The band called The Sweet. They didn’t do both Ballroom Blitz and Little Willie did they?
Because if they did, then matter and anti-matter CAN co-exist!
I was only aware of one band called The Sweet.
Frontman Brian Conley died not so long ago.
Hits
Coco
Fox on the run
Blockbuster
Ballroom blitz
Funny funny
Wig wam bam
The Six Teens
Teenage Rampage
Love is like oxygen
I’m sure there are others but I just don’t remember them they were around in the 1970’s to 80’s, I’m not sure but weren’t they part of the Chinn/Chappman setup, or was it Micky Most?
Ahhhh…The Sweet. That was the first rock and roll band I got into as a very young child…Little Willy, Blockbuster, Hellraiser…great stuff.
Yeah, they were the same band, originaly coming from the bubblegum manufacturing team of Chinn/Chapman, they later dropped the ‘The’ and started writing their own songs and went in a less bubblegum, more hard rock direction at first, with stuf like “Ballroom Blitz”, “Action”, Fox On The Run"… then, the cocaine took over and they started doing total crap, even dabbling in a horrible mixture of prog rock and disco. Their last big hit was “Love Is Like Oxygen” and then they pretty much dissapeared from the radar. They had a few albums after that, including “VI” in the 80’s which saw them moving in a folk rock direction. Nowadays, (I think) Two of the members are dead, while two other members each tour with their own versions of the band. I’d look up some links, but I’m feeling kind of lazy right now 
Nothing beats the bubblegum era Sweet. That stuff was a big influence on what would later become punk, and their first few non-bubblegum albums were pretty good too.
Sorry? Please expand on this connection between 70’s pop and nuclear physics.
Does everyone remember the over-the-top camp drummer?
IIRC back then you were either a Sweet fan or a Slade fan. I still can’t stand Slade. And Marc Bolan was for girls
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Sorry? Please expand on this connection between 70’s pop and nuclear physics.
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Ballroom Blitz=matter. Little Willie=anti-matter. Both were recorded by the same band, therefore matter and anti-matter can co-exist.
See? See? Get it? Get it?
OK. I can’t remember Little Willie at all. But I do remember Sweet doing stuff that was bloody awful, so I take your point.
BTW Biggirlwhere on earth would a non-fogey get to hear the Sweet?
Little Willie, Willie won’t, go home.
No you can’t push Willie 'round, Willie won’t go
This is hard to type, I’m listening to Miles Davis right now…
Ballroom Blitz is being used in some car (Nissan?) commercial right now.
It’s *WILLY people…*Little Willy Won’t Go Home. :rolleyes:
You all need to go back to rock and roll high school
I looove Sweet. The perfect combo of glam and bubblegum (bubbleglam?)
“Ballroom Blitz” is in a car ad right now - they’re finally getting the big royalties they need - tho they were always bigger in the UK. Did anyone ever hear “Alexander Graham Bell”?! Now THAT’S a song.
I had the 45 of “Little Willy” when I was a kid on Bell records, but I thought it was about a cat in our 2nd grade reading book.
Haha, yeah…Slade were boring and Marc Bolan sang songs about unicorns ferchristsake (although, ya gotta admit, “20th Century Boy” and “Easy Action” were great songs), but when I was seven or eight, I used to put on my Sweet 8-track, and jump around the house playing air guitar on my sisters tennis racket. THey kicked ass. Not only that, but they turned millions of boys onto bisexual chicks (“AC/DC”)…haha…when you’re 12 or 13, back then anyway, a song about bisexual girls was a very big deal. They did some pretty dark songs too, like “Spolight”, “No You Don’t” and I Wanna Be Commited", and then there was that song that went…“If you don’t go down on me someone else will…” Sweet were pretty subversive.
I still play my old Sweet records every now and then.
I recently re-discovered that old bubblegum song “Quick Joey Small”, and it rocks 50 gazillion times more than any of the bubblepunk songs of today.
“Hellraiser” and “Blockbuster” were my favorites. They sounded so cool all distorted and tinny sandwiched in between Minnie Ripperton and “The Night Chicago Died” on the Transistor AM radio I had taped to my bike. I’m feeling very old right now.
“Quick Joey Small” - Kastenetz-Katz Family Circus! I was just listening to a bubblegum comp the other day. My fav bubblegum song has to be “Indian Giver” by the 1910 Fruitgum Co. The Ramones did a great cover of it. (Well, favorite, tied with the Archies “Sugar Sugar,” but Tom Jones did an unbelievable cover of that one …
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Sugar Sugar is the best song ever sung by cartoon characters.
I still have my Slade records. Time to dust them off I think…