I GOT A BABY'S BRAIN
AND AN OLD MAN'S HEART
TOOK EIGHTTEN YEARS
TO GET THIS FAR..
DON'T ALWAYS KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT
FEELS LIKE I'M LIVIN'
IN THE MIDDLE OF DOUBT..
Love It to Death
is the third
studio album
by American
Rock Band
released on
on
March 9, 1971.
It was the band's
first commercially
successful album
and the first album
that consolidated
the band's
aggressive
hard-rocking sound,
instead of the
psychedelic and
experimental
rock style
of their
first two albums.
The album's
best-known track,
"I'm Eighteen",
was released as
a single
to test the band's
commercial viability
before the album
was recorded.
Formed in the
mid-1960s,
the band took
the name
Alice Cooper
in 1968
and became known
for its outrageous
theatrical live shows.
The loose,
psychedelic
freak rock
of the first
two albums
failed to find
an audience.
The band moved
to Detroit
in 1970
where they were
influenced by the
aggressive
hard rock scene.
A young
Bob Ezrin
was enlisted as
producer;
he encouraged
the band to
tighten its
songwriting
over two months
of rehearsing
ten to twelve
hours a day.
The single
"I'm Eighteen"
achieved
Top 40 success
soon after,
peaking at No. 21.
This convinced
Warner Bros.
that
Alice Cooper
had the
commercial potential
to release
an album.
After its release
in March 1971,
Love It to Death
reached No. 35
on the
Billboard 200
albums chart
and has
since been
certified platinum.
The album's
second single,
"Caught in a Dream",
charted at No. 94.
The original album cover
featured the singer
Cooper posed
with his thumb
protruding so it
appeared to be
his penis;
Warner Bros.
soon replaced it
with a censored version.
The Love It to Death tour
featured an
elaborate shock rock
live show:
during
"Ballad of Dwight Fry"
about an inmate
in an insane asylum
Cooper would be
dragged offstage
and return
in a straitjacket,
and the
show climaxed
with Cooper's
mock execution
in a prop
during
"Black Juju".
Ezrin and
the Coopers
continued to
work together
for a string
of hit albums
until the band's
breakup in 1974.
The album has come
to be seen as a
foundational influence
on hard rock,
punk,
and heavy metal;
several tracks
have become
live Alice Cooper
standards
and are
frequently covered
by other bands.
Killer
is the fourth
studio album
by American
Rock Band
released in
November 1971
by Warner Bros.
Records.
The album peaked at
No. 21
on the
Billboard 200
album chart,
and the
two singles
"Under My Wheels"
and
"Be My Lover"
made the
Billboard
Hot 100 chart.
Cooper said in
the liner notes
of
A Fistful of Alice
(1997)
and
In the Studio
with Redbeard,
which spotlighted
the Killer
and
Love It to Death
(1971)
albums,
that the song
"Desperado"
was written about
his friend
Jim Morrison,
who died
the year this album
was released.
According to an
NPR radio interview
with Alice Cooper,
"Desperado"
was written about
Robert Vaughn's
character
from the movie
The Magnificent Seven
(1960).
"Halo of Flies"
was,
according to Cooper's
liner notes
in the compilation
The Definitive Alice Cooper
(2001),
an attempt by
the band to prove
that they could
perform
King Crimson-like
progressive rock suites,
and was supposedly
about a
SMERSH-like
organization.
"Desperado",
along with
"Under My Wheels"
and
"Be My Lover"
have appeared on
different
compilation albums
by Cooper.
The song
"Dead Babies"
stirred up
some controversy
following the
album's release,
despite the fact
that its lyrics
conveyed an
"anti-child abuse"
message.
TRACK LIST
Caught In A Dream
I'm Eighteen
Long Way To Go
Black Juju
Is It My Body
Hallowed Be My Name
Second Coming
Ballad Of Dwight Fry
Sun Arise
Under My Wheels
Be My Lover
Halo Of Flies
Desperado
You Drive Me Nervous
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Dead Babies
Killer
BONUS CD
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I'm Eighteen
(Just Vocals)
Is It My Body
(Just Vocals)
Ballad Of Dwight Fry
(Vocal Mix)
Under My Wheels
(Vocal Mix)
Be My Lover
(Vocal Mix)
Desperado
(Vocal Mix)
Dead Babies
(Vocal Mix)
Killer
(Vocal Mix)
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