ALICE COOPER APPRECIATION

I love all of the Alice Cooper albums and have collected heaps over the years. He is a pioneer of makeup wearing, before Kiss, he is a pioneer of screeching vocals, he was the original shock rocker before Marilyn Manson and he also had comncept albiums such as Welcome to my Nightmare. His best work?

I think his Brital Planet was the ultimate - one of the latest too. Incredible riffs and very heavy music, way heavier than his previous stuff. New album Along came a Spider is nowhere near as heavy or as good.

 

 

 

 

 

I love Alice.

Yes he certaioly was great in the 70s and then the 80s killed him - but his 90s and 2000 albums are as heavy as he would get - Brutal Planet is incredible metal.

he was signed by Frank Zappa in the late 60s

I just did a review in the database for Love It To Death, which I am convinced has a good claim to being the first glam *rock* album (even if it isn't very "metal"). Kiss hadn't put out their debut when it came out, T.Rex were still singing about fairies and pixies and wouldn't put out Electric Warrior until later in the year, Bowie hadn't put out Hunky Dory... and 40 years later the man still uses material from it in his live act.

UMUR wrote: life93 wrote: absolutely phenomenal artist, extremely underrated in the history of Rock and Roll. He had some amazing musicians in his band over the years (Dennis Dunaway, Dick Wagner, Glen Buxton, the list goes on and on and on). Also one of the best live acts on the planet, always gives the crowd an awesome show.   I don�t think I would call him underrated. The man has sold millions of albums, his live shows are legendary and add to that, that he is still alive and kickin� I�d say he has received just the praise and success that he has earned.

I should have clarified my statement a little bit, maybe overlooked was a better term. What I meant is in in classic rock discussions, and especially in "classic rock polls" Alice is usually either very low on the list or not on the lists at all. I'm also part of the generation of younger fans, I'm 17 and have been listening to Alice Cooper since I was about 10 years old, and it seems only in the past couple of years Alice has received most of the accolades he deserves, Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, The Golden Gods award, etc. Also his music i feel is underrated, when most people think of Alice Cooper,at least people in my age group they think of "oh the dude that wears the crazy makeup and kills himself on stage" and only know the "hit songs" (18,schools out,No More Mr.Nice Guy) when he has a tremendous back catalog of material that has aged extremely well throughout the years.


Edited by life93 - 05 Jul 2011 at 10:30am

Im more into the early Alice Cooper Band but i also really dig Welcom to My Nightmare which is better then anything Meat Loaf have tried to make akind to.