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28th March 2015, 05:37 PM
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Thanks a lot for the suggestions! Really helpful of you.  I'm surprised there isn't many remastered albums. I've collected pretty much everything David Bowie has done, and there's several remasters around!Also I was looking at this boxset on Amazon US and the first reviewer is complaining about the set having 3 remastered albums and 2 old masters. Does he just not know what he is talking about then? Suzi, I've been considering getting that Life and Crimes boxset, so maybe I'll make that my first purchase. It's also got the Jason song, "He's Back" on it, which has been playing in my head all the time lately (thanks to the several Friday 13ths lately). So I need to have that ASAP.  Susan Foreman and troggi like this.  |
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#92
28th March 2015, 06:50 PM
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#93
1st April 2015, 08:43 AM
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As promised/threatened a few posts ago, here is an Alice Cooper album-by-album, track by track discography. What I am going to try to do, is post at least one song every day, starting with the first album, and moving thru the entire discography, complete with my thoughts on the song, and any snippets of information I have regarding the track So, lets go back in time to 1969, when the Alice Cooper Group released the 'Pretties For You' album. It is a real oddity baring few signs of what was to come. Showing the obvious influence of both Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa (on who's label it was orginally released) it shows a band still finding its legs but there are still some great tracks on offer. It is certainly not an essential purchase, but it is not as bad as some people would lead you to believe. Dennis Dunaway still notes this as his favourite Alice Cooper record Pretties For You was recorded in 1968, but not released until June 1969 Alice Cooper - Vocals and Harmonica Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ Producer Ian Underwood and Herb Cohen The first two songs are linked. We first hear 'Titanic Overture', which is an instrumental, which leads into '10 Minutes Before The Worm'. The inspiration for the second song comes came from the old saying, The early bird gets the worm. But Dunaway would ask "Just how punctual was that bird? 5 minutes early? 10 minutes?"! 1/13/ Titanic Overture (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) Instrumental 2/13/ 10 Minutes Before the Worm (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "Let me be What a way for one too realise Gotta waste a bore now I see How he is so happy feeling sad Heavily Depressed God I knew Think I will enjoy the view -oy the view, -oy the view Everything is standing still ...ill ...ill"
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#94
1st April 2015, 10:52 PM
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| I haven't listened to "Pretties for You" for going on for 18 years and I never listened to it much before that! I remember it being a little too... "Zappa-lite" in places, not that Zappa is in any way bad, it's just that all Alice seemed to be missing was the xylophone! Thank you Suzi, I am (virtually) holding my breath until your next instalment.  Susan Foreman likes this.
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#95
2nd April 2015, 12:34 AM
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The third song on the album is "Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio", and it is more psychedelic nonsense! Alice Cooper - Vocals and Harmonica Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ 3/13/ Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "Forget, remember nothing please The force came from the flame I pass along the path inside My light shining always We'll get there first a name cried out And looked back all the way Recalling falling down A lot of time was spent that way But this story starin' me Had already begun 'Cause I had some vision in my sight On the journey to be one Help me, help please, help me please The screaming starts again The trick I find, something hid You look, you find, I win While working while the play was on The play was alright then Think thoughts, big thoughts Take off and go home, back next week again Right then my story ended And a new one had begun 'Cause I had some vision in my sight On the journey to be one" Track #4 is entitled 'Today Mueller', and once again it's amazing how different the band were in the 60's, to what the Alice Cooper Group (and later the solo artist) became. The song was written about a friend of the band, who had the name Michelle Mueller. She was working as a secretary in Phoenix, Arizona. Her nickname was 'TOOTIE', although no one seems to remember why the band changed it from 'Tootie' to 'Today'. In 2007, Dennis Dunaway remembers: "Tootie, who is always smiling, drove the Earwigs around in her baby-blue Mustang. [She was] among the first to support the band and we are still good friends." [The Earwigs was the name of the band in 1964 - a pastiche of The Beatles] 4/13/ Today Mueller (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "Today Mueller Let it happen Happy slappin', tappin' paddy-oh She'd like to give her life away Like to stay another day old Try it out another way Ah, today, today, today, today mueller Give your notice of your leaving Ah, today, today, today, today mueller Don't tell them you will go with me This will always be Red rover, red rover Pass under, pass over, pass through And over, and over the White Cliffs of Dover with you Today mueller Make it happen " troggi likes this.
