it was ..but its about time these guys hit the banger from a band first .its been awhile..missed their chance by a nose w doing ballroom blitz first.. my meaning is if youve never heard black sabbath before it matters if you play war pigs or planet caravan first
Yeah, Sweet, Queen, Duran Duran and many more ... now they seem like like musical geniuses now:) Pop quiz for the over 50's, name 1 Taylor Swift song you hum along to
@@paddyomaddypaddy sunday alt rock retro show played duran rio club version same friend dj played 40 years ago still rocks bass guitar breakdown the 12 inch singles he had sell big dollars last one i saw was like 20 plus tax.
Now imagine you're 13 when you first hear this in the car with your dad, and that beginning comes on, loud, sounding like something from Star wars, and it just envelopes you in glorious sound.. One of the greatest pop songs ever.
The most underrated British rock band ever…never taken seriously enough because all their songs were so catchy… hit after hit after hit… loads of them… Mick Tucker the drummer was fantastic. Blockbuster, teenage rampage, hellraiser loads of hits.
@@rickpaul4216 MTH weren't just underrated, they were invisible although they had a devoted following in the UK. It wasn't until Bowie got involved that they were finally recognized. Damn shame. My favorite UK band. Insane energy and soul
Yes, I remember hearing this on the radio as a youngster and liking it. I think that Glam Rock and this 70s sound was bigger in the UK (e,g, with Slade and Garry Glitter) and didn't really breakthrough in the US. That isn't saying it isn't great rock music. I'm sure that it influenced my love of progressive rock as I grew up.
59 here also! But on the Christmas of that year my brother and I gained a LP player, and since my brother was 5 years older I started listening to Beatles, Deep Purple, Renaissance, Genesis, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Simon & Garfunkel and The Who (these were the first bands I heard the full Lps, along with the J. C. Superstar movie soundtrack). Not bragging, it's just those were popular here in Portugal at the time. Tough I have to admit it was a great beginning and heavily marked my musical taste from then on... But this music brings that powerful nostalgia, I can't deny that!!!
Nothing screams THE 70'S like the intro to this song. I still expect to hear it followed by........ K-Tel presents or SUNDAY, SUNDAY,SUNDAY. One day only at Riverside International speedway..... every time I hear it.
I started playing drums in 1976 when I was 12. I'm telling you right now. Mick Tucker was one of the best drummers of the 70's. I would have put him up against anybody in that decade. Including Jon Bonham. He is by far the most underrated drummer in Rock History. He did not get the recognition he deserved.
@@benjiarehart2878 I started playing drums a year or two after you. All I knew from Sweet at the time was "Love Is Like Oxygen." I didn't really "discover" them until decades later. Mick would definitely have been a favorite at the time.
Mick Tucker is consistently forgotten when talking of influential drummers; phenomenal player. "The Six Teens" and "Hellraiser" are great tunes as well.
I'm a drummer, and he was one if my influences. I would have loved to be as good as him. He was phenomenal. He was Jon Bonham good. He was way better than most. Including Keith Moon, and most others who were famous.
You're bang on lads, this was part of our Glam Rock era during the 70's. Sweet, T. Rex, Slade, Gary Glitter (now locked up for child abuse), Mud, Roxy Music, Bowie (for a short period) and Geordie (featuring the one and only Brian Johnson from AC/DC), plus many others. Sweet and Slade being my favourite two.
The Sweet were quintessential Glam Rock. Every kid in my primary school loved this song back in the mid-70s. I saw them live many years later in a small club in Melbourne and they were very heavy, not poppy at all. If you want a follow up Sweet song that is a bit deeper (and longer), as others have suggested, check out Love is Like Oxygen - a brilliant track.
My bicycle was burnt orange, banana seat, sissy bar, rear slick tire and a steering wheel instead of handlebars. I imagine I was listening to Sweet on the day my dad gave it away…
@@jenl3162 Yeah, the ten speed I got was pretty boss, but I wanted to keep the stingray. Seventies stuff was not always practical, but it’s truly memorable.
omg!!! omg!!! a steering wheel instead of handle bars!!!! I am dying!!! there was a kid in my town who had a bike like that!!! it was a combination of being BOTH souped up and broken down in appearance and also in the tricks that it could do!! it was a steering wheel from a 60's car I think because it was scalloped and made of that hard hard bake-a-lite plastic stuff. he was kind of hoody, kind of scary, kind of sexy to me. and seemed like trouble big time. I stayed clear of him. though I secretly wanted to know him more.,
Little Willy was my song for my Big Brudda in the day (his name is Will). “Mama done chase Willy down through the hall But laugh, Willy laugh, he don't care at all…”
I was in middle school when this came out… 7th grade to be exact. The chorus with the chop beat is so British, many songs from the UK have that Sweet, ELO, Trickster. 😊
So many bangers from this top band. Love is Like Oxygen (full length version), Wig Wam, Bam, Teenage Rampage, Co-co, Hell Raiser, Sweet F.A, AC/DC and I Wanna be Committed, all bangers for sure.
