Label: Warner Bros. Records (Japan), WPCR-14305
Style: Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Glam Rock
Country: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. (February 4, 1948)
Time: 39:29
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 284 Mb
Charts: US #10, AUS #36, CAN #4, FIN #13, SWE #4, UK #34. US: Gold.
Cooper
stated in an interview at the time of recording that the album marked a
return to a basic rock sound. "It's not complicated in any sense and
there's not a lot of theatricality on it. It's very basic rock and roll
throughout." Cooper further explained, "Billion Dollar Babies was a
studio effort all the way. So was School's Out. It was just so clean
that after a few times of hearing it myself, it had no mystery to it. I
really wanted this one to have more guts to it. More balls."
Muscle
of Love is the first Alice Cooper album without Bob Ezrin as producer
since the pre-stardom Easy Action. The explanation given at the time was
that Ezrin was recovering from illness. However, bassist Dennis Dunaway
revealed in a 2011 interview that the band split with the producer
during an acrimonious rehearsal in which guitarist Michael Bruce stood
up to Ezrin and refused to change the arrangement of "Woman Machine".
Jack Richardson and Jack Douglas stepped in to share co-production
duties. Author Bob Greene described his participation in the album's
recording sessions, and his experiences touring with the band, in his
1974 book Billion Dollar Baby.
Dunaway recalled the album sessions as
being very difficult. "The problems on that album were that we could
tell that everything was being pulled out from underneath us. As hard as
we tried to get it back to where it once was, we had that sinking
feeling going on. We wanted to rekindle what the band was about but
there was just too much exhaustion by then."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_of_Love)
01. Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo) (05:10)
02. Never Been Sold Before (04:27)
03. Hard Hearted Alice (04:52)
04. Crazy Little Child (05:03)
05. Working Up A Sweat (03:32)
06. Muscle Of Love (03:44)
07. Man With The Golden Gun (04:12)
08. Teenage Lament '74 (03:52)
09. Woman Machine (04:32)
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