Pretties For You + Easy Action + Love It To Death + Killer + School's Out + Billion Dollar Babies + Muscle Of Love + Welcome To My Nightmare + Goes To Hell + Lace And Whiskey + From The Inside + Flush The Fashion + Special Forces + Zipper Catches + DaDa + Constrictor + Raise Your Fist And Yell + Trash + Hey Stoopid + The Last Temptation + Brutal Planet + Dragontown + The Eyes Of Alice Cooper + Dirty Diamonds + Along Came A Spider + Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Жанр: Hard Rock / Shock Rock
Год выпуска: 1969-2011
Страна-производитель: USA/UK/Germany/Holland
Аудио кодек: FLAC
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Формат записи: 24/96
Формат раздачи: 24/96
Продолжительность: 147:55:52
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Источник оцифровки: vinylhound
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Dennon AU-300LC Step Up Transformer
Custom built, all tube phono stage
Creative 0404 USB @ 24 bit / 192khz
WaveLab 6.11 for recording software
JBL LSR series studio monitors / subwoofer for playback listening
iZotope RX Advanced 2.02 for any cleaning needed (all done manually)
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mp3tag 2.50 for tagging & re-naming files
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Треклист:
1969 - Pretties For You (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Titanic Overture
2. 10 Minutes Before The Worm
3. Sing Low Sweet Cheerio
4. Today Mueller
5. Living
6. Fields Of Regret
Side 2
1. No Longer Umpire
2. Levity Ball (Live At The Cheetah)
3. B. B. On Mars
4. Reflected
5. Apple Bush
6. Earwigs To Eternity
7. Changing, Arranging
Состав:
Alice Cooper – vocals, harmonica
Glen Buxton – lead guitar
Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar, keyboards, lead vocals on "Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio"
Dennis Dunaway – bass guitar
Neal Smith – drums
Лэйбл: Straight Records ~ STS 1051
Время воспроизведения: 37:33.
Информация о альбоме:
Pretties for You was the debut album by Alice Cooper. At this time, the name "Alice Cooper" referred to the band, not its lead singer, though the lead singer was also known as Alice Cooper. The music has a psychedelic flavor to it. The group had yet to develop the more concise hard rock sound that they would become known for. Most of the tracks from the album have a distinct loud and dynamic rock sound. However, very few songs have some sort of hard rock quality.
The song "Reflected", Alice Cooper's first single, was later rewritten as "Elected" (which featured on their 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies). The artwork for this album was hanging on the wall of the living room in Frank Zappa's house. The original painting was done by Ed Beardsley.
This album was originally released on Frank Zappa's independent label "Straight Records". There were three versions pressed with the Straight label. The first being the white label promotional issue. The second had a yellow Straight label with purple text. The third Had the more common pink Straight label. When Alice was signed to Warner Bros. Records two years later, the album was re-issued on the Warner label.
The version heard here is from the yellow label Straight records pressing. I have included full scans.
1970 - Easy Action (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Mr. & Misdemeanor
2. Shoe Salesman
3. Still No Air
4. Below Your Means
Side 2
1. Return Of The Spiders
2. Laughing At Me
3. Refrigerator Heaven
4. Beautiful Flyaway
5. Lay Down And Die, Goodbye
Состав:
Alice Cooper – vocals
Glen Buxton – lead guitar
Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar, piano, lead vocals on "Below Your Means" and "Beautiful Flyaway"
Dennis Dunaway – bass guitar
Neal Smith – drums
David Briggs – piano on "Shoe Salesman"
Лэйбл: Straight Records ~ WS 1845
Время воспроизведения: 34:36.
Информация о альбоме:
Easy Action is the second studio album by Alice Cooper, released by Straight Records in March 1970. The title comes from a line in the musical film West Side Story, which was one of the band's favorite films. As with Pretties For You, the band's debut from the previous year, Easy Action was neither a commercial nor critical success.
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."
Allmusic's Joe Viglione rated Easy Action three out of five stars. He explained that it "might be the perfect picture of an evolving Alice Cooper Group." He also stated that it "gives evidence that Cooper has more of a voice than he got credit for." He concluded by saying: "That this band could run the gamut from Frank Zappa to David Bowie, and perhaps inspired both, makes Easy Action a good study and entertaining record."
The version heard here is from the Straight Records (Pink Label) first pressing. The rare cover that has no white in the letters on the front of the cover. I have included full scans.
1971 - Love It To Death (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Caught In A Dream
2. I'm Eighteen
3. Long Way To Go
4. Black Juju
Side 2
1. Is It My Body
2. Hallowed Be My Name
3. Second Coming
4. Ballad Of Dwight Fry
5. Sun Arise
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals, Harmonica
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards
Dennis Dunaway - Bass Guitar
Neal Smith - Drums
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards
Лэйбл: Straight Records ~ WS 1883
Время воспроизведения: 36:40.
Информация о альбоме:
Love It to Death is the third album by Alice Cooper, released in 1971. Hits include "Ballad of Dwight Fry", "Is It My Body", and one of Cooper's trademark songs, "I'm Eighteen". After two failed albums, this was the album that brought the Alice Cooper band into the mainstream. Much credit is generally given to producer Bob Ezrin, cleaning up the band's sound with fresh ideas and making it more accessible, most notably on the track, 'I'm Eighteen'. It originally was a much longer song, and in more of a psychedelic vein like the band's first two albums, which contained several longer songs.
The album cover caused much controversy at the time of its release. Early pressings show Cooper's thumb sticking out of his pants, thus giving the illusion of a penis (see cover photo). This led Warner Brothers to censor it (four different versions of the front cover exist on LP). The first pressing on Straight Records has Alice's thumb showing & does not have the white banner stating "Including Their Hit "I'm Eighteen"". The second cover is the later Straight Records pressing which is the same as the first but has the white banner & the thumb. The third and one of the more rare covers is the first Warner Brothers re-issue. To solve the problem with his thumb, Warner brothers printed big white bars across the top and bottom of the cover hiding the thumb. The fourth cover has Alice Cooper's thumb along with his right arm clearly airbrushed out of the picture entirely.
I have included full scans of all four covers, both white label promo Straight Records & pink Straight Records labels. Also included are scans of the first Warner Brothers pressing labels.
The version heard here is from the white label promo on Straight Records.
1971 - Killer (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Under My Wheels
2. Be My Lover
3. Halo Of Flies
4. Desperado
Side 2
1. You Drive Me Nervous
2. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
3. Dead Babies
4. Killer
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals, Harmonica
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards
Dennis Dunaway - Bass Guitar
Neal Smith - Drums
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards
Rick Derringer - additional Guitar, "Under My Wheels"
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BS-2567
Время воспроизведения: 36:37.
Информация о альбоме:
Killer is the fourth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1971. Cooper said in the liner notes of Fistful of Alice and In the Studio with Redbeard, which spotlighted the Killer and Love it to Death albums, that the song "Desperado" was written about his friend Jim Morrison, who died the year this album was released. "Halo of Flies" was, according to Cooper's liner notes in the compilation The Definitive Alice Cooper, an attempt by the band to prove that they could perform King Crimson-like progressive rock suites, and was supposedly about a SMERSH-like organisation. The song "Dead Babies" stirred up some controversy following the album's release, despite the fact that its lyrics conveyed an "anti-child abuse" message.
Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. called Killer the greatest rock album of all time. Punk icon Jello Biafra & The Melvins covered the song "Halo of Flies" on their 2005 release Sieg Howdy! Psychobilly musicians Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper covered the song "Be My Lover" on their 1986 release Frenzy. Power metal band Iced Earth covered the song "Dead Babies" for their 2002 release Tribute to the Gods.
I have included full scans of both the white label promo & green label first pressings. The version heard here is from the white label promo pressing.
