Alice Cooper Delivers ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ Deluxe Edition
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies
The sixth Alice Cooper album, Billion Dollar Babies, has received an extended 50th-anniversary deluxe edition. The 3-LP and 2-CD versions, with remastered sound, arrived on March 8, 2024, via Rhino. It’s available to order in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. Listen to the single version of “Elected,” a live version of the title track, outtakes, and more, below.
After hitting #1 on the album charts in America and the U.K. in 1973, the album remains a highwater mark for the original lineup, featuring hits like “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “Elected.”
Billion Dollar Babies: “Trillion Dollar” Deluxe Edition will feature a newly remastered version of the original album, along with bonus material, including studio outtakes, single mixes and a 1973 concert recording. In the vinyl edition, the gatefold cover replicates the original’s textured snakeskin wallet design and comes complete with a $1 billion dollar bill tucked inside.
According to a press release, “An instant smash when it was released in March 1973, Billion Dollar Babies delivered a theatrical mix of hard rock and glam laced with macabre lyrics that explored wealth, decadence and fame’s darker side. Newly remastered, the platinum-certified album sounds better than ever.
The set also features outtakes (‘Coal Black Model T’), single mixes (‘Mary Ann’), and ‘Slick Black Limousine,’ which originally came out on flexi-disc within an issue of the British rock paper New Musical Express.”
The Trillion Dollar” Deluxe Edition also features a live show recorded in Texas in April 1973, during the “Billion Dollar Babies” tour. The performance includes live versions of many of the album’s tracks, highlights including “Elected” and “Hello Hooray,” along with several of the band’s earlier hits, including “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out.”
Related: Our Album Rewind of the 1973 original
The LP and CD versions both come with an oral history of the album and the bonus tracks by the surviving band members—Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith—and Bob Ezrin, who produced the album. (Guitarist Glen Buxton died in 1997.) Listen to more performances after the track listing.
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies: 50th “Trillion Dollar” Deluxe Edition
CD Track Listing
The packaging for the 3-LP set
CD One
“Hello Hooray”
“Raped And Freezin’”
“Elected”
“Billion Dollar Babies”
“Unfinished Sweet”
“No More Mr. Nice Guy”
“Generation Landslide”
“Sick Things”
“Mary Ann”
“I Love The Dead”
CD Two
“Hello Hooray” – Live, 1973
“Billion Dollar Babies” – Live, 1973
“Elected” – Live, 1973
“I’m Eighteen” – Live, 1973
“Raped And Freezin’” – Live, 1973
“No More Mr. Nice Guy” – Live, 1973
“My Stars” – Live, 1973
“Unfinished Sweet” – Live, 1973
“Sick Things” – Live, 1973
“Dead Babies” – Live, 1973
“I Love The Dead” – Live, 1973
“School’s Out” – Live, 1973
“Under My Wheels” – Live, 1973
“Coal Black Model T” – Outtake
“Son Of Billion Dollar Babies (Generation Landslide)” – Outtake
“Hello Hooray” – Single Version
“Billion Dollar Babies” – Single Version
“Elected” – Single Version
“Mary Ann” – Single Version
“Slick Black Limousine”
Related: Our review of a 2023 live Alice Cooper show
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Jump into a conversationLove this Album, I was lucky enough to see Alice Cooper live when he was playing Welcome to my nightmare tour, good old days!!!
This man……….this band, or I should say, these bands over time are some of the best R&R music and cannot be duplicated……..only enjoyed. Thank you Alice.
Pretty wild to now remember that 50 years ago at 18 I traveled with the band, entourage and snake I think on their private jet from the start of the Billion Dollar Babies tour out of LA and for a week in the Western States, having hopped on with one of the sound techs on a last minute spur of the moment invitation – literally didn’t go back to work after lunch. It was tight, loud, spectacularly theatrical and colorful for the times and ran like clockwork night after night. I was given the job of handing out backstage passes to girls after the show but have no crazy stories or don’t remember, for many of us any surreality of those times wasn’t concerning. I jumped off in Denver, hitched back to LA and had some explaining to do. 🙂