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The Best Of Alice Cooper
''Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper'' is a compilation album by rock singer Alice Cooper, released by Warner Archives/Rhino in 2001 in the United States only. Its worldwide companion release is ''The Definitive Alice Cooper'' compilation album, which has a slightly different track listing and different packaging, though both compilations feature the same back cover and disc image. The album features material from his solo career and from his tenure with the Alice Cooper band; however, like the 1974 ''Greatest Hits'' compilation, material from ''Pretties for You'' and ''Easy Action ''Easy Action'' is the second studio album by the American rock band Alice Cooper, released by Straight Records in March 1970. The title comes from a line from one of the band's favorite films, the musical ''West Side Story''. As with ''Pretties ...'' is not present on ''Mascara and Monsters''. The album cover features Cooper in the mid-1970s looking at his mascara-eyed monstrous alte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences. Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, "Alice Cooper" was originally a band with roots extending back to a band called the Earwigs, consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, and Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar and backing vocals. By 1966, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar joined the three and Neal Smith was added on drums in 1967. The five named the band "Alice Cooper", and Furnier eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be My Lover (Alice Cooper Song)
"Be My Lover" is a song by rock band Alice Cooper. It originally appeared on the group's ''Killer'' album in 1971 and was released as a single in early 1972. The song was written by guitarist Michael Bruce and was produced by Bob Ezrin. The song's lyrics are semi-autobiographical, coming from the perspective of a musician trying to seduce a woman and telling her what he does for a living ("I told her that I came from Detroit city / and I played guitar in a long-haired rock and roll band"). The musician recalls that the woman "asked me why the singer’s name was Alice." The song reached No. 49 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart, remaining on the chart for ten weeks. '' Record World'' called it Alice Cooper's "best single since ' Eighteen.'" '' Cash Box'' called it an "autobiographical groupie tune hatshould outdistance ' Under My Wheels' and hit on the order of their 'Eighteen.'" Releases on albums * ''Killer'' – 1971 * '' Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits'' – 1974 * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome To My Nightmare (song)
"Welcome to My Nightmare" is the title track to Alice Cooper's eighth studio album. The song is written by Cooper, Dick Wagner and Bob Ezrin. It peaked at 45 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song itself mixes elements from disco, jazz, hard rock, and keeps a "heavy-yet-funky beat". Cooper would later perform the song on ''The Muppet Show''. The tune was placed tenth on a list AOL Radio made of the "10 Best Halloween Songs". Acoustic guitar is played by Dick Wagner, bass by Tony Levin, clarinet by Jozef Chirowski, drums by Johnny "Bee" Badanjek, and electric guitar by Steve Hunter. ''Record World'' said that the single release that "Alice sounds downright ghoulish on this re-mixed and edited lp track." Cover versions Ronnie James Dio, Steve Lukather, Bob Kulick, Phil Soussan, Randy Castillo Randolpho Francisco Castillo (December 18, 1950 – March 26, 2002) was an American musician. He was Ozzy Osbourne's drummer during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and later as drummer f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Youth (song)
"Department of Youth" is a song by rock musician Alice Cooper featured on his '' Welcome to My Nightmare'' album. The song peaked at No. 67 on The ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Reception ''Creem'' said the song, "is a second cousin to " School's Out" with a chorus of child-things sounding like Cooper's dead babies resurrected to sing back-up vocals." ''NME'' agreed it was, " School's Out" all over again, complete with demented kiddie choir and watered-down Clockwork Orange braggadoccio." ''Melody Maker'' wrote, "This is typical, a heavy metal Marc Bolan. It's gritty and gruesome, but underneath the yells and screaming arrangement, it's really just a simple, catchy pop song. Don't analyse it, just bop as Alice screeches his way up the chart." Notable covers Pretty Boy Floyd covered the song on their album, ''Porn Stars A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Women Bleed
"Only Women Bleed" is a song by Alice Cooper, released on his debut solo album '' Welcome to My Nightmare'' in 1975. It was written by Cooper and Dick Wagner, and was the second single from the album to be released. Background It is a ballad about a woman in an abusive marriage. The song is often mistakenly presumed to be about menstruation, and that has limited its play on radio and in other public forums. As a single by Cooper, it was released as just "Only Women". Prior to the release of ''Welcome to My Nightmare'' in the US, a shortened version of the song was released as a single and was alternatively titled "Only Women" by Atlantic Records due to protests by feminist groups. The album version of the song features more orchestral movements than the single, and also runs longer than the 45 at 5:49. According to co-writer Dick Wagner, the song's musical riff and vocal melody were developed several years earlier during his tenure with the late-1960s Michigan-based band the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muscle Of Love
