Hi, I'm a British expat who currently lives in Poland. I teach English and travel. I keep a blog ca...
Hi, I'm a British expat who currently lives in Poland. I teach English and travel. I keep a blog called "A Band A Day" If you'd like to check it out http://www.muscineverdied.com
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Alice Cooper's Killer album was the band's 4th album released in 1971, quickly after Love It to Death. Johnny Rotten said that it is "the best rock n roll album of all time" and whilst that is a big title, I'd be inclined to agree with him to some extent.
There is a bit of everything in this album - short catchy hits turned into classics like "Under My Wheels", "Be My Lover", more moving pieces like "Desperado" a track supposedly about close friend Jim Morrison, a epic progressive rock track that tells a story "Halo of Flies" and my personal favourite the dark ballad "Dead Babies", a song which despite being about and against child negelect managed to stir up controversy anyway.
It is a pure classic though with good lyrics and excellent baby cries! You Drive Me Nervous and Yeah Yeah Yeah are simple yet effective rock n roll tracks and ensure that this album does not have any fillers, at 38 minutes the album is only short but it is quality that counts and this has a lot of it.
I believe this to be the best album of the Cooper-Bruce-Dunnaway-Buxton-Smith line-up, although Billion Dollar Babies runs it close.
Advantages: Two demi-gods of the pop avant-garde flirt outrageously with accessibility Disadvantages: There's still probably too much excellence on display for the mass market. Dammit!