61 year old woman who has loved Alice Cooper from the beginning. Finally got to meet him. Best day of my life. Thank God he is still with us, doing concerts and putting out great music with the best musicians.
Mary You and I are about the same age, and I can’t get enough of Alice either. I have been infatuated with this man since 1970. I just loved his wilder days in his twenties. So impromptu the performances were because of the booze. Hi from Canada!
Mary Any time you want to talk is awesome. I’ll see your comments in other Alice videos in the future. You should join the Nights With Alice Cooper App. It is great fun, and there is many beautiful pictures of Alice to drool over. Hi again from Canada!
Im right there with ya ! , at 66, alice still rule,s 👍 , awesome memorie,s, and still providing the awesome music !, EXTREME TALENT , THE ORIGINAL, TBE BEST, THE. COOP ! WILL ROCK FOREVER ! IN MY HOUSE 👍😄 ...drums & alice filled our house 40 yr,s ago 3 brother,s 3 drummer,s , alice providing every bass pounding beat, 🎸🎵🎶🥁 and still is 🥁👍😄
I lives in Holly. I'm 65 and very much remember I'm Eighteen being played at least once per hour on CKLW. Then this thing came along called FM rock radio. SC/Ballad was my first taste of the rest of the album.
@@paulyabe I lived on Sherman St, went to Holly elementary until ‘71. Loved it there. Hung out with the Keely’s (Wally, Mark, Chuck & Dave) and Skip, Vince Saunders and Jim Carnes. ‘Coop, then Black Sabbath, of course the Beatles. mac’s Malt shop and the theater even had movies then. A great place to be a kid.
This is my favourite era of Alice. The mystique, the strangeness, the impromptuedness. Alice was at his best in 1970 to 1975. When Shep and Alice planned the strangest promotional things, the group was the was the best. Then when Alice started hobknobbing with Hollywood greats, he started to go down hill then even before the drug issue ruined him. All Alices early bootleg concerts from 1971 to 1973 here on YT are awesome.Check out “Puke on a Piece of Apple Pie”. I had a guy post that for me in complete. You’ll love it to death.............
It is a shocking piece of rock. It does not lose it with time. back in the eighties, I blasted it in the car on the way home on the west side highway with a girl --and she said how sad it was. ----And I agreed with her. ---why do you think I played it? Because life is sad, I said. --Not a date song. --She did hang with me for years. --Called me eccentric years later and we went our separate ways. ---------We all go our separate ways with rock. --You either see it or you don't. --And this is one to see.
Sitting in my room as a middle teen in the dark with my home made flashing lights and my headphones on. One of the greatest piece of music of acid rock of all time.
Agree on The second coming>dwight frye connection, but never put sun arise in there, tho its a great song. Hell The whole album, front to back, doesnt have one bad song I could think of! Straight classic!
There is never more need for healing simplicity of Sun Arise than following the incomparable darkness of The Ballad of Dwight Frye. Alice Cooper is a master of drama and performance, and one of the first to take rock to a different place where it explored more uncomfortable social and psychological truths of living. As a human being, Alice cooper is a good soul and has a warm personality, and I encourage people to listen to his amusing interviews. His latest interview about his very close friend, the late Glen Campbell, is a moving tribute.
Is it healing? Or maybe he's just descended further into total madness....or maybe he's been lobotomized, and spends his days pressed against an institution's window, following the sun. That guitar solo seems pretty twisted
This made my day …. 63 years old still rocking…. I guess I’m so old and I’m one of those people that say most of the music made nowadays sucks this actually had some meaning and purpose to it.
Listening to this masterpiece, causes me to think that it may have been written for 2021..Our struggles as individuals and a world in unsettled times. Piano transition creates a magically flow.
Second Coming/Ballad was the first song I heard on FM rock radio that wasn't I'm Eighteen, which had been played relentlessly on AM radio (CKLW). The band & friends had been calling in requests to CKLW to play I'm Eighteen. Those were the days...
I couldn’t believe this little dive bar had this on kareoke night. I delivered it in full fashion to the 7 people that were there, even doing the breakdown screaming from the floor. The DJ was suprised he’d never seen someone know it haha #memories
Saw Alice & crew perform this when I was 15 and this fabulous concert is still fresh in my memory. I'm 62 & still love this trifecta. Sun arise, children.✌
I am so glad my father showed me this stuff when I was a 7. love it to death, killer, and billion dollar babies, the albums of my youth. JUST AS GOOD AS EVER.
