Alice Cooper- Dead Babies (REACTION//DISCUSSION)

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Song Link: • Dead Babies

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  • @claywalnum3143
    @claywalnum31432 жыл бұрын

    About a 1,000 years ago, I saw Alice Cooper on the Killer tour. Back then, there was no Marilyn Manson to shock people. Alice Cooper was it. During the show, when they played "Dead Babies," Alice Cooper hacked a doll (the baby) up with an hatchet, after which he was dragged to a platform on the side of the stage and hanged. I still have photos somewhere of this show.

  • @AngryPostmanStockholm

    @AngryPostmanStockholm

    Жыл бұрын

    Epic man

  • @steveneardley7541

    @steveneardley7541

    10 ай бұрын

    I saw him in Denver on the Killer tour. It was actually the best concert I've ever been to. They were great, and the crowd was SOO into it! A joyous event--all this yelling, all this agitation, a constant back and forth between the band and the audience.

  • @Jason.King.at.your.service

    @Jason.King.at.your.service

    4 ай бұрын

    My cousin saw him in 72 in the UK. She said it was epic.

  • @SRG1966
    @SRG19662 жыл бұрын

    50+ years on and it holds up. No one would dare put this out today.

  • @ememnicholas565
    @ememnicholas5652 жыл бұрын

    All us dinosaurs remember how shocking Alice Cooper was in 1971. 1971 folks!

  • @debjorgo

    @debjorgo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah! He carried a damn boa constrictor on stage. That was wild stuff back then.

  • @pauljensen9678
    @pauljensen96782 жыл бұрын

    Such a classic track. One of the many aspects that made the Alice Cooper group so unique is the melodic and dynamic bass playing by Denis Dunaway. He really shines on this track and other Cooper classics like "Billion Dollar Babies", "Halo of Flies", "Blue Turk" and "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets", to name a few.

  • @jasonlong8754
    @jasonlong8754 Жыл бұрын

    "What's worse than a truckload of dead babies? A live one at the bottom, eating its way out." - Alice Cooper That sums up what Alice is about. This song is about parental neglect, with Alice's typical twist. Alice can sing about dead babies, murder, necrophilia, cannibalism, abuse, torture, psychotic breaks, even sewing mutilated limbs together, and a whole lot worse, and we still love him and sing along. That's what disturbs people about Alice: how easily we just follow along, no matter how sick it is.

  • @Rhiannon011
    @Rhiannon0112 жыл бұрын

    Still NOT ONE youtube reacter will play "The Alice Cooper band" song "The ballad of Dwight Frye" from Love it to death album. This song is to me and many others the best song Alice and his group ever made, the guitar, the instruments the noises they manage to make to make it seem so real as Dwight goes crazy ends up in the psyche ward, and tells his story of losing mind. I have never ever heard anything like it before, it is so realistic! When I play it for others they are like blown away. Surely if you can play "Dead babies" from Alice Cooper you can play "The ballad of Dwight Frye" JustJP?

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps I'll give it a try; I've only listened to a few AC songs and I'm still pretty new to em :)

  • @Rhiannon011

    @Rhiannon011

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JustJP You will not be disappointed if you do. Thanks for responding, I appreciate it👍.😎

  • @krisdoggett483

    @krisdoggett483

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wilburn Reactions has reacted to it.

  • @Rhiannon011

    @Rhiannon011

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@krisdoggett483 yes I found that on KZread the other day...and another one also reacted to it...both excellent reviews

  • @markmaxwell1013
    @markmaxwell10132 жыл бұрын

    An album named Killer with a snake on the cover and a song called Dead Babies. That really thrilled some parents when it came out🙃 In reality it is a great public service announcement that may have saved some kids lives!

  • @spawn4582
    @spawn4582 Жыл бұрын

    Mr. Alice Cooper on February 4, 2023 turned 75 years old, health and long life to this wonderful artist and rocker!

  • @gelsol
    @gelsol2 жыл бұрын

    All the Alice Cooper group's albums are great.

  • @allengator1914

    @allengator1914

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh come on now, all the albums are great? I agree Alice had a ton of great albums, in fact my first concert was Alice Cooper in 1972, but there's no way you can think that "Muscle of Love" was a great album. The first album "Pretties For You" is kind of a stinker too.

