The Sweet - The Sweet‎ (Live) «Hell Raiser» album flac

The Sweet was a compilation album released as Sweet's debut album in the US and Canada, substituting for the 1971 UK album Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be. (The band's second album, Sweet Fanny Adams was also not given a US release, but tracks from that and the band's third album Desolation Boulevard were combined on the US version of that album to compensate for this.

One of the original glam rock bands, Sweet released a number of successful singles in England between 1970 and 1973 before making a breakthrough in North America. In 1973, the band finally hit it big with the single "Little Willy," which hit number three on the . With the success of that single, management at the band's . label, Bell Records, felt it was time to treat the market to an LP, so they gathered together some earlier . chart successes (along with some B-sides) and rush-released the ten-track album simply titled Sweet. Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn.