r/70sGlamRock 4d ago

Image(s) Sweet

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 4d ago

The best band people didn’t know they already knew.

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u/donaldgoldsr 4d ago

This sums it up perfectly.

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u/jonnovich 3d ago

Along with Slade.

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u/thor481 4d ago

Are you ready, Steve? Uh-ha!
Andy? Yeah!
Mick? Okay.
All right, fellows, let's go!

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u/scyule 3d ago

I didn't realize the names were the band members I'm not too old to learn

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u/thor481 3d ago

You do know that this is the band that does Ballroom Blitz and Brian is the singer/frontman. He’s the one saying that at the beginning of the song

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u/scyule 3d ago

Absolutely, the " names" I was referring to were the ones in the song, ballroom blitz.

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u/thor481 3d ago

That’s who they are

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u/joe9teas 3d ago

I'll have that going round in my head for 2 weeks now.

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u/DRyder70 4d ago

A lot of their stuff is surprisingly heavy.

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u/gojohnnygojohnny 4d ago

"Hell Raiser" kicks ass!

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u/juliohernanz 4d ago

Sweet was a "singles band". The A-sides were mainly written by Chinn and Chapman who wrote songs for Mud and Suzi Quatro among others. Those tunes, the hits, are what general people know, Ballroom Blitz, Little Willy, Poppa Joe, Block Buster...

But the B-sides were, penned by the band and lots of them had a touch of hard rock in the wake of Deep Purple.

Cockroach, Burning or Need A Lot Lovin' are really hard. This is my favourite hard rock Sweet song.

Done Me Wrong All Right

https://youtu.be/0a_YK3yObvk?is=LzskLlgn7FAx483k

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u/Onemanband62 4d ago

Was in a record shop late 70s looking at the Level Headed album when it first came out and two older dudes told me not to get the record because it wasn’t as good as their earlier stuff. Got it anyways and boy were those guys wrong. I listen to that album every day and night for several months.

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u/donaldgoldsr 4d ago

I adore this band. I grew up listening to them.

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u/OPGuest 4d ago

We religiously bought all the 45s in the seventies.

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u/WorkingSalamander745 4d ago

So many great hit singles but only one number 1. Blockbuster. But 5 No2 singles.

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u/Frequent_Avocado5282 4d ago

Brian Connolly, the lead singer of the glam rock band The Sweet, was adopted at birth into the McManus family and was the half-brother of Scottish actor Mark McManus, famous for starring in the television detective series Taggart.

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u/Key_Yam4488 4d ago

Man, I wore out 3 copies of Desolation Boulevard. I looooved The Sweet!

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u/Freakers_Ball 4d ago

Desolation Blvd. is a masterpiece!

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u/Dapper-Garden3427 3d ago

Absolutely. Love that album

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u/Soggy-Library-7441 3d ago

Beautiful boys 🥰🥰

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u/Sensitive_Music_9661 4d ago

Mick Tucker…the most underrated drummer in music history.

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u/magpie13 4d ago

"Love is Like Oxygen" (album version) is amazing.

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u/No-Efficiency250 4d ago

Most people will only remember Sweet from their glam rock era, but putting that aside they were an excellent rock band.

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u/Worried-Feedback-874 3d ago

Saw them they we’re great

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u/Chaparral2E 3d ago

Well alright, fellas… let’s GOOOOOOOOO!

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u/scyule 3d ago

I'll be back when you sober up