"Is It My Body?" is in my top 3 Alice Cooper songs so I was excited to hear it.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Never a bad day to repost this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vozLrSIrtU
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
i love that version and i wish the album version, as good as it is, had the breakdown in it
― na (NA), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
even though it seems like he's ad-libbing the lyrics during that whole part
― na (NA), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
the ad libbing is so great!! the dig at your bones ---> just might be my owowowowowowowowowown-whoaaaaa-own part definitely belongs in every version of this song, not just this bizarro live tv version
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
goddamn that clip smokes
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
you mean smocks
smocks in frocks
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
I now must listen to Love It To Death immediately. What a great band Alice Cooper were.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 17 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
1971 they were hungry, confident and best rock band in the world.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
Killer vs Love it to Death is such a close call, both are pretty much perfect
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Yes! I have to strain a bit to enjoy Schools Out, and strain more as the theatrics thicken.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
top tier: Killer, Love it to Death2nd tier: School's Out, Easy Action3rd tier: Billion Dollar Babies, Pretties for Youafter that you're on your own
is how i break it down to an extent
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
Top tier: Love it to Death, Killer, Billion Dollar BabiesSecond tier: School's OutThird tier: Muscle of LoveNot a fan at all: Easy Action, Pretties For You
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
yep thats pretty much it. Billion Dollar Babies is peak pop Alice for me. intro to the title track is maybe my fave rock intro ever?!?
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
Billion Dollar Babies is top tier imoThe songs aren't all good but the really good ones (including title track, Hello Hooray) always put me in a good mood. LOVE Hello Hooray!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
hmmm, upon reflection I am moving Billion Dollar Babies to 2nd tier
we'll be releasing a full statement later today :)
I think Easy Action is great I don't get why ppl diss it
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
and obv these are all really great records
GOD I FEEL SO STROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGi love Hello Hoorayi was obsessed with that song for a while and the different versions of it. alice's is best imo. i would like to hear bob pollard give it a crack.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
haha oh god yeah hello hooray chorus is totally GBV i never thought of that
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
even the "let the lights grow dim -- i've been ready" part sounds like BP's singing/songwriting to me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
and yes i know Alice Cooper did not write it but his version is best as i previously mentioned
the original is not even close to AC's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FLEvosGeHA
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
If we're including solo Alice, hen Welcome to My Nightmare and DaDa are easy inclusions in the top tier for me.
I'm not much into 1976-1979 Alice. The coked up New Wave blackout years (1980-1982) are far more interesting, if spotty. I like some tracks from the hair metal period (1986-1991) although not entire albums. I suspect only the real absolute die hards are familiar with his work after 1994.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Huh, I've never heard that version of 'Hello Hooray' until now... I've heard the 1968 Judy Collins version (which is where I think Cooper/Ezrin got the song) and it really is nothing like Cooper's. They really made that song their own.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
great album opener too
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
I have to strain a bit to enjoy Schools Out, and strain more as the theatrics thicken.― eva logorrhea (bendy), Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
School's Out was a bit of a departure for them in many ways - the rock gets toned down a touch and it starts to get a little more theatrical (hammered home by the brief West Side Story cover and things like 'Blue Turk' and 'Grande Finale') and there's more contributions from session musicians and more emphasis on production. It feels less sinister than the LP's before it and even the one after.
However! Dunaway's bass playing throughout is stunning and 'My Stars' is one of the very best Cooper songs, IMO.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, December 18, 2018 9:32 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah totally has that amthemic GBV vibe
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
Has there been an Alice Cooper artist poll on here yet?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
Top tier: Love it to Death, Killer, Billion Dollar BabiesSecond tier: Easy Action, School's OutThird tier: Muscle of Love, Pretties For You
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
man, its so peculiar to me that anyone after the fact thinks that this band was at any time "the best rock band in the world," or even particularly good. Neal Smith, Buxton…fuck, all of the four instrumentalists' shit is pretty weak. Grand Funk and this band got the payday and acclaim that I would rather the Stooges and MC5 received. I watch that footage upthread, and I'm forever waiting around for this band to be revealed as the American Sabbath. But I always end up thinking it was correct for him to leave those guys behind, and I don't believe there's any other circumstance where I agree with "you're the star, you're the one with talent, ditch those losers." I'm surely the only ILMnik who thinks KIss is a sesquidillion times better than the Alice Cooper band.
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:27 (five 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