  • @stevensabella7287
    @stevensabella7287 Жыл бұрын

    If you want to hear another track in this dark vein, Try the (even better) "I Love The Dead" from "Billion Dollar Babies", or the rocker "Cold Ethyl" from "Welcome To My Nightmare".

  • @daxtear
    @daxtear2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you're liking this stuff, as a next Alice Cooper song I highly recommend Ballad Of Dwight Fry from the Love It To Death album. Or if you want to do an album listen, the album it's from is a great pick.

  • @EliteRock
    @EliteRock2 жыл бұрын

    Dennis Dunaway's bass never made itself too prominent on those albums back when I was teenager, but later I came to appreciate what a great player he is.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley2 жыл бұрын

    A public service announcement of a song. This band was amazing.

  • @stephendennis8739
    @stephendennis87392 жыл бұрын

    I've liked Alice Cooper ever since I heard the album love it to death I was about 14 then and now 60

  • @dennisloveland498

    @dennisloveland498

    2 жыл бұрын

    I got into Alice Cooper when I was 15 and now I'm 61!!

  • @altaclipper

    @altaclipper

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too. The first time I heard Alice Cooper was a Saturday night and I listened in bed in the dark on headphones as a local rock FM station broadcast the whole Billlion Dollar Babies album..it was a transcendent experience. I was about 15 at the time.

  • @kenl2091
    @kenl20912 жыл бұрын

    Ha! Listened to this off my own bat three days ago. This is one of AC's best and reflects the clever musicality and outré lyricism of the band in those days. Even the earliest Alice Cooper has much to recommend it and, yes, I do include Pretties For You. Given the lyrics here, who would believe that Alice himself is such a nice guy in real life?

  • @frankpentangeli7945
    @frankpentangeli79452 жыл бұрын

    I was totally going to say that when the brass comes in, it sounds amazingly Beatle-esque. Before that, it doesn't sound like Beatles much at all, but a simple change of arrangement, instrumentation and production, and voila'! Awesome song!!! And Killer is a truly great album, with perhaps the best cover art of all time.

  • @Drummingvulture
    @Drummingvulture2 жыл бұрын

    One of the first songs my high school band learned, waay back in '75. Not long afterwards, we played our very first gig, a high school dance. Being the softies and sentimentalists that we were, our vocalist/rhythm guitarist introduced this song as "a belly rubber for all ages", belly rubber being a slow dance. We got to the "Dead babies can take care of thenselves" line and we could tell the chaperones had had enough of such vulgarness. Not more than a couple of minutes into the song, our power went out. We were told to pack up our gear and leave, that we would be dealt with on Monday. We packed up and left, laughing our arses off the whole time. Monday morning, all four of us were called to Chopper's office, our vice principal. He said we all had a month's worth of detention, not just for the song, but for using the term belly rubber, which all of the old folks in the school thought was a dirty reference, although no one could explain exactly why it was dirty. Even explaining everything to them didn't change their minds. We were each given detentions until after Christmas break. Love, love, love Alice! More, please!

  • @spazimdam

    @spazimdam

    2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent story man. Your band had a good time anyway. I'd say it was worth a month's detention.

  • @Drummingvulture

    @Drummingvulture

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@spazimdam Yeah, it actually was a good time. LOL! We were somewhat popular for playing events around town after that. BTW, the band is almost unchanged since that time. Only thing different is that one of us moved to Colorado. But the other three of us are still together, forty-eight years later.

  • @spazimdam

    @spazimdam

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Drummingvulture That's cool you're still playing together. My high school band also played Alice Cooper, back in '73-'75. We never tried Dead Babies, but we did Ballad of Dwight Fry, Sick Things and Halo of Flies. Good memories.

  • @pleasantvalleypickerca7681
    @pleasantvalleypickerca76812 жыл бұрын

    Hi Justin. Another great song! "Killer" is my favorite Alice Cooper band album as it really is "Killer" from start to finish. Every song is excellent. I really hope you will consider listening to the entire album as it is very worthwhile.

  • @altaclipper
    @altaclipper2 жыл бұрын

    I have all the early Alice Cooper on my ipod. When I was a kid, to the religious community and the government, he was like the Antichrist. Now I appreciate the music.

