Brian was the image but Andy was the heart and brains behind it all. Steve and Mick were beyond awesome. This is a timeless band that has the sounds of eternity.
@@joeys5429 Chin and Chap were relevant in early years up until around 1975ish... The release of Give us a Wink was SWEET making all their own music with no help from C&C. Even the albums before if you listen to the B sides they were harder and stronger then C&C. I will say C&C did write some great songs for SWEET IE. Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Six Teens ETC....
One of the great Sweettrack! I´ve been a true Sweetfan in many years, since 1974, and "The Lies In Your Eyes" is one of the fifth best song from Sweet, in all parts!
Andy I can listen to and watch forever. This is a brilliant commentary and taught me a lot of things I didn't know about this great song. I've always hoped one day our paths will cross and I can personally thank him. He's one of the best musicians in the world!
It's always good to hear a story from someone who was there at the time. Hope Andy will continue to do these videos about the songs. Very interesting. I'd like to see one with Burn on the Flame- love Mick's drumming in that (but then again I always do)! 😍❤
Andy, your vocals and guitar playing were astounding. Those high notes must have been a challenge. Your style and harmonies were far superior to some others of the same era. So glad to be able to enjoy the 4 of you.
My favorite Sweet track ...Awesome and I always loved the Stones Riff. Truly inspired. You even see Brian pursing his lips Mick Jagger fashion. My 4 favs were Sweet, Queen, Thin Lizzy and Bowie Ziggy period with Ronno. What a time the 70's were to be a teen. It didn't get any better than that. My one musical regret would be that Sweet not being together to play Live Aid in 1985. What a set that would have been, My musical love was Sweet.
This was the no.1 hit in 1976. Until the 1978 was revived with andy scott. Andy Scott was the only one who helped and revived sweet to make that much big hits.
love this inside scoop with Sweet.please can we have Fever of Love on a song of the month.I have loved the band for forty odd years and this is def my favourite song
"Give us a wink" ... What a great album! So is this series! I can't wait for the next episode! :-) That middle riff Andy was talking about sounded familiar to me, but I had no idea where it came from. :-))
today I noticed that backwards quote from Satisfaction for the first time then stumbled across this video a few minutes later. It was mind-blowing to hear him confirm it and to learn about how these artists have influenced each other.
This is the first time in 10 years of me loving the sweet, that I've ever heard Either Queen or the Sweet acknowledge one or the other. I always thought that whatever queen didn't do, the sweet did, and whatever the sweet didn't do, Queen did. I always wondered if they had any sort of relationship with each other, or maybe just feuded or what!
Great to see Andy looking well and making great comments, fascinating. I loved 4th of July from Give Us A Wink and think it's a lost Sweet chart buster. I remember buying 3 copies of Lies In your eyes, just willing it to go further up the charts but now after (Gulp) 40 years WHO CARES - I agree with the Germans it was a top 5 there ! HEY SWEET FANS - WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON THE EJECTOR TRACK ? Go take a look. Much love. Brian, Stockton, California x
mrcamelpmw. The ejector track is the half inch of vynil at the end of the song leading to the label. It has one narrow groove that (50 yrs ago) would pull the record decks arm over to the label quick enough to kick in the auto Chang mechanism, thus lifting the arm, pulling it back to the right and dropping the next record on to the turntable the arm the swings left and drops on to the pick up track and into the music track of the record. It is the same groove on all three, just different in how compressed it is. Written along side the groove on lies in your eyes is. "A Bilbo Boppa" that was 42 years ago
I bought the single back in January 1976 and thought it was the last great Sweet single to be honest. I also remember my copy having a run-off groove so the vocal only stopped at the end of the song when the needle/arm lifted off the single!
