Reviews (page 6 of 8)
4.25
classic LP, played this record a lot in the old days
pretty good! 3.5
Much better than what I thought, considering its glam rock
Although this album isn't like the Alice Cooper songs I know already, I found it to be pretty nice. Although in the song "Elected" the music is louder than his voice. Liked songs: No More Mr. Nice Guy, Generation Landslide, Mary Ann
I find myself unsure how I want to rate this one which I feel like I've said a few times lately. I liked "Billion Dollar Babies", "Unfinished Sweet", and "Generation Landslide". "I Love the Dead" is.... a lot but I'm ngl I love the sound of it and it's a great finisher to the album. I feel like I say this a lot too but I have a funny feeling this album will really grow on me. Right now it's more of a 3 but I bet after a relisten or two it will be a 4 for me. I love the guitar work on this album and the vocals feel fitting for the style/subject matter. I think though, I don't find this album particularly "catchy" which is why I think it suffers a bit on first listen rating. But since I am mostly trying to rate these on first impression I will be keeping this to a 3.
Crotch rock flavored Halloween glam. Not my cup of tea, but I didn't completely hate it. I was expecting a 2 and I got a 3.
Decent 70s rock. I was expecting something either much worse or more challenging. 3.5 🌟
Who decided that these babies cost so much? No matter. This album is about Alice Cooper reflecting on their huge success and making it about fucked up things that pester the human psyche. Unfinish Sweet has high-pitched dentist drills and I Love the Dead is a ballad for necrophiliacs. The centerpiece of this album, though, is the side B opener No More Mr. Nice Guy with it's incredibly memorable chorus hook. Alice Cooper has proven to be pretty consistent with their fun glam rock macabre approach. Thier next album would be their last a group before the frontman Alice Cooper split and took the name as solo act, dropping the album Welcome to My Nightmare. I prefer the band, in truth.
I enjoyed some of them, but Alice Cooper is not appealing to me
Enjoyed this.
Decent enough rock n roll 3.5/5
eww, no
I guess I didn't really know much about Alice Cooper before this; I expected this to be more metal. It's alright in any case.
Alice Cooper is not what people who only know him from his 70s rock radio hits think he is. He's a much better songwriter then people think, and it comes out on about 30-40% of his tracks (that I've heard). Unfortunately, in the other 60-70% he still puts himself in this smaller box confined to basic rock riffs and ideas in my opinion.
Excellent old rock album
Whilst Alice hits his highest mark in terms of songwriting and musical arrangements on this album, and I do enjoy listening to it, I feel that the busy, almost live, production quality hasn't passed the test of time well. To compare with others of a similar era and style, listen to what Bob Ezrin did for KISS on Destroyer, Dark Side of the Moon (obviously), and any Brian Connolly era Sweet.
Surprisingly potent stuff (though the dental torture was a bit much in “Unfinished Sweet”). The musical, even orchestral production at times is where the real unexpected enters. Fascinating that it became #1 album in the US in 1973 (perhaps tapping into the cultural fears of the time?).
If you had told me a year ago that I would be an Alice Cooper fan, I probably would’ve thought you were nuts. And yet here we are. Not a perfect album, but really solid.
A simple but fun hard rock album. Nothing mind blowing, but it's enjoyable and good for background listening. It could do with some more variety in sound, mix up the songs a bit, but it's fine.
So sweet. I think this is kind of the quintessential Alice Cooper album with all of the vaudeville and horror imagery that it entails.
I've always loved this album. I thought it was a great followup to School's out.
Has some cool riffs, but that's about it...
Not sure if I've ever listened to all this before. I really enjoyed it.
Classic. One of the most underrated bands of the 70's. Fantastic arrangements and solid ensemble performance of witty and satirical material that is still relevant today.
There were some James Bond vibes on Unfinished Sweet, direct interpolation perhaps. I also enjoyed the rock opera aesthetic, and the whining vocals reminded me of a proto Smashing Pumpkins, many years earlier. Overall, enjoyed this more than I expected
Probably his backing band ever.
The kings of 70's schlock rock. Perfect B Movie horror music. Politcians, dead babies, running from Mexicans in the desert, being mean, invisible cocaine shields, possible necrophilia - what more do you want? Best Tracks: Raped and Freezin'; Unfinished Sweet; No More Mr Nice Guy
Different to how I expected
Alice Cooper is okay, but I've never been a huge fan. Listenable, but I wouldn't seek it out. This album seems to have his best known hits. Necrophilia song at the end is pretty creepy, but I suppose that is the point.
Was fine and well till we got to the necrophilia anthem that is the last song…
I never knew what Alice Cooper sounded like until this. I kinda like it
It was fine. Some songs landed with me, many didn't. Overall though it managed to be decently enjoyable, but not something I would actively go back to.
Nothing special
This is hard to like for me. The feigned badassery is off putting. The grandiosity. It’s all so cringey. There are bright moments of instrumentation. I specially the “me and Julio” riff at the end of that one song. This would get the lowest rating from me, but the band saves it a bit.
Better than I expected!
Insipid
Every song is like a shitty encore.
5/5
Enjoyed
honestly, didn't leave much of an impression, this album. The tracks all just sort of merged into one. No more mr nice guy is the only track that I felt like was a bop. Not a bad album overall though. 3/5
I did like the song Sweet Nothing with the James Bond style guitar licks. Otherwise, I don't care for this. Never got Alice Cooper's schtick. Not really into the macabre or horror storytelling. I Love the Dead is simply gross.
Disregarding Cooper's actions as of late, this one is a solid one if not a bit repetitive? I'm not sure how to articulate it properly but it feels like a lot of the songs just sort of run together outside of the big single and the closer I Love the Dead. Outside of that, I just think it's fine. Good, dare I say.
It's a pretty good album all around. I just don't have much to say about it. Like, I just can't think of a hook to base the review around. I'm pretty slow to pick up lyrics, even from albums I've listened to nearly 100 times, so there's not much I can say there. Besides, I doubt any of its content is really all that shocking today, in CURRENT YEAR 2024, compared to how it must've been in the 1970's. At most, I can say it's got a lot of good riffs, some pretty nice melody lines for the vocals, and of course "No Mr. Nice Guy" is a classic single. That statement alone might not be enough to sell anyone on this album, bult it's all I can give, so y'might as well take it.
A good ol' slice of hard and glam rock from one of its biggest artists.
Somehow, I think I’m at a 5. I can’t really explain why – I just enjoyed the hell out of this. At the first track, I was trying so hard to place what the vocals reminded me of, and it took until I Love The Dead to realize that Alice Cooper sounds like Weird Al for parts of this album; maybe that’s just a subconscious thing that added to my enjoyment of this album. Even without that connection, I think the album just sounds fantastic. It’s got such a good variance of styles, from the sort of rock arena anthem that is Hello Hooray, to the James Bond vibes of Unfinished Sweet, to the sort of jovial and Elton John-esque No More Mr. Nice Guy, and to the blatantly obvious Bob Dylan homage that is Generation Landslide. There’s just a lot of fun to be had on this album. It does sort of falter by the last 3 tracks, where it tries to take a sort of moodier approach (but they're still fine), but I think the strength of those first 7 tracks and the fun I had with them just gets me to a 5. I enjoyed it that much; great instrumentation, fun vocals, good vibes, awesome album. Definitely deserves to be on the list.
Alice Cooper is an under appreciated artist. This album like most of his work is masterfully crafted and has a lot of bangers. Had the pleasure of seeing him live a few years ago. For a dude in his 70s he put on one hell of a show. All energy for over 2 hours. Giving some of these newer acts a run for their money. At any rate, don't sleep on this album! Stand out Tracks: Hello Hooray, Billion Dollar Babies, No More Mr. Nice Guy
2.5
Hehee, hymyilyttää. Hassu kyllä, kun ei tunnu sisältävän mitään instant-superhittiä, mutta kovaa ja iloisesti (yllätti mut!) mennään. Viihdyttää. Ei ehkä hurmaa silti.
Artisti on luonut biiseille omat ilmeensä ja sisältönsä, mikä on koskettavaa. Levyn konseptuaalinen luonne on tietenkin kyseenalainen (ei "shokeeraavuuden" vuoksi), mutta kuuntelisin sen uudelleen.
Didn’t do much for me.
Discovered I had a wrong impression of Alice Cooper.
The guitar was the only pleasant part of this.
Not at all what I expected from Alice Cooper. 3.5
3.5 stars
holy heck.. tämä albumi on jokseekin erilainen tunnelmaltaan kuin alice cooperin hitti laulu ''poison''. tämä albumi ylitti erittäin alhaiset odotukseni.. tuhma saatanallinen, tuonelan kätyri... alice cooper tuli unissani soittamaan kitaraa hulluttelemaan.. heräsin siemennesteet sängyllä... mitä VITTUA tapahtui? runkkasiko alice cooper kikkeliäni oikeassa elämässä??? Pelästynyt villipentu luottaa ihmiseen ensimmäistä kertaa.. so fucking sad man... hullutusta hullutusta.. generation landslide
Not terribly interesting, I suppose I might be missing some context but to think of the other albums that came out in that year in the same genre it would have been tough to stand out. Guess I should listen to more Alice Cooper to get it?
First time listening to an Alice Cooper album. I really only knew of him from Wayne's World haha and he's awesome in that. I was pleasantly surprised here. I enjoyed the album overall. Going to give it another listen before I rate.
This was too AM radio for me when it came out in '73 and it hasn't changed in 50 years.
B Hello Hooray 4 Raped And Freezin' 3 Elected 4 Billion Dollar Babies 3 Unfinished Sweet 3 No More Mr. Nice Guy 3 Generation Landslide 3 Sick Things 3 Mary Ann 4 I Love The Dead 5 Alice Cooper don't miss!!
I was mostly introduced to Alice through Wayne's World, and by then he was kind of old and creepy, and we also had Marilyn Manson as the new more extreme version so I kind of dismissed Mr. Cooper a bit. Quite a few of these songs are rather silly, and I assume that is intentional. I was also surprised to see some that sounded kind of like the Who or even Paul McCartney, but I suppose they all can't be dark necro devil songs even though it is a bit harder on the suspension of disbelief when there is a big tone shift. Fairly solid album if not taken too seriously. Favorite track "No more Mr Nice Guy" 3.5/5
closer to a 3 than a two could i write poetry to this? n
3.5
Not as good as Schools Out, but still really good. There's a couple cornball songs, but the good outweighs the bad. 3.5 stars. Bumped up to 4 because a few songs sound like demented Paul McCartney & Wings songs.
I was really enjoying some songs, only to realize that Spotify had already started playing a different album...
Another album with elements that I like - the horror theme is fun - but on first listen, not enough there for me to definitively say I liked it. Comes across as a little too cheesy.
1.5 stars. Booo. Shock rock that's just boring musically. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" is the standout.
Some tracks are cool. I’m sure it was very groundbreaking at the time
Not for me, unfortunately.
This is my genre and expected to enjoy this more. It was ok, but not something I’d seek out.
Probably my favourite Alice Cooper album, so many great tracks, "Hello Hooray", "Elected", "No More Mr. Nice Guy", "I Love the Dead", the title track "Billion Dollar Babies", dental nighmare, "Unfinished Sweet", and my favourite "Sick Things".
No more Mr. Nice Guy!
I used to be a big Alice Cooper fan, I already know and already like this album.
Works for me, never really listened to Alice before. Sort of indistinct, unrefined... Raw. I'll give him 2 stars for this. I listened to it 2 more times today, 3 stars!
The problem with basing your persona on being shocking is that things rapidly become normal, and your songs about necrophilia get kind of cringey. Not terrible, but not great.
Decent album. No More Mr. Nice Guy is an all-timer that I can’t hear without thinking of the movie Dazed and Confused.
This is OK. Not amazed.
