Andy Scott kept everything.
From the notes: "The tracks are drawn from guitarist Andy Scott's personal archive. They instead serve up an alternative view of Sweet, captured across each of the arenas that they bestrode like glitter-soaked colossuses. A couple of cuts are live, from a performance taped at the very height of their hit making powers. We hear Sweet on television, blasting away the cobwebs that once draped TV performances like a shroud; and we hear them in the studio, via alternate takes and early mixes of songs that would soon be proclaimed as anthems".
I am not entirely sure what the alts are until the outro guitar solo of "Ballroom Blitz" happens and then you realize that it was...a different take.
The thing about Sweet is that they have repackaged everything they have over and over and over and I can't blame Andy Scott. His band is relegated to the "Bubblegum" footnote status and yet, I can make the case that they are almost single handedly responsible for the Glam Metal revival of the 80s. Nikki Sixx contact Andy to produce them when they were first starting. Andy kept EVERYTHING from every session he could and that's why there are SO many alternate takes of just about every track. I love Sweet so I am totally fine with that.
4.75 out of 5
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