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Man, this guy was extreme...two dramatically different takes on a great song:I wish the quality on this was a little better but absolutely incredible...
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Alice Cooper
Love It to Death
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AMG Review of Love It to Death
Greg Prato
All Music GuideAlice Cooper's third album, Love It to Death, can be pinpointed as the release when everything began to come together for the band. Their first couple of albums (Pretties for You and Easy Action) were both largely psychedelic/acid rock affairs and bore little comparison to the band's eventual rip-roaring, teenage-anthem direction. The main reason for the quintet's change was that the eventually legendary producer Bob Ezrin was on board for the first time and helped the Coopers focus their songwriting and sound, while they also perfected their trashy, violent, and theatrical stage show and image. One of the band's most instantly identifiable anthems, "I'm Eighteen," was what made the album a hit, as well as another classic, "Is It My Body." But like Alice Cooper's other albums from the early '70s, it was an incredibly consistent listen from beginning to end. The garage rocker "Caught in a Dream" as well as the ass-kicking "Long Way to Go" and a pair of epics -- the Doors-esque "Black Juju" and the eerie "Ballad of Dwight Fry" -- showed that Alice was easily in league with other high-energy Detroit bands of the era (MC5, Stooges). Love It to Death was the first of a string of classic releases from the original Alice Cooper group.
A Portrait of Insanity
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With Halloween right around the corner, it's time to try and focus in on dementia, insanity, and all those creepy things that wake you up in the middle of the night, just knowing there is *something* in that corner paralyzing you with fear. What does it take to push one over the edge? How would you know until you get there, and would you realize it - even then?The neccessity of straight-jacket ...
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Sunday Under Covers: Alice Cooper Band perform Rolf Harris
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How and why The Alice Cooper band chose "Sun Arise" by Rolf Harris to cap off the unnerving insanity of their Love It To Death lp is quite enigmatic. I just realized after typing it, that I don't really know what that word means - but it sounds right. "Sun Arise", by the author of the cuddly "Tie Me Kangaroo Down", is an inspirational anthem to our source of heat and light and the power the old...
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Being 19
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Track:I'm 18
Man, I morphed into a 19-year-old on May 13. I stumbled into it with a crazy weekend, that's for sure. But I'm not really 19... I'll be 18 forever. Young at heart, always. What's the fun in being an old, boring hag?Anyway, one reason I hate being 19 is that there are no songs about being 19. (Well, none off the top of my head.) 17 was cool with "Seventeen" by Winger and some country song that g...
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Dedication to the new day,
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This is a double dedication to the new President and the people of America (maybe even people of earth)! Now is no time to sit on our laurels and take it easy:We've Come So Far to Be Here Today (thank you Radio Birdman), however we still gotta Long Way To Go (thank you Alice Cooper).*I don't have either of these songs in digital form, so you'll have to go hunt them down yourselves.
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