  • @Hapmorii
    @Hapmorii8 ай бұрын

    You've got to check out "Billion Dollar Babies." Alice wrote this one a few years after "Dead Babies." It features a duet with Donavan. And there's a great drum part to this tune. It's excellent. And another one, "The Ballad of Dwight Fry." This one came out on his 3rd, and in my opinion, best album. This one is absolutely riveting. It's theatrical story about a man who's losing his mind and gets locked up in a psyche ward. It's one of the greatest songs, Alice Cooper has ever written.

  • @deanchiampas3991
    @deanchiampas39912 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding analysis! You got it right away, while many people "in the old days" judged this song without really listening! (How unusual, lol...) You're always fun to watch! Peace☮️

  • @bobmessier5215
    @bobmessier52152 жыл бұрын

    The Unholy Trinity of Alice Cooper albums are "Love it to Death", "Killer" and "Billion Dollar Babies". Keep sampling the tracks. You won't be disappointed.

  • @michaelkeefe8494

    @michaelkeefe8494

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's a four album list for me with Schools Out making the list. Definitely prefer the Alice Cooper Band stuff to anything he did later on...

  • @bryansmith5980
    @bryansmith5980 Жыл бұрын

    to hear the original Alice. Are his very begining with his high school band The Spiders. Bad recording but makes it very clear where he was headed.

  • @geneharvey7
    @geneharvey72 жыл бұрын

    Apparently Cooper and his manager Shep Gordon determined that if they could record songs that kids liked, but parents hated, then they'd have an entry to popularity. It worked! And so it explains a track like this one. It's also one of the first times producer Bob Ezrin used children in the background. He would do that repeatedly - most famously on Another Brick in the Wall Part 2. Nice reaction!

  • @StoneShards
    @StoneShards7 ай бұрын

    Analog production has that "dryness", rawness, and doesn't lend itself as easily as digital production to over-production.

  • @stpnwlf9
    @stpnwlf92 жыл бұрын

    Alice was not afraid to go there. Enough said. Killer was a fantastic album and at the time, most critics and radio DJs weren't sure how to deal with it. It is a surprisingly progressive collection of songs.

  • @reaganl.5113
    @reaganl.51132 жыл бұрын

    I still think Welcome to my nightmare is my favorite album from Alice Cooper. Only Women Bleed and title song still stuck in my head from my youth. Vincent Price does a voice track for one of the songs on that album.

  • @piershollott339
    @piershollott339 Жыл бұрын

    I suspect an aggrophile is someone who loves aggression... and I love how songs like this on Killer have a breakdown that wouldn't be out of place on an early Genesis record. Love it.

  • @ReubenAotearoa_
    @ReubenAotearoa_2 жыл бұрын

    “Billion Dollar Babies” is definitely something which should be on your album deep dive to do list. The entire back catalogue is amazing but that one in particular. Don’t sleep on stuff outside his 70s peak and late 80s “comeback” either. 1983’s Dada (during his “blackout period”) and 2000’s Brutal Planet are worth mentioning here.

  • @Jaybird-zl9ve
    @Jaybird-zl9ve2 жыл бұрын

    my favorite AC album

  • @cosmiccat6708
    @cosmiccat67082 жыл бұрын

    Hearing The Beatles is what got these guys together. They are also influenced by early Pink Floyd, The Yardbirds, The Stones, The Who and ,of course, The Doors. Their first two albums, "Pretties for You" 1969 and "Easy Action", 1970 had a lot of these influences. Liked your reaction and I would have loved for you to have continued listening to the title track, "Killer", after "Dead Babies", esp as they are joined together, it's a killer track!. I've been listening to the album, "School's Out", [1972] just today and would highly recommend it, maybe "Luney Tune", or "Public Animal No. 9", to start, or the title track, which was a single. All their albums have a different vibe, whilst retaining their style and it's fun seeing someone enjoy the music you absolutely loved, growing up...and to this day.! Stick with The Coop Justin, it's worth it.

  • @hizzlemobizzle
    @hizzlemobizzle2 жыл бұрын

    Daddy was a farmer.

