Difficult to add anything to all the interesting points that darkmenace and mrbarlow have made.
A "budget album" ? With such a wealth of sonic landscapes throughout ? You wouldn't find such a richness of tone in a budget album. The whole album bathes in a very special sonic colour, that, in turn, is what gives (partly) its particular atmosphere to it - that's where I agree with what darkmenace put forward. A kind of dark-and-bright sound, wide and present through most of the songs, establishing some kind of solar and -of course- theatrical darkness. I'm now listening to it : has Alice done something more musical and sophisticated than Former Lee Warmer ? It's arrangements are just so brilliant ! Also, perfect and diverse vocal delivery, subtle in its theatricality.
I also happen to think that it is Alice's most refined solo album - filled with songs that are impossibe to describe or to put in a niche. No Man's Land also is great, the rythm has that kind of unstoppable pattern to it. The computer drums are much less noticeable on this album than on some tracks from Strangulator.... And the last lyrics, under the joyful music, stares straight at you, telling you so much about Alice's state of mind back then ! Dyslexia : I perfectly understand that some people can hate it, because of the gimmicky repetitive rythmn, but here again, it has a freshness in its melody, a light in its sound, that I like very much, and I like how Alice sings it.
Now let me change the side please, and I'll come back to you....
Ah, here we are. Scarlet and Sheba. I love it. Such luxurious music ! Theatrical, with a wide, large sonic landscape. Alice sings kind of high and clear in the verses, more in a gritty manner in the chorus.... This track is perhaps the point where that "dark, warm, sharp" sound is the most evident. That sound that is dark and blinding at the same time - coming to a climax in the last time the chorus is sung, while Dick Wagner makes the song going on like a sharpened march... and makes it explode it on I Love America, making yet another song appear like it was another world ! Here again, I hear nothing not to like. I like the 'slow' but on-going rythm it has - this seems to be the case with most of the songs on the LP. Listening to that song feels like biting on a juicy fruit on a beautiful day !
Fresh Blood - love every aspect of that song. Listen to that keyboard arrangements during the chorus, it sounds like musical rain glinding down your ears. The drumming work is great . The length of the song just builds its intensity all along, adding piece after piece in its inner construction.
Then.... Everytime I listen to the last song, I say to myself : "this is Alice Cooper's most beautiful song. Ever." That said, I say the same about "Second Coming' & "Ballad Of Dwight Fry". But yes indeed, I consider them his three greatest songs ever. Pass The Gun Around contains one of most beautiful guitar solos I've ever heard, a timeless and touching set of lyrics (brilliantly sung in the most affective and sincere voice) and is one of the most heartbreaking songs I've ever heard. Alice could have not hoped for a better last song for this album.
For years, I was angry that Alice never performed any track from DaDa. But now I also think something else : would I be happy if he included any of them, but in a heavy metal version ? God, I would be as disgusted as I was each time I heard an ACG classic in the hands of Kane Roberts. No, I certainly don't need to hear buchered versions of these gems.
And about new studio versions of these songs ? No; they have to be left alone, the way they are.
I remember reading on Rate Your Music a comment by a guy saying this was a "synth-pop album" (!!!), others complaining that it had synthesisers - as if the "Garbage" album wasn't just drowned in it !!
I also remember reading reviews saying that, in order to like this album, you would need to have an open-mind.... I mean, as if it was not preferable to have an open mind anyway when it comes to music !!!! So sad that some people don't see an open mind as a value.
I've already said that Dada, for sonic and stylistic reasons, belongs with albums by David Bowie, Kate Bush or Peter Gabriel.
And given a real promotion and support on its release, it would have gained Alice all the respect these performers have.
And when you think of what was next.....
Steven Lee Cooper peeks in the forums when he feels really brave....
It's show biz after all and there's still enough space between us and the Beliebers 
(Tell me there is :P )