Grabbed my Coat .. from the very first time I heard this track as a kid way back when I was mesmerised and still am .. don't know how you could call any song your absolute favourite but this certainly is one of my absolute favorite's .. but when you love music as much as I do you end up having hundreds of absolute favourites , what can I say 🍻🖖
The best way to listen to this trilogy is thru HEADPHONES IN THE DARK. That way you MISS NOTHING. Have listened to this hundreds of times. Never get sick of it. Alice is a genius, and I love him so much as a performer, creator, artist, and so much more.
The 2 that don't like this must be rap fans. They're not used to hearing music and this is top of the line great music. He's always had a really tight band. Saw him back in 86 in Providence and it was phenominal
I'm 60 and Alice Cooper (the band, not so much solo Alice) is still one of my favorites. When I was 15 I saw the Billion Dollar Babies show from the front row!!! Awesome!!!!
My buddies and I used to get stoned, walk into Myer-Emco (D. C.) with this album under our collective arms and ask the sales guy to play all of side two through the Bose 901's in the store showroom. Walked out with huge smiles and then munched out at Ranch House. Those were the days, wow.
didn't get to hear this album until 87 ....and I have never been without it since. still have my tape copy from my buddy when we were 16. one of the best albums of all time. black juju and these 3....life changers!!!
Haven't heard it on radio airwaves in decades, not even SiriusXM. It was the first cut I heard on FM when both LITD & FM were brand new. Before then it had been I'm Eighteen on CKLW-AM. I was not aware my heroes were so close ~ the Cooper Farm
I'm 61. I had a ticket to see Alice at Roosevelt in 1975 but the show was rained out. I never saw him with the original band. Love It To Death, Killer, and Billion Dollar Babies are right up there there Abbey Road and Peppers
The way Alice themes his albums and the order he weaves a thread through the songs are just as brilliant as the song writing and musical composition itself!
Oh I'm sorry. Your the uploader of this video. How rediculous of me to think you were the software developer hahaha! One too many pot brownies I guess. Thanks for the upload. This is one of Copper's best, and one of my top five favorite songs of his ❤😍
I remember in the late 70’s a local radio station, I think it was WABX, used to have people call in on what song they wanted to end the late night show with… this trilogy of songs won every night for over a year
I played this album so much that I ended up having to buy THREE copies!!! I can't imagine any song other than Second Coming being worthy of preceding The Ballad of Dwight Fry. The band's musicianship had come together perfectly by this album. Glen Buxton's twilight zone guitar riffs punctuated perfectly by Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar and bassist extraordinaire Dennis Dunaway ... handing off to Neal Smith's drum marching band outro and climaxed with Bob Ezrin's timeless piano bridge... whew ...this was the greatest rock band of the early 70's, hands down.
I bought this mail order back in 1971 when I was 13 years old. It was My first purchase from a mail order Record outlet . Almost Every track Rocks and I still Love this vinyl even until this very day and always will. Thanks for posting this Masterpiece of music.
one of the most under rated bands in history, both musically and with their influence on Rock for the ages. But......I like under rated, keeps the unworthy away.
Other great "under rateds: the Sonics, the Fugs, David Peel, Velvet Underground, Flaimin' Groovies, Shaggs, Stooges, MC5, Modern Lovers, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Dictators and Runaways...
Does everybody know that Alice is a Christian still doing his thing? Praise the Lord!!! I'm 66 and he still sounds as good now as then. God got ahold of this man... Imagine that!!!🙏🏼📖👍😎
One of the most macabre, chilling, unique pieces of music ever recorded. I've always loved Second Coming/Dwight Fry. The rich deep tone of the demented guitar segment after the "I gotta get outta here's" is eternally cool.
A few comments from a 60 year old die hard Jazzer: I remember Coop from my high school days, we all loved them, of course. Looking back on it and listening to these records now, it's sure great to hear them with a LOT more musical knowledge than I had then. I think this band is the most under rated band in pop music history. Each of these guys were excellent musicians (they put the Beatles to shame, sheer talent wise, but, so did several other bands). One more thing - - - can anyone tell me, WITHOUT looking it up, who Dwight Frye was? You may be surprised to find out he was a real person.
Three of my heroes: the original Alice Cooper group, my brother who introduced me to them, and Dan Corkill for posting these three songs together that belong together
This album is definitely my favorite Alice Cooper album out of them all, the band finally figured out their sound and combined the horror with it perfectly along with Killer, but I always preferred this one
I listened to this thru the early and mid 70s when all my friends older brothers had LOVE IT and KILLERS. Then i found it again thru hi skool in the mid 80s when the new wave went flat and heavy rock got silly. We were waiting for rock guitar to return for the 90s. Listening to LOVE IT and KILLERS thru my childhood was scary and probably bad for my pre-teen mind. The records were so cinematic and deep and enigmatic. Especially when the little girl asked, "mommy, is daddy ever coming home?"
