Alice Cooper
 

I just got this great Alice Cooper compilation and remembered how cool and innovative Alice has been. I really like the rockers like "Under My Wheels", "Schools Out", and "Muscle of Love" but the slower ones are pretty cool too. His sick sense of humor on "I Love the Dead" is pretty fun.

I used to like Alice Cooper, but now it just seems really mainstream.

First it was Ozzy and now Alice Cooper.

But I still give him props for what he has done.

Alice kicks ass.


Killer is one of my favourite albums of all time.

From the Inside....

"Millie and Billie" is one of the sweetest love songs ever:p

Gotta love 'Cold Ethyl'


Dustin says, "Devil's Food, Black Widow, Prince Of Darkness, Raise Your Fist And Yell, This Maniac's In Love With You, and Thrill My Gorilla"...


:D

alice cooper is who marilyn manson wanted so badly to be .. but Marilyn got caught up in the image and forgot that Alice Cooper was popular because he could rock.

That's actually a really good analogy...

Has anyone here seen his "Brutally Live" concert DVD? Im thinking of buying it, it has all my favourites from him plus it comes with a bonus CD. Only $20 CDN at Future Shop:)

Pick it up....how can ya go wrong with Alice Cooper....:cool:

I have it.....go get it...its good.

Hopefully Future Shop has it in stock, if they do Ill get it today. Actually...I'll probably check another store, too. One of the 2 better have it...if not, Ill get Welcome to my Nightmare. Might get both anyway...dunno if I have enough though.

I either called or went to 4 different stores...ended up just getting Welcome to my Nightmare. Should be kickass anyway.

I love that album too! :D And I agee on that song.

The man was brilliant.

Is he still doing the Christian thing?


Manson could rock with the best of them (Portrait of an American Family and Antichrist Superstar are up their with Cooper's finer moments). Manson and Cooper are both fine examples of how hype ruins a good artist. Fame and notoriety went to both of their heads and their music suffered because of it. Alice Cooper has some horrible excuses for albums, especially after he dropped his original band. Welcome to my Nightmare was the last really good thing he did.

Alice Cooper
 

I really like the song the man behind the mask.Jason from friday the thirteenth was what gave him the idea for the song.

i think you'll see in the end that cooper had/will have a more solid body of work than Manson at the end of his career ..

Cooper was for a time - all about the live shows and thats where the hype came from ..
Manson was more the videos and the magazines (again - talking about hype)

both of them also found their popularity fueled by the 'christian groups' that tried to stop them. I thinki this helped Manson more then Cooper though as he was pretty established - and stayed established for a long time.

the other thing working against Manson is how fast music is changing now .. how fickle the fan base is .. no one stays 'cool' for very long these days - especially the ones that seem more gimmicy than others.

I myself didnt dislike - or like Manson .. some of his stuff was ok but it'll never have the lasting impression that Alice Cooper had for me ... (he was also far more diverse and had a great sense of humor)

Manson had some pretty amazing live shows for awhile there during the Antichrist Superstar tour. I'm not really into him at all but I think they'll be seen in the same light. But Alice started it all and has a good 30 years ahead of Manson of people appreacating his work in a different light compared to when it came out. I've started to enjoy a few Manson albums if people have put them on because I see him in a different light to when it first came out. But yeh..... Mr Cooper is definatley better.

I think that nothing "stays cool" for very long these days because the industry has become more of a exploitative monster since the grunge explosion. The industry just chews up and spits out genres a lot quicker than it used too.... looking for the next big thing to make a $ off. The majority of so called music fans just follow what the industry press and televison tells them too like fucking sheep.

what amazes me are the ones that do stay in the limelight - like brittney spears ..

the more banal the music is the longer it lasts ...
its the marketing - its how many little girls you can convince to want to be brittney - and how many guys you can convince to want to fuck her ..

the music business isnt concerned with music at all..
like you said - it is an ugly unsatiable monster ...

That shit is fucking terrible. Mass media brainwashing of the youth. It makes me sick seeing 8 y.o girls in Brittney, ect style clothes. They've enforced their idealogy and turned kids into something that they shouldn't be. Punk and Metal are the usual scapegoats for destroying moralistic values/ changing kids appearances but at least those genres have a (somewhat) positive message and don't treat the kids like "product".

Unfinished Sweet

Candy everywhere , got chocolate in my hair
Aching to get me
Stickly sweet suckers in the Halloween air
Aching to get me
Saint Vitus dance on my morals tonight
Aching to get me
Aching to get me, get me oh ...
Take it to the doc, I guess he ought to know
La, la, la, da
Which ones can stay , which one gotta go
He looks in my mouth and then he starts to gloat
He says me teeth are O.K.
But my gums got to go
Oh oh ...
I come off the gas but I'm still seeing spies
Aching to get me
I can see them all through a glassy pair of eyes
Aching to get me
De Sade's gonna live in my mouth tonight
La, da, da, da, da
And the rotten tooth fairy is satisfied
La, da, da, da, da
Aching to get me, get me oh ...

I really dig this song at the moment off Billion Dollar Babies.

.......anyone else tripped out by Dentists? :eek:

Yep I said that

The only song of his I've heard is "Poison", and It's a great song.

Get downloading man! Hell, buy a few CDs even! I knows theres a fairly decent "Super Hits" collection that you can get for around $7, and it has some damn fine songs! Not his best work, but still good.


I reccomend his album Killer, from 1971. Definatly one of the best albums ever, IMO.


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Oh, and I've also heard "Schools Out"

Killer was the first ever vinyl album i bought,it was ten pence (5 cents) from a charity shop.it's still one of my favourites!
his early stuff was and IS just superb!
I only saw him live once,in 1981 in Birmingham UK.

You pick up some dope vinyl at charity stores at times. Was the show good? Got any pics of it?

no, wish i'd had a camera back then,a few years after that i met gene simmons from KISS and he signed me all along my belly in indelible marker!
nah...i was to poor to afford a camera.:(

ahhh well that's what memories are for :)

Holy Crap!!

I will more than likely be seeing this living legend LIVE and In Concert this Spring!! Tickets arent even very expensive, awesomely enough. Gettin mine Monday mornin, soon as they're on sale:D :D

Tickets are now IN MY HAND.

Remind me not to talk bad about my dad anymore, ok? He wouldnt let me miss school to wait in line, so he waited in line and bought 'em instead! I need to pay him back of course....but still, no lines:D

what an awesome daddy:)

have you got "From The Inside" yet? I don't know HOW many times I have mentioned that album, but it's definitely worth all of the mentions!!!

About 6 times from memory :p

Alice Cooper is the man, my dad worked with him and we have a killer signed velvet poster. Anyway, have his box set and if you don't, buy it... today.

who's your dad? my best friends were in his band.....maybe we know some of the same people.

Alice Cooper is awesome and I think all of his songs are great and I got all of his albums and they all kick ass and for the person who asked about Brutally Live, it kicks ass and you should definitely get it.

Everybody loves POISON, or most people anyway, I heard a remake last week, they raped the song!!!!! well not really, i love both versions now, I was thinking of getting a signature and I will get on this year or the next summer, but he looks real old lol

Holy crap...concert is a week from Thursday!

CANT FRIGGIN WAIT:D :D :D :D

concert??? where do you live? He played (can't remember) last year or the year before that on Graspop in belgium, a metal meeting festival, too bad I wasn't there

Im in Canada

The concert is T-O-N-I-G-H-T


Im going with a friend of mine, our tickets are for the fourth row in the floor. SWEET!

About 6 hours until the show...:D