The Sweet - Blockbusters - 1989
For my money, up to this point, this is best compilation. It starts out hard, instead of burying the lead, it opens with "Ballroom Blitz", smashes into "Hell Raiser" returning to an old nugget, "New York Connection", reminding you why you came, with "Little Willy" and just keeps going from there.
It's on Side Two that you get the flimsier, treacle like "Poppa Joe" and "Funny Funny".
Blockbusters is the playlist that defines how Sweet were the Glam Rock band that invented Hair Metal and influenced Theatrical Rock.
Until this compilation there was no way to get the studio version of "Rock and Roll Disgrace" except as the B-Side to "Ballroom Blitz" in 1973. And that hit wasn't even included on a full length album until the US version of Desolation Boulevard.
But that's the Sweet Way. Hold one or two songs off so that if you are a kookoo completist you can only get your ears on it if you bought the collection it came on.
The other first time studio version song here is "Burning" which was live on Strung Up but not on any comps. This was the B-Side to "Hell Raiser".
Are you confused?
Good. So am I.
5 out of 5
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