Listening to the record as I write and it's giving me the same kick as always. He's been on the scene for fortyfive years and still going strong. Through twentyseven original studio albums and furthermore lives and compilations personal favorites shifts a lot, but three of them will always be on my top unchallanged - "Pretties For You", "Killer" and this. To my taste it's up there with classics as Sgt. Pepper's, Dark Side of the Moon and Exile on Main Street. Those have in common a meeting between catchy songs and top notch performance, production, arrangements and audio. Same goes for this - a bunch of memorable melodies carrying interesting lyrics, ambigous to a point where your'e not sure if he's hailing or mocking. There's lots of great gutars from Glen Buxton as well as supporting Steve Hunter, Mick Mashbir and Dick Wagner and the vocals his best so far - adapting to the lyrics, making it theatrical in a very good way. Producer Bob Ezrin seems to have been like a band member by co-writing two of the tracks and providing keyboards. You can actually hear the production and arrangements aren't just additional constructions made by an unattached studio worker, but part of the band's creative process. All levels fits to a whole, making it secure and happy listening even when he sings about necrophilia, sexual abuse or fear of dentists. The album was a world wide hit with no.1 in both US and UK. Premiere US on Warner Bros. (BS 2685). First UK had green label as shown here and structured, embossed fold/out cover with pop-out pics inside, glossy picture/lyric inner and billion dollar note - all printed in England. Later issues sometimes came with imported parts. (KÖÖP*)
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