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Alice Cooper: Easy Action

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Label: Straight Records
Released: 1970
Time:
 34:41
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.alicecooper.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2011
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Mr. & Misdemeanor (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 3:10
[2] Shoe Salesman (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 2:39
[3] Still No Air (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 2:34
[4] Below Your Means (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 6:54
[5] Return of the Spiders (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 4:32
[6] Laughing at Me (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 2:16
[7] Refrigerator Heaven (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 2:01
[8] Beautiful Flyaway (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 3:01
[9] Lay Down and Die, Goodbye (Bruce/Buxton/Cooper/Dunaway/Smith) - 7:36

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Alice Cooper - Composer, Vocals

David Briggs - Piano, Producer
Michael Bruce - Composer, Guitar, Keyboards
Glen Buxton - Composer, Guitar
Dennis Dunaway - Bass, Composer
Neal Smith - Composer, Drums

Herb Cohen - Executive Producer
Barry Keane - Engineer
Barry Keene - Engineer
Ken Perry - Digital Remastering
Bill Inglot - Digital Remastering
Lorrie Sullivan - Photography
John Williams - Art Direction
 

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1970 LP Hi Horse Records 1845
1989 CD Bizarre Records R2-70350
1989 CS Planet 3 Records 70350
2003 CD Enigma Records 7735912
2004 CD Progressive 550
2005 CD Warner Bros. 77391
2006 CD WEA International 77391
2008 CD Rhino 511108

Limited Edition. Easy Action is the second studio album by Alice Cooper, released by Straight Records in June 1970. The title comes from a line in the musical film West Side Story, which was one of the band's favorite films. For a band with a hard rocking, shock-theater reputation, Alice Cooper played an adventurous style of post-psychedelic rock & roll on EASY ACTION. Released in 1970, this early career gem has a Bowie-esque sense of drama and a surprisingly light touch. Songs such as "Beautiful Flyaway" lean on pretty, sunny piano and gentle vocals, while "Refrigerator Heaven" and "Return of the Spiders" play with Sunset Strip bad-trip vibes that hint at the harder-edged Cooper to come. The musical artistry of EASY ACTION should be a revelation for those familiar with the outrageous Alice Cooper theatrics of legend.



The author of the book Alice Cooper, Steve Demorest, accurately calls this "the great undiscovered" Cooper album. Pretties for You is a difficult record, and Love It to Death is a classic, but this pre-Bob Ezrin album, created with help from Neil Young producer David Briggs, might be the perfect picture of an evolving Alice Cooper Group. "Mr. & Misdemeanor" has Cooper beginning to define his nasty trademark vocal style: "Here's new pretties for you/nobody likes me but we adore you." Cooper became known for writing two-and-a-half- to three-minute catchy tunes with negative themes, augmented by longer pieces toward the end of the recordings. With that in mind, this is almost pre-production for Love It to Death, although the band is more inventive here. "Shoe Salesman" could be Strawberry Alarm Clock, and this clone British pop/punk would've been a nice arena for AC to continue dabbling in, had Ezrin not transformed them into hard rockers. For those not convinced of Cooper's ability to sing after the beautiful adult contemporary songs he composed with Dick Wagner in the late '70s, Easy Action gives evidence that Cooper has more of a voice than he got credit for. "Still No Air" has a sci-fi slant, a slant they could've taken up when the members departed from Cooper and became the Billion Dollar Babies. "Below Your Means" is almost seven minutes of early Who-style musical investigation. There is that great West Coast Jefferson Airplane sound throughout, some hybrid of L.A./U.K. garage rock and psychedelia (this material would fit nicely on a soundtrack for American International Pictures). Side two opens with "Return of the Spiders," with upfront fuzz guitar. Dedicated to Gene Vincent, one wonders if this was influenced by David Bowie or if David Bowie influenced it? Both artists emerged around the same time, with Alice Cooper under Frank Zappa's wing, for better or for worse. Their androgynous personas both covered simultaneously in Rolling Stone magazine. "Laughing at Me" is very similar to Bowie's "Man Who Sold the World." There's the cryogenic "Refrigerator Heaven"; a very British pop "Beautiful Flyaway," which is listed as fifth on the album cover, but is actually the fourth track; and "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye," a seven-minute-and-30-second song which clearly sounds like it belongs on Zappa's record label. That this band could run the gamut from Zappa to Bowie, and perhaps inspired both, makes Easy Action a good study and entertaining record.

