Cut Above the Rest

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Cut Above the Rest
Studio album by Sweet
Released	October, 1979
Genre	Rock
Label	Polydor Records
Sweet chronology
Level Headed (1978)	Cut Above the Rest (1979)	Water's Edge (1980)

Cut Above The Rest is a 1979 album by Sweet. Released on Polydor Records in October 1979.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Guest Musicians 3 Notes

[edit] Track listing

1. "Call Me" (Andy Scott)
2. "Play All Night" (Scott/Tucker/Priest)
3. "Big Apple Waltz" (Scott/Priest)
4. "Dorian Gray" (Scott/Tucker/Priest)
5. "Discophony (Dis-Kof-O-Ne)" (Moberley/Scott/Tucker/Priest)
6. "Eye Games" (Scott/Austin)
7. "Mother Earth" (Scott/Priest)
8. "Hold Me" (Andy Scott)
9. "Stay With Me" (Scott/Tucker/Priest)

[edit] Personnel

• Steve Priest - Lead Vocals on tracks 1, 3, 5 and 9. Co-lead Vocals on track 7. Bass Guitar. Backing Vocals
• Andy Scott - Lead Vocals on tracks 2, 4, and 8. Co-lead Vocals on track 7. All Guitars, Sythnesisers. Backing Vocals
• Mick Tucker - Lead Vocals on track 6. All Drums and Precussions. Backing Vocals

[edit] Guest Musicians

• Geoff Westley - Pianos and Arrangements
• Gary Moberley - Keyboards on tracks 1, 4 and 9
• Eddie Hardin - ARP 2600 solo on track 5

[edit] Notes

Cut Above the Rest was the first album release by Sweet following the departure of their lead vocalist Brian Connolly. Connolly had begun recording this album with the band but his vocals were subsequently wiped, being replaced instead by vocals from bass player Steve Priest and guitarist Andy Scott.

Original out-takes featuring Connolly's vocals have been recovered of "Play All Night" and "Stay With Me" [a.k.a. "Log One/That Girl"] and were made available on the CD release, Platinum Rare.

Cut Above the Rest was released with two different sleeves, one for the USA/UK market and another [a wood carving of the three members faces] for Europe.