I second, third, and fourth "Love is Like Oxygen." You need this song sooner than later. I remember riding the bus, in fourth grade, listening to the driver's transistor radio.... and hearing this song and comparing it to Wings' "Band on the Run" and being confused.
Wig Wam Bam and The Six-Teens are two more huge hits from Sweet. Absolutely they are what you think of when you think of 1970s glam rock. Love to see you react to these mega hits in the future. Thanks for this great reaction gents!
Why isn't this band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? They had a bunch of great songs in the early-mid 70's and they influenced other glam rock bands. HUGE OVER-SIGHT!!!
Exactly, they are not a one hit wonder band; they so deserve to be in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; love their songs Fox on the Run, Love is like Oxygen, Little Willy, The Ballroom Blitz; love their sound.
Andy and Alex love you two dudes. I graduated from high school in 1974 and this song rapidly became my anthem as I dragged Main in my 1972 Gran Torino with my windows open and Fox on the Run blasting away. I had people tell me they could hear it 3 blocks away. I am now 68 and I have this song at the top of my playlist and here we are 50 years later, I’ve probably listened to it over 2000 times and I still absolutely love this song. So so glad you guys covered it. I will be hosting our 50 year class reunion this year at our house, complete with a DJ, and when the dance starts, guess which song leads it off? You got it!! FOTR!!! Keep up the great work!!’
This entire album is excellent and wayyyyyy ahead of its time. Check out Sweet F.A. for a rocker! They were one of the great glam pioneers! Love Sweet 😋 💕 😊!!!!!
Andy is right -- this song came out when I was 11 years old and was total banger at that age, and Glam Rock is the genre. The meaning of "fox" may be somewhat lost on anyone not growing up in the 1970s - fox/foxy were very popular terms for attractiveness. Part of Alex's appreciation for Sweet is probably due to their producer - Mike Chapman, who produced many other acts including Blondie and the Knack.
Mick Tucker is the most underrated drummer in Rock n Roll history. I've only been playing since I was 12 in 1976. What do I know? I've followed a lot of great drummers. Buddy Rich, Keith Moon, Jon Bonham, Neil Peart, Clem Burke. You name them. I've been playing now for over 45 years, and I'm hear to tell you. The drummer for The Sweet, Mick Tucker, is the most underrated drummer of all time. He was one of the best drummers Rock has ever seen. Period! Go look up one of his solos on TH-cam, and you will realize what I'm saying. He was Jon Bonham good. He was definitely in the top 3 best drummers of the 70's, and beyond No telling where his talent would have progressed had he lived. Prove me wrong about him. R.I.P. Mick Tucker. If no one else realized your great talent Mick. Us drummers in the music community did.
Andy! I WAS in middle school when this came out! It was like a blessing on the radio cuz there was soooo much soft rock in the top 40. I still get hyped hearing those opening bars! Great reaction, guys!
This came out when I was in junior high school and I am laughing my ass off at your reaction, lol That's so funny. I love the A+ reaction right off the bat. I can't tell you how favored this song is by so many people. I'm a musician of many decades and I don't listen to this all the time, but when it comes up, I'll typically listen to it at least three times in a row on my Bluetooth headphones with it just blasting (back then it was massive stereo systems, of course). 😅 😮
Well, I DID ride my bike home from 4th grade in '74 when this came out and we didn't have "mobile headphones" back then, so I had to wait till my living room floor, where I listened over and over to one of the first albums I ever bought: "Sweet: Desolation Boulevard," baby! Another fabulous tunes (Dude, the DRUMS on this one!) from that album is "Into The Night." I have to give "Fox" "just" an A. The first two minutes are spellbindingly brilliant, the last two only hypnotizingly so, eh.
