70s KnockOut Cup Match 13 *Purgatory Brite advances*

[never/ever]

A

The Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen.





B

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile

[Dayodead]

A is everything I dislike about the 70's and B is aping Bowie, but at least it isn't as annoying as the first track...Vote B

[Jumper K]

Steve really is a smug pretentious arsewipe who has, with this 'tune', decided to cash in all of his melody points in a risible attempt to garner chart success and foist faux happiness on a despairing nation. I bet DLT and his ilk used to masturbate furiously when playing this, dreaming of how popular its making them.
A is not one of The Sweet's best. However clunky it may be, it absolutely shits on dear old Steve from a great height.

[Purgatory Brite]

B one of the greatest hit singles of the 70s with the best acoustic guitar solo ever. What's not to like?

You have give a bit of credit to The Sweet for their attempt to transition from being glam brickies to a serious rock band. It's a pity that on this song they took the template from ELO.

[C]

No, no, no!



Do people really listen to this stuff?

Is this material really the BCB cream of the 70s? Let's hope the second round has more to offer.

On the whole a poor collection of tracks give or take a couple or three

ABSTAIN!






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[harvey k-tel]

You have give a bit of credit to The Sweet for their attempt to transition from being glam brickies to a serious rock band. It's a pity that on this song they took the template from ELO.

It's funny - I think that maybe I always thought this was ELO, not that I heard it a ton over here. Still that chorus is catchy as hell.

A friend put 'Come Up and See Me' on a mix tape for me in the late 80's, and I've always liked it. I don't think I've heard a single note of anything else SH & CR have ever done, though, and I'm under the impression that this tune is a bit of an aberration, in the same way that BÖC's 'Don't Fear the Reaper' sticks out like a sore thumb on Agents of Fortune.

Bit of a coin toss, this one...

I'll go with A.

[sloopjohnc]

A

[naughty boy]

A is awful

B, as The Slider tends to remind us from time to time, is the greatest hit single to come out of the decade

[Darkness_Fish]

Blimey, The Sweet look like they've had a rough few years. Brian Connolly looks quite swollen, like someone who'd bought a cheap and ill-fitting Sweet lead singer costume. I know he had a problem with the bottle around this time, and I'm not surprised if this was the kind of drivel they were coming up with, sub-Supertramp AOR, all the excitement and joie de vivre of the early years long gone. Feels quite depressing to see a band go from "Ballroom Blitz" to this cack in such a short space of time.

I'm surprised to see "Come Up and See Me" getting such a hard time in comparison to that collapse in standards. I mean, it's a solidly crafted pop song, this is the kind of thing BCB normally gets a bit wet over, isn't it? If Paul McCartney had written this, the comments on here would be suitable for the literary bad sex awards. Yeah. It's harmless, and vaguely catchy.

B

[echolalia]

I remember this Sweet track when it came out. It was slightly… rancid.
B
is the lost track from Blonde on Blonde, done with raffish English aplomb. And it has the shimmeringest acoustic guitar solo ever - there's no better.

[The Modernist]

Sweet had lost it by this stage. This sounds like Foreigner. Not a good thing.

B is a bit like picking Lionel Messi for your fantasy football team, it feels a little like cheating. Still I've been surprised by some of the negative comments this has got, it's as good as pop music, and certainly 70s pop music, gets. Really, how can you not love it?

B

[Osgood]

Very easily

B

[trans-chigley express]

I'm surprised at the negativity of The Sweet track which I've always liked. I don't get the Foreigner comparisons but I definitely get the ELO vibe.

Make Me Smile is a cracker too so this is very tough tie but I'll give The Sweet a bit of much needed help.

A

[Rayge]

The Slider tends to remind us from time to time, is the greatest hit single to come out of the decade

If ever there was proof needed that the Slider is a taste vacuum, this is it.

[Rayge]

a - I'm rather fond of the Sweet, although I tend to prefer their glam stomp singles and their unconsciously rocky B-sides rather than this sort of prog nonsense from the post-punk years. 1.5 / 10
b- Cacky Rabble are aural filth, and steve Harley a thoroughly obnoxious human being who can fuck off and die. No need to listen to this, I suffered it in the 1970s, by some distance the worst number one in the UK in the whole decade. 0 / 10

A

[naughty boy]

The Slider tends to remind us from time to time, is the greatest hit single to come out of the decade

If ever there was proof needed that the Slider is a taste vacuum, this is it.

Oh there's PLENTY proof of that!

[Diamond Dog]

I really like the Sweet song - I love the chopping guitar and those bombastic harmmonies.

But the Cockney Rebel tune is an absolute peach, with one of thge great great acoustic guitar solos. B.

[Ranking Ted]

A is pretty undistinguished. B remains a pop marvel, predictable perhaps but still sparkling.

B

[fange]

A

[toomanyhatz]

A in the US is the equivalent to B in the UK and vice-versa.

I'm going to take a wild guess that if I'd grown up in the UK I'd be deathly sick of B. But I didn't, so it's at least slightly refreshing.

The Sweet is basically Queen light (with added rock machismo) but I like this one OK. Not a terribly challenging choice, though.