The Sweet - Blockbuster

[Phil Adams]

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1492014669' post='3277231']
[url="https://youtu.be/11FxoDMKa2k"]https://youtu.be/11FxoDMKa2k[/url]





I do like this version ...Take me to the Jungle Room, honey.
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Blimey, so there is somebody else who has the album.
I just haven't got a clue man!

[SpondonBassed]

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1492032667' post='3277427']
As a result of this I have been on a You Tube trip remembering all those great Sweet songs. Happy days
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Plus one.

Glam rock may be cheesy but maturity has made it a fine comestible. Best taken in good company with crackers and a light drink.

[Mickeyboro]

The 'covers band' Andy Scott formed with Suzi Q (referred to upthread) just played the Sydney Opera House. can my band do that please?

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5nj1MtcRg"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5nj1MtcRg[/url]

[Vinny]

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1492064891' post='3277526']
Blimey, so there is somebody else who has the album.
I just haven't got a clue man!
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Absolute bestest version of Song to the Siren EVER on there. The second LP's worth a listen , too, although it doesn't seem to have the cheekiness of Gravelands.

[Phil Adams]

[quote name='Vinny' timestamp='1492074351' post='3277634']
Absolute bestest version of Song to the Siren EVER on there. The second LP's worth a listen , too, although it doesn't seem to have the cheekiness of Gravelands.
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Return to Splendour? No, bought it but dont play it. It's the choice of songs that makes Gravelands so special. Love the band as well. Elvis impersonators are two a penny, but to hear "Elvis" singing songs he just couldn't have I find hilarious.
First time I heard it, it was palying at a stall in Camden Market. I was listening to it as my Mrs was browsing, thinking, could it really be?? Asked the stall owner what it was and he explained. Managed to buy the CD from the record shop near the canal bridge on our way back to the car.

[dmccombe7]

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1491991377' post='3276963']
A bit like melody, medoly and medley
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got me there should have been medley. Its an age thing

Dave

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1492015873' post='3277244']
B side to Hell Raiser anyone ?

Cracking !

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0hG3Gib-Is[/media]
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Often medlied with "Someone else will"
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidiEjQxKx8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidiEjQxKx8[/url] ......... the lyrics to which were why the cosy glam rock band of guys in make up playing
to mostly teenage girls were banned from the Mecca ballroom chain in the early 70s.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1492016145' post='3277246']
IIRC it wasn't so much an effects pedal as some circuitry designed to produce a siren sound housed in an effect pedal shaped case. There was a foot switch to activate it, a volume control and an output jack socket. It didn't actually process anything so there wasn't an audio input.
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From what Andy Scott said it wasn't so much a deliberate siren effect as a pedal that when they messed around with the settings and then used the wah pedal they accidentally found that it made a siren effect. They were later sold as such, but he reckons he was one of the first to find it.

[Donnyboy]

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1492064891' post='3277526']
Blimey, so there is somebody else who has the album.
I just haven't got a clue man!

Me too
[/quote][quote name='Vinny' timestamp='1492074351' post='3277634']
Absolute bestest version of Song to the Siren EVER on there. The second LP's worth a listen , too, although it doesn't seem to have the cheekiness of Gravelands.
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Return to Splendour despite it's great title is rubbish compared with Gravelands.. I think the band ont Gravelands are really rockin'