''The Eyes of Alice Cooper'', released in 2003, is the sixteenth solo album by American rock musician
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, guillot ...
. With this album, Cooper returned to his earlier
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...
sound, in the vein of ''
The Last Temptation'', and left the heavy
industrial metal
Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Prominent industrial metal acts include Ministry, Nine In ...
sound found in his last two studio albums.
[ Overview )))">allmusic ((( The Eyes of Alice Cooper > Overview )))/ref> Of note is the album cover, which was released in four different versions, featuring alternate colours in Cooper's eyes and the crescent around the 'A' in the title. It was available in blue, green, purple and red.
In the 2010 '' Behind the Music Remastered'' on Alice Cooper, "Between High School & Old School" was described as "a modern Alice Cooper classic" for its return to the topic of school (a reference to " School's Out").
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Track listing
Personnel
*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, guillot ...
- vocals
*Eric Dover
Eric Dover (born January 19, 1967) is an American guitarist and singer, most notably with Jellyfish, Slash's Snakepit, Imperial Drag, and Alice Cooper.
Biography
Dover began playing guitar when he was 11 years old. He started playing around t ...
- guitar
*Ryan Roxie
Ryan Roxie (born Ryan Rosowicz, December 1, 1965) is an American guitarist, singer/songwriter best known as a solo artist and for playing guitar with Alice Cooper, Casablanca, Gilby Clarke, and Slash's Snakepit. Roxie is the primary founder o ...
- guitar, backing vocals, part-lead vocals on "What Do You Want from Me?"
*Chuck Garric
Chuck Garric is an American rock bassist who has played with Turd, The Druts, L.A. Guns, Dio, and Eric Singer Project (ESP). The current bassist for Alice Cooper, Garric has played bass for Billy Bob Thornton, Ted Nugent, Don Felder
Donal ...
- bass
*Eric Singer
Eric Singer (born Eric Doyle Mensinger; May 12, 1958) is an American drummer. Associated with the hard rock band Kiss since 1991, he has also performed with artists such as Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford, Badlands, Brian May and Gary ...
- drums
* Wayne Kramer - additional guitar on "Detroit City"
*Calico 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, guillot ...
- voice and theremin
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Trivia
* Creem
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, Ted Nugent
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, Iggy Pop
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, The MC5
MC5, also commonly called The MC5, is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963. The original line-up consisted of Rob Tyner (vocals) Wayne Kramer (guitar), Fred "Sonic" Smith (guitar), Michael Davis (bass), and Dennis ...
, Eminem
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, Kid Rock
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, Insane Clown Posse
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, Bob Seger
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, The Silver Bullet Band
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and David Bowie
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(as Ziggy Stardust), and WRIF radio are all mentioned in the song "Detroit City". Also, Kiss
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might be referenced in the second verse, referring to the front and back cover of Destroyer
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larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
, though it may also be referring to the 1967 Detroit riot
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.
References
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Alice Cooper albums
2003 albums
Spitfire Records albums