Top 10 Alice Cooper
 

Alice cooper is easily the most underrated musician ever....such a god.

Here's my top 10:

10)Wake Me gently (Alice cooper goes to hell)
9)Its Me (Last Temptation)
8)Life and death of a party (Constrictor)
7)Under my wheels (killer)
6)You're A Movie (Special Forces)
5)Take It Like A Woman (Brutal Planet)
4)No more mr.nice guy (Billion Dollar baby)
3)Millie And Billie (From the inside)
2)Ballad of dwight fry (Love it to death)
1)Years ago/steven/the awakening (Welcome to my nightmare)

are you just trying to suck up to Oli? Because he will probably get a hard-on from reading this. :D

haha, nahh copper is really god

You should not build your false gods out of copper and tin you heathen!

http://www.datazap.net/sites/adjacks...nzeWealth1.JPG

You shall worship Zeus!

http://images.fanpop.com/images/imag...7_1024_768.jpg

Alice is amazing.

Absolute top 10 would be impossible for me since Alice is one of my favorites, but it would be something like this, in no order, and some songs are subject to change in different times:

Might as well be on mars
Nothing's free
Brutal planet
Pick up the bones
Dragontown
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Dead Babies
The Quiet Room
The Saga of Jesse Jane
Six Hours

And The Last Temptation is my favorite album.

Isn't he the one with "Living Next Door To Alice"?

The "Hey Stoopid"-Album was quite important in my adolescence. I finally saw him live in 2006, and man he was LOUD... I don't know all of his albums (I'm missing out on his "difficult" phase 1976-1983, will have some catching up to do, because some single songs from that period that I heard were not bad actually), but here's some kind of a top 10, in no particular order:

- Wind-Up Toy
- Might As Well Be On Mars
- Brutal Planet
- Sanctuary
- It's The Little Things
- Poison
- Hell Is Living Without You (!!!)
- You're My Temptation
- Department Of Youth
- Teenage Lament '74

I know I'm missing out on some 70s stuff, but I always focused on the 80s/90s more. Not a big fan of his recent albums though. "Brutal Planet" and "Dragontown" were great though. My favourite must be "A Fistful Of Alice".

no bed of nails, i am suprised.

Can I make a Top 100 instead?

lool, i was actually tempted to do a top 50 or so, so many great songs. But i thought a top 10 would be easier

My Important Contribution to this thread is going to be to say Constrictor is a ****ing awesome, massively underrated album. Every song on there is at least an 8, such a sense of humour through it (on this album, his cock is a "gorilla" rather than a "frankenstein).

Check out The Great American Success Story!


Anyway.... Mine seems to be a bit more mainstream than you guys, but whatever. He's actually written some IMPORTANT songs when you stop and think about it.

1) Only Women Bleed. EASILY his best song. Beautiful melody, beautiful lyric. True classic.
2) Poison. Well it had to be.
3) School's Out. Well it had to be.
EDIT 4) Hell is Livin Without You (forgot about this till I read this thread!)
5) No More Mister Nice Guy. Sung here by Bruce Dickinson and Mr. Bean, with backing from Skin (remember this? Bruce is in damn good voice!) - 6) Elected
7) He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)
8) Eighteen. I SO lived this song. About age 23.
9) Wind up Toy. SO atmospheric.
10) Lost in America.

SO many more that I'd have loved to include. A top 20 would have had almost everything off Trash and Hey Stoopid. What great albums!

Shit. .

I know Oli will disagree with me here, but I have to say I've always been slightly dissapointed with him live.

In fact, the Hey Stoopid tour was probably my first ever dissapointing gig. At that point (age about 13) I'd been to see Erasure (just magic. Every song transformed from the album, such a set!) and Iron Maiden (MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDEN!) before (and maybe Roxette), so I was completely unprepared for a middle aged audience, in a half-full arena, sat on their seats all night.

If I mentioned the gig to my best friend, I can guarantee he would still take the piss of me excitedly jumping out of my chair and screaming when he came on, and being the only guy to do so.

I've been to a couple of shows since then, but each time he fails to really connect to the audience. Falling between a rock show and a stage musical doesn't help. He doesn't communicate AT ALL. No scope for spontenaity. And however long his band has played together, whatever their pedigree, they still sound like session musicians.

That said. This thread has got me all excited about his music, and I will be playing Alice all afternoon.

And I would to this day pay a LOT of money for the t-shirt he wears on the cover of Trash. It's incredible!

Yes! Yes! Yes! (!!!)

I noticed a plothole in this Top 10 thing - IT DOESN'T STATE HOW MANY TOP 10'S I CAN MAKE. BOOYAH!

So here is my Top 9 Top 10 Alice Cooper songs. Nothing is in any particular order, I just write them down as I remember them.