WOW, yes, the elements remind the sound of Queen, but i could say, Sweet were the Punk Rock Queen, before Queen realised it and made their own pppppunk rock. Lies In Your Eyes didn´t make any impact in UK, nor did Lost Angels and Fever Of Love and they still stand of that period 1976-1977. Funny and quyite seriously, Sweet were not ELO. They were a Rock band, though we can hear pianos, cembalos, violins on their next album Level Headed, but that was more or less experiment, than status quo in their long career. I could say now, Lies In Your Eyes is one of the best Sweet singles ever and the sound is timeless.
That was certainly a "harder" song than what contemporary SWEET fans are probably used to. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Imagine instead of a vocal battle royale, between Brian C (Sweet) and Freddy M (Queen), that the two of them sang a duet with alternating members of each band. Talk about double your money's worth!! :-)
I don't think they always used it but it is obvious on this song. Andy could sing a very high falsetto so I think they only used it to push the boundries at times.
An odd ball indeed, perhaps a slight, subliminal attempt to follow up "Fox" explained brilliantly in all it`s details by Andy. i never forget the first " wait a minute" moment when i first heard the stones like riff and the "high C" in this. Actually the only song they modified that high vocal.
I think Roger and Andy had the highest harmony voices than in any other bands. Andy could sing as high as Roger and didn't always use the varispeed. Roger never used it with Queen as far as I know.
I love all three of the groups Andy talks about here, The Sweet, Queen and ELO. But The Sweet is different in one important respect. Their music sounded great but it also sounded like "fun". Listen to Twist, Blitz, Foxy, Action, and Lies. They are incredibly well crafted songs but they sound like fun and make the listener feel happy. Oxygen is probably the one exception proving The Sweet could be serious if it wanted to be.
Brian May from Queen used to say that their drummer Roger Taylor had the "dog whistle voice". I believe Andy went well above and beyond even that in "The Lies In Your Eyes". In fact, I believe all the guys in The Sweet could top the vocals of the guys in Queen any day of the week back then. It's a shame they never got the recognition they deserved in America for this aspect of their music. They only got known as "That Disco Group" when in reality they were one of the top rock bands on the planet!
I agree Listen to Andy's lead vocal in The Man With The Golden Arm, performed as a live trio (think it was on German tv, it is on UA-cam). Its all magnificent, especially Mick Tucker driving the whole thing with great chops and even tubular bells.
great song sweet never toured the uk after 1974 play reading rock or the whistle test.so how was the so called real rock fans ever gonna here those great albums had they played Charlton rock with the who in 1974 it would have boosted there rock carreer but because of what happened to brian at that time it didn't happen and big mistake they never capitolised on it sadly wasn't to be.
It’s sad they were never recognized as the amazing band they were. You can’t compare Sweet to Queen. Two different bands entirely. How high is Andy’s vocal range? No one knows.
great single when i first heard it picked the stones riff out sweet never toured the uk after 1974 so the singles after then wernt going to chart as good as before they slipped up after not playing charlton with the who because of what happend to brian no festivals no whistle test i asked andy why he said we were never asked i said big mistake you had money you should have paid for those gigs bad managment bad luck and certainly there own fault they didnt get accepted as a great rock band in the uk as they were as good as anybody else out there
Brian May’s tone was quite similar to Andy’s. Maybe it was just the style at the time but man they had some my favorite tones of all time. not ridiculously distorted just tough
Brian was the image but Andy was the heart and brains behind it all. Steve and Mick were beyond awesome. This is a timeless band that has the sounds of eternity.
Andy always seemed to be the musical arranger/director of the band.
what about chin chap ?
@@joeys5429 Chin and Chap were relevant in early years up until around 1975ish... The release of Give us a Wink was SWEET making all their own music with no help from C&C. Even the albums before if you listen to the B sides they were harder and stronger then C&C. I will say C&C did write some great songs for SWEET IE. Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Six Teens ETC....
Who knows the moog synth possibly had some input as well I’m sure of it
Andy's comments - really interesting to hear his background to the recording of the song.
