Thought I'd show the original Alice Cooper group ('69-'73) some appreciation. The first two albums were kind of crappy (Easy Action and Pretties For You) but the next four were all stone classics! Everybody knows Billion Dollar Babies was a great album but people sleep on Love It To Death, Killer and especially School's Out. Each of them is excellent. Muscle Of Love was a bit disappointing when compared to what came before but it still had some great tracks. Sure, Alice made some great music after the group split, but it would have been awesome if they could have stayed together another ten years!

i used to be SO into alice cooper when i was a kid...especially the early albums. yes, even easy action (not so much pretties for you, though). i liked muscle of love too...it was the last album with the group and just before he got lost in that whole "nightmare" ghouls and goblins thing, lol. anyhow, i haven't listened to him in years and i probably won't ever be into him again...it was kind of a kid thing. but when i was into him, i was really into him, lol. my friend and i even did a fanzine about him (hey, i was about 15) ...we got our info from his assistant and we thought we were so cool, lol. i don't know why because, at the time, nobody liked him! LOL.

SassyBritches said:

I know what you mean about it being a "kid thing". That's how I feel about AC/DC. I listened to them way to much as a kid and I can hardly listen to them now. That's one valuable lesson I learned. Overkill is a bad thing!

I never got into Alice Cooper.

The vibe I get from him is a great lyricist but chessy music. Is that true?

rainman1985 said:

Cheesy music? I guess that depends on what kind of music you like. Certainly he has made some pretty bad music over his career but he's also made a lot of great music. Personally, I think the years 1971-1973 were definitely his peak. Most of the music he recorded then was excellent. If you are talking about the music he made in the late '70s into the '80s, yes, there was a fair bit of cheese. But I think with Trash he made a respectable return to form and him music since then has been pretty good.

I think Bob Dylan once said that Cooper was one of the most underrated lyricists in music, so I guess that part of your statement must be true.

I realy like this guy/band, I've stuck with him ever since i discovered him years ago. 'killer' is my favorite album by alice. Especially the track 'halo of flies' wich i think is a brilliant piece of rock.