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Sweet Originals: The Best 37 Glamrock Songs Ever (1998)
2CD | Hard Rock/Glam Rock
| MP3 CBR 320Kbps | 18 + 19 Tracks
Scans -> 89 Mb | BMG | 74321 62268 2 |323 Mb 

“The title sets itself up for one hell of a fall, and the ongoing need for a decent Sweet box set is never going to be assuaged by this. But it is what it says on the tin, a 37-strong collection that, OK, they're not all the "Best Glam Rock Songs Ever," but maybe a dozen of them are, and the remainder should at least be invited to the awards ceremony. A dizzying spin through the band's entire RCA catalog, a mass of A-sides, B-sides, album cuts and what-on-earth-were-they-thinking cuts jostle for your attention. Slide, if you will, from the sophisticated stylings of "Love Is Like Oxygen," into the arms of the band's execrable cover of "Paperback Writer." Cringe through their version of "Tom Tom Turnaround" (at least New World sounded like they cared when they sang it), then leap into the tempestuous grip of "Wig Wam Bam." No chronology is at play here, nor any sense that the songs were programmed for seamless continuity. Rather, it's just wigwam-bam-thank-you-ma'am from start to finish, and you stagger out at the end wondering precisely how many different bands Sweet thought they were. The answer is, of course, as many as they thought they could get away with. So, if you like your metal laced with bubblegum, and your classic hits smeared with anodyne covers, Sweet Originals is the box for you. But it's not the box that it ought to be.

CD1
Tracklist:

01. The Ballroom Blitz
02. Blockbuster!
03. Burn On The Flame
04. Spotlight
05. Fox on the Run
06. Fever of Love
07. Stairway to the Stars
08. Love is like Oxygen
09. Paperback Writer
10. Alexander Graham Bell
11. Pappa Joe
12. Tom Tom Turnaround
13. Wig-Wam Bam
14. Midnight to Daylight
15. Rebel Rouser
16. The lies in your Eyes
17. Silverbird
18. The man with the golden Arm 

CD2
Tracklist:

01. Teenage Rampage
02. The Six Teens
03. Rock & Roll Disgrace
04. Action
05. Need a lot of Lovin'
06. Done me wrong all right
07. Cover Girl
08. Hell Raiser
09. Live for today
10. Turn it Down
11. 4th of July
12. Lost Angels
13. Little Willy
14. Funny Funny
15. Co-Co
16. Lucile / Great Balls of Fire
17. Peppermint Twist
18. AC / DC
19. Sweet & Foxy '98 Dance Mix