― Omar, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― will casper, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
saw him on 'constrictor' tour - great gig - dull album
― geordie racer, Tuesday, 15 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 22 December 2002 08:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 22 December 2002 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Fischer, Sunday, 22 December 2002 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t''t), Sunday, 22 December 2002 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Alice Cooper: Classic or Dud??
Alice Cooper: Classic or Dud
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 22 December 2002 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 23 December 2002 03:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 December 2002 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mike a (mike a), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Are "Pretties For You" and "Easy Action" essential purchases? I'm waiting until "Welcome to my Nightmare" or the later ones. are the late 70s ones alright?
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
"Telephone is ringing..."
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:39 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:45 (twenty years ago) link
Afterwards, dud.
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 08:33 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
I hope you are! Neal Smith was a great drummer and Dunaway churned out great bassline after great bassline, Glen Buxton was no virtuoso admittedly.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
... Michael Bruce, good songwriter.
Yeah, Cooper's rhythm section was truly great and Michael Bruce was largely responsible for a lot of the evergreen Cooper classics that the solo Alice would never dream of leaving out of his live set.
Also, when listening to 'Halo of Flies', the band that I'm hearing doesn't square up with what veronica moser is saying/describing at all.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
Ok so you're calling the Cooper band weak instrumentalists then stumping for KISS who were completely horseshit musicians except maybe sober Ace
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
he do scales
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
KISS are the single most overrated American hard rock band of all time.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uep1pgOUyr0
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
Listening a really nice 1st press Love It To Death I got for a song rn. Having never really gone post the hits until recently, I'm amazed how garage-y they still were. Perhaps the most Nuggets-ish of all the big early Hard Rock/Metal bands? "Black Juju" could pass for the Chocolate Watchband!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Absolutely! Garage-y while still having a decent degree of musicianship, I think, particularly the rhythm section of Dunaway and Smith. Bob Ezrin really worked wonders in keeping this band focused - apparently, he helped to tighten up 'I'm Eighteen' a great deal for one. I like Welcome to My Nightmare and - much later - DaDa a lot as "solo" Cooper collaborations with Ezrin and Dick Wagner, but I wish the band would have just taken a year off and realised that the theatrics were as much a part of the bands identity as the music.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Bob Ezrin fingerprints are on the mixing board when the classic lineups of Alice Cooper, Kiss and Pink Floyd came apart (at least for the first time).
― earlnash, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
You mean, Bob "Yoko" Ezrin.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
Spotted on FB: Glenn Buxton's 18th birthday. Guy on the left is you-know-who.
https://scontent.fhou1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/64569208_10219751299196630_94425684931248128_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_oc=AQmAphh-XUP2NCoMyV0Jss4uPI5suQ8PukDC7kZWw1z9cxwZnKsgAvv0Fk6SGt0ZceE&_nc_ht=scontent.fhou1-1.fna&oh=96b5554d9614883b4da46507f9d0944a&oe=5D96B1BF
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
Vince?
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
Vince Before Alice.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 June 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
looking like a member of Wall of Voodoo
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 June 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Ha!
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 June 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
Lots of jams imo.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 August 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
good list
I just checked Wiki and goddamn does Alice Cooper have a lot of albums I never knew about
Coop might be a great candidate for a listening thread actually
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
listening to Dirty Diamonds from 2003, this is kinda...awesome?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
I just checked it out on Youtube (it's a bit spotty w/some "you can't watch this in your country" omissions) and you're right! Rough production that doesn't sound like 256 overdubbed guitars with the treble rolled off and a few really strong tracks.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 19 August 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
yeah I mean not like an early 70s record but I was pretty impressed
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 August 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
New single: "Don't Give Up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__YxWnRACxI
― Brad C., Friday, 15 May 2020 22:29 (three 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