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News Report
(Q Magazine, 1989-00-00)
In addition to the six quid entrance fee, Alice Cooper fans seeking admission to his Thanksgiving Night (November 24) Marquee show had to bring along a bin liner-sized bag of freshly gathered London litter, to be deposited in a Westminster Council dustcart parked up outside the venue. ...
Classicks Album Review
(Q Magazine, 1995-12-00)
Surviving the stigma of the deliberately mis-spelt album title, this latest collection brings together the polar opposites of Cooper's career in a mascara-smeared 60-minute special. Surviving drug, alcohol and golf, he kickstarted a somewhat moribund period of his life with Poison, a full-throated rocking roar with a mesmeric melodic hookline, and the equally bumptious singles Hey Stoopid, Feed My Frankenstein and Love's A Loaded Gun. The rest of his later period is signposted by big brash melodies and brainstorming fretboard histrionics dished out leading edge guitar mafiosi of the calibre of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Contractual complications dictate that the early songs are represented by live versions of School's Out, Under My Wheels, Only Women Bleed and a titanic No More Mr. Nice Guy. ***...
Where are they now?
(Q Magazine, 1997-01-00)
Their mission, shock-rocking, frock-wearing beer-swillers Alice Cooper loved to claim, was "to drive a stake through the heart of the love generation." ...
A Fistful of Alice Album Review
(Q Magazine, 1997-08-00)
Recorded at Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, A Fistful of Alice is a live Greatest Hits evenly split between the original Alice Cooper group hits (lean, mean, dirty-assed) and solo Alice (cartoon-pompy in comparison). The songs are essentially in their original guise: School's Out, Under My Wheels and Eighteen thus make a thrilling, swaggery intro, and dishing out the long-lost Desperado and Teenage Lament (the latter never before played live) is proof that Cooper's canon is melodic as well as garage-raunchy. Cooper's current back-up - fronted by guitarist Ryan Roxie and Reb Beach - recalls the streamlined flash of the Steve Hunter/Dick Wagner line-up that he borrowed off Lou Reed, with guest slots from Hagar, Rob Zombie (White Zombie) and, on three tracks, "My favourite guitarist" Slash....
Brutal Planet Review
(Q Magazine, 2000-07-00)
Godfather of schlock quits the golf course long enough to make first solo album in six years. Mixed feelings start when Alice Cooper's latest release opens with an uncharacteristically downbeat title track. However, even if his apocalyptic vision of the future - the theme for this record - is unrelentingly dark, once the choruses of songs such as Sanctuary and Wicked Young Man kick in, things start to motor. Gimme and Eat Some More are savage, yet catchy, indictments of Western consumerism, while Take It Like A Woman is an Only Women Bleed for the new millennium, and the wicked hilarity of It's The Little Things is balanced by Pick Up The Bones, a truly chilling closing. Brutal Planet is a slow grower, but certainly Cooper's best since '89's Trash. ...