1972 - School's Out (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. School's Out
2. Luney Tune
3. Gutter Cat Vs. The Jets
4. Street Fight
5. Blue Turk
Side 2
1. My Stars
2. Public Animal #9
3. Alma Mater
4. Grande Finale
Состав:
Alice Cooper - vocals
Glen Buxton - lead guitar
Michael Bruce - rhythm guitar, keyboards
Dennis Dunaway - bass guitar
Neal Smith - drums
Bob Ezrin - keyboards
Dick Wagner - lead guitar on "My Stars"
Rockin' Reggie Vincent - guitar, backing vocals
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BS-2623
Время воспроизведения: 36:33.
Информация о альбоме:
School's Out is the fifth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1972. The album's title track has remained a staple song in Alice Cooper's live setlist and receives regular airplay on many "Classic Rock" radio stations. The original album cover (designed by Craig Braun) had the sleeve opening in the manner of an old school desk. There were two versions of the cover, the first did not list the song titles on the back and the second did list the songs. The vinyl record inside was wrapped in a pair of girl's panties. The panties came in four different colors (white, pink, yellow, & blue). The actual desk is on display in the Hard Rock Cafe in Berlin.
I have included full scans of both versions of the cover as well as both the white label promo & green label first pressing. And yes, the pink panties scan is there too.
The version heard here is from the white label promo pressing.
1973 - Billion Dollar Babies (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Hello, Hooray
2. Raped And Freezin'
3. Elected
4. Billion Dollar Babies
5. Unfinished Sweet
Side 2
1. No More Mr. Nice Guy
2. Generation Landslide
3. Sick Things
4. Mary Ann
5. I Love The Dead
Состав:
Alice Cooper – vocals
Glen Buxton – guitar
Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Dennis Dunaway – bass, backing vocals
Neal Smith – drums
Donovan – vocals on the song "Billion Dollar Babies"
Steve "Deacon" Hunter – guitar
Mick Mashbir – guitar
Dick Wagner – guitar
Bob Dolin – keyboards
David Libert – backing vocals
Bob Ezrin – keyboards, producer
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BS-2685
Время воспроизведения: 40:48.
Информация о альбоме:
Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1973. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album was heavily praised by such critics as Robert Christgau, Greg Prato of allmusic, and Jason Thompson of popmatters, but Rolling Stone gave the album only two and a half stars.
The album's title comes from the fact that Alice Cooper and the band were surprised about their success. Cooper related: "How could we, this band that two years ago was living in the Chambers Brothers' basement in Watts, be the Number one band in world, with people throwing money at us." The title was also later used as the name of the group Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, and Michael Bruce formed after they left the band. Cooper says "The whole idea behind the Billion Dollar Babies album was exploiting the idea that people do have sick perversions."
Chris Cornell of Soundgarden later commented: “When I was in junior high, every Friday the teachers would let the kids play their favorite records. I brought in Billion Dollar Babies and they wouldn’t let me play it. They never vetoed anyone’s choice before. It was then I knew that rock’n’roll could scare the fuck out of certain people.”
Alice Cooper, who wrote the majority of the album's lyrics, cited Chuck Berry as a key influence on his writing. "Hello Hooray", the album's opening track, was written by Canadian singer/songwriter Rolf Kempf and was previously recorded by Judy Collins. The band wanted their version of the song to sound like "Alice Cooper meets Cabaret." The album's third track, "Elected", is a rewrite of an earlier song by the band entitled "Reflected". "Raped and Freezin'" has been called a "hilarious and gorgeously catchy" take on the idea of sexual harassment by PopMatters's Jason Thompson. "Unfinished Sweet" is about visiting a dentist. The title track was co-written by Reggie Vinson, who had played guitar on and performed vocals for School's Out. Donovan described the song as a "horror story song". The album's closing track, "I Love the Dead", is a tongue-in-cheek song about necrophilia.
I have included full scans. The version heard here is from the original white label promotional copy.
1973 - Muscle Of Love (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)
2. Never Been Sold Before
3. Hard Hearted Alice
4. Crazy Little Child
Side 2
1. Working Up A Sweat
2. Muscle Of Love
3. Man With The Golden Gun
4. Teenage Lament '74
5. Woman Machine
Состав:
Alice Cooper – vocals
Glen Buxton – lead guitar
Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar
Dennis Dunaway – bass guitar
Neal Smith – drums
Mick Mashbir – guitar
Steve "Deacon" Hunter – guitar
Dick Wagner – guitar
Bob Dolin – keyboards
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BS-2748
Время воспроизведения: 39:22.
Информация о альбоме:
Muscle of Love is the seventh studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1973. It is the final studio album recorded by the original Alice Cooper band. Cooper stated in an interview at the time of recording that the album marked a return to a basic rock sound. "It's not complicated in any sense and there’s not a lot of theatricality on it. It's very basic rock & roll throughout." Cooper further explained, "Billion Dollar Babies was a studio effort all the way. So was School's Out. It was just so clean that after a few times of hearing it myself, it had no mystery to it. I really wanted this one to have more guts to it. More balls."
Muscle of Love is the first Alice Cooper album without Bob Ezrin as producer since the pre-stardom Easy Action. The explanation given at the time was that Ezrin was recovering from illness. However, bassist Dennis Dunaway revealed in a 2011 interview that the band split with the producer during an acrimonious rehearsal in which guitarist Michael Bruce stood up to Ezrin and refused to change the arrangement of "Woman Machine". Jack Richardson and Jack Douglas stepped in to share co-production duties.
Dunaway recalled the album sessions as being very difficult. "The problems on that album were that we could tell that everything was being pulled out from underneath us. As hard as we tried to get it back to where it once was, we had that sinking feeling going on. We wanted to rekindle what the band was about but there was just too much exhaustion by then."
In place of the usual record jacket, the original LP was packaged in a shallow corrugated cardboard carton, with a "stain" intentionally printed along the bottom. On the inner sleeve, the band members appear dressed as sailors. In the "before" daytime shot, they are about to enter a nude wrestling emporium; in the "after" nighttime shot on the other side of the sleeve, they appear beaten and sprawled out on the street, having been thrown out of the club. The front of the album cover design agency Pacific Eye & Ear was temporarily redecorated to serve as the setting for the photo session.
The original release also included a paper "book cover" sheet that could be folded and used as a book jacket. A photo on the sheet depicts the band members in their sailor uniforms looking dejected while peeling potatoes.
In a contemporary interview with Circus magazine, Cooper said that a loose concept of "urban sex habits" developed during the album's recording. The title of "Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)" refers to the Hippopotamus club of New York City which the band used to frequent. "Never Been Sold Before" is the retort of a prostitute to the man she is supporting, and the title track is, according to Cooper, about "sexual awakenings. It's about the kid who just learned how to masturbate, and what all those dirty books his father used to hide are all about." "Woman Machine" is a science fiction-themed song dating back to the band's early years and is, as Cooper explained, "basically a chauvinistic song. It's about a female robot, like Julie Newmar was on that TV program with Bob Cummings. If we had women robots, they could do anything, even sexual things, just by changing their tubes."
Not all of the songs have a sexual theme, "Crazy Little Child" tells the story of a youth criminal, and in "Teenage Lament '74", a teenager fails to find happiness even when doing everything to try to be "hip". "Man With the Golden Gun" was written with the intention of having it appear on the soundtrack of the then-upcoming James Bond film of the same name. Cooper recalled in a 2011 interview:
It was supposed to be the Bond theme, but it actually came in a day too late, and by the time they heard it, they’d already signed for Lulu's song. I went, "You're gonna take Lulu over this?" (Laughs.) 'Cause it was perfect for The Man With The Golden Gun. It had helicopters, it had machine guns, it had the Pointer Sisters, Ronnie Spector, and Liza Minnelli doing background vocals! We went to every single one of those John Barry albums to try and invent the perfect James Bond song, and even Christopher Lee, who played Scaramanga in the movie, said, "Oh, man, why did we take the Lulu song? This song is the one!" (Laughs.) So, yeah, we lost out on that one, but I still put it on the album. I said, "I don't care, I’m going to do a James Bond track no matter what."