I’m always surprised how much I like Alice Cooper’s music. “Elected” and “No More Mr. Nice Guy” are probably their 2 best songs, even next to the awesome anthem that is “School’s Out”. The lyrics are all mostly a little stupid, making what they consider tongue-in-cheek jokes about sexual harassment and necrophilia which don’t really do it for me, but the sound of Alice Cooper’s voice is incredible. The way they make one or two people sound like a chorus is pretty cool with the way they recorded the album. The rest of the band all play like they’re having a blast on stage, even in the studio.
While listening to this album, I kept thinking about how well Alice Cooper would do on The Muppet show. A quick google showed me that Jim Henson realized that 50 years ago.
I liked this one, it was a unique and cool and weird
I was expecting a glam rock album, this was actually interesting and had a lot of variety!
I like Alice. Mostly just the hits though. There were no real exciting new discoveries here.
Much better than expected, actually really enjoyable! A kind of grotesque carnivalesque irony runs throughout the lyrics and vocal delivery, seemingly in the tradition of European Cabaret ala Kurt Weill etc. Great melodies, especially the choruses and enjoyable arrangements. A surprising win!
Has a song about necrophilia
This is a good listen - a few bangers and of course “no more Mr. Nice guy.” Would play it again.
Great classic rock sound. Not sure it’s one I would revisit but if it was on I wouldn’t turn it off and would bop around to it. Felt like the beginning was stronger and it got a little monotonous by the end.
I really didn’t connect with this album as much as I thought I may have. I think something about the chords or something I don’t know. I listened to it again and still felt indifferent towards it. I didn’t actively dislike it but I think I just felt some disappointment because I didn’t love it.
My second Alice album and even more of a throwback with a few tracks I remember well from being freaked out by him as a kid - YOU DON'T SCARE ME NOW ... *VINCENT* I think I'm a Cooper fan. Much like the "School's Out" album there's a lot of musical prowess and interesting variety here; there's so much more to the Alice Cooper band than the image. It's fun, a little comic-book silly/scary/stupid which is a great deal of the fun, and less-predictable than I could have appreciated as a little kid. 8/10 4 stars.
From nowadays perspective I really can´t see the magic of Alice Cooper in general and this special album any more. Ok - there are some nice songs like "Elected", "Billion Dollar Babie" or "No More Mr. Nice Guy" but for me it´s just another classic/hard-rock-album. 🤷♂️
An ok album
Not my jam, but I appreciate the theatrical nature of it.
Some good stuff, but pretty mixed; some tracks are kind of a chore to listen to. The cover art is great. Generation Landslide and Unfinished Sweet were my favorites.
Not bad.
dudes like the ween of metal. who knew.
It's alright but I liked his other album on the list better. There's a couple of good songs, but towards the end it gets worse and worse. Favorite song: unfinished sweet
- Kind of surprising that I am giving this 5 stars. But I have found myself listening to the album multiple times in the past 24 hours, so my rating should reflect that. - I like Alice Cooper's style; on this particular album he is giving me shades of "Paul McCartney's evil twin"? This was most reflected in "Mary Ann." - Was not expecting there to be so much variation in these tracks, particularly with the often odd backing elements and distortions. All of these songs are bangers. They are all fun, raucous, mesmerizing, disturbing, affecting, or some combination of the above. Personally love "Hello Hooray." - "Sick Things" and "I Love the Dead" are both incredibly dark and macabre, but both kept me hooked in.
One star for one good-ish song
Better than I expected.
This album gave me Rolling Stones vibes. Makes sense based on the time of release. I was definitely skeptical coming in as I hadn't listened to much Alice Cooper but I was pleasantly surprised! No More Mr. Nice Guy is one i have heard before a great rock song but I was impressed with the rest of the album that I didn't know. Might not join my regular listening rotation but something I will come back to and not be opposed to exploring further.
A couple of the songs are just dreadful,but I was surprised by the rest of it. I think it stays enough out of the generic classic rock sound that it held my attention throughout.
Alice Cooper or Rocky horror picture show or meatloaf. this album could be any of those. Well well done not really my cup of tea
I like this genre and don't hate Alice Cooper. But this entire album is just bleh. I don't know what it is but none of it really stands out.
I mean, as far as an album with a song about necrophilia, it was pretty decent. 3.4 stars
Classic Alice not his best album but still a 3+ maybe four I’ll be generous on this one
Pretty fun, with some misses (what the fuck was “I Love the Dead”??). A little too campy to listen to on a regular basis, but I wouldn’t turn it off if I heard it again.
That was a good album and I love Alice Cooper as a human 🤣
feels ahead of its time even now. does not feel like it came out in the 70's feels like it was a mid to late 80's sound. I enjoyed it but i will likel not revisit the album again
I didn't get to listen to it as many times as I'd like, but tentatively I'd rate this closer to 4-stars than to 3-stars.
Ech
I actually liked this more the longer I listened. It's pretty good
Man this album is entertaining as all hell. Way better than it has any right to be.
nope
I was surprised at how melodic this was. Kind of semi-epic and orchestral and listenable.
3.5 stars. A pretty good rock album. I didn't think I was going to like this, based on what I thought Alice in Chains would sound like. But the songs are constructed well. Alice Cooper gives a good performance. Even "No More Mr. Nice Guy" is alright despite having heard this song dozens of times.
Alice Cooper - classic. And he is a great guy!
One or 2 good songs punctuated by not very good songs.
Dated and not very good but not the worst thing on here.
BL: Aware of "generation landslide" from this album and not much else, so will be interested to hear AL: The aforementioned track in my pre-listen is still the only track I think I would continue regularly listening to. There was good stuff on this record and functions incredibly tightly as a solo record. FT: "Generation Landslide" 3/5
50 years on maybe the shock value is not as strong. But it's still a good hard rock album and he has a good voice.
Fun, somewhat eccentric rock
I've never heard this album! So good.
I think this is Alice's Dark Side of the Moon. His albums leading up to it were rock classics, but this is when he put it all together - hard rock, clever lyrics, with his gender bending social commentary. The song Billion Dollar Babies has a great duet with Donavan, an iconic guitar solo, and some of Alice's best vocals imo. Would listen again.
