Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alice Cooper - Lead Vocals, Harmonica Mike Bruce - Guitars, Piano, Organ, Backing Vocals Glen Buxton - Guitars Dennis Dunaway - Bass, Backing Vocals Neal Smith - Drums, Backing Vocals Bob Ezrin - Piano. Dick Wagner - Guitars on "I Love The Dead" Steve Hunter - Guitars on "I Love The Dead and "Generation Landslide". Mick Mashbir - Guitars. Donovan Leitch - Backing Vocals on "Billion Dollar Babies". Produced by Bob Ezrin. Recorded at The Cooper Mansion, Greenwich, Conn., August to October 1972. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Hello Hooray (Rolf Kempf) 4:14 2) Raped And Freezin' (Bruce, Cooper) 3:15 3) Elected (Cooper, Smith, Dunaway, Bruce, Buxton) 4:05 4) Billion Dollar Babies (Cooper, Bruce, R. Reggie) 3:39 5) Unfinished Sweet (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) 6:17 6) No More Mr. Nice Guy (Bruce, Cooper) 3:05 7) Generation Landslide (Cooper, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith, Buxton) 4:31 8) Sick Things (Ezrin, Cooper, Bruce) 4:18 9) Mary Ann (Bruce, Cooper) 2:19 10) I Love The Dead (Ezrin, Cooper) 5:08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Hello Hooray (Rolf Kempf) 4:14 Hello! Hooray! Let the show begin, I've been ready Hello! Hooray! Let the lights grow dim, I've been ready Ready as this audience ... that's coming here to dream Loving every second, ev'ry moment, ev'ry scream I've been waiting so long ... to sing my song And I've been waiting so long ... for this thing to come Yeah, I've been thinking so long ... I was the only one Roll out! Roll out with your American dream and its recruits, I've been ready Roll out! Roll out with your circus freaks and hula hoops, I've been ready Ready as this audience ... that's coming here to dream Loving every second, ev'ry moment, ev'ry scream I've been waiting so long ... to sing my song And I've been waiting so long ... for this thing to come Ooh, I've been thinking so long ... I was the only one I can stand here strong and thin And I can laugh when this thing begins God, I feel so strong I feel so strong I'm so strong I feel so strong (2) So strong God, I feel so strong I am so strong I feel so strong (5) Yes, I'm strong I'm strong enough... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Raped And Freezin' (Bruce, Cooper) 3:15 Finally got a ride, some old broad down from Santa Fe She was a real go-getter She drawled so sweetly "I think, child, that things'll get better" We pulled off the highway, night black as a widow "Yes, I read the Bible," she said, "I wanna know of you" Hey, I think I've got a live one (3) Yeah yeah, I think I've got a live one Hey boys! Felt like I was hit by a diesel or a greyhound bus She was no baby-sitter "Get up, sugar, never thought you'd be a quitter" I opened the back door, she was greedy I ran through the desert, she was chasin' No time to get dressed, so I was naked Stranded in Chihuahua Chorus: Hey, I think I've got a live one Hey yeah, I've got a live one Hey hey, I think I've got a live one Hey, ooh I've got a live one Chorus Alone, raped and freezin' Along cold and sneezin' Along down in Mexico Alone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Elected (Cooper, Smith, Dunaway, Bruce, Buxton) 4:05 I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice I wanna be elected I'm your yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce I wanna be elected Kids want a savior, they don't need a fake I wanna be elected We're all gonna rock ... to the rules that I make I wanna be elected Elected Elected, oh yeah Respected, yeah yeah Elected I never lied to you, I've always been cool I wanna be elected I gotta get the vote ... and I told you 'bout school I wanna be elected Elected, elected Hallelujah I wanna be selected By everyone in the United States of America We're gonna win this one, take the country by storm We're gonna be elected You and me together, young and strong We're gonna be elected Elected, elected Respected, selected, col-collected I wanna be elected (Unsung words): "And if I am elected I promise the formation of a new party A third party, the Wild Party! I know we have problems We got problems right here in Central City We have problems on the North, South, East and West New York City, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Detroit, Chicago Everybody has problems And personally, I don't care" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Billion Dollar Babies (Cooper, Bruce, R. Reggie) 3:39 Billion ... dollar babies Rubber little lady, slicker than a weasel, grimy as an alley Loves me like no other lover Billion ... dollar baby Rotten little monster, baby, I adore you Man or woman living couldn't love me like you, baby Chorus: We go dancing nightly in the attic While the moon is rising in the sky If I'm too rough, tell me I'm so scared, your little head ... will come off in my hands Billion ... dollar baby I got you in the dimestore, no other little girl could ever hold you Any tighter, any tighter than me, baby Billion ... dollar baby Reckless like a gambler, million dollar maybe Fightin' like dog that's been infected by the rabies Chorus Million ... dollar baby - Yeah Billion ... dollar baby Trillion ... dollar baby Zillion ... dollar baby B-b-b-b-billion ... dollar baby ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Unfinished Sweet (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) 6:17 Candy everywhere, got chocolate in my hair Aching to get me Sticky sweet suckers in the Halloween air Aching to get me Saint Vitus dance on my molars tonight Aching to get me Aching to get me Get me Ooh Take it to the doc, I guess he ought to know La, da, da, da, da Which ones can stay, which ones gotta go La, da, da, da, da He looks in my mouth and then he starts to gloat He says my teeth are O. K. but my gums got to go Oh, oh, oh, oh I come off the gas ... but I'm still seeing spies Aching to get me I can see them all ... through a glassy pair of eyes Aching to get me De Sade's gonna live ... in my mouth tonight La, da, da, da, da And the rotten tooth fairy is satisfied La, da, da, da, da Aching to get me Get me Ooh Oh, oh Ooh oh oh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) No More Mr. Nice Guy (Bruce, Cooper) 3:05 I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing 'Til they ... got a hold of me I opened doors for little old ladies I helped the blind to see I got no friends 'cause they read the papers They can't be seen ... with me and I'm gettin' real shot down... And I'm ... feeling mean Chorus 1: No more Mister Nice Guy No more Mister Clean No more Mister Nice Guy They say - He's sick, he's obscene I got no friends 'cause they read the papers They can't be seen with me and I'm gettin' real shot down And I'm, I'm getting feeling mean Chorus 1 My dog bit me on the leg today My cat clawed my eyes Ma's been thrown out of the social circle... And dad has to hide I went to church incognito When everybody rose The Reverend Smith, he ... he recognized me And punched me in the nose Chorus 2: No more Mister Nice Guy No more Mister Clean No more Mister Nice Guy They say - You're sick, he's obscene Chorus 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Generation Landslide (Cooper, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith, Buxton) 4:31 La la la da da Please clean the plates, dear The Lord above can see ya Don't you know people ... are starving in Korea? Alcohol and razor blades and straight pins and needles Kindergarten people They use 'em, the need 'em Over-indulging ... machines were their children There wasn't a way down on Earth 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 Chorus: And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies Who never conceived of us ... billion dollar babies La la la da da Militant mothers ... hiding in their basement Using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high chairs While Mothers' Lib burned ... their 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 Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Sick Things (Ezrin, Cooper, Bruce) 4:18 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Mary Ann (Bruce, Cooper) 2:19 Mary-Ann I'm really crazy 'bout you, do what I can I just can't live without you, Mary-Ann Mary-Ann Mary-Ann My life was built around you, stars and sand Your eyes were pools of laughter, Mary-Ann I thought you were my man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) I Love The Dead (Ezrin, Cooper) 5:08 Chorus 1: I love the dead ... before they're cold Their blueing flesh for ... me to hold Cadaver eyes ... upon me see ... nothing I love the dead before they rise No farewells, no goodbyes I never even knew your now-rotting face While friends and lovers mourn your, ha, silly grave I have other uses for you, darling I love the dead (2) I love the dead ... so Chorus 2: I love the dead (3) I... Chorus 2 (3) I, I love the dead (3) Chorus 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------