This was in heavy rotation on the Jukebox in my 8th-grade cafeteria. You hit the nail on the head when you said it made you think of Middle School! This was their first step away from Their usual glam, and their eventual release of "Love is Like Oxygen."
So many great Sweet tracks -- this, the aforementioned Ballroom Blitz, the highly requested album-edit of Love Is Like Oxygen, Little Willy, Wig-Wam Bam, The Six Teens, Teenage Rampage (my personal favorite), Block Buster, Action...
When this came out, a local radio station would play this at 630a.m. every morning for a couple of months. My automatic radio alarm would turn on at that precise time and that intro would be the first thing i heard. It never failed to pop me out of bed dancing, in a GREAT mood for Jr. High school! I was 14.
The 70s and early-to-mid-80s really were, IMO, the peak years for "nothing else sounded like it" songs. :-) Electronic synthesizers were coming into their own, and that plus improved production techniques in the studios were making it possible for bands to create all kinds of sounds that no one had ever heard before.
@@joescott8877 It was used in the trailer for "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" (though not in the film itself), and it was also used in "Dazed & Confused." It's probably been in others as well, but I do remember those. 🙂
god...i remember cruising in my barracuda convertible with this blasting...about 1977. but totally get the middle school vibe...so appropriate. i always thought of Sweet as kind of like Kiss but with talent
So fantastic that you’ve reacted to The Sweet again 🙏. Blockbuster - their biggest UK hit, 5 weeks at no 1 is a must, as is ‘The Sixteens’. They had so many great songs: Teenage Rampage, Little Willie, Love is like oxygen, Set me free …..
Check out early Sweet when they were signed to US Bell Records before their string of hits on US Capitol Records. "Little Willy" and "Blockbuster" were a kind of pop punk or power pop. Some very friendly AM Radio hits.
Funny you would equate this to middle school. That's where I was when this song was current! It sounded like the future of rock to me back then. Sweet is still an iconic band when I look back on what they put in our heads.
“Love Is Like Oxygen” was another big hit for Sweet.
Long Version
My fav of theirs
For the longest time I thought that was by ELO.
So good!
it was ..but its about time these guys hit the banger from a band first .its been awhile..missed their chance by a nose w doing ballroom blitz first.. my meaning is if youve never heard black sabbath before it matters if you play war pigs or planet caravan first
Little Willie all day long
"Mama done chase Willy down through the hall
But laugh, Willy laugh, he don't care at all"
Absolutely!
Yessir
Then Blockbuster
This!!
To think this was the "kids" music back in the day........how lucky were WE kids back then.....🎸....love it👏👏
Yeah, Sweet, Queen, Duran Duran and many more ... now they seem like like musical geniuses now:) Pop quiz for the over 50's, name 1 Taylor Swift song you hum along to
@@paddyomaddy don't forget Slade and T.Rex!!
Yessss! So lucky🎉
@@paddyomaddypaddy sunday alt rock retro show played duran rio club version same friend dj played 40 years ago still rocks bass guitar breakdown the 12 inch singles he had sell big dollars last one i saw was like 20 plus tax.
Loved being a teenager in the 70s, so much great music.
Next Sweet reaction...Love Is Like Oxygen
Long Version
Most definitely. My fav song by them
Long version of love is like oxygen by SWEET. You will not regret it . Fox on the run was radio popular and not a bad song
The one they should have reacted to imo.
@@SaverioP that is true Love is like oxygen I always thought was a ELO song cause it was similar to their sound
Best Sweet song!! Definitely need to react to it.
Loonnng version is mandatory
I can't recommend the extended version of Love is like Oxygen enough...
Now imagine you're 13 when you first hear this in the car with your dad, and that beginning comes on, loud, sounding like something from Star wars, and it just envelopes you in glorious sound.. One of the greatest pop songs ever.
Little Willie and love is oxygen are great songs
Yeah Little Willie was my favorite from them
Little Willie is such a fun song!
@@tonihammes33 Agree 💯
I got teased because of that song 😏
Yes!!!!
The most underrated British rock band ever…never taken seriously enough because all their songs were so catchy… hit after hit after hit… loads of them… Mick Tucker the drummer was fantastic.
Blockbuster, teenage rampage, hellraiser loads of hits.
Agree except for 1 band. Mott the Hoople.
