Trivia : When this album came out, and then BDB's - Concensus with European music critics was ... 😎ALICE COOPER WAS THE HARDEST ROCKIN' BAND FROM AMERICA !
1. caught in a dream 0:00 2. I´m eighteen 3:10 3. long way to go 6:09 4. Black Juju 9:13 5.it´s my body 18:27 6. hallowed be my name 21:01 7. second coming 23:31 8: ballad of Dwight Frye 27:04 9. sun arise 33:15 (Harry Butler, Rolf Harris) (the songs have no really end - or beginning; i orientated at the tracklist-features)
My FIRST concert at age 15. Canton Memorial Auditorium. I WON the tickets from a radio station. I opted to take my own brother with me, who was a huge fan. It was 1971 and when my parents saw what the crowd looked like outside of the venue, they weren't going to let us go . . . but my brother signaled to me with a quick nod of his head, and we jumped out of the car and said "see ya later" and RAN to the will-call window. The venue was too small for the huge speakers they had. Squished up against the stage, the speaker on the left blew out my left eardrum, causing permanent scarring and some loss of hearing in my left ear (thanks, Coop!) At the end, he emptied a pillow of its feathers and spread them all over us with a fire extinguisher. I kept a little box of those feathers as a memento of the concert. And also, it was the first and only time I ever saw someone singing while wearing a straight jacket.
Forever love to these 5 guys. The variety on original Cooper bands albums is insane and sometimes there is no "genre" to be found, it's simply Alice Cooper
I agree! I was a young boy when i saw Alice in Paris in 71 ( maybe 72). I was 18 and I knew very well what I wanted. The stage was fantastic in French we call that " theatre MACABRE" or " grand guignol". Now I am a little older but Alice's albums are always in my discotek this music is very very narrative. Kisses from France.
I remember that I was fifteen when this album first came out people at the record shops would only whisper the name Alice Cooper as they pointed out the album as good rock-n-roll. Then came Killer and Alice Cooper became a household name and a legend in Rock.
then you would have to say 6 guys as producer Bob Ezrin had as much to do with the creation of this album as any of the actual musicians, as Alice himself said "Bob Ezrin is our George Martin" who by the way played piano on 5 of the songs from Love it to Death album, and influenced the band to expand there song writing, rehearsing 10-12 hours a day for 2 months before they went into the studio
@@pascalmarmin6491 Tu as eu beaucoup de chance Pascal. Jamais encore vu pour ma part. Cet album est son meilleur avec Killer, en tout cas ses 5 premiers, jusqu'à Muscle of love. Ensuite c'est autre chose...
Even though I have the vinyl and the cd, I come here to listen to this often. My first album. My Mom ☮, an Italian immigrant who didn't speak much English, bought it for me because I asked shortly after it's release. I was 8 years old. Mama had no idea what she started. I WILL love it to death. 🖤
As big as these guys were, they are still one of the most under rated bands ever!!! The drums are rock steady, the way the two guitar work off of each other, all tied together by the bass, let's Alice just go for it. Hot smokin frog shit!!!
After all these years of constantly playing these guys , I am amazed at how good the production was and still pick out some nuance I hadn't been aware of before and how it all fits together, the sudden note or tempo changes etc. Bob Ezrin is a brilliant producer and alice is such a presence but Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway and Smith I felt were never quite given the credit they deserved. I love Alice whatever but the early albums with the original line up are in mu opinion the best particularly this one
I found this album in a garbage can in Switzerland when I was a teenager. It still played properly and I loved it from the spot. Next to FROM THE INSIDE this would be my favourite Cooper album.
I’ve always told myself that I’ll never get tired of music because there was so much to choose from that was created in the 70’s & 80’s. Hope this makes sense. Up with Alice Cooper!
It makes perfect sense. I'm 59....grew up in the heyday of all this music....and I'm still going back and discovering stuff I missed along the way. It's like the music is brand new!