(oh but of none of you have Brutal Planet, get it, it's his best ever album. EVER! Also one of the best albums in goddamm history)

TOP 10 #1

01. Brutal Planet
02. Wicked Young Man
03. Sanctuary
04. Blow Me A Kiss
05. Eat Some More
06. Gimme
07. Pessi-Mystic
08. Pick Up The Bones
09. It's The Little Things
10. Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me

TOP 10 #2

01. Cold Machines
02. Take It Like A Woman
03. Dragontown
04. Sister Sara
05. Disgraceland
06. Sex, Death And Money
07. I Just Wanna Be God
08. Fantasy Man
09. Every Woman Has A Name
10. Nurse Rozetta

TOP 10 #3

01. From The Inside
02. School's Out
03. Bed Of Nails
04. Hell Is Living Without You
05. Why Trust You
06. I'm Your Gun
07. Trash
08. Poison
09. Spark In The Dark
10. This Maniac's In Love With You

TOP 10 #4

01. Gail
02. Roses On White Lace
03. He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)
04. Trick Bag
05. Elected
06. Billion Dollar Babies
07. I Love The Dead
08. No More Mr Nice Guy
09. Ballad Of Dwight Fry
10. Fire

TOP 10 #5

01. I'm Eighteen
02. Is It My Body
03. Man With The Golden Gun
04. Desperado
05. Under My Wheels
06. Under My Wheels (version with Guns N' Roses)
07. Go To Hell
08. Bad Place Alone
09. You're My Temptation
10. It's Me

TOP 10 #6

01. Lost In America
02. Stolen Prayer
03. Dirty Diamonds
04. Six Hours
05. The Saga Of Jesse Jane
06. Zombie Dance
07. Love Should Never Feel Like This
08. The Song That Didn't Rhyme
09. This House Is Haunted
10. Hey Stoopid

TOP 10 #7

01. Dangerous Tonight
02. Might As Well Be On Mars
03. Love's A Loaded Gun
04. Feed My Frankenstein
05. Snakebite
06. Wind-Up Toy
07. Little By Little
08. Hurricane Years
09. Welcome To My Nightmare
10. Cold Ethyl

TOP 10 #8

01. The Black Widow
02. Devil's Food
03. Department Of Youth
04. Some Folks
05. Steven
06. Years Ago
07. Only Women Bleed
08. Keepin' Halloween Alive
09. Catch Me If Your Can
10. The One That Got Away

TOP 10 #9

01. Wrapped In Silk
02. Along Came A Spider
03. Killed By Love
04. Vengeance Is Mine
05. Wake The Dead
06. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
07. Santa Claws Is Coming To Town
08. Deeper
09. Hard Hearted Alice
10. House Of Fire

Gotta confess, I love Alice Cooper.

1) Only Women Bleed
2) House Of Fire
3) Man Behind The Mask -
4) No More Mr Nice Guy
5) Poison
6) Elected
7) I'm Eighteen
8) Schools Out
9) Billion Dollar Babies
10) Teenage Lament 74

Brutal Planet is a great album, my 2nd favorite Alice album. I've put 2 songs from it in my top 10, and the song Brutal planet would be in my top 5. Such an amazing song, and great lyrics.

I have three songs from Brutal Planet in my list! :-)

Great album! i only included One song, but all the songs are really good. Pick Up The Bones, Wiched Young Man, Brutal Planet and Eat some more are my favs

I had my iPod on shuffle the other day (140 GB at least!), and "Pass The Gun Around" came on. Never heard that song before, and I was pleasantly surprised. Nice guitar solo as well. Shuffle rocks! :-)

Brutal Planet is much too boring and serious. Alice is best when he's having fun.

My Top 10 today, in no order:

Love's a Loaded Gun
Snakebite
Hell Is Living Without You
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Bed Of Nails
Poison
I'm Eighteen
The Song That Didn't Rhyme / Love Should Never Feel Like This
I'm Your Gun
Ballad Of Dwight Fry


Ice

In no particular order:

Teenage Frankenstein
Life & Death of The Party
He´s Back
Poison
Bed of Nails
House of Fire (on Trash credits it´s said to be written by AC & Joan Jett if I remember, still it was one of the New Jersey outtakes... What part did I miss?)
Might As Well Be On Mars
It´s Me
Love´s A Loaded Gun
Die 4 You (is it a Motley song or was it written specifically for AC?)

You missed nothing. It was written by Child & Jett. Maybe one of the reasons it didn't make NJ.

For Alice. Can't see Jim Vallance writing for Mötley Crüe.

Ice

Thank you Ice.

Sorry I just can´t seem to let it be just yet, it´s been bothering me for almost 20 years.

So the song wasn´t even partly written by Jon and Richie? Was it a leftover song from Jett´s Up Your Alley -sessions, then? The chorus sounds very much like Livin´On A Prayer, maybe it was DC recycling that same idea.

Anyway, Jon wouldn´t put a song on a Bon Jovi record if he wasn´t mentioned in the songwriting credits, right?

This makes me wonder, how much do we really know about the real writers of songs on albums by various artists... Lennon & McCartney shared the credits for all of their Beatles songs although a big part of the catalogue was written solely by John or Paul. In the history of popular music, I bet this sort of manipulation of the songwriting credits isn´t limited to the Beatles. Or speaking of Alice Cooper, I honestly don´t believe he wrote a single note for, let´s say, Hell Is Living Without You, yet he is listed as a co-writer.

We don´t really know that much about Child´s (or some other hired songwriter´s as well) role in Bon Jovi´s songwriting process. Jon said Desmond added the pre-chorus to Livin´On A Prayer. Same thing with Bad Medicine, which was supposedly already finished by the time Jon played it to Desmond. Yet it´s quite obvious Bad Name was Child´s retry of an idea that didn´t work too well on that Bonnie Tyler song. By the time I´ll Be There For You topped the US Chart Jon said he was particularly proud of that because it was their first number one hit without a songwriter from outside of the band. -So it has to mean a great deal to him. Or speaking of It´s My Life, Jon said he wrote it with Richie but since Max Martin happened to be present in the same room, he got a third of the song.

I guess we´ll never know.

No, why would it be?

No idea when it was written, but professional writers write all the time, not just in "sessions" for albums. Like Bon Jovi wrote for other people (Loverboy, Cher...) that's all Desmond does.

Probably not. I'm sure that if HOF would've been on NJ, it would've had Jons name on it.

Yeah, that's true. And it's the same with Bon Jovi as well. Jon puts his name on everything, even if someone else wrote the whole damn thing. I'll Be There For You is Richie's song as is Never Say Goodbye. Maybe Jon added some lyrics, but from what I've heard, they're both completely Richie's songs.

Mutt Lange wrote Love Bites for Leppard, but they all have credits on it.

Well, no one apart from the guys themselves know.

That I will never believe. It's My Life is a "rock" version of Max Martins hits at the time. It has the same exact formula as all his Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys hits. The giveaway is the "other" chorus at the end of the song, almost the same, but not quite. It's in every Max Martin song.

No, but we can always speculate. :)

Ice

Ice thank you for taking the time to write it down. I find this extremely interesting :)

Yes I suppose Jon has a habit of putting his name in the songwriting credits of all Bon Jovi songs. I sort of knew the thing with I´ll Be There For You but Never Say Goodbye being Richie´s song was new information to me. I suppose there are others like this as well, apart from These Days and the ballads mentioned above ?

Or All About Lovin You, for instance. Jon was never eager to perform it. It may well be a song completely written by the professional hired hands... I´m sure there are lots of others, too. And I agree with you on the Max Martin thing, it´s quite obvious.

Like you said, we can always speculate :)

Why would Alice not have written Hell Is Living Without You?

It sounds more like Alice to me than Jon and Richie to be honest :/

going to Alice Cooper on the 29th of April! Rob Zombie is supporting as well. only know one song by him though.

He's not supporting, they're both headlining.

70's
Long Way to Go
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Crazy Little Child
Some Folks
Steven
Escape
Didn't We Meet
Going Home
The Quiet Room
For Veronica's Sake

80's
Don't Talk Old to Me
Adaptable (Anything for You)
Former Lee Warmer
Pass the Gun Around
Thrill My Gorilla
Life and the Death of the Party
Freedom
Give the Radio Back
Spark in the Dark
Why Trust You

90's & 2000's
Might as Well Be on Mars
Lullaby
Brutal Planet
Eat Some More
Pick Up the Bones
Fantasy Man
Disgraceland
Dirty Diamonds
Run Down the Devil
Wrapped in Silk

1. House of fire
2. Poison
3. Hey stoopid
4. Might as well be on Mars
5. No more Mr. Nice Guy
6. Hell is living without you
7. Feed my Frankenstein
8. Schools out
9. Under my wheels
10.Only my heart talkin

I only know 'Poison'. Not sure where that would fit into my top10 :cool:

I salute you,
TS

You need to educate yourself.

Ice

I would suggest getting Hey Stoopid!. Very Mainstream album, but every song is pretty great

Then you should check out two songs, at least: "Trash", which is crappy, but it features JBJ on vocals, and "Hell Is Living Without You", a truely grand 80s power-ballad feat. Richie on guitar, co-written by JBJ & RS.

Think I'll have to find myself an Alice Cooper Discography download then ;)

I salute you,
TS

I love Alice Cooper. Been reminiscing about the great live show I went to whilst listening to some Trash tonight.