Pretties For You by Alice Cooper

Pros: The cover and the song titles.
Cons: The songs themselves. Alice with blond hair!!

One bad thing about hard to find albums is that most of the time you're paying the extra bucks for how rare the album is and not for the quality of the music itself. Such is the case of the debut album by Alice Cooper called Pretties For ...

Pros: Avant-garde weirdness
Cons: poor production (sort of a pro)

In 1969, Alice Cooper had not yet become a household name. There was no black make-up, no hit songs, no big time producer. On Pretties For You what we get instead is a band of five young long hairs heavily influenced by Syd Barret era Pink...

Pros: Alice Cooper fans might be interested the roots of their later weirdness. Great album cover.
Cons: So bad your ears may bleed.

One of the biggest miracles of the Alice Cooper group is how they became so great after being so bad. This was their debut album after being discovered by Frank Zappa at a time when they were known as the worst band in L.A. Apparently, he must have ...

Pros: Alice Cooper's beginning stages, the first CD
Cons: not what Alice fans are used to, underdeveloped

I bought this album because Alice Cooper is my favorite musician. I found it at a pawn shop, and because this CD was Alice Cooper's first CD and out of print, its hard to get your hands on a copy.I think my first reaction was surprise.... this is NOT the...

Pros: My pros are in my review.
Cons: I have lived with them, most of them are not much fun.

I have both Pretties for you and Easy Action on vinyl, for all you CD bandwagon jumpers, and I like them just fine.They make me think of snakes emerging from their eggs. Killer is still my favorite album and yeah billion dollar $ babies still tears the...