Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by James1981 » Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:03 am

Very nice. I now have this on my desktop and every time i look at it it puts me in the mood to listen to love it to death!!
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by RemarkablyInsincere » Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:03 pm

WickedYoungMan wrote:If anyone is interested I made some Desktop Wallpaper to commemorate the event.

http://wickedyoungman.deviantart.com/gallery/9297841
Very cool... just one question... why not the original cover with thumb?
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by WickedYoungMan » Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:08 pm

Good point. I didn't really think about that to be honest. That was the highest res version of the album cover I could find easily so I went with that. With the thumb I might have to mark at as "Mature" through DA's standards which would limit it on search results but I guess I could have both going at the same time.
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by The Spider » Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:30 pm

LOVE the wallpaper. Well Done :clap:
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by WickedYoungMan » Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:55 am

FYI, I'm contemplating doing a bright wallpaper based on the back cover with the band standing together (Neal center and sitting.)

Anyone think that would be interesting?
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by Billie1966 » Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:27 am

I would love one!!

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by Guilty » Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:31 pm

still gets plenty of airplay in my car cd player!
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by mestreech » Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:36 pm

WickedYoungMan wrote:FYI, I'm contemplating doing a bright wallpaper based on the back cover with the band standing together (Neal center and sitting.)

Anyone think that would be interesting?

yes please !!!

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by Headbangers Ball » Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:12 am

Brilliant album. I can never decide between this and Killer - I would never be able to choose if I had to!

Just some useless information, but I actually have a copy of the 'thumb' vinyl album - which is pretty cool and quite daring for the time! :grin:
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by Billie1966 » Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:29 am

Bumping this up.. Wouldn't mind the other wallpaper.

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by Gunner » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:45 pm

Personally, I would love the ACG (plus Steve Hunter maybe) to re-record this with Bob Ezrin using modern technology. I thought the re-makes 'Alice does Alice' were really good for example. You could add a big string section in 'Ballad of Dwight' etc.

I know that most of you will disagree and like Cooper's records to stay the way they were, but I have always thought that this particular album deserves 'the treatment'.

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by RemarkablyInsincere » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:01 pm

Gunner wrote:Personally, I would love the ACG (plus Steve Hunter maybe) to re-record this with Bob Ezrin using modern technology. I thought the re-makes 'Alice does Alice' were really good for example. You could add a big string section in 'Ballad of Dwight' etc.

I know that most of you will disagree and like Cooper's records to stay the way they were, but I have always thought that this particular album deserves 'the treatment'.
No thanks, this is a classic and there would be no way to "improve" this.
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by James1981 » Fri Jul 01, 2011 4:03 pm

Rather than a re-recording i think this album and all the other early ones could do with a good remastering. Perhaps an idea for another box set :)
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by Somwhere In Auckland » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:47 pm

Alice is one of the very few artists from the 70s not to have a remasters series of all albums, quite sad realld as all the 70s albums need the treatment with new packaging.

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by DIMMA » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:58 pm

Gunner wrote: "Personally, I would love the ACG (plus Steve Hunter maybe) to re-record this with Bob Ezrin using modern technology."

With Glen Buxton´s distinctive guitar playing being such a big part of the sound of that album, it just wouldn´t be the same.


james1981 wrote: "Rather than a re-recording i think this album and all the other early ones could do with a good remastering."

Steve Hoffman has already remastered LITD from the original master tapes, along with KILLER and SCHOOL´S OUT on 24 karat Gold CDs available from Audio Fidelity.

Dennis Dunaway recommended these to me and I think that says something about the quality of these remasters.

There was no compression or limiting used on these remasters which I like, but if you like your remasters to be LOUD (meaning compressed) with a lot of high end, you will be disappointed.

These gold CDs sound closer to the original master tapes and I can say that listening to the remaster of KILLER was a revelation compared to the Warner Bros CD.

I just hope Steve Hoffman does a remaster of MUSCLE OF LOVE on 24 karat Gold CD as well.

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by pitkin88 » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:59 pm

100% agree with Dimma. I think BDB's is next for Hoffman but I read somewhere that he has to wait six mths or so.

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by RemarkablyInsincere » Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:17 am

pitkin88 wrote:100% agree with Dimma. I think BDB's is next for Hoffman but I read somewhere that he has to wait six mths or so.
Actually, Audio Fidelity requested to do "Billion Dollar Babies" and were turned down.

I believe they said they planned to wait 6 months and then try to re-request.

So, to my knowledge they have not received permission to do BDB.

I too would like to see them do MOL.
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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by bebauz » Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:37 am

I love this album, Really I love all the stuff the Alice Cooper Band put out.

Currently I have 3 versions on Vinyl.

The airbrushed version.

The thumb version.

And a version with white letter box obscuring the thumb in question.

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by DIMMA » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:49 pm

I hope that Audio Fidelity gets permission to do remasters of Billion Dollar Babies as well as Muscle Of Love on 24 karat Gold CDs.
Steve Hoffman´s remasters are excellent and it would be nice to complete the ACG collection.

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Re: Love It To Death - 40th Anniversary

Post by pitkin88 » Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:45 am

DIMMA wrote:I hope that Audio Fidelity gets permission to do remasters of Billion Dollar Babies as well as Muscle Of Love on 24 karat Gold CDs.
Steve Hoffman´s remasters are excellent and it would be nice to complete the ACG collection.
You are forgeting the first two albums though I doubt there's much that can be done to make these any better.

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