"Worst" of Alice Cooper

[Mr. Vengeance]

I continue the worst of threads with another of my absolute faves, Alice!!! There are no albums I passionately hate, but the one I always find dreadful is Dada. It does have Alice patented great lyrics and sense of humour, but the music truly does stink a lot of the time. Synthesizers and drum machines???? This was not Alice. There are some nice moments, like Enough's Enough and I Love America, but overall it's my least favorite.

[Mr Badguy]

"Hey stoopid"

There are far too many "guest appearances" on that record that it takes away from the music plus it has a really shitty production.

He got away with it on "Trash" because it had some great songs.

It says a lot for an album when the song everyone remembers is dumb cornball shit like "Feed my Frankenstein".

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I'm with Badguy..."Hey Stoopid" was a bit "stoopid".

[PumpedUpMidget]

I like pretty much anything Alice puts out, but 'Stoopid' was just that

[blueturk]

As some members of this site may already know, I don't care much for anything Cooper did after the original band split up. That said, "I Never Cry" and "You And Me" are totally worthless. Muzak for housewives....

[mako_kimura]

I honestly hate The Last Temptation to DEATH. Fuck Stolen Prayer and Love's A Loaded Gun

[ELVIS]

First time I clicked on a "Worst Of" thread...

What album has "Poison" on it ??

[Mr. Vengeance]

Originally posted by ELVIS
First time I clicked on a "Worst Of" thread...

What album has "Poison" on it ??

Trash

[ELVIS]

Yeah...

That crap sucks...

[Tiki-Tom]

The old "Freak Out" record, it's live from 1969. I got it in the cutout section way back in the day for a buck fifty and i quickly found out why it was there. it's pure shit. I thought that it was going to be a cool find from alice in the old days. man was I wrong!

[Mr. Vengeance]

Originally posted by Tiki-Tom
The old "Freak Out" record, it's live from 1969. I got it in the cutout section way back in the day for a buck fifty and i quickly found out why it was there. it's pure shit. I thought that it was going to be a cool find from alice in the old days. man was I wrong!

A lot of people absolutely LOVE that era of the old Alice Cooper band. My guess is Blueturk does. I like it. It's so Zappa-esque, which makes sense since Zappa more or less discovered them. That Freak Out release has been released under about a thousand other names over the years. It's pretty bad recording, admittedly.

[blueturk]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
A lot of people absolutely LOVE that era of the old Alice Cooper band. My guess is Blueturk does. I like it. It's so Zappa-esque, which makes sense since Zappa more or less discovered them. That Freak Out release has been released under about a thousand other names over the years. It's pretty bad recording, admittedly.


That's a bootleg from the The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, September 13,1969. Jim Morrison liked the band and got them on the bill (or so the story goes). They played a glacial version of "Don't Blow Your Mind" (their regional Arizona hit) aand some songs from "Pretties For You". "Just Like A Woman" & Going To The River" aren't by the band.I regard it as an interesting historical artifact of the band, but it does sound like shit. I agree that it sounds like Zappa somewhat, but the album"Pretties For You" sounds like Zappa even more. BTW, there's a D.A. Pennebaker film of this show somewhere, but good luck finding a copy!

[Tiki-Tom]

I love that old era too. "Freak Out" is just an awful representation of it.

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
Trash

People remember Poison with the 'brilliant' backing vocal of 'and pins!' but there is some true fucking garbage on this album like a ballad duet with Bon Jovi 'Hell Is Living Without You'.

Horrendous.

[binnie]

Trash.

Nuff said....

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I was gonna say trash as well, but I decided to bear in mind that Alice said that Alice Cooper wouldn't be here today if Trash wasn't the big hit it was (or something along those lines).

[diamondD]

I think The Alice Cooper Show live album was the last one I bought. I never heard another track that caught my ear after that.