Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Audio Fidelity AFZ 170
Stereo Hybrid
Pop/Rock
Alice Cooper
With Billion Dollar Babies, Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work in favor of a slightly more polished sound resulting in a mega-hit album that reached the top of the US and UK album charts. It’s impossible to overstate how popular the band had become by the time their sixth album was released. The album, is brilliant, decadent and encapsulated all the celebrity trashiness of the 70s only three years into the decade.
Song for song, Billion Dollar Babies is probably the original Alice Cooper group's finest and strongest. The album's singles "Elected", "Hello Hooray," "Billion Dollar Babies,"and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" all became hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Also included are a pair of perennial concert standards - the disturbing necrophilia ditty "I Love the Dead" and the chilling macabre of "Sick Things."
After the album was released, the band embarked on a tour which broke the US box office records previously held by the Rolling Stones. The show climaxed with a guillotine execution of Alice. The album and the tour made the band into the world's preeminent pied pipers of teenage trash culture and the most successful rock band ever to be loathed by American parents.
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