Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds (Dig)
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Artist: Alice CooperEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Music Label: New West Records
Soundtracks:
- Woman Of Mass Distraction
- Perfect
- You Make Me Wanna
- Dirty Diamonds
- The Saga Of Jesse Jane
- Sunset Babies ( All Got Rabies )
- Pretty Ballerina
- Run Down The Devil
- Steal That Car
- Six Hours
- Own Worst Enemy
- Zombie Dance
- Stand
Free Music Notes for Dirty Diamonds (Dig)
Free Music Review: An extremely diverse collection of Alice gems
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is insanely diverse even in Alice Cooper standards. This is like AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Johny Cash, Rolling stones and Santana making an album together. There was a fear in the Alice Cooper camp that this album would become too diverse, but diversity didn't become a problem at all. This album flows very well from song to song. There are so many elements that is a miracle that this album sounds complete.
Alice has done his homework very well, because lyrics are now in some places very clever and his trademark humour is still there. Just listen to hilarious The saga of Jesse Jane the story of a transvestite truckdriver from Texas. Lyrics go. Jesse Jane are you insane?/Or are just average guy?/Who dresses like a butterfly/Jesse Jane. Another good example of great lyrics is Rolling stones esque hard rocker Sunset babies. And I'd buy her a diamond collar/ If she only throw me a bone/Here I am alone.
Arrangements are extremely good and give the album a relaxed feeling. There is flute, saxophone, tambourine and piano. The band is very good. They seem to have fun and there is some nice guitar work by Damon and Ryan. Check out guitar riffs on Dirty Diamonds, Steal that car and a guitar solo on six hours. And I gotta mention Teddy Zigzag's piano work on Sunset babies. Actually there are so many good ideas and elements on this album like a James Bond movie section on Dirty diamonds, an electrifying instrumental section on Zombie Dance and Alice's Johny Cash imitation on The saga of Jesse Jane.
The album's predecessor was more like garage rock in Alice Cooper's style, but this is real Alice Cooper music. This is a much more creative and innovative album than The eyes of Alice Cooper. A tour was for me a little dissappointment. Alice should have performed more songs from this album and taken new ideas from this album to his stage show. There are a couple weaker tracks here, but there are also many gems and future classics and his performance is very strong. His voice is in the top notch. My favourites are Dirty Diamonds (A very energetic and cool song), Sunset babies (Rolling stones is one of my favourite bands), The saga of Jesse Jane and Zombie Dance (Alice's harmonica playing is incredible and this horror song has a real style). Not one of his top albums, but comes very near. There are countless of good ideas and a variety of styles ranging from hard rock to metal to blues to country. Surely the best album of 2005 and you definately must hear this brilliance.
Dirty Diamonds (Dig) Poster
You?d think Alice Cooper?s demons would?ve been conquered by now?or maybe locked in a cage and fed undercooked meat. But the man who changed the course of rock music in the ?70s with bloody guillotines, sparking electric chairs, slimy boa constrictors, and a little blood and eyeliner still has more to slay in 2005.Although he never really left, it only felt that way because much of Alice Cooper?s 80s and 90s output has been, to be kind, forgettable. Hard rock fans were put off by the turn towards frigid techno and all but gone by Cooper?s slash and burn metal years.
2005?s return to the stinging hard rock that put him on the map is a welcome look back in anger. Kicking off with the gritty, driving guitars and snappy lyrical twists of "Woman of Mass Distraction," Cooper?s sleazy voice sounds as robust and distinctive as it did three decades ago. Riff happy nitroburners such as "Steal that Car," "Your Own Worst Enemy" and especially the "Under My Wheels" licks of "You Make Me Wanna" show that Cooper, now pushing 60, still has plenty of gas in the tank. A lovely, entirely non-ironic cover of The Left Banke?s "Pretty Ballerina," complete with harpsichord and string section, proves that Cooper hasn?t lost his touch with "Only Woman Bleed" style ballads either.
Dirty Diamonds, with it?s unnecessary nod to hip-hop ("Stand") and weak stab at country ("The Saga of Jesse Jane"), won?t knock classics such as School?s Out, Billion Dollar Babies and Love it to Death from their well-deserved perch as archetypal blueprints of Cooper?s Halloween-styled gutsy rocking. Yet, at its best, the raw guitars and tightly arranged songs refreshingly recapture the brash attack and dark humor of his glory years. --Hal Horowitz
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