@@rickpaul4216 MTH weren't just underrated, they were invisible although they had a devoted following in the UK. It wasn't until Bowie got involved that they were finally recognized. Damn shame. My favorite UK band. Insane energy and soul
A power pop glam band. Amazingly talented. Tucker especially was first-rate
Yes, I remember hearing this on the radio as a youngster and liking it. I think that Glam Rock and this 70s sound was bigger in the UK (e,g, with Slade and Garry Glitter) and didn't really breakthrough in the US. That isn't saying it isn't great rock music. I'm sure that it influenced my love of progressive rock as I grew up.
Give Us A Wink was a killer album.
59 and I still get chills hearing this banger, it never gets old
Same here
I have been listening to the Desolation Blvd album since the late 70's. I still crank it to this day!
55 here and totally same! Love it!
59 here also! But on the Christmas of that year my brother and I gained a LP player, and since my brother was 5 years older I started listening to Beatles, Deep Purple, Renaissance, Genesis, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Simon & Garfunkel and The Who (these were the first bands I heard the full Lps, along with the J. C. Superstar movie soundtrack).
Not bragging, it's just those were popular here in Portugal at the time. Tough I have to admit it was a great beginning and heavily marked my musical taste from then on...
But this music brings that powerful nostalgia, I can't deny that!!!
Me too! Hitting the big 60 next month.
Next by Sweet: Love is Like Oxygen and Little Willy. And yes, this was Glam rock at its finest.
The beginning of this song lets you know immediately that something epic is about to happen.
Nothing screams THE 70'S like the intro to this song. I still expect to hear it followed by........ K-Tel presents or SUNDAY, SUNDAY,SUNDAY. One day only at Riverside International speedway..... every time I hear it.
Don't forget at the end of the K - tel commercial the tagline , "but wait , there's more". And can't forget the By Ronco commercials.
True!
It's literally the smash cut 70s song that many shows & movies use to let the audience know that we're flashing back to the 70s.
It's everywhere.
KOOOL DUDE I CAN DIG IT LOL
'Action' is another excellent song by Sweet.
A phenomenal song!
Fk yeah🤘🤘🤘🤘
Echoing Love Is Like Oxygen and Little Willie. Also: Action.
Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Teenage Rampage were big hits in the UK and great songs.
Love Is Like Oxygen (long version), but this one is great as well.
Nothing beats the 70s for music. What a decade. LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN is another great tune from Sweet, but make sure it's the long version.
Blockbuster is one of their best.
"Action", "No You Don't", "The Sixteens", all straight bangers by Sweet.
Also, Mick Tucker was a kickass drummer who deserves a lot more recognition.
I don't know any drummer who could hit those skins better than Mick Tucker. 👍
I was in my mid teens in the 70dz
I started playing drums in 1976 when I was 12. I'm telling you right now. Mick Tucker was one of the best drummers of the 70's. I would have put him up against anybody in that decade. Including Jon Bonham. He is by far the most underrated drummer in Rock History. He did not get the recognition he deserved.
@@benjiarehart2878 I started playing drums a year or two after you. All I knew from Sweet at the time was "Love Is Like Oxygen." I didn't really "discover" them until decades later.
Mick would definitely have been a favorite at the time.
Mick Tucker is consistently forgotten when talking of influential drummers; phenomenal player.
"The Six Teens" and "Hellraiser" are great tunes as well.
He'll yeah. His stick twirling is phenomenal.
"And life (and Life) goes on (Goes on) ya know ya know it ain't easy..." LOL, love this whole album! "into the night" has killer drumming as well!
The Six teens was the first single I bought, still love it half a century(!!) later.
I'm a drummer, and he was one if my influences. I would have loved to be as good as him. He was phenomenal. He was Jon Bonham good. He was way better than most. Including Keith Moon, and most others who were famous.
“Love Is Like Oxygen” is a great one by these guys. Interesting pop-rock group but better than a lot of cross over bands.
I used to think ELO did Love is Like Oxygen.
@@glenngrossman7354 , the refrain on this song sounds a lot like ELO’s “Do Ya”. “Fox on the run/Do ya do ya want my love”
You're bang on lads, this was part of our Glam Rock era during the 70's. Sweet, T. Rex, Slade, Gary Glitter (now locked up for child abuse), Mud, Roxy Music, Bowie (for a short period) and Geordie (featuring the one and only Brian Johnson from AC/DC), plus many others. Sweet and Slade being my favourite two.
Bowie and Roxy Music were the arty acts, Glitter was the opposite end of the spectrum.
The Sweet were quintessential Glam Rock. Every kid in my primary school loved this song back in the mid-70s. I saw them live many years later in a small club in Melbourne and they were very heavy, not poppy at all. If you want a follow up Sweet song that is a bit deeper (and longer), as others have suggested, check out Love is Like Oxygen - a brilliant track.
This is rock candy!
Always loved this.
Oh my God, this song rocked my 12 year old world back in 75!
Me too!!! ( But I was 8!)😂
Dang was hoping for Love Is Like Oxygen Long version . How about next time. This one bangs, their most popular song.. FOXY
Simply a seventies classic!
SWWWWWWWWEEEEEETTTTTT
My favourite sweet songs and I love them all , is Action is awesome
"Love is like Oxygen " the full version, Sweet raised their own bar for artistic merit. I'm thinking it would be S tier for you guys, easily.
Born in 1964...so happy to grew up in the Seveties being a SWEET-fan.
Andy & Alex, you'll love their "Love Is Like Oxygen" for your third Sweet song!!! Longer version is best.
Yes that was one of my favourites of theirs.
So lucky I was a teenager in their heyday.
Yes, the long version!
It has to be the album (long) version.
Great suggestion!
The longer version is the ONLY choice.
My bicycle was burnt orange, banana seat, sissy bar, rear slick tire and a steering wheel instead of handlebars. I imagine I was listening to Sweet on the day my dad gave it away…
This comment made me laugh. A steering wheel on a bike, hell yeah . Why not?
I’m sorry your dad gave your bike away. Bikes were everything back then! Hope you got another one eventually. : )
@@jenl3162 Yeah, the ten speed I got was pretty boss, but I wanted to keep the stingray. Seventies stuff was not always practical, but it’s truly memorable.
@@dooombringerrr It was a unicorn for sure. Groovy bike.
omg!!! omg!!! a steering wheel instead of handle bars!!!! I am dying!!! there was a kid in my town who had a bike like that!!! it was a combination of being BOTH souped up and broken down in appearance and also in the tricks that it could do!! it was a steering wheel from a 60's car I think because it was scalloped and made of that hard hard bake-a-lite plastic stuff. he was kind of hoody, kind of scary, kind of sexy to me. and seemed like trouble big time. I stayed clear of him. though I secretly wanted to know him more.,
Four musicians at the top of their game, a fantastic band.
Little Willy was my song for my Big Brudda in the day (his name is Will). “Mama done chase Willy down through the hall
But laugh, Willy laugh, he don't care at all…”
I was in middle school when this came out… 7th grade to be exact. The chorus with the chop beat is so British, many songs from the UK have that Sweet, ELO, Trickster. 😊
Same here 👍😊
I was either a sophomore or junior in high school. This was fire!
So many bangers from this top band. Love is Like Oxygen (full length version), Wig Wam, Bam, Teenage Rampage, Co-co, Hell Raiser, Sweet F.A, AC/DC and I Wanna be Committed, all bangers for sure.
Wow, We had such great fucking music growing up in the 60s and 70s!!!!!
Desolation Blvd. Was my first album. Love it!
That album was 10 years ahead of its time.
Amazing album. Every song was good.
I was 11 when this came out. Still just as fresh to me now as it was then. Love it!
I listen to a couple of Sweet numbers just about every day. ……….. and I’m 80 years old.
Me to but i'm only 60!
I second, third, and fourth "Love is Like Oxygen." You need this song sooner than later.
I remember riding the bus, in fourth grade, listening to the driver's transistor radio.... and hearing this song and comparing it to Wings' "Band on the Run" and being confused.
Just fantastic ❤ no agenda no "message" just great foot stomping entertainment
For those of us entering our teen years to this song and others from the mid-70s made it was such a great time.
Sweet was so awesome back in the day. Really miss this music.
Glam power pop
Wig Wam Bam and The Six-Teens are two more huge hits from Sweet. Absolutely they are what you think of when you think of 1970s glam rock. Love to see you react to these mega hits in the future. Thanks for this great reaction gents!
Thanks, Andy and Alex! 💎 I adore their song "Love Is Like Oxygen", as well.
Now you guys got to do " Love is like oxygen " awesome song.
Long Version
Why isn't this band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? They had a bunch of great songs in the early-mid 70's and they influenced other glam rock bands. HUGE OVER-SIGHT!!!
Gary, the R&RHOF is the biggest joke in the industry! Did you see who was inducted today?😳
Why? Because the R&RHOF is a sham. Shit-show.
Because the would rather have Mary J Blige 💩🤡😡
@@cotadog4472 “But don’t you remember all of those great R&R albums Mary J.Bleige made?.
Said no one…ever!😳
Exactly, they are not a one hit wonder band; they so deserve to be in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; love their songs Fox on the Run, Love is like Oxygen, Little Willy, The Ballroom Blitz; love their sound.
Great reaction guys. The Sweet were truly joyous. This was "pop music" in the 1970's at it's best.
Brings back great memories. I was about 16 years old then. How time flies. 🎶🎶😄👍
Andy and Alex love you two dudes. I graduated from high school in 1974 and this song rapidly became my anthem as I dragged Main in my 1972 Gran Torino with my windows open and Fox on the Run blasting away. I had people tell me they could hear it 3 blocks away. I am now 68 and I have this song at the top of my playlist and here we are 50 years later, I’ve probably listened to it over 2000 times and I still absolutely love this song. So so glad you guys covered it. I will be hosting our 50 year class reunion this year at our house, complete with a DJ, and when the dance starts, guess which song leads it off? You got it!! FOTR!!! Keep up the great work!!’
This entire album is excellent and wayyyyyy ahead of its time. Check out Sweet F.A. for a rocker! They were one of the great glam pioneers! Love Sweet 😋 💕 😊!!!!!
Set me free off Sweet FA is a banger, Sweet Fanny Adams was my first album purchase in 1974, I was 11....
Yes!
13 years old when I first heard this Album!!! Was mesmerized by the entire Album! What a GREAT time to be a teenager!!!
I always felt that these guys were way ahead of their time. They had an 80’s vibe early in the 70’s.
notice that so called 80s synyh lol dude the 70s were a head of thier decade PERIOD IM A VERY PROUD 70s BRAT
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAAAAY NOT EVEN CLOSE
Blast from past,this was #1 in Manchester U.K.,.Brought it to USA when we moved here.
There’s a video of these guys performing Free All Right Now with Ritchie Blackmore on guitar
Best reactions in the biz gentlemen!
S tier for me. Brilliant arrangement and production too. I’ll never get tired of it …probably glam rock
Yeah, I was 13 in 1974 and I loved this song too. I remember singing along with it with my full voice. 😊
Andy is right -- this song came out when I was 11 years old and was total banger at that age, and Glam Rock is the genre. The meaning of "fox" may be somewhat lost on anyone not growing up in the 1970s - fox/foxy were very popular terms for attractiveness. Part of Alex's appreciation for Sweet is probably due to their producer - Mike Chapman, who produced many other acts including Blondie and the Knack.
I requested this song back in the 70s when I was in high school. It was WLS in Chicago, and I was put on the air. Several people at school heard it!
Used to listen to this whole album Desolation Boulevard on my way to college. Wasn't a bike but my Pinto had the same horsepower as a kids bike. 🙂
Sweet f a ,is another good song by them
Mick Tucker is the most underrated drummer in Rock n Roll history.
I've only been playing since I was 12 in 1976. What do I know? I've followed a lot of great drummers. Buddy Rich, Keith Moon, Jon Bonham, Neil Peart, Clem Burke. You name them. I've been playing now for over 45 years, and I'm hear to tell you. The drummer for The Sweet, Mick Tucker, is the most underrated drummer of all time. He was one of the best drummers Rock has ever seen. Period! Go look up one of his solos on TH-cam, and you will realize what I'm saying. He was Jon Bonham good. He was definitely in the top 3 best drummers of the 70's, and beyond
No telling where his talent would have progressed had he lived. Prove me wrong about him. R.I.P. Mick Tucker. If no one else realized your great talent Mick. Us drummers in the music community did.
I Agree, Tucker is criminally overlooked, and also I’m a drummer of 40+ years
Andy, I remember humming this song on my banana-seat bike circa 1975 or 76. I was in glam rock heaven!
Andy! I WAS in middle school when this came out! It was like a blessing on the radio cuz there was soooo much soft rock in the top 40. I still get hyped hearing those opening bars!
Great reaction, guys!
This came out when I was in junior high school and I am laughing my ass off at your reaction, lol That's so funny. I love the A+ reaction right off the bat. I can't tell you how favored this song is by so many people. I'm a musician of many decades and I don't listen to this all the time, but when it comes up, I'll typically listen to it at least three times in a row on my Bluetooth headphones with it just blasting (back then it was massive stereo systems, of course). 😅
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I did listen to this in middle school. It was a massive hit. - In 1974
Seen them live several times in Sydney Australia, amazing live
Sweet straddled the glam rock/power pop line.
