YMMV / Sweet

• Colbert Bump: "Fox on the Run" showing up on the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 soundtrack undoubtedly caught the attention of more than a few new fans (which is amusing given the song isn't in the movie, just on the soundtrack album).
• Covered Up: While they're known as the original performers of most of their songs, the Def Leppard cover of "Action" (which charted higher than the Sweet version) is probably better known than the original one.
• Epic Riff: "Love Is Like Oxygen", "Ballroom Blitz"
• Misattributed Song: "Ballroom Blitz" is widely attributed to AC/DC or Blue Öyster Cult.
• Never Live It Down: Although they showed great preference to their hard rock and heavy metal material, the one song that gets the lion's share of airplay was their Breakthrough Hit (in the United States) from 1973 — the bubblegum flavored "Little Willy."
• Replacement Scrappy: Every incarnation of the band since Andy Scott re-formed it in 1985 without Brian Connolly or Steve Priest has been met with disdain. Doubly so after Mick Tucker left Scott's Sweet in 1991.
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • "Ballroom Blitz" and the intro/drums/main riff of Bobby Comstock's early 1960s song "Let's Stomp".
  • "Block Buster!" features a strikingly similar riff to that of RCA Records labelmate David Bowie's "The Jean Genie", which was released just barely sooner. Both artists maintained that the similarities were purely coincidental. According to Nicky Chinn, who co-wrote "Block Buster!", Bowie responded to the song out-charting "The Jean Genie" by calling him a cunt, then immediately hugging and congratulating him.

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