Billion Dollar Babies 1973 Album

Alice Cooper

Billion Dollar Babies is the capper on a run of four albums from the Cooper band which established, for all intents and purposes, the foundation of the trash-rock style, and some say this is its defining statement. Certainly, of the four LP’s, it is the flashiest, most glam of them all – the Alice thing was at its’ peak of popularity, and it was time to cash in with the most grandiose record and live tour to match. Every one of the ten tracks on this CD we're calculated for maximum provocation, and this time Alice’s target was the rancid heart of American society along with shining a huge spotlight on those who indulged in its’ worst vices imaginable (and Alice was definitely not spared from making the latter case). But the trick was making something so grotesque sound more palatable than ever before – in fact, one of the things sorely missing from this record that is on earlier classics like Love It to Death and Killer is that hungry, gritty sound and the us-against-all-comers attitude. A very minor quibble - because really, as far as consistent, across-the-board highlights on an Alice Cooper album, Billion Dollar Babies will never be topped, and not surprising it turned out to be the last great statement Alice Cooper - as a band - would ever make.