Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love
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Artist: Alice CooperEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1995-10-18
Music Label: Warner Bros UK
Soundtracks:
- Muscle of Love
- Woman Machine
- Hard Hearted Alice - Alice Cooper, Bruce, Michael
- Man with the Golden Gun
- Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)
- Never Been Sold Before
- Working Up a Sweat
- Crazy Little Child - Alice Cooper, Cooper
- Teenage Lament
Music reviews of Muscle of Love
Music Review: Shows how badly they needed Bob Ezrin....
Rating: 3 Stars
Some greats bands go out with a bang and others go out with a thud. The original Alice Cooper group falls into the latter category. To me, it was their weakest album since their debut record Pretties For You. The band admits that they were very tired from the whole record an album, then tour cycle and were in much need of a break. They didn't get one and instead recorded this rather uninspired, but not-without-it's-great-moments album.
Missing here was producer Bob Ezrin, the man largely responsible for turning them into the great band that they had become and who was probably responsible for the Alice persona. Without Ezrin, the Coop went back to their 50's rock-n-roll roots on a few numbers, like 'Teenage Lament '74', experimented with rag-time jazz on one song ('Crazy Little Child'), brought in a horn section for a few tunes ('Never Been Sold Before' and 'The Man With The Golden Gun'), got progressive on one piece ('Hard Hearted Alice') and continued with the hard rock of their previous albums on the other tunes and on a few that I already mentioned. There are no scary Alice songs or theatrical tunes here, just plain rock-n-roll ones. It is not the best batch of songs that the group ever recorded, but a few songs stand out. They are...
'Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)' is one of my favorite A.C. songs to have never made one of their (or his) greatest hits albums. It has a heavy and catchy riff, some terrific singing from Alice, a good guitar solo and a violin solo at the end.
'Hard Hearted Alice' is an acoustic ballad that rocks out and gets a bit progressive during the instrumental section and has a Deep Purple-like organ solo in it. One the more enjoyable and tuneful songs here.
'Muscle Of Love' has a wonderful, and complicated hard rock guitar riff and rocks out more than almost any other song on the album. Some interesting lyrics from Alice, too, that deal with a young kid's discovery of his Dad's porno magazines!
Back on the negative side, some songs, like 'Never Been Sold Before' and 'The Man With The Golden Gun', start off promising enough, but are ruined by the horn section. The latter, in particular, is very disappointing. Nice heavy riff, but the instrumental section, which is intentionally very James Bond-like, ruins the song, with it's Star Trek-like female backing vocals and the horn section. Pretty dang depressing! Elsewhere, 'Teenage Lament '74' (which somehow made the greatest hits album) is my least favorite song by the original Alice Cooper group. Too fifties rock-n-roll for me. And 'Working Up A Sweat', while it's a rather upbeat and uptempo bluesy hard rock song, has never done anything good for me. As for 'Crazy Little Child'...it's not bad, but The Kinks did the old ragtime jazz thing much better! The album ends with a strange tune called 'Woman Machine', which the band supposedly had kicking around for a while.
The CD version comes with a lyric sheet (not found on the original album), along with the band pictures that appeared on the original LP, showing the guys outside of a club that has nude wrestling, the twist being that it's with a nude gorilla, who kicks their butts! Very amusing...a shame that the amusement doesn't carry over to the music. For all of it's flaws, Muscle Of Love is still worth having. Just don't expect much!
Description of Muscle of Love
Top 10 1973 album for Warner Brothers, featuring the title cut and 'Teenage Lament '74'. Out of print in the U.S. Nine tracks total.General CDs
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