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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Rhino Encore
Salesrank: 22752
Released: June 10, 2008 |
| Our Price: $8.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Pretties for You Track Listing:
1. Titanic Overture
2. 10 Minutes Before The Worm
3. Swing Low, Sweet Cheerio
4. Today Mueller
5. Living
6. Fields Of Regret
7. No Longer Umpire
8. Levity Ball (Live At The Cheetah)
9. B.B. On Mars
10. Reflected
11. Apple Bush
12. Earwigs To Eternity
13. Changing Arranging
Editorial Review:
Reissue of the 1969 album Pretties for You which was the first album by Alice Cooper. At this time, the name Alice Cooper referred to the band as well as its lead singer. The music has a psychedelic flavor to it. The group had yet to develop the more concise hard rock sound that they would become known for. The song "Reflected", Alice Cooper's first single, was later rewritten as "Elected" (which featured on their 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies).
Pretties for You Reviews:
The cover got me. 
2008-07-13 - On the first listen this record spoke to me. It was also a life saver thru high school. Like my short attention span it was all over the place. I loved/confused words with their sound and meanings. It fit with my ambiguity about everything. A listen again takes me right back. .
ALICE COOPER MAKES WAX; SPELLS POP BACKWARDS
2008-06-29 - If I had found this album years ago, I probably would have dismissied it pretty quickly. One usually expects a certain sound from The Alice Cooper band; and that type of sound isn't found on Pretties For You. Pretties is the Alice Cooper Band rolling through their psychedelic sixties, punk-faced, Beatle induced numbers, with just a little hint at their attention to macarbe details, and more focus instead on their attention to ironic word play, and just messin you up. It seems that the band hadn't gotten into hard edged guitar riffs yet, and these songs become a collection of demented sixties pop- that I'm sure would have been beyond me years ago, when I started getting into Alice Cooper. I'm glad that I waited a few years before picking up the original Alice Cooper release(s). Because I instantly found myself digging this. Alice Cooper is more in the camp of tripped out metal pioneers, like Arthur Brown or Spooky Tooth, only he was also under the thumb of Frank Zappa, and most of the songs add up to nothing more than a practical joke, from the artist to the record buyer... however, despite what others say about certain songs falling apart and not making sense, I don't really hear it that way. A lot of times the original Alice Cooper band had a knack for falling in and out of form from time to time. Even on the later Warner releases. What might not make sense to many is the total absense of hard rock, and the completely Beatles-On-Way-Too-Much-Acid feel of this album. However, I think a good many of you may just find they like when this thing happens, just as much..if not more, than the AC bands more popular future releases... The bands next album; Easy Action is an extension of this, and works some of the same magic, but kicks the amps up a few notches too. I recommend getting into both. Pop music for a backwards existence. Arrrrrr. Something like that! If you are new to the Coop though, you may wanna check out something from the Warner Bros. years... but this one, I like to think of as a pleasant suprise either way.
ALICE COOPER: Pretties For You
2008-06-27 - No need to get long-winded and describe this album-it is one of the Greatest albums of all-time. This album helped me get through High School.
A strange case of Alice Cooper 
2008-04-06 - If you like funny album covers and bizarre song titles, you will love this album! Who, but the most humorless of peoples, could not love such song titles as Earwigs To Eternity, Sing Low Sweet Cheerio, 10 Minutes Before The Worm and No Longer Umpire? And I adore the cover, which has a grumpy looking business man sneering at a young lady who is showing him her panties.
It's the songs and the production that I have a problem with and make it so I can't honestly or dishonestly recommend the album to anybody but die-hard Alice Cooper fans, even though I don't hate the album. The song structures are beyond bizarre, the guitar playing and occasionally the drumming is (are) sloppy, the production is a mess. Occasionally a vocal line or a guitar riff worth humming or singing along with shows up, and at times there are glimpses of the greatness that was to come in a few albums. Alice hadn't developed his trademark sneer and/or snarl or growl and also hadn't adopted his evil Alice persona yet. If ones comes into the album expecting 'I'm Eighteen' or 'School's Out' or 'Halo Of Flies', for that matter, they will be disappointed, though if they are expecting 'Elected', they will find an earlier version of it called 'Reflected'...the only thing they have in common, however, are the melody to the verses and the rhyming song titles.
If I were to pick a few favorite songs, I would go with '10 Minutes Before The Worm', for the singing on it, 'Living', for it's catchy refrain, and ''Levity Ball', which is the closest, I think, that the band comes to a normal song. The rest of it, while not completely horrible, is not very listenable to me. This is an album I rarely put on for pleasure, but more for reference. I know there are many A.C. fans who love this album for it's originality and just plain weirdness, but I can't count myself among them. Fortunately, the band would improve greatly on their next few albums.
A significant record, don't skip over it
2008-04-02 - This record shows how extraordinarily creative the original band was when left on their own to create a body of work (ie no producer to help them craft their songs). You can hear that these pieces were composed from many hours of jamming together, working out ideas together... creating a musical style that was extremely strong, unique, and uncompromising. I wish they'd have recorded another record during this period of Pretties & Easy Action. "Fields of Regret" is one of the heaviest songs you'll ever hear from Alice Cooper, regardless of what era you're into.
