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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 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
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 11:40 Everybody in my church loves this song... |
| Tuesday1 | Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 11:39 Can we hear "Ballroom Blitz" next? |
| xtalman (What dimension?) | Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 11:37 I have always liked these guys. I always got the feeling they really did not take themselves seriously and where having fun. |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Apr 30, 2013 - 11:36 vandal wrote: horrible song though which one? |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Mar 30, 2013 - 08:43 horrible song though |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Jan 26, 2013 - 15:44 Terrific seg. from the Black Keys "Sister". That is what having a real human programing the songs is all about. |
| Hodgie (Dover, NH) | Posted: Jan 26, 2013 - 14:35 Born in '65, listening to this in the midst of yet another intoxicating crush on a cutie girl. I thought this was music at its finest. Now? Not too bad.. |
| fuzzy (GWN) | Posted: Jan 26, 2013 - 14:35 coloradojohn wrote: Hell yeah! Ditto! |
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Jan 26, 2013 - 14:32 Hell yeah! This band's break-out was maybe early or mid-70s...I heard Little Willy, first, I think, their smash hit on the radio in '74 or so...and Man From Mecca was the rocking flip-side of it on one of the first discs I went out and bought, as a kid...and then later, when the record Desolation Boulevard came out, fell in love with the jammers on that one, and this Best Of collection, too, in '78, as weed got way into the heads of all of us up and down the street — every day after High School got out, we slapped it on the turntable, turned up the sound, toked up the bong till the room reeked, and prayed we'd have time to air out and lay down a fog of Lysol by the time whomever's mom or dad got home...sure seemed like there was nothing better at the time! |
| Pitjes (North Germany) | Posted: Dec 26, 2012 - 06:20 DavidS_UK wrote: Saw the Quo many times at Hammersmith. Riding motorbike back after one of their concerts, I finally could actually hear the bike motor over the ringing in my ears around about reaching Staples Corner! must have been a Honda? |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Dec 26, 2012 - 06:18 slr242 wrote: Wow. This is SO ELO. Well, minus the O(rchestra), but the style's similar, I agree. Sweet were camper than a Millett's showroom and I usually couldn't bear them back in the day but they did come out with the occasional rockin' number, of which this is one. 8 from the Nottingham jury. |
| slr242 (San Francisco) | Posted: Nov 24, 2012 - 21:52 Wow. This is SO ELO. Besides that, I just like saying 'This is Sweet!'. :-) |
| iTuner | Posted: Nov 24, 2012 - 21:51 This isn't ELO? I've been wrong for 34 years? |
| Lensles (Baton Rouge, LA) | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 13:34 Haven't heard this in years! Can we hear "Kiss you all over" by Exile next? ;) |
| MirageRF (Clemmons, NC, USA) | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 13:31 An oldie, but a goodie. My ears are happier!  |
| beinder (Port Coquitlam, BC) | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 13:31 pk53 wrote: one hit wonder? always thought this was Supertramp...my bad.... Not Supertramp, ELO. |
| fedtho (Switzerland) | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 13:31 oh my god... I think I was thirteen when this came out. Love it. Feels soooooooo weird. Haven't heard it in decades. |
| lily34 (GTFO) | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 13:30 OH, i love this. |
| martikbroll | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 05:54 Sweet is the first band i'd ever liked. Nice to hear them on my favourite radio station.  But they'd recorded so many great rock songs - mostly underrated, not only here on RP. I think, the british "Chinnichap" producer team gave them a glitter rock image that avoided greater success. Listen to their first four studio albums - great music. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 05:45 Great sing-a-long song! 9!  |
| pk53 | Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 22:09 one hit wonder? always thought this was Supertramp...my bad.... |
| listen_n_sf | Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 22:08 Hey, can we stop at 7-ll for some beer. Oh, and papers. |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Jan 01, 2011 - 14:40 (frantically looking for Quiana nylon shirt with long pointy collar) |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Jan 01, 2011 - 14:39 the oxygen set :: sky is falling coming up for air love is like oxygen here's to breathing !! |
| DavidS_UK (Central England, UK) | Posted: Nov 04, 2010 - 18:35 ianmoff wrote: WooHoo! They played at The Grove (our youth club thingy) around the same time. Edison Lighthouse were also a favourite on the circuit then, and one year we blew a whole £300 to get Status Quo. They'd just released Dog of Two Heads. Excellent days! Saw the Quo many times at Hammersmith. Riding motorbike back after one of their concerts, I finally could actually hear the bike motor over the ringing in my ears around about reaching Staples Corner! |
| ianmoff (Nr London UK) | Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 07:40 DavidS_UK wrote: Wow, never expected to hear this. The very first ever pop concert I went to, at age of 14? 15? The Sweet at Brighton... oh those heady early 70s... WooHoo! They played at The Grove (our youth club thingy) around the same time. Edison Lighthouse were also a favourite on the circuit then, and one year we blew a whole £300 to get Status Quo. They'd just released Dog of Two Heads. Excellent days! |
| nevar23 (Georgia) | Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 07:38 Whoa, haven't heard this in years!  |
| zerosomething | Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 15:46 ceviche wrote: The best of Sweet? They had more than one song?
