Alice Cooper
Noah’s Barks pages related to the band and musician known as Alice Cooper.
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Alice Cooper – “From the Inside”
Despite the tough-looking cover, ‘From the Inside’ is Alice Cooper’s most flaccid album yet. (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “Special Forces”
Alice Cooper attempts jagged new wave/art rock on Special Forces and fails completely. There is no energy at all in this album. It’s like listening to and watching a stone golem dance in an ’80s night club. I promise you that’s a decent analogy. Take Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) and invert its quality and… (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “Dirty Diamonds”
Alice Cooper returns to the glam rock of his heyday and surprisingly not to his garage punk angle, but rather a new “old” direction inspired by suave cheeky barnstormers like David Bowie and Marc Bolan. This unexpected move is what brings the true punk out in him for possibly the last time. Dirty Diamonds is… (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “School’s Out”
The attitude and personality is in ‘School’s Out.’ Additionally, the schmaltzy production shows for the first time… but where are the hooks? (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “Muscle of Love”
Name(s): Muscle of LoveArtist(s): Alice CooperRelease Date(s): November 20, 1973 Oh, the humanity. Probably the Alice Cooper group’s most underrated album. Actually there’s no “probably” about it. The four albums before Muscle of Love are quite acclaimed, what makes Muscle of Love the odd duck out that seems to get ignored by critics and fans… (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “Billion Dollar Babies”
‘Billion Dollar Babies’ is a great album marred by horrible mixing and self-indulgence, even if some of the latter makes it endearing. (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “Love It to Death”
History hasn’t been kind enough to Alice Cooper band, who stand alongside fellow Detroit-rockers The Stooges as the true progenitors of punk rock. Alice Cooper don’t have as high a threat level as The Stooges’s out of control mayhem, but they make up for it in intelligence, as their melodramatic teenage introspective classic “I’m Eighteen” makes perfectly… (read more)