11. Alice CooperPretties For You
Man, what a record. It’s Alice Cooper’s first record, and I think it’s a little bit before the others in the late sixties. Alice Cooper got popular mainly after Love It To Death and then all the way up. Obviously Alice Cooper has been around for a million fucking years. But this Alice Cooper is very different from the Love It To Death Alice Cooper that most people know. This is like psychedelic and odd. In its own way it’s like an American Sgt. Pepper’s… because it’s trying to do all these different things: switching gear, switching music styles. But not expertly played, they were clearly a garage band who had been playing Rolling Stones covers only a couple years before and now trying to do basically an opus. They were experimenting with jazz time signatures, strange lyrics. It’s very, very hard to explain or compare it to anything else because I don’t know what to compare it to! It’s the American Sgt. Pepper’s… my dear. It’s fucking awesome. They had songs that were a minute long, songs called ‘Titanic Overture’ and ’10 Minutes Before The Worm’. How fucking cool is that? They also had this song called ‘Fields Of Regret’, which is a long heavy psych opus. So many great songs on that record and it has such a strange vibe. It doesn’t get talked about enough. I don’t know any musician that could listen to that record and not go "What the fuck?" a million times.
