SEALED 1974 ORIG ALICE COOPER MUSCLE OF LOVE LAST ORIG GROUP LP HARD PSYCH

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ORIGINAL 1974 FIRST PRESS                      

 STILL FACTORY SEALED - ORIGINAL GIMMIX DESIGN BOX SET     

                              ALICE COOPER

          MUSCLE OF LOVE                 

                           USA - Warner Brothers 2248

FACTORY SEALED -- NEVER OPENED - NEVER PLAYED

Original 1974 first pressing featuring a unique cover, nothhing else in the rock world history offered such a way-out design; a book cover (shades of School's Out), a sleeve featuring happy sailors on leave (massage-parlor sex), all placed in a corrugated cardboard box ("Hey, why don't we ...") — coming off as cute gimmicks.

Carried over to the included songs, the same sort of sensibility can be seen at work, Simply sterling moments are paired against acceptable ones, embellishments to place between the dental nightmare and the guillotine.

Still, Alice is surely a long way from giving up the good ghost, and when Muscle Of Love takes the time to settle squarely on a target, the switch of his blade is as sharp as ever. "Teenage Lament '74," helped out by an all-star cast, lights on a hometown world where gold lame pants and rooster haircuts are regarded as the norm rather than the aberration, coupled with an indelible chorus and a heated tinge of peer-group frustrado. In the same vein, the group's ongoing love affair with television theme music is given vent through "The Man With the Golden Gun," a bravura James Bond overkill in which Alice delivers his best Shirley Bassey impression.

As for the rest, side one begins well with "Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)," hunches into a "Never Been Sold Before" that is both straightforward and engrossing in the manner of "Raped And Freezing," and then happens on a song which might've been the album's most insightful had it been investigated further: "Hard Hearted Alice/Is what we want to be/Hard Hearted Alice/Is what we want to see," is placed against the almost abnormal placidity of the man offstage.

"Crazy Little Child" is a Dixieland exercise based on a born-to-be-wild story line, "Working Up a Sweat" and the title tune are Muscle Of Love's solid-state rockers, and "Woman Machine" closes out the session with some J. Airplane-ish guitars and a paean to encroaching technological advancement. After this album, ALICE had a brainstorm to go solo and broke up the band which had created a winning formula that led to mega stardom success.

Muscle Of Love

Woman Machine

 Hard Hearted Alice

 Man With The Golden Gum

Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)

 Never Been Sold Before

 Working Up A Sweat

Crazy Little Child

Teenage Lament

CONDITION:  The box cover is STILL FACTORY SEALED ...never opened - never played and almost always found with crushed in areas, so this copy still has sharp edges remains a nice crisp survivor of the era... no delete marks, no bends, no writing and no split seams ... collection worthy rarity ...unplayed/sealed. Original store price sticker on top right of back cover.

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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