it was ..but its about time these guys hit the banger from a band first .its been awhile..missed their chance by a nose w doing ballroom blitz first.. my meaning is if youve never heard black sabbath before it matters if you play war pigs or planet caravan first
Yeah, Sweet, Queen, Duran Duran and many more ... now they seem like like musical geniuses now:) Pop quiz for the over 50's, name 1 Taylor Swift song you hum along to
@@paddyomaddypaddy sunday alt rock retro show played duran rio club version same friend dj played 40 years ago still rocks bass guitar breakdown the 12 inch singles he had sell big dollars last one i saw was like 20 plus tax.
Now imagine you're 13 when you first hear this in the car with your dad, and that beginning comes on, loud, sounding like something from Star wars, and it just envelopes you in glorious sound.. One of the greatest pop songs ever.
The most underrated British rock band ever…never taken seriously enough because all their songs were so catchy… hit after hit after hit… loads of them… Mick Tucker the drummer was fantastic. Blockbuster, teenage rampage, hellraiser loads of hits.
@@rickpaul4216 MTH weren't just underrated, they were invisible although they had a devoted following in the UK. It wasn't until Bowie got involved that they were finally recognized. Damn shame. My favorite UK band. Insane energy and soul
Yes, I remember hearing this on the radio as a youngster and liking it. I think that Glam Rock and this 70s sound was bigger in the UK (e,g, with Slade and Garry Glitter) and didn't really breakthrough in the US. That isn't saying it isn't great rock music. I'm sure that it influenced my love of progressive rock as I grew up.
59 here also! But on the Christmas of that year my brother and I gained a LP player, and since my brother was 5 years older I started listening to Beatles, Deep Purple, Renaissance, Genesis, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Simon & Garfunkel and The Who (these were the first bands I heard the full Lps, along with the J. C. Superstar movie soundtrack). Not bragging, it's just those were popular here in Portugal at the time. Tough I have to admit it was a great beginning and heavily marked my musical taste from then on... But this music brings that powerful nostalgia, I can't deny that!!!
Nothing screams THE 70'S like the intro to this song. I still expect to hear it followed by........ K-Tel presents or SUNDAY, SUNDAY,SUNDAY. One day only at Riverside International speedway..... every time I hear it.
I started playing drums in 1976 when I was 12. I'm telling you right now. Mick Tucker was one of the best drummers of the 70's. I would have put him up against anybody in that decade. Including Jon Bonham. He is by far the most underrated drummer in Rock History. He did not get the recognition he deserved.
@@benjiarehart2878 I started playing drums a year or two after you. All I knew from Sweet at the time was "Love Is Like Oxygen." I didn't really "discover" them until decades later. Mick would definitely have been a favorite at the time.
My bicycle was burnt orange, banana seat, sissy bar, rear slick tire and a steering wheel instead of handlebars. I imagine I was listening to Sweet on the day my dad gave it away…
@@jenl3162 Yeah, the ten speed I got was pretty boss, but I wanted to keep the stingray. Seventies stuff was not always practical, but it’s truly memorable.
omg!!! omg!!! a steering wheel instead of handle bars!!!! I am dying!!! there was a kid in my town who had a bike like that!!! it was a combination of being BOTH souped up and broken down in appearance and also in the tricks that it could do!! it was a steering wheel from a 60's car I think because it was scalloped and made of that hard hard bake-a-lite plastic stuff. he was kind of hoody, kind of scary, kind of sexy to me. and seemed like trouble big time. I stayed clear of him. though I secretly wanted to know him more.,
Mick Tucker is consistently forgotten when talking of influential drummers; phenomenal player. "The Six Teens" and "Hellraiser" are great tunes as well.
I'm a drummer, and he was one if my influences. I would have loved to be as good as him. He was phenomenal. He was Jon Bonham good. He was way better than most. Including Keith Moon, and most others who were famous.