Oh what a JOY to be listening again for the first time in 50 years or more to the most important album of my 68 years. This old rocker with the young kid's spirit deep down inside me that life NEVER was able to beat outta me is almost in tears hearing just this first cut...."Caught in a Dream" once again. I swear I haven't heard it since probably 1975 or '76. Oh man......thank you, Lord. And thank YOU Dale Gribble...again! jbeintucson
Love It to Death is the third studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released on March 9, 1971. It was the band’s first commercially successful album and the first album that consolidated the band’s aggressive hard-rocking sound, instead of the psychedelic and experimental rock style of their first two albums. Five musicians formed the project back in high school under the name The Spiders with a dream to become rock stars. They were doing covers for the first couple of years slowly graduating to writing original material by the time they were 18. Interestingly enough, the whole Alice Cooper DNA with a lean towards theatrics and stage props was already present even before the band was signed to any label. After a couple of changes, musicians settled on Alice Cooper as the band’s name and started to shop around for a record deal. Considering Alice Cooper were playing weird experimental psychedelic rock, it was a difficult task to find anyone interested in them be it managers or fans. Fortunately, there was one label owner crazy enough to sign an obscure band from Arizona and his name was Frank Zappa. Zappa signed Alice Cooper to a three-record deal despite the band not showing any commercial promise in the beginning. The first two albums brought few fans or favorable reviews so in order to have a chance at any kind of success, the band needed to change their style musically on the last one. The bizarre psychedelic jams were now simpler and leaned more towards the classic hard rock of the era with the musicians trying to create something more commercially viable. In order to bring everything together, a new producer was hired. A 19-year-old Bob Ezrin was yet to become the legendary producer of Kiss, Pink Floyd, and many others and was not particularly excited about the prospect of working with a weird band. However, he did approach the job professionally and started a long process of tightening everything up, cutting songs in half, helping with arrangements, and making sure the album was dynamic and rocking from start to finish. The album’s best-known track, “I’m Eighteen”, was released as a single to test the band’s commercial viability before the album was recorded. After its release in March 1971, Love It to Death reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has since been certified platinum. The album’s second single, “Caught in a Dream”, charted at No. 941. The original album cover featured singer Cooper posed with his thumb protruding so it appeared to be his penis; Warner Bros. soon replaced it with a censored version. The Love It to Death tour featured an elaborate shock rock live show: during “Ballad of Dwight Fry”-about an inmate in an insane asylum-Cooper would be dragged offstage and return in a straitjacket, and the show climaxed with Cooper’s mock execution in a prop electric chair during "Black Juju". Ezrin and the Coopers continued to work together for a string of hit albums until the band’s breakup in 1974. The album has come to be seen as a foundational influence on hard rock, punk, and heavy metal; several tracks have become live Alice Cooper standards and are frequently covered by other bands.
There aren’t many albums I can sit down and listen to from start to finish without any phone distraction, or without skipping a track, but this is definitely one of them. Epic.
@@dana_brooke_27 Nice! I have the tape as well as the CD, but you've got me beat. There aren't A TON of albums that I was happy to buy more than once, but this is definitely one of 'em.
I must have listened to this album 10,000 times. Every note, drum lick, vocal is imprinted in my memory. Really a great album, it's not a thematic album, but all the songs flow into one another, great production by Bib Ezrin.
With a handle like "Captain Beyond" you've got my respect from the jump! Oh bro.....I'm a 68 yr. old Arizona boy who like you, played this album 10K times, every note, drum lick, vocal print, etc. etc. Aww.....you get it. We're kindred Cooper / Baby Boomer Rockers. Cool to meet you in here, brother. Happy New Year and may '23 be your best year ever! God Bless us all from Joel in Tucson!
I'm eighteen is possibly the purest expression, explanation, of a boy growing up that has ever been written and put to music. It is impossible to put it any better and more accurately than it is in this song. I was 14 when it came out and it opened my eyes to what was going to come in my life. This album was one of the most influential I ever listened to and it is still one of the most meaningful albums in my life.
I went from listening to old country and pop music (no choice at the time) to receiving the Billion Dollar Babies album from a friend. This and Killer soon followed. These early albums are so awesome.
I really like the early Alice Cooper. This album is fantastic. Not a single weak song. In general, this is hard rock, but it tends to heavy metal, especially the songs "I'm Eighteen" and "Black Juju" (they are my favorites on the album).
BOB EZRIN. WHAT A MASTERBLASTER HE WAS THE REASON GLENS LEADS SOUND SO PERFECT .HIS MUSICAL TRAINING AS A YOUNG MAN TAUGHT HIM THE IMPORTANCE OF SONIC FLOW .MOST BANDS FIRST ALBUM IS THEIR BEST BECAUSE THEY WROTE IT FOR YEARS CRAFTING THEIR SOUND .SOME CANADIAN DUDE NAMES BOB A UNDERSTUDY OF RICHARD'S GETS AA CHANCE AND HE TURNED IT UP .THANKS BOB .LOOK UO BOBS L ON LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING GREAT ALBUMS .ANYONE THIS GUY WORKED FOR SOON BECAME A NEW MEMBER OF THAT BAND .
He has a great voice and writes very impressive songs some have it some just don't and he is at my moms church. I was watching him on the news on her tv she said "there is Coop" and .how nice he is and..I asked how long she knew Alice. She said 'never met his wife." I did not say anything.
I will always remember when I was playing gigs, a local paper wrote us up. She wrote about my performance, "Michael Victor was truly infleuced by Alice Cooper." What a great compliment. Victor is my middle name. It was easier then using McNamara. LOL Thanks for this.
I first heard this album in the summer of '76 at a party. I was pretty drunk when it started playing on the stereo. I had to sit down due to all the emotions these songs were stirring up inside of me. I actually started crying my eyes out! It brought out an unbelievable sadness in me. I bought the album later and to this day, listening to it brings back those memories.
Have you ever heard a song that bummed you out because they made you feel like you missed out on enjoying the artist your entire life? Of course I’ve always been aware of Alice via Wayne’s World, but never dove deep. Erik Ellington skated to Dwight Fry in the deathwish video, and it’s unbelievably heart wrenching. Going to see Alice and Ace in Hollywood and I can’t be more humbled by this amazing work of art.
