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A Fistful of Alice [Live]
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Featured comment (1/2) by on 2002-08-20
Fistful of Alice is the first album of his that I heard. It was amazing..I will never forget the intro riff to Welcome to My Nightmare (a classic mix of WTMN and Steven)..the song that lured me into what I could say is the biggest obsession I had music wise. His music talent goes unsaid, and this excellent live album is proof - bringing together classic songs from over 30 decades of original and inspiring shock rock.
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Billion Dollar Babies [Remastered]
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Brutal Planet
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Featured comment (1/1) by KarlSteiger on 2002-06-25
After the Columbine tragedy (wrongly blamed on the Goth subculture), the eyes of the world were on modern lords of controversy such as Marilyn Manson and Eminem. Yet with the release of 'Brutal Planet', Alice Cooper became the only 'shock' musician to offer a full riposte via his music. A dark heavy concept opus about how the world and its inhabitants generally suck, this is arguably his best album since 1989's 'Trash'. Respect.
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Da Da
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Featured comment (1/1) by KarlSteiger on 2002-09-21
Although quite a stinker from a commercial point of view, when did that ever stop someone with brains enjoying music? Like some of the best music out there, 'Dada' (1982) didn't exactly set the world on fire, yet this is excellent and one of Alice Cooper's best albums. Despite the very unusual Cooper cover art, the shock rock tactics of old remain throughout (the old presence is evident as soon as you put it on and hear the spooky introduction to opening track 'Dada'), yet here Alice Cooper attempts valiantly to embrace a 1980s sound - something that would not really be achieved successfully in sales terms until the release of 'From The Inside' - and experiments a little, producing an admirable album in the process. Most of the tracks are superb and creepy; standout songs include the horror classic 'Former Lee Warmer'. 'Pass The Gun Around' is about Alice's love/hate relationship with alcohol (he is an alcoholic, or was depending on your viewpoint), and the comical red-necked 'I Love America' is hilarious. Compared to 'Zipper Catches Skin' Alice Cooper here gets back on track, and this is possibly his darkest recording since 'Killer' (1970). No other Alice Cooper album sounds like this, so if you're new to Alice do not start here by any means, but established fans of the Master will love it.
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Dragontown
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Flush the Fashion
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Featured comment (1/1) by KarlSteiger on 2002-09-11
A very strange album this one, more bouncy than the shock rocker's previous albums; it was released during Alice Cooper's wilderness years, a time when the Meistro was caught up in a blizzard of alcoholism and not considered to be exactly at his peak. Yet this is actually a very fine rock 'n' roll album. 'Flush The Fashion' may have sounded tame to many in a post-Sex Pistols world (ironic considering that Johnny Rotten 'sung' Cooper's 'Eighteen' in order to qualify for the Pistols in the first place!), but there was life in the old dog yet and 'FTF' saw Cooper updated his sound and incorporating many new wave elements, both musically and lyrically. The highlight of the entire album has got be the excellent 'Clones (We're All)', inspired by TV re-runs of cult British series The Prisoner ("Six is having problems / Adjusting to his clone status"), though 'Pain', 'Leather Boots', and 'Dance Yourself To Death' could all be considered lost eighties classics. The decent 'Talk Talk' was originally recorded in the 1960s by Mean Machine, and Alice Cooper apparently nicked all the song titles on 'Flush The Fashion' from headlines he'd seen in The National Enquirer. Once considered the start of Cooper's string of '80s flops, 'Flush The Fashion' is now considered a bona fide cult classic in many quarters. A forgotten highlight of Alice Cooper's career, and proof that there is a lot more to the man than leather pants and snakes!
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From the Inside
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Goes to Hell
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Hey Stoopid
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Featured comment (1/2) by KarlSteiger on 2002-08-14
The follow-up to his 1989 comeback album 'Trash', 'Hey Stoopid' isn't quite on a par but still has some really great Alice tracks, and an Alice Cooper collection that doesn't contain this album is a poor Alice Cooper collection. The music is sure to get the adrenalin pumping and lyrically it's business as usual - monsters, drugs, S&M, insanity. 'Feed My Frankenstein' featured in the movie 'Wayne's World'.
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Killer
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Featured comment (1/1) by KarlSteiger on 2002-08-14
Contains two of the greatest Alice Cooper songs ever - creepy title track 'Killer' (you can imagine Henry Lee Lucas driving to it, radio cranked up), and the Beatles-meets-Manson 'Dead Babies'. 'Dead Babies' dealt with parental neglect in a way that could still shock today ("and we didn't love you anyway") and Alice now calls it "a Gothic classic." The rest of the album is great too, of course :)
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Lace and Whiskey
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Live In Toronto 1969
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Featured comment (1/1) by KarlSteiger on 2002-09-21
Not the greatest live album in the world ever, but certainly a chance to hear Alice and the bois during their early days. A raw recording akin to a bootleg, 'Live In Toronto' is fun but don't expect to hear any Coop classics because there are none here. It's a dirt-cheap album though, so be sure to get it if you really like Alice a lot, you'll be sure to find it interesting. This album goes by many names so do not be fooled. My own copy is called simply 'Alice Cooper' but it is also known as 'Slack Alice' and 'Snorting Anthrax' (the latter being a title it will probably never be known as again considering the current political climate), so make sure you don't unintentionally buy the same album twice!
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Muscle of Love
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Featured comment (1/1) by KarlSteiger on 2002-09-22
'Muscle Of Love' (1973) is an okay album. Not one of my favourites personally, but it's not bad. It has the bizarre distinction of featuring backing vocals from one Liza Minelli. Alice - what were you thinking? Ridiculously, this album was at one point banned in South Africa on account of the inner-sleeve photographs, which feature the Alice Cooper band outside 'The Institute Of Nude Wrestling'. Said pictures were considered in breach of obscenity laws. 'MOL' also the classic 'Teenage Lament', as well as 'The Man With The Golden Gun', a song Alice wrote for the new James Bond film. He was rejected by Eon Productions at the time in favour of Lulu.
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The Alice Cooper Show
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Featured comment (1/1) by KarlSteiger on 2002-09-20
Recorded during the Silver Screen tour while Alice was messed up from alcoholism and personal problems, and it shows. Alice is not at his best here, and while this has historical value, you'd do better to get hold of the latter-day 'A Fistful Of Alice' if you're looking for a fun, well-produced live Alice Cooper album. Better still, go to one of his gigs, they're excellent! To be honest, this live album is a bit crap, though Cooper obsessives will probably still enjoy it.
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The Definitive Alice Cooper
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Trash
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Welcome to My Nightmare [Remastered]
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Featured comment (1/1) by Comaboy on 2003-01-16
As a starting point for a solo career this must be one of the weirdest and most exceptionally well conceived albums on record. From the brilliant title track to the eeire quartet of songs at the end revolving around the corruption and redemption of 'Steven', a character who's fate was touched upon again in the 1994 'Last Temptation' record, this album has it all in true early Alice experimental style. A revealing look inside the mind of one of Rock's greatest Anti-heros.
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