I have included full scans. The version heard here is from the original white label promotional copy.
1975 - Welcome To My Nightmare (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Welcome To My Nightmare
2. Devil's Food
3. The Black Widow
4. Some Folks
5. Only Women Bleed
Side 2
1. Department Of Youth
2. Cold Ethyl
3. Years Ago
4. Steven
5. The Awakening
6. Escape
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Bob Ezrin - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Arranger, Producer
Vincent Price - Special Effects, Vocals
Dick Wagner - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Steve Hunter - Electric and Acoustic Guitar
Gerry Yons - Guitar
Josef Chirowski - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Clavinet, Fender Rhodes
Prakash John - Bass
Tony Levin - Bass
Pentti "Whitey" Glan - Drums
Johnny "Bee" Badanjek - Drums
David Ezrin - Vocals
Gary Lyons - Vocals
Michael Sherman - Vocals
Лэйбл: Atlantic Records ~ SD 19157
Время воспроизведения: 42:59.
Информация о альбоме:
Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper, released in 1975, is Alice Cooper's first solo album (all previous Alice Cooper releases were band efforts). The cover artwork was created by Drew Struzan for Pacific Eye & Ear. Rolling Stone would later rank it as one of the "Top 100 Album Covers Of All Time". Welcome to My Nightmare is a concept album. The songs, heard in sequence, form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven. Famed film actor of the Horror genre Vincent Price provided the introductory monologue in the song "The Black Widow".
I have included full scans.
1976 - Goes To Hell (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Go To Hell
2. You Gotta Dance
3. I'm The Coolest
4. Didn't We Meet
5. I Never Cry
Side 2
1. Give The Kid A Break
2. Guilty
3. Wake Me Gently
4. Wish You Were Here
5. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
6. Going Home
Состав:
Alice Cooper – vocals
Dick Wagner – acoustic & electric guitar, vocals
Steve Hunter – guitar
John Tropea – guitar
Bob Babbitt – bass
Jimmy Maelen – percussion
Jim Gordon – drums (tracks 3, 10, 11)
Bob Ezrin – synthesizer, piano, Fender Rhodes
Dick Berg – French horn
Shep Gordon – vocals
Shaun Jackson – vocals
Tony Levin – bass
Allan MacMillan – piano
Bill Misener – vocals
Colina Phillips – vocals
Allan Schwartzberg – drums
Donny Vosburgh – vocals
Laurel Ward – vocals
Sharon Williams – vocals
Joe Gannon – vocals
Sharon Lee Williams – vocals
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BS-2896
Время воспроизведения: 42:56.
Информация о альбоме:
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell is the ninth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1976. A sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare, this concept album was written almost exclusively by Cooper with guitar player Dick Wagner and producer Bob Ezrin.
With the success of "Only Women Bleed" from his first solo effort, Alice continued with the rock ballads on this album. "I Never Cry" was written about his drinking problem, which would in one year send the performer into rehab. Cooper called the song "an alcoholic confession". The "Alice Cooper Goes To Hell" tour of 1976 was completely cancelled prior to commencement due to Cooper suffering from anemia at the time.
The music bears a resemblance to the music of Welcome to My Nightmare, and one can see some sort of story structure in the lyrics. However, the story is more possibly about Alice, than about Steven. Steven is just the one who is listening to the bedtime story. The story is about how Alice is sentenced to go to Hell (the song “Go to Hell”). Hell is symbolized by Disco music (“You gotta dance”). In Hell, Alice meets the Devil (“I’m the Coolest”) and realises that he has met him before (“Didn’t We Meet”). This implies that the Curator is in fact The Devil, and that Alice is Steven. The song “I Never Cry” deals with Alice’s real alcohol problems and in “Give the Kid a Break” Alice’s pleas to the Devil to let him go. In “Guilty” Alice’s says that if doing rock n’ roll dooms him to eternal Hell, than it’s worth it and he is guilty because he loves rock n’ roll and doesn’t care if this makes him guilty. “Wake Me Gently” is a song that connects to the Welcome to My Nightmare theme, where Alice thinks (or realises) that everything is a nightmare, and wants to wake up. In “Wish You Were Here” Alice’s makes a phone call from Hell to his girlfriend. This song could also be interpreted as a prayer to God. In the song “Going Home” Alice is indeed going home, escaping Hell.
Quoted from the inner sleeve:
“Lay still, Steven, and I'll tell you a bedtime story. I'll tell you a bedtime story that's not for all children. It's a very special story, that only special children will understand. It's a half-awake story, and it will be better if you close your eyes. It's a story that takes place in a dream, like other nightmares you have known. It's a dream that Alice has dreamed. You can dream along with him. You can follow Alice down the staircase, deep, down the stairs to the pit where he doesn't want to go, but he has to. If you go to sleep now, Steven, you can go down the long and endless stairway and sing sweet songs to Alice and free him. And if you can't get to sleep, Steven, and in the middle of the night you get out of bed, when everything is quiet and the trees are still and the birds are hiding from the dark, you can lie down on your bedroom floor and press your ear tightly to the boards. If you listen very carefully you can hear Alice searching for a way out, forever chasing rainbows. Sleep tight, Steven. And have a good night.”
I have included full scans.
1977 - Lace And Whiskey (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. It's Hot Tonight
2. Lace And Whiskey
3. Road Rats
4. Damned If You Do
5. You And Me
Side 2
1. King Of The Silver Screen
2. Ubangi Stomp
3. (No More) Love At Your Convenience
4. I Never Wrote Those Songs
5. My God
Состав:
Alice Cooper - vocals
Dick Wagner - guitar, vocals
Steve Hunter - guitar
Bob Babbitt - bass
Tony Levin - bass
Prakash John - bass
Allan Schwartzberg - drums
Jim Gordon - drums
Jimmy Maelen - percussion
Josef Chirowski - keyboards
Bob Ezrin - keyboards
Al Kooper - piano
Allan MacMillan - piano
Venetta Fields - vocals
Julia Tillman Waters - vocals
Ernie Watts - clarinet, tenor saxophone
Lorna Willard - vocals
Julia Tillman - vocals
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BS-3027
Время воспроизведения: 41:28.
Информация о альбоме:
Lace and Whiskey is the 10th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in May 1977. After many years of portraying a dark and sinister persona Alice Cooper decided to try something new and donned the persona of a heavy drinking comic PI named "Maurice Escargot" - a fictional character in the same vein as Inspector Clouseau. Cooper is pictured as Escargot on the back cover of Lace and Whiskey, which was still a rock-based album but was stylistically influenced by Cooper's love for 1940s and 1950s music.
Its lead single, "You and Me", was an easy listening ballad which provided Cooper with his last US top-ten single for another 12 years. "(No More) Love at Your Convenience", a disco-inspired pop song, was released as the 2nd single - it did not chart in most countries. Music videos were created for both songs, at a time well before the advent of MTV.
Cooper's "King of the Silver Screen" tour, in support of this album, featured a stage set designed as a giant TV, with its slitted screen allowing Cooper and his dancers to jump into and out of it along to filmed choreographed sequences during songs, and had comedic mock commercials screened in between some songs. The tour only ran in the US, throughout the summers of 1977 and 1978 (renamed the "School's Out for Summer" tour in 1978). Filmed highlights from the opening night of the 1977 tour, capturing a very inebriated Cooper, were featured in the Alice Cooper and Friends TV special. The tour's Las Vegas concerts were recorded, resulting in the The Alice Cooper Show live album.
