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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: Audio Fidelity
Salesrank: 12504
Released: September 1, 2009 |
| Our Price: $17.77 |
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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:
five stars 
2009-12-22 - I'm not going to tell you about the music, you all know the album...now about the remaster, it's excelent, as good sounding as the original vinnyl...if you're thinking to buy this one looking for improved sound, this is the edition to buy so far.
5 STARS FOR THE MUSIC...
2009-12-16 - 1 STAR FOR SOUND... This album was great! Start to finish, but like many have said... The sound pretty much blows.
Too bad Alice just seems to be a "trademark" now instead of a man that seems to care about his past achievements (let alone the fans that made him what he is today.)
Hey Alice! All we really want is some quality recordings of those great LP's we grew up on, so how about throwing us a dead baby that still might have a little life left in somewhere!
is that asking to much???
Top 20 of all time !
2009-11-22 - It is an amazing thing how after 38 years this masterpiece stands the test of time. Before there was Kiss, Motley Crue,Aerosmith,NY Dolls,M Manson,Tubes, etc..the list will go on into newer generation bands,Killer just nails it dead on ! Shock rock,grunge,metal,rock n roll all combined nicely in this one CD,along with the killer (no pun !)ballad Desperado makes it more than worth the price of admission !
This gold release is long overdue. The sound is full of dynamics,air and body.
Waiting for " Love It To Death" now and I will finally be able to relive my childhood again in full Fidelity Asylum !!!
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.
