Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams
Released: April 1974 by RCA Victor (UK)
LP cat. #: LPL1 5038
Vinyl-rip in 24-bit - 96kHz
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Many thanks to original ripper/poster over at ruTorrents.
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Sweet Fanny Adams is the second album by Sweet, their first of two released in 1974, and also their first album simply as Sweet. The album was a turning point and change in the band's sound. It featured more of a hard rock sound than their previous pop records.
The album title is English (originally Royal Navy) slang originating from the murder of eight-year-old Fanny Adams in 1867 and means "nothing at all" as well as a similar euphemism "F.A." = "fuck all".
Sweet Fanny Adams reached #27 on the UK album charts in the year of its release by RCA Records in 1974. It was not released in the US but five of its tracks appeared on the US version of the album Desolation Boulevard released later the same year.
All songs written and composed by Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott, and Mick Tucker except where noted.
Side 1
1. Set Me Free (Andy Scott)
2. Heartbreak Today (Connolly-Priest-Scott-Tucker)
3. No You Don't (N.Chinn-M.Chapman)
4. Rebel Rouser (Connolly-Priest-Scott-Tucker)
5. Peppermint Twist (Joey Dee)
Side 2
1. Sweet F.A. (Connolly-Priest-Scott-Tucker)
2. Restless (Connolly-Priest-Scott-Tucker)
3. In To The Night (Andy Scott)
4. AC-DC (N.Chinn-M.Chapman)
Songs Covered By Other Artists
"Set Me Free" was covered by NWOBHM band Saxon on their 1984 album Crusader, American thrash metal band Heathen on their 1987 debut album Breaking the Silence, Seattle punk rockers Fastbacks on their 1987 debut album ...And His Orchestra, Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil on his 1993 solo debut Exposed, Eric Singer Project on the 1998 album Lost and Spaced, and Christian metal act Stryper on 2011's The Covering. "No You Don't" was covered by Pat Benatar on her 1979 debut album In the Heat of the Night. "AC-DC" was covered by Joan Jett on her 2006 album Sinner, as well as by Vince Neil on his 2010 album Tattoos & Tequila.
Influence
Late 80's Indiana-based hair metal band Sweet F.A., who released a pair of major labels albums in 1989 and 1991, respectively, named themselves after the Sweet song. English alternative rock group Love and Rockets titled their 1996 album Sweet F.A.
Personnel
Brian Connolly – lead vocals (except as noted)
Steve Priest – bass guitar, lead vocals (tracks 3, 7), backing vocals
Andy Scott – guitars, lead vocals (track 8), backing vocals
Mick Tucker – drums, backing vocals
Other credits:
Design, Art Direction – Bob Norrington
Photography – Barry Levine
Photography [Sleeve] – Mike Hill
Producer – Phil Wainman
Although they were often dismissed as a fluffy singles group in their day, Sweet crafted a handful of strong albums in the mid-'70s that sported some surprisingly muscular hard rock. A fine example of this trend is Sweet Fanny Adams. Although this album got little exposure in America on its own, over half of this album's contents ended up on the American edition of Desolation Boulevard. Sweet Fanny Adams' tone is set with the opening track, "Set Me Free," a fiery rocker that blends ultrahigh vocal harmonies to a furious succession of guitar riffs that jack the song up a level of speed metal frenzy. Other hard-rocking highlights include "No You Don't," a Queen-styled putdown of an unkind lover that was later covered by Pat Benatar, and "Into the Night," a complex track that pits mid-tempo verse against lighting-fast choruses over a surprisingly funky drumbeat that was later sampled by the Beastie Boys. However, the album's heavy metal masterpiece is the title track, a seedy portrait of juvenile delinquency whose brutal lyrics anticipate the grim imagery of punk rock. The song's vivid lyrics are effectively brought to life by a blinding succession of speed metal guitar riffs that are fleshed out by the kind of spacy synthesizer work that later graced "Fox on the Run." The remainder of the album doesn't always jell (there is a cover of "Peppermint Twist" that doesn't really fit in with the rest of the hard rock tunes), but Sweet Fanny Adams remains a solid release full of tight performances and scorching riffs. Anyone with an interest in Sweet beyond the hit singles should check this album out.
-- Donald A. Guarisco, AllMusic (3,5/5 stars)
Rip info - translated from Russian:
-state Vinyl: EX
The device of play: Garrard 401
-RS Ortofon 309D
-Ortofon SPU Sinergy
ip / to the EAR 834P
-Seeing: Samodelov WE + Ag
-ATSP: RME Fireface 400
-Program-Digitizer: Adobe Audition 3.1
-Obrabotka: Foobar-Wave IEEE float signed 32bit, 96000Hz, 6144kbps, stereo >>
>> WavPack: 32bit, 96000Hz, stereo
-Format recording (Bit / kHz) - 32/96
Hand-format (Bit / kHz) - 32/96
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I did:
Converted the one big wavpack file to one big wave (PCM) file, 24-bit - 96kHz, with EZ CD Audio Converter. Loaded the wave file in WaveLab, did the file-splitting, added one second of silence in front of each track, did a little fading out at the end of all tracks and then saved the files as wave (PCM) files in 24-bit - 96kHz. I tagged the files with foobar2000. Then I converted the wave files to FLAC 24-bit - 96kHz with EZ CD Audio Converter (setting 8). That's all.
I found additional artwork at discogs and all scans were cropped, straightened out and refreshed with PhotoShop CS4.
//Toxxy