Little Willy was my song for my Big Brudda in the day (his name is Will). “Mama done chase Willy down through the hall But laugh, Willy laugh, he don't care at all…”
Andy and Alex love you two dudes. I graduated from high school in 1974 and this song rapidly became my anthem as I dragged Main in my 1972 Gran Torino with my windows open and Fox on the Run blasting away. I had people tell me they could hear it 3 blocks away. I am now 68 and I have this song at the top of my playlist and here we are 50 years later, I’ve probably listened to it over 2000 times and I still absolutely love this song. So so glad you guys covered it. I will be hosting our 50 year class reunion this year at our house, complete with a DJ, and when the dance starts, guess which song leads it off? You got it!! FOTR!!! Keep up the great work!!’
I was in middle school when this came out… 7th grade to be exact. The chorus with the chop beat is so British, many songs from the UK have that Sweet, ELO, Trickster. 😊
You're bang on lads, this was part of our Glam Rock era during the 70's. Sweet, T. Rex, Slade, Gary Glitter (now locked up for child abuse), Mud, Roxy Music, Bowie (for a short period) and Geordie (featuring the one and only Brian Johnson from AC/DC), plus many others. Sweet and Slade being my favourite two.
Why isn't this band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? They had a bunch of great songs in the early-mid 70's and they influenced other glam rock bands. HUGE OVER-SIGHT!!!
Exactly, they are not a one hit wonder band; they so deserve to be in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; love their songs Fox on the Run, Love is like Oxygen, Little Willy, The Ballroom Blitz; love their sound.
The Sweet were quintessential Glam Rock. Every kid in my primary school loved this song back in the mid-70s. I saw them live many years later in a small club in Melbourne and they were very heavy, not poppy at all. If you want a follow up Sweet song that is a bit deeper (and longer), as others have suggested, check out Love is Like Oxygen - a brilliant track.
I second, third, and fourth "Love is Like Oxygen." You need this song sooner than later. I remember riding the bus, in fourth grade, listening to the driver's transistor radio.... and hearing this song and comparing it to Wings' "Band on the Run" and being confused.
Wig Wam Bam and The Six-Teens are two more huge hits from Sweet. Absolutely they are what you think of when you think of 1970s glam rock. Love to see you react to these mega hits in the future. Thanks for this great reaction gents!
When this came out, a local radio station would play this at 630a.m. every morning for a couple of months. My automatic radio alarm would turn on at that precise time and that intro would be the first thing i heard. It never failed to pop me out of bed dancing, in a GREAT mood for Jr. High school! I was 14.
So many bangers from this top band. Love is Like Oxygen (full length version), Wig Wam, Bam, Teenage Rampage, Co-co, Hell Raiser, Sweet F.A, AC/DC and I Wanna be Committed, all bangers for sure.
This entire album is excellent and wayyyyyy ahead of its time. Check out Sweet F.A. for a rocker! They were one of the great glam pioneers! Love Sweet 😋 💕 😊!!!!!
Andy! I WAS in middle school when this came out! It was like a blessing on the radio cuz there was soooo much soft rock in the top 40. I still get hyped hearing those opening bars! Great reaction, guys!
god...i remember cruising in my barracuda convertible with this blasting...about 1977. but totally get the middle school vibe...so appropriate. i always thought of Sweet as kind of like Kiss but with talent
The 70s and early-to-mid-80s really were, IMO, the peak years for "nothing else sounded like it" songs. :-) Electronic synthesizers were coming into their own, and that plus improved production techniques in the studios were making it possible for bands to create all kinds of sounds that no one had ever heard before.
@@joescott8877 It was used in the trailer for "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" (though not in the film itself), and it was also used in "Dazed & Confused." It's probably been in others as well, but I do remember those. 🙂
This came out when I was in junior high school and I am laughing my ass off at your reaction, lol That's so funny. I love the A+ reaction right off the bat. I can't tell you how favored this song is by so many people. I'm a musician of many decades and I don't listen to this all the time, but when it comes up, I'll typically listen to it at least three times in a row on my Bluetooth headphones with it just blasting (back then it was massive stereo systems, of course). 😅 😮
Check out early Sweet when they were signed to US Bell Records before their string of hits on US Capitol Records. "Little Willy" and "Blockbuster" were a kind of pop punk or power pop. Some very friendly AM Radio hits.
