SWEET

SWEET
DESOLATION BOULEVARD (1974)
REMASTER
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Every song here is a rock gem, with loud guitars, a pounding rhythm section and strong vocals (like all great rock music). It's really a sign of how bad rock radio programming is that this CD was not a major AOR staple (most programming & music directors in radio have no music knowledge or sense, and only play what some consultant tells them is good).
The Sweet were unfairly typecast as a "galm rock" act, and unfortunately, this CD came out just as "glam rock" was being eclipsed by the rise of disco [a revolting development that was corrected only after several years of insufferably bad musical noise had almost ruined popular music].
Fans of David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), the Ramones, the Rolling Stones (from the time of Sticky Fingers to It's Only Rock & Roll) and even early Aerosmith material will love this CD. While The Eagles sang about how nice it was to be rich and famous in Hollywood or take it easy some place, The Sweet sang about life among the not-so rich and not-so famous, and about how Real Life could hit--hard sometimes. California wasn't all paradise then [in 1974], just as it's not today. And Teenage Angst (a mainstay for rock material) has rarely found a voice for expression so clear as "Desolation Boulevard".

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1. The Six Teens

2. Solid Gold Brass

3. Turn It Down

4. Medussa

5. Lady Starlight

6. Man With the Golden Arm

7. Fox On the Run

8. Breakdown

9. My Generation

10. I Wanna Be Commited

11. Teenage Rampage