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28 August 2010
Alice Cooper's Killer
1 of 1 found this helpful The Alice Cooper group's, "Killer," album is where you can hear the band becoming more refined in their musicality and song writing. It's not as refined as the later, "School's Out," or, especially, "Billion Dollar Babies," albums and beyond, but it starts that upward trend towards musical refinement and grandness that fit so well with the later Alice Cooper live theatrical/musical shows, and signals a departure from the previous, raw, album, "Love It To Death." There is still plenty of rawness in Killer, but songs like, "Desperado," point to the increased use of strings and synthesizers, and more complex arrangements, with more to come in later Alice Cooper compilations. If you listen closely to, "You Drive Me Nervous," you can hear the heavy influence Alice Cooper had on 1980s metal with bands like Poison, Quiet Riot, and Motley Crue. That song still sounds contemporary. Vincent Furnier, songwriter, front man, singer, and driving force for Alice Cooper (he's become synonymous with the name, Alice Cooper, although, technically, Alice Cooper is name of the band -- or, at least, it started that way...), has at least two distinctive voices, whereas other metal singers usually only have one and an imitation of that one, at best, as a "second," voicing. Vincent Furnier has the legitimate rock vocal style, but can take it to another, more sinister, voicing that others miss. This ability opens up a lot of avenues musically for Alice Cooper, and has especially made him the master of the macabre, musically; while still allowing for softer ballads, and mainstream rock. Again, listen to You Drive Me Nervous and you can hear him toggle between these voices. This ability makes Alice Cooper special, and this album special as well.
The controversy surrounding the track, "Dead Babies," was obviously anticipated when the track was written, as you can tell by the court outburst "scene" at the end of the song. Regardless of content or intent, the song has the key ingredients of all great Alice Cooper songs: It puts you in the scene, it makes you uneasy, but it still draws you in for more with its melody and anticipation of what's to come (even when you already know it's coming).
Altogether, a great album worthy of your collection.
28 August 2010
Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies
Some consider this the peak of the Alice Cooper group's albums. The apex of their song writing, arrangement, instrumentation and production. It's a great album on all of these counts, combining the early rawness of Alice Cooper albums, as found on "Love It To Death," with the more refined arrangements on "School's Out." Billion Dollar Babies takes Alice Cooper's musical complexity to a new level. There are more strings, more horn sections, more compression on the recordings, deeper bass, more voicings, more grandness, more bling and ritz. Billion Dollar Babies jabs hard at American political and social culture, just as it's predecessor, "School's Out," did with the American High School experience.
What makes the great Alice Cooper songs great is not the stage theatrics of the live shows, but the great melodies inserted into the steady rock and roll. Sometimes, the melodies are even beautiful, juxtaposed against a harsh or ominous sound scape. This contrast is irresistible.
There's undeniable camp in Billion Dollar Babies, as is the case with most Alice Cooper compilations since Killer. Alice Cooper is Americana, The Musical. The pretense is intended and made obvious for the fun of it. It's open satire. Alice Cooper works on many levels. That's why it appeals to so many for so long. Billion Dollar Babies is an American cultural self-portrait that is hard to look at, but impossible to look away from...
Billion Dollar Babies should be in ever rock and roll collection as one of the all-time great American musical albums. But, School's Out remains my personal favorite of all the early Alice Cooper albums, if only because it has a slight bit more sincerity and sentiment, even though sincerity was probably never intended.
28 August 2010
Alice Cooper's Love It To Death
1 of 1 found this helpful I'm an Alice Cooper fan from way back... this is the first major-selling album by the Alice Cooper group. If you listen closely, you can really hear the Detroit and LA influences, from Iggy Pop/MC5 to The Doors. The songwriting is very good and the instrumentation and musical performances are outstanding. This is a very creative group, drawing from many influences. I really like the fact that they do not follow any standard song formula, but seem to go musically with the theme of the song. This is an almost lost art form in popular music today. Everyone knows, "I'm Eighteen," from the album, but songs like, "Long Way To Go," are just as pop and rockin'. I still get frightened hearing Black Juju at night. Alice Cooper has a way of putting you in the scene of the song -- the real secret to capturing a listener's imagination and linking him or her to the music in an inseparable way.
I highly recommend any Alice Cooper song or album, and while "School's Out" remains my favorite Alice Copper album, I would not want to be without Love It To Death. It's the first CD in my 5 CD changer at home right now. The next CDs in the changer are Alice Cooper's, "Killer," "School's out," and, "Billion Dollar Babies." (Black Sabbath's, "Volume 4," is the fifth CD, by the way).