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...
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Since the original Alice Cooper band was a major catalyst in the creation of punk rock (Cooper's snide lyrics, the band's raw rock, etc.). By the early '80s, Cooper decided...
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After several self-indulgent albums in the late '70s (Lace & Whiskey, From the Inside, etc.), Alice Cooper decided to re-invent himself as a new waver for 1980's Flush the...
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Dragontown continues the assault of Alice Cooper's gift to the new millennium that was Brutal Planet. Considered a third chapter of a trilogy initiated by 1994's The Last...
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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...
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With 1973's Billion Dollar Babies, Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work in favor of a slightly more polished sound (courtesy of super-producer Bob Ezrin),...
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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...
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The author of the book Alice Cooper, Steve Demorest, accurately calls this "the great undiscovered" Cooper album. Pretties for You is a difficult record, and Love It to...
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Reportedly, this was recorded as a reaction to Alice being put in a sanitarium for his alcoholism. Regardless, it's an emotionally driven, finely balanced release, often...
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From the Inside was hardly Alice Cooper's best-selling or most accessible album. An intensely personal account of his recovery from substance abuse, it tends to be one of...
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Following the success of his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper followed it up with another concept album, 1976's Goes to Hell, similar in style to its...
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With the future of the original Alice Cooper band in doubt by mid-1974 (they would soon break up for good with Alice going solo), Warner Bros. decided to issue a best-of...
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Unfortunately, the return to the high-end of the charts that Alice Cooper enjoyed with 1989's Trash was short-lived. On his similar follow-up -- another slick pop-metal...
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Alice Cooper wasted little time following up the breakthrough success of 1971's Love It to Death with another album released the same year, Killer. Again, producer Bob Ezrin...
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Alice Cooper's third album, 1971's Love It to Death, can be pinpointed as the release when everything began to come together for the band. Their first couple of albums...
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Coming off such conceptual, theatrical, sleazy hard rock records as the massively successful School's Out (1972) and Billion Dollar Babies (1973), the Alice Cooper group...
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Alice Cooper's debut album reflected none of his legendary, grotesque hard rock; instead, Pretties for You was an earnest, but flawed, stab at psychedelia which occasionally...
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In the mid-'80s, Alice Cooper was able to crawl out of obscurity and re-build his cult following. Though 1986's Constrictor and the supporting Nightmare Returns tour hardly...
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1972's School's Out catapulted Alice Cooper into the hard rock stratosphere, largely due to its timeless, all-time classic title track. But while the song became Alice's...
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This live album unquestionably fails to capture the essence of Alice Cooper performing live. While listeners may hear the sound of a guillotine or the roar of a beast in the...
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Alice turns to super-producer/songwriter/hand-holder/whatever Desmond Child to make him a hit record. Very aware of itself, and posturing in ways Alice shouldn't have...
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Alice Cooper hadn't 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...
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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...
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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:...
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Though Alice Cooper's 1989 comeback gave him his first hit album in over a decade, the Trash record left some diehard fans disappointed, as did 1991's Hey Stoopid. Many...
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Alice Cooper never considered his first live album, 1977's The Alice Cooper Show, to be an adequete representation of his capabilities as an entertainer, which is one of the...
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1995's 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...
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The 1998 Australian compilation Freedom for Frankenstein: Hits & Pieces 1984-91 compiles 19 Alice Cooper selections from his late-'80s/early-'90s period while on MCA, then...
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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...
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Rhino's The Best of Alice Cooper presents a more concise alternative to 1999's mammoth, four-disc set The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper. Like the box set, this album...
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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...
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To some, it may be puzzling that Alice Cooper had almost no hits in the '80s, since much of that decade's mainstream hard rock was clearly in debt to the pioneering...
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Sony Music Special Products' ...A Nice Nightmare samples hits and album tracks from Alice Cooper's late-'80s/early-'90s comeback on Epic Records. Some of the hits are here...
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For music fans looking for a compact cross section of Alice Cooper's vintage work, The Essentials is an excellent entry point. Spanning the Coop's '70s heyday, the 12 tracks...
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Give him points for persistence: Alice Cooper just won't quit. He's seen it all from the bottom to the top -- and done the trip more than once -- but still continues on his...
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