I wish I could find the lyrics online, since it's been many years since I knew this album by heart if anyone knows how to do it let me know. Thank you.
My life has been so FULL, how COULD I have EVER forgotten who and where I was when Alice was only allowed to be played when no one else was home? Cause it was hiding somewhere inside me; lookout...we're back!
I thought I was only one. My favorite song every (as a trio) or just Ballad O fDwight Fry. Prolly listened to it no kidding over 1000 times in my life (I'm 63) and I still get chills over it. The tormented feeling & sadness in song is near overwhelming. Since I bought "Love It To Death" at 11 years old for around $3 brand new off the shelf at local record shop, I've been hooked. I virtually have every album/CD he's made...even "Pretties For You" & "Easy Action" Wasn't very fond of some of his heavy metal stuff but grew to appreciate then too. I've seen him 8 times live. IMHO best artist ever
When this LP was released, I was 12. And Alice and rest of the boys were the only Rock that played this type of music. The Ballad Of Dwight Frye was, is and will always be a masterpiece of Shock-Theater-Rock. The Love It To Death is, to me, the greatest album recorded between 1970 and 1976. Don't forget, also from Detroit were Iggy And The Stooges and The MC5. Detroit Rocked back then like no other city in America!
jean giroux Not to mention Bob Seger (presellout) Ted Nugent Rare Earth n Frigid Pink to name a few others. We lived in the rockinest city in the country ALL the bands knew if they could make it in Detroit they would be huge! Check out the old Grande Ballroom line ups from back then!
@@gritdog4107 The rumor went just the other way. Alice took a shit on stage and Zappa, not to be outdone, ate it. But none of that happened. In the very beginning of his autobiography The Real Frank Zappa, Zappa says "For the record, folks: I never took a shit on stage, and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973." Frank Zappa was a great musician and composer.
Love It To Death was the first Alice Cooper LP that I got my hands on. I couldn't believe music like this existed (all we had was AM radio)! This sounds better each time I listen. DCorkill--I love this trio of AC songs. Huge thank you. I play these every week now.
Man when I was like 14 or so I started listening to Alice and carried his music with me to Germany and when I turned 18 well you know what was rocking on the old Pioneer. I had a set of Bose 901's and it was great. Never forget it.
Yes indeed. When the band lived in "suburbia" of Detroit so did I. I first saw them on halloween in 1970 in Ann Arbor. Next literally in a barn loft (called the Loft) north of Detroit. Next Christmas Eve and Christmas at the Eastown. Such a light show they had then. And acid was plentiful.
Finally, someone who experienced Alice the way I did. I got to see Alice at the Cincinnati Gardens when this album came out. Tripping my brains out on some good chocolate mescaline, I got to see him chop his head off and hang himself! Or, it could have just been the mescaline!!
I saw Alice in KC during the Trash tour. I was 13. This song trilogy is sort of a sad Anthem for me. I love Alice and Always will. Thank you for posting this the right way.
Thank God For Alice Cooper ! Thankyou For Helping Me See The Darkness In Myself And For Also Helping Me Awaken To The Light Of God. Thankyou For All This LoVe 🙏✨💜🙏✨
The best Alice Cooper album. The music was never the same without the rest of this band. When I was younger I never realized how great of musicians these guys are. Bass,drums guitars are excellent.
I would love to sit down and tell him just how much these songs meant to me . Being that I was held up in a mental ward , these songs touch me , cut me to the bone . Even , even the ones I stold , I wanna get out of here , I GOTTA GET OUT. OF HERE
Such a classic album and addictive trilogy. , Saw them on the "Killer' Tour early '72, Capital Theater, Passaic, NJ. Sold out and one of the greatest concert/shows I well recall. Seeing and hearing them 'live' was amazing. Video can't convey how great their performances were. Thanks Dan Corkill for uploading this - Appreciate it !
This is such an ill closing medley to a great album. The production is awesome, little touch of the beatles, some stooges and a whole bunch of inspiration on the boys part.... goodness gracious. on my vinyl set up, stuff really sounds nice
I first heard Second Coming/Ballad on FM radio when both were brand new. It did something magical to me. After that it was the poster from Killer on my brothers bedroom wall. Our mother was horrified. It was great.
May very well have commented here before forgive me LOL. 5th grade when a friend and I listened to this Album! 58 years old and it continues to be outstanding! CLASSIC album and that can be said of multiple AC albums! LOVE Alice Cooper!
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61 year old woman who has loved Alice Cooper from the beginning. Finally got to meet him. Best day of my life. Thank God he is still with us, doing concerts and putting out great music with the best musicians.
