Alice Cooper - Special Forces Era

[BITEYOASS]

He looked like Adam Ant's evil twin. It sounded like a new-wave Alice.

Although he looked his scariest when he did this album. I have no idea what he was on.

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If you thought that was nuts, listen to his interviews:

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"This Alice is real nationalistic, and this Alice is so nationalistic, he goes beyond Patton!" - Alice "out of his mind" Cooper

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[BITEYOASS]

As an added bonus here is the ad for the "Zipper Catches Skin" album.

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[Mr Badguy]

Although it`s not his best I like a lot of those albums from that period.

"Flush the fashion" and "Dada" are interesting listens.

"Special forces" has some good tunes, "Who do you think we are" is a minor classic IMO.

He was obviously blitzed out of his mind, though.

[Mr Badguy]

Oh, and "You`re a movie".

Good fun.

[ELVIS]

That's part of his genious...

[ELVIS]

That shaky interview sucks...

[letsrock]

Was Kip playing Bass that far back?

[ELVIS]

No...

Only on Constrictor...

[BITEYOASS]

I'll get that song "Vicious Rumours" out of my head! The beat will be stuck in your brain PERMANENTLY!

[Mr. Vengeance]

I love all eras of Alice and I LOVE that trilogy of 80's albums, Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, and Zipper Catches Skin. I am not so fond of Dada, although it has some moments (Enough's Enough, I Love America, Former Lee Warmer)

I always refer to this as Alice's stand up comedian phase of his career. The songs are short, sweet, and often the lyrics are hilarious. "Dance Yourself to Death", "Prettiest Cop on the Block", "Adaptable", "I like Girls", "You're a Movie"...the list of good songs goes on and on from these three albums. "Pain" has some of my favorite Alice lyrics ever. Don't forget hit tune "Clones"

My favorite of the three albums is Zipper Catches Skin, which is the one that Alice says he remembers not one second about writing or recording because he was so drunk. There was no tour in support of the album and to my knowledge he's never performed any of the songs in concert.

a few little notes-
Alice performs "Pain" in the 1980's movie Roadie, which starred Meat Loaf.

Zipper Catches Skin features the theme song to the movie Class of 1984

If you bought the original vinyl pressing of Special Forces, it listed the famous lost track "Look at You Over There, Ripping the Sawdust From My Teddy Bear". The song was pulled from the album, but the jacket had already been printed. The song appears on Alice's Box set.

[Mr Badguy]

He looks horribly thin in those videos.

He must have had shit all to eat with all that whiskey.

[Terry]

However, there is something far more endearing of that era of Cooper, fucked up as he obviously was, than the one that followed, which saw Alice get sober and take up golf.

[SparkieD]

Actually, Coop took up golf way before this era, at least as early as the mid-70's.

[Terry]

Actually, Coop took up golf way before this era, at least as early as the mid-70's.

True, but at least he had the decency to keep that to himself until the mid 1980s.

[UK ROCKER]

I can take him or leave him, but I liked it when Alice Cooper was a 'band' of sorts in the early 70's. Shame they split.