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You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high
Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high
Time on my side
I got it all
I heard that pride
Always comes before a fall
There's a rumour goin' 'round the town
That you don't want me around
I can't shake off my city blues
Everywhere I turn, I lose
Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high
Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high
Time is no healer
If you're not there
Holy fever
Set words in the air
Some things are better left unsaid
I'm gonna spend my days in bed
I walk the streets at night
To be hidden by the city light, city light
Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high
Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
I absolutely DETEST this song but LOVE the fact that it's on RP. Great mix! Good work, Bill and Rebecca.
I don't detest it but I've heard it 3-4 times on RP and that's more than enough. It was a big hit BitD but it never grabbed me.
It’s grown tiresome to me now.
Still lovin’ RP…. THAT’S not gonna change!! ;-)
Totally agree, way way too much air time for this cr@p... I have to reach for the forward / skip button immediately as it's too often, once a year maybe I'd entertain a listen but not every bloody week...
I absolutely DETEST this song but LOVE the fact that it's on RP. Great mix! Good work, Bill and Rebecca.
To be sure, this is a guilty pleasure for me and always has been.
I stopped using the term "guilty pleasure" when I started watching Live From Daryl's House and I don't regret it.
Me too! 🤣
I've had many of my super-eclectic taste music friends tell me how much this band (and song) sucks.
Let them eat cake....this song is the balls.
To be sure, this is a guilty pleasure for me and always has been.
Not too shabby for a re-recording, but I prefer the original "Level Headed" album version with its stylistic change-ups, keyboard break, and over-six-minute running time.
never heard the og, so i looked it up: level headed version
Yep, I just took it up from 6-7! 🤣
10
Ha ha! I just rated a Sweet song an 8.
My younger self thinks I have lost it.
Yep, I just took it up from 6-7! 🤣
I graduated from HS in 1976. This album and especially this song was played regularly at that time with Zappa, Yes, Be Bop Deluxe, Neil Young and others every afternoon while we sat around doing bong hits. Nothing but fun memories. This song does not suck. Live a little folks! Remember Little Willie, The Ballroom Blitz and Fox on the Run? GLAM baby! The times!
YES! Little Willy was all over the radio, and one of the first 45 rpm records I bought at MusicLand as a kid. It was great bubble-gum pop, but the flip-side was even better, the absolutely jamming Man From Mecca. Ballroom Blitz still rocks pool halls and dive bars all over Japan, and Fox On The Run still makes people grin and sing along to the soundtrack at supermarkets here in Boulder. The Sweet made some great music, and it's woven among the finest threads in the tapestry of my wild life!
The memories..
It is not Brian Connolly's voice which I can hear from a mile away.
thank you for sharing this - i couldn't put my finger on why it sounded so different/substandard. it all makes sense.
It is not Brian Connolly's voice which I can hear from a mile away.
this is a horrible version. it hardly even sounds like them.
the original version/mix was far superior. what is going on??
Why are we hearing this inferior re-recording, instead of the real version of the song?
I'm with ZephyrListener, no like this new recording. But always glad to hear The Sweet.
Ha ha! I just rated a Sweet song an 8.
My younger self thinks I have lost it.
He thinks he's_ the passionate one...
What I'm hearing is definitely not "Love is Like Oxygen" by Sweet from 1978. It sounds like an awful cover version. I guess it's a re-recording from 2006. Please go back to the original. This version is really bad.
Edited to add: I see that I made basically this same comment a few months ago and you're still playing this crappy remake.
yeah, it's definitely not as good! definitely takes the "feel" of it away for this listener.
can this be remedied, william?
Edited to add: I see that I made basically this same comment a few months ago and you're still playing this crappy remake.
I absolutely DETEST this song but LOVE the fact that it's on RP. Great mix! Good work, Bill and Rebecca.
Haha, yep! I gave it a 6 for nostalgia, great hook and the look. What a call back! Thanks RP.
Sometimes you just have to drown yourself in the Cheez Wiz.
It's 44 years now...but no one's counting.
does 100% ox get ya hi?
dead.
It’s grown tiresome to me now.
Still lovin’ RP…. THAT’S not gonna change!! ;-)
This is not the original version of "Love is Like Oxygen." It sounds like some inferior remake. I've heard the original before. Why the substitution?
Maybe off an album - different version. And if that's the case, why did they bother to change it :(
LOL, An English band would sing about lolipops :)
Lollipops are not popsicles. An English band would sing of ice lollies.
Believe it or not, that helped me get through organic chemistry.
Oh, "Oxygen". For years, I have been thinking that the line was "Love is like popsicles". I only heard the song on bad quality radio until RP. Now it makes sense.
LOL, An English band would sing about lolipops :)
The intro to Ballroom Blitz is an indelible childhood memory.
