THE SWEET sweet fanny adams NM OR UK PRESS LP GLAM PROG PSYCH HARD ROCK 1974
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The Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams
Original UK pressing on the orange RCA label from 1975.
Condition:
Some cat must have liked this music as the spine has been scratched - see picture. But the condition of the record makes up for that:
The laminated sleeve is EX- and the record is NEAR MINT.
First album from the Sweet displaying their new forward thinking hard rock direction in effect ditching their power pop legacy for something a lot meatier. The riffs on this album are superb - real bone crunching stuff with great melodies, shout-it-loud hooks and killer vocals from Brian Connolly. A rack of superb songs including the Deep Purpleish 'Set Me Free', 'Heartbreak Today' , 'Rebel Rouser', 'Restless' and the crushing 'Into The Night'.
I guess the thing about the Sweet was that they were always a stonking hard rock band desperately trying to break out of the pop niche that producers Chinn and Chapman had carved out for them. Well, this album flies 180 degrees in the opposite direction of pop. Its a wonderful testament to the power of great hard rock like the Who jamming with Deep Purple with a distinct sound and songs to die for.
AllMusic Review by Donald A. Guarisco:
Although they were often dismissed as a fluffy singles group in their day, Sweet crafted a handful of strong albums in the mid-'70s that sported some surprisingly muscular hard rock. A fine example of this trend is Sweet Fanny Adams. Although this album got little exposure in America on its own, over half of this album's contents ended up on the American edition of Desolation Boulevard. Sweet Fanny Adams' tone is set with the opening track, "Set Me Free," a fiery rocker that blends ultrahigh vocal harmonies to a furious succession of guitar riffs that jack the song up a level of speed metal frenzy. Other hard-rocking highlights include "No You Don't," a Queen-styled putdown of an unkind lover that was later covered by Pat Benatar, and "Into the Night," a complex track that pits mid-tempo verse against lighting-fast choruses over a surprisingly funky drumbeat that was later sampled by the Beastie Boys. However, the album's heavy metal masterpiece is the title track, a seedy portrait of juvenile delinquency whose brutal lyrics anticipate the grim imagery of punk rock. The song's vivid lyrics are effectively brought to life by a blinding succession of speed metal guitar riffs that are fleshed out by the kind of spacy synthesizer work that later graced "Fox on the Run." The remainder of the album doesn't always jell (there is a cover of "Peppermint Twist" that doesn't really fit in with the rest of the hard rock tunes), but Sweet Fanny Adams remains a solid release full of tight performances and scorching riffs. Anyone with an interest in Sweet beyond the hit singles should check this album out.
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