I bought this album when I was 12 years old after just been given one of these fantastic hi fidelity record players with would you believe, speakers you could place around the room, this 2as my first album I bought after hearing my best mates older brother playing it. I still have it but it's not as playable as it was. I love all Alice Cooper stuff, but this is my favourite album with so many special memories.. I have to agree though the early albums are the best, such as pretties for you and I do love live at the whiskey. ago go
******Cepro, I guess you know Alice’s bands other albums. If you didn’t hear these albums, I wish that I was hearing them for the first time like maybe you are There’s enough on RUclips to satisfy any genre I like…a lot. I lost a heartfelt collection they replaced it so that I kept my head in as self imposed almost five year prison of my making - like I see people doing now. I’m done with down and didn’t realize in my escape the people in my County fell apart, mostly through the crazy idea’s promulgated by the republican club, army, sneak’s. Those people know who they are and in countless years never had the brass to call me. Its a dead issue. People government proved who by redistricting, playing with the people’s only real voice, then a dimwit unknown from an ‘electoral college?’ Change’s and Hillary losses Trump wins. I’ll write it somewhere more visible
My first concert… I think it was 78 Capital center. I was 13 years old. I never have tired of Alice. That band was so ahead of its time. I’m almost 60 and I remember sitting and playing this album when I was 12 like it was yesterday. Time …… such a strange thing if I can call it that. Mommy where’s daddy? 14 day’s Alice you are my ticket to the past. You blow my mind. I still have my original copy of this album. It’s like 40 some years old. That’s crazy.
"Long Way to Go" did it for me way back when. Back in 1971, I built and rode a chopper. That tune would stream through my mind as I rode. Thanks, Michael Bruce, for penning the lyrics. Glenn Buxton was king tone. Vincent ("Alice") put his signature vocal to it. I was hanging with some gals and guys who were a lot younger than me. We were watching "Lords of Dogtown" which included "Long Way to Go" in the film's soundtrack. One of my younger compadres said, "Man, that tune rocks!" The rest concurred. I just smiled and said, "It moves just soooo right and it's what we oldsters listened to when Rock N Roll was king tone." 🎸 Thanks, Dale Gribble, for posting this LP!
As a 15 year old girl, I'd walk two blocks to the State theater in Toledo, Ohio to see Alice and often Bob Segar play. (Couldn't wait to turn 'Eighteen ') My mom noticed my obsession and took all of four us kids to see him in North Baltimore, Ohio at an outdoor concert. The summer sky was filled with heat lightening which Alice used as a 'prop' stabbing his sword with dollar bills on it into the sky right on cue. My mom was impressed with his showmanship, became a forever fan and I went on to see them around seven times in the 70s alone. Nice story Grandma.
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death (1971) (Full Album)Alice Cooper band Alice Cooper - vocals, harmonica Glen Buxton - lead guitar Michael Bruce - rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals Dennis Dunaway - bass guitar, backing vocals Neal Smith - drums, backing vocals Additional musicians Bob Ezrin - keyboards on "Caught in a Dream", "Long Way to Go", "Hallowed Be My Name", "Second Coming", and "Ballad of Dwight Fry" Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Caught in a Dream" Michael Bruce 3:10 2. "I'm Eighteen" BruceAlice CooperDennis DunawayNeal SmithGlen Buxton 2:59 3. "Long Way to Go" Bruce 3:04 4. "Black Juju" Dunaway 9:14 Total length: 18:27 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 5. "Is It My Body" CooperDunawayBruceSmithBuxton 2:34 6. "Hallowed Be My Name" Smith 2:30 7. "Second Coming" Cooper 3:04 8. "Ballad of Dwight Fry" BruceCooper 6:33 9. "Sun Arise" Harry ButlerRolf Harris 3:50 Total length: 18:31
I saw them twice in Alexandria, VA first at the roller rink Alice threw a pillow into the audience it landed in my lap. We drove down Washington Street after the concert letting the feathers fly out of the pillow! Fun times 2nd time I saw them a few blocks away the the Virginia Theatre it was awesome times back then. Tickets weren’t but $4/5 bucks!!!
Boy this takes me back to when I was 14. This is the album everybody was listening to. I haven’t heard it I know in 40 years but I didn’t forget a word!
me too. In fact it was the first thing I heard from LITD on FM rock radio, when it also was new. I'm Eighteen had being played heavily on CKLW-AM and then heard the medley. Over 50 years ago but I can remember being blown away.
@@beehonest9534 I knooow, no matter we listened to these albums 40-50 years, they still are LEAST as good as back then *stunned* Now how's that for quality
Great song for sure! I've sung it a time or two in the bars drunk on karaoke night and I'm not the best singer but I was a hit those nights for sure. It seemed to be the hip wagging on the bass guitars part when alice says "who I really am" that got everyone's attention.... Damn..kinda makes me wish I didn't quit drinking 🍻 🥴
I was living in Reno, NV when this album came out. Reno is much different than Philadelphia. Outside of the gambling areas its mountains and desert. Very peaceful and the parties were outrageous. Sun Valley, Outside Reno, is mostly trailers. It was common to have 100 people at a party. No fights etc. Just love, lots of girls and weed. Good times.
