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This really is a killer

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5 Nov 21st, 2008 

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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.

1. "Under My Wheels" (Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Bob Ezrin) - 2:51
2. "Be My Lover" (Bruce) - 3:21
3. "Halo of Flies" (Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Neal Smith) - 8:22
4. "Desperado" (Cooper, Bruce) - 3:30
5. "You Drive Me Nervous" (Cooper, Bruce, Ezrin) - 2:28
6. "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" (Cooper, Bruce) - 3:39
7. "Dead Babies" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) - 5:44
8. "Killer" (Bruce, Dunaway) - 6:57 

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