What constitutes a guilty pleasure? Well, here goes:
1. Band/music, in its day, universally popular with “the kids”.
2. Short tenure in limelight followed by calamitous falling out with fickle dame fashion.
3. Subsequent exile to naff pop purgatory wholly resistant to genuine (cf. ABBA) or national treasure status (cf. Tom Jones) type rehabilitation / reappraisal.
4. Liking for said band/music bereft of ironic cachet.
5. Lest we forget, corking tunes avec un soupçon de nostalgie.
6. And here’s le clincher, an insistent voice whispering that in a right-thinking universe this music is boss.
Turn up the sirens!
Oddi wrth y brawd
12 comments:
looks nice I wanna try it!
You do that. It doesn't disappoint.
They named a chain of video shops after one of their songs.
Wot? Haven't any of you gone to Little Willy's DVDs? Must just be me then...
We're entering uncharted territory...
I met all 4 of them in HMV on Oxford Street sometime in the mid-80s and got my "Sweet 16 - It's It's Sweet's Hits" signed in indelible black marker. I will play it tonight. Hellraiser, Star gazer, Trail blazer, natural born raver, yeah, yeah yeah! It'll kill you with a wink of an eye.
what have I started?
There's a large and angry mob gathering by the foot of the castle. Manwhile I'm doing a roaring trade in flaming brands and pitchforks.
"Look there he is! the fiend who (re) released the Sweet onto an unsuspecting world...kill, burn, melt their vinyl into plant pots. Oh, but watch my eye liner, and were these platform boots always this difficult to walk in, and does my gut look big in this jumpsuit etc etc"
Enough, already?
The greatest Glam-Band of the 70's.
Spook to Andy and Steve lately.
Steve picked up Steve's Sweet, and Andy is still very busy with his AS sweet.
Sorry to hear that Andy suffering of cancer, but is houlding tight.
All the good luck to Andy.
Stay Sweet,
Ellie
Thanks Ellie. The number of comments - the most a post on this blog has garnered to date - testifies to their enduring quality and appeal.
Stay sweet indeed.
Thanx for this just been watching them on youtube, remeber having teenage rampage and blockbuster when i was a youngun!
Go for it....
Thanks for the upload. The band doesn't sound familiar, but I bet I'll have a "Oh! That's who did this song" moment.
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