Action: The Sweet Anthology

Action: The Sweet Anthology
Compilation album by Sweet
Released 28 April 2009
Recorded 1971–80
Genre Glam rock, hard rock
Label Shout! Factory
Sweet chronology
Live at the Rainbow 1973
(1999)
Action: The Sweet Anthology
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Austin Chronicle[2]
Blender[3]
MusicTAP[4]
Rolling Stone[5]

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 Chapman 2:49
2. "You’re Not Wrong for Loving Me"  Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott, Mick Tucker 2:50
3. "Co–Co"  Chinn, Chapman 3:13
4. "Alexander Graham Bell"  Chinn, Chapman 2:57
5. "Poppa Joe"  Chinn, Chapman 3:12
6. "Little Willy"  Chinn, Chapman 3:15
7. "Wig-Wam Bam"  Chinn, Chapman 3:03
8. "Blockbuster"  Chinn, Chapman 3:16
9. "Hell Raiser"  Chinn, Chapman 3:18
10. "Ballroom Blitz"  Chinn, Chapman 4:03
11. "Teenage Rampage"  Chinn, Chapman 3:36
12. "The 6-Teens"  Chinn, Chapman 4:04
13. "Rebel Rouser"  Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker 3:24
14. "Turn It Down"  Chinn, Chapman 3:28
15. "A.C.D.C."  Chinn, Chapman 3:26
16. "Fox on the Run"  Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker 3:25


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

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