Killer | 
 enlarge | Artist: Alice Cooper
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 5475
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 2567
UPC: 499999350058
EAN: 0075992725521
ASIN: B000002KDS
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Under My Wheels | | • | Be My Lover | | • | Halo of Flies | | • | Desperado | | • | You Drive Me Nervous | | • | Yeah, Yeah, Yeah | | • | Dead Babies | | • | Killer |
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The fact that Alice Cooper's fourth release housed the gritty "Halo of Flies" would be reason enough to buy the CD, even if the rest of it were garbage. An essential piece of the rock canon, it may not have served up the hits that his other releases did, but it still stands as a classic. Loud, brash, sloppy, and hard, it's the kind of listen that makes you check for grime under your nails. Cooper's rock/shock aesthetic was coming into full bloom here and "Dead Babies" shows he was satisfied with his formula of hard rock, bad taste, and images outside the realm of Middle America. The title track hints at the shape of things to come, laying the ground work for works as seemingly disparate as "Only Women Bleed," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy." Briefly ostracized by the "hipper than thou" sect, Killer is one of the reasons Cooper is now fully appreciated as the pioneer that he was. - -Steve Gdula
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Vaudeville Rock Anyone? December 3, 2008
Dakota Nielsen (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
One of the top 100 Rock albums to date, and this is the Coop at his best (with the exception of Love it to Death). Pick it up, you won't be disappointed.
Halo of Flies October 25, 2008
Fredric A. Cooper (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Coop's second hit album following the breakthrough "Love It To Death" was "Killer". This CD does not do the album justice. Frankly I'm surprised there is no expanded version of this on Rhino. What gives? An enhanced-with-bonus-trax, remastered version of "Killer" seems like a no-brainer. This is a classic album with one absolute masterpiece, "Halo of Flies". I love during one line how the melody from "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music" is detectable. Everybody into rock bought this album at the time. The music stands up so well because it is real and the original AC band was incredible. I saw them in 1971 at the Long Beach Auditorium and they were fierce live.
 Shame on Warner Brothers...... October 23, 2008
Tuco (Phoenix, Az USA)
First off, all of the original Alice Cooper band albums are more than worthwhile. Get them all....on vinyl that is.
These low priced CD's that Warner Brothers is peddeling are the original transfers from back when the CD was first introduced. Terrible hiss and poor sound quality make these unlistenable in my opinion. I have MP3's and cassettes of these albums that sound much better than these factory WB CD releases do.
I also own all of them on vinyl and can firmly attest that the AC Band catalouge is in DIRE need of a remaster. Save your bucks until that happens or listen on vinyl/cassette until then. Don't encourage these guys. Shame on you Warner Brothers for continuing to sell such outdated/poor quality transfers here in the new millenium!!
Killer indeed! September 6, 2008
T. G Porter (Tucson, Az United States)
This album is the epitomy of 70's hard rock. My favorite Alice cds are Billion Dollar Babies, and Killer. I was 9 years old when Killer hit the streets and this album changed my life.
Ted Templeman produced this, and there are alot of really cool sounds that make this album very creepy and cool. "Halo of Flies"...etc.
If I was going to live on a deserted island, and could only take 100 cd's with me, this one would definately go.
Killer May 19, 2008
Harry Brewer (S'port, La.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Arguably, the band Alice Cooper, their best album. This album peaked at #21 on the charts & it had two singles released from it, "Be My Lover" (#49) & "Under My Wheels" (#59). These chart positions are not indicative of the quality of this album. At 8 songs, let's remember this was on vinyl, it's on the short side but every song here is exceptional. The aforementioned songs are excellent as are "Under My Wheels", "You Drive Me Nervous" & "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah". There's absolutely nothing wrong with the rest of the songs.
Below is a listing of the songs as they appeared on vinyl:
Side 1
"Under My Wheels"
"Be My Lover"
"Halo of Flies"
"Desperado"
Side 2
"You Drive Me Nervous"
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"
"Dead Babies"
"Killer"
I've listed these songs this way for a reason, I don't know if anyone has noticed (I'm sure SOMEBODY has) but these songs correspond by titles. If you compare the first song (& so forth) of side 1 to the first song of side 2 they have a certain similarity. The second song of each side is the biggest stretch for similarity but I let you figure that out. I don't know if it was intentional but it's there for all to see.
Bob Ezrin was the producer & he had the Midas touch at this point in his career. He managed to get the band Alice Cooper to become a top charting act, he did the same for Alice Cooper the solo act, he produced the best album Kiss ever did, Destroyer, & then he began producing Pink Floyd albums, most notably The Wall. It should be noted that Ezrin also writes songs & is a musician.
Without a doubt, this is the band Alice Cooper's best album. It's about as close as one can get to an essential album without being one. If I were to rate these songs on an individual basis, none would receive less than a four star rating. There isn't any filler on this album! This was a very tight band that could do a lot of different things & styles.
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