Well, I DID ride my bike home from 4th grade in '74 when this came out and we didn't have "mobile headphones" back then, so I had to wait till my living room floor, where I listened over and over to one of the first albums I ever bought: "Sweet: Desolation Boulevard," baby! Another fabulous tunes (Dude, the DRUMS on this one!) from that album is "Into The Night." I have to give "Fox" "just" an A. The first two minutes are spellbindingly brilliant, the last two only hypnotizingly so, eh.
Andy is right -- this song came out when I was 11 years old and was total banger at that age, and Glam Rock is the genre. The meaning of "fox" may be somewhat lost on anyone not growing up in the 1970s - fox/foxy were very popular terms for attractiveness. Part of Alex's appreciation for Sweet is probably due to their producer - Mike Chapman, who produced many other acts including Blondie and the Knack.
This was in heavy rotation on the Jukebox in my 8th-grade cafeteria. You hit the nail on the head when you said it made you think of Middle School! This was their first step away from Their usual glam, and their eventual release of "Love is Like Oxygen."
So many great Sweet tracks -- this, the aforementioned Ballroom Blitz, the highly requested album-edit of Love Is Like Oxygen, Little Willy, Wig-Wam Bam, The Six Teens, Teenage Rampage (my personal favorite), Block Buster, Action...
Funny you would equate this to middle school. That's where I was when this song was current! It sounded like the future of rock to me back then. Sweet is still an iconic band when I look back on what they put in our heads.
Nice reaction. One of my fav Sweet tunes. Their "Love Is Like Oxygen" is worth a listen IMO. It, as well as this one and Ballroom Blitz got a lot of airplay back in the day. She's a FOX! was a common expression of a very pretty woman when this song was released in the US. Probably started right after Hendrix's Foxy Lady hit
This was my junior high anthem back in the 70s (Grades 8-10 in British Columbia), and because Walkmans weren't a thing yet, I just carried it around in my brain all day. This was the song that transitioned Sweet out of the glam rock songs written for them by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn into a heavier period of self-written songs. The late great Mick Tucker was a fantastic drummer on a par with Bonham IMO. The North American version of the Desolation Boulevard album captures the transition perfectly - Side 1 was Chinnichap songs (including Ballroom Blitz) and Side 2 was all originals, including Fox On The Run.
Mick Tucker is the most underrated drummer in Rock n Roll history. I've only been playing since I was 12 in 1976. What do I know? I've followed a lot of great drummers. Buddy Rich, Keith Moon, Jon Bonham, Neil Peart, Clem Burke. You name them. I've been playing now for over 45 years, and I'm hear to tell you. The drummer for The Sweet, Mick Tucker, is the most underrated drummer of all time. He was one of the best drummers Rock has ever seen. Period! Go look up one of his solos on RU-vid, and you will realize what I'm saying. He was Jon Bonham good. He was definitely in the top 3 best drummers of the 70's, and beyond No telling where his talent would have progressed had he lived. Prove me wrong about him. R.I.P. Mick Tucker. If no one else realized your great talent Mick. Us drummers in the music community did.
Ballroom Blitz was the last song Sweet did for (Chinnichap Music under contract) On the album Desolation Boulevard one side was Chinnichap and the other was all Sweet which included Fox On the Run. They never looked back and wrote and produced everything after that. Check out "Give Us A Wink" their first all Sweet album. The single was "Action"
I was like 5th grade when this was on the radio, and yeah, it’s one I loved to listen to everyday! I had the 45 single and I’m sure my mom got tired of hearing it every single day.
