Alice Cooper wasted little time following up the breakthrough success of Love It to Death with another album released the same year, Killer. Again, producer Bob Ezrin was on board and helps the group solidify their heavy ock (yet wide-ranging) style even further. The band's stage show dealt with the macabre, and such disturbing tracks as "Dead Babies" and the title track fit in perfectly. Other songs were even more exceptional, such as the perennial barnstorming concert standard "Under My Wheels," the melodic yet gritty "Be My Lover," and the tribute to their fallen friend Jim Morrison, "Desperado." The long and winding "Halo of Flies" correctly hinted that the band would be tackling more complex song structures on future albums, while "You Drive Me Nervous" and "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" showed that Alice Cooper hadn't completely abandoned their early garage rock direction. With Killer, they became one of the world's top ock bands and concert attractions; it rewarded them as being among the most notorious and misunderstood entertainers, thoroughly despised by grownups.
I shed a tear when I saw this:Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible DeclineTwo French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on filmPhotographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. And the photos NOT sold to Time but part of this shoot, can be found on their official site here.
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I was listening to a cover of this tune the other day and was reminded of how great it is...
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That question or something like it may well have been on the minds of many a confused adult back in the early years of the Nixon era, when a strange band with a taste for Grand Guignol excess finally hit the Top 40. As has since become common among bands which traffick heavily in false eyelashes, mascara, violence and sadism, the band Alice Cooper (which would only later become associated with ...
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| 1 Under My Wheels |
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| 2 Be My Lover |
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| 3 Halo of Flies |
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| 4 Desperado |
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| 5 You Drive Me Nervous |
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| 6 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah |
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| 7 Dead Babies |
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| 8 Killer |
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