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Billion Dollar Babies is about the youth of America at the time and their angst against politicians.
1. Hello Hooray ("Hello Hooray Let The Show Begin, Im Am Ready," classic guitar work and vocals)
2. Raped & Freezing (Fun song)
3. Elected (Hugely successful and powerful rock ... Read review
This is one of Alices greatest albums. It shows the original Alice Cooper group at their best. At this time in 1973 the Alice Cooper group was riding on the crest of a wave having a no 1 single both sides of the Atlantic with Schools Out the Alice Cooper group was the hottest property in the music busines in 1972-1973.
Billion Dollar Babies is about the youth of America at the time and their angst against politicians.
1. Hello Hooray ("Hello Hooray Let The Show Begin, Im Am Ready," classic guitar work and vocals)
2. Raped & Freezing (Fun song)
3. Elected (Hugely successful and powerful rock track, also later covered by Bruce Dickinson of Iron maiden for Comic Relief)
4. Billion Dollar Babies (One of the best drum patterns ever made this a hugely successful single)
5. Unfinished Sweet (Strange to listen too but great, this plays on our fears of visiting the dentist)
6. No More Mr Nice Guy (Yet another successful single, this song, Elected and Billion Dollar Babies remain main stays in Alices act even today)
7. Generation Landslide (Great anti establishment song)
Advantages: Good introduction to early, middle and late period Alice Disadvantages: Could have included more early stuff.
". Another chart hit in the UK taken from "BillionDollarBabies", AliceCooper's best selling album over here. Released to coincide with US Presidential elections, caused a bit of a storm.
Along with "Elected", this contains the title track from "BillionDollarBabies", "No More Mr Nice Guy" and "Hello Hurray" These are from a time when AliceCooper were riding high in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. "BillionDollarBabies" has Donovan on second vocal.
After this the band went through a phase of not getting on shortly before they split. The two tracks included on here are "Muscle of Love" and "Teenage Lament '74". Both are from "Muscle of Love" which was a dismal little affair. More of a contract obligation than any burning need to be creative, this was as far as AliceCooper the band went.
Several year passed and then Alice ...
Advantages: Good Compilation Disadvantages: Not As Much On It As The Beast Of
This album is another greatest hits album. The Beast Of AliceCooper album was released after the greatest hits album and contains two more songs than the greatest hits album. Unless you are an AliceCooper collector it is not worth buying this album if you can find the Beast Of Album instead. The track listing is.
1. Is It My Body
2. School's Out
3. Hello Hurray
4. I'm Eighteen
5. Desperado
6. Elected
7. Under My Wheels
8. Be My Lover
9. No More Mr. Nice Guy
10. BillionDollarBabies
11. Teenage Lament `74
12. Muscle Of Love
Please see the review of The Beast Of AliceCooper. ...
Advantages: Brilliant Box Set, 82 Tracks for 30 Quid Disadvantages: He Worked With The Bee Gees
the smash hit Elected). The song of teenage angst which inspired the sex pistols "I'm Eighteen". The ballad of madness "The Ballad Of Dwight Frye". The song which inspired Marilyn Manson and which was actually a song against child abuse (Dead Babies). The majestic "Desparado". And of course the classic "Schools Out".
The second disk contains tracks from the 1973 BillionDollarBabies Album, Muscle Of Love up to Alices second solo album in 1976 Go To Hell. Highlights include Elected (Once performed by Queen and Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden for comic relief. The fantastic hard rocker "BillionDollarBabies". The funny "No More Mr Nice Guy". The rather lude "Muscle Of Love". A good old country song "Teenage Lament". A song which was written for and rejected by the makers of a Bond film due to the notoriety of the AliceCooper ...
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Product details
Title
Billion Dollar Babies
Performer
Alice Cooper
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Hard Rock
Release Date
01/1993
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1973
Label / Distributor
WEA / Cinram Logistics
Producer
Bob Ezrin
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
75992726924
Catalogue Number
7599272692
SPAR code
AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Alice Cooper: Vincent "Alice Cooper" Furnier (vocals); Michael Bruce (guitar, keyboards); Glen Buxton (guitar); Dennis Dunaway (bass); Neal Smith (drums). Alice Cooper scored their first global #1 hit with this album, but it would be the last "classic" release by the original line-up (who would split one year later). The band sheds the raw garage-rock of earlier albums in favor of a glossier production, but grit and sleaze can still be detected at the music's core. With their highly theatrical stage show (which featured Cooper getting his head chopped off by a guillotine), Alice Cooper became a household name, but the material on BILLION DOLLAR BABIES was so exceptional that there was no danger of the music being overshadowed by gimmicks. While mission statement "No More Mr. Nice Guy" is the best-known song, the rest of the album is just as strong. The title track features a backing vocal by Donovan and a mammoth backbeat from drummer Neal Smith, while sweet melodicism plays an important role in "Generation Landslide" and "Mary Ann." But Cooper's trademark disturbing music and lyrics can still be detected on such self-explanatory titles like "Sick Things" and "I Love the Dead," all these elements working together to make this one of the best, most popular hard rock releases of the early '70s.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Hello Hooray
2.
Raped And Freezin'
3.
Elected
4.
Billion Dollar Babies
5.
Unfinished Sweet
6.
No More Mr Nice Guy
7.
Generation Landslide
8.
Sick Things
9.
Mary Ann
10.
I Love The Dead
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