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Alice Cooper
Allmusic Biography : The man (and the band) who first brought shock rock to the masses, Alice Cooper became one of the most successful and influential acts of the 70s with their gritty but anthemic hard rock and a live show that delivered a rock & roll chamber of horrors, thrilling fans and cultivating outrage from authority figures (which made the fans love them all the more). The name Alice Cooper originally referred to both the band and its lead singer (born Vincent Furnier), as they played dark, eccentric, psychedelic rock on their first two albums, Pretties for You (1969) and Easy Action (1970). After a spell in Detroit where they soaked up the high-energy influence of the Stooges and the MC5, Alice Cooper scored breakthrough hits in 1971 with "Im Eighteen" and the album Love It to Death, in which the group finally stumbled upon the formula that made them stars, blending tough, dirty, guitar-fueled hard rock with Coopers sneering vocals and lyrics that were by turns relatable ("Im Eighteen," "Body") and wilfully spooky ("Black Juju," "The Ballad of Dwight Frye"). Coupled with a live show that included snakes, electric chairs, fake blood, and mock hangings, Alice Cooper had something to offend everyone, and from 1971s Killer to 1973s Billion Dollar Babies, they could seemingly do no wrong. Following the commercial and critical disappointment of 1973s Muscle of Love, the Alice Cooper band broke up, and Alice went forward as a solo act, delivering a cleaner and more professional variation on the themes of his early 70s hits, while the band attempted to continue as Billion Dollar Babies, with little success. Coopers glossy 1975 solo debut Welcome to My Nightmare was a massive hit, and his shows became even more elaborate as he became a regular fixture on television, but subsequent solo releases saw his following dwindle until 1989s Trash and 1991s Hey Stoopid, where he blended his trademark sound with hair metal arrangements and production and gained a new audience. Coopers dedicated fan base kept him in the game as he kept recording albums well into the 2010s and regularly touring, playing fresh material alongside his greatest hits. Vincent Furnier formed his first group, the Earwigs, as an Arizona teenager in the early 60s. Changing the bands name to the Spiders in 1965, the group was eventually called the Nazz (not to be confused with Todd Rundgrens band of the same name). The Spiders and the Nazz both released local singles that were moderately popular. In 1968, after discovering there was another band with the same name, the group changed its name to Alice Cooper. According to band legend, the name came to Furnier during a Ouija board session, where he was told he was the reincarnation of a 17th century witch of the same name. Comprised of vocalist Furnier -- who would soon begin calling himself Alice Cooper -- guitarist Mike Bruce, guitarist Glen Buxton, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith, the group moved to California in 1968. There they met Shep Gordon, who became their manager, and Frank Zappa, who signed Alice Cooper to his Straight Records imprint. Alice Cooper released their first album, Pretties for You, in 1969. Easy Action followed early in 1970, but failed to chart. The groups reputation in Los Angeles was slowly shrinking, so the band moved to Furniers hometown of Detroit. For the next year, the group refined their bizarre stage show. Late in 1970, the groups contract was transferred to Straights distributor Warner Bros., and they began recording their third album with producer Bob Ezrin. With Ezrins assistance, Alice Cooper developed their classic heavy metal crunch on 1971s Love It to Death, which featured the number 21 hit single "Eighteen"; the album peaked at number 35 and went gold. The success enabled the group to develop a more impressive, elaborate live show, which made them a highly popular concert attraction across the U.S. and eventually the U.K. Killer, released late in 1971, was another gold album. Released in the summer of 1972, Schools Out was Alice Coopers breakthrough record, peaking at number two and selling over a million copies. The title song became a Top Ten hit in the U.S. and a number one single in the U.K. Billion Dollar Babies, released the following year, was the groups biggest hit, reaching number one in both America and Britain; the albums first single, "No More Mr. Nice Guy," became a Top Ten hit in Britain, peaking at number 25 in the U.S. Muscle of Love appeared late in 1973, yet it failed to capitalize on the success of Billion Dollar Babies. After Muscle of Love, Furnier and the rest of Alice Cooper parted ways to pursue other projects. Having officially changed his name to Alice Cooper, Furnier embarked on a similarly theatrical solo career; the rest of the band released one unsuccessful album under the name Billion Dollar Babies, while Mike Bruce and Neal Smith both recorded solo albums that were never issued. In the fall of 1974, a compilation of Alice Coopers five Warner albums, entitled Alice Coopers Greatest Hits, became a Top Ten hit. For his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare, Cooper hired Lou Reeds backing band from Rock N Roll Animal -- guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, bassist Prakash John, keyboardist Joseph Chrowski, and drummer Penti Glan -- as his supporting group. Released in the spring of 1975, the record was similar to his previous work and became a Top Ten hit in America, launching the hit acoustic ballad "Only Women Bleed." Its success put an end to any idea of reconvening Alice Cooper the band. Its follow-up, 1976s Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, was another hit, going gold in the U.S. After that album, Coopers career began to slip, partially due to changing trends and partially due to his alcoholism. Cooper entered rehab in 1978, writing an album about his treatment called From the Inside (1978) with Bernie Taupin, Elton Johns lyricist. During the early 80s, Cooper continued to release albums and tour, yet he was no longer as popular as he was during his early-70s heyday. Cooper made a successful comeback in the late 80s, sparked by his appearances in horror films and a series of pop-metal bands that paid musical homage to his classic early records and concerts. Constrictor, released in 1986, began his comeback, but it was 1989s Trash that returned Cooper to the spotlight. Produced by the proven hitmaker Desmond Child, Trash featured guest appearances by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and most of Aerosmith; the record became a Top Ten hit in Britain and peaked at number 20 in the U.S., going platinum. "Poison," a midtempo rocker featured on the album, became Coopers first Top Ten single since 1977. After the release of Trash, he continued to star in the occasional film, tour, and record, although he wasnt able to retain the audience recaptured with Trash. Still, 1991s Hey Stoopid and 1994s The Last Temptation were generally solid, professional efforts that helped Cooper settle into a comfortable cult status without damaging the critical goodwill surrounding his 70s output. After a live album, 1997s Fistful of Alice, Cooper returned on the smaller Spitfire label in 2000 with Brutal Planet, and Dragontown a year later. The Eyes of Alice Cooper appeared in 2003 and found Cooper and company playing a more stripped-down brand of near-garage rock. Dirty Diamonds from 2005 was nearly as raw and hit the streets around the same time Cooper premiered his syndicated radio show Nights with Alice Cooper. Three years later he returned with Along Came a Spider, a concept album that told the story of a spider-obsessed serial killer. In 2010, he released the live album Theatre of Death, along with a download-only EP of redone Cooper classics titled Alice Does Alice. 2011s Welcome 2 My Nightmare, a sequel to his 1975 conceptual classic of the same name (minus the 2), was recorded with longtime co-conspirator Bob Ezrin, and featured 14 brand-new cuts that spanned multiple genres and relied on the talents of a host of previous members of the Alice Cooper band (including Steve Hunter), as well as a guest spot from pop superstar Ke$ha. In the same year he was awarded the Kerrang! Icon Award. Advancing years didnt prevent Cooper from maintaining a hectic schedule, and by 2012 he was touring with Iron Maiden and headlining Bloodstock Open Air. As an aside from his musical pursuits, he also starred in Tim Burtons adaptation of Dark Shadows, playing himself alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, and Michelle Pfeiffer. He returned to touring in 2014 as the opening act for Mötley Crües final tour, and the following year he unveiled a new supergroup called Hollywood Vampires, which included Johnny Depp and Joe Perry. They subsequently released an album of rock covers. He reunited with Ezrin yet again for his 27th studio record. Paranormal was released in 2017, featuring contributions from ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons, Deep Purples Roger Glover, and U2s Larry Mullen, alongside original bandmembers Smith, Dunaway, and Bruce. The album was also released in a special edition with a bonus disc of live material. Early the following year, an EP was released centered around Paranormal single "The Sound of A," which included a handful of live cuts from his 2017 tour. In August 2018, Cooper released A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris, a live album drawn from his European tour in support of the Paranormal album.
	Album: 1 of 41 Title:  Welcome to My Nightmare Released:  1975-03-11 Tracks:  14 Duration:  55:50 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Welcome to My Nightmare  (05:19) 2   Devil’s Food  (03:35) 3   The Black Widow  (03:37) 4   Some Folks  (04:18) 5   Only Women Bleed  (05:49) 6   Department of Youth  (03:19) 7   Cold Ethyl  (02:57) 8   Years Ago  (02:51) 9   Steven  (05:46) 10  The Awakening  (02:30) 11  Escape  (03:16) 12  Devil’s Food (alternate version)  (05:13) 13  Cold Ethyl (alternate version)  (02:56) 14  The Awakening (alternate version)  (04:20)
Welcome to My Nightmare : Allmusic album Review : With the 1974 disintegration of the original Alice Cooper group, Alice was free to launch a solo career. He wisely decided to re-enlist the services of Bob Ezrin for his solo debut, Welcome to My Nightmare, which was a concept album tied into the story line of the highly theatrical concert tour he launched soon after the albums release. While the music lost most of the gritty edge of the original AC lineup, Welcome to My Nightmare remains Alices best solo effort -- while some tracks stray from his expected hard rock direction, theres plenty of fist-pumping rock to go around. The disco-flavored, album-opening title track would be reworked on the stage as more of a hard rock tune, while "Some Folks" dips into cabaret territory, and "Only Women Bleed" is a sensitive ballad that became a Top Ten hit. But the rockers serve as the albums foundation -- "Devils Food," "The Black Widow," "Department of Youth," and "Cold Ethyl" are all standouts, as is the more tranquil yet eerie epic "Steven." Despite this promising start to Coopers solo career, the majority of his subsequent releases were often not as focused and were of varying quality.
