BILLION DOLLAR BABIES
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BILLION DOLLAR BABIES
Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1973 The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.-Wikipedia
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All Music
Not only is Billion Dollar Babies one of Cooper's very best; it remains one of rock's all-time, quintessential classics.
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Rolling Stone
But as it is now, with each member totally willing to submerge his musical development within the group personality, we’ll continue to see a dependence on cheap tricks and illusions of decadence instead of rock & roll.
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Sleaze Roxx
2018 - The Alice Cooper Band was simply on fire in the early ’70s and Billion Dollar Babies will most likely go down as the fourth great studio album in a row for the group after 1971’s Love It To Death (1971), Killer (1971) and School’s Out (1972).
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Pop Matters
2007 - It's brilliant, decadent, and encapsulated all the celebrity trashiness of the Seventies only three years into the decade.
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Classic Rock Review
Although it was no doubt manufactured just for this shock effect, it may be a bit much for those who cherish some sliver of taste in rock and roll.
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Musoscribe
2014 - With a production and arrangement aesthetic that positioned each of the record’s ten cuts as an anthem of sorts, the group perfected the balance of grimy scuzz-rock and gleaming, streamlined commerciality.
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Back Seat Mafia
2018 - With its mix of legitimately great hit singles and ability to stand shoulder to shoulder alongside the classic rock albums of the era, Billion Dollar Babies may very well be the definitive release by the original Alice Cooper group
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Keno's Classic Rock n Roll Web Site
2000 - This is a true Alice Cooper album and one of their best.
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Mark's Record Reviews
Billion Dollar Babies isn't just a great album -- it's a FUN album!
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Only Solitaire
Theatrical Peak. Take it or leave it, you gotta admit it's an event at least.
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Don Ignacio
This is a hugely enjoyable album through and through with wholesome creativity! I don't want to refund a single second of the time I invested in listening to this.
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Rough Edge
a spectacular tribute to one of rock's true showmen and legendary talents.
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the most streamlined album up until that point, and as such was their most successful, but they achieved this without sacrificing the gleeful sadism or uniquely memorable melodies
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Gary "Uncle G" Brown Archives
2017 - It’s perfect in every way
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Jive Time Records
2011 - Not only did Alice Cooper write strong songs, but they delivered their mix of bombastic heavyweight, glam tinged rock with a knowing pop sensibility and a sense of melody few could compete with.
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Tone Audio
2010 - stands as Cooper’s finest studio achievement, a front-to-back miasma of engaging hooks, absorbing riffs, eerie lyrics, and the singer’s trademark sneer
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Music Tap
2014 - the legacy left behind by the band, who kicked out grand albums in whirlwind seven to nine month periods, reached its peak with an album called Billion Dollar Babies
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Stereophile
2014 - both musically and sonically is more theatrical bombast than volume or crunch
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1001albumsin10years
2016 - Thus confirming that BDB is exactly how I hoped an Alice Cooper record would sound: intriguing, unpredictable, and above all, always theatrical.
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Defending Axl Rose
2012 - an interesting romp through the strange, dark, wilderness of rock. It’s a fantastic October album (though it is a good November album, too) because it’s plenty spooky.
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Liverpool Sound and Vision
Perhaps strangely for the time there is not a weak song on the album, the brash and confident stroll along happily with the unashamed and brazen. Each song captures the mood in which it was intended
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Antimusic
the fact remains that this album was a success because of the amazing songs. Inventive, provocative and entirely cohesively conceived and delivered. It's as simple as that.
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