On our road trip, it seems that I am getting more time than I anticipated to get online, so I'm going to try and continue with my discography
'
Muscle Of Love' was released in 1973, and after three years of constant touring and recording, life in The Alice Cooper Group was starting to show a few signs of strain. With little time to spend writing new material the band had to return to the studio earlier then was probably wise to follow up the massive success of '
Billion Dollar Babies'
This is the bands "sex album", with almost all of the songs having some kind of sex connection!
This was to be the last time the original band would work together in the studio.
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals
Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ
Bob Dolin - Keyboards
Mick Mashbir - Guitar
Dick Wagner - Guitar
Producer - Jack Richardson and Jack Douglas
The album came under scrutiny in South Africa where the inner sleeve [below] depicting Alice and group outside the "Institute of Nude Wrestling" was considered obscene by the Customs and Vice Squads
The working title for the album was 'A Kiss And A Fist'
The first song is '
Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)'. The working title of the song was "Hippopotamus", which was named after the club of the same name in New York City that the band used to frequent
It's an OK song, but probably the weakest opening cut on an ACG album since the 'Pretties for you' LP. It's functional is probably the best I can say!
01/10 - Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo) (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Smith)
"We're so young and pretty, we're so young and clean
So many things that we have never seen
Let's move from Ohio, sell this dam' old store
Big Apple dreamin' on a wooden floor
Skyscrapers and subways and stations
Staring up at the United Nations
New York is waiting for you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down
New York, we're coming to see what you're made of
Are you as great as you sound
Heard about them massages, and all those dirty shows
I read somewhere some places never close
While we waste time on yokels, comin' through the door
Big Apple dreamin' on a wooden floor
Skyscrapers and subways and stations
Staring up at the United Nations
New York is waiting for you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down
New York, we're coming to see what you're made of
Are you as great as you sound
New York is waiting for you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down
New York, we're coming to see what you're made of
Are you as tough as you sound
Oh, New York is waiting for you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down, whoo-oo
New York, we're coming, to see what you're made of
Are you as tough as you sound
Yeah, New York is waiting, baby
Waiting to swallow us down,
New York, we're coming, see what you're made of
You can't be as tough as you sound
Oh, New York, you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down,
New York, we're coming see what you're made of
Are you as great as you sound
Oh, New York, Oh, New York we're coming
Oh, we're coming to see what you're made of
Oh, you can't be as tough as you sound
Me and my baby, we're coming
Oh, we're coming
They're waiting for you and me, baby
Oh...
(dialog fades out)"
The second song,
Never Been Sold Before, is much better
02/10 - Never Been Sold Before (Cooper, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith, Buxton)
"You ask me, babe, "Can you work tonight?"
I've been up, babe, since broad daylight
I just can't believe that you're selling me, you never sold me before
I just can't become your lousy whore
Yeah, I'm stacked nice, they really like my style
Fifty bucks, babe, ha, can't even buy my smile
I just can't believe that you're selling me, you never sold me before
I just can't become your lousy whore
I-I-I-I find I come around just to lay this money on you, babe
I'm sick of streets, chicks and dicks, and I'm,
I'm really sick of you
Oh-oh, I've never been sold before
And I'll never be had again
Oh-oh, I've never been sold before
And I'll never be had again
I just can't believe that you're selling me, you never sold me before
I just can't become your little whore
No, no, no, no
Oh, I've never been sold before
And I'll never be had again
Oh-oh, I've never been sold before
And I'll never be had again
Oh, I've never been sold before
And I'll never be had again
Oh-oh, I've never been sold before
And I'll never be had again
(repeat to fade)
For some reason, musically this reminds me of the song 'Going Mobile', by The Who, recorded in 1971 and included on the 'Who's Next' album. But then again, Alice and Keith Moon
were drinking buddies! -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxymSLzJeM