The Sweet – Love is Like Oxygen

The Sweet were Glam Rock Godfathers, the epic, Ballroom Blitz, for example has been covered ad nauseum by many an inferior band.In 1973 The Sweet were on top of the world with 3 top 10 hits including the aforementioned Ballroom Blitz, and had been plunking around in bands since 1965. So lets just say for arguments sake that they “peaked” in 1973.

“Love is Like Oxygen” received a lot of airplay in 1977, four years after their heyday and after they’d dropped the glam angle. Apparently they dug what ELO’s was doing and rode their stylistic dick, but it would be easy to dismiss this song as mere style biting by a band past their prime.

The song itself is an incredibly well written pop song and the guitar hook is pure FM Gold. I could argue that the best “Rock” bands just knew how to hide kick ass pop songs in Wizards’ robes or pyrotechnic stage shows. Look at Kiss for instance, the best Beatles cover band of the 70’s. Anyways, I think that I’ll close quoting Macker505 from you tube who wrote:

Reminds me of my friend Randy. We used to smoke weed then laugh while singing this song. That was back in the mid 70’s.