Very good rock music bands, and rock music. Relaxing to listen to. Thank you very much.👍👍👍👍👍🌼🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼
I simply love this Song Of The Month series. I hope it continues forever!
Unfortunately, it doesn't continue.
One of the great Sweettrack! I´ve been a true Sweetfan in many years, since 1974, and "The Lies In Your Eyes" is one of the fifth best song from Sweet, in all parts!
Andy singing the words "who's that man with the Golden Arm" live at Musikladen was probably the highest I've ever heard a male singer sing!
I'm just really grateful there are alot of videos from Sweet days !!! Brilliant music
I like that lick from the stones, this sort of jokes are making smiles on the face of real The Sweet lovers!
Awesome song. Sweet are timeless genius
Exactly right !!
I love this song! another Sweet masterpiece.
I love this song !
Love this song and SWEET🤘🤘🤘🤘
Andy says it was hard to perform live . Ive got a live version from a gig in Germany and they sang it brilliantly !
I would so to see that
ive been a sweet fan for 34yrs and that single is amazing ,so is the give us a wink album ,still play the vinyl ,,
Such an amazing song that just never dates. Just totally unique. A wonderful wonderful band
This song is great
Thank you for Sweet memories,I`ve been Sweet-fan 42 years and still Sweet songs make me shake.....love it
Andy I can listen to and watch forever. This is a brilliant commentary and taught me a lot of things I didn't know about this great song. I've always hoped one day our paths will cross and I can personally thank him. He's one of the best musicians in the world!
An Great song from a Topalbum. 1976.😊
It's always good to hear a story from someone who was there at the time. Hope Andy will continue to do these videos about the songs. Very interesting. I'd like to see one with Burn on the Flame- love Mick's drumming in that (but then again I always do)! 😍❤
The Sweet Rocked NewPlymouth Bowl of Brooklands NewZealand early 70s....could hear the concert from miles away...now that was Epic
well i love it Andy fab song :)
I love the Sweet and more that Queen. I loved so many more hits, songs, etc, than Queen. I lIke queen but I LOVE SWEET MORE!!!
Feel the same!
I thought I was the only one.🥺 I love sweet ❤️
I love the Sweet ! Couldn't care less about Queen...😂
The Lies In Your Eyes, is my favourite Sweet song of all time....even with Varispeed
Come on Andy come clean the synth was in the background as far as I’m concerned😊 no one can pitch higher than that C
SWEET was a great band.
Beautiful Song
Love this song. Thank you for this great breakdown
Andy, your vocals and guitar playing were astounding. Those high notes must have been a challenge. Your style and harmonies were far superior to some others of the same era. So glad to be able to enjoy the 4 of you.
My favourite sweet song
Ah yes! Queen were almost up there with Sweet, Sweet WERE right up there..... still love them!
My favorite Sweet track ...Awesome and I always loved the Stones Riff. Truly inspired. You even see Brian pursing his lips Mick Jagger fashion. My 4 favs were Sweet, Queen, Thin Lizzy and Bowie Ziggy period with Ronno. What a time the 70's were to be a teen. It didn't get any better than that. My one musical regret would be that Sweet not being together to play Live Aid in 1985. What a set that would have been, My musical love was Sweet.
This was the no.1 hit in 1976. Until the 1978 was revived with andy scott. Andy Scott was the only one who helped and revived sweet to make that much big hits.
Only Andy left to carry 'The Sweet' torch!
love this inside scoop with Sweet.please can we have Fever of Love on a song of the month.I have loved the band for forty odd years and this is def my favourite song
I remember it a voices in high and synth B Conolly can sing falsetto i must say Bravissimo ☆☆☆☆☆
Glad to hear this song.love this sight
"Give us a wink" ... What a great album! So is this series! I can't wait for the next episode! :-) That middle riff Andy was talking about sounded familiar to me, but I had no idea where it came from. :-))
Ohh my god, is that true?? Anyway this song is absolute amazing!!!!