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#96
2nd April 2015, 03:10 PM
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Two more songs from 'Pretties For You Track #5 on the album is 'Living', and musically it is very much a slice of the 60's. Fuzz guitars to the fore! Alice Cooper - Vocals & Harmonica Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ 5/13/ Living (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "Living I is only one part of being Believing Is to know just what you're feeling You were so positive thing you know, you have I'm sure that in knowing you're growing and it's you Thinking Is you're own road of living Dreaming Is the one way to being Go in and your eye can see everything that`s you The only real person you need to know is you Ahhh..... oh Living, Living, Living" The final song on the first side of the original release is entitled 'Field Of Regret. 6/13/ Field Of Regret (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "Forever I'll enjoy you undertaining Come to see you every day now if I can Is it not the time for everybody? I still wake on the fields of regret There is something to this dream we're all involved in Can I see it, can I say it may exist Why then don't the night show really matters If we dwell in the fields of regret What horror must invade the mind When the approaching judge shall find What sinful deeds from all mankind With death and nature in surprise Behold the wretched sinners rise To meet the judge's searching eyes And when the doomed no more can flee From the flames of misery Assist me while I die Wander through those ever thoughts though if imagined But come down on it's so easy to resist Rest me, hide my years upon the planet. Sound another, no part over, won't forget When we laugh at the fields of regret. " troggi likes this.
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#97
3rd April 2015, 07:50 AM
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Two more songs from 'Pretties For You Track #7 on the album is 'No Longer Umpire', and again the influence of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd is unmistakable. I just wish it had a better drum sound! Alice Cooper - Vocals & Harmonica Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ 7/13/ Living (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "We've been so caught up in the subject of personnel Playing and acting, and slaving and bathing ourselves Who lies and who tries to come over everyone Painting a picture to show everyone in the world Fearing is natural New names and faces can bring Build ups and barriers hiding behind everything Who lies and who tries to come over everyone Painting a picture to show everyone in the world " This followed by the first of my two favourite songs on the album - 'Levity Ball'. I think this would work well if it was resurrected and played live If you listen closely to the song, you will hear a string section. Alice has said that the weird part about this was there was no strings in the recording session! The real to real tape was erased before they recorded their cut, but something that was on before bled through in the same key! 8/13/ Levity Ball (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) [I] "I got my invitation to the annual levity ball Seeing the location was within the mirrored room Walking in my room I found I had nothing to find I got into my evening wear and left my clothes behind I sat down on the stairway seven hours at a time Writing all of this poetry that I knew would never rhyme The memory I knew I must have had when I came in Was off somewhere in places where I'd never ever been And then in came a cake all decorated in my name With four paper brown candles, are all spelling out the same The clock was passing out from time to time I saw it all Beginning of the ending for my first levity ball troggi likes this.
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#98
4th April 2015, 01:41 PM
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Today's delights from 'Pretties For You Track #9 on the album is 'B. B. On Mars', and it's another psychedelic/punk song! I like it. For some reason, it reminds me of some of the insidental music that was used in 'The Young Ones' television show from the 80's Renfield, who was the personal assistant to Alice says: "I think it was Dennis who came up with that title [BB on Mars]. I think I once heard it wasn't a person at all but rather an actual BB. If that doesn't translate, a BB is a small ball bearing. So, I guess it means a small metal ball on a big red ball. Those guys were messed up back then." Alice Cooper - Vocals & Harmonica Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ 9/13/ B. B. On Mars (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "(I stop, we stop) Go Now let's see what's going on See inside It's quiet inside, see Now let's hear what's going on Here inside " Track #10, 'Reflected;, is the second of my personal favourites on the album. Fans of the band will detect a bit of fore-shadowing here. The song was later reworked, and it became 'Elected' on the "Billion Dollar Babies" album 10/13/ Reflected (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) [I] "Look upstanding with your head held high You will be reflected You look outstanding with your eyes in disguise Just beyond your mask-qes Holy, Hollywood (he), it's divine I'm surely glad, I'm surely all the time And even though I'm, you will always hear Very rarely worry upmost constantly Could you be receptive Our life's outstanding in a shower please Wet my skids a plenty Baby, what a day all over town I'm surely glad, I'm surely all around And even since I knew, it's all so clear You will be reflected You will be reflected You will be reflected You will be reflected, reflected Yeah..."