''Muscle of Love'' is the seventh and final studio album by rock band Alice Cooper. It was released in late 1973, the band played its last concert a few months later. Background Cooper stated in an interview at the time of recording that the album marked a return to a basic rock sound. "It's not complicated in any sense and there's not a lot of theatricality on it. It's very basic rock and roll throughout." Cooper further explained, "''Billion Dollar Babies'' was a studio effort all the way. So was '' School's Out''. It was just so clean that after a few times of hearing it myself, it had no mystery to it. I really wanted this one to have more guts to it. More balls." ''Muscle of Love'' is the first Alice Cooper album without Bob Ezrin as producer since the pre-stardom ''Easy Action''. The explanation given at the time was that Ezrin was recovering from illness. However, bassist Dennis Dunaway revealed in a 2011 interview that the band split with the producer during an acrimonious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teenage Lament '74
"Teenage Lament '74" is a song by Alice Cooper. It was released on the album ''Muscle of Love'', and was written by Cooper and Neal Smith. The song reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart in 1974. The song also reached #16 on the Ireland chart,""Irish Singles Charts Search for Alice Cooper"" ''irishcharts.com''. Retrieved on April 26, 2013." #43 on Germany's Media Control Chart, #48 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billion Dollar Babies (song)
"Billion Dollar Babies" is a popular 1973 single by the rock group Alice Cooper, the title track taken from the album ''Billion Dollar Babies''. It was released in July 1973, months after the album had been released. The track is a duet between Alice Cooper and Scottish musician Donovan, who provides the falsetto and high harmony vocals. BMI lists the composers of "Billion Dollar Babies" as Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce and Reggie Vinson (a session guitarist who had worked with the Alice Cooper band previously). Some sources list the composers as Cooper, Bruce, drummer Neal Smith, and "R. Reggie", the latter being an allusion to Vinson's nickname "Rockin' Reggie Vinson". '' Record World'' said that "produced by the incomparable Bob Ezrin, he singleshould see billions of Cooper babies flocking to the stores and gobbling it up." The ''Billion Dollar Babies'' album was the second to last recorded by the original Alice Cooper band, before singer Alice Cooper went solo. Legal compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No More Mr
No (and variant writings) may refer to one of these articles: English language * ''Yes'' and ''no'' (responses) * A determiner in noun phrases Alphanumeric symbols * No (kana), a letter/syllable in Japanese script * No symbol, displayed 🚫 * Numero sign, a typographic symbol for the word 'number', also represented as "No." or similar variants Geography * Norway (ISO 3166-1 country code NO) ** Norwegian language (ISO 639-1 code "no"), a North Germanic language that is also the official language of Norway ** .no, the internet ccTLD for Norway * Lake No, in South Sudan * No, Denmark, village in Denmark * Nō, Niigata, a former town in Japan * No Creek (other) * Acronym for the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana or its professional sports teams ** New Orleans Saints of the National Football League ** New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Dr. No'' (film), a 1962 ''James Bond'' film ** Julius N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello Hooray
"Hello Hooray" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Rolf Kempf, and first recorded by Judy Collins on her 1968 album ''Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Judy Collins album), Who Knows Where the Time Goes''. Its most famous rendition was by the band Alice Cooper (band), Alice Cooper, who covered it on their 1973 album ''Billion Dollar Babies''.Australian charts: * * The Alice Cooper version was released as a single (now spelled "Hello Hurray"), and reached #35 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100.[ "Alice Cooper - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles"] ''Allmusic''. Retrieved on August 10, 2009." It also saw success internationally, reaching #6 on the UK Singles Chart, #6 in the Netherlands on the MegaCharts, #13 on Germany, Germany's Media Control Charts, Media Control Chart, #14 on the Ireland, Ireland chart, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billion Dollar Babies
''Billion Dollar Babies'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released on February 25, 1973, by Warner Bros. Records. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album has been retrospectively praised by such critics as Robert Christgau, Greg Prato of AllMusic, and Jason Thompson of ''PopMatters'', but ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' (2004) gave the album only two and a half stars. Songs were recorded in both the state of Connecticut and London, England. Lyrics cover topics and themes such as necrophilia, dental fear, horror, and sexual harassment. At 40 minutes and 51 seconds, it is the longest studio album the band has ever released; this does not count any of Cooper's solo albums. Recording and production Drummer Neal Smith has said th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
