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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