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 Alice The Hippy. Apr 24, 2009
In my opinion, this is a good album, more on the lower end of the good side, bordering on bad. Now don't call me a typical Alice fan that hates his "weird" albums, one of my fave albums is his "Flush The Fashion" album... Pretties For You is just too... 60's psychadelic for me. You can definitely hear some trademark Alice vocals, and even some hints of guitarwork that would be flushed out on later albums. Not a horrible album, just not very good.
 Was recorded in less then 3 days with bad producer Mar 05, 2009
In the words of Alice Cooper who I think is great. "1st album was a tragic waste of vinyl". There is one good song "Reflected" that was later reworked to be Elected. Anything else with the original Alice Cooper Band is at the very least good, often great. Their next record "Easy Action" is a undiscovered Jem! No hits on it do to little air play but a very good record. Followed by some of the best ever recorded by anyone. The rest with Bob Ezrin producing and that is important. In order of greatness School's Out, Love It To Death, Killer, Easy Action, Billion Dollar Babies, Muscle of Love. Welcome to My Nightmare is also great but the original band was better. I think it comes down to Dennis Dunaway one of the only Bass players good enough to truly make a song. The guy is Getty Lee! Also great on drums Neal Smith who you also did the studio drumming for The Plasmatics on Vally of 1984, there he was let loose and it's wonderful work. The rest of the band was also damn good but those 2 & Alice are All Stars. After all this my favorite would be From the Inside, right after Alice got out of loony bin (his words) for alcoholism.
In short buy everything after this to at least Billion Dollar Babies" they are fantastic
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Don't Bother! Feb 24, 2009
This is the worst "Music" I have ever heard, listening to the whole thing through was painful...My husband mentioned one day that it was not part of his collection of Alice Cooper music, so I was excited to be able to find a copy of it for him. When I played it for him, even he said it was terrible!He has been an Alice Cooper fan from way back in the beginning, so for him to say that is pretty good proof that this is a loser...:-)
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 I wasn't expecting brilliance the first time around, I really wasn't Dec 29, 2008
First of all, what's my uncle Bob doing on the album cover? haha, it looks JUST like him!
Anyway, Pretties for You is an extremely underrated album because I went in expecting nothing but total noise, or hit and miss songwriting- instead it's completely wonderful from start to finish. Not only that, but it's melodic the entire way, and quite diverse. Sure, it's different from the rest of Cooper's future albums, but that's NOT a bad thing (as much as I love the rest of his 70's career).
"10 Minutes Before the Worm" sounds like psychedelic Pink Floyd (the early years) and that's a GREAT thing in my book, because that means a wonderful vocal melody. "Swing Low Sweet Cheerio" has really good guitar jamming and harmonica playing that reminds me of Country Joe and the Fish quite a bit. The other long song on the album, "Fields of Regret" has a similar vibe, but a bit heavier during the guitar jam.
"Today Mueller" reminds me of the progressive rock band Gong and the opening two tracks from the You album. Also sounds a bit like the indie rock band Of Montreal as far as whacky songwriting goes. I guess this is where the Zappa connection really reveals itself.
"Living" sounds just like the Beatles or the Byrds. It's AWESOME! Ok, "No Longer Umpire" sounds a little like filler, but it's so short and melodic enough that it really doesn't matter. The vocals on this one are a little rough to listen to.
"Levity Ball" is just very very odd. The songwriting is a tad weak here, thanks to a predictable vocal melody and bizarre instrumental jam in the middle of the tune, but I find myself loving it anyway. The vocal melody reminds me of early Who for some reason. "B.B. on Mars" has more psychedelic vocals that I instantly fall in love with. Psychedelic music is just a perfect way to write a good vocal melody. I guess I was born to like that kind of music.
"Reflected" doesn't sound like "Elected" a whole lot to me. This version is really dated sounding but in a GOOD way, because the late 60's had great vocal melodies, and this is no exception. "Apple Bush" is a really good power pop song, that reminds me of the mid 60's period of the Beatles. Actually it reminds me more of the Hollies thanks to Alice Cooper's vocals which resemble the Hollies a LOT.
"Earwigs to Eternity" has another great vocal melody. Man, this album is LOADED with those! Not particularly fond of the closing song, "Changing Arranging", but it's good enough I suppose.
Overall, people shouldn't be afriad to give this album a chance- it's just as good, or even better, than classic mid 70's Alice Cooper.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 A good record Oct 30, 2008
I don't own any other Alice Cooper records except this one. I like it because it's so different from his others. It's good psychedelic rock album--that's all. Thanks.
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