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Billion Dollar Babies Album Review
(Gallery, 1973-06-00)
They're perverse, they're boisterous, they're grotesque and they're insolent and disrespectful brats, and they are talented musicians who are sometimes terribly funny. They are Alice Cooper, purveyors of horror amd mascara rock, and their new LP, Billion Dollar Babies (Warner Bros.), is a masterpiece of mischief and the macabre. Hello Hurray begins the album with controlled, mild instrumentation and stirring vocal echoes; but no sooner does the group establish a sympathetic bond than they test it with one of their jokes, suddenly sucking the listener into their whirpool of good-natured sacrilege and demonic joy. ...
What do they expect for 70 grand a night?
(Gallery, 1973-09-00)
He comes staggering out of the fog, lurching through the light and darkness, humped over, drinking some king-hell-evil-rotgut fluid, probably some straight Benzedrine solution to warm up his stomach, and he staggers, twisting violently once in a while like a moving body tic toward the microphone that is five precariously negotiated steps away....