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Love It to Death | 
| Artist: Alice Cooper
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 2054
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1883
UPC: 759927187218
EAN: 0075992718721
ASIN: B000002KBB
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Caught in a Dream | | • | I'm Eighteen | | • | Long Way to Go | | • | Black Juju - Alice Cooper, Dunaway, Dennis | | • | Is It My Body | | • | Hallowed Be My Name - Alice Cooper, Smith, Neal [1] | | • | Second Coming - Alice Cooper, Cooper, Alice | | • | Ballad of Dwight Fry | | • | Sun Arise - Alice Cooper, Harris, Butler |
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Must Own! December 3, 2008
Dakota Nielsen (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
Punk? Glam? Shock-Rock? Horror-Rock? Heavy Metal? Anything created since? Yes. It all starts here, everyone since has copied Alice Cooper. And there's nothing wrong with that, the Coop wouldn't have it any other way. Everyone from the Sex Pistols to Rob Zombie has cited Alice as the godfather of modern music, and especially all the genres of rock music in the last 30 years. One of the top 40 albums to date, and definitely Alice Cooper's best. Pick this up, and doors will open.
 Warner Brothers should be ashamed of these releases.... October 23, 2008
Tuco (Phoenix, Az USA)
First off, all of the original Alice Cooper band albums are more than worthwhile. Get them all....on vinyl that is.
These low priced CD's that Warner Brothers is peddeling are the original transfers from back when the CD was first introduced. Terrible hiss and poor sound quality make these unlistenable in my opinion. I have MP3's and cassettes of these albums that sound much better than these factory WB CD releases do.
I also own all of them on vinyl and can firmly attest that the AC band catalouge is in DIRE need of a remaster. Save your bucks until that happens or listen on vinyl/cassette until then. Don't encourage these guys. Shame on you Warner Brothers for continuing to sell such outdated/poor quality transfers!!
Love It to Death October 22, 2008
Harry Brewer (S'port, La.)
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Alice Cooper's third studio album was a major step in the right direction. Love It to Death was their first album for a major label although it had been previously released on a label owned by Frank Zappa, who's considered the discoverer of the band. The superstar producer, Bob Ezrin, was at the helm for the first time with the band. Under his guidance he helped to transform Alice Cooper into the hard rock band that most people are familiar with. Love It to Death peaked at #35 on the album charts & had two charting singles; "Caught in a Dream " (#94) & their breakthrough single, "I'm Eighteen" (#21).
The album opens with the aforementioned "Caught in a Dream" which is an excellent song. It certainly has a pop sound though not overly so. The band had a way of blending pop, rock, even garage into a unique sound & some of the darkest lyric for that era. Next is the anthemic "I'm Eighteen" which brought Alice Cooper to the attention of mainstream radio. I would turn that age in the year this album was released & it spoke bunches for me & my classmates. "Long Way to Go" didn't let up the pace as it rocked straight ahead. Michael Bruce does a great reverb soaked solo. "Black Juju" clocks in at more than nine minutes & is worth every minute of it. It has a Doors feel to it but much better to my ears. Black Juju" proves just how talented this band was. "Is It My Body" reverts to the tight song structure conducive to airplay. "Hallowed Be My Name" lyrically touches upon some quasi-religious themes that Coopper would get into sometimes. "Second Coming" slows down the pace but lyrically follows in the pattern of the previous song. Next is the incredible "Ballad of Dwight Fry" which has some of the strangest lyrics of most songs. With its tale of a deranged father, it's more than morbidly fascinating, it's downright frightening. With its opening of a little girl asking mommy, "Where's Daddy? Do you think he's ever coming home?"; it will certainly warn you that something strangely different is about to be thrust upon the listener. It's without a doubt one of Alice Cooper's best song. Up to this point we've had an album incredibly consistent, every song a keeper,not a piece of filler in the bunch. Then they had to close the album with the cover song "Sun Arise" which is incredibly lame. I know it's suppose to suggest waking up from a nightmare but the band could have written a song much stronger than this. It's a horrible ending to such an incredible album.
Gotta A Babies Brain and An Old Mans Heart....... October 8, 2008
N_Joy (North Carolina)
Where to begin. I didn't really know a whole lot about Alice Cooper until 1986 when he made his comeback and MTV (yes at one time MTV played music including good music) aired his concert from Detroit live on Halloween night. I was too young to remember his bands heyday back in the '70s so other than having heard "Eighteen" and "Schools Out" that was about the extent of my knowledge. What a show. All sorts of theatrics and weird stuff. Went out and grabbed this CD and "Billion Dollar Babies" shortly afterwards. While I love both of those this one is probably my favorite. While Alice's image conjures up Metal, the music on here is more straight forward, no frills rock and roll much like the Rolling Stones or Faces. When he made his late '80s come back the music would lean more towards Metal. Nothing fancy on here like the stage shows but boy is it great. Every song is awesome on here even "Sun Arise". But the best include "Is it My Body", "Eighteen", "Caught in a Dream"...hell, all of 'em. One thing about it Alice certainly influenced Marilyn Manson with his ourageous stage shows, but the difference is Alice Coopers music stands on it's own. He and the band could have gone without the elaborate stage shows and would have still been great. The music is that good. Manson couldn't dream of that. He couldn't carry Alices' boa constrictor.
classic ALICE September 16, 2008
Charles F. Marks (columbia sc)
Caught in a dream, I'm Eighteen and Is It My Body are just a few of the classics here. Alice being discovered more or less by Frank Zappa was a breath of fresh air for end of the 60's and early 70's rock n roll American style. THANKS TO HIS REBEL STYLE HE IS UNIQUE AND SHOULD BE LISTENED TO ACCORDINGLY...Charlie
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