Label: Warner Bros. Records (Japan), WPCR-14308
Style: Hard Rock, Pop Rock, Gothic Rock
Country: Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (February 4, 1948)
Time: 41:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 296 Mb
Charts: US #42, UK #33, AUS $3, CAN #27, NZ #32, SWE #43. AUS: Platinum.
After
many years of portraying a dark and sinister persona Alice Cooper
decided to try something new and donned the persona of a heavy drinking
comic PI named "Maurice Escargot" — a fictional character in the same
vein as Inspector Clouseau. Cooper is pictured as Escargot on the back
cover of Lace and Whiskey, which was still a rock-based album but was
stylistically influenced by Cooper's love for 1940s' and 1950s' movies
and music.
The album's lead single, "You and Me", was an easy
listening ballad which provided Cooper with his last US top-ten single
for twelve years. "(No More) Love at Your Convenience", a disco-inspired
pop song, was released as the second single — it did not chart in most
countries. Music videos were created for both songs, at a time well
before the advent of MTV.
It was after the completion of the 1977
tour, that Cooper checked into a New York-based sanitarium for his first
treatment for alcoholism.
During the initial stage of this album's
era, when it was clear that Cooper was not going to return from his new
success, original Alice Cooper group members Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith,
and Michael Bruce formed a new band with Mike Marconi and Bob Dolin
called "The Billion Dollar Babies". Michael Bruce sang their lead
vocals.
The opening song "It's Hot Tonight" would be sampled by the
rap rock group Beastie Boys for the song "What Comes Around" on their
second studio album Paul's Boutique (1989).
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_and_Whiskey)
01. It's Hot Tonight (03:22)
02. Lace And Whiskey (03:15)
03. Road Rats (04:53)
04. Damned If You Do (03:15)
05. You And Me (05:10)
06. King Of The Silver Screen (05:36)
07. Ubangi Stomp (02:12)
08. (No More) Love At Your Convenience (03:53)
09. I Never Wrote Those Songs (04:34)
10. My God (05:43)
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