The Sweet (album)

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The Sweet
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Compilation album by
Sweet
ReleasedJuly 1973
Recorded1971–1973
Genre
Length30:28
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]
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Christgau's Record Guide B− [4]

The Sweet is a compilation album released as English glam rock band 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 ]

Contents

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. It was a commercial flop, only reaching No. 191 in the Billboard 200.

Track listing

  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

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

References

  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.
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