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6th April 2015, 07:59 AM
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Two more songs from 'Pretties For You. Don't worry - we have almost finished this album!!! Track #11 on the album is 'Apple Bush', and like the other songs on the album, it is very much a product of its' time Alice Cooper - Vocals & Harmonica Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ 11/13/ Apple Bush (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) "But over in a land that's in my back yard There's a people who succeed, they don't try hard Well, they found a way to live with ease By eating from the bush instead of the trees Apple bush, apple tree Path to eternity Find you a path and you follow the call Apple bush, apple tree Back to eternity Cut you a path with a chance you may fall Well, over in a corner, standing there Telling my house that they haven't a single care But my house does not listen (worry) it's got a path of it's own Yet the bush, and a tree, never leave it alone Apple Bush, apple tree Back to eternity Find you a path and you buy with a call Apple bush, apple tree Back to eternity Cut you a path with a chance you may fall Someday like my house you're going to chose too If you cut this new path well the old one will do and you live with the people who live with ease The red apple bush, the blue apple tree " Track #12, is 'Earwigs To Eternity', and it is a strange on! Presumably the fast section is supposed to conjure up the image of an earwig skitting around One of the names used by the band, before they settled on Alice Cooper, was The Earwigs - a parody of The Beatles 12/13/ Earwigs To Eternity (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) [I] "Oh, four years long And oh, what a song to hear, my dear Four long years Now we start to hear a whisper Alice Cooper All of the time we have All of the time we had you All of the time we have All of the time we have We are throwing all of our hands so high You out there [two voices at the same time] Singing (playing) ditties (lovely) beautiful song (what a little song) for you to be aware Oh what a time we have All of the time we have you Oh what a time we have All of the time we have All of the time we have you You're the one you're looking for Let me in, let me in Who's there, who's there, who's there "
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#100
6th April 2015, 08:23 PM
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The final song from 'Pretties For You' is entitled 'Changing Arranging' Alice Cooper - Vocals & Harmonica Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ 13/13/ Changing Arranging (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) [I]"Ah..... Ah..... Oh.... I'm changing, arranging Things I never thought I'd move before I'm changing, arranging To your personality I asked for it for I need a soul who'll never say what I feel Just fearing that I will accept the ideal I look up high and I swear all I see Is a carbon copy image of me I'm dying, half trying Baby, baby, for the rest of my life I'm trying and dying Maybe, maybe`s tryin' be my life I've fight a never ending battle inside Just trying to rectify my personal pride I swear I don't know what it's got over me But I know it doesn't want to be free Oh....... Oh....... "[/QUOTE] So that is the first Alice Cooper Group album, and it probably comes as a bit of a surprise to those who are more familiar with the rock/metal music that was to come later. With the exception of the production, especially on the drums (which sound like empty boxes being hit), it's not a bad album I suppose The band played a lot of shows in 1969 to promote the record, appearing with bands like The Doors, The Mothers Of Invention, The Byrds, Steve Miller Band, MC5, The Stooges etc. A basic setlist for these shows comprised of:
The band also played a variety of non-album tracks in the early days, such as "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye" (which will turn on on the second album, 'Easy Action'), a reworked "Don't Blow Your Mind" and "Nobody Likes Me" On September 13th, 1969, the band appeared at the Toronto Rock And Roll Revival Festival. This was the show which featured the infamous chicken incident. It was also at this show where the band recorded the live album 'Nobody Likes Alice Cooper' This is the most widely reproduced Alice Cooper live recording. It has been released by many different labels under many titles and many album covers. These releases are not authorized Alice Cooper albums. However, they are not bootlegs as the recording is owned by a private party. Unfortunately, the private party was so uncaring in the production of these releases that two of the songs ("Ain't That Just Like a Woman" and "Goin' to the River") are NOT Alice Cooper at all (the actual performer is Ronnie Hawkins and they were recorded Hallmark Studios in Toronto in late 1964). Also, almost all of the song titles on the album were fabricated by the private party. The actual titles (shown here in parentheses) are mostly live versions of songs from "Pretties For You":
As already noted, this release has many titles, including:
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