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Hey Stoopid Album Review
(Entertainment Weekly, 1991-07-19)
At this point, the thought of a new Alice Cooper album is both admirable and pathetic, just like the idea of a 45-year-old man playing the role of decadent, mascara-streaked rock star. But give Alice credit: He knows that it's ridiculous too and that rather...
This is Sequal Tap
(Entertainment Weekly, 1993-03-12)
It has always been Spinal Tap's destiny to seize the throne of rock & roll while, as only they could put it, "Stinkin' Up the Great Outdoors." Directionless, rock has stumbled from heavy-metal thunder to gangsta rap, a huge musical pizza with a number...
A Fistful of Alice Album Review
(Entertainment Weekly, 1997-08-08)
Just what you've been waiting for: a live Alice Cooper album baited with one new studio track. Well, he hasn't lost his voice, and chestnuts like "I'm Eighteen" still resonate. But unless you consider the presence of guests like Slash, Rob Zombie, and Sammy Hagar an inducement, you'd do just as well to pick up a copy of Coop's Greatest Hits. Rating: C+...
News Report
(Entertainment Weekly, 1998-11-13)
Go Ask Alice: Sharp-eared metalheads aren't alone in hearing echoes of Alice Cooper's '71 hit "Eighteen" in "Dreamin'," a song from Kiss' current Psycho Circus album. Six Palms Music Corp., copublisher of "Eighteen," filed a complait for copyright infringement against "Dreamin'" authors Bruce Kulick and Kiss member Paul Stanley, as well as Polygram Publishing and Mercury Records, Oct. 21, in the U.S. district court in L.A. The complaint alleges that "Dreamin'" is "substantially similar" to the earlier tune, which was collectively written by members of Alice Cooper. Evan Choen, an attorney for Six Palms Music, says he hopes the matter can be settled out of court: "It's just a question of whether the Kiss people will agree that these songs [sound] just too much alike. I don't see what Paul Stanley could possibly say; he's certainly not going to say he's never heard 'Eighteen.' " A Kiss spokesperson declined to comment on the suit. ...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Entertainment Weekly, 1999-04-23)
Unlike some latter-day shock-rockers, the Coop understood the value of a good song, and this four-CD retrospective is packed with 'em, from garagey, pre-AC gems like "Don't Blow Your Mind" to classic teenage wasteland anthems like "School's Out." The first two discs are especially revelatory, tracing the band's metamorphosis from naïve Yardbirds copyists to sicko psychedelicists to the definitively tough, tuneful hard-rock unit they became in the '70s. Hey, kids: Skip those Marilyn Manson tickets and invest in this instead. ...
Brutal Planet Review
(Entertainment Weekly, 2000-06-09)
Nowhere near as dire as you'd fear, the Coop's latest finds our hero spinning characteristically grim fables as his backing band gamely grinds out old-school hard rock melodies and cliches, There's nothing close to "Eighteen" or "School's Out" here, but tracks like "It's The Little Things" prove AC is one of the few fogies who can make this shameless self-pastiche palatable. B-
Tom Sinclair....