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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