade (uk) - See all my reviews
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At last! The pretty much definitive hits collection that we all have been waiting for. After so many years of looking at half baked compilation sweet albums, this is the one to buy. Every track a classic from the early papa jo and co co right through to the latter hit of love is like oxygen (shame that the extended version is missing) all in all a great retrospective.
Now bring on the definitive Slade collection!
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39 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Loud glam-rock music of the seventies, 21 Mar 2005
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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With a style that mixed lightweight, teenybopper music with heavy metal (a strange mix, indeed), Sweet ultimately ended up falling between the two, not pleasing anybody from either camp. Before that, they scored a string of UK hits including a number one (Blockbuster) and five number twos (Co-co, Hell raiser, Ballroom blitz, Teenage rampage, Fox on the run). Note that Fox on the run is an original song, not a cover of Manfred Mann's song. Little Willy and Wig-wam-bam both made number four in the UK. Their last major hit, Love is like oxygen, made the top ten in Britain and America - it actually did slightly better in America than Britain.

All seventeen of the Sweet's UK hits (including the minor hits) are here together with three album tracks that illustrate what Sweet wanted to do with their music. Having had their career controlled others (the production team of Chinn and Chapman), they cut loose on titles such as Restless and Set me free.

This is the definitive Sweet hits compilation. If you enjoy British glam-rock of the early seventies with a hard edge, you are likely to enjoy Sweet's music.

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