Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
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Artist: SweetEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Ballroom Blitz
- The 6-Teens
- No You Don't
- A.C.D.C.
- I Wanna Be Committed
- Sweet F.A.
- Fox On The Run
- Set Me Free
- Into The Night
- Solid Gold Brass
Free Music Notes for Desolation Boulevard
Free Music Review: Almost a 'Best Of' album in itself
Hit: 5 Stars
My first exposure to this gem was in the back seat of my parents' 1973 Mazda RX-2 over its Clarion 8-track system, roaming the avenues of the South Bay, and it hit me as approachable, but TOUGH. To the kid I was the band looked like guys I wouldn't want to meet in an alley in broad daylight. Who knows, maybe the group shot was right in the middle of their Chapman/ Chinn issues.
1. Ballroom Blitz: from the 'Q & A' intro right away you know this isn't a karaoke band, they're interactive, and each member has just an important role as the rest. Wouldn't be surprised if they played the songs through live. This one feels a bit "Long Distance Information get me Memphis Tennessee" crossed with "the Time Warp". Covered by somewhere between umpteen and a zillion bands
2. The Six-teens: Epic. Majestic opening with stacked guitar harmonies. Feels heavily Bowie-fied. Lyrics state "Where were you in '68?" but the subject was more like something from the 50s. I'd like to see one of the new so-called bands do this straight up
3. No You Don't: I would never have figured this one for a C&C, I pegged it as one of their self-written ones. Very Who-ish in structure. Great lyrics. Just a great loud song. Pat Benetar could have launched her whole career from this one had she never belted out "Heartbreaker"
4. AC/DC: As a kid I couldn't figure out the concept. Good boogie with a few hooks. Listening now the pauses are a tad cumbersome. Great slide guitar break, right up Jimmy Page's alley ( I wondered if he slipped in a side gig here and there from the Mighty Zep)
5. I Want To Be Commited: Earlier someone mentioned the Ramones similarities on the album cover, appearance wise. It just dawned on me how coincidental it is that the Ramones also came out with their song " I Want to Be SEDATED" around the same time as this. Drum riff sounds a little "Billion Dollar Baby"-ish, I do hear a slight Bowie thing going on. Sounds like proto-industrial overall, excepting the C&C sillyness in the middle section. Love the "Roundabout" na-na-na-nas
6. Sweet F.A. : I spent the rest of my childhood and most of adolescence trying to figure out what the "FA" was for. Crushing F# gallop throughout. 'Maiden and Megadeth got their sound right here! One of the few songs over 6:00 that I listen all the way through. Nobody I like has covered this one yet to my knowledge
7. Fox On The Run: Closer to "Little Willy" than any of the Side 1 stuff here. This one is like the art student watching the master paint and then whipping out his own masterpiece on the first try. This one I DID peg as a C&C
8. Set Me Free: Man! In your face, chugging power riff. Speed metal 6 or 7 years before the fact. I remember catching a segment on the late KNAC with guest DJ Tommy Victor of Prong. This is one of the songs thast set him off. It's good that great minds think alike
9. Into The Night. I'm liking the fact that the drums start of almost all the songs. Good riff, this one could be straight from the KISS catalog with its verses. Very cool, lofty back stretch of the bridge
10. Solid Gold Brass: Bluesy, raunchy, Joan Jett-ish intro that shifts into more Bowie swagger, then clutches into a cool jazzy break. Nowhere for any of the musicians to get bored on this one.
HTH
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