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🧡Gender based on the album Desolation Boulevard by Sweet 🧡 albumic/albu referring to album

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that’s a form of dyslexia

i have it too

IS IT??

well i think my dad had a form of it, maybe i shouldn't be surprised

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The Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz 1973

"The Ballroom Blitz" is a song by British glam rock band The Sweet, written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. The song reached number one in Canada, number two in the UK Singles Chart and the Australian Chart, and number five on the US Billboard Hot 100. It remains an enduring favourite, with more than 90 million streams on Spotify alone by the end of 2022. "The Ballroom Blitz" was inspired by an incident on 27 January 1973 when the band were performing at the Grand Hall in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and were driven offstage by a bottling. The song appeared on the US and Canadian versions of Desolation Boulevard but never appeared on a Sweet album in the UK, other than hits compilations. The initial guitar and drum riff of the song has similarity to a 1963 song by Bobby Comstock called "Let's Stomp".

An early cover of "The Ballroom Blitz" was by the Les Humphries Singers in 1974, the first German single to reach #1 in New Zealand. The Damned covered it in 1979, which featured Lemmy from Motörhead on bass guitar, and Tia Carrere did a cover on the soundtrack to Wayne's World in 1992. In 2020, industrial metal band 3Teeth released Guns Akimbo, a two-track set that included a cover version of "The Ballroom Blitz", which was previously featured in the 2019 action comedy film Guns Akimbo.

"The Ballroom Blitz" received a total of 84,2% yes votes!

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10DEC24 Enjoying The Sweet’s album “Desolation Boulevard”.

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MY SWEET COLLECTION!!!! :D just wanted to share it cause i am very very very very happy about it

Vinyl: The Lost Singles, 2024

CD, top to bottom:

Funny How Sweet Co Co Can Be (Reissue with Bonus Tracks and The Early Years), 1971

Sweet Fanny Adams (New Extended Edition), 1974

Desolation Boulevard (New Extended Edition), 1974

Strung Up (New Extended Edition), 1975

Give Us A Wink (New Extended Edition), 1976

Live In Concert Denmark 1976, 2010

Off The Record (New Extended Edition), 1977

The Lost Singles - The Non-Album Hits And B-Sides, 2017

Level Headed (with Bonus Tracks), 1978

Greatest Hitz 1969-1978, 2022

Cut Above The Rest (Expanded Edition), 1979

Waters Edge (Expanded Edition), 1980

Identity Crisis, 1982

Action - The Ultimate Story, 2015

Live And Lethal 2019 (SIGNED BY THE BAND MEMBERS!!!!!!!), 2019

Full Circle, 2024

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8:11 PM EST November 17, 2024:

Sweet - "The Ballroom Blitz" From the album Desolation Boulevard (November 1974)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★

File under: Glam

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This Month In History - November Part 2

This is quite a month for pop culture anniversaries. For Part 1 read here. Here is Part 2:

Nov. 10, 1969: Sesame Street premieres

In Nov. 1969, the children's educational TV institution known as Sesame Street premiered on public television. It was quite revolutionary. It was a show for kids with valuable life lessons, but told in a way that was also entertaining for grown-ups watching with the kids. Best of all it featured Jim Henson’s Muppets. More than anything, the show had and still has an important message about respect, decency and equality. A neighborhood where people and puppets of all different colors can play and work together. When I was growing up, I was a fan of the show. I especially liked Burt and Ernie, The Count and Kermit the Frog. Years after I outgrew Sesame Street, I would watch it as I babysat when I was a teen and realized some of their humor was really sharp, i.e. their Twin Peaks parody “Twin Beaks” or the Pearl Jam parody Fur Jam performing “Don’t Waste the Water”. In recent years I watched Sesame Street with my son, who liked the show too! How many TV shows began 55 years ago and are still just as good if not better than when they began? Happy 55th Sesame St!

