Sweet - Block Buster! (Blockbuster!) | Reaction!
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2024
- One of my best thumbnails ever. I know these guys had several hits, but I do feel like they're underrated today. Anyway, this was an energetic, urgent track full of fear about a bad mf named Buster. The siren instantly grabs your attention, and then you're just along for the ride. Also, I said in the video that I didn't think any of the guys in Sweet had long black hair, but obviously, some of them did!
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How Blockbuster video didn’t buy the rights to this song for a series of 90s commercials is beyond me. I see it in my mind now.
The one saying "Haven't got a clue what to do" is Steve, the bass player. The very high pitched voice is Andy, the grumpy looking lead guitar. Everyone in this band had a great singing voice
Yes! I found this out afterward. Each member really did have a great voice.
Yes! What a great band! Aside from their glamrock greatness they made some banging rock tunes too!
But who doesnt love a bit of glam though 🤩
I urge you dig out a video for this!
This was the first single I ever bought as a child! Great song.
Ditto
Came out in '73. Yep, I remember that day better than I remember what I had for breakfast yesterday.
I remember jumping around on my bunk bed to this.
I think I was around 6 years old but I can remember this being on Top of the Pops. I doubt it's possible to overstate how much influence that show had over UK music tastes back then and we loved it. Of course there was a lot of crap on it too, but you could be assured at the start of each episode that there would be some great stuff too including bands and genres we would likely never have encountered in those far off pre-internet days.
I saw The Sweet perform shortly before Brian died and he was a shadow of his former self - he gave it his all but the guy was shaking on stage from years of alcohol abuse and heart attacks. Bloody hell they were great though.
Away from their glittery Chinn/Chapman-produced oeuvre, Sweet had serious rock chops. Def Leppard covered their song "Action" in the 90s, and didn't add any value to what was already a serious banger. I also thought The Lies In Your Eyes was fab, and Love Is Like Oxygen is majorly underrated.
The inbetween shouts "We just haven't got a clue what to do" came from Steve, not from Brian. Steve Priest was sort of the joker of the band, whenever you hear something similar in another Sweet song it's usually him.
Yes! I apologize for that. The rest of the band had supreme voices!
Was watching The Sweet on some old Top Of The Pops shows only yesterday and was saying the same thing about Brian Connolly's voice. Such a range, he really had it all going on. A version of Sweet still perform. Saw them a few years ago and they had a fantastic sound.
Love is like oxygen is a great sweet track
Very similar to Bowie's 'Jean Jeanie', both out at the same time, both on RCA. This made No1 and JJ no2
They both "borrowed" the riff from another song - apparently Bowie was most put out!
Got to react to Wigwam Bam
Definitely!
The Sweet, Slade, Gary Glitter (ahem) T-Rex, Suzi Quattro, The Osmonds, The Jackson five, just a few of the fantastic bands of the seventies, that I as a child grew up with, what a decade for music, I consider myself blessed being there the first time around.
Glam Rock was huge in the UK in the early 70s. Although Bowie and Roxy Music gave it an arty and intellectual edge, Glam was mainly about fun and entertainment and not to be taken seriously.
Yes, it was really about returning pop music to the kids after the indulgences of the later hippy/early prog college-orientated mood of the previous half decade. Marc Bolan consciously made this transition and Bowie parodied it somewhat in the Ziggy period. But for acts like Sweet, Mud, Suzi Quatro, Slade, Wizard, and Gary Glitter it was OTT dress-up and jump around.
One of my fave bands of all time. The Six Teens and Love Is Like Oxygen are pure gems cheers Bubba
the band were english but brian connolly was scottish,he was a great scot but like billy mckenzie and stuart adamson they had their demons,sweet influenced a lot of heavy metal bands and kiss as well,great group.
B side of Fox on the Run. I liked this better.
This, and the intro to this and Dylan's Highway 61 are two of my favourite intros ever.
You just can't beat a siren intro 🙂
The verse is pretty much Bowie's Jean Jeanie but who cares, it's awesome.