OP10 - Alice Cooper

Anyone else think 'W2MN' is really a perfectly detailed +OTM description of alcoholism? I liked 'Under the Volcano' alot too, the way he dies a heroic death but in such a way that nobody would ever know, to all appearances it looks like a sad, squalid end, in that flick his unwitnessed 'real' death was the objective-correlative to the imagined death most winos have when they're imagining it heroically, 'W2MN' is kind of similar. The second track is a strangely fragmentary filler ("Devil's Food") with the theme of consumption. "Some Folks" has that chorus "I'm no good without it, I'm not a man at all" (cf Louvin Bros.), then there's "Only Women Bleed" which is about domestic violence which is the obj-cor to most bystanders' experience of manic boozeaholism. There's this three-song suite near the end ("Years Ago"/"Steven"/"Awakening") where you can't really tell what it's about but vaguely hints at having killed somebody, which is a logical-nth-degree-extrapolation of that chronic hangover what-the-fuck-did-I-do-last-nite anxiety, and I strongly maintain that "Cold Ethyl" is actually about drinking (spelling of 'Ethyl', 'makin' love by the refrigerator light'). "Gimme a beer, just get me out of here!"

No More Mr. Nice Guy
Elected
Dead Babies
Under My Wheels (the one on the Decline II soundtrack)
Only Women Bleed
Poison
Department of Youth
Sick Things
I Love the Dead
Teenage Lament '74

Oh cool a good one!

1. Teenage Lament '74
2. Go To Hell
3. Give The Kid A Break
4. Muscle of Love
5. No More Mr Nice Guy
6. Ballad of Dwight Fry
7. Is It My Body?
8. Poison
9. Bed of Nails
10. Guilty
11. I Never Cry

how many songs on Welcome To My Nightmare again?
11, waznit ...?
(haven't really listened to it in ages, but i choose to trust my teenage recollection of it as an obscenely solid song collection)

i'd say,
my AliceOP10=WTMN-1

...which 1? good question. i dunno!

Did someone really cite "Poison"??!?! Cripes!

1. "Clones"
2. "No More Mr.Nice Guy"
3. "Schools Out"
4. "Elected"
5. "I Love the Dead"
6. "How You Gonna See Me Now"
7. "Because" (his Beatle cover from the abortive "Sgt.Pepper's" film)
8. "Dead Babies"
9. "Billion Dollar Babies"
10. "Generation Landslide"

"Poison" roxx UR all gay

Re alcoholism parallels in rock -- just found some good Tom Ewing on an old Big Star thread.

"The three BS albums are like a drunk's progress. First album - happy buzz, sociable and 'up'. Second album - nasty, sloppy, mean-minded, initially amusing but unpleasant to be with. Third album - all the grief, dysfunction and ultimate serenity of the hangover."

This one requires some relistening, and no way is this in order, but...
"Caught in a Dream"
"Generation Landslide"
"Alma Mater"
"School's Out"
"Desperado"
"Only Women Bleed"
"Under My Wheels"
"You Drive Me Nervous"
"Hello Hooray"
"Public Animal #9"

#11 would definitely be the women's panties included in the LP version of School's Out, not because I'm a prevert or anything, but because my brother hung those panties over his bedroom light which seemed like a really scary thing to do at the time.

'prevert'! Haven't heard that one since 'Health Studies Class'. Lecture ended with "You are all SICK"

Under My Wheels

School’s Out

Be My Lover

Workin' Up a Sweat

Clones (We’re All)

Generation Landslide

Billion Dollar Babies

Long Way to Go

You Drive Me Nervous

Never Been Sold Before

Alice Cooper is one of my favorites ever, so it took me a while to compile this list. It could have been a lot longer.

Although proper HTML might have made it appear a tad shorter.

FINALLY someone else gives it up for "Clones"!

I'm early AC all the way, so all the above classics with "Black Juju" thrown in.