I was so into Alice Cooper at secondary school, it takes me back to hanging out with my mates and being a total outsider compared to the rest of kids at school, love it. This is probably my favourite album!
Nem is tudtam, hogy A Cooper mar 1971 ben is ilyen jo zenet csinalt. Az 1972 es, es az 1973 as meg van. Az elso CD em A Cooper Beast of A Cooprer lemez volt.
I'm 55 years old , I was a coop fan at like 9, I remember the welcome to my nightmare special on TV, never looked back...Alice....the original nightmare, this album is a 10 outta 10, Dwight Frye!!!!
I remember when it came out. So many found it shocking. It was like Alice Cooper was revealing all their fears. But I checked out the albums to see for myself and it was great music. It reminded of horror movies the atmosphere created by the songs was powerful. Not the usual. And I love the unusual and unique. But listening to all of the Alice Cooper albums on headphones is so good. So much more to hear. Got to see Alice Cooper in concert once. Wish it could be more.
First time was the Orpheum Theater in Boston in 1973. They played almost 3 hours. Second time was the Boston Garden ( the _real_ Garden, not that replacement piece of shit) where the smoke was so thicc you could barely se the stage and they played until they lost their voices. Damn, it was good to be young when everyone else was young!! 🤣🤣🤣👍
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Easily the best Alice Cooper album.
I agree 100%
Arguably Killer was a more concentrated version of this.
Agree ! Even Alien Sex Fiend made the intro of "Ignore the Machine" based on "Sun Arise"
Trivia : When this album came out, and then BDB's - Concensus with European music critics was ... 😎ALICE COOPER WAS THE HARDEST ROCKIN' BAND FROM AMERICA !
I don't think so Killer was good too. Just can't get enough of good Rockin N the Blues too.
1. caught in a dream 0:00
2. I´m eighteen 3:10
3. long way to go 6:09
4. Black Juju 9:13
5.it´s my body 18:27
6. hallowed be my name 21:01
7. second coming 23:31
8: ballad of Dwight Frye 27:04
9. sun arise 33:15 (Harry Butler, Rolf Harris)
(the songs have no really end - or beginning; i orientated at the tracklist-features)
My FIRST concert at age 15. Canton Memorial Auditorium. I WON the tickets from a radio station. I opted to take my own brother with me, who was a huge fan. It was 1971 and when my parents saw what the crowd looked like outside of the venue, they weren't going to let us go . . . but my brother signaled to me with a quick nod of his head, and we jumped out of the car and said "see ya later" and RAN to the will-call window. The venue was too small for the huge speakers they had. Squished up against the stage, the speaker on the left blew out my left eardrum, causing permanent scarring and some loss of hearing in my left ear (thanks, Coop!) At the end, he emptied a pillow of its feathers and spread them all over us with a fire extinguisher. I kept a little box of those feathers as a memento of the concert. And also, it was the first and only time I ever saw someone singing while wearing a straight jacket.
My first concert 1979 riverfront Coliseum Cincinnati. I was 12.
i bet the ticket were under $10 for any good seat in the place
Strait jacket AND a snake.
@@tubesockoctagon1884 Well, he didn't have the snake yet, at the concert I saw. I guess that must've come later!
Oops, now I see you saw him in 1971!
Forever love to these 5 guys.
The variety on original Cooper bands albums is insane and sometimes there is no "genre"
to be found, it's simply Alice Cooper
I agree! I was a young boy when i saw Alice in Paris in 71 ( maybe 72). I was 18 and I knew very well what I wanted. The stage was fantastic in French we call that " theatre MACABRE" or " grand guignol". Now I am a little older but Alice's albums are always in my discotek this music is very very narrative. Kisses from France.
I remember that I was fifteen when this album first came out people at the record shops would only whisper the name Alice Cooper as they pointed out the album as good rock-n-roll. Then came Killer and Alice Cooper became a household name and a legend in Rock.
then you would have to say 6 guys as producer Bob Ezrin had as much to do with the creation of this album as any of the actual musicians, as Alice himself said "Bob Ezrin is our George Martin" who by the way played piano on 5 of the songs from Love it to Death album, and influenced the band to expand there song writing, rehearsing 10-12 hours a day for 2 months before they went into the studio
Alice Cooper genre is "Alice Cooper" ...
been rocking to these guys since 1970 (Easy Action - Mr and Misdemeanor)
@@pascalmarmin6491 Tu as eu beaucoup de chance Pascal. Jamais encore vu pour ma part. Cet album est son meilleur avec Killer, en tout cas ses 5 premiers, jusqu'à Muscle of love. Ensuite c'est autre chose...
Even though I have the vinyl and the cd, I come here to listen to this often. My first album. My Mom ☮, an Italian immigrant who didn't speak much English, bought it for me because I asked shortly after it's release. I was 8 years old. Mama had no idea what she started. I WILL love it to death. 🖤
Alice Cooper a true rock legend.
This was such a special album when it was released. It was a unique, solid sound.
As big as these guys were, they are still one of the most under rated bands ever!!! The drums are rock steady, the way the two guitar work off of each other, all tied together by the bass, let's Alice just go for it. Hot smokin frog shit!!!
