More of the Music of Alice Cooper
The last White Hot Stamper copy we put up had the two best sides back to back we heard in our shootout, with a killer side two that really brought this music to life.
Which is not easy to do, given that the average copy of this album is a sonic mess —
There are a lot of green label Warner Bros. records from the 70s that sound like that, one might even call it their “house sound.”
When you play most of the later pressings, it’s obvious that they’ve gone overboard in cleaning up the murk, leaving a sound that is lean, flat and modern — in other words, unmusical, inapt and more often than not disastrous.
Finding the right balance of fullness and clarity, especially on this album, may not be easy, but it can be done. This side two was far and away the best we heard and proves that the album can sound good.