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Comment from Anonymous
Time February 20, 2010 at 8:30 pm

I love “Fox ont the Run” but I found it to be the only track on the album I enjoyed. The other stuff was just noise. Rating: 1 / 5

Comment from Anonymous
Time February 20, 2010 at 9:52 pm

I love rock music, this is nothing more than 70′s bubble-gum. Bought it for 1 song, won’t listen to it again. Rating: 1 / 5

Comment from M. Montgomery
Time February 20, 2010 at 11:09 pm

Ballroom Blitz in particular has been re-recorded from scratch and the new version simply lacks the punch of the mid-70s original. I would be very leery of buying this so-called “Greatest Hits” collection, a better title would have been “Our Greatest Hits as We Think They Should Have Been Recorded, 20 Years Later.”

Why do bands think that getting older means they can do a better job with material they created when young? I don’t know but it happens far too often. PATHETIC.

Unless you didn’t like the Sweet when they were in the Top 40, and thought “You know maybe I’d like their best songs now if only they’d re-record them 20 years later when they are Nobodies”, you should not buy this CD. But if you didn’t like the Sweet then, really, why buy this CD? Either way, don’t buy this pathetic CD. The original of Ballroom Blitz, remastered, is available on this site (and I presume unaltered by the band’s senile stupidity)–why settle for less than the real thing???.

The band should have done what other bands are doing more and more; if they think they now have a better version of a “star” track, then supply the original version also on the same CD. This avoids the buyer getting that “ripped off” feeling, quite a justified feeling when the title is the same but the track has changed.

(COMMENT MUCH LATER: well checking the recs I see the original band members have all checked in…

And all you sports who can’t tell these are dumbed down new versions of the original hits, sorry, you just don’t know your music. My Sincere Condolences…) Rating: 1 / 5

Comment from Pegasus
Time February 21, 2010 at 2:02 am

…from this record – there are just remakes on it. Ever since leadsinger Brian Connolly left the group in 1979 the rest of those guys recorded the titles new, maybe for some copyright-reasons or whatever. BUT: There ist no Sweet-sound without him. These are not the hits I heard in my teen-time. So: If you wanna get the spirit of Glam, try to reach original recordings of that time – it’ll be worth it. Rating: 1 / 5

Comment from Frank S. Cohen
Time February 21, 2010 at 3:38 am

“Best of” albums are not for fans of the band. They are for rock music listeners who don’t give the chronicled band top priority in their purchases but still need an economical means to fulfill a small craving for a band’s broadly familiar sound. Sweet is the perfect band for a compilation like this. It is a band of modest achievement whose music is sheer entertainment and nothing but. Their infectious brand of power pop is easily compiled in this fashion for the tastes of the average rock consumer, who, on average, is most likely to be a casual listener to Sweet. That is why I can easily recommend this album to the average fan of rock music. At 16 tunes, this album, with me being a casual listener, is neither too long nor too short. Enjoy it. Rating: 4 / 5