Mary You and I are about the same age, and I can’t get enough of Alice either. I have been infatuated with this man since 1970. I just loved his wilder days in his twenties. So impromptu the performances were because of the booze. Hi from Canada!
@Frances Williams Hello fellow Alice lover. Thanks for the reply.
Mary Any time you want to talk is awesome. I’ll see your comments in other Alice videos in the future. You should join the Nights With Alice Cooper App. It is great fun, and there is many beautiful pictures of Alice to drool over. Hi again from Canada!
Im right there with ya ! , at 66, alice still rule,s 👍 , awesome memorie,s, and still providing the awesome music !, EXTREME TALENT , THE ORIGINAL, TBE BEST, THE. COOP ! WILL ROCK FOREVER ! IN MY HOUSE 👍😄 ...drums & alice filled our house 40 yr,s ago 3 brother,s 3 drummer,s , alice providing every bass pounding beat, 🎸🎵🎶🥁 and still is 🥁👍😄
Glad you got to meet him! He is such a NORMAL AND COOL GUY!!!!!! I bumped into him in Phoenix many years ago...a gem of a fellow.
As a kid in a basement in Holly, MI to a 60 yr old adult, this music still hits me the same way. DAMN it's good!
I lives in Holly. I'm 65 and very much remember I'm Eighteen being played at least once per hour on CKLW. Then this thing came along called FM rock radio. SC/Ballad was my first taste of the rest of the album.
@@paulyabe I lived on Sherman St, went to Holly elementary until ‘71. Loved it there. Hung out with the Keely’s (Wally, Mark, Chuck & Dave) and Skip, Vince Saunders and Jim Carnes. ‘Coop, then Black Sabbath, of course the Beatles. mac’s Malt shop and the theater even had movies then. A great place to be a kid.
THATS WHY ALICE IS THE COOP !! MY LITTLE MONSTERS !!
HA - same for the 64-year old KID. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
My parents hated Alice cooper, it made me love him more! 50 years ago.....
Anyone who can't appreciate the genius of this era of Alice Cooper band doesn't deserve ears.
This is my favourite era of Alice. The mystique, the strangeness, the impromptuedness. Alice was at his best in 1970 to 1975. When Shep and Alice planned the strangest promotional things, the group was the was the best. Then when Alice started hobknobbing with Hollywood greats, he started to go down hill then even before the drug issue ruined him. All Alices early bootleg concerts from 1971 to 1973 here on YT are awesome.Check out “Puke on a Piece of Apple Pie”. I had a guy post that for me in complete. You’ll love it to death.............
Guitar and piano lead in to Dwight Fry is one of the best pieces of music ever- absolute goose bumps!
Your so very right me too
the last time I saw AC live I got goosebumps and tears started when Halo of Flies started
I like the part where Glenn Buxton's guitar sounds like a siren, great track from a very good album.
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Who plays the piano on this?
I bought this LP when I was 13. Now I am 55 and it is just as great as ever.
Me TOO!
Hey Mr. X, just for the hell of it...who are you voting for man???
Gary Johnson.sorry so late did not see this until now.Mr or Ms Poems ,Prose &Musings.
Am 59, and I got this when I was about 14 !!!
Freaked me out... in the best way possible.
That LP gets better every time!
I always get a little chill whenever it transitions from Second Coming to the Ballad of Dwight Fry.
Two words.......Bob Ezrin.
Totally- the transition between the two songs is so seamless that they are really parts of the same song
Bob Ezrin was ace on this album!
Oh yeah! Fantastic
I do too .. love it
It is a shocking piece of rock. It does not lose it with time. back in the eighties, I blasted it in the car on the way home on the west side highway with a girl --and she said how sad it was. ----And I agreed with her. ---why do you think I played it? Because life is sad, I said. --Not a date song. --She did hang with me for years. --Called me eccentric years later and we went our separate ways. ---------We all go our separate ways with rock. --You either see it or you don't. --And this is one to see.
Back when Alice Cooper was a band, not just a person!
Alice Coopers Greatest Hits was the first album I ever bought. I was 13 y/o and I was never the same after.
Sitting in my room as a middle teen in the dark with my home made flashing lights and my headphones on. One of the greatest piece of music of acid rock of all time.
How true.😊
Thank you for posting this! I always considered these three songs one piece...and it is fucking brilliant.
sure enough!!
The Guitologist here here
Agree on The second coming>dwight frye connection, but never put sun arise in there, tho its a great song. Hell The whole album, front to back, doesnt have one bad song I could think of! Straight classic!
Yup!
Same here.
