Pretties For You - Alice Cooper

Pretties for You was Alice Cooper's first release in 1969 and anyone listening to it without being familiar with it would struggle to recognise it as Alice Cooper. The work is psychedelic rock n roll and sounds like The Doors with more emphasis put on guitar work and mouth organ as opposed to keyboard. This album was released at a time when the band were yet to have really dabbled with shock rock, when they were based in California playing to hippies and gays, signed to Frank Zappa's record label and were dressed "as barbie dolls" by another Zappa band The GTO's, an enterage of female groupies from the sunset strip. The songs are trippy ...  Read the complete review