Alice Cooper - Killer

What a great album. Can you imagine being a 14 year old in 1971 and picking this one up? With its greasy looking cover and a song about dead babies. Man, what fun. Anyway, it opens up with "under my wheels" and the only time is slows down is on "desperado" which is allegedly about Jim Morrison, but is still pretty good once it gets going. 8 tracks, 5 of which are classic Alice, but there are a couple of rock suites, namely "Halo of flies" and "Killer". They were dabbling in prog, and neither make for very good prog tunes, but fortunately the band was so ill-suited for it that they both come across as "let's play with some stuff that sounds cool". This being the early-ish days of stereo recording, people played with that format a lot more, and they did it to good effect here. Bob Ezrin produced this, which kind of shows, but in a kind of "tried to wrestle control away and was overpowered" kind of way that plays out well in the capable hands of the Alice Cooper band. This is one of those non-classic rock radio, non-hipster co-opted, Non-critically acclaimed, under the radar, old, good rock records that if you ever see a cute girl buying, grab on to her and don't let go, because she just passed the litmus test with flying colors.