@MArUpadiyum actually the band called sweet was considered a bubble gum pop rock band when i was a fan of rock music back in the mid 1970's that's not to say they were bad. but they were not considered heavy by any stretch. at that time led zeppelin was huge and that was a bench mark of rock and roll, not to mention countless others. i have to say their music still sounds fresh and fun! check out the band slade they have some great tunes as well! and don't forget iggy and the stooges!
This song sticks to your mind !!!!! AWSOME !!!!! I wish the local station would play it. I completely forgot about this song until I accidentaly was searching for videos and this song was attached to the video. I immediately freaked out and played it dozens of times. There is a remix version of this song which also has Blockbuster intergrated with it. I wish I was back in the 70's !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah the word FOX was big at this time for a Good Looking Girl. I remember writing it to all the girls in their yearbook, Anyone remember the world CHUMP also being big at this time. That guys such a Chump! and his girl is such a Fox. Of course was in 8th grade at the time
Sorry...the only reason most like the original version is because it's something we haven't heard (or hear often)....The U S version is much better.....But that being said, I wouldnt mind having the European LP (Deso Blvd) tooo.
@pilot9781 The only opinion and reasoning you can speak of with certainty is your own. Some of us prefer Sweet's rawer, jammier stuff. Regarding the re-make, I prefer the guitar solo and Mick's fill after 1st chorus, but could do without Andy's high-pitched screams and synth parts.
This is pretty good, and it's interesting to hear how Sweet originally conceived the song, but the re-recorded single is the way I remember it and I prefer that "stylized " version of "Fox On The Run"- no contest. It's got a lot more verve and vigor in the overall sound, which is what I always loved about this song.
@BillMinworth I'd like to know what the track list was on the album you heard. The original album was released with the version here and the band didn't go back into the studio until a few months later to re-record it as a single with the synths etc.
@Dyynamo I couldn't tell you, best bet is to google it. The sweet led by Brian rehearsed in the same studio as I did in the mid eighties. I think it was arcaidia in Hockley Birmingham and I was in a band called 'the shoal' by then his voice had gone!
still the BEST and original version of the song ! Nice raw vocals from Brian, much more rock'n roll than the commercialised, keyboardy single version ! This was the FIRST album I ever had !...got it for Xmas 1974 !
The American single as you call it is the worldwide single and was a number 2 in the charts in the UK. The reasons for re-recording are well documented. The record company wanted another single from the band and their mentors, Chinn and Chapman, had provided the band with a song for a new single (I wanna Be Commited) but the subject matter of Mental Health wasn't thought of as a good topic, so they went back into the studio to re-record Fox On The Run and released that as a single.
Sounds more like metal, than the glam rock I associate Sweet with. Not bad, but I prefer the classic "U.S. single" version. Sounds like Noddy Holder of Slade (not that that's a bad thing, mind you - just different)!
@screwyootube1 I've been looking for that glam rock sound too that makes sweet sound different than the other metal groups. Do you know where to find the US single version? Is it on youtube or a free download somewhere?
A good live version, but certainly not the same as the record. I wondered what they were going to do with the triple-tracked slide guitar solo and all that impossibly high background singing.
As I said in the title, this is the original version of the song. It was recorded in the studio in 1974 but the single version wasn't recorded until 1975.
It was on the British and European version of Desolation Boulevard, which is different from the American version which has the single version of Fox On the Run on it.
@Dyynamo This one is closer to the one I remember, but I remember more of an echo repeating lyrics on the verses. Was that the american single version everyone is talking about? Is it here on youtube?
You probably got the American version of the album which had some songs off Sweet Fanny Adams and some off the European version of Desolation Boulevard, plus a couple more songs.
@Hroller1 If the label says Capitol,then no. You have either the US or possibly Canadian issue. If it says RCA,then check where the album was made...the hit version was not on the British edition.
AZZq
shippuden679 1 week ago
A video would have added to the energy of this track :)
VishwasBhoyar 1 week ago
nice band, but i wouldnt call it sweet, id call it quite bitter. in a fritzie-maple-tarnish-doorknob kind of way. MEGADETH WHERE ITS AT!!!!!!!
MrUpdabum 1 month ago
@MArUpadiyum actually the band called sweet was considered a bubble gum pop rock band when i was a fan of rock music back in the mid 1970's that's not to say they were bad. but they were not considered heavy by any stretch. at that time led zeppelin was huge and that was a bench mark of rock and roll, not to mention countless others. i have to say their music still sounds fresh and fun! check out the band slade they have some great tunes as well! and don't forget iggy and the stooges!
tommyfuller103 3 weeks ago
altro successone e mia preferita
vincenzo4115 1 month ago
musik in vollendung.klasse
kruniger 1 month ago
@kutupbear that's what got me hear catch44 lol I never heard of them till that movie I said dam that song rocking! I wonder who sing it
kclab369 1 month ago
I so want to get my Sweet lp back from my Mom's boyfriend!! Blame teenage brainlessness for letting it go in the first place :)
CatSwanson 1 month ago
esa no es la version original!
peachromero 2 months ago
@peachromero ¡Oh está sí!
Dyynamo 1 month ago
More gritty version than I've ever heard, and I like it!
surfing636 2 months ago 2
thumbs up if catch 44 brought u here
kutupbear 2 months ago
I love this song.
MichaelD8393 3 months ago
SWEET !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ashlee2160 3 months ago
This song sticks to your mind !!!!! AWSOME !!!!! I wish the local station would play it. I completely forgot about this song until I accidentaly was searching for videos and this song was attached to the video. I immediately freaked out and played it dozens of times. There is a remix version of this song which also has Blockbuster intergrated with it. I wish I was back in the 70's !!!!!!!!!!!!!
ashlee2160 3 months ago
Brian Connell R.I.P.
lucifer423022 4 months ago
Better. Much better.
zeizee 4 months ago
Different, but I like it:)
Vindicator58 4 months ago
This version is not better.
Sage80 5 months ago
This version is better man.
FatSalinio 5 months ago
awesine
mtndewlvr1 5 months ago in playlist mtndewlvr1's Favorited Videos
FUCK YEAH
theboomster 6 months ago
I like this version too...It has more CRUNCH!
dburr13 6 months ago
Does anyone else get a real 'punk' feeling from this one? <3
promisedeyes 6 months ago 2
Yeah the word FOX was big at this time for a Good Looking Girl. I remember writing it to all the girls in their yearbook, Anyone remember the world CHUMP also being big at this time. That guys such a Chump! and his girl is such a Fox. Of course was in 8th grade at the time
RetroGoop 6 months ago 2
Sorry...the only reason most like the original version is because it's something we haven't heard (or hear often)....The U S version is much better.....But that being said, I wouldnt mind having the European LP (Deso Blvd) tooo.
pilot9781 6 months ago
@pilot9781 The "US version"??. It is recorded in Roger Glovers studio in ENGLAND.
priffipruff 6 months ago
@pilot9781 The only opinion and reasoning you can speak of with certainty is your own. Some of us prefer Sweet's rawer, jammier stuff. Regarding the re-make, I prefer the guitar solo and Mick's fill after 1st chorus, but could do without Andy's high-pitched screams and synth parts.
intuantu 5 months ago
@intuantu You're right...It's a matter of opinion...I suppose if I heard the original version first, maybe my thinking would be different.
pilot9781 5 months ago
@pilot9781 Right on, fellow Sweet fan!
intuantu 5 months ago
Good to know someone else knows the REAL version! Fuckin' A!
EidLliwReven 7 months ago
Never heard this either. Much prefer this over the Disco version.
markdel16 7 months ago
bad audio quality
riff88m 7 months ago
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marshall14879 8 months ago
This is pretty good, and it's interesting to hear how Sweet originally conceived the song, but the re-recorded single is the way I remember it and I prefer that "stylized " version of "Fox On The Run"- no contest. It's got a lot more verve and vigor in the overall sound, which is what I always loved about this song.
kovik62 8 months ago
glam rock > all
95pgs95 9 months ago
I've never heard this version before and it's brilliant!!! and I heard the original album back in the day.
BillMinworth 9 months ago 2
@BillMinworth Did you have the European version of the album or the American one? This version wasn't on the American album.
Dyynamo 9 months ago
@Dyynamo I heard the European version which had the synth on it as did the uk single
BillMinworth 9 months ago
@BillMinworth I'd like to know what the track list was on the album you heard. The original album was released with the version here and the band didn't go back into the studio until a few months later to re-record it as a single with the synths etc.
Dyynamo 9 months ago
@Dyynamo I couldn't tell you, best bet is to google it. The sweet led by Brian rehearsed in the same studio as I did in the mid eighties. I think it was arcaidia in Hockley Birmingham and I was in a band called 'the shoal' by then his voice had gone!
BillMinworth 9 months ago
@BillMinworth I checked Wikipedia and it goes along with what I've said.
