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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 3777
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $4.06 |
| Used Price: $3.48 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Killer Track Listing:
1. Under My Wheels
2. Be My Lover
3. Halo of Flies
4. Desperado
5. You Drive Me Nervous
6. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
7. Dead Babies
8. Killer
Editorial Review:
The fact that Alice Cooper's fourth release housed the gritty "Halo of Flies" would be reason enough to buy the CD, even if the rest of it were garbage. An essential piece of the rock canon, it may not have served up the hits that his other releases did, but it still stands as a classic. Loud, brash, sloppy, and hard, it's the kind of listen that makes you check for grime under your nails. Cooper's rock/shock aesthetic was coming into full bloom here and "Dead Babies" shows he was satisfied with his formula of hard rock, bad taste, and images outside the realm of Middle America. The title track hints at the shape of things to come, laying the ground work for works as seemingly disparate as "Only Women Bleed," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy." Briefly ostracized by the "hipper than thou" sect, Killer is one of the reasons Cooper is now fully appreciated as the pioneer that he was. - -Steve Gdula
Killer Reviews:
Lives Up to the Title's Name 
2009-10-16 - "Killer" is just that, killer. Had it been released ten years later (it was released in 1971), it would have fit right in then as well. Yet fortunately for those of us who were but grade-schoolers back then--that is to say, when hits like "School's Out" and "No More Mister Nice Guy" were blazing through the charts--all of this was considered mainstream pop music, and therefore immediately accessible. Now given the benefit of hindsight, one stand-out track on "Killer" has to be "Dead Babies." For apart from the punkish title and cheesy, post-post psychedelic arrangements, the high-keyed bass and treated guitar work on this track definitely point to things to come: the Peter Laughner-era pere Ubu; UK gloomers like Joy Division, Tones on Tail, and so forth. No wonder why Johnny Rotten-Lydon (in prior long-hair mode) must have dug it so much.
a great rock album
2009-10-16 - Killer is one of the greatest rock albums of all time(just ask Johnny Rotten)it came out late 1971 and was the fourth album from a band called Alice Cooper.Produced by Bob Ezrin witch was to the band like George Martin was to the Beatles(later he worked with Lou Reed,Peter Gabriel,Kiss,Pink Floyd...).This band made seven albums from 1969 to 1974 and then they broke up and the singer took over the name and went solo.Under my wheels the opening track is a classic rocker and Be my lover the second track is a great hit song.Halo of flies takes your breath away, the guitars(Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton) are stunning,the bass(Dennis Dunaway)is a teaching lesson and the drums(Neal Smith) are like an octopussy is playing them and finally the singing is awesome.Just listen to Alice screaming "flies"it makes the blood freeze in your vains.Desperado the fourth track is a song about Jim Morrison who was a drinking buddy with Alice a great track.You drive me nervous, track number five is another great rocker with a unique sound and Yeah yeah yeah follows that up.Then comes along Dead babies witch is about child abuse a thrilling song and finally this great album closes with Killer,you should listen to that song in total darkness with a maximum volume on.For any rock fan Killer is a must to have.
WHAT A LET DOWN 
2009-09-27 - I just received this in the mail today, I could not wait to hear it. I have the regular cd release, and an import release which is better than the the regular copy. I was not very happy with this, the highs are still dull. This is no better than my import copy, What A waste of my money. I guess we will never see a real remastered copy, so buyer beware. Of course this is just my opinion, it still sounds flat to me.
It's about time !
2009-09-04 - 'Killer' has always been one of the big cannons in Alice Cooper's catalog (Alice Cooper the GROUP that is). This remaster on the Audio Fidelity label by Steve Hoffman doesn't disappoint! I am not going to go into all the great songs and riffs on this CD, just read all the other reviews if you need to know how great this album is, but as others have said before, this CD was long over due for a proper remastering and now it has one. Audio Fidelity and Steve Hoffman have done an excellent job on this CD (and also the 'School's Out' CD if you're interested in that title as well). The low end (thank you Dennis Dunaway) and the drums (thank you Neal Smith) sound clear and robust, the guitars just rock out like no tomorrow, and Alice, well, is just Alice in his prime, 'nuff said. Because they used NO compression or limiting during the remastering process it might not sound as 'loud' as most CD's in your collection but it will blow your socks off if you give it a little volume boost to make up for it. Alice Cooper fans can start to to rejoice, we now have 'Killer', 'School's Out' and 'Billion Dollar Babies' on remaster CD. I am hoping that Audio Fidelity (or Warner's or Rhino or somebody) will soon remaster their classic 'Love It To Death' album as well (and 'Muscle Of Love' too please while you're at it). Money well spent!
Question for you all...
2009-09-03 - Ok.... love this from way back when. Totally cool... forget the nay sayers. This band totally scared the crap out of 50s based America at the time...... who can do that these days? Look at the back photo.... and who did Iggy and Bowie (love them too) get their look from? This band did it way before. Cool originalKiller killer glam slam. Saw them then... still love it. Anybody have the new re-mastered gold disc? Is it it more worthy than the old disc? Better sound on it? Let me know... if so I will grab it. Check out Raw Power by the Stooges, New York Dolls 1st one, and of course.... Ziggy Stardust!
