| | |  | POP MUSIC | Home » » Glitz, Blitz & Hitz | | | | | | | Description: | | This definitive DVD brings together all of Sweet's bubblegum and glam-rock hits from Ballroom Blitz and Teenage Rampage to Wig Wam Bam and Blockbuster. Plus tons of bonus material and behind-the-scenes footage! | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Andy Scott, Sweet | | Format:
| Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Eclectic DVD Dist. | | Run Time:
| 92 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| April 13, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
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19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Worth Seeing but could have been Better..Apr 20, 2004
By sunshine lady
"smiles"
I think this is the only Dvd available in the US format of "Sweet". I love all their songs and wanted to see some live footage of them, as I was too young to have seen them in the 70's. This video was a bit slow moving with too much talking and repetitive comments by the bands manager & producer. Sweets gutarist "Andy Scott" is also interviewed , but where are the interviews of lead singer Brian Connolly(who has passed on to Rock n' Roll Heaven) and the other band members Mick Tucker and Steve Priest? It would have been more interesting to hear from them. It was interesting to see how their music changed from a very innocent Bubble gum sound of their early days to the Hard glam rockers they became..
The music is the best part of this dvd, but there should have put more music clips, and why didn't they make the music clips with easier access, like when I want to watch "Fox on the Run" I don't want to listen to the manager guy talk for 5mins before the song starts. Also a couple of clips are cut short like "Love is like Oxygen" and it was cool, that was disappointing, Yikes!! But seeing the very sexy Brian Connolly and guy's in those tight pants, all glam,Big heels, & hair flying, singing great songs like "Action", "Fox On the Run", "BallRoom BLitz", "The Sixteens", "Teenage Rampage"etc.., made this Dvd well worth buying for any Sweet fan wanting to see them in their hey day.I can only imagine how good they would have been in concert!! It's easy to see how they influenced 80's Heavy Metal music and glam rockers yet to come. They had their own sound & style and made their mark in rock and roll history as one of the best bands of the 70's. I would like to see a better collection put together of them hopefully soon! I think Sweet deserves better than this, but I still really enjoyed it..
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 shoddy treatment of AWESOME materialMar 22, 2005
By Sammy B
Man, is this one ANNOYING DVD. The people at CREEM have some absolutely incredible vintage Sweet footage to draw on, and THIS is the best they could do?!?? I'd horsewhip the designers of this DVD if I had a horse. The excellent clips of The Sweet are buried among long, detailed interviews (that would have made for great bonus material), and there's no quick way to get to the music -- you just have to fast-forward through all the bloody yackin'. That being said, any serious fan of The Sweet will want this until (or if) a more intelligent treatment of this material is available -- it does include awesome contemporary footage, and most of it is relatively complete (but not all -- "Wig Wam Bam," for example, is cut in half to work in MORE CHAT). Basically, the vintage clips rate 5 stars -- their presentation in this DVD rates about a 2. Shame on CREEM for this one -- although I'll still hope for a new, revised edition in the future.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Misleadingly packaged documentaryJul 05, 2004
By C. Nelson
"cjay50244"
I was very excited when I came across this DVD. It is presented by Creem magazine, who did a fantastic job with the Iggy and the Stooges DVD recently. The blurb on the back led me to expect complete performaces of each song. Wrong. This is a 90 min. "Behind the Music"-type television documentary. If you're a fan of the band, it's interesting enough to watch once. I was most disappointed with the poor-quality lip-sync performance clips. Cool to see a Sweet DVD on the U.S. market, but it could have been so much better. Chalk up another reason to buy a region-free dvd player...
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Excellent - Especially for those of us old enough to remember!Feb 16, 2009
By Ms. E. J. Baker
"Elle"
This is an excellent DVD/rockumentary. Let me say straight away though it IS a rockumentary NOT Sweet in Concert. Although Steve Priest is absent (by choice I would guess), Andy Scott makes up for it. Nicky Chinn (half of the songwriting duo than churned out the big chart hits) and Phil Wainman then manager/producer also make a very valuable contribution. Nobody bitches on it!. Also remember years ago footage was not recorded much so recordings are rare and all the more special because of it. There were no promo videos - you had to sell a HEAP of records to get to no 1 or no 2 and on Top of the Pops (featured). It was then the only weekly pop show in the UK on a Thursday evening for 30 minutes. THAT was all the music exposure a band could hope for with Radio to get them heard in the first place and then hoepfully the teen magazines. As a result most of this footage I had never seen before (and I bet other people haven't either). Some of the songs are not performed in full but its irrelevent for what is actually included is just great both for the history and the content. Todays technology just wasn't there - even Betamax Video was new!!
I would recommend this DVD to anyone, but especially to those of us who appreciate good rock music and to anyone who wants to know how glam rock ever started. Sweet were highly under-rated despite the fact that they themselves wrote Love is Like Oxygen, Fox on the Run and Action. Both Def Leppard and Queen were clearly influenced by them. Treat yourself to this and Sweet's Sweet Fanny Adams/Desolation Boulevard albums and you will find out why!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 For such a Fun band, this is a BORING DVDDec 27, 2006
By A.S.M
"SMopinions"
I bought this believing that it was chalked full of "full length" videos of the sweet performing. Instead we get three very boring men discussing a very small amount of information on the band. The three men consist of one of the song writers, the guitarist and an early manager. The song writer has more gravel to his voice than Tom Waits, the guitarist is sadly very bloated, and the manager is slouched on a sofa wearing khaki shorts complaining about how the band should have gotten into arena rock. (He's the worst of the three!)
Just as I was enjoying "wig wam bam" when the video cuts off and back to the chat! No little Willy video at all!
They also don't include more than 30 secs of the
"love is like oxygen" video. That's sick to fool the fans into thinking they're buying a music video/concert dvd when it's simply a lame documentary.
Don't buy it, watch the videos of youtube or buy a dvd from the UK.
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