  • @debjorgo
    @debjorgo2 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the Beatles too, in that section. Kind of like an abbreviated "middle eight" where they change it up for a few bars. It sounds very Beatle-ly. I LOVE Alice Cooper. I have 25 of their songs in my go-to playlist, from seven different albums.

  • @dragonan5674

    @dragonan5674

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think that the "Beatle-ly" section was a salute the Beatles referencing the infamous "Dead Babies" album cover. :)

  • @debjorgo

    @debjorgo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dragonan5674 Good point! You may have something there.

  • @AriadneJC
    @AriadneJC2 жыл бұрын

    Very pleasantly surprised. This was much better than the solo AC that emerged later and became just one more of those rock acts that presume to be 'hard' and 'dark' but, seriously, were just easy-listening mush. This, however, was awesome and kept me interested throughout.

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    🤘

  • @hizzlemobizzle

    @hizzlemobizzle

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JustJP As an old fart I would love to see your reaction to Elected from Billion Dollar babies.

  • @saturninebear
    @saturninebear2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing album. In my top 3 AC albums. You need to listen to the next track - Killer.

  • @steveobrien9937
    @steveobrien99372 жыл бұрын

    I Love the Dead is another dark treasure.......and Steven as well....dont forget the title track of this album.....your in the rabbit hole now!!....Cheers from Canada

  • @albertwallace5060
    @albertwallace50602 жыл бұрын

    Teenage Lament ‘74!

  • @steveneardley7541
    @steveneardley754110 ай бұрын

    The chords are hollow, metallic-sounding, and lacking in thirds, so emotionally stark. Alice Cooper is so underrated on a purely musical level. They were not only very sophisticated, but very experimental--and boy were they influential--to metal, glam, punk.

  • @ZalMoxis
    @ZalMoxis2 жыл бұрын

    Killer is a brilliant album..... alll A.C albums are great up until 1978.

  • @JimmyRJump
    @JimmyRJump Жыл бұрын

    I always thought Agrophile had something to do with agriculture, like in Texas it would be good to do research in how to grow certain crops on terrain that can't be watered properly or find ways to bring water to the fields.

  • @SteveBarbe
    @SteveBarbe2 жыл бұрын

    To add to (and possibly confuse further) the meaning of that word agoraphile (assuming that was the word used in the lyrics - and of course it may have been misspelled!)..to me the most obvious meaning would be the direct opposite of agoraphobe. If an agoraphobe means someone terrified of adventuring into new and strange places and situations, then an agoraphile would thrive in such situations, which would explain why the father was never at home - definitely not the domestic type. Here endeth the lesson.

  • @stevenolsen3162
    @stevenolsen31622 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps Daddy is dead and buried in Texas. Feeding the soil. Just thought of that and I've got my original copy of the vinyl...

  • @masterofparsnips5327
    @masterofparsnips53272 жыл бұрын

    Great tune. I suggest listening to the album "Billion Dollar Babies" .. especially the title track and "Generation Landslide"

  • @EdwardGregoryNYC
    @EdwardGregoryNYC2 жыл бұрын

    If you like songs about dead babies, try "Baby's on Fire," by Eno.

  • @frugalseverin2282
    @frugalseverin22822 жыл бұрын

    You're right, it's a mix of neo-metal and baroque pop.

  • @kimholland9316
    @kimholland9316 Жыл бұрын

    I love the way you listen to the whole song before commenting instead of constant interruptions like other reviews.

  • @vicentepithanburzlaff7080
    @vicentepithanburzlaff7080 Жыл бұрын

    Agrophile - he strives in the soil... he's buried in the field

  • @DM-hk4cw
    @DM-hk4cw Жыл бұрын

    Agrophile, in short, means a plant that thrives in soil: agriculture. The dad could be a farmer or he thrives in the dirt literally or figuratively. In this song it could have a double meaning in that Betty would be part of the soil, eventually.

  • @billholder1330
    @billholder133011 ай бұрын

    "Agrophile" here refers to the father being a Texas A&M fan, an "Aggie", I think - absorbed in his college football dreams...

  • @Cleve_Crudgington
    @Cleve_Crudgington2 жыл бұрын

    For some Alice Cooper of a different era I'd recommend something from the album Brutal Planet which he released in 2000. It's an album where he leaned more towards a heavy metal/hard rock sound. I don't know what the general consensus is amongst fans but I think it's solid. Check out either Pick Up The Bones or the title track.

