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Desolation Boulevard

  • AMG Review of Desolation Boulevard

    Amg
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine
    All Music Guide

    Sweet hit the peak of their powers on Desolation Boulevard, a wonderfully lightweight collection of fizzy melodies and big, dumb hooks. Essentially, the album consists of three dynamic singles buoyed by a bunch of filler, but those singles -- "Ballroom Blitz," "The 6-Teens," and "Fox on the Run" -- are addictive slices of bubblegum glam rock. And the filler is ridiculously silly and enjoyable, with "Sweet F.A.," "I Wanna Be Committed," and "No You Don't" sounding like a kind of bizarre prototype for the Ramones' punky bubblegum (only without the irony, of course). Although the filler is relatively strong, there are a number of weak patches on Desolation Boulevard, but it remains an intoxicatingly fun record and one that sounds surprisingly fresh, even with all of its kitschy '70s production techniques.

Ballroom Blitz + A Beer Run...(The) Sweet
over 2 years ago
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...Joxley's "I used to love this song" post reminded me of the time I came across Sweet's "*Desolation Boulevard LP*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++++5574&a_id=R++++19498&search=desolation%20boulevard&sec=all%20music&prodid=CAP48452.2&si=rhino years ago while drinking brew for breakfast over at a friend's house- it was the day after a wild-ass mid term party, we'd tapped t...

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Continuing Smooth Hegemon's thread....another 70s GEM!!!!
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Ballroom Blitz + A Beer Run...(The) Sweet
over 2 years ago
Blog post image preview

...Joxley's "I used to love this song" post reminded me of the time I came across Sweet's "*Desolation Boulevard LP*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++++5574&a_id=R++++19498&search=desolation%20boulevard&sec=all%20music&prodid=CAP48452.2&si=rhino years ago while drinking brew for breakfast over at a friend's house- it was the day after a wild-ass mid term party, we'd tapped t...

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Continuing Smooth Hegemon's thread....another 70s GEM!!!!
over 2 years ago

as a bonus:some radiohead rarities....

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