After all these years of constantly playing these guys , I am amazed at how good the production was and still pick out some nuance I hadn't been aware of before and how it all fits together, the sudden note or tempo changes etc. Bob Ezrin is a brilliant producer and alice is such a presence but Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway and Smith I felt were never quite given the credit they deserved. I love Alice whatever but the early albums with the original line up are in mu opinion the best particularly this one
you speak truth
"hot smokin frog shit" taking, agreed on AC btw
I found this album in a garbage can in Switzerland when I was a teenager. It still played properly and I loved it from the spot. Next to FROM THE INSIDE this would be my favourite Cooper album.
wonder why someone would throw that away 😔😔 probably some kid's parent who didn't like it & made them throw it out
do you still have it ? whatta find !
@@michaellorenzen8200 It is still there 🙂
From the Inside is an absolute masterpiece, and not just my favorite Alice Cooper album, but one of my favorite albums of all time period.
Yup ! Musta been a parent threw it out ! Great story dude!!🤣🤣🤣
I’ve always told myself that I’ll never get tired of music because there was so much to choose from that was created in the 70’s & 80’s. Hope this makes sense. Up with Alice Cooper!
It makes sense, Linda, absolutely, don’t think about it, ok… thanks for understanding…
Take care
It makes perfect sense. I'm 59....grew up in the heyday of all this music....and I'm still going back and discovering stuff I missed along the way. It's like the music is brand new!
Oh what a JOY to be listening again for the first time in 50 years or more to the most important album of my 68 years. This old rocker with the young kid's spirit deep down inside me that life NEVER was able to beat outta me is almost in tears hearing just this first cut...."Caught in a Dream" once again. I swear I haven't heard it since probably 1975 or '76. Oh man......thank you, Lord. And thank YOU Dale Gribble...again! jbeintucson
same here........I still have the album but haven't listened to it since the mid 70's !
This album drove my parents crazzzzy back in the day . :)
I remember listening to this album and I couldn't wait to be 18.. I was about 12. Now I wanna go back to 18...Lol
Hahaha cool
sounds like a case of extreme penile dysmorphia...
Lol and yes same. Amen man ♥
@@joejones9520 thanks doc, sounds painful can you clear that up with antibiotics?
I agree
Love It to Death is the third studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released on March 9, 1971. It was the band’s first commercially successful album and the first album that consolidated the band’s aggressive hard-rocking sound, instead of the psychedelic and experimental rock style of their first two albums.
Five musicians formed the project back in high school under the name The Spiders with a dream to become rock stars. They were doing covers for the first couple of years slowly graduating to writing original material by the time they were 18. Interestingly enough, the whole Alice Cooper DNA with a lean towards theatrics and stage props was already present even before the band was signed to any label. After a couple of changes, musicians settled on Alice Cooper as the band’s name and started to shop around for a record deal.
Considering Alice Cooper were playing weird experimental psychedelic rock, it was a difficult task to find anyone interested in them be it managers or fans. Fortunately, there was one label owner crazy enough to sign an obscure band from Arizona and his name was Frank Zappa. Zappa signed Alice Cooper to a three-record deal despite the band not showing any commercial promise in the beginning. The first two albums brought few fans or favorable reviews so in order to have a chance at any kind of success, the band needed to change their style musically on the last one. The bizarre psychedelic jams were now simpler and leaned more towards the classic hard rock of the era with the musicians trying to create something more commercially viable.
In order to bring everything together, a new producer was hired. A 19-year-old Bob Ezrin was yet to become the legendary producer of Kiss, Pink Floyd, and many others and was not particularly excited about the prospect of working with a weird band. However, he did approach the job professionally and started a long process of tightening everything up, cutting songs in half, helping with arrangements, and making sure the album was dynamic and rocking from start to finish.
The album’s best-known track, “I’m Eighteen”, was released as a single to test the band’s commercial viability before the album was recorded. After its release in March 1971, Love It to Death reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has since been certified platinum. The album’s second single, “Caught in a Dream”, charted at No. 941. The original album cover featured singer Cooper posed with his thumb protruding so it appeared to be his penis; Warner Bros. soon replaced it with a censored version.
The Love It to Death tour featured an elaborate shock rock live show: during “Ballad of Dwight Fry”-about an inmate in an insane asylum-Cooper would be dragged offstage and return in a straitjacket, and the show climaxed with Cooper’s mock execution in a prop electric chair during "Black Juju". Ezrin and the Coopers continued to work together for a string of hit albums until the band’s breakup in 1974. The album has come to be seen as a foundational influence on hard rock, punk, and heavy metal; several tracks have become live Alice Cooper standards and are frequently covered by other bands.
Thanks for this classic. An absolute masterpiece.
There aren’t many albums I can sit down and listen to from start to finish without any phone distraction, or without skipping a track, but this is definitely one of them. Epic.
Same. Killer too, and most Pink Floyd.
same, but i have to skip thru black juju
How can you sit down? I have to get up and dance. But do appreciate your comment and your love of Alice.
