The Sweet (album)

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The Sweet
Compilation album by
Sweet
Released July 1973
Recorded 1971?1973
Genre Glam rock , [1] power pop [2]
Length 30 : 28
Label Bell
Producer Phil Wainman
Sweet chronology
The Sweet's Biggest Hits
(1972) 		The Sweet
(1973) 		Sweet Fanny Adams
(1974)
Singles from The Sweet
  1. " Little Willy "
    Released: January 1973
  2. " Block Buster! "
    Released: June 1973
  3. " Wig-Wam Bam "
    Released: December 1973 [3]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic link
Christgau's Record Guide B? [4]

The Sweet is a compilation album released as Sweet 's debut album in the US and Canada, substituting for the 1971 UK album Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be . (The band's second album, Sweet Fanny Adams was also not given a US release, but tracks from that and the band's third album Desolation Boulevard were combined on the US version of that album to compensate for this.) [ citation needed ]

The album consisted primarily of singles and B-sides released in the UK and Europe in 1972 and 1973. One of the singles, " Little Willy ", was Sweet's first and biggest hit single in the US. The singles " Wig-Wam Bam ", "Hell Raiser" and " Block Buster! " were also on the album. Commercially it did not do well, only reaching No. 191 in the Billboard 200 .

Track listing [ edit ]

  1. " Little Willy " ( Mike Chapman , Nicky Chinn ) - 3:13
  2. "New York Connection" - 3:35
  3. " Wig-Wam Bam " (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:03
  4. "Done Me Wrong All Right" - 2:58
  5. "Hell Raiser" (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:15
  6. " Block Buster! " (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:12
  7. "Need a Lot of Lovin'" - 3:00
  8. "Man from Mecca" - 2:45
  9. "Spotlight" - 2:47
  10. "You're Not Wrong for Loving Me" - 2:58

Notes [ edit ]

The American CD reissue of this album includes the live version of the song "Need a Lot of Lovin'", apparently in error. [ citation needed ] The studio version was only available as a B-side of the single " Block Buster! " and is available on the 2005 re-issue of Sweet Fanny Adams . The original American vinyl pressing used the studio version of "Need A Lot Of Lovin'".

Personnel [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (15 August 2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal?s Debauched Decade . Voyageur Press. p. 16. ISBN   9781627883757 . Retrieved 26 November 2018 .
  2. ^ "The Village Voice - Google News Archive Search" . News.google.com . Retrieved 26 November 2018 .
  3. ^ "Great Rock Discography" . p. 807.
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S" . Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields . ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

External links [ edit ]

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