Category: Reviews
Waters Edge
I discovered this record completely by accident. One summer’s day, bored and waiting for a girlfriend to finish her holiday job, I dropped into Virgin Records. This, for those who haven’t heard of it is a huge record shop in central London. Virgin used to have a list of newly released and soon to be […]
Sweet Fanny Adams
It is the first true album of the SWEET that was released in early spring of 1974. It has particular importance, since at last the band that languished in the producers’ cramp and were condemned to make single hits that were forced down their throats got possibility to make an album. Upto then, SWEET has […]
Strung Up
This is a double album, whose first album includes recordings from the SWEET’s live gig in the Rainbow Theatre, London, 1973. It has thus pricinpal importance, because it was the first possibility to get acquainted with feeling of SWEET’s live gigs for the funs who have had no possibility to see SWEET in concerts upto […]
Off The Record
Released in 1976, this is probably my favourite Sweet album. It was released in 1976 and was the follow up to ‘Give us a wink’ The review is divided into my usual three parts, my initial reaction, what I think of it now and my best attempt at an objective summary. Sweet in the UK in […]
Level Headed
This is without doubt the most distinctive album Sweet ever produced. It is both very varied in itself and very different from almost anything that they had released before. In a lot of ways it was Sweet taking a risk. Not surprisingly, judging by my unscientific study of the Sweet message boards, there is a […]
Desolation Boulevard
This album that was released in early autumn of 1974 is one of the best albums ever made in rock music. As also its title shows – that is supposed to invoke Bob Dylan’s song, Desolation Row – its main topic is the disappointment, desolation and bereft of hope of people. As compared to its predecessor, Sweet Fanny […]
Cut Above The Rest
So there were 20 months between the albums Level Headed and Cut Above The Rest, punctuated by two failed singles both released well over a year after ‘Oxygen’. This means that the first point to make is that any momentum generated by ‘Oxygen’s’ success had gone. This delay may have been unavoidable but meant that […]
Give Us A Wink
The mere cover of this album draws the attention to the call in the title it is possible to make the cover wink with the quick pulling up and down of the inside cover (unfortunately those who have this album on CD cannot do it). But if after a short play with the cover one […]