It was after the completion of the 1977 tour that Cooper checked into a New York-based Sanitarium for his first treatment for alcoholism.
During the initial stage of this album's era, when it was clear that Alice wasn't going to return from his new success, original Alice Cooper group members Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith, and Michael Bruce formed a new band with Mike Marconi and Bob Dolin called "The Billion Dollar Babies". Michael Bruce sang their lead vocals.
I have included full scans.
1978 - From The Inside (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. From The Inside
2. Wish I Were Born In Beverly Hills
3. The Quiet Room
4. Nurse Rozetta
5. Millie And Billie
Side 2
1. Serious
2. How You Gonna See Me Now
3. For Veronica's Sake
4. Jackknife Johnny
5. Inmates (We're All Crazy)
Состав:
Alice Cooper - vocals
Dick Wagner - guitar
Steve Lukather - guitar
Rick Nielsen - guitar
Davey Johnstone - guitar
Jefferson Kewley - guitar
Jay Graydon - guitar, synthesizer programming
Kenny Passarelli - bass
David Hungate - bass
John Pierce - bass
Dee Murray - bass
Lee Sklar - bass
Rick Schlosser - drums
Dennis Conway - drums
Michael Ricciardella - drums
Jim Keltner - percussion
David Foster - keyboards
Fred Mandel - keyboards
Robbie King - keyboards
Steve Porcaro - synthesizer programming
Marcy Levy - vocals
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BSK-3263
Время воспроизведения: 38:43.
Информация о альбоме:
From the Inside is the 11th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1978. It was inspired by Cooper's stay in a New York sanitarium due to his alcoholism. Each of the characters in the songs were based on actual people Cooper met in the sanitarium. With this album, he saw the addition of three former members of the Elton John band: lyricist Bernie Taupin, guitarist Davey Johnstone and bassist Dee Murray.
The lead single from the album was "How You Gonna See Me Now", an early example of a power ballad, which reached #12 in the US' Hot 100 chart. A music video was also created for it.
"How You Gonna See Me Now" was released as a single worldwide in late-1978 with a B-side called "No Tricks", a non-album track, which was later included in the 1999 box set The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper.
"From the Inside" was released as a single in the US in early-1979 as a remixed edited version, with "Nurse Rozetta" as its B-side. The remix is also included in The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper.
I have included full scans.
1980 - Flush The Fashion (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Talk Talk
2. Clones (We're All)
3. Pain
4. Leather Boots
5. Aspirin Damage
Side 2
1. Nuclear Infected
2. Grim Facts
3. Model Citizen
4. Dance Yourself To Death
5. Headlines
Состав:
Alice Cooper - vocals
Davey Johnstone - guitar
Fred Mandel - keyboards, guitar
Dennis Conway - drums
John Cooker Lopresti - bass
Howard Kaylan - background vocals
Mark Volman - background vocals
Keith Allison - background vocals
Joe Pizzulo - background vocals
Ricky Tierney - background vocals
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BSK-3436
Время воспроизведения: 28:36.
Информация о альбоме:
Flush the Fashion is the 12th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1980, and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. Musically, the album was a drastic change of style for Cooper, leaning towards a new wave influence. Though the lead single "Clones (We're All)" only touched the Billboard Top 40, the album was Cooper's most successful album in three years and is widely considered by fans as a hidden gem in his musical catalogue.
The album's ten tracks touch on themes such as the loss of identity, taking on other roles, and the usual Alice Cooper-esque dementia. This is evident even in the lyrics of Flush the Fashion's cover songs (for example the "Clones" single). Cooper also performs several "story" songs, presenting a series of intriguing vignettes in lieu of more traditional subject matter.
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1981 - Special Forces (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Who Do You Think We Are
2. Seven & Seven Is
3. Prettiest Cop On The Block
4. Don't Talk Old To Me
5. Generation Landslide '81 (Live)
Side 2
1. Skeletons In The Closet
2. You Want It, You Got It
3. You Look Good In Rags
4. You're A Movie
5. Vicious Rumours
Состав:
Alice Cooper - vocals
Duane Hitchings - guitar, keyboards
Mike Pinera - guitar
Erik Scott - bass
Danny Johnson - guitar
Craig Krampf - drums
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ BSK-3581
Время воспроизведения: 34:48.
Информация о альбоме:
Special Forces is the 13th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1981, and was produced by Richard Podolor. Singles included "You Want It, You Got It", "Who Do You Think We Are" and "Seven and Seven Is". Flo and Eddie, former members of The Turtles, performers, and radio personalities, performed on this album.
"Look at You Over There, Ripping the Sawdust from My Teddybear", was listed on the album cover, but was removed by Cooper from the album itself before the release, as he felt it didn't fit with the overall theme. It was later released in demo form on the 1999 CD box set "The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper", and again in demo form on the 2010 CD reissue of Special Forces. There is a completed studio version of the song which remains unreleased.
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1982 - Zipper Catches (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Zorro's Ascent
2. Make That Money (Scrooge's Song)
3. I Am The Future
4. No Baloney Homosapiens
5. Adaptable (Anything For You)
Side 2
1. I Like Girls
2. Remarkably Insincere
3. Tag, You're It
4. I Better Be Good
5. I'm Alive (That Was The Day My Dead Pet Returned To Save My Life)
Состав:
Alice Cooper – vocals, synthesizer
Erik Scott – bass
Duane Hitchings – synthesizer, guitar
John Nitzinger – guitar
Mike Pinera – guitar
Dick Wagner – guitar
Billy Steele – guitar
Jan Uvena – drums, percussion
Jeanne Harris – backing vocals
Franne Golde – backing vocals
Flo & Eddie – backing vocals
Patty Donahue – "vocals & sarcasm"
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ 1-23719
Время воспроизведения: 32:14.
Информация о альбоме:
Zipper Catches Skin is the 14th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1982. Produced by Cooper and his bassist at the time, Erik Scott, Zipper Catches Skin is musically known for its dry and energetic pop-rock style with punk rock and post-punk influences and less emphasis on hard riffs, carrying on a similar musical direction of the preceding Special Forces with sonically slicker and clearer results.
Lyrically, Cooper employed a much stronger focus on comical sarcasm. However, although the album saw the return of guitarist Dick Wagner to Cooper's band, it is generally not considered to be up to the same standard as his previous works. Despite the worldwide release of the accompanying single "I Am the Future" the album did not chart in most countries, including in the US where it became Cooper's first not to chart since Easy Action.
The album's front cover, featuring just the album's lyrics with a smear of blood rather than exploiting the vivid imagery suggestive of the album's name, would not have helped the situation. Zipper Catches Skin and the following album, DaDa, are two albums which Alice reportedly has no recollection of recording, due to excessive alcohol abuse. Dick Wagner described Zipper Catches Skin as "the off to the races speedy album" and a "drug induced nightmare". There was no tour to promote the album, and none of its songs have ever been played live.
The song "I Am The Future" was featured as the theme song to the Canadian 1982 film "Class of 1984". The track was not written by Alice Cooper. Instead, it was written by Gary Osborne and Lalo Schifrin. The 1982 US single featured the album version of the song and "Tag, You're It" as its B-side. The international single version, released in March, 1983 in most countries, featured a remix of the song, and had "Zorro's Ascent" as its B-side.
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1983 - DaDa (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. DaDa
2. Enough's Enough
3. Former Lee Warmer
4. No Man's Land
5. Dyslexia
Side 2
1. Scarlet And Sheba
2. I Love America
3. Fresh Blood
4. Pass The Gun Around
Состав:
Alice Cooper – Vocals, Arranger
Dick Wagner – Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Arranger, Associate Producer
Bob Ezrin – Producer, Engineer, Arranger, Percussion, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals, Fairlight
Sarah Ezrin - DaDa
Prakash John (Credited as "John Prakash") – Bass on "Fresh Blood"
Richard Kolinka – Drums on "Former Lee Warmer," "Scarlet and Sheba," and "Pass the Gun Around"
John Anderson – Drums on "Fresh Blood"
Lisa DalBello – Additional vocals
Karen Hendricks – Additional vocals
Лэйбл: Warner Bros. Records ~ 1-23969
Время воспроизведения: 42:07.