Nov. 10, 2014: Sonic Highways released

In Nov. 2014, Foo Fighters' highly ambitious 8th album was released. The band went to eight different cities, studied the musical history of each city and recorded a song in each city with producer Butch Vig. There was an accompanying documentary series on HBO as well. The band remains themselves in each city and there's some serious bangers here and some cool guests like Scream's Pete Stahl. I included this in my Best Albums of 2014 list as well as my Best Albums of the 2010s. It's an album that doesn't get enough credit from them, but should. Happy 10 Sonic Highways!

Nov. 15, 1974: Desolation Boulevard released

In Nov. 1974, The Sweet's third and best album was released. I first discovered the British glam rock band through 80s glam metal, much of which was heavily influenced by them. As a teen, I checked this album out of the library, recorded it onto a blank tape and listened to it countless times. In addition to “Ballroom Blitz” (later covered by Tia Carrere for Wayne’s World, which also featured the original), the album had “The Six Teens”, “No You Don’t”, “Sweet F.A.”, and one of my favorites “Fox on the Run” (featured on the soundtracks to Dazed and Confused and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2). In 2021, I got to interview guitarist Andy Scott about the band's album Isolation Boulevard and he said "What better way than creating a similar path that our 1974 album, Desolation Boulevard produced. With that in mind Isolation Boulevard in 2020 was a piece of cake and the results speak for themselves." Happy 50th Desolation Blvd!

Nov. 16, 1979: Night in the Ruts released

In Nov. 1979, Aerosmith's 6th studio album was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019. Happy 45th NITR!

Nov. 16, 1984: Night of the Comet opens

In Nov. 1984 one of the best valley girl movies was released, this one a sci-fi horror movie. Here is my piece I wrote in 2019 and here is my brief interaction with star Kelli Maroney at the 2018 Rock and Shock. Happy 40th NOTC!

Nov. 16, 2009: Them Crooked Vultures released

In Nov. 2009 the debut album from supergroup Them Crooked Vultures was released. Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin came together for a rocker of an album. Even before this album was released, the band was announced and they did a mini-tour. I was lucky enough to see their 2009 show at Roseland in NYC and was highly impressed. The album sounds like Homme and his QOSTA tendencies took over much of the album which is too bad considering the other two, but it was a joy to hear these three playing and riffing off each other. Happy 15 TCV!

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tipsy ask: what's an album you'd recommend for someone trying to expand their music taste

Woah...in What direction>? and by expand are you trying to dig into more obscure stuff or do U just feel yr current music taste isnt as wide reaching as youd like?ummmm idk ill just rattle off some albums that i Really love. so the answer to this question really really depends on what mood im in so probably ill send you to the 60s and seventies..although today i listened to pretty.odd. (panic!at the disco Lol) over and over. electric warrior (t rex) is probs one of my all time favs ever ever ever....his n hers (pulp)... version 2.0 (garbage) Hmm. smiley smile + wild honey are my fav beach boys albums that really Arent about surfing like at all. some of their best stuff. like obviously theres pet sounds but everyone loves pet sounds. nasty gal (betty davis)...um...Idk im very fond of 60s/70s music.. Beyond the valley of the dolls soundtrack for a fake movie band with real music. if you can believe your eyes & ears (the mamas & the papas) electric ladyland (jimi hendrix) UM THE VELVET UNDERGROUND LOADED. umm sell out and a quick one are probably my fav who albums..fresh fruit for rotting vegetables (dead kennedys) ...CORAL FANG...!!!(the distillers) Ummmm hot mess and viva la cobra. cobra starship forever. Sorry im rattling off a bunch of shit. i know everyone know s about the beatles and theyre popular and so recommending them is silly but if you arent into them my fav albums of theirs are rubber soul and revolver..OHH my god um. Nancy and lee. ummmm. desolation boulevard (sweet). Okay i shut up now.this isnt coherent and im sure ill look back and go man that wasmessy and shit and i left out all the imprortant stuff.but its ALMOST FIVE AM????? help. how did that happen GOODNIGHT

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Pick 1 album and discuss.

If you don’t recognize any of these, listen to at least 2 first. I will add music 🎶 links in the comments.

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Episode 194

9 01 23

#Sweet #AestheticPerfection #metallica #Hocico

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"Desolation Boulevard" by the Sweet

Classic rock album with some killer tracks, such as "Breakdown" and "My Generation". Great addition to any music library.