Stones..intro to I can’t get no satisfaction
브라이언 젊군요
Very good song !
Sweet forever👍👍👍❤️
Ein großartiger Song 😀
today I noticed that backwards quote from Satisfaction for the first time then stumbled across this video a few minutes later. It was mind-blowing to hear him confirm it and to learn about how these artists have influenced each other.
I like this song & have found it very motivational recently!
This is the first time in 10 years of me loving the sweet, that I've ever heard Either Queen or the Sweet acknowledge one or the other. I always thought that whatever queen didn't do, the sweet did, and whatever the sweet didn't do, Queen did.
I always wondered if they had any sort of relationship with each other, or maybe just feuded or what!
I love quen also
Great to see Andy looking well and making great comments, fascinating. I loved 4th of July from Give Us A Wink and think it's a lost Sweet chart buster. I remember buying 3 copies of Lies In your eyes, just willing it to go further up the charts but now after (Gulp) 40 years WHO CARES - I agree with the Germans it was a top 5 there ! HEY SWEET FANS - WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON THE EJECTOR TRACK ? Go take a look. Much love. Brian, Stockton, California x
What do you mean by "the ejector track" ?
mrcamelpmw. The ejector track is the half inch of vynil at the end of the song leading to the label. It has one narrow groove that (50 yrs ago) would pull the record decks arm over to the label quick enough to kick in the auto Chang mechanism, thus lifting the arm, pulling it back to the right and dropping the next record on to the turntable the arm the swings left and drops on to the pick up track and into the music track of the record. It is the same groove on all three, just different in how compressed it is. Written along side the groove on lies in your eyes is. "A Bilbo Boppa" that was 42 years ago
@@0belly9 Thank You!
I never even noticed the "Satisfaction" part in there. Whoa. It seems pretty obvious too come to think about it.
so you thing another Peace of me..
i,am German
I think Lies In Your Eyes would have won the Eurovision song contest back in the day.
Someone please PLEASE hunt down and share a link to a video of The Lies in Your Eyes Live
I bought the single back in January 1976 and thought it was the last great Sweet single to be honest. I also remember my copy having a run-off groove so the vocal only stopped at the end of the song when the needle/arm lifted off the single!
last great Sweet Single? What about Love is Like Oxygen?, Lost Angels, Fever of Love?? List goes on and on......
WOW, yes, the elements remind the sound of Queen, but i could say, Sweet were the Punk Rock Queen, before Queen realised it and made their own pppppunk rock. Lies In Your Eyes didn´t make any impact in UK, nor did Lost Angels and Fever Of Love and they still stand of that period 1976-1977.
Funny and quyite seriously, Sweet were not ELO. They were a Rock band, though we can hear pianos, cembalos, violins on their next album Level Headed, but that was more or less experiment, than status quo in their long career.
I could say now, Lies In Your Eyes is one of the best Sweet singles ever and the sound is timeless.
With the Baba O'riley intro and the Can't Get No Satisfaction link, this song finds inspiration from some great british bands.
"Rolling Stones - Die 30 größten Hits" (Arcade) was my first LP, the "Lies In Your Eyes" was my first single.
That was certainly a "harder" song than what contemporary SWEET fans are probably used to. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Imagine instead of a vocal battle royale, between Brian C (Sweet) and Freddy M (Queen), that the two of them sang a duet with alternating members of each band. Talk about double your money's worth!! :-)
SWEET is Best
Great Hit
I'm glad Andy mentioned varispeed. I always wondered if they used that for the high vocals.
I don't think they always used it but it is obvious on this song. Andy could sing a very high falsetto so I think they only used it to push the boundries at times.
I wish he talked more about who wrote the song. Weren't they in transition from Chinn/Chapman to writing their own material at this point?
They had already transitioned from C&C The album Give us a Wink was 100% their song writing
Andy Scott gave Roger Taylor a run for his money on this track.😁😎
How high could Andy sing? I've been trying to find a link to something...