It's a short album |
| SuzG (at my desk) | Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 15:46  Some songs are better left unplayed... |
| emh | Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 15:45 Many, and most were better than this. Ballroom Blitz, A.C.D.C. , pretty much anything on "Desolation Boulevard". ceviche wrote: The best of Sweet? They had more than one song? |
| ceviche (Lima, Peru) | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 16:03 The best of Sweet? They had more than one song? |
| (former member) | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 16:01 This song was resurrected in my organic chemistry class as |
| mikexican | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 15:56 Not timeless, not interesting. Just kind of 'worst of 70s' kinda thing. I guess this could be a cleanse-the-pallet kind of song, but we need something really good up next. |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 15:55 The first time I heard this, I thought the lyric was, "Love is like a popsicle." Coulda been, and I don't think it would have lost much.  Great song. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 15:55 Love it! |
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 16:23 NOW I know the origin of one of the lines in Moulin Rouge!  Christian: I can't write for the Moulin Rouge. Tolouse: But why not? Christian: I.. I'm not even sure I am a real bohemian revolutionary! Tolouse: What? Don't you believe in beauty? Christian: Yes. Argentine: Freedom? Christian: Yes, of course. Satie: Truth? Christian: Yes. Doctor: Love? Christian: Love? Love... Above all things I believe in love! Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love! |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 15:50 Sounds just as bad now as it did when it came out. Didn't improve with age much... |
| zerosomething | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 15:49 When music began to suck. It's still a catchy tune. Casey I can dance to that I'll give it a 4 |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 15:46 Ouch. Absolutely hated this in 1978 and it appears that I still feel the same way. . . |
| toterola (Further) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 15:46 JustineFromWyoming wrote: I guess you never heard "Fox on the Run" or "Ballroom Blitz" then. Or "Little Willie"  |
| JavaJones (Outland, CA) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 15:46 Holy crap, yes! God bless RP for playing this. I was totally obsessed with this song for a month while I was in Europe in 2001. I finally found two different "best of" albums in a CD shop (attributed to "The" Sweet) and could get my fix, but it took me a while to track it down. Somehow this song just "got" me at that time. Still works for me, but not quite as much as it did then. ;-) |
| DavidS_UK (Central England, UK) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 15:45 Wow, never expected to hear this. The very first ever pop concert I went to, at age of 14? 15? The Sweet at Brighton... oh those heady early 70s... |
| JustineFromWyoming (Teetering on the edge of Avenue D) | Posted: Jun 24, 2010 - 18:50 rpdevotee wrote: The definition of "one hit wonder"
 I guess you never heard "Fox on the Run" or "Ballroom Blitz" then. |
| burdell (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Jun 24, 2010 - 18:46 Great song. What's not to like? |
| TreborG2 (VA - which is..'somewhere' east of paradise) | Posted: May 23, 2010 - 23:00 wow ... although I guess growing up in the era, you get to know ELO is way different then this..  justlistening wrote: Not my whole life, but I had thought that too. |
| rpdevotee | Posted: May 23, 2010 - 22:57 The definition of "one hit wonder" |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 05:41  "this goes to 11" |
| wbeaver | Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 05:34 I'd stop short of attributing too much praise, but the opening riff is good enough to have kept it timeless. The notion that a "Best of Sweet" album exists kinda' makes me chuckle, though.... |
| justlistening (So. California) | Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 15:32 stewliscious wrote: My whole life I thought this was ELO Not my whole life, but I had thought that too. |
| le_colonel | Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 15:29 I have to agree with the naysayers this is pretty bad.
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