  • @brianyates7255
    @brianyates72552 жыл бұрын

    Good morning from New England..Im a new sub and I went thru ur DOORS vids yesterday and left comments..ALICE COOPER was the first shock rocker having been on the music scene since 1968-69 and he even used to hang and drink with Jim Morrison when they lived next to each other in Laural Canyon in L.A.--- Good pick..I LOVE THE DEAD is another great song..Perhaps do a GOJIRA reaction..their drummer Mario Duplantier is a monster and the whole band is unique with thier own distinctive sound...The songs STRANDED or FLYING WHALES are a good place to start..Peace from the Northeast...

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Appreciated Brian! I actually did some Gojira a few weeks or so ago :) I've listened to some of their albums on my own in the past, they're quite good

  • @brianyates7255

    @brianyates7255

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JustJP Cool I'll search ur channel for the GOJIRA vids..thx for the heads up..Peace

  • @danielburdick1721
    @danielburdick17212 жыл бұрын

    Father is a farmer I seen Alice about 10 times I heard him say that line like this daddy is a cattle farmer in tx

  • @danielburdick1721

    @danielburdick1721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also farmer's are known to work from sun up to sun down anyway that's what I think I might be wrong

  • @dennisloveland498
    @dennisloveland4982 жыл бұрын

    You might try Ballad of Dwight Frye next. Alice was always an old horror movie buff and Dwight Frye was the actor who, in 1931, played Fritz in Frankenstein and Redfield in Dracula.

  • @AriadneJC

    @AriadneJC

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think you meant Renfield. You might have been thinking of Chris Redfield, appearing in the Resident Evil videogames!

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Chris "Boulder-punching" Redfield😅

  • @dennisloveland498

    @dennisloveland498

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AriadneJC Yeah I meant to say Renfield. Just goes to show ya what happens when you don't proofread the text!!

  • @cobrasys
    @cobrasys2 жыл бұрын

    Told you you'd like it, Justin. 😉 Early Alice Cooper is amazing. Here's hoping for a few dozen more!

  • @manualboyca
    @manualboyca2 жыл бұрын

    Because I love prog rock from the 70s (Genesis, Yes, ELP, etc), my metalhead friend turned me on to this album - it's great! By the way - you should try some early Phish....maybe The Squirming Coil or Esther. Cheers!

  • @Charlton222
    @Charlton2222 жыл бұрын

    Love the cascading guitars at the end of the song - so melodic. Yep, I too hear the Beatles in the "Well, we didn't want you anyway" section. I'm also hearing Iron Maiden vibes, especially with the interplay between bass and guitar. And that descending guitar/bass line is very Slayer, right out of "South of Heaven". Last comment: my brother must have played this song to me when I was really young (like 2-3) because I would go around the house singing "dead babies, dead babies" - I'm sure my parents must have been thrilled. I have no recollection of this but now all these years later I'm impressed at my young self because the song is so awesome!

  • @waynehawk4747
    @waynehawk47472 жыл бұрын

    Black Sabbath has been credited, and rightly so as the originators of Heavy Metal but this album and this song in particular is the birth of Goth,

  • @ytcai4535
    @ytcai45352 жыл бұрын

    Glad you decided to review this song. Being one of those who pointed you in this direction, as a follow-up, check out Graveland by The 69 Eyes. On the heels of Easter it also ties into 'dead babies'. BTW, your analyses are by far the best at breaking down song and lyrics.

  • @a.k.1740
    @a.k.17402 жыл бұрын

    It's completely true Justin, the production is dry but it's not a bad thing (on the contrary !) and moreover the arrangements are brilliant and amply compensate for this lack of embellishment (which would have softened the composition and the subject). And all the same, I find that the brass and the choirs sound very Beatles (from their psychedelic era). Great track from a great album !!!

  • @progger53
    @progger53 Жыл бұрын

    Thank Bob Ezrin for this!

  • @paulhart3812
    @paulhart38122 жыл бұрын

    As I said previously with Halo of Flies… the Killer album is a killer!!! My second favorite Alice Cooper next to Billion Dollar Babies.