What a great record! How did I not know that Donovan did vocals on the title track?! I love how theatrical this whole album is, and I love that they never tried to transform themselves from shock rock. Smart lyrics and great musicianship. So good.
"Billion Dollar Babies" is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper. Hard rock, glam rock, shock rock and heavy metal. Oh yeah! The album was produced by Bob Ezrin and was recorded at Connecticut estate and studios in NYC and London. It was one of the last albums as Alice Cooper the band before they broke and lead singer Vincent Furnier adopted the name. The album was a huge success hitting #1 in the US and UK. A cover of the Rolf Kempf-written and Judy Collins-sung song "Hello Hooray" opens the album. A classical-sounding guitar and drums. Strings are added giving this a big sound. Tight guitar solo...nice start. The first single "Elected" has guitar slashes with Furnier screaming. Horns. Strings. They're rockin' here and sound very similar to Cheap Trick which I never picked up before. This song is actually a re-write of "Reflected" from their first album, "Pretties for You." Fast drums and layered guitars and we're into "Billion Dollar Babies." Idiosyncratic drums. There's Donovan talking/singing in the background. They're showing off their heavy metal/glam side. The album/song title is a surprise at their success. The second side has the band go into the more macabre and shock zones but the start of it is probably their most known song in "No More Mr. Nice Guy." It's poppy. Catchy chorus. A reaction to Furnier's Mother's church group and the group's stage performance (lots of horror props). The album ends with the big sounding "I Love the Dead." Comical as the lyrical are about necrophilia. Starts subtle but adds piano, drums and horns. This is very Zappa-esque. No surprise as Alice Cooper's first three albums were signed to Zappa's Straight label. I'll use it again; this is big sounding and has big production. Strings, horns, layered guitars. At times, it does sound of its early 70's time but, overall, just sounds great. The band is focused. The music has catchy choruses and melodies. I had the previous Alice Copper album, "School's Out" in this challenge and thought it was OK. I liked this album a lot and give it a high recommendation for everyone including all church groups.
After doubling down on the experimentation aspect of their music with the excellent School’s Out, Alice Cooper’s next album Billion Dollar Babies is a relatively straightforward affair. By which I mean there are no horn sections of quotations from Musicals. Billion Dollar Babies is bombastic and complex, often employing string sections and multi-layered arrangements of electric and acoustic guitars, but it does it without ever becoming overbearing. It’s complex and arranged, but also loud and funny, and because of the shock value lyrics never loses the edge that put them at the forefront of the American Glam movement. Also it was Chris Cornell’s favourite album apparently, so that’s enough for me. God do I love Alice Cooper
Starts okay, but sometimes to whack
I always thought of Alice Cooper as a bit corny but I liked this a lot more than I thought I would! No More Mr. Nice Guy really is a hot jam... Biggest surprise is probably Generation Landslide, but also some of the piano / string transitional elements towards the end. It's got kind of a Todd Rundgren thing going, but more theatrical. Not bad. 7.8/10
2.8 wanted to add more songs from this to my liked and was excited but unfortunately hello hurray is still my only liked from this faves: hello hurray
70s dark camp rock
I thought I would like this album more than I did, but it was okay. Standout songs are No More Mr. Nice Guy, Generation Landslide, & I Love the Dead. Overall a 6 out of 10.
Only like two songs that are good
Surprisingly good
The beginning of the king of shock rock. I will always been a fan.
Like it's fine and interesting rock, but didn't revolutionize my day
Mom, can we have David Bowie? No. We have David Bowie at home. David Bowie at home: ----- Memes aside, there are some really good rock songs on Billion Dollar Babies. The concept is executed well and must have been a huge influence on many groups for decades after its release.
Some of the songs were ratchet but overall a great album!
Mal conheço tanto, só que não foi este disco que me empolgou a escutar mais músicas dele.
There's some decent stuff on this album, but, overall, it's a bit too much like musical theatre for me. Alice Cooper is way more diverse than my preconceived opinion of him and his singing range is quite impressive. Talented fella. Definitely won't be giving this another listen though. 🤷🏼
Perfectly good. Honestly hadn't actually listened to much any Alice Cooper before. More of a classic-rock vibe than I'd expected.
pretty cool, interesting enough, good variety. 3.4.
Liked the grittier and heavy songs like "sick things". Nice fade in/out between songs. Just barely a 4 star
For a rock opera, it's great fun. That said, are we all gonna ignore the fact that the Ramones stole the chorus for Sedated from Elected? yeah? okie dokie
More glam than the earlier theatrical Schools Out. Evidence of macabre horror traits, but also classic rock notably on No more mister nice guys and Elected.
don't like these lyrics
Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!
I quite enjoyed the blend of garage rock, comedy and showmanship. Plus there was some unusual sounds scattered throughout. Not that keen on the vocals but can't fault the attempt to try and make a record that sounds fun, quirky and odd
That was pretty pants, wasn’t it
Billon dollar arse
Look out kids! The Alice Cooper comedy shock rock show is in town! Not my thing though. I'm off to the pub to watch the footy instead.
Dull. Based on Wayne's World, I thought I'd like Alice Cooper more, but it just wasn't very interesting.
Remember when Bruce Dickinson did a cover of "Elected" with Mr Bean? Haha... I think I have a copy of the single somewhere, (yeah yeah, it was to support Comic Relief). 🤣 As for the album, it was fine, semi-enjoyed it. Though it does make me question the Hard Rock genre, as generally feels quite soft.
Alice Cooper has always seemed more Rock than Shock, more Glam than Rock, more Light Tin than Heavy Metal and for all of his seemingly bad boy persona seemingly toothless and catering more to FM Radio than its' outskirts...even considering the timeframe. The album is fine. 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' is a classic. 'I Love The Dead' seems tacked on for the shock/creepy factor to keep up the image. The rest seems like pretty standard rock.
Short. Love the guitars. Not as much a fan of the talking/growling lyrics, particularly in the latter half of the album (Sick Things, I Love the Dead).
