Alice Cooper

It's time to give Alice Cooper some love.

Beginning with the album Love It To Death, the original Alice Cooper band had a short, but phenomenal run as the biggest rock and roll act in the world in the early seventies, with a string of albums that also included Killer, Schools Out, and Billion Dollar Babies.

During this time, Alice Cooper also revolutionized the idea of rock and roll as theatre — paving the way for bands from KISS to Marilyn Manson and beyond. Their elaborate stage shows revolved around the twisted, mascaraed Alice — a unisexual character straight out of your worst slasher film nightmare, who ultimately paid for his crimes with onstage executions that included the electric chair, beheadings and hangings. Alice Cooper were universally reviled by parents, politicians, and the religious right as a result of these shows. Naturally, the fans loved them all the more for it.

After the breakup of the original band, Alice himself enjoyed sporadic success as a solo artist with albums like Welcome To My Nightmare — but things were never quite the same again.

Many feel its high time the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame rightfully recognized the band who paved the way for KISS and others like them. You'll find bloggers talking about Michael Bruce, Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, the late Glenn Buxton, and of course Alice Cooper himself, at sites like 4metal.

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• The Beatles Revolution

  
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  As Ive said repeatedly , it irks me when TV specials air once and are never seen again -- and this ones a particularly good one. Featuring interviews with dozens of celebrities, the 2000 TV special " The Beatles Revolution " traces the impact that the Beatles had on the world. Unlike most Beatles documentaries that ...
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• Santa Claus is coming to town…

  
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  He’s actually already hit our house as we celebrated with the kids last Saturday. We’re going out of town next week, so we decided to go ahead and give them their Nintendo Wii for Christmas…and we’ve been having a blast with it this week! Wii Sports, Super Mario Bros. Wii, Mario Kart, Ghostbusters, and Super ...
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• Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 1978 - Halloweens Day 1978 (Live at Wendler Arena, Saginaw, Michigan 10-05-1978)

  
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  1978 - Halloweens Day 1978 (Live at Wendler Arena, Saginaw, Michigan 10-05-1978) Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 12 tracks Bootleg
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• Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 2001 - Atlantic City 2001 (Trump Marina Casino, Atlantic City, NJ: CD 2)

  
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  2001 - Atlantic City 2001 (Trump Marina Casino, Atlantic City, NJ: CD 2) Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 15 tracks Bootleg
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• Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 1973 - Minneapolis 73 (Live at Metro Sports Arena, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 30, 1973)

  
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  1973 - Minneapolis 73 (Live at Metro Sports Arena, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 30, 1973) Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 13 tracks Live Album
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• Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 2001 - Atlantic City 2001 (Trump Marina Casino, Atlantic City, NJ: CD 1)

  
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  2001 - Atlantic City 2001 (Trump Marina Casino, Atlantic City, NJ: CD 1) Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier, Vincent Damon Furnier) 15 tracks Bootleg
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• PARRA MUSIEK – ALICE COOPER

  
  bosparra.com — Authority: 140
  Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948)[1] is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, ...
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• Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider - 2008

  
  Power Ride — Authority: 146
  Tracklist 01. I Know Where You Live (Prologue) 02. Vengeance Is Mine 03. Wake The Dead 04. Catch Me 05. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side 06. Wrapped In Silk 07. Killed By Love 08. Hungry 09. The One That Got Away 10. Salvation 11. I Am The Spider (Epilogue) Line-Up Vocals: Alice Cooper Guitars: Keri Kelli Guitars: ...
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• DICK WAGNER COMES BACK WITH SOME GOODIES FROM THE PAST.