  • @garyarnett1220
    @garyarnett12202 жыл бұрын

    At least one more from this phenominal album you should check out Desperado

  • @jfergs.3302
    @jfergs.33022 жыл бұрын

    PS. that should've read 'babies CAN'T get stuff of shelves' but i'm sure that typo was recognised :)

  • @badbruise
    @badbruise2 жыл бұрын

    Check out the opening riff on cold ethyl

  • @-R.Gray-
    @-R.Gray-2 жыл бұрын

    Something I heard startled me. Listen to the guitar and bass lines with their harmonies right after the line "can't take care of themselves" (2:10 on your video). It sure sounds a lot like the Jethro Tull song " To Cry You A Song" from the Benefit album.

  • @spazimdam
    @spazimdam2 жыл бұрын

    Ah Justin- way to go! Dead Babies by the original Alice Cooper band. Excellent choice my friend. This is from an album which is literally a "killer" album. I have always dug the shit out of this album. Too bad you didn't know beforehand, but you should have let it go right into "Killer", because "Dead Babies" just slides right into "Killer" which is also a very cool song. You'll have to do it another time. Also from this album you should check out "Desperado", a cool almost western song about a six gun wielding killer in the old west. Yeah I agree with you on the production. I think it is purposefully underproduced, so as to better feature the band's sound and atmosphere. As always I loved your reaction and analysis. You really appreciate how good this band was, and how well crafted the songs are. Cheers!

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ty Monte!

  • @aj_aka_alan
    @aj_aka_alan Жыл бұрын

    Bob Ezrin and the band didn't have a lot of money until this record came out.

  • @sammybeck7794
    @sammybeck77942 жыл бұрын

    JP, another eerie but great tune by Alice Cooper that I think you might appreciate is Cold Ethyl. I recommend you react to this song

  • @stevensabella7287
    @stevensabella7287 Жыл бұрын

    Agrophile is a lover of high places

  • @davidlane1169
    @davidlane11692 жыл бұрын

    'Ole Audiophile to pal JP, Buddy, I prefer not to scold. You picked one of his two best albums ever. The album is simply LOADED with hits, almost every single song is. Why Dead Babies? This came out while I was a teen. You have very little idea how middle America reacted to this song, especially the bible belt. When I met my wife 45 years ago, she HATED Alice Cooper in the worst terms. Why I asked her? Because he wrote Dead Babies she admitted to me. Apparently, her brother came home drunk, put on that side of the album, then passed out playing that side of the album on repeat the whole night long. I knew she was reasonable or I wouldn't be dating her. Wait a few days & sneak on a good Alice Cooper song. "Who was that?" she immediately asked. Alice Cooper. Few days later, put on another great Cooper song. "Who was that?" she queried. "That was superb!" Me: Alice Cooper. Again...and again...and again. One day she looks at me & out pops "You know I find I love Alice Cooper, why does EVERYBODY associate Alice Cooper with ONLY the song Dead Babies?" Me: "Because most folks are simple idiots when it comes to music sophistication, darling." That's why a high percentage of the population hates that song. I don't hate it, but if one really listens to that album, it's the worst song on the entire album for content. Thanx bud.

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now thats a great story!

  • @egapnala65
    @egapnala652 жыл бұрын

    You should check out "Only Women Bleed" next.

  • @dennispower5362
    @dennispower53622 жыл бұрын

    LOVE MY 1-2+3-4-5 ALBUMS...OF ALICE COOPER 👍👍👍🤘🤘✌️🇦🇺

  • @sexpistol7712
    @sexpistol77122 жыл бұрын

    You should do elected by Alice Cooper, a classic brilliant single from 1973 .

  • @christinebakewell3475
    @christinebakewell34752 жыл бұрын

    In my opinion one of the best albums of the 70s by anyone, also check out billion dollar babies, another track in similar vain to this is - I love the dead ( it’s hilarious) , like that you got the Beatles vibe - a bit magical mystery tour ? 👍🇬🇧.

  • @AngryPostmanStockholm
    @AngryPostmanStockholm2 жыл бұрын

    These albums should be listen to in one sitting Killer Love it to death Schools out Billion dollar babies Muscle of love ♥ And yes they can sing the most bizarre lyrics but yet in upbeat. At that time kids was not overprotected and the childhomes, asylums etc. sure was run by weirdos in many cases..

