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| Alice Cooper - Love It to Death Band: Alice Cooper Tracks: - 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 The best album ever released by the Alice Cooper group. I bought this LP in early 1971 soon after it was released, after hearing selections from it played on the radio. The improvement in musicianship and composition was dramatic from the previous releases. EVERY song on this LP is well-written and well-performed, and highly memorable. You hear it and just want to sit and listen to it time and time again, and it still sounds fresh 28 years after it was was released. Of the two albums that followed, "Killer" is OK and "School's Out" is also a pretty good album, both with a lot of good tracks, but "Love It to Death" is the real gem. Now, why hasn't the record company looked in their vaults & upgraded this album by remastering it & including some alternate takes and Live versions of the songs thrown in as bonus cuts? A Great Album Love it to Death is a fantastic album. Peter Banks of the original Yes said something in his book -Beyound and Before (With Billy James) about Band's third album, He said that on the 3ed albums a Band will really show you what there made of, and Alice Cooper Group really out did there selves on Love It To Death there 3ed Album. I Love this album from cover to cover; and it was my introduction to Alice Cooper Group back in 1971 and I have been a fan of the original Band ever since. I was turned off to Alice as a solo Artist until some time in the 90s (Now I like some of his solo work) but I will always Love the original band. This Album (now on CD) just rocks and is so intriguing with his hard rock classical mixes as well. Caught In A Dream, I'm Eighteen, Long Way To Go, Is It My Body, Hollowed Be My Name, and on and on, every song is great. This is a must have for all Alice Cooper Fan's any new fans of Alice and a must have for any fan of hard rock. Alice comes alive. The first two Alice Cooper albums captured the sounds of goofy kids doing their [best] to annoy...anyone listening, but weren't much musically. By the time they were ready to record "Love It To Death," all that time on the road, the dingey clubs and the close chemistry finally had the desired effect. They'd learned how to write. And write they did. There are three Stone dead classics here...starting with the fierce roar of "Caught In A Dream." It served notice that these practical jokers had grown up fast, and by the time you hit the end of "I'm Eighteen" (one of the all-time prime coming of age songs ever) you couldn't help but acknowledge that the Alice Cooper Band had hit their stride. The other half of the growth spurt the "Love It To Death" album signified was in that the band's legendary stage show had melded into their music, and it was making for Actual songs instead of the general chaos of the first two LP's. "Second Coming/The Ballad Of Dwight Frye" took the gothic weirdness of the stage show and captured it to vinyl for the first time. (You can also credit Bob Ezrin, who was skilled enough a producer to organize the anarchy.) What ever their detractors had been saying pre-"Love It To Death," there was no way to deny it. Alice Cooper had the power and "Love It To Death" was the album that opened the portals of genius that would be unleash the next three brilliant albums. Buy Alice Cooper Love It To Death at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