Информация о альбоме:
DaDa is the 15th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1983. DaDa would be Cooper's last album until his sober re-emergence in 1986 with the album Constrictor. The album's theme is ambiguous, however, ongoing themes in the songs' lyrics suggest that the main character in question suffers from mental illness, resulting in the creation of many different personalities. the album alludes strongly to the dadaist movement.
This album was the end of Alice Cooper's 12 year relationship with Warner Bros. Records. It would be 3 years before another release from Alice. The next album would be on MCA Records.
"I Love America" was released as a single solely in the UK over a month after the album's release.
Cooper reportedly has no recollection of recording DaDa, or the preceding album Zipper Catches Skin, due to excessive alcohol abuse. There was no tour to promote DaDa, and none of its songs have ever been played live.
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1986 - Constrictor (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Teenage Frankenstein
2. Give It Up
3. Thrill My Gorilla
4. Life And Death Of The Party
5. Simple Disobedience
Side 2
1. The World Needs Guts
2. Trick Bag
3. Crawlin'
4. The Great American Success Story
5. He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)
Состав:
Alice Cooper - vocals
Kane Roberts - bass, guitar, keyboards, background vocals
Paul Delph - keyboards, background vocals
Beau Hill - background vocals
Tom Kelly - background vocals
Donnie Kisselbach - bass
David Rosenberg - drums
Kip Winger - bass
Лэйбл: MCA Records ~ MCA-5761
Время воспроизведения: 36:44.
Информация о альбоме: Constrictor is the 16th studio album by Alice Cooper released on September 22 1986. After retiring from the music industry after the release of DaDa, Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog, a horror film for which he wrote two songs. He also guest starred on the Twisted Sister track "Be Chrool to Your Scuel". It was Alice Cooper's first record to feature bass playing from Kip Winger, who would later gain great fame with his own band, Winger.
Cooper sought the aid of heavy metal guitarist Kane Roberts for the album, which resulted in a sound Cooper had never tapped into before. Constrictor exposed a whole new generation of teens to the original shock rocker, returning him to the charts at number 59 after his previous two releases Zipper Catches Skin and DaDa had entirely failed to crack the Top 200. The album also led to one of the most successful tours of the late '80s, "The Nightmare Returns" tour.
The horror series Friday the 13th teamed up with Cooper during this time to produce the theme song for its latest film. The song "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" was written for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. It went on to become a #1 hit in Sweden. Songs also featured in the film include "Teenage Frankenstein" and "Hard Rock Summer", a song that did not end up on the album.
The track "The Great American Success Story" was apparently intended as the theme song to the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School, but was not actually used.
"He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)" was recorded as a demo before the album & was totally different from the final album version. A reworked version of the "He's Back" demo landed on the album as "Trick Bag" instead. The version of "He's Back" that was featured in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was remixed from the album version.
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1987 - Raise Your Fist And Yell (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Freedom
2. Lock Me Up
3. Give The Radio Back
4. Step On You
5. Not That Kind Of Love
Side 2
1. Prince Of Darkness
2. Time To Kill
3. Chop, Chop, Chop
4. Gail
5. Roses On White Lace
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Kane Roberts - Guitar
Kip Winger - Bass
Paul Horowitz (Paul Taylor) - Keyboards
Ken K. Mary - Drums
Лэйбл: MCA Records ~ MCA-42061
Время воспроизведения: 36:52.
Информация о альбоме: Raise Your Fist and Yell is the 17th studio album by Alice Cooper released on September 5th 1987. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can be heard on the Walkman of one of his victims. A music video was made for the song "Freedom" which also became the album's hit single.
The album continues the slasher film trend created by Cooper's previous album Constrictor. The track "Lock Me Up" features a guest appearance from Robert Englund, who portrayed Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare On Elm Street series.
The album also seems to loosely have a story. The story is about an unnamed serial killer that has an obsession with horror movies, he then proceeds to ride around at night picking up prostitutes and murdering them. He also sees a young woman named Mary as "Gail" one of his previous victims whom he stabbed in the chest with a knife and buried (possibly a coincidence, but Alice's wife Sheryl Cooper's middle name is Gail). In the final song "Roses on White Lace" it is revealed that the killer breaks into the room of a bride-to-be and brutally kills her; after which he proceeds to hide away pieces of her body. The story has a few similarities to Cooper's 2008 concept album Along Came a Spider.
The album cover for "Raise Your Fist and Yell" was painted by artist Jim Warren.
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1989 - Trash (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Poison
2. Spark In The Dark
3. House Of Fire
4. Why Trust You
5. Only My Heart Talkin'
Side 2
1. Bed Of Nails
2. This Maniac's In Love With You
3. Trash
4. Hell Is Living Without You
5. I'm Your Gun
Состав:
Guitars: Kane Roberts on Bed of Nails, Mark Frazier, Jack Johnson, Steve Lukather, Guy Mann-Dude, John McCurry, Joe Perry, Richie Sambora
Keyboards: Paul Chiten, Steve Deutsch, Gregg Mangiafico, Allan St. John
Bass: Tom Hamilton, Hugh McDonald
Drums, Percussion: Bobby Chouinard, Joey Kramer
Additional Vocals: Michael Anthony, Stiv Bators, Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child, Diana Grasselli, Jango, Hugh McDonald, Louis Merlino, Allan St. John, Jamie Sever, Bernie Shanahan, Tom Teeley, Joe Turano, Steven Tyler, Myriam Naomi Valle, Maria Vidal, Kip Winger, Kane Roberts
Лэйбл: Epic Records ~ E-45137
Время воспроизведения: 44:46.
Информация о альбоме:
Trash is the 18th studio album released by Alice Cooper in 1989. The album featured "Poison", Cooper's first top ten hit since his single "You And Me" in 1977. After Alice's return to the music industry in 1986 with the successful tour "The Nightmare Returns", Cooper had sought assistance from Desmond Child to create a comeback album. Trash became one of Cooper's biggest albums, accompanied by music videos for "Poison", "Bed of Nails", "House of Fire", and "Only My Heart Talkin'". A successful year-long worldwide concert tour in support of the album was documented in the home video release Alice Cooper Trashes The World. Additionally, much of the album conveys a sexual theme.
The album features many guest performances including Jon Bon Jovi, Stiv Bators, Steven Tyler, Steve Lukather, Guy Mann-Dude, Joe Perry, Richie Sambora, & Michael Anthony as well as singer/guitarist Kane Roberts, who left Cooper's band in 1988. Songwriting contributions were also made by Joan Jett, Diane Warren, Jon Bon Jovi, and Richie Sambora. Backing vocalist Louis "Louie" Merlino and drummer Bobby Chouinard later played together in Beggars & Thieves. Chouinard died in 1997.
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1991 - Hey Stoopid (First US Pressing)
Side 1
1. Hey Stoopid
2. Love's A Loaded Gun
3. Snakebite
4. Burning Our Bed
5. Dangerous Tonight
6. Might As Well Be On Mars
Side 2
1. Feed My Frankenstein
2. Hurricane Years
3. Little By Little
4. Die For You
5. Dirty Dreams
6. Wind-Up Toy
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals, Harmonica
Mickey Curry - Drums
Stef Burns - Guitar
Hugh McDonald - Bass
Joe Satriani - Guitar on tracks "Hey Stoopid", "Burning Our Bed", "Feed My Frankenstein", "Little by Little", and "Wind-Up Toy"
Vinnie Moore - Guitar on tracks "Hurricane Years" and "Dirty Dreams"
Steve Vai - Guitar on track "Feed My Frankenstein"
Slash - Guitar on "Hey Stoopid"
Nikki Sixx - Bass on track "Feed My Frankenstein"
Mick Mars - Guitar on track "Die for You"
Ozzy Osbourne - Backing vocals on "Hey Stoopid"
Queen Alvira - Spoken vocals on "Feed My Frankenstein"
Лэйбл: Epic Records ~ E-46786
Время воспроизведения: 56:10.
Информация о альбоме:
Hey Stoopid is the 19th studio album by Alice Cooper. It was released on July 2, 1991 with guest appearances from Slash (then still a member of Guns N' Roses), Ozzy Osbourne, Vinnie Moore, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars (both of Motley Crue).
After Cooper's smash 1989 hit album Trash, Cooper attempted to retain his success with this album. An alternate cover was originally considered, later scrapped - noted by Cooper assistant Brian Renfield as "hardcore with hypo needles, pills...
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1994 - The Last Temptation (Holland Pressing)
Side 1
1. Sideshow
2. Nothing's Free
3. Lost In America
4. Bad Place Alone
5. You're My Temptation
Side 2
1. Stolen Prayer
2. Unholy War
3. Lullaby
4. It's Me
5. Cleansed By Fire
Состав:
Alice Cooper – vocals
Stef Burns – guitar, background vocals
Greg Smith – bass, background vocals
Derek Sherinian – keyboards, background vocals
David Uosikkinen – drums
Chris Cornell – vocals on "Stolen Prayer" and "Unholy War"
Don Wexler – guitar on "Lost In America"
John Purdell – keyboards on "You're My Temptation", "Lullaby" and "It's Me"
Lou Merlino – background vocals
Mark Hudson – background vocals
Craig Copeland – background vocals
Brett Hudson – background vocals
Лэйбл: Epic Records ~ 476594-1
Время воспроизведения: 50:52.
Информация о альбоме:
The Last Temptation is the 20th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in July 1994 via Epic Records. It centres around a boy named Steven (also the name of the protagonist in Cooper's earlier work, Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper Goes To Hell), and a mysterious showman. The showman, with apparent supernatural abilities, attempted with the use of twisted versions of morality plays to persuade Steven to join his travelling show, "The Theatre Of The Real - The Grand-est Guignol!", where he would "never grow up".
The full story was given in a 3-part comic book written by Neil Gaiman, the first part of which accompanied the recording. In the comic, the showman (referred to only ever as such) was depicted as Cooper himself. Pages from the comic are seen in the Lost in America music video, while it is being read by Steven.
It was originally published by Marvel Comics and later reprinted by Dark Horse Comics, collected as trade paperback.
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2000 - Brutal Planet (UK 180 Gram Yellow Vinyl Pressing)
Side 1
1. Brutal Planet
2. Wicked Young Man
3. Sanctuary
4. Blow Me A Kiss
5. Eat Some More
6. Pick Up The Bones
Side 2
1. Pessi-Mystic
2. Gimme
3. It's The Little Things
4. Take It Like A Woman
5. Cold Machines
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Ryan Roxie - Guitar
China - Guitar
Phil X - Guitar
Eric Singer - Drums
Bob Marlette - Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
Лэйбл: Back On Black Records ~ RVC058LP ~ Yellow Vinyl
Время воспроизведения: 47:57.
Информация о альбоме:
Brutal Planet is the 21st studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2000. Lyrically, it's a concept album that deals with themes of dark "social fiction", including domestic violence ("Take It Like a Woman"), prejudice ("Blow Me a Kiss"), war ("Pick Up the Bones") and school shootings ("Wicked Young Man"). The album is the second album in a trilogy of albums (beginning with The Last Temptation and ending with Dragontown).
Musically this is a major change from anything Alice had recorded to this point. The tone of the album is much more of an industrial heavy metal sound than his usual hard rock style. With it's post-apocalyptic themes, artwork, & sound it has a far heavier feel than Alice's preceding works. The album lives up to it's "Brutal Planet" name.
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2001 - Dragontown (UK 180 Gram Orange Vinyl Pressing)
Side 1
1. Triggerman
2. Deeper
3. Dragontown
4. Sex, Death And Money
5. Fantasy Man
6. Somewhere In The Jungle
Side 2
1. Disgraceland
2. Sister Sara
3. Every Woman Has A Name
4. I Just Wanna Be God
5. It's Much Too Late
6. The Sentinel
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Ryan Roxie - Guitar
Tim Pierce - Guitar
Greg Smith - Bass
Kenny Aronoff - Drums
Bob Marlette - Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
Лэйбл: Back On Black Records ~ RVC059LP ~ Orange Vinyl
Время воспроизведения: 50:46.
Информация о альбоме:
Dragontown is the 22nd studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2001. Like Brutal Planet, the album displays a heavier style than many of his previous releases. The album peaked on Billboard's "Top Independent Albums" Chart at #12, and the Billboard 200 at #197, his lowest album chart performance to date (other than those that didn't chart at all).
It has been believed by many that the album is a sequel to 2000's Brutal Planet. The title song "Dragontown" mentions several characters from that album, such as the "wicked young man" from "Wicked Young Man", the "family of bones" from "Pick Up the Bones", and the lyrical hero from "It's the Little Things". While Dragontown is billed as the worst place on Brutal Planet, several songs are about Hell and who goes there, as opposed to the apocalyptic world of "Brutal Planet." The songs "I Just Wanna Be God" and "The Sentinel" are sung from Satan's perspective, as was "Gimme". "Sister Sara" deals with a nun who "lost her soul" ("Sister Sara/It's your penalty for eternity/Did you think that you were saved?"), and "It's Much Too Late" contains direct references to the life of Alice's former drinking buddy, John Lennon, sung in a faux-Liverpudlian accent.
This is the first Alice Cooper studio album to contain no singles.
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2003 - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper (UK 180 Gram White Vinyl Pressing)
Side 1
1. What Do You Want From Me?
2. Between High School & Old School
3. Man Of The Year
4. Novocaine
5. Bye Bye, Baby
6. Be With You A While
7. Detroit City
Side 2
1. Spirits Rebellious
2. This House Is Haunted
3. Love Should Never Feel Like This
4. The Song That Didn't Rhyme
5. I'm So Angry
6. Backyard Brawl
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Eric Dover - Guitar
Ryan Roxie - Guitar
Chuck Garric - Bass Guitar
Eric Singer - Drums
Wayne Kramer - Guest guitar on "Detroit City"
Teddy "ZigZag" Andreadis - Keyboards, Accordion, Percussion
Scott Gilman - Saxophones, Clarinet & Other Instruments
Calico Cooper - Theremin, Backing Vocals
Лэйбл: Back On Black Records ~ RVC061LP ~ White Vinyl
Время воспроизведения: 47:03.
Информация о альбоме:
The Eyes of Alice Cooper is the 23rd album by Alice Cooper, that was released in 2003. Although it has been said that the title is a reference to the 2000 documentary known as The Eyes of Tammy Faye, in October 2007, Alice said that was not the case. With this album, Cooper returned to his earlier hard rock sound, in the vein of The Last Temptation, and left the heavy industrial metal sound found in his last two studio albums.
A notable fact is the CD cover, which was released in four different versions, only differing from the color in Cooper's eyes. They are available in blue, green, purple and red. The vinyl edition however, is only available with red eyes.
In the 2010 Behind the Music Remastered on Alice Cooper, "Between High School & Old School" was described as "a modern Alice Cooper classic" for its return to the topic of school (a reference to "School's Out").