Dyynamo 9 months ago
This is brilliant. Alot better than the rerecorded version with the synthsizer and cheesy effects. This is rock n roll at its finest
tatethompson1234 10 months ago
thanks for posting i realy like the original more anything else
adaliross 11 months ago
YAY for glam!
SeattleLA 1 year ago
america got it right! ha
geminirat60 1 year ago
The best version of the song without keyboards and vocal effects...
more rock and less artifificial...good song!
elspleendeparis 1 year ago
still the BEST and original version of the song ! Nice raw vocals from Brian, much more rock'n roll than the commercialised, keyboardy single version ! This was the FIRST album I ever had !...got it for Xmas 1974 !
ladyfantasy71 1 year ago
Ace Frehley version is better
Gabriel25125 1 year ago
This is good, but nothing to the American single, sorry.
kitster900 1 year ago
@kitster900
The American single as you call it is the worldwide single and was a number 2 in the charts in the UK. The reasons for re-recording are well documented. The record company wanted another single from the band and their mentors, Chinn and Chapman, had provided the band with a song for a new single (I wanna Be Commited) but the subject matter of Mental Health wasn't thought of as a good topic, so they went back into the studio to re-record Fox On The Run and released that as a single.
Dyynamo 1 year ago 3
Sounds more like metal, than the glam rock I associate Sweet with. Not bad, but I prefer the classic "U.S. single" version. Sounds like Noddy Holder of Slade (not that that's a bad thing, mind you - just different)!
screwyootube1 1 year ago
@screwyootube1 I've been looking for that glam rock sound too that makes sweet sound different than the other metal groups. Do you know where to find the US single version? Is it on youtube or a free download somewhere?
Miracle490d 1 year ago
still rocks!
brenoldt 1 year ago
det sutter!!!!!!!
djannam123456789 1 year ago
WOW!Great Song!
Never heard this version before,since I don't have that Album!:-((
Andrea
Meoawsy 1 year ago
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This sounds like shit, bad singers.!!
TheAscendancyX 1 year ago
Bad. But I love it!
tanniknar 1 year ago
Too bad that I haven't lived in this times.... :( I love the music from the 70's <33 thanks for uploading. my fave version of this song :)
Emothinkin 1 year ago
Ahhh this is wonderful
lyzyrdgyzyrd 1 year ago
This is better than the single version..much heavier..great drum sound.
seventiesclassic 2 years ago 9
A good live version, but certainly not the same as the record. I wondered what they were going to do with the triple-tracked slide guitar solo and all that impossibly high background singing.
706jim 2 years ago
As I said in the title, this is the original version of the song. It was recorded in the studio in 1974 but the single version wasn't recorded until 1975.
Dyynamo 2 years ago 5
Was this version of the song on an album preceding "Desolation Boulevard"?
If so, what is the name of the album?
706jim 2 years ago
It was on the British and European version of Desolation Boulevard, which is different from the American version which has the single version of Fox On the Run on it.
Dyynamo 2 years ago 6
Thanks!
706jim 2 years ago
Thanks, I knew many years only versions with "micro moog".
Tuwreal 2 years ago
@Dyynamo This one is closer to the one I remember, but I remember more of an echo repeating lyrics on the verses. Was that the american single version everyone is talking about? Is it here on youtube?
Miracle490d 1 year ago
@Dyynamo And the UK version of the Desolation Boulevard album doesn't include "The 6-Teens",correct?
texs2007 11 months ago
@texs2007
No, your wrong. Its the opening track on the album. The title of the album is a line from the song remember.
Dyynamo 11 months ago
I had the album Desolation Boulevard and it contained the hit version of Fox On the Run. Not this version. Did I get a reissued album?
Hroller1 2 years ago
You probably got the American version of the album which had some songs off Sweet Fanny Adams and some off the European version of Desolation Boulevard, plus a couple more songs.
Dyynamo 2 years ago
@Hroller1 If the label says Capitol,then no. You have either the US or possibly Canadian issue. If it says RCA,then check where the album was made...the hit version was not on the British edition.
texs2007 11 months ago
Best version of this song
Love it!!
xxxx4ish 2 years ago
Awesome version!!!
sanktalucia66 2 years ago
This version rocks!!!!
johnorlitta 2 years ago
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Ace Frehley's verision of this song is so much better...
LooveeGuun 2 years ago
Love this version!
newcastlerabbit 2 years ago 3
One of their best ROCKING SONG EVER!!!
leodresselli 2 years ago 2
Now,THIS is what should have been on the american Capitol Records lp!
texs2007 2 years ago 10
I haven't heard this version for a while. Thanks again.
Alfred
Blackmamafan 3 years ago 9