Pretty cool again never listen to Alice Cooper album all the way through interesting
Billion Dollar Babies was quite the good album. I mostly was expecting a typical hard rock, metal-adjacent type album but it did surprise me with all the extra bells and whistles it had. It had everything from more orchestral instruments in some places to more electronic sounding guitar riffs in one of the tracks. No track was all that bad either. Its a fun listen I can easily recommend. Best Song: Unfinished Sweet Worst Song: Sick Things
Well, I love the dead more than I love this album. Simply put, it was boring. Not sure it would have struck me this way 45 years ago as a young teen. But now? Blah.
Better than I expected.
More artistic than I thought it would be, and I thought he was more schools out style - this album showed much more range. Still wasn't for me, but I can appreciate it more than I thought I would.
Liked Songs Hello Hooray Elected Billion Dollar Babies No More Mr. Nice Guy
I've heard the intro song for sure but didn't know it was Alice Cooper. This is actually pretty solid. I really like the use of the piano and woodwinds in the background on Hello Hooray. This is clearly poking fun at people that would take offense to things but it's a pretty great album. I expected Alice Cooper to be less musically skilled and complex. This is a real album.
I had mid expectations, but the band sounds pretty good. The vocals sound so tongue in cheek that it threw me. A dental song that seems to also have a little spy song spoof in it? The stereo mixing could be better odd choices. The sound all over this is very much from classic rock'n roll roots. No More Mr. Nice Guy stands out of course. I don't forsee myself giving the rest many more replays. This album made me think of the classic muppet show. It was sold as being for kids but It's sense of humor and guests were from a time 20 or 30 years earlier so adults could also consume it.
Shock Rock is a neat musical genre. The songs are sometimes hard rock, sometimes Rolling Stones-like.
finally, some 70s rock i actually enjoyed! recent transphobic comments notwithstanding, alice cooper is my favorite shock rocker. these songs are weird and cheeky, which makes for a fun listen overall. it was also cool to recognize so many of them from why must i be sad by they might be giants. favorites: raped and freezin, elected, billion dollar babies, no more mr nice guy, i love the dead
interesting listen. beginning was too slow ending was better
Always liked Mr. Cooper. Never heard Hello, Hooray before - really good. Billion Dollar Babies and No More Mr. Nice Guy - good tracks. It's a bit odd/weird in places, but I still kinda like it. Not a perfect 5, but a good 4.
Probably should’ve stopped after schools out. This was just stupidly mediocre , sounds like every rock song ever which I’ve hated. Worst track: billion dollar baby seriously what the fuck. Fuck you alice Cooper you ruined your music for me 2.9/5
It's solid. Not something I'll go back up but it's got some cool stuff.
Brings back happy memories 😀
Campy Rocky Horror picture show greatness
Pretty good, I did not mind listening to this. Not necessarily something that I'll choose to listen to, however.
Perfect. Non-stop great rock songs. I go with the consensus view on this album. The opening song must be the best cover song ever. Billion Dollar Babies might be my favourite Alice Cooper song etc etc. Clearly, AC's best record and one of the best albums from the 70s. Score: 10/10
Some good riffs, too theatrical overall.
Decent early goth rock
Proof that a large portion of this list is albums included because of one noteworthy song. This album is on this list because of No More Mr. Nice Guy. “Raped and Freezin” certainly didn’t make the case for its inclusion.
Je ne savais pas comment Alice Cooper sonnait en fait. J’imaginais ça plus hard rock FM alors, qu’on est presque sur du glam, ce qui correspond bien à sa date de sortie en 1973. Le grand guignol du personnage ne transparaît pas trop à l’écoute de l’album, même si on entend un peu le Rocky Horror par moment. Il devait tout donner sur scène une fois en costume. Bon départ, avec l'ouverture “Hello Hooray” et les 4 ou 5 qui suivent “Elected”, “Billion Dollar Babies”, “No More Mr. Nice Guy”, ça s’effondre ensuite avec un ventre mou “Generation Landslide” et la pénible “Sick Things” ou la bof “Mary Ann”. Tout cela se conclut avec “I love the dead”, hymne enthousiaste à la nécrophilie, qui est quand même bien glauque et décalée. Au final ça s’écoute.
Ik vond deze wel leuk gek genoeg
I like Alice Cooper but always thought about him not necessarily being that good but just being gimmicky and fun but this is kind of a great record. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" is silly and dumb but still so good. "Sick Things" is a little too bizarre, but everybody gets one. Ok unfortunately "I Love The Dead" is also too bizarre so that's too bad. Yeah, now I know why I think of him as being too gimmicky. Because when he is making just straight up rock and roll songs it is great, but then he does the over the top silly shit and it's way less cool. But not intolerable.
Some fun songs, some kinda weird songs
I suppose we're having a "I already listened to this" sort of week, although unlike ABBA, this one stays in the same place it started for me. It is certainly Alice Cooper as a band's best album, but the album suffers from forgettable tracks all throughout, and while some of the most iconic from the band's career spawn from here, it really suffers from those boring tracks. That being said, I love when this album ditches the rock n roll sensibilities and goes for a more theatrical approach, it was what Alice Cooper (the person) was born to do, and fits the creepy style far more in my eyes than boring Who-like guitar solos. I do sound like I hate this album, but there is plenty to like: the lyrics still generally hold up, and the whole album has this feeling to it like it was so immaculately planned that there are no flaws to see. It feels all born with a purpose of being on this record, which is interesting considering Elected I believe was a couple years old at this point. A good album, but Alice Cooper's solo work was always his best (and worst) material, and this only sits somewhere in the middle of it all. Scraping by with its score here.
Clásico del hard rock, "Billion Dollar Babies" no tiene desperdicio. Su éxito tuvo mucho que ver con la producción de Bob Ezrin, que supo dulcificar el sonido crudo y cortante de los primeros discos de Alice Cooper sin perder un ápice de fuerza y sin dejar el sendero del rock duro. Es difícil quedarse con una sola canción, desde la que da título al álbum hasta las menos conocidas como "Unfinished Sweet" (me gusta bastante a pesar, o gracias, a sus más de 6 minutos), la macabra "Sick Things" o "Generation Landslide", pasando por temazos como "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (única concesión al pop, pero con intención rockera), "Elected" o el inquietante cierre del álbum, la necrofílica "I Love the Dead", todas son dignas de más de una escucha.