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2005 - Dirty Diamonds (UK 180 Gram Red Vinyl Pressing)
Side 1
1. Woman Of Mass Distraction
2. Perfect
3. You Make Me Wanna
4. Dirty Diamonds
5. The Saga Of Jessie Jane
6. Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)
Side 2
1. Pretty Ballerina
2. Run Down The Devil
3. Steal That Car
4. Six Hours
5. Your Own Worst Enemy
6. Zombie
7. Stand
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Vocals, Harmonica
Ryan Roxie - Guitar
Damon Johnson - Guitar
Chuck Garric - Bass
Tommy Clufetos - Drums
Xzibit - Rap on "Stand"
Лэйбл: Back On Black Records ~ RVC060LP ~ Red Vinyl
Время воспроизведения: 46:28.
Информация о альбоме:
Dirty Diamonds is the 24th studio album by Alice Cooper, released on July 4, 2005 internationally, and August 2 in the US. The album peaked on Billboard's "Top Independent Albums" chart at #17, and the Billboard 200 album chart at #169 - Cooper's highest charting album since The Last Temptation, 11 years prior.
The vinyl release includes the bonus track "Stand".
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2008 - Along Came A Spider (German Clear Vinyl Pressing)
Side 1
1. Prologue / I Know Where You Live
2. Vengeance Is Mine
3. Wake The Dead
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
6. Wrapped In Silk
Side 2
1. Killed By Love
2. I'm Hungry
3. The One That Got Away
4. Six Hours
5. Salvation
6. I Am The Spider / Epilogue
Состав:
Alice Cooper - Lead and backing vocals
Danny Saber - Guitars (Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11); Slide Guitars (4); Ebow (4); Bass Guitars (1, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 11); Piano (7); Keyboards (1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11); Synths (4); String Arrangements (10 and 11)
Greg Hampton - Guitars (2, 4, 6, 8,9 and 11); Bass Guitars (4); Keyboards (4, 9 and 11); Backing Vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 11); String Arrangements (2 and 11)
Keri Kelli - Guitars (5, 7 and 9)
Jason Hook - Guitars (5)
Slash - Lead Guitar (2)
Whitey Kirst - Guitars (8)
Chuck Garric - Bass Guitars (2, 7 and 9); Backing Vocals (2)
Eric Singer - Drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 11)
David Piribauer - Drums (8 and 10)
Steffen Presley - B3 Organ (6)
Ozzy Osbourne - Harmonica (3) (Credited as 'J. Osbourne')
Bernard Fowler - Backing Vocals (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11)
Calico Cooper - Backing Vocals (5); Spoken Word (9)
Лэйбл: Steamhammer Records ~ SPV 90601 ~ Clear Vinyl
Время воспроизведения: 44:04.
Информация о альбоме:
Along Came a Spider is Alice Cooper's 25th studio album, released in July 2008 by Steamhammer/SPV. It was Cooper's highest-charting album in the US since Hey Stoopid in 1991. The storyline for the album was first revealed on Cooper's radio show Nights with Alice Cooper. The theme of the album revolves around a "cool, calm and collected" serial killer known as Spider. The police are baffled by the bodies of Spider's victims, which are cocooned in a silk web, and are each missing a leg. Spider's task is to collect eight legs in order to complete the construction of his own spider. However, things get complicated when he falls in love with his eighth victim.
Along Came a Spider was due for a 2007 release but problems with producer scheduling and tour commitments caused it to be pushed to mid-2008. Several demos and songs were prepared and short-listed during 2007 with further sessions for recording and writing took place in February 2008. 75% of the album had been completed as of April 18, 2008. Cooper also planned to create a second part to the album, but decided to make Welcome 2 My Nightmare instead.
Unlike Dragontown, The Eyes of Alice Cooper, and Dirty Diamonds, a music video was created to promote Along Came a Spider. Released on October 2, 2008, and directed by Piggy D and Gabrielle Geiselman, the 10-minute-long music video stars Alice Cooper, Slash, Hazmat, Roxxi Dott, Howie Pyro, Dave Pino, Eric Singer and Peter Derek. It features a medley of three songs from the album: "Vengeance Is Mine", "(In Touch With Your) Feminine Side", and "Killed By Love".
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2011 - Welcome 2 My Nightmare (US Double Vinyl Pressing)
Side 1
1. I Am Made Of You
2. Caffeine
3. The Nightmare Returns
4. A Runaway Train
5. Last Man On Earth
Side 2
1. The Congregation
2. I'll Bite Your Face Off
3. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever
4. Ghouls Gone Wild
5. Something To Remember Me By
Side 3
1. When Hell Comes Home
2. What Baby Wants
3. I Gotta Get Outta Here
4. The Underture
Side 4
1. Flatline
Состав:
Tommy Henriksen - (Associate Producer) Co-songwriter,Guitars,Bass,Keyboards,Vocals,Programming,Engineer,Mixing
Michael Bruce - Guitars, keyboards, backing vocals on "A Runaway Train", "I'll Bite Your Face Off" and "When Hell Comes Home"
Dennis Dunaway - Bass, backing vocals on "A Runaway Train", "I'll Bite Your Face Off" and "When Hell Comes Home"
Neal Smith - Drums, percussion, backing vocals on "A Runaway Train", "I'll Bite Your Face Off" and "When Hell Comes Home"
Steve Hunter - guitars on "Something To Remember Me By", "When Hell Comes Home" and "What Baby Wants"
Keith Nelson - Guitars, backing vocals on "Caffeine"
Desmond Child - Co-songwriter
Dick Wagner - Co-songwriter / Lead guitar on "The Underture"
Tommy Denander - Guitars on "I Am Made of You"
Vince Gill - Lead guitar on "A Runaway Train" and "Gotta Get Outta Here"
Ke$ha - Guest vocals on "What Baby Wants"
Rob Zombie - Backing vocals on "The Congregation"
John 5 - guitar on "Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever"
Chuck Garric - Bass
Jeremy Rubolino - Co-songwriter
Piggy D - Co-songwriter, and bass on "Last Man On Earth"
David Spreng - Co-songwriter and drums on "Last Man On Earth"
Kip Winger - backing vocals on "Ghouls Gone Wild" & "The Congregation"
Patterson Hood - guitar on "Gotta Get Outta Here"
Damon Johnson - guitar on "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Keri Kelli - guitar on "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Jimmy DeGrasso - drums on "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" & "I Gotta Get Outta Here"
Pat Buchanan - Guitars
Vicki Hampton - Backing vocals
Wendy Moten - Backing vocals
Scott Williamson - Drums
Jimmie Lee Sloas - Bass
Лэйбл: Bigger Picture Records ~ B0016027-01
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Welcome 2 My Nightmare is the 26th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in September 2011. The idea for the album came about soon after the thirtieth anniversary of the original Welcome to My Nightmare album, while Cooper was talking with producer Bob Ezrin, who proposed the idea of a sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare. Cooper liked the idea, and decided to recruit previous members of the Alice Cooper band.
The concept of the album was described by Cooper as "another nightmare, and this one is even worse than the last one." Cooper said that he had originally intended to make a sequel to his previous album, Along Came a Spider, but decided to make the Nightmare sequel after Ezrin explained that he "wasn't really into it."
The album was completed sometime during early 2011, with Cooper announcing its completion in February 2011 on his radio show, Nights with Alice Cooper. It was first scheduled to be released late in 2011 on Bob Ezrin's Bigger Picture label[3] as part of a deal involved marketing, touring and production work by Bigger Picture for Cooper in the future.[4] The album was then announced as being delayed until some time in 2012 due to Cooper's touring commitments,[5] however it was finally released on 13 September 2011.
Cooper began writing songs for the album during summer 2010, and by July there were a total of three songs completed. By October, Cooper and Ezrin had written thirteen songs for the album, three of which had been recorded with Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce, all members of the original incarnation of the Alice Cooper band. Regarding the sound of the album, Cooper said that parts of the album were intended to resemble the sound of Welcome to My Nightmare and music from the 1970s, and that "if we can keep that going, it will really be something. It captures an era."