There is never more need for healing simplicity of Sun Arise than following the incomparable darkness of The Ballad of Dwight Frye. Alice Cooper is a master of drama and performance, and one of the first to take rock to a different place where it explored more uncomfortable social and psychological truths of living. As a human being, Alice cooper is a good soul and has a warm personality, and I encourage people to listen to his amusing interviews. His latest interview about his very close friend, the late Glen Campbell, is a moving tribute.
Is it healing? Or maybe he's just descended further into total madness....or maybe he's been lobotomized, and spends his days pressed against an institution's window, following the sun. That guitar solo seems pretty twisted
Wow! You two are some different kind of thinkers, so dark lol 🤣🤣 I like it
This made my day …. 63 years old still rocking…. I guess I’m so old and I’m one of those people that say most of the music made nowadays sucks this actually had some meaning and purpose to it.
Yungun😏
Listening to this masterpiece, causes me to think that it may have been written for 2021..Our struggles as individuals and a world in unsettled times. Piano transition creates a magically flow.
Right?
Second Coming is a masterpiece.
Second Coming/Ballad was the first song I heard on FM rock radio that wasn't I'm Eighteen, which had been played relentlessly on AM radio (CKLW). The band & friends had been calling in requests to CKLW to play I'm Eighteen. Those were the days...
Incredible lyrics and music.
Do check out the live recording of “Second Coming” in March 1, 1971 recorded in the Rooster Tail club in Detroit. You will love it to death…………….
@@frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825 hmm
@@frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825 where can you find the recording
Beautiful, these three belong together. (How dare RUclips put a commercial in the middle! )
@@RavconRecords Unfortunately, commercials tend to interrupt longer running videos (unless you have a subscription)…
I couldn’t believe this little dive bar had this on kareoke night. I delivered it in full fashion to the 7 people that were there, even doing the breakdown screaming from the floor. The DJ was suprised he’d never seen someone know it haha #memories
Did you use the Songbooks Online app by any chance? I was really surprised this song was in that app
Great dive bar story. My kinda place.
@@BennSimonn I'm not sure, it was a DJ setup, I was just a (happy) patron.
Ya man I no every word. Still brings chills.Seen him at spectrum.
I bet you killed it,Bro.....Remember the Coop.
A Triple Shot of Brilliance
Saw Alice & crew perform this when I was 15 and this fabulous concert is still fresh in my memory. I'm 62 & still love this trifecta. Sun arise, children.✌
where did you see this?
I am so glad my father showed me this stuff when I was a 7. love it to death, killer, and billion dollar babies, the albums of my youth. JUST AS GOOD AS EVER.
What a Dad
I played this suite so many times on the radio in Chattanooga. Alice rocks!
I love the original Alice Cooper band.
me too
So does Alice lol. These boys talents are waaay overlooked imho. They were theatrical sure, but they had the chops to back it up.
The guitar on under my wheels is Crazy good
Great band
THis is such a classic.....62 & still listening to the Coop.
Grabbed my Coat .. from the very first time I heard this track as a kid way back when I was mesmerised and still am .. don't know how you could call any song your absolute favourite but this certainly is one of my absolute favorite's .. but when you love music as much as I do you end up having hundreds of absolute favourites , what can I say 🍻🖖
Sixty and still Loving it to Death! A shame radio don't play this and so much more!
Deran Davis Truth!
62 I feel the same way!!.
In my opinion, Love it to Death was Alice Cooper's most underrated album.
The best way to listen to this trilogy is thru HEADPHONES IN THE DARK. That way you MISS NOTHING. Have listened to this hundreds of times. Never get sick of it. Alice is a genius, and I love him so much as a performer, creator, artist, and so much more.
The 2 that don't like this must be rap fans. They're not used to hearing music and this is top of the line great music. He's always had a really tight band. Saw him back in 86 in Providence and it was phenominal
The originality, chemistry and creativity is unmatched to this day. A bonafide masterpiece!
I'm 60 and Alice Cooper (the band, not so much solo Alice) is still one of my favorites. When I was 15 I saw the Billion Dollar Babies show from the front row!!! Awesome!!!!
Second Coming is so eerie and morose. Just beautiful. My favorite AC song ever. Heavy too!
My buddies and I used to get stoned, walk into Myer-Emco (D. C.) with this album under our collective arms and ask the sales guy to play all of side two through the Bose 901's in the store showroom. Walked out with huge smiles and then munched out at Ranch House. Those were the days, wow.
Fun Fact: The child's voice at the beginning was provided by Monica Lauer, a friend of the band. Neil Smith would cover it at live shows.
didn't get to hear this album until 87 ....and I have never been without it since. still have my tape copy from my buddy when we were 16. one of the best albums of all time. black juju and these 3....life changers!!!
The fact that this isn't known, universally beloved or even on the radio is a shame!
