― n.a. (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
"No, I said 'no more Mr. Clean..."
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― CHICKENS_EVERYWHERE (briania), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
A co-worker of a certain age want to a show last week, and apparently the guillotine was nowhere in sight. Does this mean that "Good Alice" has finally won out?
― briania (briania), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Flush the Fashion is great because Alice Cooper invented electroclash.
"From the Inside" is a favourite, Tauplin is the man!
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― dan (dan), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Dennis Dunaway is without a doubt the greatest, individual sounding and [anti]-melodic bass player OF AAALLL TIIIIIME!!!!!!!!
p.s i urge anyone who rates alice cooper on the cheese rock hes been doing for the last 20-odd years to buy the alice cooper cd that you always see going for about £2.99 in record shops. its usually called Nobody Likes Me,Nobody Like Me,Snorting Anthrax or 1969 Toronto Rock N Roll Revival. its garagy trashy psycho-delia. (ignore the 'going to the river' and 'ain't that just like a woman' tracks though cos they've got nothing to do with alice cooper as far as i know. UNLESS they are Gene Vincent tracks as the Alice Cooper group played as GV's backing band at the very same festival. it WAS going to be The Doors but they didn't for some reason)
trust me it'll be the best bargain you've ever bargained on!
― Mr Demeanor, Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
CLASSIC for the first four albums, including those bizarre & hard-to-find first two (which many people dislike but not me.) LESS CLASSIC but still fair-to-great for the next four. After that, mostly DUD, tho with the occasional great moment. ("Clones" aside, I've never heard Flush The Fashion myself, but lotsa people like it so I give it the benefit of the doubt.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― calice ooper, Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
That's `cos it's CRAP, Alfred.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 5 June 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 5 June 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 5 June 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
(Yes, I'm a very young person.)
― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 5 June 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Pretties For You sounds like a Beatles-cum-Zappa album but in mostly great ways. the recording quality is inconsistent, but the songs are quite solid.. the best one is "Levity Ball"..
Easy Action seers all the way through. "Lay Down And Die, Goodbye" is Alice's best song, period.
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 6 June 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 6 June 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
hey i nearly mentioned iti'm 35 and grew up with "school's out ", "elected "etc but didn't buy anything of alice until "trash" - -poison is his best single,other songs like "bed of nails","house on fire" are so good - i might buy trash tour dvd but can't find it in Australia.i'm learning "bed of nails" on piano.who wants sheet music copy ?i'm willing to pay for alice cooper trash songbook
― trash tramps, Monday, 6 June 2005 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
At the very least, "I'm Eighteen" from Love it to Death is essential.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Babysquid (babysquid), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― babysquid (babysquid), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm gonna buy one of his records tomorrow or something
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
get Killer or Love It To Death
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Well done sir! (xp)
― Tom D., Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Buy:
Love It to Death Killer Billion Dollar Babies
At once
― Tom D., Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Alice Cooper just played the Missouri State Fair. Blue Oyster Cult were also on the bill. I'm almost regretting not going.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
what an awesome show that would be...
...in 1975!
I can't say enough about the effect the Coop had on my teenage self...my first full-length purchase was an 8-track tape of Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits...I'll never forget how huge "Hello! Hooray!" sounded coming out of those Ford LTD speakers...
'Billion Dollar Babies' is probably the one to get (for the unheralded "Generation Landslide" alone)...but 'Welcome To My Nightmare', recorded with a completely different band, is just as good...songs like "Steven" and "The Awakening" are truly uncanny, scary in the David Lynch sense...(see the DVD of same for some welcome rubber-mask silliness)...if you were a young boy in the mid-70's, Alice had it all: rock, rebellion, horror, spy movie soundtracks...even a little Busby Berkeley thrown in for good measure!...
see also the DVD of 'Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper' for some great vintage concert footage (and some truly terrible comedy skits)...and track down a copy of 'Billion Dollar Baby', Bob Greene's account of life on the road with the Cooper group, circa 1974...if nothing else, you will be amazed that large-scale rock tours could be executed without cell phones, ATM's, computers, etc...
― henry s, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
my wife recently met Alice Cooper's former road manager ('69-'72). He is now an insurance broker with a cowboy fetish.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't mean David Libert, do you?
― henry s, Thursday, 23 August 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
no, some guy named Jim Scherz...?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Coop's playing here soon, and if I get this job, I can go see him free with a date.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 23 August 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(entirely possible that "road manager" was an exaggeration/misnomer - I didn't meet him personally or get to pump him for stories)
x-post
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Libert managed the tours during the Billion Dollar Babies era, so he must have suceeded Scherz...what stories both these guys must have!...
roxymuzak, what kind of job come with a free Cooper show as a perk?
― henry s, Thursday, 23 August 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I dig the first 7 Lps plus From the Inside and Dada.
Any more votes for From The Inside & Dada coming? No?
I do have several earlier ones and love them (to somewhat varying degrees). But those two I've been hesitating about for awhile now...
― t**t, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
'From The Inside' is patchy...has a couple of decent rockers (the title track, "For Veronica's Sake" which I swear has an uncredited Paul McCartney on backing vox) but overall suffers from too much David Foster...(Gloop-King of LA)...(by now, his power ballads were verging on the obligatory, and "How You Gonna See Me Now" is about the weakest of the lot)...
the title track was used most effectively on the tour for that album, where he began his shows by jumping out of an "open bottle" (projected on a screen) to start the show...
