#162
September 28, 1983
Alice Cooper
Dada
1.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Dada
Dada
Oh, Bob Ezrin. Ye of Kiss’s Destroyer. The Elder and Pink Floyd’s The Wall, your opening to this Cooper record is dark and twisted and downright scary. It’s the first time I’ve actually enjoyed Alice, like, really enjoyed him. Although I think he’s got nothing to do with this track whatsoever. Sometimes he sounds like a wannabe Gary Numan (“dyslexia”), other times he sounds like a cut rate Alice Cooper (“Scarlet and Sheba”) or he wants to be David Bowie (Pass the Gun Around).
Can we be honest here for a second?
Alice is terrible. His songs are awful. The production is terrible. His ideas aren’t clever. Were they ever? If he didn’t put on all that makeup, name himself “Alice” and create a bizarre stage show (what the hell was it about the 70s and stage shows???) would anyone have given him a record deal?
No.
I know, I know, early Alice was the actual band and they were formidable and interesting, blah blah blah. This is a muddy mess.
Alice allegedly has no memory of recording this album and has never performed any of the songs live.
The former is understandable and the latter is how it should be.
Alice is terrible. His songs are awful. The production is terrible. His ideas aren’t clever. Were they ever? If he didn’t put on all that makeup, name himself “Alice” and create a bizarre stage show (what the hell was it about the 70s and stage shows???) would anyone have given him a record deal?
No.
I know, I know, early Alice was the actual band and they were formidable and interesting, blah blah blah. This is a muddy mess.
Alice allegedly has no memory of recording this album and has never performed any of the songs live.
The former is understandable and the latter is how it should be.
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