  
  Music Connection — Authority: 439
  Weather they come around to it or not, Dick Wagner is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame worthy contender. His work for Lou Reed and Alice Cooper alone should qualify him, but oh, I forgot, this year Alice got snubbed in favor of. . . ? ABBA? Are you kidding me? Fine, I realize that this controversy deserves a blog of ...
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• Unholy Night Redux: A Severely Metal Christmas Mixtape

  
  Antiquiet — Authority: 422
  Who couldn’t use a little metal in their stockings this year? Because we love you (and because search traffic is already hitting a fever pitch for it), we decided to resurrect our Severely Metal Christmas Mixtape to help kick the seasonal spirit into fifth gear. First published as an installment of our  ...
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• Audio Fidelity Releases Alice Cooper and Joe Walsh Classic Albums in 24 Karat Gold

  
  Press About — Authority: 460
  Marshall Blonstein and Audio Fidelity has released another double shot of rock classics on their 24-karat gold series of limited editions.Culver City, CA, December 18, 2009 — Marshall Blonstein and Audio Fidelity has released another double shot of rock classics on their 24-karat gold series of limited editions. ...
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• Pollyanna Buys a Pig in a Poke

  
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  Lyda here. “ Pig in a poke ” was one of the search terms that lead someone to our blog recently. And y’all know me – I am happy to oblige. Pig in a poke defined . See also let the cat out of the bag . Pigs and cats – if only they were zombie pigs and cats, and they were knitting and quilting, that would ...
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• Cooper Manning

  
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  Cooper Manning Cooper Manning - : These were almost certainly the ocialist conferences at Cooper Union that Obama wrote of attending in his 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father. Here is the introduction to the programme for the 1997 conference (emphasis added). Speakers at the 2005 conference included ...
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• Sermon: The Superiority Of Jesus

  
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  Luke 3:7-18 We’re all equal, but some people are more equal than others. So goes the truism. It’s not far from what John the Baptist says about himself and Jesus here. I’m not concentrating today on the material about showing the fruit of repentance, because I said something about repentance in last ...
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• Alice Cooper - Columbus 2009

  
  Nathan's Rock Moat — Authority: 140
  Alice Cooper 2009-08-01 Celeste Center Ohio State Fairgrounds Columbus, OH 01. Intro 02. Schools Out 03. Department Of Youth 04. Im Eighteen 05. Angry Young Man 06. Ballad Of Dwight Fry 07. Go To Hell 08. Guilty 09. Welcome To My Nightmare 10. Cold Ethyl 11. Poison 12. The Awakening 13. From The Inside 14. Nurse ...
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• Alice Cooper’s ’80s albums reissued on Collectors’ Choice

  
  ReadJunk.com — Authority: 438
  Three of Alice Coopers’ 80s albums will be reissued on Collector’s Choice. Those albums are Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin and Dada. Back in the 80s when I was a huge Alice Cooper fan, I managed to get the rare albums of the time Zipper Catches Skin and Dada. I always remembered the funny intro [...]
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• Humanary Stew: A Tribute To Alice Cooper 1999

  
  Power Ride — Authority: 146
  1. Under My Wheels Joe Elliot 3:19 2. Schools Out Dave Mustaine, Bob Daisley, Eric Singer 3:58 3. No More Mr. Nice Guy Roger Daltry, Slash, Mike Inez, Carmine Appice 3:39 4. Welcome To My Nightmare Ronnie James Dio, Steve Lukather, Phil Soussan, Randy Castillo 5:11 5. Cold Ethyl Vince Neil, Mick ...
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• Sonisphere Festival 2010 officially announces initial Knebworth line-up

  
  Thrash Hits — Authority: 132
  So…. does that look kinda familiar, to anyone else ? Sonisphere Festival has announced the initial line-up for it’s 2010 Knebworth event, and for regular readers of Thrash Hits, let’s just say it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. What we weren’t expecting from this evening’s official ...
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• Sonisphere Festival 2010 officially announces first line-up details

  
  Thrash Hits — Authority: 132
  So…. does that look kinda familiar, to anyone else ? Sonisphere Festival has announced the initial line-up for it’s 2010 Knebworth event, and for regular readers of Thrash Hits, let’s just say it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. What we weren’t expecting from this evening’s official ...
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• Alice Cooper – Is It My Body (Live – 1971)

  
  too sweet for rock and roll - music birthdays blogged daily — Authority: 152
  Dennis Dunaway , American musician Tagged: Alice Cooper, December 9 birthdays, Dennis Dunaway, rock, shock rock
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