Great album from Alice. Full of extras on the second disc. If you love Alice you'll love this!
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Was glad to get this cd! I used to have it on lp but over the years it disappeared, I was happy to get it on a new cd to go with my cd collection. I think it is one of Alice Cooper's best besides his Welcome To My Nightmare. But of course these are the ones I remember listening to growing up...whenever that is! LOL! I also got to see him perform live so it just reminds me when life was good and tymes where better! Ain't it funny how you can hear a song and remember where you were at that tyme & what you were doing? That is why i love music!
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.Read full review
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A lot of good songs on this one. I would highly recommend it. It’s one of the last albums Alice did with the original lineup, after this it slowly goes downhill.
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