Label: Warner Bros. Records (Japan), WPCR-14304
Style: Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Glam Rock
Country: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. (February 4, 1948)
Time: 40:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 292 Mb
Charts: US #1, AUS #4, AUT #4, CAN #2, FIN #1, GER #9, NL #1, NOR #6, SWE #2, UK #1. AUS & CAN: Gold; US: Platinum.
The
album's title comes from the fact that the five members of Alice Cooper
were surprised about their success. Cooper related: "How could we, this
band that two years ago was living in the Chambers Brothers' basement
in Watts, be the Number One band in the world, with people throwing
money at us?" The title was also later used as the name of the group
Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, and Michael Bruce formed after Alice Cooper
group had split up. Cooper said, "The whole idea behind the Billion
Dollar Babies album was exploiting the idea that people do have sick
perversions."
Alice Cooper, who wrote the majority of the album's
lyrics, cited Chuck Berry as a key influence on his writing. "Hello
Hooray", the album's opening track, was written by Canadian
singer/songwriter Rolf Kempf and was previously recorded by Judy
Collins. The band wanted their version of the song to sound like "Alice
Cooper meets Cabaret". The album's third track, "Elected", is a rewrite
of the song "Reflected" from Pretties for You (1969). "Raped and
Freezin' has been called a "hilarious and gorgeously catchy" take on the
idea of sexual harassment by PopMatters's Jason Thompson. "Unfinished
Sweet" is about visiting a dentist with sound effects recorded by Gerry
Lyon. The title track was co-written by Reggie Vinson (credited on
original pressings of the album as "R. Reggie", i.e., "Rockin' Reggie
Vinson"), who had played guitar on and performed vocals for School's Out
(1972). Donovan described the song as a "horror story song". The
album's closing track, "I Love the Dead", is a tongue-in-cheek song
about necrophilia.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Dollar_Babies)
01. Hello Hooray (04:14)
02. Raped And Freezin' (03:17)
03. Elected (04:06)
04. Billion Dollar Babies (03:40)
05. Unfinished Sweet (06:17)
06. No More Mister Nice Guy (03:06)
07. Generation Landslide (04:32)
08. Sick Things (04:14)
09. Mary Ann (02:23)
10. I Love The Dead (05:06)
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