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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