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Track Listings
| 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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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format: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.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By "scappa1963"
Format: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.... Read more ›
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.... Read more ›
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By B. J. Davies
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are so many things about this album that I remember, from the way I bought it to the effect it had on my father (to my delight) and to the pleasure of listening to it.
I was 13 years old and had saved up my pocket money, when I had enough I gave it to my mum who went to Woolworths and bought it for me. I was on pins waiting for her to come home.
On opening the LP I was sorely tempted to pull out all the pictures there and then - I never did and the billion dollar note is still a treasure as I have kept this album and still have it complete with all the pieces intact 36 years later.
This CD is a must for any fan of this album, Alice Cooper, or in fact anyone who, was a rebellious teenager in the seventies. And if anything was going to personify how different we were from our Elvis-loving parents it was Alice Cooper and his antics with baby dolls, snakes and chickens and fake blood - partly the reason why I initially saved for LP in the first place.
My father hated it, he hated him, hated the things he got up to and my mother was not too impressed either. My father hated me playing my records and this album in particular - I loved every moment of my youth and this music was a very big part of it.
It is one for the few albums of which I love every track and never reach for the remote to press the `skip' button.
From `Hello Hooray' right through to the last track called ` I love The dead' which I made my father listen to, this album is superb. The second CD is a fabulous addition, and I agree with others that it should have been released all those years ago on vinyl.... Read more ›
I was 13 years old and had saved up my pocket money, when I had enough I gave it to my mum who went to Woolworths and bought it for me. I was on pins waiting for her to come home.
On opening the LP I was sorely tempted to pull out all the pictures there and then - I never did and the billion dollar note is still a treasure as I have kept this album and still have it complete with all the pieces intact 36 years later.
This CD is a must for any fan of this album, Alice Cooper, or in fact anyone who, was a rebellious teenager in the seventies. And if anything was going to personify how different we were from our Elvis-loving parents it was Alice Cooper and his antics with baby dolls, snakes and chickens and fake blood - partly the reason why I initially saved for LP in the first place.
My father hated it, he hated him, hated the things he got up to and my mother was not too impressed either. My father hated me playing my records and this album in particular - I loved every moment of my youth and this music was a very big part of it.
It is one for the few albums of which I love every track and never reach for the remote to press the `skip' button.
From `Hello Hooray' right through to the last track called ` I love The dead' which I made my father listen to, this album is superb. The second CD is a fabulous addition, and I agree with others that it should have been released all those years ago on vinyl.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Raise your horns!
Love having this blasting out in garage when tinkering with my trike.
Great selectioin of Alice!
No more Mr Nice Guy is my fav.
Great selectioin of Alice!
No more Mr Nice Guy is my fav.
Published 9 days ago by Ginger Whinger
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely Sounding Remastered CD
One of my favourite Cooper albums of all time. When it was first released in 1973 I remember thinking what a well produced and great sounding LP it was. Read more
Published 26 days ago by Barney
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album
I originally purchased this album when it was first released on vinyl. It stands the test of time and remains one of the great Alice Cooper albums. Lie back and enjoy.
Published 1 month ago by Mr. B. Rolt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good old fashioned rock.....
how it should be ......turn up loud, drive to stuff.
Love Alices' raw voice........and yes he proves he can do ballads too!
Love Alices' raw voice........and yes he proves he can do ballads too!
Published 2 months ago by Felix66
5.0 out of 5 stars
yes its a good album
bought to replace the long since lost 12" proper one, thanks n n n n n n n n n
Published 3 months ago by billyandjulie
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another missed gem
I had an EP on vinyl when i was young .......... but never really got into Alice ..but theres alot of good clever well played music on here ......... Read more
Published 4 months ago by I. M. Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars
billion dollar babies
another 70's album,that alice cooper keeps on performing at all his concerts , still with same viger and energy every time.
Published 5 months ago by allan mathews
5.0 out of 5 stars
On Top Of The World
At the pinnacle of their career, the A.C. group (plus Bob Ezrin) might have sprayed a mist of silvery, poppy sheen over this Number One effort, but underneath lay some very dark,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by colcon
4.0 out of 5 stars
Oh lovely mad Alice
Certainly the darkest of his best rock period and perhaps the best mix of good old rock and roll with the moretwisty stuff. Read more
Published 14 months ago by John
5.0 out of 5 stars
Many have tried to copy - very few succeed!
First bought the vinyl version just after its release and will never forget the looks of absolute horror from my parents, especially when they heard 'I Love the Dead' and 'Raped... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Possum Pie
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