The Best of Sweet [FLAC+MP3](Big Papi) 70's Rock torrent

Source: CD


By Tim Brough VINE VOICE

The Sweet went through three very distinct periods, and this Greatest Hits paints a picture for each segment. There was the early bubble-glam period, where the Sweetshop shortened their name to Sweet and churned out Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman insta-hits like the insanely catchy "Little Willy" and the inane "Wig Wam Bam." The band was soon tired of being pop pretty boys and really wanted to rock. Chinn/Chapman fed them "Ballroom Blitz," but with "Fox On The Run," Sweet proved they could make international hits fine on their own.

After that, the band broke off with Chinn/Chapman and recorded "Give Us A Wink," a sly glitter rock album that featured the incendiary "Action." That was the roar that inspired 80's pop metal from Def Lepard to Poison, with "Stairway to the Stars" and "The Lies In Your Eyes," while not American Hits, are just as tasty.

Then the band decided that hits alone weren't good enough, and they took a shot at musical "credibility." "Level Headed" sounded less like Sweet and more like Alan Parsons, but "Love Is Like Oxygen" (included here in the single edit) was a masterpiece. Unfortunately, the following album was without Brian Conolly and pretty much was a forgettable work. ("Mother Earth" was ok, "Sixties Man," better.) But most of these songs are guilty pleasures, and still sound fresh now. After all, almost 30 years later, how can you resist that opening call of "Ballroom Blitz?"

.....all right fellas, let's Goooooooooooooo!


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The Best of Sweet
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FLAC:
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 62 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit

MP3:
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.99
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz

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Tracklisting
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1. Sweet - Little Willy [03:15]
2. Sweet - Wig-Wag Bam [03:02]
3. Sweet - Blockbuster [03:14]
4. Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz [04:03]
5. Sweet - Teenage Rampage [03:35]
6. Sweet - The 6-Teens [04:04]
7. Sweet - Fox on the Run [03:25]
8. Sweet - Action [03:20]
9. Sweet - The Lies in Your Eyes [03:47]
10. Sweet - Lost Angels [04:04]
11. Sweet - Fever of Love [04:02]
12. Sweet - Stairway to the Stars [03:05]
13. Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen [03:47]
14. Sweet - California Nights [03:44]
15. Sweet - Mother Earth [06:32]
16. Sweet - Sixties Man [04:08]