Joe Viglione -  All Music Guide
 

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Mr. & Misdemeanor

Mister and misdemeanor middle of the roaders set beside the ocean
Landscapes an' laws agoshin' who put all of this in motion
Lucky Luciano Kenneth Pasarelli you take the modern mosquito to every big city
I sit beside misdemeanor here's new pretties for you
Nobody likes me but we adore you da da d da da yeah yeah yeah yeah
Nasty misdemeanor kickin' in the windows parked beside the ocean
Landscapes an' laws agoshin' who put all of this in motion
Da da d da da yeah yeah yeah yeah da da d da da yeah yeah yeah yeah


Shoe Salesman

I know a shoe salesman he's an acquaintance of mine
One day he showed me some marks on his arms in a line
I did not know what to say do you think those freckles will stay
I need a popsicle do you want lemon or lime
I've got a special today if you've got the time
Winking she pokes me in the side well we could go for a ride yeah
I did not know what to say do you think those freckles will stay heh
Well you think that she will see yeah heh I don't think she will see yeah heh


Still No Air

Who says the earth is crumbling and no sky is falling through sometimes I just can't die
The world should be assembling but not just right out of view whole days I would like to fry
Easy action got a rocket in your pocket
When you're a jet you're a jet all the way
From your first cigarette to your last dying day
Who says the earth is trembling and there's still no air
One two three four ooh ooh


Below Your Means

Come with me and we'll play you've got a lot I want like to stay so good so far
I see you playing right along sometimes it's better to belong ooh
I'll sing you my all night song you know it's better to belong
Under the cover of a midnight scene I got the sheets below your means ooh


Return Of The Spiders

Well stop look and listen there are ants that are gathered here
With my hands raised to speak but you all won't hear no you all won't hear we all won't hear
Let me in your living door let me in knock knock I said is there
Well it's me they're reaching in and I'm coming after you I'm coming after you coming after you
Well I'm tired yes I'm weary from my long journey but I'm not yet all ready to rest
For you can come along with me we go searching for rest yes
Come on and search with me oh search with me woah search with me
Come on and search with me wo woah come on and search with me aah


Laughing At Me

If it's laughing you need then it's laughing indeed
And it's laughing at me yes it's laughing at me
So I started to end the beginning to end
Then I ended the end yes I ended the end
And it's laughing it's laughing at me


Refrigerator Heaven

I'm freezing I'm freezing I'm icicle blue so low low cool
Cyber neurotic technicians imbue so low low cool
I've been admitted to refrigerator heaven until they discover a cure for cancer I'm low
Refrigerator heaven so low refrigerator heaven
I'm ice packed I'm hand stashed I'm waiting for you I'm older and younger preserved in a tomb
I've been admitted to refrigerator heaven I feel like I told you on my heart
I won't get back 'till the sun sets down on the moon
Won't get back 'till the sun sets down on the moon


Beautiful Flyaway

Beautiful flyaway somewhere like holy days wonder what brought me down to earth
Haven't I always been here let's have another nibble later I think I'll disappear into the bishop's hall
And take a look at what we offer DDT poisoning me changing my relativity what's it going to be
Da da da da d da later I think I'll disappear into another room and take a look inside the till
Lovely days human ways journeys that take us to the end aah
Haven't we always been here sharing one love and one fear
Some day you'll know that life is really really all about you
So come and look inside you'll be surprised to find
Later I think I'll disappear into another womb and take a look inside the mens' room
Haven't I given you everything that I could give where do you live aah
 

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