Constrictor..............................Alice Cooper
This album never gets liked, it seems to some to be the low point in ACs huge multi-generational musical output. The lyrics may be at times teenage, but that was his target audience. I love the LP sound of this disk. In terms of 80s metal it is a masterpiece of that recording style. The drums and guitar are perfect. This seems to be a wild card to pull out when I just can't find a fast cheesy fix of 80s metal!
So Killer gets all the love. Billion Dollar Babies is ok. Welcome To My Nightmare is ok. For some reason I am not even able to tolerate Alice Cooper Goes To Hell? So what do you really have to play? Schools Out! Yes.
I'm not into greatest hits compilations, but want to hear the original LPs in all their (floor of the bedroom) teenage glory. The sequence of the songs, the sound of a needle drop. A click, a pop, you show me a perfect Alice Cooper record from the day and I will show you something that was (still throughly) used and abused. These disks got beer all over them due to being brought out at midnight when things were just getting going. They were thrown around and gave their life for the moment just like we all did.
OK, so later Alice went out of fashion, and fell like many into the the 80s metal epidemic. His style goes great with Constrictor. What else do you want? In the simple form and purpose, it is what it is. A great rock record with a shocking cover. I dare you you to try and play air-guitar to Teenage Frankenstein in your underwear without grinning just a little. That is what this stuff is about. We have all been way to serious about our music, getting a little farther from the true meaning (and message) every year. I still remember when Alice was a great threat to America! Ruining the minds of American youth with his over the top shows and lyrics. Today he is as harmless as a puppy, except being the grandfather of shock-rock right next to Arthur Brown. He has set-up the shock-rock template for all the Slipknots and Kiss bands in the world. Anyone else out there who is attempting to be cutting edge or bad owes their shock grade school antics to the band known as Alice Cooper.
Kiss :Unmasked
I can't help but find a crazy charm in these silly disco pop songs.
There are even some interesting songs: "Is that you", "Talk to me" for example.
Kiss :Unmasked
I can't help but find a crazy charm in these silly disco pop songs.
There are even some interesting songs: "Is that you", "Talk to me" for example.
I tried so hard to love that record but never could, though somehow Dynasty found a way in? It may have been my age when it came out. It was the transition phase from old KISS to the metal KISS with the album that followed Music from “The Elder”. Then they were totally Metal.
“The Elder” could absolutely be on this list, because I love that record, not 100% all of it though. Just like Judas Priest’s Nostradamus, I really like it, but not everyone does.
That was wild that Creatures was first issued with Ace on the cover then Vinni Vincent, then the reissue has Bruce Kulick plastered onto it, and the whole band also took their make-up off. So who really plays guitar here?
Listening to Lick it up with Vinnie Vincent, I feel like it's him on Creatures. Ace is present in the photo for contractual reasons from what I have read. The cover with Bruce Kulick and the band without makeup is rubbish. In addition Vincent Cusano (Vinnie Vincent) co-signed 3 songs on Creatures.
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