No glam rockers looked more awkward in platform heels than the Sweet. While David Bowie and T. Rex posed as delicate, elfin sex mystics, these lads looked and sounded like a gang of lager-swilling hooligans who started dyeing their hair when they noticed what big cars Gary Glitter was driving. But that didn’t stop them from terrorizing U.K. radio with a steady barrage 
of high-energy, low-brain-voltage, utterly demented bubblegum hits. “Ballroom Blitz” is the classic, but the Sweet milked the same fast-loud-and-filthy formula for gems like “Teenage Rampage,” a slightly scary ode to hormonal hysteria, and “Wig-Wam Bam,” a slightly insensitive tribute to Native American mating rituals. They finally got serious for the proggy 1978 hit “Love Is Like Oxygen”—but for a band this gloriously inane, that could only mean the end. 


Download “Wig-Wam Bam,” “Ballroom Blitz,” “Little Willy”