Your right I bought this when I was 16 haven't listened to it in decades, still sounds great, thanks RUclips tunes 👍and whoever put it on here 🎉
One of the greatest albums ever recorded! I listen to it at least twice a week.
Agreed
Still have the original vinyl
@@dana_brooke_27 Nice! I have the tape as well as the CD, but you've got me beat. There aren't A TON of albums that I was happy to buy more than once, but this is definitely one of 'em.
@@dana_brooke_27 did you know the original album cover was recalled because they thought that was his penis sticking out , not his finger, go figure.
@@johnmurray1525 Yes.. That's the one I have. I thought it might be worth something now. But not really.
50 years ago.
Brilliant record.
The Alice Cooper band was awesome.
Excellent album great old rock and roll, saw them on the " Killer" tour when I was 14 years old
Was 16 when I first heard 18, and I guess I'll just Love it to Death
5o yrs. Who would have thought we still listen to good music.
I must have listened to this album 10,000 times. Every note, drum lick, vocal is imprinted in my memory. Really a great album, it's not a thematic album, but all the songs flow into one another, great production by Bib Ezrin.
Thats exact same with the 5 albums love it, killer, billion, Schools out and Muscle of love.
Kinda a theme but yet not outspoken.
Me too ! I can't sing " I'm 67 and I know what I want ", rather be 18 !
Bob Ezrin is just as guilty ❤️
Love from a hospital in Stockholm
With a handle like "Captain Beyond" you've got my respect from the jump! Oh bro.....I'm a 68 yr. old Arizona boy who like you, played this album 10K times, every note, drum lick, vocal print, etc. etc. Aww.....you get it. We're kindred Cooper / Baby Boomer Rockers. Cool to meet you in here, brother. Happy New Year and may '23 be your best year ever! God Bless us all from Joel in Tucson!
@coogan8825 calm down
I'm eighteen is possibly the purest expression, explanation, of a boy growing up that has ever been written and put to music. It is impossible to put it any better and more accurately than it is in this song. I was 14 when it came out and it opened my eyes to what was going to come in my life. This album was one of the most influential I ever listened to and it is still one of the most meaningful albums in my life.
salut
I went from listening to old country and pop music (no choice at the time) to receiving the Billion Dollar Babies album from a friend. This and Killer soon followed. These early albums are so awesome.
As a teenager always loved Black JUJU , Saw them in 69 with my Father after that concert I was hooked on Alice ...
Black Juju was such a classic but was so undervalued!!!
You have great taste!
I really like the early Alice Cooper. This album is fantastic. Not a single weak song. In general, this is hard rock, but it tends to heavy metal, especially the songs "I'm Eighteen" and "Black Juju" (they are my favorites on the album).
One of the best albums ever made 💀🤘🍻
BOB EZRIN. WHAT A MASTERBLASTER HE WAS THE REASON GLENS LEADS SOUND SO PERFECT .HIS MUSICAL TRAINING AS A YOUNG MAN TAUGHT HIM THE IMPORTANCE OF SONIC FLOW .MOST BANDS FIRST ALBUM IS THEIR BEST BECAUSE THEY WROTE IT FOR YEARS CRAFTING THEIR SOUND .SOME CANADIAN DUDE NAMES BOB A UNDERSTUDY OF RICHARD'S GETS AA CHANCE AND HE TURNED IT UP .THANKS BOB .LOOK UO BOBS L ON LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING GREAT ALBUMS .ANYONE THIS GUY WORKED FOR SOON BECAME A NEW MEMBER OF THAT BAND .
One of my favorite bands of all time. Loved their earlier albums the most but this is still a great one.
Love it to death
And always will
He has a great voice and writes very impressive songs some have it some just don't and he is at my moms church. I was watching him on the news on her tv she said "there is Coop" and .how nice he is and..I asked how long she knew Alice.
She said 'never met his wife." I did not say anything.
I will always remember when I was playing gigs, a local paper wrote us up. She wrote about my performance, "Michael Victor was truly infleuced by Alice Cooper." What a great compliment. Victor is my middle name. It was easier then using McNamara. LOL
Thanks for this.
Anything on youtube to watch?
You should upload some of your gigs to your channel!
I first heard this album in the summer of '76 at a party. I was pretty drunk when it started playing on the stereo. I had to sit down due to all the emotions these songs were stirring up inside of me. I actually started crying my eyes out! It brought out an unbelievable sadness in me. I bought the album later and to this day, listening to it brings back those memories.
I did not get into Alice until 1978 ! So that's when I first heard this .
Have you ever heard a song that bummed you out because they made you feel like you missed out on enjoying the artist your entire life? Of course I’ve always been aware of Alice via Wayne’s World, but never dove deep. Erik Ellington skated to Dwight Fry in the deathwish video, and it’s unbelievably heart wrenching. Going to see Alice and Ace in Hollywood and I can’t be more humbled by this amazing work of art.
I bought this album when I was 12 years old after just been given one of these fantastic hi fidelity record players with would you believe, speakers you could place around the room, this 2as my first album I bought after hearing my best mates older brother playing it. I still have it but it's not as playable as it was. I love all Alice Cooper stuff, but this is my favourite album with so many special memories.. I have to agree though the early albums are the best, such as pretties for you and I do love live at the whiskey. ago go
I agree for sure.Ive been ,an Alice fan for a very long , time .12 yrs.Old.