  • @Blair19
    @Blair192 жыл бұрын

    It's so cool that you get AC's music.. Some tunes are quite dark but beautifully written.. Check out "Millie and Billie"

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ty Blair :D

  • @72KingDavid
    @72KingDavid2 жыл бұрын

    Definitely a great track….but should really be paired with the next track, Killer. This whole album is worth reacting to, as is the previous album, Love it to Death.

  • @trevorchapman1694
    @trevorchapman1694 Жыл бұрын

    Daddy is a farmer

  • @rj3969
    @rj3969 Жыл бұрын

    Alice Cooper songs that sound like the Beatles: Shoe Salesman, Alma Mater

  • @maruad7577
    @maruad75772 жыл бұрын

    Agriphile? Could it mean Dad is buried in the dirt as well? The bass at the beginning of the album was amazing at the time. On the crummy sound systems at the time, it was difficult to actually understand the lyrics, even with the underproduced sound. AC was always somewhat theatrical and this song is no exception. It was probably one of my three favourite songs by him. "School's Out" and "Eighteen" were the other two. It's does have that little Beatlesque flair at the end. Oddly, even though I liked a few of his songs, AC icked me out at the time. It felt like they were being shocking, just for the sake of being shocking. I was heavily into Wishbone Ash, Hendrix and Led Zeppelin by then. My budget wasn't that big (between my part time job and allowance I was barely making $5 per week and my beer drinking, even at 16, was taking a big chunk of that).

  • @bonkousmcnaughty4604

    @bonkousmcnaughty4604

    Жыл бұрын

    I take agrophile as meaning the opposite of agoraphobia being a fear of going out ie daddy is out all the time and never at home

  • @hotblackdesiato3022
    @hotblackdesiato30222 жыл бұрын

    For the algorithm. Hope you react to all the songs on this album!

  • @alicefcooper3014
    @alicefcooper3014 Жыл бұрын

    It's satire. An exploration of a deeply significant social phenomenon: child neglect & abuse. 'Cause obviously dead babies don't need to be taken care of - that's why they're dead! And you gotta love that hypnotic riff in the outro.

  • @brianodell7686
    @brianodell76862 жыл бұрын

    Please do a reaction video for The Ballad of Dwight Fry ✌️

  • @-davidolivares
    @-davidolivares2 жыл бұрын

    Pre- Nirvana quiet/ loud, bass and chorusy tones… agree with the Beatle feel in the post chorus pre outro… I don’t know what I’m saying. All I can say is hallelujah. Killer was my intro pre chorus to AC band. It later kinda fit with the abortion thing. Anyway, good choice today. Makes me think of sitting on the floor, albums laying all around me and my small record player. Chicago 1&2, James Taylor, Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Guess Who’s greatest hits, Grand Funk Live Album, Killer, and various singles I bought and my mother’s and sister’s. Elton John, Beatles, Shirelles, Elvis, Bobby Sherman, eek! Memories… like the forests of my mind… or however it goes. Peace and shockti Music

  • @maruad7577

    @maruad7577

    2 жыл бұрын

    I never did listen to Nirvana. Perhaps I should.

  • @-davidolivares

    @-davidolivares

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@maruad7577 Perhaps, if you’re ready.

  • @maruad7577

    @maruad7577

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@-davidolivares Where do I begin? I can listen while I clean up the kitchen.

  • @-davidolivares

    @-davidolivares

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@maruad7577 Hard question, I would go to Nevermind, but some would say Bleach. That’s the order I went in.

  • @maruad7577

    @maruad7577

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@-davidolivares That's a surprise. I recognized the first two songs. It appears I know the band after all. I didn't listen to the lyrics but the music is fine.

  • @_stardust62
    @_stardust627 ай бұрын

    Check out Uncle Salty from Aerosmith which is about child abuse.... Good review!

  • @DM-hk4cw
    @DM-hk4cw Жыл бұрын

    Alice talks of both responsibility and selfishness in this song. Great social commentary from Coop, as are 90% of his songs. A greatly misunderstood song and artist.