An odd ball indeed, perhaps a slight, subliminal attempt to follow up "Fox" explained brilliantly in all it`s details by Andy.
i never forget the first " wait a minute" moment when i first heard the stones like riff and the "high C" in this. Actually the only song they modified that high vocal.
Andy could give Roger Taylor of Queen some credits for singing the HIGH parts for Bohemian Rapsody without a ,,Litlle Helping Thing,,..........
I think Roger and Andy had the highest harmony voices than in any other bands. Andy could sing as high as Roger and didn't always use the varispeed. Roger never used it with Queen as far as I know.
@@goesjem I think Queen did use a little trick in the begin of Ogre Battle
@@Hanzey1966 Yeah the backwards stuff.
I love all three of the groups Andy talks about here, The Sweet, Queen and ELO. But The Sweet is different in one important respect. Their music sounded great but it also sounded like "fun". Listen to Twist, Blitz, Foxy, Action, and Lies. They are incredibly well crafted songs but they sound like fun and make the listener feel happy. Oxygen is probably the one exception proving The Sweet could be serious if it wanted to be.
Brian May from Queen used to say that their drummer Roger Taylor had the "dog whistle voice". I believe Andy went well above and beyond even that in "The Lies In Your Eyes". In fact, I believe all the guys in The Sweet could top the vocals of the guys in Queen any day of the week back then. It's a shame they never got the recognition they deserved in America for this aspect of their music. They only got known as "That Disco Group" when in reality they were one of the top rock bands on the planet!
I agree
Listen to Andy's lead vocal in The Man With The Golden Arm, performed as a live trio (think it was on German tv, it is on UA-cam). Its all magnificent, especially Mick Tucker driving the whole thing with great chops and even tubular bells.
Das ist definitiv die härteste sweet singel
+Jürgen Wagner ..-
+Andre Fuhlrott aber noch mehr ist die Single Auskopplung von Fox on the Run
Andy do you watch the videos of Sweet over the years on you tube, or is it too painfull to watch with Brian.Steve and Mick no longer being with us.
great song sweet never toured the uk after 1974 play reading rock or the whistle test.so how was the so called real rock fans ever gonna here those great albums had they played Charlton rock with the who in 1974 it would have boosted there rock carreer but because of what happened to brian at that time it didn't happen and big mistake they never capitolised on it sadly wasn't to be.
It’s sad they were never recognized as the amazing band they were. You can’t compare Sweet to Queen. Two different bands entirely. How high is Andy’s vocal range? No one knows.
2:39 isnt that the rolling stones satisfaction riff
GEORGEE T Boom yep
@@BeachBoy-yo8vs 😂😂😂 so they used it , WOW
GEORGEE T Boom kind of. Andy played it backwards (technically) making it original
great single when i first heard it picked the stones riff out sweet never toured the uk after 1974 so the singles after then wernt going to chart as good as before they slipped up after not playing charlton with the who because of what happend to brian no festivals no whistle test i asked andy why he said we were never asked i said big mistake you had money you should have paid for those gigs bad managment bad luck and certainly there own fault they didnt get accepted as a great rock band in the uk as they were as good as anybody else out there
John O'Brien What?
"Lies in Your eyes" was the "last of a breed" eh well pity that
queen def copied the sweet enough said x
That’s right!
Brian May’s tone was quite similar to Andy’s. Maybe it was just the style at the time but man they had some my favorite tones of all time. not ridiculously distorted just tough
o come on and im sure that moog had something to do with it
lol
yeah come clean andy this song was aided with the moog synthisizer
You must be deaf
@@mickwarnie8707 you think it was done voicē only no moog yeah sure
@@mickwarnie8707 its simple the human voice cant reach that octave
@@mickwarnie8707 firstly are you a musician ?
Voice and moog
I always thought Queen were shit compared to Sweet.