Great Alice Album! Thanks for downloading.
******Cepro,
I guess you know Alice’s bands other albums. If you didn’t hear these albums, I wish that I was hearing them for the first time like maybe you are There’s enough on RUclips to satisfy any genre I like…a lot. I lost a heartfelt collection they replaced it so that I kept my head in as self imposed almost five year prison of my making - like I see people doing now. I’m done with down and didn’t realize in my escape the people in my County fell apart, mostly through the crazy idea’s promulgated by the republican club, army, sneak’s. Those people know who they are and in countless years never had the brass to call me. Its a dead issue. People government proved who by redistricting, playing with the people’s only real voice, then a dimwit unknown from an ‘electoral college?’ Change’s and Hillary losses Trump wins.
I’ll write it somewhere more visible
Alice is a true American original.Great album.
All time classic.
My first concert… I think it was 78 Capital center. I was 13 years old. I never have tired of Alice. That band was so ahead of its time. I’m almost 60 and I remember sitting and playing this album when I was 12 like it was yesterday. Time …… such a strange thing if I can call it that. Mommy where’s daddy? 14 day’s Alice you are my ticket to the past. You blow my mind. I still have my original copy of this album. It’s like 40 some years old. That’s crazy.
Masterpiece
Man this brings back memories. Forgot how good this album is!
"Long Way to Go" did it for me way back when. Back in 1971, I built and rode a chopper. That tune would stream through my mind as I rode. Thanks, Michael Bruce, for penning the lyrics. Glenn Buxton was king tone. Vincent ("Alice") put his signature vocal to it. I was hanging with some gals and guys who were a lot younger than me. We were watching "Lords of Dogtown" which included "Long Way to Go" in the film's soundtrack. One of my younger compadres said, "Man, that tune rocks!" The rest concurred. I just smiled and said, "It moves just soooo right and it's what we oldsters listened to when Rock N Roll was king tone." 🎸 Thanks, Dale Gribble, for posting this LP!
Grande banda Alice Cooper, amamos vcs no Brazil.
bien joli
je n'avais jamais eu la curiosité d'écouter cet hardrockeur étasunien ; on entend bien de l'invention et de la musicalité
Goddamn this album still sounds so good.
As a 15 year old girl, I'd walk two blocks to the State theater in Toledo, Ohio to see Alice and often Bob Segar play. (Couldn't wait to turn 'Eighteen ') My mom noticed my obsession and took all of four us kids to see him in North Baltimore, Ohio at an outdoor concert. The summer sky was filled with heat lightening which Alice used as a 'prop' stabbing his sword with dollar bills on it into the sky right on cue. My mom was impressed with his showmanship, became a forever fan and I went on to see them around seven times in the 70s alone.
Nice story Grandma.
I just love album, the very first Alice Cooper album I bought
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death (1971) (Full Album)Alice Cooper band
Alice Cooper - vocals, harmonica
Glen Buxton - lead guitar
Michael Bruce - rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Dennis Dunaway - bass guitar, backing vocals
Neal Smith - drums, backing vocals
Additional musicians
Bob Ezrin - keyboards on "Caught in a Dream", "Long Way to Go", "Hallowed Be My Name", "Second Coming", and "Ballad of Dwight Fry" Track listing
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Caught in a Dream" Michael Bruce 3:10
2. "I'm Eighteen"
BruceAlice CooperDennis DunawayNeal SmithGlen Buxton
2:59
3. "Long Way to Go" Bruce 3:04
4. "Black Juju" Dunaway 9:14
Total length: 18:27
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
5. "Is It My Body"
CooperDunawayBruceSmithBuxton
2:34
6. "Hallowed Be My Name" Smith 2:30
7. "Second Coming" Cooper 3:04
8. "Ballad of Dwight Fry"
BruceCooper
6:33
9. "Sun Arise"
Harry ButlerRolf Harris
3:50
Total length: 18:31
Great album. I Love It To Death!
Первый диск, который я записал... А.Е.К. До сих пор торчу от Alice Cooper!!!!!
Buono però per me up the iron Maiden patrimonio dell'umanità heavy metal e non solo senzadubbiamente 🎸💯 mostri sacri eterni ragazzi
I bought this LP in the mid-70's when I was a pimply young teenager. LOVED IT TO DEATH!!!
Thank you for uploading, seeing Alice tomorrow at Comicpalooza in Houston, so hyped to actually have the chance to meet him!
The Alice Cooper Band. The first few albums were so good! It went downhill when Alice went solo. He should have stuck with Dennis Dunaway.
I saw them twice in Alexandria, VA first at the roller rink Alice threw a pillow into the audience it landed in my lap. We drove down Washington Street after the concert letting the feathers fly out of the pillow! Fun times 2nd time I saw them a few blocks away the the Virginia Theatre it was awesome times back then. Tickets weren’t but $4/5 bucks!!!
