With "Billion Dollar Babies", Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work in favor of a slightly more polished sound (courtesy of super-producer Bob Ezrin), resulting in a mega-hit album that reached the top of the U.S. album charts. Song for song, Billion Dollar Babies is probably the original Alice Cooper group's finest and strongest. Such tracks as "Hello Hooray," the lethal stomp of the title track, the defiant "Elected" (a rewrite of an earlier song, "Reflected"), and the poison-laced pop candy of "No More Mr. Nice Guy" remain among Cooper's greatest achievements. Also included are a pair of perennial concert standards -- the disturbing necrophilia ditty "I Love the Dead" and the chilling macabre of "Sick Things" -- as well as such strong, lesser-known selections as "Raped and Freezin'," "Unfinished Sweet," and perhaps Cooper's most overlooked gem, "Generation Landslide." Nothing seemed like it could stop this great hard rock band from overtaking the universe, but tensions between the members behind the scenes would force the stellar original AC band to split up after just one more album. Not only is Billion Dollar Babies one of Cooper's very best; it remains one of rock's all-time, quintessential classics.
Tracklist
01. "Hello Hooray" (Kempf) - 4:15
02. "Raped and Freezin'" (Cooper, Michael Bruce) - 3:19
03. "Elected" (Cooper, Glen Buxton, Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) - 4:05
04. "Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper, Bruce, Smith, Vinson) - 3:43
05. "Unfinished Sweet" (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) - 6:18
06. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Cooper, Bruce) - 3:06
07. "Generation Landslide" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) - 4:31
08. "Sick Things" (Cooper, Bruce, Bob Ezrin) - 4:18
09. "Mary Ann" (Cooper, Bruce) - 2:21
10. "I Love the Dead" (Cooper, Ezrin) - 5:09
Released: February 25, 1973
Recorded: The Galecie Estate, Greenwich, CT, The Record Plant, NY, and Morgan Studios in London,
Genre: Hard rock, heavy metal
Length: 40:51
Label: Warner Bros.
Producer: Bob Ezrin
Personnel
Alice Cooper – vocals
Glen Buxton – guitar
Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Dennis Dunaway – bass, backing vocals
Neal Smith – drums
Donovan – vocals
Steve "Deacon" Hunter – guitar
Mick Mashbir – guitar
Dick Wagner – guitar
Bob Dolin – keyboards
David Libert – backing vocals
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