M Rich It was always well known and loved by AC fans everywhere. It got a lot of airplay too
Haven't heard it on radio airwaves in decades, not even SiriusXM. It was the first cut I heard on FM when both LITD & FM were brand new. Before then it had been I'm Eighteen on CKLW-AM. I was not aware my heroes were so close ~ the Cooper Farm
Ballad of DF was played on a Santa Barbara, CA FM station last week at 2am...
I'm 61. I had a ticket to see Alice at Roosevelt in 1975 but the show was rained out. I never saw him with the original band. Love It To Death, Killer, and Billion Dollar Babies are right up there there Abbey Road and Peppers
Great song...I love it to death!🙂
🥰 I see what you did there...!
The way Alice themes his albums and the order he weaves a thread through the songs are just as brilliant as the song writing and musical composition itself!
Thanks Dan Corkill! From Follow up Boss??
Oh I'm sorry. Your the uploader of this video. How rediculous of me to think you were the software developer hahaha! One too many pot brownies I guess. Thanks for the upload. This is one of Copper's best, and one of my top five favorite songs of his ❤😍
I'm 39 years old and Alice Cooper love it to death is one of the best albums ever recorded in my opinion
I remember in the late 70’s a local radio station, I think it was WABX, used to have people call in on what song they wanted to end the late night show with… this trilogy of songs won every night for over a year
Whatever happened to Mark parento?
Wabx gone but not forgotten
More air aces? Coool!
I'm 56 this is no doubt my favorite album of all time
I played this album so much that I ended up having to buy THREE copies!!! I can't imagine any song other than Second Coming being worthy of preceding The Ballad of Dwight Fry. The band's musicianship had come together perfectly by this album. Glen Buxton's twilight zone guitar riffs punctuated perfectly by Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar and bassist extraordinaire Dennis Dunaway ... handing off to Neal Smith's drum marching band outro and climaxed with Bob Ezrin's timeless piano bridge... whew ...this was the greatest rock band of the early 70's, hands down.
I had 3 copies also WHY? ,,,,,,,,,,,,Cause I,M 18,18, 18.
I've always adored the combination and contrast of these two songs. Brings me to tears.
Free I’ve shed many tears to this... it’s so damn good... a masterpiece
@@RichM0410 I cry easily. Kindred spirit Rich. Stay safe.
It is three song that weave together
I bought this mail order back in 1971 when I was 13 years old. It was My first purchase from a mail order Record outlet . Almost Every track Rocks and I still Love this vinyl even until this very day and always will. Thanks for posting this Masterpiece of music.
one of the most under rated bands in history, both musically and with their influence on Rock for the ages. But......I like under rated, keeps the unworthy away.
Ha ha ha...
Well said. I'm sure they had their reasons for breaking up, but oh man...they were just peaking musically with BDB....what could have been. 6
They are so underrated they sold millions of albums, sold out stadiums and were on of the biggest bands in the universe.
Other great "under rateds: the Sonics, the Fugs, David Peel, Velvet Underground, Flaimin' Groovies, Shaggs, Stooges, MC5, Modern Lovers, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Dictators and Runaways...
Radio complained they couldn't sell soap & feminine hygiene products playing that stuff...thus, you got sucky boatloads of David Essex.
Should have 1 million views !
Thank you for this..takes me back...Killer and Love It To Death...best albums...brilliant....now 56 and still love these songs...
Don't forget EASY ACTION..my acid album!!
Thanx 🎶🎸🎶😎
Does everybody know that Alice is a Christian still doing his thing? Praise the Lord!!! I'm 66 and he still sounds as good now as then. God got ahold of this man...
Imagine that!!!🙏🏼📖👍😎
Check out his album "Brutal Planet" (2000)- the ONLY album in existence that'll appeal to fans of Pantara... and Billy Ghram!
Dave DeVita you have to ruin it with your Christian bullshit.Fuck off.
@@donhavard6525 Shut up he's not ruining anything! He's just saying that he's a christian. you don't have to say anything back!
Amen! Live him!
@@donhavard6525 Praise be to God, and God Bless America. Have a great day.
One of the most macabre, chilling, unique pieces of music ever recorded. I've always loved Second Coming/Dwight Fry. The rich deep tone of the demented guitar segment after the "I gotta get outta here's" is eternally cool.
Yes, my friends and I referred to Glen Buxton's tortured, wailing riffs as his "atonal twilight-zone instrumentals".
glad to see I'm not the only middle aged 56year old old fart listing. 😃
You may be, I'm only 59.
A few comments from a 60 year old die hard Jazzer: I remember Coop from my high school days, we all loved them, of course. Looking back on it and listening to these records now, it's sure great to hear them with a LOT more musical knowledge than I had then. I think this band is the most under rated band in pop music history. Each of these guys were excellent musicians (they put the Beatles to shame, sheer talent wise, but, so did several other bands).
