Zipper Catches Skin

Alice Cooper - Zipper Catches Skin

Zipper Catches Skin
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Artist: Alice Cooper
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1992-01-01
Music Label: Warner Bros UK
Soundtracks:
  1. Zorro's Ascent
  2. Make That Money Scrooge's
  3. I Am The Future
  4. No Baloney Homosapiens
  5. Adaptable Anything For Yo
  6. I Like Girls
  7. Remarkably Insincere
  8. Tag, You're It
  9. I Better Be Good
  10. I'm Alive

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Free Music Review: Misunderstood = Underrated & Hated
Hit: 5 Stars

I own nearly all of Alice Cooper's 30 or so albums, and I don't regret a single purchase. That said, I don't see where this album is more inconsistent than "Goes To Hell", "Lace and Whiskey", "Dada", "Raise Your Fist and Yell" or the variety-show type albums that "Eyes" and "Dirty Diamonds" are. Furthermore, I don't see where consistency is necessary in an album. We're talking about art, which in its truest form is something that comes from inside the artist - not the excrement of "J. Evans Pritchard PhD." teachings talked about in "Dead Poet's Society", a movie I highly recommend. It should be understood that this album is not only a rock and roll album, which makes it part of a realm that innately ignores rules and convention anyway, but it is also definitely NOT a mainstream album even in the rock realm - especially considering how unconventional the artist is and always has been to begin with. Therefore, freaks of following the mainstream need not buy. However, those of you that are more adventurous, value artistic unconventionality (in other words - true creativity), enjoy humorous story-telling music, and/or appreciate Alice Cooper's unique singing style or lyrics regardless of whether they're about horror or not, should give this a listen.

Musically, "Zipper Catches Skin" is all rock, not that hard and not that soft, and most of the songs generally carry a fast-paced, high-energy rhythm. Then add to that what I think should be considered to be the most expressive, mischievous voice ever heard in rock and great lyrics that are some of Alice's most novel. (You can, of course, check them out by googling and going to lyrics sites.)

"Zipper Catches Skin" is one of my top favorites of all of Alice's albums, and I've heard them all. This one stands out to me because it not only projects a witty, teasing playfulness in about all of its songs, but some of it gets daringly personal with Alice just good-humoredly recreating the humiliation that we all inevitably face at times when we do things that we know or believe aren't accepted by others. With this album, Alice has brought a bumbling sort of Casanova character to my mind, which I've found very sexy as well as humorous. The one serious song on this early 80's album employs a "power ballad" music format that seemed to be a forerunner of many of its kind. It's the introspective "I Am the Future". Though this song is sobering compared to the rest of the album, I find it very admirable as well. Like he personified pain in a song on his "Flush the Fashion" album, Alice embodies the future in this song. In both cases, he attempts to help us consider and deal with those things that we often fear but must invariably confront. However, with "I Am the Future", as with a number of his other songs on various albums including this album's "Tag, You're It", Alice uses his wonderful talent of creating a dual impression (like the faces or vase image) and gives even this scary song an amusing side. This can be seen when reversing his embodiment of the future with regards to Alice's often impishly arrogant, endearing character, who would sing such things about himself - "I am the future. How do you like what you see? Take a look at my face. . . The world belongs to me. It's all mine!" But what a truthful statement of how we have all at least partly felt, deep inside, at one time or another.
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