  • @geraldheath3527
    @geraldheath3527 Жыл бұрын

    It's a farmer I believe

  • @billholder1330
    @billholder133011 ай бұрын

    Dennis Dunaway shows masterful bass skills in this one. People forget, Alice Cooper was the band, before it was the guy. I still like the band better.

  • @randylee1777
    @randylee17772 жыл бұрын

    I like early Alice but I’ve always thought this song was sick. I get the message but it still creeps me out.

  • @GrilloTheFlightless
    @GrilloTheFlightless2 жыл бұрын

    It’s interesting that this song was about the really serious issue of child neglect. The message was somewhat diluted in the stage shows when he ran through baby dolls with a sword and, later on, when the head of the baby was a mutated freak, but nevertheless great performances.

  • @GrilloTheFlightless
    @GrilloTheFlightless2 жыл бұрын

    An agrophile is something which thrives or lives in cultivated soil. Perhaps Alice is suggesting the father is no better than an insect or worm? Not sure. I sometimes wonder if it’s meant to be agoraphile, which is someone with a fetish for open-air sex, or maybe agraphile, someone who takes sexual pleasure from either abusing or being abused - which may make more sense in the context of the song.

  • @jacquesdemolay2699
    @jacquesdemolay2699 Жыл бұрын

    I can understand that many people can be shocked by the lyrics -- but it is taking the form of sarcasm. subject matter is terribly serious. I think some of it is a reference to the crazy argument criminal parent may pull in court to defend themselves.

  • @fasteddie777666
    @fasteddie777666 Жыл бұрын

    Agraphile, slightly changed spelling means An individual with a fetish or an abnormal affection of Sexual abuse. Either when being abused or abusing another sexually.

  • @KevinRCarr
    @KevinRCarr2 жыл бұрын

    So, I just gotta ask, and I'm asking you because you're one of the reaction folks that hasn't yet succumbed to this. Is there something going around KZread that is encouraging reaction videoists to make of their video thumbnail photos, over-the-top caricature-like expressions of shock and surprise? Drives me a little crazy. Otherwise serious and sober reactors have pictures of themselves that look as if they're making scary/silly faces at babies. I appreciate that you haven't started doing this.

  • @JustJP

    @JustJP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Eh, its just the typical "clickbait-ey" "grab your audiences attention" kind of stuff. I don't do much of that, but the unfortunate thing is that it usually works🤣

  • @jacquesdemolay2699
    @jacquesdemolay2699 Жыл бұрын

    Agreed, simple and fairly unproduced but Alice got it fine tuned on the stage.

  • @cazgerald9471
    @cazgerald94712 жыл бұрын

    Agrophile, not sure. Agraphilia (agraphiliac): a fetish or an abnormal affection of sexual abuse, either when being abused or abusing another sexually.

  • @phillipnoble7868
    @phillipnoble78682 жыл бұрын

    He played golf with Bob Hope back in the day. Not exactly a satanist!

  • @StoneShards
    @StoneShards7 ай бұрын

    The music resembled funeral music, eh? A sort of funeral dirge...

  • @empsmith
    @empsmith2 жыл бұрын

    I think an agoraphile is the opposite of an agoraphobe. The latter is someone who is scared of the wide open spaces where as the former is a lover of them. Think a hunter, angler, hiker or camper.

  • @jfergs.3302
    @jfergs.33022 жыл бұрын

    A good tune this, dark, brooding, and with a decent riff. Not the best on the album, but still pretty good. Due it's largely repetitive nature though, I think it is a tad too long, they could've tightened it up a little. And all the beatles chat/comments aside, I thought there was a little Tull in there, right at the 1st chorus in partic. Re subject, bad parenting, or out and out infanticide. Baby eats pills, pills were on shelf, babies can get stuff off shelves, mum gave baby pills? as didn't want baby anyway... And dad, maybe he just not there, away working. Agro, relating to agriculture, the land. Working in Texas as a farm hand. I believe they're not short of farms in Texas. Oh, and he wasn't bothered about the baby either...

  • @justintime42000

    @justintime42000

    2 жыл бұрын

    I heard Tull in the guitar fills!

  • @jfergs.3302

    @jfergs.3302

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@justintime42000 Not just me then, nice 🙂

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