Action: The Sweet Anthology

Action: The Sweet Anthology
Compilation album by
Released28 April 2009
Recorded1971–80
GenreGlam rock, hard rock
Length1:55:34
LabelShout! Factory
Sweet chronology
Live at the Rainbow 1973
(1999)
Action: The Sweet Anthology
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Austin Chronicle[2]
Blender[3]
MusicTAP[4]
Rolling Stone[5]

Action: The Sweet Anthology is a double compilation album of British 1970s rock band Sweet's music, released on 28 April 2009 by Shout! Factory. It features songs originally released on RCA Records and Polydor Records, including all their single records spanning from their 1971 UK breakthrough "Funny Funny" and up to their last non-charting "Sixties Man" before the original band broke up in 1982. The album also contains a few album tracks, as well as some B-sides that were never before released on compact disc in the United States.[6]

  1. ^ "Action: The Sweet Anthology - Sweet - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Sweet". Austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  3. ^ Blender review Archived 7 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Sweet - Action: The Sweet Anthology - Shout! Factory - CD". Musictap.net. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Action: The Sweet Anthology". Shout! Factory. Archived from the original on 22 January 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2009.