{"id":4007,"date":"2014-01-30T13:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/30\/audio-fidelity-to-release-classic-alice-cooper-album-billion-dollar-babies-on-hybrid-sacd-on-february-4-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:17:48","slug":"audio-fidelity-to-release-classic-alice-cooper-album-billion-dollar-babies-on-hybrid-sacd-on-february-4-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/01\/30\/audio-fidelity-to-release-classic-alice-cooper-album-billion-dollar-babies-on-hybrid-sacd-on-february-4-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Fidelity To Release Classic Alice Cooper Album ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ On Hybrid SACD On February 4, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alice Cooper fans worldwide rejoice! Marshall Blonstein’s\u00a0Audio Fidelity is releasing Alice Cooper’s classic album ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ on Hybrid SACD on February 4, 2014! As a bonus, along with the\u00a0meticulously\u00a0reproduced artwork, enclosed in every CD is the very collectible replicated ‘Billion Dollar Bill’ <\/div>\n
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With\u00a0‘Billion Dollar Babies’,\u00a0Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work in favor of a slightly more polished sound resulting in a mega-hit album that reached the top of the US and UK album charts. It\u2019s impossible to overstate how popular the band had become by the time their sixth album was released. The album, is brilliant, decadent and encapsulated all the celebrity trashiness of the 70’s only three years into the decade.<\/div>\n
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Song for song,\u00a0‘Billion Dollar Babies’\u00a0is probably the original\u00a0Alice Cooper\u00a0group’s finest and strongest. The album’s singles \u201cElected\u201d, \u201cHello Hooray\u201d, \u201cBillion Dollar Babies\u201d,and \u201cNo More Mr. Nice Guy\u201d all became hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Also included are a pair of perennial concert standards – the disturbing necrophilia ditty \u201cI Love the Dead\u201d and the chilling macabre of \u201cSick Things\u201d.<\/div>\n
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After the album was released, the band embarked on a tour which broke the US box office records previously held by the\u00a0Rolling Stones. The show climaxed with a guillotine execution of\u00a0Alice. The album and the tour made the band into the world’s preeminent pied pipers of teenage trash culture and the most successful rock band ever to be loathed by American parents.<\/div>\n
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\u201cOther than the original ‘Alice Cooper Band’ being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 2011, our second biggest achievement was when our album ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ went to Number\u00a0#1 in all three music trade magazines at the same time in April of 1973. Number #1 in Billboard, Number #1 in Record World and Number #1 in Cash Box. We had hoped it would sell Gold or Platinum as a follow up to the success of our album ‘School\u2019s Out’, but a Number #1 album was something that was totally unexpected. Over the years the title track \u201cBillion Dollar Babies\u201d has become my signature song because of the recognizable drum intro.\u201d – Neal Smith, Alice Cooper drummer and founding member<\/div>\n
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\u201cI remember we were out on the road when the album finally came out in February 1973. I listened to it in my hotel room and just got this really big smile. I was thinking, ‘It’s amazing, we’re really pulling this off’.\u00a0The album was very, very unique and very, very different. I was really proud of the songs, especially ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’, ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ and ‘Generation Landslide’.\u201d – Michael Bruce, Alice Cooper guitarist\/keyboardist and founding member<\/div>\n
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TRACKS:
1. Hello Hooray\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
2. Raped and Freezin’
3. Elected
4. Billion Dollar Babies
5. Unfinished Sweet
6. No More Mr. Nice Guy
7. Generation Landslide
8. Sick Things
9. Mary-Ann
10. I Love the Dead<\/div>\n
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Produced by Bob Ezrin
Mastered\u00a0by\u00a0Steve Hoffman\u00a0at\u00a0Stephen Marsh Mastering<\/div>\n
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\u201c…it remains one of rock’s quintessential classic albums!\u201d<\/div>\n
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To purchase: http:\/\/www.audiofidelity.net\/content\/alice-cooper-billion-dollar-babies<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: www.audiofidelity.net<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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