	Album: 2 of 41 Title:  Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Released:  1976-06-25 Tracks:  11 Duration:  43:13 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Go to Hell  (05:15) 2   You Gotta Dance  (02:45) 3   I’m the Coolest  (03:57) 4   Didn’t We Meet  (04:16) 5   I Never Cry  (03:44) 6   Give the Kid a Break  (04:14) 7   Guilty  (03:22) 8   Wake Me Gently  (05:03) 9   Wish You Were Here  (04:36) 10  I’m Always Chasing Rainbows  (02:08) 11  Going Home  (03:47)
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell : Allmusic album Review : Following the success of his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper followed it up with another concept album, Goes to Hell, similar in style to its predecessor. Again, longtime Alice producer Bob Ezrin was on board, and while there are a few highlights, Goes to Hell signaled an Alice era where he pretty much forsook the raw garage rock of his early days (Killer, Schools Out) in favor of polished studio glitz. That said, the title track is worthy of any headbangers time (and remains one of Coopers most overlooked rock tunes), while "I Never Cry" was another Alice ballad that found a place near the top of the charts. Other highlights include such tracks as the disco-rock-boogie of "You Gotta Dance" and the laid-back yet sinister funk groove of "Im the Coolest." Elsewhere, the musical experiments arent as successful -- the old-time sounds of "Give the Kid a Break," "Im Always Chasing Rainbows," and the album-closing "Going Home" are about as far removed from the expected hard-rocking AC direction as you can get. And while the rocker "Wish You Were Here" would become a late-70s concert standard for the Coop, the original studio version lacks the firepower the song achieved on the stage. Alice was supposed to follow up the albums release with another highly theatrical stage show (following the cue of his first solo tour in 1975), but an illness squashed the tour altogether. Despite its missteps, the gold-certified Goes to Hell would prove to be Alices most commercially successful solo album for quite some time.
	Album: 3 of 41 Title:  Lace and Whiskey Released:  1977-04-29 Tracks:  10 Duration:  41:41 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   It’s Hot Tonight  (03:21) 2   Lace and Whiskey  (03:13) 3   Road Rats  (04:51) 4   Damned If You Do  (03:13) 5   You and Me  (05:09) 6   King of the Silver Screen  (05:35) 7   Ubangi Stomp  (02:12) 8   (No More) Love at Your Convenience  (03:49) 9   I Never Wrote Those Songs  (04:33) 10  My God  (05:40)
Lace and Whiskey : Allmusic album Review : As the rock & roll that made him famous began to grow stale, Alice Cooper found himself desperately trying to revive that fad with Lace and Whiskey. There are no shocking songs here -- just flat, dull melodies that sound like a bad combination of 50s rock & roll and classic 70s rock. One exception to the album might be the Top 20 hit "You and Me," but even this somewhat catchy ballad doesnt save the album from being a bore. Although it isnt as horrible as many critics have claimed it to be, Lace and Whiskey still fails to get anywhere beyond mediocrity.
	Album: 4 of 41 Title:  The Alice Cooper Show Released:  1977-12 Tracks:  11 Duration:  40:51 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Under My Wheels  (02:35) 2   I’m Eighteen  (05:00) 3   Only Women Bleed  (05:57) 4   Sick Things  (00:59) 5   Is It My Body  (02:36) 6   I Never Cry  (02:46) 7   Billion Dollar Babies  (03:18) 8   Devil’s Food / The Black Widow  (05:52) 9   You and Me  (02:25) 10  I Love the Dead / Go to Hell / Wish You Were Here  (06:38) 11  School’s Out  (02:39)
The Alice Cooper Show : Allmusic album Review : During the early 70s, the original Alice Cooper put on amazing live shows, cranking out mega-decibel hard rock anthems and combining theatrics with high-energy performances. But after the band split up in 1974, Alice went in a much more theatrical direction, almost as if the music were secondary to the live performance. Despite the fact that the original band excelled in a live setting, a live album from the era was never issued; ACs first live release turned out to be 1977s Alice Cooper Show. The album wasnt culled from the best performances of his most recent tour; instead it was limited to a pair of shows at the Aladdin Hotel in Nevada. Alice was still in the throes of alcoholism, and all the contributing factors add up to a largely lackluster live collection. Sure, such classics as "Under My Wheels," "Eighteen," "Billion Dollar Babies," and "Schools Out" benefit from a crowds presence, but the production and the performances are pretty darn flat and uninspired throughout.
	Album: 5 of 41 Title:  From the Inside Released:  1978-11 Tracks:  10 Duration:  39:02 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   From the Inside  (03:55) 2   Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills  (03:38) 3   The Quiet Room  (03:52) 4   Nurse Rozetta  (04:15) 5   Millie and Billie  (04:15) 6   Serious  (02:44) 7   How You Gonna See Me Now  (03:53) 8   For Veronica’s Sake  (03:37) 9   Jackknife Johnny  (03:45) 10  Inmates (We’re All Crazy)  (05:03)
From the Inside : Allmusic album Review : From the Inside was hardly Alice Coopers best-selling or most accessible album. An intensely personal account of his recovery from substance abuse, it tends to be one of his most abstract efforts and lacks the immediacy of Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome to My Nightmare, or Alice Cooper Goes to Hell. There are no rock anthems here à la "Schools Out" or "18" and no celebrations of shock value like "I Love the Dead" or "The Black Widow." Instead, the singer honestly documents the way he confronted his demons and emerged victorious. Sometimes, this introspective effort is too self-indulgent and intellectual for its own good, but at its best as on "How You Gonna See Me Now", From the Inside is as riveting as it in inspiring.
	Album: 6 of 41 Title:  Flush the Fashion Released:  1980-04-28 Tracks:  10 Duration:  28:39 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Talk Talk  (02:09) 2   Clones (We’re All)  (03:03) 3   Pain  (04:06) 4   Leather Boots  (01:36) 5   Aspirin Damage  (02:57) 6   Nuclear Infected  (02:14) 7   Grim Facts  (03:24) 8   Model Citizen  (02:39) 9   Dance Yourself to Death  (03:08) 10  Headlines  (03:18)
Flush the Fashion : Allmusic album Review : After several self-indulgent albums in the late 70s (Lace and Whiskey, From the Inside), Alice Cooper decided to reinvent himself as a new waver for 1980s Flush the Fashion. As a result of a hooking up with Cars producer Roy Thomas Baker, the sound is glossier; Baker also replaced the gritty guitar riffs that served as the basis for past Cooper rock compositions with icy synthesizers. The best-known song ended up being the cover "Clones (Were All)," which was in turn covered by the Smashing Pumpkins for their 1995 box set The Aeroplane Flies High. Other highlights include the stately sounds of "Pain," the brief album-opening "Talk Talk," and one of the albums few riff rockers, "Grim Facts" (although the lyrics from the latter arent quite up to snuff with those from "Talk Talk"). It was around this time that Cooper relapsed into alcoholism, and his subsequent early-80s releases (Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin, Dada) became more unpredictable and more uncharacteristic of the expected Alice Cooper direction and sound.
	Album: 7 of 41 Title:  Special Forces Released:  1981-09 Tracks:  10 Duration:  34:54 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Who Do You Think We Are  (04:20) 2   Seven & Seven Is  (02:41) 3   Prettiest Cop on the Block  (03:13) 4   Don’t Talk Old to Me  (02:54) 5   Generation Landslide ’81 (live)  (03:50) 6   Skeletons in the Closet  (03:42) 7   You Want It, You Got It  (03:15) 8   You Look Good in Rags  (03:35) 9   You’re a Movie  (03:37) 10  Vicious Rumours  (03:43)
Special Forces : Allmusic album Review : Since the original Alice Cooper band was a major catalyst in the creation of punk rock (Coopers snide lyrics, the bands raw rock, etc.), by the early 80s Cooper decided to re-embrace the genre after such overblown albums as From the Inside distanced him from his roots. The resulting album, 1981s Special Forces, was Coopers most stripped-down and straightforward since his classic early-70s work. But without the original Cooper band to back him up and help out with the songwriting, its an intriguing yet sometimes uneven set. Cooper was heavily into the guns and ammo publication Soldier of Fortune at the time; hence the album title and lyrical subject matter. The opening track, "Who Do You Think We Are," is one of Coopers punchiest rockers, and one of his most overlooked, while "Seven & Seven Is," "You Look Good in Rags," and "Vicious Rumours" are also rocking highlights. A faithful rereading of the Billion Dollar Babies nugget "Generation Landslide" is included as well, titled "Generation Landslide 81 (Live)," even though it was, in fact, entirely created in the studio (with added audience cheers). While Special Forces didnt return Cooper to his earlier status as a chart-topping superstar, it is certainly one of the strongest and most interesting releases of his post-1975 period.
	Album: 8 of 41 Title:  Zipper Catches Skin Released:  1982-08-25 Tracks:  10 Duration:  32:25 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Zorro’s Ascent  (03:55) 2   Make That Money (Scrooge’s Song)  (03:30) 3   I Am the Future  (03:29) 4   No Baloney Homosapiens  (05:06) 5   Adaptable (Anything for You)  (02:56) 6   I Like Girls  (02:25) 7   Remarkably Insincere  (02:07) 8   Tag, You’re It  (02:54) 9   I Better Be Good  (02:48) 10  I’m Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned to Save My Life)  (03:14)
Zipper Catches Skin : Allmusic album Review : By 1982, Alice Coopers brand of shock rock had been shoved out of the pop-chart spotlight by new trends like punk and new wave. To counteract this decline in popularity, Cooper worked elements of these sounds into his style and also played up the satirical/comedic angle to his music. The result was Zipper Catches Skin: while its not a success on the level of Billion Dollar Babies or Welcome to My Nightmare, it is surprisingly listenable. The songwriting subjects are some of the most unusual of Coopers career, which is saying a lot: "Tag, Youre It" is a primarily spoken word spoof of slasher films, while "Zorros Ascent" depicts the worlds most famous swordsman facing down death. However, the strangest of these songs is "Im Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned to Save My Life)," which speaks for itself. These lyrics are often too cutesy for their own good, but this is effectively made up for by the well-crafted, tuneful music that backs them up. Cooper is also assisted by an enthusiastic and energetic performance by the band, who transform tunes like "I Better Be Good" and "Remarkably Insincere" into effective fusions of hard rock riffing and new wave staccato rhythms. While the experimental spirit that drives these songs is refreshing, none of the songs ever jells in a way that would create a cohesive album and none of the songs is strong enough to join the ranks of classics like "Schools Out" or "No More Mr. Nice Guy." That said, Zipper Catches Skin contains enough solid tracks to make it a worthwhile listen for hardcore Alice Cooper fans.
	Album: 9 of 41 Title:  DaDa Released:  1983-09-28 Tracks:  9 Duration:  42:18 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   DaDa  (04:45) 2   Enough’s Enough  (04:19) 3   Former Lee Warmer  (04:07) 4   No Man’s Land  (03:51) 5   Dyslexia  (04:25) 6   Scarlet and Sheba  (05:18) 7   I Love America  (03:49) 8   Fresh Blood  (05:54) 9   Pass the Gun Around  (05:46)
DaDa : Allmusic album Review : This album was very disappointing from a sales point of view, and that is certainly a shame. As Alice Cooper albums go, this one is really far above average. It seems to be one of his albums that tried to merge the older, creepy style with a newer, more alternative style. From the spooky opening tones of the title track, that horror movie chic that Cooper did so well is quite apparent. Other tracks, such as "Former Lee Warmer," also do well at capturing that sort of a mood. Still, there are lighter-hearted, more alternative rock-type pieces such as "Scarlet and Sheba" and "Enoughs Enough." One the humorous side, Cooper gives "I Love America" and "Dyslexia." The lyrical pun to the latter cut is absolutely priceless. This album is a rather varied release, showcasing several sides of Coopers musical tastes, but it is all very entertaining. If you missed it when it first came around, do yourself a favor and give it a try now.
	Album: 10 of 41 Title:  Constrictor Released:  1986-09-22 Tracks:  10 Duration:  37:08 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Teenage Frankenstein  (03:36) 2   Give It Up  (04:13) 3   Thrill My Gorilla  (02:56) 4   Life and Death of the Party  (03:43) 5   Simple Disobedience  (03:30) 6   The World Needs Guts  (03:59) 7   Trick Bag  (04:18) 8   Crawlin’  (03:22) 9   The Great American Success Story  (03:38) 10  He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)  (03:49)
Constrictor : Allmusic album Review : At a time when many of the forgotten bands of the 70s began to resurface, Alice Cooper released Constrictor in 1986, his first album in three years. The album attempts a fresh start, which made sense, since Cooper suffered physically, creatively, and commercially over the past decade due to changing trends and alcoholism, which left his latest releases void of the energy that had made Killer and Welcome to My Nightmare so popular. For the most part, Cooper succeeded in re-establishing himself -- this is arguably some of the best work he put forth in years. Nothing comes close to the songs he recorded in his 70s heyday, but whats here is surprisingly lively and sharp-witted: "Simple Disobedience" is a catchy anthem of rebellion, and "Teenage Frankenstein" is a straightforward, amusingly melodramatic rocker. Like most of Coopers 80s work, Constrictors large amount of filler makes the album unmemorable on the whole, but it serves an importance in proving that Cooper was still entirely capable of rocking out, and was ready for a return to the mainstream without completely selling himself short.
	Album: 11 of 41 Title:  The Nightmare Returns Released:  1987 Tracks:  17 Duration:  1:13:19 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify    AlbumCover	1   Welcome to My Nightmare  (04:27) 2   Billion Dollar Babies  (03:26) 3   No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:58) 4   Be My Lover  (03:43) 5   I’m Eighteen  (04:01) 6   The World Need Guts  (03:47) 7   Give It Up  (03:57) 8   Cold Ethyl  (02:46) 9   Only Women Bleed  (03:49) 10  Go to Hell  (05:37) 11  Ballad of Dwight Fry  (06:51) 12  Teenage Frankenstein  (05:18) 13  Sick Things  (02:33) 14  I Love the Dead  (03:27) 15  School’s Out  (08:23) 16  Elected  (03:52) 17  Under My Wheels  (03:24)
	Album: 12 of 41 Title:  Raise Your Fist and Yell Released:  1987-09-28 Tracks:  10 Duration:  36:58 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Freedom  (04:09) 2   Lock Me Up  (03:25) 3   Give the Radio Back  (03:34) 4   Step on You  (03:38) 5   Not That Kind of Love  (03:15) 6   Prince of Darkness  (05:10) 7   Time to Kill  (03:41) 8   Chop, Chop, Chop  (03:07) 9   Gail  (02:30) 10  Roses on White Lace  (04:28)
Raise Your Fist and Yell : Allmusic album Review : In the mid-80s, Alice Cooper was able to crawl out of obscurity and rebuild his cult following. Though 1986s Constrictor and the supporting Nightmare Returns tour hardly commanded mainstream attention, the album and tour were his most successful in years, proving Cooper still had enough life to launch a full-fledged comeback. Not even a year after the release of Constrictor, Cooper released Raise Your Fist and Yell, which is more of a return to his dark thematic role than its predecessor. The album is obviously rushed and suffers similar flaws to Constrictor, most notably its large amount of filler. Nonetheless, Cooper manages to sound energetic and charismatic throughout the record as he sings about his three favorite topics: sex, rebellion, and death. "Lock Me Up," "Step on You," and "Not That Kind of Love" are dripping with traditional Cooper sleaze, while "Chop, Chop, Chop" and "Roses on White Lace" seem reminiscent of Coopers Welcome to My Nightmare days. With Raise Your Fist and Yell, Cooper embraced his past while still managing to sound fun and exciting. All things considered, it still seems surprising that 1989s Trash completely deserted Coopers menacing, villainous role. After all, Raise Your Fist and Yell, though far from a highlight, showed Cooper was still able to provide both rock anthems and theatrical experiments -- and do it rather well, for that matter.
	Album: 13 of 41 Title:  Trash Released:  1989-07-25 Tracks:  10 Duration:  40:17 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Spark in the Dark  (03:52) 3   House of Fire  (03:46) 4   Why Trust You  (03:12) 5   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 6   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 7   This Maniac’s in Love With You  (03:48) 8   Trash  (04:02) 9   Hell Is Living Without You  (04:11) 10  I’m Your Gun  (03:47)
Trash : Allmusic album Review : Alice Cooper hadnt had a hugely successful album in over a decade when, in 1989, he teamed up with Bon Jovi producer Desmond Child for Trash -- a highly slick and commercial yet edgy pop-metal effort that temporarily restored him to the charts in a big way. Fueled by the irresistible hit single "Poison," the album temporarily gave back to Cooper the type of visibility he deserved. Theres nothing shocking here, and Coopers ability to generate controversy had long since faded. But while the escapist Trash -- which was clearly aimed at the Mötley Crüe/Guns N Roses crowd -- may not be the most challenging album of Coopers career, and isnt in a class with Schools Out or Billion Dollar Babies, its fun and quite enjoyable. And it was great to see the long-neglected Cooper on MTV next to so many of the 80s rockers he had influenced.
	Album: 14 of 41 Title:  Prince of Darkness Released:  1989-11-14 Tracks:  10 Duration:  38:11 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   Prince of Darkness  (05:10) 2   Roses on White Lace  (04:28) 3   Teenage Frankenstein  (03:36) 4   He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)  (03:49) 5   Billion Dollar Babies  (03:21) 6   Lock Me Up  (03:25) 7   Simple Disobedience  (03:30) 8   Thrill My Gorilla  (02:56) 9   Life and Death of the Party  (03:43) 10  Freedom  (04:09)
Prince of Darkness : Allmusic album Review : After taking a break from releasing albums and touring in the early to mid-80s (while battling alcoholism), Alice Cooper returned with a pair of hard rock albums for MCA: 1986s Constrictor and 1987s Raise Your Fist and Yell. While Cooper remained a popular concert attraction with heavy metallists from coast to coast, both albums were largely spotty affairs; instead of returning to the raw garage rock of his early-70s peak, Cooper attempted to stay in step with the then-thriving pop-metal scene. After leaving MCA for Epic in 1989 (and scoring a hit the same year with Trash), his former label issued a best-of compilation from both of Coopers comeback albums, entitled Prince of Darkness. Again, this wasnt Cooper at his peak, but such tracks as "Teenage Frankenstein" and the strangely new wave-ish "Hes Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" prove to be highlights. Also of note to collectors is the inclusion of a rare live version of "Billion Dollar Babies," which was previously available only as a B-side. If you want to check out Coopers late-80s direction and don t feel like buying both albums from the era, the midline-priced Prince of Darkness will do the trick.
	Album: 15 of 41 Title:  Hey Stoopid Released:  1991-06-27 Tracks:  12 Duration:  56:16 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 2   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 3   Snakebite  (04:33) 4   Burning Our Bed  (04:34) 5   Dangerous Tonight  (04:41) 6   Might as Well Be on Mars  (07:09) 7   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 8   Hurricane Years  (03:58) 9   Little by Little  (04:35) 10  Die for You  (04:16) 11  Dirty Dreams  (03:29) 12  Wind‐Up Toy  (05:27)
Hey Stoopid : Allmusic album Review : Unfortunately, the return to the high end of the charts that Alice Cooper enjoyed with 1989s Trash was short-lived. On his similar follow-up -- another slick pop-metal effort -- Cooper no longer had the input of hit producer/songwriter Desmond Child, and worked with Peter Collins instead. The result is an album that, although generally enjoyable and far from bad, isnt essential. The CDs more memorable offerings include the clever and amusing "Feed My Frankenstein," the dramatic "Loves a Loaded Gun," and the inspired title song -- which admonishes rockers not to self-destruct. But despite its strong points, Hey Stoopid is for only Coopers more devoted followers.
	Album: 16 of 41 Title:  The Last Temptation Released:  1994-06-23 Tracks:  10 Duration:  50:55 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Sideshow  (06:39) 2   Nothing’s Free  (05:01) 3   Lost in America  (03:53) 4   Bad Place Alone  (05:04) 5   You’re My Temptation  (05:10) 6   Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 7   Unholy War  (04:10) 8   Lullaby  (04:28) 9   It’s Me  (04:38) 10  Cleansed by Fire  (06:12)
The Last Temptation : Allmusic album Review : Though Alice Coopers 1989 comeback gave him his first hit album in over a decade, the Trash record left some diehard fans disappointed, as did 1991s Hey Stoopid. Many listeners felt that Cooper had sold himself short, now completely focusing on sleazy sexual anthems, making him just another face in the heavy metal crowd. By the time The Last Temptation was released in 1994, the hair band fad that had fueled Coopers return was dead, and Cooper was obviously aware of its downfall -- the album sounds almost nothing like its two predecessors. Instead of relating to such albums as Motley Crues Dr. Feelgood, Last Temptation seems more similar to Ozzy Osbournes No More Tears. Thematically, the record returns to mostly conceptual songs, such as "Nothings Free," "Youre My Temptation," and "Cleansed by Fire." Though the album still has a few goofy interruptions, such anthems as "Lost in America" nonetheless boast more originality than anything off of Hey Stoopid or Trash. Far surpassing anything Cooper recorded in almost 20 years, The Last Temptation is unquestionably some of his best work.
	Album: 17 of 41 Title:  Classicks Released:  1995-09-05 Tracks:  15 Duration:  1:01:48 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 3   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 4   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 5   Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 6   House of Fire  (03:46) 7   Lost in America  (03:53) 8   It’s Me  (04:38) 9   Under My Wheels  (03:40) 10  Billion Dollar Babies (live)  (03:36) 11  I’m Eighteen  (04:34) 12  No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:10) 13  Only Women Bleed  (04:06) 14  Schools Out  (03:46) 15  Fire  (03:00)
Classicks : Allmusic album Review : 1995s Classicks is another in a long line of Alice Cooper best-of compilations, and it includes both live and studio material. Featured are such late-80s and early-90s favorites as "Poison," "Hey Stoopid," "House of Fire," and a great duet with Soundgardens Chris Cornell, "Stolen Prayer," among others. While the live material is advertised as being issued officially for the first time on CD, it turns out that it comprises nothing more than the exact versions lifted from Alices 1989 home video Alice Cooper Trashes the World. Still, you can never go wrong with any version of such early-70s anthems as "Under My Wheels," "Billion Dollar Babies," "Im Eighteen," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Schools Out," and the ballad "Only Women Bleed." While the albums title may be a bit misleading (only six of the 14 tracks are true classics), and while it isnt in the same league as 1974s Greatest Hits, hardcore Cooper fans will find a decent collection in Classicks. [Note -- the Japanese version of Classicks includes an extra bonus track, the rare B-side "It Rained All Night."]
	Album: 18 of 41 Title:  …A Nice Nightmare Released:  1997-03-24 Tracks:  10 Duration:  43:20 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 2   I Got a Line on You  (02:59) 3   Bad Place Alone  (05:04) 4   Dangerous Tonight  (05:01) 5   Snakebite  (04:33) 6   Poison  (04:29) 7   This Maniac’s in Love With You  (03:48) 8   Trash  (04:02) 9   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 10  Lullaby  (04:28)
	Album: 19 of 41 Title:  He’s Back Released:  1997-09-08 Tracks:  16 Duration:  1:00:33 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)  (03:49) 2   Freedom  (04:09) 3   Time to Kill  (03:41) 4   Prince of Darkness  (05:10) 5   Thrill My Gorilla  (02:56) 6   Teenage Frankenstein  (03:36) 7   Chop, Chop, Chop  (03:07) 8   Lock Me Up  (03:25) 9   Trick Bag  (04:18) 10  Step on You  (03:38) 11  The Great American Success Story  (03:38) 12  Crawlin’  (03:22) 13  Give It Up  (04:13) 14  Roses on White Lace  (04:13) 15  The World Needs Guts  (03:59) 16  Not That Kind of Love  (03:15)
He’s Back : Allmusic album Review : Alice Cooper took a much-needed break from recording and touring in the early to mid-80s, during which time he finally shook himself free of alcoholism. When he was ready to return and attempt to recapture his theatrical rock crown, the times had changed, as such Alice disciples as Mötley Crüe, W.A.S.P., and Twisted Sister had been picking up the slack. In an attempt to keep up with the times, Alices first two "comeback albums" of this period, 1986s Constrictor and 1987s Raise Your Fist and Yell, reflected the sound of those aforementioned bands -- melodic hard rock, with a glossy sound courtesy of pop-metal messiah Michael Wagener. This radio-friendly approach would pay off on Alices hit 1989 release, Trash, but it took him a few albums to warm up, and its this aforementioned era that is spotlighted on the 16-track collection Hes Back. With muscle-packed guitarist Kane Roberts acting as Alices main song collaborator, most of these songs try to recapture the teen-anthem flame of such early Alice classics as "Schools Out" and "Im Eighteen," but fall flat, the reason being that early Alice was raw and garage-based, not studio-crafted and glossy like the keyboard-heavy "Hes Back (The Man Behind the Mask)," "The Great American Success Story," or "Freedom," the latter an embarrassing "middle-finger salute" to the PMRC (sample lyric -- "Freedom to rock, freedom to talk!"). Certainly not the best Alice era.
	Album: 20 of 41 Title:  Poison Released:  1998-01-12 Tracks:  14 Duration:  1:03:43 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 3   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 4   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 5   I’m Your Gun  (03:47) 6   Dangerous Tonight  (04:41) 7   Trash  (04:02) 8   Cleansed by Fire  (05:39) 9   Snakebite  (04:33) 10  Little by Little  (04:35) 11  Wind‐Up Toy  (05:27) 12  It’s Me  (04:38) 13  Die for You  (04:16) 14  Spark in the Dark  (03:52)
Poison : Allmusic album Review : By the late 80s, Alice Cooper was in the midst of an identity crisis. While his return back to the limelight after an exile of several years proved that he was still a major concert draw with the heavy metal masses, his "comeback" albums for MCA, 1986s Constrictor and 1987s Raise Your Fist and Yell, lacked the firepower of his earlier classics, and were commercial bombs. With several veteran rock acts of the 70s rising back from the dead a decade later with a more modern, radio-friendly sound (Heart, Aerosmith, Kiss, etc.), Cooper tried his hand at a makeover, fleeing MCA for the land of Epic Records. The 24-track double-disc set Poison focuses solely on Coopers Epic years. While the era did include some of Coopers most commercially successful outings in quite some time (such as the Bon Jovi-like MTV favorite "Poison" and the Cooper/Steven Tyler duet ballad "Only My Heart Talkin"), many of the tracks residing here do not hold up well at all (such as the anti-drug rant "Hey Stoopid"). But there are a few goodies located on Poison, such as the underrated Chris Cornell composition "Stolen Prayer" (which Cornell guests on), which is undoubtedly Coopers finest track of the 90s, as well as a few latter-day in-concert versions of such early-70s classics as "Schools Out," "Billion Dollar Babies," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy." If youre looking for a true "best-of" set, look elsewhere (namely 2001s Best of Alice Cooper). But if youre curious to sample what Mr. Cooper was up to in the 90s, Poison includes all the tracks (probably too many) that youll need.
	Album: 21 of 41 Title:  Freedom for Frankenstein: Hits & Pieces 1984-91 Released:  1998-05-19 Tracks:  18 Duration:  1:18:27 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)  (03:49) 2   Teenage Frankenstein  (03:36) 3   Give It Up  (04:13) 4   Freedom  (04:09) 5   Lock Me Up  (03:25) 6   I Got a Line on You  (02:59) 7   Poison  (04:29) 8   House of Fire  (03:46) 9   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 10  Go to Hell (live)  (05:31) 11  Ballad of Dwight Fry (live)  (07:21) 12  Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 13  It Rained All Night  (03:53) 14  Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 15  Fire  (03:00) 16  Sideshow  (06:39) 17  Sick Things (live)  (03:10) 18  Only Women Bleed / Wind Up Toy (live)  (04:45)
	Album: 22 of 41 Title:  The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Released:  1999-04-20 Tracks:  81 Duration:  4:55:22 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Don’t Blow Your Mind  (02:36) 2   Hitch Hike  (02:01) 3   Why Don’t You Love Me  (01:57) 4   Lay Down and Die, Goodbye  (02:07) 5   Nobody Likes Me (demo version)  (03:23) 6   Levity Ball (studio version)  (04:45) 7   Reflected  (03:16) 8   Mr. and Misdemeanor  (03:00) 9   Refrigerator Heaven  (01:54) 10  Caught in a Dream (single version)  (02:55) 11  I’m Eighteen  (02:58) 12  Is It My Body  (02:39) 13  Ballad of Dwight Fry  (06:33) 14  Under My Wheels  (02:47) 15  Be My Lover  (03:21) 16  Desperado  (03:29) 17  Dead Babies  (05:44) 18  Killer  (06:57) 19  Call It Evil (demo)  (03:28) 20  Gutter Cat vs. The Jets  (04:40) 21  School’s Out (single version)  (03:29) 1   Hello Hooray  (04:16) 2   Elected  (03:43) 3   Billion Dollar Babies  (03:43) 4   No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:07) 5   I Love the Dead  (05:07) 6   Slick Black Limousine  (04:26) 7   Respect for the Sleepers (demo)  (03:48) 8   Muscle of Love  (03:45) 9   Teenage Lament ’74  (03:53) 10  Working Up a Sweat  (03:32) 11  Man With the Golden Gun  (04:12) 12  I’m Flash  (03:11) 13  Space Pirates  (03:13) 14  Welcome to My Nightmare  (02:47) 15  Only Women Bleed  (03:30) 16  Cold Ethyl  (02:57) 17  Department of Youth  (03:19) 18  Escape  (03:16) 19  I Never Cry  (03:44) 20  Go to Hell  (05:12) 1   It’s Hot Tonight  (03:21) 2   You and Me  (03:26) 3   I Miss You  (03:31) 4   No Time for Tears  (02:53) 5   Because  (02:45) 6   From the Inside  (03:31) 7   How You Gonna See Me Now  (03:53) 8   Serious  (02:44) 9   No Tricks  (04:15) 10  Road Rats  (02:43) 11  Clones (We’re All)  (02:51) 12  Pain  (04:06) 13  Who Do You Think We Are (single version)  (03:05) 14  Look at You Over There, Ripping the Sawdust From My Teddybear (demo)  (03:17) 15  For Britain Only  (03:01) 16  I Am the Future (single version)  (03:45) 17  Tag, You’re It  (02:52) 18  Former Lee Warmer  (04:07) 19  I Love America  (03:49) 20  Identity Crisises  (02:50) 21  See Me in the Mirror  (03:12) 22  Hard Rock Summer  (02:30) 1   He’s Back (demo)  (03:20) 2   He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)  (03:49) 3   Teenage Frankenstein  (03:36) 4   Freedom  (04:09) 5   Prince of Darkness  (05:10) 6   Under My Wheels (live)  (03:10) 7   I Got a Line on You  (02:59) 8   Poison  (04:29) 9   Trash  (04:02) 10  Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 11  Hey Stoopid  (04:15) 12  Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 13  Fire  (03:00) 14  Lost in America  (03:53) 15  It’s Me  (04:38) 16  Hands of Death (Spookshow 2000 mix)  (03:53) 17  Is Anyone Home?  (04:12) 18  Stolen Prayer  (05:36)
The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper : Allmusic album Review : What made Alice Cooper a star? Sure, he had a tight, exciting band and some great songs that were as good as hard rock got in the early 70s, but he distinguished himself as a showman. By bringing shameless theatricality to rock & roll, he separated himself from the pack and became a superstar -- the kind of person who is known for being himself more than for his achievements. This trajectory and the melodrama that inspired it are evident on the generous four-disc box set The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper. Most box sets play like a sober history lesson, but this one plays like a grand epic, filled with love, lust, blood, and guts. Witness the humble beginnings of Vincent Furnier, as he leads an Arizona garage rock band called the Spiders through some credible, fuzzed-out Yardbirds-styled rock & roll! See how the Spiders transform into Nazz, then to the Alice Cooper band! Gasp as Furnier becomes shock-rocker Alice Cooper! Thrill to Alices biggest hits -- every cut from Alice Coopers Greatest Hits is here, some in their original single incarnations, all impeccably remastered! Wonder what went wrong as disc three begins to unfurl, and Alice Cooper the star cannibalizes the band, making such bizarre choices as recording with the Bee Gees from the Sgt. Peppers movie! Then, as soon as you figure Alice is down for the count, see his glorious resurrection as a hair metal godfather! Its no wonder that listening to all four discs in a row is exhausting -- this is a rock & roll Horatio Alger story. And thank God for that, since that narrative drive makes The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper one of the truly satisfying and definitive box sets of the late 90s. True, that doesnt mean that all of the featured music is terrific -- even though the compilers have done an excellent job of selecting the best from all his albums, particularly from the flawed latter-day efforts, theres still a lot of marginal material here -- but it does paint an accurate portrait of his career, while featuring everything a casual fan could want and an abundance of rarities for the hardcore collector. Its a difficult trick to pull off, but Life & Crimes does it, and as a result, it stands as the final word on a show biz career that was truly like no other.
	Album: 23 of 41 Title:  Super Hits Released:  1999-05-04 Tracks:  10 Duration:  48:57 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Lost in America  (03:53) 3   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 4   Why Trust You  (03:12) 5   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 6   You’re My Temptation  (05:10) 7   Trash  (04:02) 8   Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 9   Sideshow  (06:39) 10  Might as Well Be on Mars  (07:09)
Super Hits : Allmusic album Review : To some, it may be puzzling that Alice Cooper had almost no hits in the 80s, since much of that decades mainstream hard rock was clearly in debt to the pioneering pop-metallurgist. Others may realize that Alice lost his mystique around the time he started dueting with Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show. Its hard to sell yourself as a dark warrior after something like that, but it has to be said that the Muppets were the least of Coopers problems. Yes, there were rock & roll excesses, which led to a series of flawed records -- but you still cant discount the fact that his shock had turned to schtick by 1980, and he lost the teenagers that formed his core audience. He didnt get them back until 1989, when there was a whole new generation of teens for whom Alice Cooper was a legend, not a regular on The Tonight Show. Fortunately, there was also a new generation of rockers, many of whom were raised on his Greatest Hits, and they were eager to repay him by helping him create a comeback. Thats exactly what happened with Trash -- a crackerjack mainstream rock record that recalled Coopers glory days while sounding utterly contemporary. And so began a mini-Alice Cooper renaissance in the late 80s and early 90s -- the length of his three-album recording contract with Epic. He never had another hit as big as Trash or its Top Ten single "Poison," but its sequel Hey Stoopid was an enjoyable facsimile, and the ambitious concept album The Last Temptation had its moments. Together, they all had enough good songs to result in one good hits compilation -- which is something the 1995 collection Classiks wasnt, since half of the record was devoted to covers. The budget-line Super Hits comes closer to filling the bill. Although it leaves off such minor hits as "House of Fire" and "Only My Heart Talkin," it does have "Poison" and "Hey Stoopid," along with a good cross-section of highlights from the three albums, including "Lost in America," "Why Trust You," "Loves a Loaded Gun" and "Might as Well Be on Mars." Its not definitive by a long shot, but it has more prime material than Classiks, which is odd, since budget-line comps are often inferior to their more expensive, exhaustive cousins.
	Album: 24 of 41 Title:  Brutal Planet Released:  2000-06-06 Tracks:  11 Duration:  48:16 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Brutal Planet  (04:40) 2   Wicked Young Man  (03:51) 3   Sanctuary  (04:00) 4   Blow Me a Kiss  (03:20) 5   Eat Some More  (04:37) 6   Pick Up the Bones  (05:17) 7   Pessi‐Mystic  (04:58) 8   Gimme  (04:48) 9   It’s the Little Things  (04:13) 10  Take It Like a Woman  (04:12) 11  Cold Machines  (04:14)
Brutal Planet : Allmusic album Review : For the Alice Cooper fans who feel his output was spotty before and after the 1989 classic Trash on Epic, Brutal Planet is a cause to rejoice. It is a solid hard rock offering. Cooper is in great voice, and he sounds mean and spirited. The title track would be a blessing on radio today. It has great bottom, sizzling guitars, and wonderful backing vocalists. The most impressive thing about this album is Coopers lyrics. "Sanctuary" could be Lou Reed meets Deep Purple in their heyday. Back in 1987 Cooper performed with an unruly band all over the map. It was very uncomfortable and a far cry from his heyday of "Im 18" and "Under My Wheels": guitars too loud, and an artist obviously struggling with his personal demons. This disc rocks hard with hooks galore and is delivered with the intensity of a Mike Tyson punch, double entendre fully intended. "Wicked Young Men" continues the thump thump brigade of this fine album. Cooper is now being a bad boy with sophisticated lyrics. "I am a vicious young man" sounds like the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange II: the aforementioned street lingo of Reed and Springsteen turned up a notch. "Ive got every kind of chemical pumping through my head/I read Mein Kempf daily just to keep my hatred fed/I never ever sleep, I just lay in my bed/dreaming of the day when everyone is dead." Cooper is ready to exterminate everyone and everything. And though listeners who love Alice Cooper know its all tongue in cheek, the bigger picture is that a known artist has created a very studied, very calculated, and very electric compact disc. It works on so many levels, and how many listeners had written Cooper off? There may be no song here that will brand itself into the consciousness as "Schools Out" or "Elected" did, but those were different times. This is more powerful than most rap. It is direct. It is hard hitting. It is Alice Cooper at his most absolute sinister. Burt Reynolds said that "nothing plays as good as an old Stradivarius" and Alice Cooper proves that saying true. He has created a splash of cold water that could rip radio wide open if given the chance. In "Blow Me a Kiss," Alice sings "blow me away... Im in my room... Im Dr. Doom... Im not me, Im someone else." Where has Cooper been hiding these lyrics all these years?
	Album: 25 of 41 Title:  Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper Released:  2001-01-16 Tracks:  22 Duration:  1:16:53 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   I’m Eighteen  (02:58) 2   Is It My Body  (02:39) 3   Desperado  (03:29) 4   Under My Wheels  (02:47) 5   Be My Lover  (03:21) 6   School’s Out (single version)  (03:29) 7   Elected  (04:05) 8   Hello Hooray  (03:03) 9   Generation Landslide  (04:31) 10  No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:07) 11  Billion Dollar Babies  (03:43) 12  Teenage Lament ’74  (03:53) 13  Muscle of Love  (03:45) 14  Only Women Bleed  (03:30) 15  Department of Youth  (03:19) 16  Welcome to My Nightmare  (02:47) 17  I Never Cry  (03:44) 18  You and Me  (03:26) 19  How You Gonna See Me Now  (03:53) 20  From the Inside  (03:55) 21  Clones (We’re All)  (02:51) 22  Poison  (04:29)
Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper : Allmusic album Review : Rhinos Mascara & Monsters presents a more concise alternative to 1999s mammoth, four-disc set The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper. Like the box set, this album delivers digitally remastered versions of 22 of Coopers best-known rock anthems, including "Eighteen," "Schools Out," "Billion Dollar Babies," "Poison," and "Welcome to My Nightmare." Just thorough enough to please both casual fans and diehards, Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper is the most complete retrospective available on one disc.
	Album: 26 of 41 Title:  The Definitive Alice Cooper Released:  2001-03-20 Tracks:  21 Duration:  1:18:16 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   I’m Eighteen  (02:58) 2   Desperado  (03:29) 3   Under My Wheels  (02:47) 4   Halo of Flies  (08:22) 5   School’s Out (single version)  (03:29) 6   Elected  (03:43) 7   Hello Hooray  (03:03) 8   Generation Landslide  (04:31) 9   No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:07) 10  Billion Dollar Babies  (03:04) 11  Teenage Lament ’74  (03:19) 12  Muscle of Love  (03:23) 13  Only Women Bleed  (03:30) 14  Department of Youth  (03:19) 15  Welcome to My Nightmare  (02:47) 16  I Never Cry  (03:44) 17  You and Me  (03:26) 18  How You Gonna See Me Now  (03:53) 19  From the Inside  (03:31) 20  Poison  (04:29) 21  Hey Stoopid  (04:15)
The Definitive Alice Cooper : Allmusic album Review : In 2001, the U.S. received the 22-track Alice Cooper compilation Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper, while the rest of the world got the 21-track The Definitive Alice Cooper. Besides different album cover artwork, the difference between the two releases is minor, as the track listing is similar for the most part (save a few tracks). For a single-disc overview of Coopers career from 1971 through 1991, The Definitive Alice Cooper is a fine set, as all of the original shock rockers hits are present, as well as a few strong album cuts. Kudos to the gents who assembled this collection for mixing in such underrated early-70s gems as the epic "Halo of Flies" and "Generation Landslide," which measure up nicely alongside such bona fide hits as "Im Eighteen," "Under My Wheels," "Schools Out," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy." The quality of the tunes dips a bit for the last nine songs (due to the fact that Cooper dismissed his original stellar backing band in favor of a solo career), especially when such blah ballads as "I Never Cry," "You and Me," and "How You Gonna See Me Now" are put back to back to back (as well as such latter-day spotty rockers as "Poison" and "Hey Stoopid"). But if you want a collection of Coopers best known tracks throughout a large portion of his career, The Definitive Alice Cooper is a wise choice.
	Album: 27 of 41 Title:  Dragontown Released:  2001-09-18 Tracks:  12 Duration:  50:59 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Triggerman  (04:00) 2   Deeper  (04:35) 3   Dragontown  (05:05) 4   Sex, Death and Money  (03:38) 5   Fantasy Man  (04:06) 6   Somewhere in the Jungle  (05:21) 7   Disgraceland  (03:32) 8   Sister Sara  (04:34) 9   Every Woman Has a Name  (03:43) 10  I Just Wanna Be God  (03:52) 11  It’s Much Too Late  (04:39) 12  The Sentinel  (03:53)
Dragontown : Allmusic album Review : Dragontown continues the assault of Alice Coopers gift to the new millennium that was Brutal Planet. Considered a third chapter of a trilogy initiated by 1994s The Last Temptation, this shadowy production plays like hardcore in slow motion. There is no one identifiable song like "Gimme" or "Brutal Planet" from the last episode, but the production values are high and the innovative riffs consistent. This work stands on its own, chock-full of the dark prince of pops nasty humor. "Its Much Too Late" is supposed to be for John Lennon, but the Beatlesque backing vocals sound like Carole Kings hit from Tapestry on hard drugs. There are references to the sacrilege spread out over Lennons work from Plastic Ono Band to Imagine, but here Alice takes off the gloves and gives the church the finger: "Im sending you all to hell/Im tired and Im wired here...." Continuing the dismal discourse of the previous record, Cooper takes Ray Davies advice in a way the Kinks leader never could -- A.C. actually gives the fans what they want. "The Sentinel" is some creature of the devil out there harvesting souls -- possibly the souls of dead rock & rollers. The ode to Elvis Presley is a bit more unnerving: "Disgraceland" is metal rockabilly with blazing guitars -- "Went to the pearly gates/Said Im uh here to sing/And Peter said, Well son, you see we already got ourselves a king." If you dont think Alice Cooper is the Bob Dylan of nastiness, you clearly havent followed his pernicious poetry over the years. (Hasnt everyone tried too hard to like Bob Dylans Love and Theft? Do you really think it will have a place in history as solid as "Like a Rolling Stone" or "Ballad of a Thin Man"?) Where Mariah Carey goes through the motions and wonders why no one cares, Alice Cooper proves that he still does care. This might not be as platinum as Trash or as explosive as Killer, but the older, wiser Alice Cooper devastates with subtle intensity and venomous lyrics. The 12-page booklet inside the very Halloweenish cover contains print that is much too small, but the great photos are exactly what the fans crave: Alice showing the world he was Freddy Krueger long before that character came to life. "Every Woman Has a Name" is a beautiful evil ballad, a throwback to the days of "How You Gonna See Me Now," only Coopers vocals are even better years later; he is a great singer, the Perry Como of hate. Its too bad the songs are so utterly negative -- at ten minutes shy of an hour, this album succeeds in going further down into the depths and would be a perfect horror movie soundtrack. If you cant figure out who "I Just Wanna Be God" is about you havent read your Bible. "Im the omnipresent ruler of the human race...I was born to rock/I was born to rule." Alice Cooper narrates from the first person, the Devils frustrations are the angst that punks, metal heads, and rappers are floundering around looking for. "I Just Wanna Be God" is rap in slow motion -- a loud, sludgy dirge. It explodes after the ballad and disintegrates into "The Sentinel." If St. Peter stands by the pearly gates, then Alice Cooper is putting in his nomination to be the guardian of hells entry point. He should be careful what he wishes for. From the blitz that is "Triggerman," which opens the album, to the crunching conclusion, this album is so good that it appears Alice has already landed the job. Listener beware.
	Album: 28 of 41 Title:  Hell Is Released:  2003-09-23 Tracks:  16 Duration:  1:11:48 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   House of Fire  (03:46) 3   Hell Is Living Without You  (04:11) 4   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 5   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 6   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 7   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 8   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 9   Hurricane Years  (03:58) 10  Lost in America  (03:53) 11  Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 12  It’s Me  (04:38) 13  Cleansed by Fire  (06:12) 14  Fire  (03:00) 15  Go to Hell (live)  (05:30) 16  Schools Out  (03:53)
Hell Is : Allmusic album Review : Alice Cooper has recorded for a variety of different labels over the course of his career, and it seems as if each label has issued a respective "best-of" collection. During most of the late 80s/early 90s, Alices home was Epic Records, for which he issued 1989s Trash, 1991s Hey Stoopid, 1994s The Last Temptation, and 1995s Classicks, and this is the era thats highlighted on the 2003 16-track compilation Hell Is. Although he scored his first hit album in years with Trash (thanks to the hit single "Poison" and contributions from Jon Bon Jovi and Steven Tyler), Alice continued with this pop-metal approach on Hey Stoopid. Bad move, as it soon stuck out like a sore thumb among such burgeoning hard rock styles as thrash metal and grunge. As a result, Alice returned to the sprawling, conceptual approach of such past classics as Welcome to My Nightmare for The Last Temptation. While Temptation may not have boosted his commercial appeal, it at least restored his standing among his legion of fans, before Alice fulfilled his contract with the half-compilation/half-concert set, Classicks. Instead of buying all four of these schizophrenic albums, Hell Is will probably be the wisest choice for most, as it collects such highlights as the aforementioned "Poison" and the underrated "Stolen Prayer" (which was penned by Soundgardens Chris Cornell, who also makes a vocal cameo), as well as live renditions of such Alice classics as "Schools Out" and "Go to Hell."
	Album: 29 of 41 Title:  The Eyes of Alice Cooper Released:  2003-09-23 Tracks:  13 Duration:  44:19 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   What Do You Want From Me?  (03:25) 2   Between High School & Old School  (03:02) 3   Man of the Year  (02:52) 4   Novocaine  (03:08) 5   Bye Bye, Baby  (03:27) 6   Be With You Awhile  (04:17) 7   Detroit City  (03:59) 8   Spirits Rebellious  (03:35) 9   This House Is Haunted  (03:31) 10  Love Should Never Feel Like This  (03:33) 11  The Song That Didn’t Rhyme  (03:17) 12  I’m So Angry  (03:36) 13  Backyard Brawl  (02:37)
The Eyes of Alice Cooper : Allmusic album Review : Give him points for persistence: Alice Cooper just wont quit. Hes seen it all from the bottom to the top -- and done the trip more than once -- but still continues on his merry-morbid way, punching out albums like a spry youngun. The first thing one has to say about The Eyes of Alice Cooper is thank Jehovah and all his witnesses that the Mascarad One has grown out of his metal/industrial phase. That look just never took. Discs like Brutal Planet (2000) and the somewhat better Dragontown (2001) offered little to his legacy or his legion of fans -- aside from nascent headbangers discovering the Coop for the first time. Eyes harks back to Alices overly maligned early-80s discs Special Forces and Flush the Fashion -- albums that suffered by comparison with his landmark 70s releases but remain far more musically appealing than the aforementioned new-millennium fare. It takes a couple of listens to "get it," but there is some very good material here: largely derivative, yes, but energetic and entertaining nonetheless. And the old sneer-and-wink is back and comes through in lyrics that, unlike the sonics, are distinctive. The punkish "Man of the Year" is a tragicomedy rip on button-down-collar types who climb lifes ladder only to end up putting a gun in their mouths. "Novocaine" (the very word brings back memories of Billion Dollar Babies and "Unfinished Sweet") has, believe it, a Bruce Springsteen guitar sound. The best rocker of the pack is "Detroit City," a quasi-anthemic, mid-tempo grunter fuelled by a slapping, tom-tom beat and a fist-pumping chorus. (MC5s Wayne Kramer adds an extra axe on this one.) The classically Cooper-esque ballad "Be With You a While" is another scene-stealer ("I wish I could tell you/Something you didnt know/I wish I could give you/Something you didnt own") and shows that the ol snake-twirler still has a sensitive side. The most autobiographical moment comes with the second track, "Between High School and Old School." To wit: "Im stuck somewhere between high school and old school." Ah, but was it not always thus? For more than three decades Alice has been everyones favorite grown-up in teens clothing. And thats why hes loved. Alice being Alice. Its tried and true and it works again here. Not exceptionally, but more than acceptably. In the sweeping context of his legendary career, one could say that The Eyes of Alice Cooper is far from his best album and just as far from his worst.
	Album: 30 of 41 Title:  Dirty Diamonds Released:  2005-07-04 Tracks:  13 Duration:  46:50 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Woman of Mass Distraction  (03:59) 2   Perfect  (03:31) 3   You Make Me Wanna  (03:31) 4   Dirty Diamonds  (04:03) 5   The Saga of Jesse Jane  (04:17) 6   Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)  (03:28) 7   Pretty Ballerina  (03:02) 8   Run Down the Devil  (03:29) 9   Steal That Car  (03:16) 10  Six Hours  (03:24) 11  Your Own Worst Enemy  (02:19) 12  Zombie Dance  (04:23) 13  Stand  (04:08)
Dirty Diamonds : Allmusic album Review : When the big fat advances from big fat record companies dried up, Alice Cooper pared down his sound and came to terms with his inner garage on the nearly overdubless The Eyes of Alice Cooper. The album was worthy redemption from the big-money blandness of his mid-80s recordings and a nice return to form after flirting with the industrial-flavored metal that defined his late-90s material. Dirty Diamonds stays the course, and while its not Killer or Love It to Death, it at least sounds like its from the guy who was responsible for those classics. Fortunately, Alice is well aware of his age, and without teen angst as his focus, he turns to hedonism, sexy women, and sly, sicko humor played bar band style by one of the tightest crews hes ever fronted. Delivered in an exaggerated Johnny Cash style, "Im in jail in a Texas town/In my sisters wedding gown" opens the bizarre "The Saga of Jesse Jane," a tale of a trucker who drives his rig all night listening to Judy Garland. Its inspired, as is the cover of the Left Bankes "Pretty Ballerina" (harpsichord, flute, and all), the reckless party tune "Steal That Car," and the slinking "Six Hours," which smells a lot like Cooper during his Bob Ezrin heyday until the dramatic bridge comes along and makes the likeness uncanny. The album is filled with surprises, but recalling his Flush the Fashion era with the robotic snarl on "Your Own Worst Enemy" takes the cake for Cooper fanatics. The catchy "Perfect" is a worthy single and the filler is clearly marked "bonus track." Ending the album with the Southern-fried, horror show "Zombie Dance" would have made more sense, since "Stand" with rapper Xzibit -- lifted from Unity: The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Games Album -- is silly and forced. Those are traits the rest of this fine album avoids like they were poison, or for that matter, "Poison."
	Album: 31 of 41 Title:  Legends Released:  2005-09-05 Tracks:  35 Duration:  2:38:46 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Spark in the Dark  (03:52) 3   House of Fire  (03:46) 4   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 5   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 6   Fire  (03:00) 7   Hell Is Living Without You  (04:11) 8   Might as Well Be on Mars  (07:09) 9   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 10  Hurricane Years  (03:58) 11  Little by Little  (04:35) 12  Die for You  (04:16) 1   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 2   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 3   Snakebite  (04:33) 4   Burning Our Bed  (04:34) 5   Dangerous Tonight  (04:41) 6   Wind‐Up Toy  (05:27) 7   Sideshow  (06:39) 8   Lost in America  (03:53) 9   You’re My Temptation  (05:10) 10  Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 11  It’s Me  (04:38) 12  Cleansed by Fire  (05:39) 1   School’s Out (live)  (03:53) 2   I’m Eighteen (live)  (04:34) 3   Sick Things (live)  (03:10) 4   Billion Dollar Babies (live)  (03:37) 5   Go to Hell (live)  (05:31) 6   Only Women Bleed (live)  (04:08) 7   Under My Wheels (live)  (03:42) 8   Spark in the Dark (live)  (04:33) 9   Poison (live)  (05:18) 10  Hey Stoopid (live)  (04:17) 11  No More Mr. Nice Guy (live)  (03:13)
	Album: 32 of 41 Title:  The Best of Alice Cooper Released:  2007 Tracks:  15 Duration:  1:05:21 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 3   House of Fire  (03:46) 4   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 5   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 6   Lost in America  (03:53) 7   It’s Me  (04:38) 8   Billion Dollar Babies  (03:47) 9   No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:07) 10  Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 11  Snakebite  (04:33) 12  This Maniac’s in Love With You  (03:48) 13  Trash  (04:02) 14  Sideshow  (06:39) 15  Under My Wheels  (03:44)
	Album: 33 of 41 Title:  Brutal Planet/Dragontown Released:  2007 Tracks:  23 Duration:  1:39:16 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Brutal Planet  (04:40) 2   Wicked Young Man  (03:51) 3   Sanctuary  (04:00) 4   Blow Me a Kiss  (03:20) 5   Eat Some More  (04:37) 6   Pick Up the Bones  (05:17) 7   Pessi‐Mystic  (04:58) 8   Gimme  (04:48) 9   It’s the Little Things  (04:13) 10  Take It Like a Woman  (04:12) 11  Cold Machines  (04:14) 1   Triggerman  (04:00) 2   Deeper  (04:35) 3   Dragontown  (05:05) 4   Sex, Death and Money  (03:38) 5   Fantasy Man  (04:06) 6   Somewhere in the Jungle  (05:21) 7   Disgraceland  (03:32) 8   Sister Sara  (04:34) 9   Every Woman Has a Name  (03:43) 10  I Just Wanna Be God  (03:52) 11  It’s Much Too Late  (04:39) 12  The Sentinel  (03:53)
Brutal Planet/Dragontown : Allmusic album Review : This "two-fer" from the Snapper label collects two of Alice Coopers better later recordings, Brutal Planet and Dragontown, both of which were a return to form for the original "shock rocker."
	Album: 34 of 41 Title:  Along Came a Spider Released:  2008-07-25 Tracks:  14 Duration:  56:36 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Prologue / I Know Where You Live  (04:21) 2   Vengeance Is Mine  (04:26) 3   Wake the Dead  (03:53) 4   Catch Me If You Can  (03:15) 5   (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side  (03:16) 6   Wrapped in Silk  (04:17) 7   Killed by Love  (03:34) 8   I’m Hungry  (03:58) 9   The One That Got Away  (03:21) 10  Salvation  (04:36) 11  I Am the Spider / Epilogue  (05:21) 12  Shadow of Yourself  (03:33) 13  I’ll Still Be There  (03:55) 14  Salvation (unplugged with string section)  (04:50)
Along Came a Spider : Allmusic album Review : Throughout his long career, Alice Cooper has taken full advantage of how concept albums allow for more ambitious songwriting and memorable, layered characters who get more than one song to tell their stories. Theyre always tortured stories with social outcasts rebelling against turbulent childhoods or other traumatic whatnot, but this time the stakes are much higher. Along Came a Spider tells the story of an eccentric serial killer who suffers from the exact opposite of arachnophobia and lives by the spiders code of "You trap, you kill, you eat." How he got there and why he chose spiders is a story better heard from Alice -- that is, if youre an undying fan of his less accessible concept piece From the Inside or his phantasmagorical horror show Welcome to My Nightmare. Spider has as few hooks as Inside and more than twice the sinister moments found on Nightmare, all delivered with a post-Rob Zombie attitude that allows things to get a little more brutal, more alt-metal. While the casual fan will feel that some of the less gripping songs are just here to move the story along, fanatics will gush as Alice once again acts as host and narrator and revives the character Steven, the young boy who broke all his toys on Nightmare. With a serial killer as lead and titles like "(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side" and "The One That Got Away," Alice fills his lyrics with clever and gruesome wordplay, but the winner here is the only plausible single, "Wake the Dead," which shockingly and shamelessly borrows the bassline from the Chemical Brothers "Let Forever Be." Guitarist Slash, Kiss drummer Eric Singer, and background vocalist extraordinaire Bernard Fowler all make appearances, while Renaissance man Danny Saber handles the production with co-producer Greg Hampton, which appropriately sounds soundtrack big. An easy recommendation for fan club members and/or serial killers. Everyone else has two or three better Cooper concepts to devour first.
	Album: 35 of 41 Title:  Greatest Hits: Steel Box Collection Released:  2009-04-07 Tracks:  10 Duration:  48:57 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Lost in America  (03:53) 3   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 4   Why Trust You  (03:12) 5   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 6   You’re My Temptation  (05:10) 7   Trash  (04:02) 8   Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 9   Sideshow  (06:39) 10  Might as Well Be on Mars  (07:09)
	Album: 36 of 41 Title:  Spark in the Dark: The Best of Alice Cooper Released:  2009-06-11 Tracks:  32 Duration:  2:26:31 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 3   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 4   House of Fire  (03:46) 5   Spark in the Dark  (03:52) 6   Trash  (04:02) 7   Hell Is Living Without You  (04:11) 8   I’m Your Gun  (03:47) 9   Snakebite  (04:33) 10  Burning Our Bed  (04:34) 11  Dangerous Tonight  (04:41) 12  Might as Well Be on Mars  (07:09) 13  Hurricane Years  (03:58) 14  Bad Place Alone  (05:04) 15  You’re My Temptation  (05:10) 16  Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 1   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 2   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 3   Lost in America  (03:53) 4   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 5   It’s Me  (04:38) 6   Little by Little  (04:35) 7   Die for You  (04:16) 8   Dirty Dreams  (03:29) 9   Wind‐Up Toy  (05:27) 10  Nothing’s Free  (05:01) 11  Sideshow  (06:39) 12  Unholy War  (04:10) 13  Cleansed by Fire  (06:12) 14  No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:08) 15  Billion Dollar Babies  (03:37) 16  Schools Out  (03:46)
Spark in the Dark: The Best of Alice Cooper : Allmusic album Review : Spark in the Dark is a decent two-disc collection containing some of Alice Coopers most popular songs recorded during his comeback in the late 80s. Among the 36 tracks are the original versions of "Poison," "Hey Stoopid," "Feed My Frankenstein," and live versions of his classics "Schools Out," "Billion Dollar Babies," and "No More Mr Nice Guy." This set is close to being definitive for that stage of his career.
	Album: 37 of 41 Title:  Welcome 2 My Nightmare Released:  2011-09-12 Tracks:  14 Duration:  52:45 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   I Am Made of You  (05:32) 2   Caffeine  (03:23) 3   The Nightmare Returns  (01:14) 4   A Runaway Train  (03:51) 5   Last Man on Earth  (03:47) 6   The Congregation  (03:59) 7   I’ll Bite Your Face Off  (04:25) 8   Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever  (03:35) 9   Ghouls Gone Wild  (02:33) 10  Something to Remember Me By  (03:16) 11  When Hell Comes Home  (04:30) 12  What Baby Wants  (03:43) 13  I Gotta Get Outta Here  (04:20) 14  The Underture  (04:37)
Welcome 2 My Nightmare : Allmusic album Review : Alice Cooper may not have had a hit single in two decades but he’s hardly kept quiet during the two decades that separate 1991’s Hey Stoopid and 2011’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare. In addition to his quite good syndicated radio show he’s regularly recorded new records, some getting positive notice, some sinking into obscurity, but none have had quite the high profile of Welcome 2 My Nightmare, an explicit sequel to 1975’s Welcome to My Nightmare that re-teams Alice with producer Bob Ezrin along with such Alice Cooper band veterans as Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith. Given these blasts from the past, it would seem that Welcome 2 My Nightmare would be a throwback to the ‘70s, but one of the great unspoken things about Alice Cooper is that he always makes records that sound like their time and this is no exception, with Ezrin pumping Alice through enough Auto-Tune to compete with Kesha, who happens to be brought in for a duet on the metallic bubblegum “What Baby Wants.” Kesha isn’t the only cameo here: country legend Vince Gill and Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood contribute some guitar, as does former Marilyn Manson sideman John 5, and the very names of these guests go a long way in explaining the giddy kaleidoscope of sounds here. Electro-prog butts shoulders with tightly wound metal, runaway rockabilly, vaudevillian shuffles, disco-rock, garage pop, and power ballads, and old showman that he is, Alice Cooper sells them with a convincing grin. Alice may be the star but much of the success of Welcome 2 My Nightmare is due to the man behind the curtain, as Ezrin gives this album flair and focus that not only make it an unexpectedly successful sequel but the best Alice Cooper record in decades.
	Album: 38 of 41 Title:  Original Album Classics Released:  2011-10-07 Tracks:  32 Duration:  2:27:29 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Spark in the Dark  (03:52) 3   House of Fire  (03:46) 4   Why Trust You  (03:12) 5   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 6   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 7   This Maniac’s in Love With You  (03:48) 8   Trash  (04:02) 9   Hell Is Living Without You  (04:11) 10  I’m Your Gun  (03:47) 1   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 2   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 3   Snakebite  (04:33) 4   Burning Our Bed  (04:34) 5   Dangerous Tonight  (04:41) 6   Might as Well Be on Mars  (07:09) 7   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 8   Hurricane Years  (03:58) 9   Little by Little  (04:35) 10  Die for You  (04:16) 11  Dirty Dreams  (03:29) 12  Wind‐Up Toy  (05:27) 1   Sideshow  (06:39) 2   Nothing’s Free  (05:01) 3   Lost in America  (03:53) 4   Bad Place Alone  (05:04) 5   You’re My Temptation  (05:10) 6   Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 7   Unholy War  (04:10) 8   Lullaby  (04:28) 9   It’s Me  (04:38) 10  Cleansed by Fire  (06:12)
	Album: 39 of 41 Title:  Playlist: The Very Best of Alice Cooper Released:  2012-05-29 Tracks:  14 Duration:  59:19 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:44) 2   House of Fire  (03:46) 3   Hey Stoopid  (04:15) 4   Poison  (04:29) 5   I’m Eighteen (live)  (04:34) 6   Billion Dollar Babies (live)  (03:38) 7   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 8   Only Women Bleed (live)  (04:08) 9   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 10  No More Mr. Nice Guy (live version)  (03:14) 11  Lost in America  (03:53) 12  Cold Ethyl (live version)  (03:13) 13  Schools Out  (03:46) 14  Sideshow  (06:39)
Playlist: The Very Best of Alice Cooper : Allmusic album Review : Playlist: The Very Best of Alice Cooper, the original shock rockers entry into the budget-priced Playlist series, features usual suspects like "Im Eighteen," "Billion Dollar Babies," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Only Women Bleed," and "Schools Out," except unlike better, more comprehensive collections, all of the aforementioned tracks are live. In fact, Playlist is nearly an exact replica of 1995s budget-priced Classicks, which featured studio cuts from the late-80s and early-90s like "Poison" and "Hey Stoopid," mixed in with live version of early hits. Listeners looking for something a little more stable would be better off with Rhinos Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper.
	Album: 40 of 41 Title:  Paranormal Released:  2017-07-28 Tracks:  18 Duration:  1:07:30 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Paranormal  (04:11) 2   Dead Flies  (02:22) 3   Fireball  (04:49) 4   Paranoiac Personality  (03:11) 5   Fallen in Love  (03:33) 6   Dynamite Road  (02:43) 7   Private Public Breakdown  (03:26) 8   Holy Water  (03:08) 9   Rats  (02:38) 10  The Sound of A  (04:06) 1   Genuine American Girl  (04:27) 2   You and All of Your Friends  (02:42) 3   No More Mr. Nice Guy  (03:10) 4   Under My Wheels  (02:56) 5   Billion Dollar Babies  (03:44) 6   Feed My Frankenstein  (05:02) 7   Only Women Bleed  (05:12) 8   School’s Out  (06:10)
Paranormal : Allmusic album Review : Some things never change -- the sky is blue, two plus two equals four, the sun rises in the east, and Alice Cooper will make albums where he sneers out spooky lyrics as long as he can draw breath. Cooper hadnt had anything resembling a hit since the mid-90s, but the man clearly had no desire to retire, and though he was 69 years old when he released Paranormal in 2017, he still sounded admirably spry and hadnt lost his voice or his charisma. Paranormal was released not long after Cooper reunited with surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band for some surprise shows, and the advance word on the album had it that Cooper was going to write and record with them. While bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith pop up on a few tracks of Paranormal, the two songs they wrote with him, "Genuine American Girl" and "You and All of Your Friends," appear on Paranormal as bonus tracks, and anyone hoping for a blast of sleazy glory in the manner of Schools Out or Killer will be a bit disappointed. (Then again, when the Coop brought a bunch of the original guys on board for 2011s Welcome 2 My Nightmare, no one noticed, so maybe the fans have faulty expectations.) While it features Dunaway, Smith, and producer Bob Ezrin (who was at the controls for Coopers best 70s work), Paranormal more closely resembles Coopers hair metal-flavored work of the 90s, though Ezrin has given this material a more up-to-date sheen. Thankfully, Paranormal is a livelier and more entertaining listen than Trash or Hey Stoopid, and while he aims for high spookiness on "Dead Flies," "The Sound of A," and the title track, he seems to be having more fun with wittier numbers like "Dynamite Road," "Private Public Breakdown," and "Fallen in Love" ("and I cant get up!"). The band delivers the goods with admirable precision and some honest enthusiasm, while the guests include Larry Mullen from U2, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, and Roger Glover from Deep Purple (and who wouldve guessed that those guys would ever be on an album together, let alone with Alice Cooper?). Paranormal isnt the return to form one might have hoped for, but its no embarrassment either, and Cooper appears to be having a grand time while giving his fans a good show for their dollar.
	Album: 41 of 41 Title:  The Essential Alice Cooper: The Epic Years Released:  2018-03-16 Tracks:  32 Duration:  2:26:37 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify    AlbumCover	1   Poison  (04:29) 2   Bed of Nails  (04:20) 3   Hey Stoopid (album version)  (04:34) 4   House of Fire  (03:46) 5   Spark in the Dark  (03:52) 6   Trash  (04:02) 7   Hell Is Living Without You  (04:11) 8   I’m Your Gun  (03:47) 9   Snakebite  (04:33) 10  Burning Our Bed  (04:34) 11  Dangerous Tonight  (04:41) 12  Might as Well Be on Mars  (07:09) 13  Hurricane Years  (03:58) 14  Bad Place Alone  (05:04) 15  You’re My Temptation  (05:10) 16  Stolen Prayer  (05:36) 1   Love’s a Loaded Gun  (04:11) 2   Feed My Frankenstein  (04:45) 3   Lost in America  (03:53) 4   Only My Heart Talkin’  (04:46) 5   It’s Me  (04:39) 6   Little by Little  (04:35) 7   Die for You  (04:16) 8   Dirty Dreams  (03:29) 9   Wind‐Up Toy  (05:27) 10  Nothing’s Free  (05:01) 11  Sideshow  (06:39) 12  Unholy War  (04:10) 13  Cleansed by Fire  (06:12) 14  No More Mr. Nice Guy (live)  (03:09) 15  Billion Dollar Babies (live)  (03:38) 16  School’s Out (live)  (03:49)