Action: The Sweet Anthology

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Action: The Sweet Anthology is a double compilation album of British 1970s rock band Sweet's music, released on 28 April 2009 by Shout! Factory. It features songs originally released on RCA Records and Polydor Records, including all their single records spanning from their 1971 UK breakthrough "Funny Funny" and up to their last non-charting "Sixties Man" before the original band broke up in 1982. The album also contains a few album tracks, as well as some B-sides that were never before released on compact disc in the United States.[6]

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Funny Funny"Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman2:49
2."You’re Not Wrong for Loving Me"Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott, Mick Tucker2:50
3."Co–Co"Chinn, Chapman3:13
4."Alexander Graham Bell"Chinn, Chapman2:57
5."Poppa Joe"Chinn, Chapman3:12
6."Little Willy"Chinn, Chapman3:15
7."Wig-Wam Bam"Chinn, Chapman3:03
8."Blockbuster"Chinn, Chapman3:16
9."Hell Raiser"Chinn, Chapman3:18
10."Ballroom Blitz"Chinn, Chapman4:03
11."Teenage Rampage"Chinn, Chapman3:36
12."The 6-Teens"Chinn, Chapman4:04
13."Rebel Rouser"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker3:24
14."Turn It Down"Chinn, Chapman3:28
15."A.C.D.C."Chinn, Chapman3:26
16."Fox on the Run"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker3:25


Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Action"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker3:45
2."Sweet F.A."Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker6:14
3."The Lies in Your Eyes"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker3:37
4."No You Don’t"Chinn, Chapman4:32
5."4 July"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker4:26
6."Lost Angels"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker4:04
7."Funk It Up (David's Song)"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker3:32
8."Fever of Love"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker4:07
9."Stairway to the Stars"Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker3:11
10."Love Is Like Oxygen" (Album version)Scott, Trevor Griffin6:52
11."Cover Girl"Scott, Tucker, Priest, Connolly3:35
12."California Nights"Scott, Tucker, Priest, Connolly3:41
13."Call Me"Scott3:41
14."Big Apple Waltz"Priest, Scott4:03
15."Give the Lady Some Respect"Ray McRiner3:27
16."Sixties Man"Pip Williams, Peter Hutchins4:09

Personnel

  • Andy Scott – guitar, synthesizer, background vocals
  • Steve Priest – lead vocals on "California Nights", "Call Me", "Big Apple Waltz", "Give the Lady Some Respect", and "Sixties Man", bass, background vocals
  • Brian Connolly – lead vocals on all other tracks, background vocals
  • Mick Tucker – drums, percussion, background vocals

Notes

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ The Austin Chronicle review
  3. ^ Blender review Archived 7 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ MusicTAP review
  5. ^ Rolling Stone review
  6. ^ "Action: The Sweet Anthology". Shout! Factory. Retrieved 16 April 2009.