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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 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 | |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Hello Hooray (Live) | |||
| 2. Billion Dollar Babies (Live) | |||
| 3. Elected (Live) | |||
| 4. I'm Eighteen (Live) | |||
| 5. Raped And Freezin' (Live) | |||
| 6. No More Mr. Nice Guy (Live) | |||
| 7. My Stars (Live) | |||
| 8. Unfinished Sweet (Live) | |||
| 9. Sick Things (Live) | |||
| 10. Dead Babies (Live) | |||
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Includes - Bonus video 'Elected.' Audio interview. Photo Gallery and lyrics.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Eighth Wonder Of The World,
This review is from: Billion Dollar...-2 CD- (Audio CD)
Billion Dollar Babies is less of a recording more of a monument to rock decadence. Scale, inception, packaging all unsurpassed, only secondarily is BDB one of the finest rock albums ever made.Here in Britain the inner sleeve cornered every tabloid paper, Leo Abse MP, and Mary Whitehouse contrived to effectively stop the band from touring. Tour or no tour it went to number 1 and more worryingly for the rock mainstream dislodged Dark Side Of The Moon from the topping the charts. So to the music. "Elected" with its megaphone vocal is the first to hook followed by the sparkling "Billion Dollar Babies", a rock'n'roll tango with our very own attic dancing transvestial villainesss exeling herself. Spellbinding tracks set standards of their own. The magical" No More Mr Nice Guy", a debtor to the Who's "Substitute" told of the flak Alice's parents were receiving in America. Donovan's acoustic contribution bolsters "Generation Landslide", and "Sick Things" is well________sick! Crying monstress laments loss of human toys. Feeling wronged she resigns herself to a fate of live concrete burial. Cheerful stuff lads. "Mary Ann2 is a blissful throwback to days of greater innocence as well as a smart but silly piano ballad. "I Love The Dead" is a the corpedelicious farewell. Where could they go from here? Nowhere they didn't want. There MUSIC WAS NOW OF LEGEND. Actually they hit the road on the biggest tour in history for the time. The live disc is pure contraband. It manages to reflect the fact that in 1973 this was the one band everyone with any imagination or sense of daring wanted to see. Live The Alice Cooper Band are much more r&b than on record they reworked their songs for their performances. "Sick Things"benefits most whilst "Dead Babies" loses out. The audience are almost religious in their manner, you can almost smell the inscence. Alice has a voice like hoarse thunder and his rapport with his crowd is masterly. The show depends on its decapitational climax. America! A country where even revolutionaries are conservative. Alice Cooper are the closest thing to revolutionaries she will ever see. Fear the blade? He's only worried about his manicured nails. The crowd rise as one man, then gasp as one man, the head is raised for inspection. The King Is Dead Long Live The Queen. Queen Alice! M A G N I F I C E N T
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pure Alice and still sounding great !!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Billion Dollar...-2 CD- (Audio CD)
This album still sounds good after all these years. I am 28 years of age so when it came out I was a bit young to here it but a freind of mine has the original on vinyl and I have listened to it many times. The cd takes nothing away from the vinyl and the live bonus cd is a great addition. I would recommend this album to anybody intrested in finding out about Alice Cooper as the music speaks for its self.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hello Hooray! Let the show begin...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Billion Dollar...-2 CD- (Audio CD)
This is one of the greatest rock albums ever made and even after three decades is still a vital part of any collection. I now have four copies of it, two original lp's and a previous cd and now this. Let's face it, no self respecting Alice Cooper fan would be without this recording in some form or another and they certainly don't need me to tell them how good it is. So why should they buy this particular edition? Well firstly there is the excellant packaging with cut-out pictures of the band, just like the vinyl version but smaller, plus a small booklet about the album. More importantly it comes with a second disc containing most of the set from the Billion dollar babies tour(Schools out and under my wheels absent) that many of the older fans(myself included) have been waiting for for 27 years. Why wasn't this released in 1974? It would certainly have been a big seller back then. The quality of the live recording is excellant and the original band prove that they are the masters of their craft. This is Alice at their peak, when they were threatening, when the songs were dangerous and about the real horrors and corruption boiling under the surface of the 'civilised' world. Not the nice cosy 'welcome to my nightmare' of later years. The original band may not have played all the notes in the correct order and pristine condition but they were innovative, stylish and more importantly they were a rock group. This is the most important release that Alice has had since 'welcome to my nightmare' and in my opinion it is more so because it captures an original group pushing rock to the limits as never before.
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