Not a fan.
Known for No More Mr Nice Guy. Song about loving the dead was okay too.
Were parents afraid of this guy? The music sounds like it belongs in the background of a Disney movie about a bum dad renting an RV to spend a weekend with his family when everything goes wrong. I am not a fan of faux dental drill sounds in my music. "I got no friends because I read the paper" is so lame.
There are a couple good adolescent anthems on here. Alice is at times an interesting vocalist. Some of the instrumentation is pretty good. And there's some real crap on here, too. Funny, that's just how I remember it!
This was not my kind of music at all. Just didn’t really enjoy it. I liked the last few songs.
Pretty thematic one-two punch with The Stooges - Raw Power as yesterday's album. Right away, it's reminding me of Pink Floyd's "The Wall", in terms of like directly addressing the audience. I wonder if Roger Waters took some inspiration? Anyhoot, I am pretty sure I was only vaguely familiar with Alice Cooper before this landed on my page today, I have fond memories of playing "School's Out" on Guitar Hero growing up. Other than that, I do not really have much of a context for him/them (apparently Alice Cooper is both the name of the band and the frontman's stage persona? A little confusing but ok). I am learning that I definitely prefer the sound of early-70s "hard-rock" to the late-70s sound, and both of those are preferred to the harsh 80s production of similar bands. To quote Jake Longstreth, you have to appreciate the tasteful palette of early 70s rock and roll production. Everything sounds warm. Kind of funny almost the disconnection between the lyrics and the instrumentation -- pretty standard (but really good standard!) type of hard-rock playing, with some really wild/goofy/obscene lyrics. Reading about some of the controversy with this record brings me back to an earlier album in this project (for me, the album is like 25 years in the future of course) -- the Slim Shady LP. (I like this record a lot more). But it goes to show how the older generation will always be shocked by something the younger generation is listening to -- and of course, a good amount of the intent behind the young kids music is to shock their elders. You can see this continue today with songs like "WAP" causing people to freak out. The only track I've recognized so far is "No More Mr. Nice Guy" -- good track! The guitar playing on "Generation Landslide" is really nice, almost Allman like in the outro. I like this record more than I thought I would! Probably not a 5 star, but a very solid 4.
Wow, outstanding bum. I had only really ever heard a couple Alice Cooper things in like commercials, and I think Billion Dollar Babies was in Rock Band or something, but this grabbed me immediately with Hello Hooray. This was an incredible album.
Semi listened
Never been much of an Alice Cooper fan and listening to this album all the way through didn't change that.
I enjoy this. I like how experimental it feels while still remaining listenable and unique to Cooper’s style. Didn’t overstay its welcome had enough bops to get you through. Minor complaints about small things such as production and the sloppiness of the whole project, but I it may actually add to its charm. 4/5
Second listen needed.
More than solid rock with a lot of heart, surprisingly fun!
Rock, heavy metal, male, mid, solos, voice too prominent, rather soft, drums and bass play very small role, but a lot of references. Not enough to keep me entertained...
Enjoyed this way more than I thought I would! Was only familiar with like two tracks but the rest of the songs were just good ol' rockin' fun. Also surprised to see how long Alice Cooper has been going at it. He has albums in the 60s??? There's a song on here called Elected that sounds exactly like I wanna be Sedated by the Ramones so I looked into it and apparently both bands have discussed it - but Alice Cooper's version is almost 10 years older than the Ramones - who I already think is an ancient band in their own right. Anyways long live Alice Cooper what a legend.
Airy mix. Which is cool for a rock album. Not my thing, but it’s not bad. Too bad he’s turned into a weirdo and bigot
Aside from No More Mr. Nice Guy, this album just doesn't do anything for me. It sounds like other stuff from the era, just worse. I'm also not a big fan of some of the content of the lyrics. Gives me the ick.
3+
Brings back some happy memories of the 11 yr old me, especially Elected. Good album but like most of his work good but not great
Eh. First half is okay. 2nd half I disavow.
Alic3 Coop3r
Enjoyable 3.5
fun and easy to listen to! love no more mr nice guy.
Was not exposed to Alice growing up. I now know why I heard it referred to as “Satan’s music. Now, as a very mature adult, I enjoyed the dark and sometimes quirkiness of his lyrics.
Hard for me to judge -- seems designed to fit neatly within my wheelhouse but somehow I didn't come away feeling like I had an Alice Cooper-shaped hole that needed to be filled. Satirizing boomer aspirations... okay, thanks. Mostly I felt like I just came to this too late for me to feel strongly about it. I also didn't know anything about Alice Cooper except that he had a really theatrical stage act. He's got a great voice and the backing instrumentals are a lot more rich and varied than I'd expected. Might give it another listen.
Much better than the other album by Alice Cooper on this list. Some songs were actually quite good, which took me by a surprise. I was expecting a terrible record, but here we are! I change my opinion on this band, I will listen to some of their songs in the future.
I had no idea what to expect from this album and prejudged it based on Alice Cooper’s looks. I thought it would be super screamy but it was full of catchy melodies and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Probably not going in the regular rotation, but a big improvement over yesterday!
In high school, this band was very popular with the stoners and freaks (I was decent friends with many of them) and the whole purpose of the band seemed very calculated to me to appeal to such a demographic. Theatrically shocking in concert. Some of the songs are ok, but this album generally leaves me cold. Alice later (or maybe even during their heyday) became a golf fanatic and supposedly drank over a case of beer a day. School’s Out (not on this album) is a great song, though.
Boring.
Objectively not bad but I didn’t enjoy it at all
First half was great. Fell off for me after No More Mr. Nice Guy Favourites: 1,2,4,6
High 3 star, more enjoyable than I realized and fittingly interesting for the turn into the 70's
Corny Danzig.
