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ALICE COOPER
Welcome
To My
Nightmare
12"
VINYL
CLEAR
RECORD LP
BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED


Atlantic Records
Warner Music
RCD1 18130
UPC | 603497843497
Made In France
1975, 2018

►Limited Edition Clear Vinyl
►Hype Sticker on Shrink (see photo 1)

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
1. Welcome to My Nightmare
2. Devil's Food  
3. The Black Widow  
4. Some Folks
5. Only Women Bleed

SIDE TWO
1. Department of Youth
2. Cold Ethyl
3. Years Ago
4. Steven
5. The Awakening
6. Escape


The first and best Alice Cooper solo album saw a reunion with producer Bob Ezrin and the addition of the top notch guitar tandem of Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter (both mentioned previously and both of whom are probably best known for their work together with Lou Reed). The transition went well, as this album - easily Alice's most theatrical yet - and the tour that followed were big commercial successes. Alice states right away on the stellar title track, "welcome to my nightmare, I think you're gonna like it," and I for one do really enjoy the majority of this concept album, whose songs take you through the nightmares of a young boy named Steven, even if I miss the raw garage rocking sound of the early Alice Cooper band. Heck, this album has as much in common with the likes of The Sweet or Meat Loaf as The Stooges, but despite its catchy songs and commercial nature it's still weird as hell, not only lyrically but musically with its often child-like vocals and even a Vincent Price cameo (which is utterly "delicious"). When Price's monologue segues into "The Black Widow" it's a wonderful moment, and the rest of that song delivers great hard rock as well. Additional highlights include the supremely catchy if bizarre cabaret-styled show tune "Some Folks," the sensitive anti-abuse ballad “Only Women Bleed,” the album's big hit single which features one of Cooper’s best ever vocal performances (even hitting some falsettos that would make Elton John proud), the easily singable (or better yet shoutable) “Department of Youth,” the classic hard rocker "Cold Ethyl" (another song about necrophia!), and the dramatic, impassioned “Steven,” whose horns and orchestrations are obviously Ezrin-enhanced. There's was a true partnership, as Ezrin co-writes six of these songs, as does Wagner too come to think of it (the catchy, hard rocking "Escape" is the lone song they weren't involved with), so even Alice Cooper the solo artist was more a partnership than a true solo outing. Fortunately, Alice was working with talented collaborators here, and he was hungry to prove his mettle as a solo artist as well, so the results are highly enjoyable even though it took me much longer to warm up to this album than the best Alice Cooper band albums. After all, there are some really big production numbers here, and as a result I sometimes feel that the album is overly campy and overproduced. However, the bottom line is that the storyline is compelling, the songs are fun and catchy, the new band is really good, and the whole thing just wins me over big time when all is said and done. Alas, though he's done some good stuff since, serious bouts with booze and drugs, not to mention a shifting of priorities that saw Cooper hobnobbing on Hollywood Squares and luxuriating in his role as an elder statesman of hard rock, saw to it that Alice Cooper's music would rarely rise this consistently high ever again. ~ Scott Florman
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