ALICE COOPER Muscle Of Love WARNER BS 2748 (1973) Box Package ALL INSERTS EX LP
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ALICE COOPER Muscle Of Love
Used Vinyl Record
Sleeve/Vinyl: EX/EX
Record Label: Warner Bros. Records BS 2748
1973 Pressing. In Die Cut Cardboard Carton Cover with Gatefold Insert and Picture Inner Sleeve.
Condition: Die cut box has very little wear. Corners are sharp and sides are rigid. Tab on the back right of the box is torn. Full color, photo inner sleeve has a few creases and small tears at the top record opening. Gatefold insert has some roug spots near the edges. Vinyl is clean and plays very well.
Side One
1. Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)
2. Never Been Sold Before
3. Hard Hearted Alice
4. Crazy Little Child
Side Two
5. Working Up A Sweat
6. Muscle Of Love
7. Man With The Golden Gun
8. Teenage Lament '74
9. Woman Machine
Review: Coming off such conceptual, theatrical, sleazy hard rock records as the massively successful School's Out (1972) and Billion Dollar Babies (1973), the Alice Cooper group decided that their next release would be more along the lines of their earlier, more straightforward work (? a la Love It to Death). While Muscle of Love was a gold-certified Top Ten success, it performed below expectations (their previous two albums peaked at number two and number one, respectively) and would unfortunately prove to be the original Alice Cooper band's last studio album together. The album may not be as coherent as their previous classics (producer Bob Ezrin took a leave of absence) and more filler is present than usual, yet Muscle of Love is perhaps Alice Cooper's most underrated record -- more than a few overlooked and forgotten classics reside here. The two best-known tracks are undoubtedly the Top 20 anthem "Teenage Lament '74," which features none other than Liza Minnelli and the Pointer Sisters on backing vocals, and the boisterous title track. But other tracks are just as good -- the Led Zep-stomping opener, "Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)," the gentle "Hard Hearted Alice" (a precursor to Cooper's future ballad-oriented direction), the raging "Working Up a Sweat," and "Man with the Golden Gun" (which was written for the James Bond movie of the same name, but rejected). A forgotten hard rock classic.
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