[Susan Foreman]

The seventh song on the album is called 'Generation Landslide', which is also known as 'Son Of Billion Dollar Babies'

This satirical song attacks the corruption and hypocrisy of the older generation and predicts that youth culture will rise up, conquer the world and change the status quo

This is one of the rare recordings by Alice Cooper that features acoustic guitar and harmonica. Cooper plays the harmonica part on this track

Self-referencing is abound in this song. Not only the reprisal from 'Billion Dollar Babies', but also the "Colgate invisible shield" mention, which is a reference to a 1958 television commercial for toothpaste - 'Unfinished Sweet'

Alice Cooper - Vocals and Harmonica
Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals
Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards

07/10 - Generation Landslide (Cooper, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith, Buxton)



"Please clean the plate, dear
The Lord above can see ya
Don't you know people are starving in Korea?
Alcohol and razor blades and poison and needles
Kindergarten people - they used 'em, the need 'em
Over-indulging machines were their children
There wasn't a way down on Earth here to cool 'em
'Cause they look just like humans at Kresges and Woolworths
But decadent brains were at work to destroy
Brats in battalions were ruling the streets
Sayin' generation landslide closed the gap between 'em

And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies
Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies
La da da dada

Militant mothers hidin' in the basement
Using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets
Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high chairs
While Mothers' Lib burned birth certificate papers
Dad gets his allowance from his sonny, the dealer
Who's pubic to the world but involved in high finance
Sister's out 'til five doing banker's son's hours
But she owns a Maserati that's a gift from his father
Stopped at full speed at one hundred miles per hour
The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em

And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies
Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies
La da da dada"

Track #8 is Sick Things, which is quite interesting song. It repeats the concept of one person singing the lyrics and a completely different voice whisper them, which has the effect of creating a monumentally creepy atmosphere, and that's only amplified by the sort of death march going on with the drums

If you are not a fan of Alice, but you think you recognise the song that could be because it's very similar to a piece of music used in the film 'IF..', starring Malcolm McDowell. The Choral piece from the film is entitled "Sanctus", and it is taken from from "Missa Luba, An African Mass" with the backing and vocal line at one point almost identical to this song

Alice Cooper - Vocals and Harmonica
Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals
Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards
Mick Mashbir - Guitar
Steve Hunter - Guitar at the end of the song

08/10 - Sick Things (Ezrin, Cooper, Bruce)



"Sick things in cars rotate 'round my stars
Sick things, my things, my pets, my things

I love you things I see
As much as you love me
You things are heavenly
When you come worship me
You things are chilled with fright
For I am out tonight
You fill me with delight
You whet my appetite

I eat my things
What love it brings
Come here, my things
Don't fear my little things

I love you things I see
As much as you love me
You things are heavenly
When you come worship me.
You things are thrilled with fright
For I am out tonight
You things are paradise
You whet my appetite

Sick things in cartridge tapes, my stars
Sick things, pretty things, play things, my things

I love the things I see
As much as they love me
You things are heavenly
When you come worship me
You things are chilled with fright
For I am out tonight
You things are paradise
You whet my appetite"