ALICE COOPER Billion Dollar Babies 1973 UK WB *COMPLETE* 1st PRESS NEAR MINT
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52
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£ 52
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Oct 1, 2015
Sold Date
Sep 21, 2015
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£ 24
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Great Britain
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ALICE COOPER Billion Dollar Babies 1973 UK WB *COMPLETE* 1st PRESS NEAR MINT
ALICE COOPERBillion Dollar Babies
UK WARNER BROTHERS (K 56013) FIRST PRESSING (March 1973)
AN OUTSTANDING ONCE PLAYED AND PRACTICALLY *AS-NEW* ORIGINAL COPY
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL EMBOSSED GATEFOLD WITH PERFORATED CARDS, BILLION DOLLAR NOTE AND LYRIC INNER
LABELS: NEAR MINT one spindle trace per side - played once and set aside
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT both surfaces shine like-new with nothing but a couple of harmless light marks
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT plays beautifully throughout - one or two one-off ticks noted but I did not clean this copy as it seemed unnecessary so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins - superb original
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT all components of this original cover are practically as-new - there is a touch of paper-loss on the front where the original price sticker has been removed but nothing else to fault
With Billion Dollar Babies, Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work with a more polished sound (courtesy of producer Bob Ezrin).
Song for song, Billion Dollar Babies is probably the original Alice Cooper group's finest and strongest LP.
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.
Side 1: Hello Hooray / Raped And Freezin' / Elected / Billion Dollar Babies / Unfinished Sweet
Side 2: No More Mr Nice Guy / Generation Landslide / Sick Things / Mary Ann / I Love The Dead
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