One more thing - - - can anyone tell me, WITHOUT looking it up, who Dwight Frye was? You may be surprised to find out he was a real person.
I Believe He Was A Silent Screen Movie Actor?
brian leblanc he played Igor in the original Frankenstein with Boris Karloff
He also played Renfield in the original Dracula with Lugosi as well as Igor, both from 1931 if memory serves.
Omg!!! The soundtrack to my youth!!!
Relate to this song every day
Alice Cooper saved my life
Three of my heroes: the original Alice Cooper group, my brother who introduced me to them, and Dan Corkill for posting these three songs together that belong together
WeAreAllOne ExceptForThatGuy, thanks for the comment! Happy New Year!!
the best of Alice even his favorite
I always loved the back cover of Bruce, Buxton, and Dunaway posing with their instruments.
I'd stare at it sitting in a bean bag chair and listening as a kid in 74' wanting to be a Rockstar.
thanks four generations of Cooper fans. brought a tear to. my eye.
Paul Secrest may be you should stay away from hot wings if it gives gas that bad.
the 2 songs that changed my musical life june, 1971 ... 14 years old
One if my favorite 8 tracks, played out in my pioneer super tuner in my 69 Nova.
I haven't heard this in forever. What an amazing album.
But it never left my mind.
Love it to Death is my favorite!...well written, well everthing! Beautiful and Kickass album.
58, just learning these 3 again to play as a piece.
Still has something!!!
This album is definitely my favorite Alice Cooper album out of them all, the band finally figured out their sound and combined the horror with it perfectly along with Killer, but I always preferred this one
It definitely deserves to be ranked. I don't think theres one song on the album that is a mandatory skip.💯
I listened to this thru the early and mid 70s when all my friends older brothers had LOVE IT and KILLERS. Then i found it again thru hi skool in the mid 80s when the new wave went flat and heavy rock got silly. We were waiting for rock guitar to return for the 90s. Listening to LOVE IT and KILLERS thru my childhood was scary and probably bad for my pre-teen mind. The records were so cinematic and deep and enigmatic. Especially when the little girl asked, "mommy, is daddy ever coming home?"
I agree, my favorite by accident, every song is good, sometimes I can't get these songs out of my mind, shame it's never been played much.
So many years ago
I wish I could find the lyrics online, since it's been many years since I knew this album by heart if anyone knows how to do it let me know. Thank you.
Alice knows how to bring any music to life Ilistened to his music all my life never mety him in person yet.
This was one of my all time favorite songs Alice C. EVER did!!Still is after sooo long!!
ha!! I popped acid when listening to this album...Orange Sunshine....what a great trip!!!...Michael plays amazing piano here, very under-rated...
Great memories of my youth!
The son of a preacher, who would have thunk it. Absolutely Beautiful piece of Brilliance agreeing with Everyone.!!!
I am so happy to say that Alice is my favorite artist ever. A Cleveland kid now 60 I saw him many times. The music always makes me smile.
My life has been so FULL, how COULD I have EVER forgotten who and where I was when Alice was only allowed to be played when no one else was home? Cause it was hiding somewhere inside me; lookout...we're back!
I was 17 when this album came out. "Ballad of Dwight Frye" really impacted me then . It still stirs me a bit now.
My brother got me started on Alice Cooper. My brother died from dynamite in 1975. This song has real meaning to me.
I thought I was only one. My favorite song every (as a trio) or just Ballad O fDwight Fry. Prolly listened to it no kidding over 1000 times in my life (I'm 63) and I still get chills over it. The tormented feeling & sadness in song is near overwhelming. Since I bought "Love It To Death" at 11 years old for around $3 brand new off the shelf at local record shop, I've been hooked. I virtually have every album/CD he's made...even "Pretties For You" & "Easy Action" Wasn't very fond of some of his heavy metal stuff but grew to appreciate then too. I've seen him 8 times live. IMHO best artist ever
66 and still listening to it. Great stuff
Just saw AC in the steel city....1990 was 1st time. He still kills it. Awsome Show!
Que buenos era 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This Combo always breaks my heart in the best way...
Blow me away, time and time again!!
When this LP was released, I was 12. And Alice and rest of the boys were the only Rock that played this type of music. The Ballad Of Dwight Frye was, is and will always be a masterpiece of Shock-Theater-Rock. The Love It To Death is, to me, the greatest album recorded between 1970 and 1976. Don't forget, also from Detroit were Iggy And The Stooges and The MC5. Detroit Rocked back then like no other city in America!
jean giroux
Not to mention Bob Seger (presellout) Ted Nugent Rare Earth n Frigid Pink to name a few others. We lived in the rockinest city in the country ALL the bands knew if they could make it in Detroit they would be huge! Check out the old Grande Ballroom line ups from back then!