Fun
Shock rock isn’t for me. The music for those who “aren’t like other boys” and wants you to know it. Fun instrumentation and lots of influence from late 60s-early 70s rock
Great. A very good album. I leked to listen to it
Silly shock rock. Fairly musical, but offset by the Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Marilyn Manson gimmickry of the whole thing. 2.5 rounded to 3 due to decent instrumental passages.
Decent.
I'm not a fan of horror rock but I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I've listened to Cooper's main jams many times over the years but never an entire album. With the exception of a couple of songs, this entire work is well done.
whoop diddy cooper
pas loin du 4!!
Dunkel und satirisch. Ein bisschen theatralisch.
Not a true fan of Alice, however the music composition on this album (first time listen) was excellent. His lyric always seems immature to me, however if seen as humor, his poetry is damn funny. Intelligent. Not certain I would rush back to listen to this one again, but enjoyed it well enough for a 3 rating.
For something which I'm DEFINITELY not the target audience for... This was pretty decent. Tooke me a few tries to get into it, but there are some good riffs here despite most of it sounding like pretty prototypical 70s hard rock (not usually my thing). Not something I'm going to come back to often (if at all tbh), but I'm okay having listened to it once.
There are some really good highs on this album. Elected, Billion Dollar Babies, and No More Mr. Nice Guy all stand out as great tracks. There are a few filler tracks, but honestly it's a quite good album. It has the almost required slow ballad in Mary Ann, though I will say it doesn't hold up well at all to other similar ballads by groups of the same era. Still, a good solid album that's worth a listen.
Listened to this one before. Good album by Alice Cooper. Tame by todays standards but still great hard rock with a shock factor based on the lyrical content.
Not a fan of Alice Cooper. Not bad but not my thing
I like the long instrumental section in Unfinished Sweet.
Before this, the only Alice Cooper songs that I’d heard were School’s Out and Poison, so I was surprised to find this album sounded very different to those. Some interesting elements like the sound of the dentist drill in Unfinished Sweet, and while I quite liked I Love the Dead, there was nothing that I loved.
Classic Cooper, nice tracks but not the apex of his work.
Some interesting instruments used, kinda atmospheric but probably wouldn't listen again
Some cool clasic rock right here. Bass work is pretty impressive on Billion Dollar Babies. No More Mr. Nice Guy is a boomer anthem. do i really want to relisten to alice cooper sing about fucking corpses? I guess not really.
no thanks
Pretty good, not great, mostly interesting to put a sound to the name
A bit aged sounding but sounds like classic rock for me. Slow and the track is a bit muddled sounding. Interesting riffs that were probably more revolutionary at the time.
Dit was goed te verteren! Lekker bezig, Alice!
Die ouwe Alice trek ik een stuk beter dan het latere werk. Maar dat neemt niet weg dat ik niet alles even goed kon waarderen.
Eigenlijk een behoorlijk leuk album! Meneer Cooper stapt hier zelfs voor bepaalde nummers totaal uit het shock-rocker hokje, en produceert een paar mooie popliedjes. I can dig it.
Love unfinished sweet. Not a big fan of elected and no more Mr nice guy has been played to death, but a fairly solid album.
One of Alice Cooper's better albums, containing two or three genuine classics.
My friends saw me listening to a song called "Raped and Freezin" and got concerned. Kinda weird album, not sure I'm a fan of theatrical rock. Maybe live it would be fun but it just doesn't land in the recorded version. I think the only song I knew previously was No More Mr Nice Guy I give this one a respectable 3/5 for its iconic moments and contribution to the theatrical rock genre.
I certainly like this one more than School's Out. Faves: Elected, Unfinished Sweet, No More Mr. Nice Guy, and Generation Landslide.
Ooh, this was great - much more in line with my preconceptions about how an Alice Cooper album would sound when compared to "School's Out". Again, I'd happily give this a 4.5 if that were an option - if I didn't have a backlog of albums from the xmas break to catch up on, I'd be tempted to give it a couple more plays to see if it'd get up to a 5! Fave tracks - "Elected" and "No More Mr Nice Guy" are the ones I was familiar with going in, and they're both great tunes. "Generation Landslide", "Sick Things" and "I Love the Dead" were all stand outs too!
Only knew a few Alice Cooper songs before this album and didn't really know what to expect. Was a solid mid-table album with a few good tunes. Would like to hear more of his stuff.
A few songs weren't for me, but in general I liked the guitar sounds a lot. Also, vocals? YES.
Fun album. Probably influential for its time. Not really something I’ll probably listen to again though.
This is fun. I’m enjoying it more than I expected to. Not going to run out and buy a used copy, or put it into any kind of rotation, but I won’t be upset if it comes on again
First Alice Cooper album I'm hearing all the way through. Pretty rockin' album, campy, fun/gallows kind of lyrics. The album seemed to get better on the next listen. I was familiar with No More Mr. Nice Guy, but my faves are Billion Dollar Babies and Generation Landslide. The closing track I Love the Dead gets points for it's sheer camp and shock value, literally just months before the first production of the Rocky Horror Show.
I have heard of Alice Cooper but never really listen to much of his stuff. The album was okay didn't hate it, didn't love it. I really like no one more, Mr. nice guy. Will probably add that song to my playlist Also really love the album cover
Good. I liked the title track, ‘No More Mr. Nice Guy’, and ‘I Love The Dead’ the most. Alice Cooper has a good brand of shock rock, though not really actually that shocking.
Langweiliger glam rock
Not bad for the first 5 songs are so. Maybe even Bowie-esque. Then it got significantly worse
Cool
It rocks. It glams. It’s theatrical. It’s Alice Cooper. Filled with fascinating instrumentation, this is Alice Cooper at his best. Honestly, it’s theatric rock at its best.
Boring for me
Really not my vibe for some reason cause it should be 2/5 It’s fine? Just kinda lost interest
Good classic rock album
I kinda like Alice Cooper but this was a letdown because wtf were they going on about at times? His solo work is much much better than this, and it only gets a 3 because No More Mr Nice Guy is an all-time great tune and his vocals are strong enough to make it generally listenable.
