How come nobody ever told me "Love It To Death" was such a great album?

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I always kinda wrote Alice Cooper (the band) off as some sort of watering down of the Stooges/MC5 sound into some kinda commercially acceptable blah - barring "Under My Wheels," which I've always dug, but prompted by a Beat Club performance of "Eighteen" I caught on the tube a little while ago (wherein Alice interpolated snatches of "American Pie" into the extended instro-freakout) I put this on...

AND IT RULES. Rules rules rules. Yep, it sure is a watering down of the Stooges/MC5 sound, but accomplishes this in the best way possible by adding really friggin catchy hooks and a very enteraining sense of humor. I can't think of a bum track the whole way through.

O-pinions? They do anything else as good as this?

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 2 June 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

'Killer' is pretty good, as are 'School's Out' and 'Billion Dollar Babies.' The humungo jam is actually 'Greatest Hits,' though.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 2 June 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

"Black Juju" sounded an awful lot like Pink Floyd's "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun". They obviously had a 'thing' for Floyd, considering how "BB On Mars" from Pretties For You starts out EXACTLY like "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Billion Dollar Babies is excellent.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

Could have told you. Athough "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Welcome To My Nightmare" are his best two albums.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Strange...I've never been able to appreciate Babies as much folks - mostly because the first & last songs are so gawdawful. (Worst-ever AC songs up to that point, actually.)

The other songs are just fine.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Billion Dollar Babies completely kicks ass, but I have to confess that my fave Coop album remaiins.....wait for it....Flush the Fashion.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Rhino needs to remaster and reissue the classic Cooper albums.

And duplicate the special packaging!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Teeny-tiny underpants on the School's Out disc might be a little disconcerting.

Love It To Death may be the most consistent of the band albums, bar Greatest Hits, but they're all pretty strong. Most of the solo albums have moments of greatness, too, even Flush.

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Rhino needs to remaster and reissue the classic Cooper albums.

And duplicate the special packaging!

They did Billion Dollar Babies, complete with goodies.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

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