Frank Zappa is in that generation
Heard Frank and Alice had a gross out contest Frank shit on stage and Alice ate it
Dwight Fry was a real guy..google it
Did not happen. That rumor just won't die.
@@gritdog4107
The rumor went just the other way. Alice took a shit on stage and Zappa, not to be outdone, ate it. But none of that happened. In the very beginning of his autobiography The Real Frank Zappa, Zappa says "For the record, folks: I never took a shit on stage, and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973."
Frank Zappa was a great musician and composer.
Love It To Death was the first Alice Cooper LP that I got my hands on. I couldn't believe music like this existed (all we had was AM radio)! This sounds better each time I listen. DCorkill--I love this trio of AC songs. Huge thank you. I play these every week now.
Man when I was like 14 or so I started listening to Alice and carried his music with me to Germany and when I turned 18 well you know what was rocking on the old Pioneer. I had a set of Bose 901's and it was great. Never forget it.
Holy Crap did we ever do alot of tripping listening to Alice.
Yes indeed. When the band lived in "suburbia" of Detroit so did I. I first saw them on halloween in 1970 in Ann Arbor. Next literally in a barn loft (called the Loft) north of Detroit. Next Christmas Eve and Christmas at the Eastown. Such a light show they had then. And acid was plentiful.
Finally, someone who experienced Alice the way I did. I got to see Alice at the Cincinnati Gardens when this album came out. Tripping my brains out on some good chocolate mescaline, I got to see him chop his head off and hang himself! Or, it could have just been the mescaline!!
As if you needed anything but your ears the first time hearing this.
Saw AC in Rockingham, NC 1972. Peachtree Festival
Yes they do belong together. Thanks Dan.
I saw Alice in KC during the Trash tour. I was 13. This song trilogy is sort of a sad Anthem for me. I love Alice and Always will. Thank you for posting this the right way.
Thank God For Alice Cooper ! Thankyou For Helping Me See The Darkness In Myself And For Also Helping Me Awaken To The Light Of God. Thankyou For All This LoVe 🙏✨💜🙏✨
The best Alice Cooper album. The music was never the same without the rest of this band. When I was younger I never realized how great of musicians these guys are. Bass,drums guitars are excellent.
It would be nice to walk upon the Water, I've just come back to show you all my words are golden......
I would love to sit down and tell him just how much these songs meant to me . Being that I was held up in a mental ward , these songs touch me , cut me to the bone . Even , even the ones I stold , I wanna get out of here , I GOTTA GET OUT. OF HERE
william terry seems fitting today. The USA is closed. 3-21-2020. Lyrics have new meanings
Alice Cooper is a living legend I listen to your show on chom FM every night good work Alice keep the show coming on the radio.........
Good ear bro, thanks for posting.
Such a classic album and addictive trilogy. , Saw them on the "Killer' Tour early '72, Capital Theater, Passaic, NJ. Sold out and one of the greatest concert/shows I well recall. Seeing and hearing them 'live' was amazing. Video can't convey how great their performances were. Thanks Dan Corkill for uploading this - Appreciate it !
I grew up listening to Alice. I enjoy him more n more the more I jam to him. Great in concert. Totally amazing show n music is to Die for!!!
Thank you for posting this.
Most fabulous early Alice Cooper!!
This is such an ill closing medley to a great album. The production is awesome, little touch of the beatles, some stooges and a whole bunch of inspiration on the boys part.... goodness gracious. on my vinyl set up, stuff really sounds nice
Amazing, only gets better and better over time, love this song
all bands have their defining masterpiece album and for AC this is the one
I first heard Second Coming/Ballad on FM radio when both were brand new. It did something magical to me. After that it was the poster from Killer on my brothers bedroom wall. Our mother was horrified. It was great.
@Michael M. I recently learned that our Dad made him take it down.
@Michael M. LITD was beginning of '71, Killer later in '71
He's a preachers kid! What do you expect?
Fucking genious album!
AWESOME transition COOPER ROCKS. NICE post!! 😁☝👌🤘💖💣💥
Who the hell gives stuff like this a thumbs down?
Idiots
Rappers. 😅
Maybe the best triage ever to listen to on LSD...but it could turn into a bad trip!
Thank you Dad for sharing your music with me when I was young. I love you.
May very well have commented here before forgive me LOL.
5th grade when a friend and I listened to this Album! 58 years old and it continues to be outstanding! CLASSIC album and that can be said of multiple AC albums! LOVE Alice Cooper!