Not for me in the slightest. Starts out okay, but not sure if it's a weird joke or if it's just trying to be mega edgelordy. Starts out well, but turns into a prototype, more tuneful Marilyn Manson. 2/5.
It's shocking for a guy my age, but this is my first Alice Cooper album. I'm surprised by how campy it is. I knew how theatrical he can be but I thought his music was darker and more ominous. Anyway, I can see how high school dudes in the early 70s would love Cooper for upsetting their parents and preachers, but 50 years later I don't hear anything enduring or meaningful here. The best stuff sounds like cast-offs from The Who. For what it's worth, I also decided to check out Welcome to My Nightmare and that was even more campy with orchestras and Vincent Price gleefully waxing about poisonous spiders! I guess it's fun to revisit that era for a bit and chuckle at what sounds like songs from "Gollum the Musical" but this album seemed kind of shallow to me.
I’ve never dug Alice Cooper.
No more Mr nice guy is my fav so far
Another enjoyable album for Mr. Cooper & pals. There aren’t any really outstanding tracks on here but it’s all pretty fun. I was always vaguely well-disposed towards AC, probably after he appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and now I've heard a couple of his albums I'm even more so. 3 / 3.5
Very middling experience. Plenty of yelling over standard rock tracks and nothing stood out. I knew Election, as most people probably do, but I wasn't really interested by much on offer here.
Ugh
not for me. But it is an absolute classic.
I had two 👍s on this album. Pretty fun album. Way better than what I thought I’d get from AC.
It’s ok
Always struck by how relatively mild and understated these old metal/horror rock type acts are (though there is certainly some way out there concepts entertained). Not my genre generally but an enjoyable listen.
Went in only knowing the few radio hits and ended up really enjoying this. It has rock opera feel.
This was alright. Not a huge fan of Cooper as it is kind of cheesy now. But had I not grown up with Marilyn Manson, I would have probably loved this. Songs are good I suppose but I want them to be way more hard rock than they are.
I only knew a song. I like when the instrumentals get Trippy. I like the vocals and instrumental on their own, but for some reason not together. 3
Old school. Alice was amazing back then.
Alice Cooper is always a fun listen, and there actually is a lot more musically going on here than you'd think. It's always interesting hearing hard rockers go back to their roots and play straightforward blues like he does on Generation Landslide. It's a nice reminder that hard rock is the blues, just presented very differently.
Surprisingly diverting rock. “Elected” is really a fun song with more incisive lyrics than I’d have attributed to Alice Cooper!
This album is decent, each song has parts of it I like and parts I don't like, so they even each other out. Alice Cooper's voice is unique, both in a good way and a bad way depending on the song. The guitars and backing music I felt were the most consistent part of the album and were always good, but didn't carry most songs. 2.5/5 Favorite song: No More Mr. Nice Guy Worst song: Sick Things
Anfangs super langweilig, so in Richtung Glamrock, danach wirds besser. Mit so ein paar ganz schönen Experimenten.
This sucks so much. 1.7
I can’t believe I actually liked this album. I didn’t know much about Alice Cooper before, but I had my ideas about what his music was like. I was very wrong. He’s much better than I expected. 7/10 Top 3: 1. No More Mr. Nice Guy 2. Hello Hooray 3. Elected
Frathouse rock. Well executed and pretty fun but ultimately a bit monotone
Whereas most Alice Cooper records thread a fine line between witty and passé, rocking and tiresome… this was a fun one throughout. Still with the same dry Alice Cooper delivery but this record is proper glam - more akin to T-Rex and Bowie but maybe not as refined. Anyway it was a fun record.
Not my personal taste but solid enough!
Can’t deny that No More Mr Nice Guy is a banger. The rest is pretty fun but not exactly for me. A high 3.
Good guitar throughout and definitely interesting song writing and form. There’s a lot of attitude throughout the album. Not totally for me just listening through but I’m sure Alice Cooper concerts were epic and where he really shined.
Ok hard rock album with a Glam touch. Closer to the NY Dolls than Led Zeppelin. A little bit of KISS in here too. I like it, but does it need to be on the list?
A solid classic rock album I’ve never heard before. I hear elements of The Who in the intentionally epic rock opera style of many of these songs, Beatles influences on the first and final tracks, and I assume the James Bond style of “Unfinished Sweet” was intentional? “Billion Dollar Babies” was fire. ”Elected” sounds like “I wanna be sedated”.
Bit boring really but not bad
I feel like this is the right type of glam: something that goes so over-the-top that it turns out grimy and pushing the envelope. Like how "glam" fashion feels, in reality, like putting a lot of makeup on a pig. It's pretty, but underneath? Favorite tracks: "No More Mr. Nice Guy", "Elected"
We are not worthy!
This was really good. I was only familiar with his hits and enjoyed this album.
Seems strong. Probably not much my type ever.
Really mid, and kinda boring. The second I saw the track called "Raped and Freezin" I knew this album wouldn't be for me.
#13. With a walking cringe factory like Alice Cooper that is seemingly unaware that we're laughing at him and not with him, you'd think this album would be worse. I want to give it one star. I want to hate it. But this album isn't interesting enough to elicit any emotion anywhere near hate. The only thing it generates in me is disinterest. It's just generic boring 70s radio rock. If you cut the volume way down and pretend you don't speak English, it's almost good as background noise. Almost. This album is just... lame. And not offensively lame, just boringly lame. The best this album could hope for is to be quietly forgotten 2/5 meh Song added to playlist: No More Mr. Nice Guy I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link
sooo much better than i thought this was gonna be
pretty good
Interesting... hard rock with a whimsical, musical sound. Good but not great.
It's okay. I like some of the weird riffs, but honestly didn't pay attention to most of it.
More enjoyable than expected.
Wasn't really into it, but it managed perfectly fine as background music
Didn't recognize any of these older songs other than No More Mr. Nice Guy. Overall pretty decent album. Definitely doesn't reflect the image of Alice Cooper I have in my mind. Reading about the history they picked their name because they didn't want to have a dark name. Funny that this would be considered dark music.
Disappointed. Was expecting something rocky. this sounded like musical theatre.