Sweet - Cut Above the Rest - 1979
This album gets derided a lot and I get it. It is the full transformation into classic rock project, a little soft rock, some heavy riffs, some ballads. Here's the thing. In two years this sound would be injected with a lot of hair spray and it would turn Motley Crue into international super stars. "Big Apple Waltz" is practice for "Home Sweet Home".
Sweet doesn't get their due.
They are stellar musicians who wrote some good songs and influenced everything from "hair metal" to theatrical rock.
Cut is not as bad as you might have heard but not as good as you would hope. Although I could do without the Disco hate, especially considering that I could make a good case that Disco comes directly from the four on the floor stomp of Glam.
3.5 out of 5
ASide: Call Me
BlindSide: Big Apple Waltz, Dorian Gray, Mother Earth, Stay With Me
DownSide: Discophony
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