Sweet

After the international success of the self-produced "Fox on the Run," Sweet broke away from songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman in an attempt to shake their "pop puppets" and took a stab at conquering the hard rock album market. Sadly, a lot of their post-hit singles period output lacked the tight songwriting and hooks that made them famous, and this problem is in evidence on Off the Record…

This is the album every "sweet"fan has been looking for,you hear the rumour did brian sing on that one before he left the band well this album has all the answers!There is a nice introduction to the songs on this cd by the sweets guitarest "andy scott" explaining when and where they were recorded and reasons why they were not released at the time…

After recording Level Headed, an album that mostly forsaked their hard rock leanings for pure pop, longtime lead vocalist Brian Connolly left Sweet for good. The rest of the group decided to press on as a trio, combining their pop/rock sound with a variety of other musical styles in a bid to gain a more progressive image. The result was Cut Above the Rest, a bizarre combination of the hard-rocking pop that dominated classic Sweet singles with progressive flights of fancy in a 10cc/Electric Light Orchestra vein, plus a dash of lounge lizard-ish soft rock balladry thrown in to cover all the pop/rock bases…

Reissued 1982 album. The bands last official LP with the Scott/ Tucker/ Priest line up contains a further 9 superbly played and brilliantly structured slices of quality Hard Rock.