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Ballroom Blitz By Sweet From the album Desolation Boulevard

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i'm gonna just answer the missing ask that mysteriously vanished like this because i can

because i already had some things typed out and when it gave me errors for saving/posting it, i copied everything into a notepad so i wouldn't have to retype it if i back out and try again

but then i couldn't anyway because the ask was just gone

@lil-melody-moon you sent in 2, 8 and 10 for the ask game and tumblr didn't like that apparently. (unless i read wrong, i can't go back and check now!!)

but anyway hello!!!!

so 2 wassss "what is your go-to karaoke song?"

i have never done karaoke in my life and i've never sang in front of anybody since i was a kid when my parents laughed at me because they thought it was cute but in my little kid brain i was like "if they're laughing at me then this must be an abnormal thing to do that draws unwanted attention and i will never do it again as long as i live" and that's been stuck with me forever even though i know better now. i hope to break out of it eventually. but if i DID do karaoke i would wannnnnt (me searching through my russ ballard playlist) all of these. no but wait. ummmmmm. 'a woman like you,' but instead of the original, i'd find a way to make this clip specifically my karaoke song, when he did it acapella for fun while switching out guitars:

i love him and how comfortable and happy he is

annnd 8 wasssss "what do you think is the best song to play during sexy times?" oh. WELL . wait. i. (me quickly scrolling back and forth throug my russ playlist probably looking very lost)

i. i. i. i. i. i,

i feel i may be tooooooo. i don't know how to word it properly. like. i . i mean like that's never really a thought in my mind when i'm listening to songs, or just about anything else for that matter. i mean i could probably say all of them and none of them at the same time. i don't know how to explain that. somehow it feels like this one doesn't really apply to me.

okay so 10 was "what band were you obsessed with as a child? do you still like them?"

YES my favorite childhood band was sweet! i used to play my dad's old cassette tape of them over and over and over and over and over. it was like a compilation one or something so it had songs like fox on the run and ballroom blitz and action and hell raiser and little willy and wig wam bam and teenage rampage and the six teens, it just had a lot of good songs and i would not stop listening to it every day all day for as long as i was allowed. i used to look at my dad's(now they're mine) old sweet record album covers too, my favorite one to look at was desolation boulevard because i liked steve priest's red hair and i remember trying to figure out who was who, like who was the main singer and everything. i never knew much about them back then but i was so addicted to their music. i was posting them here for a while a couple years ago when i decided to learn more about them. they'll always be one of my favorite bands ever.

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sweet discography ✨ studio albums:

1971 - funny how sweet co-co can be

1974 - sweet fanny adams

1974 - desolation boulevard

1976 - give us a wink

1977 - off the record

1978 - level headed

1979 - cut above the rest

1980 - waters edge

1982 - identity crisis

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Level Headed (1978)

i believe sweet should've been known for "level headed". like, yes - "sweet fanny adams" and "desolation boulevard" are top tier and from what i have observed on the internet they're the (non bubblegum pop) albums sweet are remembered for. (rightfully so, i love these albums and they have some great songs on them)

however, i think "level headed" is one of their literal best, as it shows their craft in musicianship. the songs are so uniquely written and the mix of orchestra and rock sounds is something i believe should've recieved a lot more appreciation - back then as well as nowadays.

but they weren't taken seriously cause the music business still just saw them as some sparkling pop band for girls. this frustrates me cause their entire talent is just overlooked, especially mick's top tier drumming skills.

anyway, what's your favourite sweet album and your favourite song from it? :)

i think "level headed" is mine (favourite song: "lady of the lake" or "silverbird"), probably tied with "sweet fanny adams" (favourite song: "no you don't" or "ballroom blitz").

in second place follows "waters edge" (favourite song: "sixties man" or "own up, take a look at yourself").

(i found the meme down below on pinterest and it's actually me when level headed)

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10:01 PM EST November 25, 2024:

Sweet - "The Ballroom Blitz" From the album Desolation Boulevard (November 1974)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★

File under: Glam