This album made Alice Cooper
71 est à mes 16ans la consécration de l'album ALICE COOPER
C'EST FANTASTIQUE VIVE Alice cooper👍et bien sûr school out?...😂
When I listen to this, all I can think of is BOB EZRIN!
Boy this takes me back to when I was 14. This is the album everybody was listening to. I haven’t heard it I know in 40 years but I didn’t forget a word!
Right up there with the best of it's time. Rock n roll in its prime
an EXCELENT album .
Love the transition from Second Coming into the Ballad Of Dwight Frye
me too. In fact it was the first thing I heard from LITD on FM rock radio, when it also was new. I'm Eighteen had being played heavily on CKLW-AM and then heard the medley. Over 50 years ago but I can remember being blown away.
GOOD to know ur all out there!!! Ive LOVED IT TOOOO DEATH FOR 48 YRS- SINCE I FOUND IT !!! CARRY ON BABIES !!
I CANT GET ENUFF
@@beehonest9534 I knooow, no matter we listened to these albums 40-50 years, they still are LEAST as good as back then *stunned*
Now how's that for quality
Is It My Body is my all favorite Cooper tune. Such a raw grit & beat.
Great song for sure!
I've sung it a time or two in the bars drunk on karaoke night and I'm not the best singer but I was a hit those nights for sure.
It seemed to be the hip wagging on the bass guitars part when alice says "who I really am" that got everyone's attention....
Damn..kinda makes me wish I didn't quit drinking 🍻 🥴
Great! Thanks for the upload!
I was living in Reno, NV when this album came out. Reno is much different than Philadelphia. Outside of the gambling areas its mountains and desert. Very peaceful and the parties were outrageous. Sun Valley, Outside Reno, is mostly trailers. It was common to have 100 people at a party. No fights etc. Just love, lots of girls and weed. Good times.
love you all Alice Cooper FANS
I was so into Alice Cooper at secondary school, it takes me back to hanging out with my mates and being a total outsider compared to the rest of kids at school, love it. This is probably my favourite album!
Always been one of my favourite album s . A masterpiece.
... ALICE COOPER 🇺🇸 from the USA ... 🤘 🇺🇸
Fantastic album
Looking like an album cover from 1971😊
Agostinho de Louveira JÓIA RARA , Tenho o Vinil...
This album kept me awake at night when I was 18..
Yeah . Ballad. They played over the air when came out. Their best work.
This was a wild n crazy band back then and I saw them in 73. The underground parking lot of the Arena for 3 bucks and a hell of a good night.
Nem is tudtam, hogy A Cooper mar 1971 ben is ilyen jo zenet csinalt. Az 1972 es, es az 1973 as meg van. Az elso CD em A Cooper Beast of A Cooprer lemez volt.
"Black Juju"..... LOL.... What a trippy song.... I love it.....
I don't know about it being his best,cause I love all his music,been to 6 concerts,GREAT...
I'm 55 years old , I was a coop fan at like 9, I remember the welcome to my nightmare special on TV, never looked back...Alice....the original nightmare, this album is a 10 outta 10, Dwight Frye!!!!
me and all my speed freak buddies loved this shit.
In my teens this was the ultimate album to listen to in the dark or in a dimly lit room ..
I remember when it came out. So many found it shocking. It was like Alice Cooper was revealing all their fears. But I checked out the albums to see for myself and it was great music. It reminded of horror movies the atmosphere created by the songs was powerful. Not the usual. And I love the unusual and unique. But listening to all of the Alice Cooper albums on headphones is so good. So much more to hear. Got to see Alice Cooper in concert once. Wish it could be more.
Stays in my car 24/7 on mp3
Still in it?
En 1971 j'avais acheté le 33 tours vinil ..génial de le retrouver su RUclips
22.10.'22., city Minsk 🎸 Beloryssia ❤️, thenks, merzy, danke, Gracias, Dziakyiu, spasibo ❤️.Сколь не слушаю, нравится и всё😎.
The entire second side of this album is as good as any album in the history of rock and roll........
The First band was the BEST !!
God damn it's just as good as it was the first time.
Yes‼️my senior year of high School
A real master peice!
such a masterpiece
First time was the Orpheum Theater in Boston in 1973. They played almost 3 hours. Second time was the Boston Garden ( the _real_ Garden, not that replacement piece of shit) where the smoke was so thicc you could barely se the stage and they played until they lost their voices.
Damn, it was good to be young when everyone else was young!! 🤣🤣🤣👍
Whatever happened to this planet when the aliens landed, it must have been about 1971 -- if they were into the best rock n roll....
You can feel Alice's " Detroit Attitude " in this record , & for some High School friends from Arizona they sure had a nice " track record by now !
*~ ALICE COOPER BAND ~*
My First Album I Got.
The first Alice Cooper album that sounds like an Alice Cooper album.
It's forever to me...since i'm a teenager and i continue to hear ever
man i start diggind the first albums of well knowns and they are f great
Back when musicians actually sang and played real instruments
Grande álbum
M A S T E R P I E C E ❤
Damn I used to blast this album for my stoner friends back in the 80's. Good times. 🤘
Amazing song writers, crafters, arrangers and performers.