ALICE COOPER - BILLION DOLLAR BABIES (180g LP)

Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies on 180g LP from Rhino

Mastered from the Original Analog Tapes: Tremendous Sound

Deluxe Packaging Faithfully Mimicks That of Original LP, Complete With Inserts and Cover Textures

Cooper's Finest Studio Album: Includes "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "Elected"

Rock star opulence came to an explosive head in 1973 when Alice Cooper and company hit #1 on the U.S. and worldwide charts with Billion Dollar Babies, their sixth and most successful album. Produced by Bob Ezrin, it is also one of the best rock ’n’ roll records of all time. Featuring the now-classic "No More Mr. Nice Guy," macabre "I Love the Dead," radio staple "Elected," and sinister title track, the 1973 set doesn't let up from start to finish, largely due to Cooper's theatrical vocals and his stellar backup band. The subsequent tour became their biggest rock production to date.

Capitalizing on the album’s themes of good-old decadence and horror, the show climaxed with a guillotine execution of Alice. The album and the tour catapulted the band into the world’s preeminent pied pipers of teenage trash culture.

Having not aged a lick, Billion Dollar Babies has never sounded so good. Mastered from the original analog tapes and housed in a gatefold jacket complete with a faux lizard-skin cover and rounded corners, Rhino's 180g analog pressing far exceeds any other version. Listeners also get the famous billiion-dollar poster and wallet-sized punch-out photos of the band members. This is a reissue done in all the right ways!

"Pressed at RTI on 180g virgin vinyl and cut from the original analog master tapes, the LP sounds fantastic and features extraordinarily quiet surfaces. The always-tricky inner grooves don’t give off a whiff of distortion or compromise, and the balance between Cooper’s vocals and the musicians’ tamed thunder is steady throughout. Ezrin’s production is clean yet gritty enough to serve tunes that tackle themes of necrophilia, greed, and the macabre. Better still? The deluxe packaging."
--Bob Gendron, TONE Audio, Issue 28

Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies Track Listing:

1.  Hello Hooray
2.  Raped And Freezin'
3.  Elected
4.  Billion Dollar Babies
5.  Unfinished Sweet
6.  No More Mr. Nice Guy
7.  Generation Landslide
8.  Sick Things
9.  Mary Ann
10. I Love The Dead