Sweeter Things [Import]

54-40 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B00003IQYU
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,872 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Miss You

2. Over My Head

3. Laughing

4. Baby Have Some Faith

5. Here in My House

6. Sweeter Things

7. One Day in Your Life

8. Get Back Down

9. One Gun

10. Walk in Line

11. Set the Fire

12. Take My Hand

13. I Go Blind

14. Baby Ran

15. Alcohol Heart

16. Me Island

17. Don Quixote

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Canadian Guitar Rock, June 19, 2001

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Erik J. Fortmeyer "beerisjoy" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweeter Things (Audio CD)

Back in the summer of 1985, I returned home from college and heard the song "Baby Ran" by 54-40 over and over on this radio station when New Wave was cool the first time. I couldn't get the guitar hook and bass line out of my head and made a radio cassette tape of it for the return to school. I still have that tape today. Recently, I was up in Montreal on a business trip and heard a song on the rental car radio called "Ocean Pearl" by, you guessed it, 54-40. Deja vu was everywhere suddenly. The DJ beamed that "Canada's Finest" was about to put out their latest album. I was intrigued. Could this be the same band I had dug so much 15 years ago? I tried out "54 40" under popular music on Amazon.com and there it was! 54 40 lives! And very well! I bought this greatest hits compilation noticing that "Baby Ran" was on it and have been playing it near non-stop since!

Four different albums from 1984 through 1989 are touched on in this disc totalling 17 songs. Each time I played the disc, I came across another different song that I couldn't get out of my head. Even Hootie and the Blowfish at their peak covered "Alcohol Heart" included on this disc. My personal experience has been that Canadian bands seem to be great with guitar rock and roll. These guys have been doing a superb job at it for over 18 years and are still going strong.

The bottom line: Buy it if you love good old rock guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards to catchy lyrics and crooning. Give it a couple plays over a week before you decide whether you like it or not. They will grow on you and have you way satisfied.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but missing one of my favorite tracks., April 11, 2010

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Don Jones "IBOSF" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweeter Things (Audio CD)

54-40 is a great Canadian band. I could not believe that Ocean Pearl is not included in this compilation. You might want to supplement this compilation with 50-40 Essentials.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is an different look for music, January 16, 2001

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Ben Ealing (West Lafayette, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweeter Things (Audio CD)

This Canadian band brings a different look to music that I personally thought was good. It is not crude and their voices are easy to listen to. I was very impressed by their music.