Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (Expanded & Remastered)
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Artist: Alice CooperEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
- Welcome To My Nightmare
- Devil's Food
- The Black Widow
- Some Folks
- Only Women Bleed
- Department Of Youth
- Cold Ethyl
- Years Ago
- Steven
- The Awakening
- Escape
- Devil's Food (Alternate Version) (bonus track)
- Cold Ethyl (Alternate Version) (bonus track)
- The Awakening (Alternate Version) (bonus track)
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Free Music Review: "These words he speaks are true. We're all humanary stew"
Hit: 5 Stars
Alice Cooper is arguably the most underrated and influential frontman in rock history. He's a household name and everybody knows at least one of his songs, but how often does he get his due, really? He has been destroying stages and releasing classic album after classic album since the late 60's, has heavily influenced every era of hard rock, single-handedly invented rock music as horror theater, rocks on to this day, and has one of the most unique voices ever to grace a microphone and yet he remains uninducted into the fraudulently-named "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame". But Madonna gets in no problem. WTF, much? Folks like Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, KISS, and even Ozzy Osbourne owe him their very careers. He opened the door and married horror themes, theatrics, and rock music while taking the brunt of the conservative media backlash; everybody else just walked on through and built on the foundation Cooper laid for them all nice and neat. Well, this Halloween season I'm giving Alice's best album the love it deserves. "Welcome To My Nightmare": tag, you're it!
After a string of staggering classic rock albums with the legendary line-up of the Alice Cooper band, visionary frontman Vincent Furnier took on the name himself and hired his own ego-free backup band to truly explore the merger of his two passions: horror and music. The result is a masterpiece that can never be duplicated. It's original, hard-rocking, grooving, psychedelic, ambitious, and just plain brilliant. The variety and theatricality of the music itself is something that never would have been done in the Alice Cooper band with their focus on classic rock stylings and individual instrumental prowess; but stripped of the band's democratic process, Cooper was free to explore as freely as he chose. And he chose well. I love this album so much that I'm going to take you through it track by wonderful track.
Right away, the listener is greeted with a creepy and evocative psychedelic jazz number that is unlike anything else I've ever heard. "Welcome To My Nightmare" is Cooper's statement that the asylum doors have opened and he's about to take you on a trip into his world. "Devil's Food" is a unique and memorable little tune ("I knew your precious life/ and I know your death") that primarily serves as an intro to "The Black Widow". At this point we are greeted with a catastrophically awesome performance by my favorite horror icon, Vincent Price, who plays a madman leading a tour through a spider exhibit. "If I may put forward a slice of personal philosophy, I feel that man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child-king long enough!", he rants, espousing the virtues of the treacherous spider as a fitting successor. That man was a true genius. "The Black Widow" is a rocking number that envisions a world where the evolved arachnid has brainwashed and enslaved humanity. "Some Folks" is another left turn for Alice Cooper and resembles some sort of old Broadway show or revue. In fact, Cooper used to bring out a parade of dancing creatures -including a line of synchronized kicking skeletons- onstage during performances of this number. One of my favorites. "Only Women Bleed" is probably the best known song on this album and is far from the macho chest-thumping anthem the title would lead you to believe. It is a tender ballad about an abused woman trying to share her feelings with her callous husband. Classic.
Alice Cooper has always been among the most underrated and flexible songwriters in rock music and this album displays that fact on nearly every track. His ability to change gears from the horrific to childish humor or genuine emotional vulnerability and back again from song to song is on full display. "Department of Youth" is Cooper showcasing the kid in him, leading a child chorus rebellion against the old order. It's a goofy song, but catchy as can be. "Cold Ethyl", however, is the funniest song on the album; a Nekromantik tale of a girlfriend on ice filled with killer guitar work and darkly humorous lyrics. Try not to laugh when Alice exclaims "Cold Ethyl, I'm stuck on you!" Next comes the album's magnum-opus: the three-song horror opera consisting of "Years Ago", "Steven", and "The Awakening". The story is a first-person exploration of a child killer's dual-personality and his descent into madness as the two sides fight over a young child's life. It is the most chilling thing I've ever heard and is as bold, black, and evocative as music gets. Some of the music brings to mind horror classics like Halloween and The Exorcist and also features what sounds like creepy carousel music. This show-stopping display should have ended the album, but Cooper decided to let us off on a high note so "Escape" follows. It's a light-hearted rocker with a catchy riff and lyrics about music, horror, and performance as a way to deal with the true horrors of the world at large. Escapism, in other words. I can truly relate. It's a great song, but it seems out of place after the devastating intensity of the story in front of it. But then again, Cooper is a light-hearted guy who wouldn't want to leave us in a depression, so I understand his intent.
"Welcome To My Nightmare" is my favorite horror/rock album and I am sure you'll love it. Classic rock doesn't get much better. The guitars sound killer, the arrangements are all outstanding, and Cooper has seldom been more consistently amazing. This is the perfect album to augment your Horrorween season, so buy it and love it to death.
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