Ready Steve? [Uh huh.]
Andy? [Yeah.]
Mick? [Okay.]
Alright, fellas.........
Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......!!!!!!
In college (latter 70s) I was in a band where, spontaneously, in the midst of one of our shows the guitarist started asking us if we were ready Steve? etc...LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO! and it was hard to not fall on the floor laughing.
New to RP...and I've been wrong for about 44 years. Could've sworn this was ELO...so it goes. Still takes me back, toes still tapping, singing the chorus, etc.
Hell yeah! I heard Little Willy, first, I think; their huge smash hit on the radio in '74 or so. Man From Mecca was the rocking flip-side of it -- one of the first discs I went out and bought as a kid. Later, when the record Desolation Boulevard came out, big, in '78, as weed and girls got into our heads, every day after School got out, we'd slap it on the turntable, turn up the sound, toke weed till the room reeked, pray we'd have time to air out and lay down a fog of Lysol by the time whomever's mom or dad got home, and then go do the things that made life as tasty and memorable as we could. Life sure seemed SWEET and it sure seemed like there was nothing better at the time!
I'm pretty sure Desolation Boulevard was early-mid 1970s. There were a few years in there where it seemed as if everyone had a copy of that album in their collection.
Maybe RP could fix this?
The original is way better!
Came here to post this - I *have* Best of Sweet and this is not the same version. Check your metadata?
Same here.
What happened to the slow break and bridge with acoustic guitar, building to the crescendo that leads back to the main melody? Editing that out just destroys the song. RP did the same to UFO’s “Love to Love” and edited Michael Schenker’s outstanding solo at the end of the piece. Real AM radio move.
Are you trying to publicly shame Bill and Rebecca while advertising your own brilliance and virtue?
Come on, lads. How about 'Ballroom Blitz' or 'Fox on the Run'?
The intro to Ballroom Blitz is an indelible childhood memory.
Ready Steve? [Uh huh.]
Andy? [Yeah.]
Mick? [Okay.]
Alright, fellas.........
Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......!!!!!!
They are on tour in the UK and Germany this year (2022). Check out their schedule in the link. Would love to see them but no California dates. Maybe next year. This band is the music of my high school days, and will also be singing along.
Oh my, that wikipedia pic on the right side of this page... wonder what they look like now?
All but one member of the band have passed on. = ( Andy Scott is still touring.
By the time this song came out I had moved on to other music, but along with Alive and Destroyer from Kiss, Sweet's Desolation Boulevard was the bedrock of the musical foundation of my early adolescence, that magical cusp between Grade Six and Seven when everything changed. And you know what? Desolation Boulevard is still a great album.
Agreed! Desolation Boulevard is one hell of a rock 'n' roll record! My buddy Mike and I made his whole street shake almost daily with "I Wanna Be Committed" for a stretch the spring and summer of '79, and I still love to put that album on and TURN IT UP!
Elaine dance
Went to see these guys in my little town of Shrewsbury, UK a few months ago. Tell you what, they were fantastic!!! Was shocked by how many of their songs had unconsciously been permanently written to the hard drive in my head. Hadn't listened to them for literally decades and found myself singing along to almost every track!!!
Damn, if only I had known - I'm only up the road in the scheme of things - in Ironbridge. They were part of my formative years and I would have been right along with you singing most of the words :-)
This version sounds weird.
Came here to post this - I *have* Best of Sweet and this is not the same version. Check your metadata?
Oh, "Oxygen". For years, I have been thinking that the line was "Love is like popsicles". I only heard the song on bad quality radio until RP. Now it makes sense.
Never heard the high falsetto in the chorus until RP's quality streaming.
Ha ha! I just rated a Sweet song an 8.
My younger self thinks I have lost it.
Well, it is "Most Excellent"
Walkman, 10 speed and summer nights.....
I went looking fir this comment. Perfect!
Ha,ha,ha,ha,..that is awesome! Like Manford Mann's "Blinded by the Light" sung..."Wrapped up like a douche " for som many years; classic!
Funny--me too. But ya. We're wrong for decades.
Can you really get High on Too much oxygen ?
You'll grow hair on your palms.
Can you really get High on Too much oxygen ?
You can go blind
I feel your pain. But this isn't anywhere near ELO's standard. Jeff Lynne might have written this if he were suffering a bad concussion.
Personally, I don't mind listening to this once every five years. And I like Sweet.
What's not to like!
Completely concur. Love this song.
"Uncool", "A Girls band" (whatever the heck that means), "A Pop group rather than a proper Rock band"
...but I did anyway, and I still do. Great band, play more of them!
Well, at least it's not Traumatic.
Why are we hearing this inferior re-recording, instead of the real version of the song?
I was wondering that myself....