Sweet Fanny Adams (album)


Sweet Fanny Adams is the second album by Sweet, their first of two released in 1974, and also their first album simply as Sweet. The album was a turning point and change in the band's sound. It featured more of a hard rock sound than their previous pop records.
The album title is English slang originating from the murder of eight-year-old Fanny Adams in 1867 and means "nothing at all" as well as a similar euphemism "F.A." = "fuck all".
Sweet Fanny Adams reached No. 27 on the UK Albums Chart in the year of its release by RCA Records in 1974 and No. 2 in the albums chart of West Germany. It was not released in the US, but five of its tracks appeared on the US version of the album Desolation Boulevard released in July 1975.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott and Mick Tucker except where noted.
;Side one
  1. "Set Me Free" – 3:57
  2. "Heartbreak Today" – 5:02
  3. "No You Don't" – 4:35
  4. "Rebel Rouser" – 3:25
  5. "Peppermint Twist" – 3:29
;Side two
  1. "Sweet F.A." – 6:15
  2. "Restless" – 4:29
  3. "Into the Night" – 4:26
  4. "AC-DC" – 3:29

    Bonus tracks on 1997 reissue

  6. "The Ballroom Blitz" – 4:03
  7. "Teenage Rampage" - 3:34

    Bonus tracks on 1999 reissue

  9. "Burn on the Flame" – 3:37
  10. "Own Up, Take a Look at Yourself" – 3:57

    Bonus tracks on 2005 reissue

  12. "Block Buster!" – 3:12
  13. "Need a Lot of Lovin'" – 3:00
  14. "Hell Raiser" – 3:26
  15. "Burning" – 4:04
  16. "The Ballroom Blitz" – 3:56
  17. "Rock 'n' Roll Disgrace" – 3.50

    Songs covered by other artists



The late 1980s Indiana-based glam metal band Sweet F.A., which released a pair of major-label albums in 1989 and 1991, named themselves after the Sweet song. English rock group Love and Rockets titled their 1996 album Sweet F.A..

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