― henry s, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
My mom saw a televised Alice Cooper appearance sometime in the early-mid 70's, and the result was that I wasn't allowed to listen to rock and roll for the next year or so. I still have a hazy memory of her horrified description of the concert...had to sneak over to my friend's house to listen to "School's Out" on 45 from then on.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
school's out is dope too...killer's is the jam.
the orig. alice cooper's greatest hits (with the mafia type drawing of the band) is song for song one of the greatest rock albums ever. always see it used for cheap.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
But no good words for Dada, then?
― t**t, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
hell, I don't even remember that one...I basically wrote him off after 'Special Forces'...
― henry s, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
My mom saw a televised Alice Cooper appearance sometime in the early-mid 70's, and the result was that I wasn't allowed to listen to rock and roll for the next year or so. I still have a hazy memory of her horrified description of the concert...
That was probably Midsummer Rock, a live one-off from Cincinatti in 1971. That's the show where someone throws a chicken on stage and Alice plays with it for a while then throws it back, and the audience tears it apart. Also features Iggy (and a jar of peanut butter) & the Stooges, and that famous photo of him standing on the crowd pointing forward is from there.
The show also has Mountain, Grand Funk Railroad, and Traffic; an exellent 90 minutes.
― nickn, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I found both Pretties For You and Easy Action at a garage sale and paid $3 each for 'em. I think that's about what they're worth— kinda fun, kinda hit and miss.
― I eat cannibals, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
cheers for steering me in the right direction, guys. cuz i was thinking 'trash' :)
just kidding
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 24 August 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKO6zKPfb8A
The Alice Cooper Band in Diary of A Mad Housewife
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 July 2021 05:56 (two years ago) link
oh wow the end of that clip rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Dennis Dunaway wrote about this in his book. Apparently that's olive oil that Alice is hosing down the crowd with, so that the feathers would stick to their clothes.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 12:30 (two years ago) link
Kinda hard to imagine Richard Benjamin as an Alice Cooper fan.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
Definitely more of a Leo Sayer guy.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
We know Neil Young watched this movie at the time, wonder what he made of that scene?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
I think the Cooper group lived in Topanga Canyon at this time, so Neil was probably well aware of their antics.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
He tried to persuade Crosby to tear up a pillow onstage.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
XP...and David Briggs produced their second album.
Drummer Neal Smith later said of the record producer David Briggs, "David hated our music and us. I recall the term that he used, referring to our music, was 'Psychedelic Shit'. I think Easy Action sounded too dry, more like a TV or radio commercial and he did not help with song arrangement or positive input in any way."
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Pretty amazing, the progress they made going from Briggs to Ezrin.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
The same year, Briggs worked well with Spirit on Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus, which was pretty psychedelic, although I'm sure they were more instrumentally competent than the Alice Cooper band at that point.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Just watched that “Super duper Alice Cooper”
The first half was quite interesting, up to the ‘band’ splitting. The descent and recovery of his solo years managed to gloss over all his ‘solo’stuff in favour of pics with Sinatra and Dali and his eventual “nightmare 2” show, but hey..
― Mark G, Friday, 16 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Alice Cooper on The Snoop Sisters (one of the revolving programs that fell under the NBC Mystery Movie umbrella alongside Columbo and Quincy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIQeWtmK9o
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
The descent and recovery of his solo years managed to gloss over all his ‘solo’stuff in favour of pics with Sinatra and Dali and his eventual “nightmare 2” show, but hey..
It can be a challenge to talk about albums when the artist doesn't remember making them...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 16 July 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
I saw him on that Special Forces tour and man, what a wreck he was in those days. At least on the From The Inside tour he had that just-out-of-rehab energy. Just a couple years later he was a virtually unrecognizable wraith.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
I've read a few online reviewers who admire those early 80s records (which I haven't heard), is that a defensible position?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
I quite liked Flush The Fashion, but had and have no use for Special Forces. I don't think I've ever heard Dada.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
Flush The Fashion was easily better than the (3?) studio albums that preceded it - From The Inside, Lace And Whiskey, Goes To Hell.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
Classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJpqK8ZZbaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgNNbyoWdk
This changed my life trajectory when I saw it as a nine year old.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Forgot the best one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz0lXNNkqac
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
I like them. DaDa is a weird, dark fuckin' album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rnFIsoYbM
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
Yes, Dada's pretty good.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Flush The Fashion is one of my favourite Alice Cooper albums, but Special Forces is weak. Haven't heard Dada actually.
― bovarism, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Cooper reportedly has no recollection of recording DaDa, or the preceding albums Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin, due to substance abuse. Cooper stated "I wrote them, recorded them and toured them and I don't remember much of any of that",[8] though he toured only Special Forces.[9] In 1996 Cooper said that DaDa was the scariest album he ever made,[10] and that he never had any idea what it was about. There was no tour to promote DaDa, and none of its songs have ever been played live.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 18 July 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
Dick Wagner and Bob Ezrin really held DaDa together, and they created one hell of a creepy album. As far as theatrical "shock rock" goes, I'd list this LP right up there with Coop's best. "Pass the Gun Around" is particularly unsettling.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link