In addition to Cooper, Dunaway, Smith and Bruce and producer Ezrin, various outside artists co-wrote some songs on the album, including Producer, Singer Songwriter Tommy Henriksen, Buckcherry member Keith Nelson, songwriter Desmond Child, Dick Wagner (who had previously worked with Cooper), Chuck Garric (a member of Cooper's band for the 2011 tour), film composer Jeremy Rubolino, and Ke$ha, who also performed on the song "What Baby Wants."
Other contributors from past work with Alice included Kip Winger, & Steve Hunter.
The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, based on an aggregate score of 68/100 from Metacritic. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles reviewer Mitch Lafon issued a review of the album on August 11. Noting that sequel albums are a "risky proposition", Welcome 2 My Nightmare was deemed "an equally comparable chef d’oeuvre." Lafon also praised the diverse sound on the album, explaining that it varies "from trashing disco to garage punk, pop balladry to a rocking number. Allmusic gave the album a four out of five star review.
"I Am Made of You"
Cooper compared this song to "Hello, Hooray" from his 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies, calling it a "masterpiece" and an "epic song." The song went through many changes and was worked on "more than any other song on the album." The guitars are played by Swedish studio guitarists Tommy Denander and Tommy Henriksen, and the solo by original Welcome To My Nightmare guitar player Steve Hunter, which is one of Cooper's favorites among any of his previous albums. The song's intro contains the piano part from the original Nightmare song "Steven".
"Caffeine"
"Caffeine" was originally written as a more of a rock-based song, but turned into more of a quirky and comical song that still kept the same energy that was originally intended. Cooper has said that a Big Bopper-like voice helped influence the chorus. The song was released as the album's second single.
"The Nightmare Returns"
The lyrics of the song show a similarity to the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and involves Alice frightened of going to sleep due to nightmares. The music attempts to portray a child creating lullabies at his piano.
"A Runaway Train"
"A Runaway Train" was based on the Dennis Dunaway Project's "Subway" from their 2006 album Bones From the Yard. Cooper decided to rework the song so it had no chorus, the track consists of only verse. The song also took inspiration from the classic song "Train Kept A-Rollin'." Country music star Vince Gill plays lead guitar on this song. One of three songs that the original Alice Cooper band performed on.
"Last Man on Earth"
"Last Man on Earth" details what happens to Alice after the train wreck at the end of the song "A Runaway Train". The song (described as unexpected and "out there") is reminiscent of a Tom Waits song, and is also similar to "Some Folks" from Welcome to My Nightmare.
"The Congregation"
Cooper says that the song was heavily inspired by The Beatles. "The Congregation" details Alice's tour through Hell. Rob Zombie guest stars on this song as "The Guide", who is possibly "The Curator" from the original Nightmare (originally portrayed by Vincent Price).
"I'll Bite Your Face Off"
The song's classic rock tone was Cooper's nod to the early Rolling Stones. In this song, Alice is introduced to the devil, his female guide in Hell (the same from "What Baby Wants"). "I'll Bite Your Face Off" was the album's first single and was released with a music video which features various live performances. One of these includes Cooper's show at the 100 Club in London with Johnny Depp on guitar. The single was another song on the album played by the original Alice Cooper band.
"Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever"
"Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever" continues Cooper's idea that "no matter what you do, you can't kill disco." The song is strikingly similar to the Alice Cooper Goes to Hell song "You Gotta Dance", where disco is used as an eternal punishment in Hell. The guitar solo at the end of the song, played by John 5, is representative of disco being overtaken by rock.
"Ghouls Gone Wild"
The album shifts from the disco vibe of "Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever" to that of a surf rock beach party in "Ghouls Gone Wild". Mark Volman, singer of the Turtles, provides backing vocals for the song.
"Something to Remember Me By"
"Something to Remember Me By" was originally written by Wagner and Cooper in the late '70s, around the time "I Never Cry" was written. The song was not used sooner due to Cooper's inability to sing the part. Ezrin convinced Cooper to put it on the album because it was "the prettiest song (they had) ever written." Cooper says that his recording was very difficult but heartfelt. The song parallels "Cold Ethyl" from the original Nightmare in that Alice is singing to the pieces of a corpse (which seems to make sense in the nightmare).
"When Hell Comes Home"
This song deals with a more matured nightmare that Alice would deal with 35 years later. He watches himself as a young boy being raised by an alcoholic father and an abused mother. The boy eventually snaps, and plans on murdering his father by putting one "right between his eyes." "When Hell Comes Home" is dark and macabre, and it sets itself apart from the previous songs, which are less serious and more comical. At the end of the solo, a man (supposedly the abusive father) is heard faintly yelling out "Steven", the main character from the original Nightmare, hinting the fact he is the main character in this album as well. The song was played with the original band, who gave it a '70s feel that Cooper wanted.
"What Baby Wants"
While Cooper was thinking of a character to play the devil on Welcome 2 My Nightmare, he came across Kesha at the Grammys and said that she had the qualities of a "rock singer." In typical Alice Cooper fashion (harkening back to Billion Dollar Babies when Donovan sang with Cooper on the title track), he decided to bring Kesha in to work on the album because it would be unexpected. Cooper said about Kesha, "I think a lot of my audience is going to go KE$HA!?, but she probably wrote the most disgusting lyrics in the song, we had to rein her in." According to Cooper, many of her lyrics had to be toned down for the album. Kesha plays the part of the devil, continuing from "I'll Bite Your Face Off", telling Alice that it's time to pay the ultimate price: his soul.
"I Gotta Get Outta Here"
"I Gotta Get Outta Here" ends the album with Alice finally accepting that he's going through a nightmare, and is ready to wake up. However, a choir of voices responds with "What part of dead don't you get?" Alice starts to protest, but with the repeated question, he begins to wonder what his reality is: Is he actually dead, left to forever live his nightmare, or is this taunt just another part of the dream? The conclusion of the song leaves the ending open to the listener. Vince Gill again plays lead guitar on this track.
"The Underture"
Cooper compares the instrumental final track to a Broadway overture, filled with pieces of songs from the show. In this case, "The Underture" feature themes and music from the two Nightmares. In order, these are "Welcome to My Nightmare," "The Awakening," "Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever," "Only Women Bleed," "Something to Remember Me By," "Devil's Food," "The Black Widow," "Ghouls Gone Wild," "I Am Made of You," "Years Ago," and concludes with "Steven."
"Flatline"
"Flatline" is a track released only on the vinyl edition of the album. The dark ambient song starts out with the sound of a heart rate monitor that beeps every couple of seconds (making the heart rate approximately 22 beats per minute). 46 seconds into the song, the monitor flatlines and remains this way almost until the end of the song. During this time, ambient sounds play in the background of the beep. Twelve seconds from the track's end, a deep, dark voice (similar to the one heard at the end of "What Baby Wants") can be heard saying Steven's name.
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1969 - Pretties For You (First US Pressing)
1970 - Easy Action (First US Pressing)
1971 - Love It To Death (First US Pressing)
1971 - Killer (First US Pressing)
1972 - School's Out (First US Pressing)
1973 - Billion Dollar Babies (First US Pressing)
1973 - Muscle Of Love (First US Pressing)
1975 - Welcome To My Nightmare (First US Pressing)
1976 - Goes To Hell (First US Pressing)
1977 - Lace And Whiskey (First US Pressing)
1978 - From The Inside (First US Pressing)
1980 - Flush The Fashion (First US Pressing)
1981 - Special Forces (First US Pressing)
1982 - Zipper Catches (First US Pressing)
1983 - DaDa (First US Pressing)
1986 - Constrictor (First US Pressing)
1987 - Raise Your Fist And Yell (First US Pressing)
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