Well, I DID ride my bike home from 4th grade in '74 when this came out and we didn't have "mobile headphones" back then, so I had to wait till my living room floor, where I listened over and over to one of the first albums I ever bought: "Sweet: Desolation Boulevard," baby! Another fabulous tunes (Dude, the DRUMS on this one!) from that album is "Into The Night." I have to give "Fox" "just" an A. The first two minutes are spellbindingly brilliant, the last two only hypnotizingly so, eh.
Pretty underrated band. Enormously underrated drummer in Mick Tucker. This is the soundtrack to my teen years.
This was in heavy rotation on the Jukebox in my 8th-grade cafeteria. You hit the nail on the head when you said it made you think of Middle School! This was their first step away from Their usual glam, and their eventual release of "Love is Like Oxygen."
So many great Sweet tracks -- this, the aforementioned Ballroom Blitz, the highly requested album-edit of Love Is Like Oxygen, Little Willy, Wig-Wam Bam, The Six Teens, Teenage Rampage (my personal favorite), Block Buster, Action...
When this came out, a local radio station would play this at 630a.m. every morning for a couple of months. My automatic radio alarm would turn on at that precise time and that intro would be the first thing i heard. It never failed to pop me out of bed dancing, in a GREAT mood for Jr. High school! I was 14.
sweet gotta buncha bangers
LOVE The Sweet 😅😊
the album verion of "love is like oxygen" is sweets masterpiece
I was in 7th grade when this was released - great song for that age
From one spring - loaded, bobbleheaded musical empath to another, I do enjoy your reactions!
One of my favorite bands from the 70's! Give Us A Wink is a great album to check out!
I was in middle school when this song was released. It was THE song. Nothing sounded like it at the time.
The 70s and early-to-mid-80s really were, IMO, the peak years for "nothing else sounded like it" songs. :-) Electronic synthesizers were coming into their own, and that plus improved production techniques in the studios were making it possible for bands to create all kinds of sounds that no one had ever heard before.
@@ballyastrocade5672 Agreed.
Me too.
It's just GOTTA be in some movie, not sure which though. I can totally see the beginning kicking off/transitioning to some great scene somehow!
@@joescott8877 It was used in the trailer for "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" (though not in the film itself), and it was also used in "Dazed & Confused." It's probably been in others as well, but I do remember those. 🙂
Lead singr Brian lived in my village in Scotland and his aunt lived a few houses from me,Best song of theirs to me.
Sweet Jesus, what a banger. I forgot how heavy that is.
Life was all about music back then. It was awesome!
You're right, Andy - Jr. High in the mid-70's. 🌿
So many great Sweet songs...check out The Sixteens from this same album. Mick Tucker was one of my teenage drum heroes 🥁
Did you know sweet did speedmetal in 73 ten years before everyone else caught up? Song is called 'set me free'
Schwinn Sting Ray was "The" bike of the era. Banana seat, sissy bar, 5 speed was the dream...
Nikki Sixx loves this band. I like this song. Love is Like Oxygen as well 🎉
god...i remember cruising in my barracuda convertible with this blasting...about 1977. but totally get the middle school vibe...so appropriate. i always thought of Sweet as kind of like Kiss but with talent
Schwinn Bicycle Company - with a banana seat and sissy bar!
So fantastic that you’ve reacted to The Sweet again 🙏. Blockbuster - their biggest UK hit, 5 weeks at no 1 is a must, as is ‘The Sixteens’. They had so many great songs: Teenage Rampage, Little Willie, Love is like oxygen, Set me free …..
I couldn’t wait to ride my bike to the record store to buy this 45.
Check out early Sweet when they were signed to US Bell Records before their string of hits on US Capitol Records.
"Little Willy" and "Blockbuster" were a kind of pop punk or power pop. Some very friendly AM Radio hits.
Took me back to Jr. High school....😊
Another classic !
Little Willy!
Funny you would equate this to middle school. That's where I was when this song was current! It sounded like the future of rock to me back then. Sweet is still an iconic band when I look back on what they put in our heads.
Check out their albums!!! Level headed, give us a wink, desolation boulevard, etc… all of them are top tier!!