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Offline WildRanger

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Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« on: October 10, 2018, 09:15:53 AM »
Under My Wheels, Desperado and I'm Eighteen for me.

Your picks?



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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2018, 09:22:02 AM »
Desperado, Poison, Stolen Prayer

Not a huge fan, but like the above, and a few others.
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2018, 09:24:06 AM »
Halo of Flies
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Blue Turk
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2018, 09:31:51 AM »
The only exposure I had to Alice growing up was his metal era - I only just listened to some of the older stuff in recent years.   

So I'll stick to my old favourites:

Freedom
Roses On White Lace
The World Needs Guts
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2018, 09:33:07 AM »
Halo Of Flies
Second Coming
Steven

70s Cooper is the one for me. Can't stand Poison and that whole era.
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2018, 09:36:48 AM »
Quote from: ChuckSteak on October 10, 2018, 09:24:06 AM
Halo of Flies
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Blue Turk

Damn Chuck! Great calls, especially on Blue Turk.


My favorite is Dwight Fry, and Blue Turk is definitely in my Top 3 as well.
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Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 10:06:35 AM
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2018, 11:23:14 AM »
Halo of Flies
Ballad of Dwight Fry
I kinda like "Hello Hooray"
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2018, 11:32:55 AM »
Impossible to choose. So many songs, so many styles.

I'll make separate lists.

ROCK N' ROLL TRACKS:
Poison
Hey Stoopid
I'm Eighteen
(honorable mention for No More Mr. Nice Guy)

HEAVY TRACKS:
Brutal Planet
Dragontown
Roses on White Lace

BALLAD-ISH TRACKS:
Steven
Might as Well Be on Mars
Pick Up the Bones

EPIC SOUNDING STUFF:
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Welcome to My Nightmare
Desperado
(honorable mention for I am Made of You)

But really, the guy's a legend and most of what he's done is gold.

Favorite albums, in chronological order:

Killer
Billion Dollar Babies
Welcome to My Nightmare
From the Inside
Hey Stoopid
Brutal Planet
The Eyes of Alice Cooper
Welcome 2 My Nightmare
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2018, 02:05:10 PM »
Halo of Flies, Steven, I Love The Dead
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2018, 02:11:07 PM »
Quote from: MirrorMask on October 10, 2018, 11:32:55 AM
Favorite albums, in chronological order:

Killer
Billion Dollar Babies
Welcome to My Nightmare
From the Inside
Hey Stoopid
Brutal Planet
The Eyes of Alice Cooper
Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Great to see Eyes there. That's a great album. But W2MN and Brutal Planet would be nowhere near the top half of my list.
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Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 10:06:35 AM
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2018, 04:56:38 PM »
Years Ago/Steven/The Awakening
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2018, 05:47:16 PM »
Schools out
My Frankenstein
NM Mr Nice Guy.

These can change from day to day to different songs.
 I actually like the Desmond Child era songs too,
Poison
House of Fire
Trash....lol
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2018, 06:26:10 PM »
Quote from: TAC on October 10, 2018, 09:36:48 AM
Quote from: ChuckSteak on October 10, 2018, 09:24:06 AM
Halo of Flies
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Blue Turk

Damn Chuck! Great calls, especially on Blue Turk.


My favorite is Dwight Fry, and Blue Turk is definitely in my Top 3 as well.
Thanks! He never made another song like Blue Turk.  :hefdaddy
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2018, 07:41:01 PM »
Yeah, I think School's Out is so underappreciated as an album. Killer and School's Out back to back were way ahead of their time.
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Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 10:06:35 AM
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
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TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2018, 07:53:19 PM »
Here's a dozen songs that I consider among my faves.

Dallad Of Dwight Fry
Blue Turk
Steven Trilogy
Desperado
Dead Babies
Halo Of Flies
Roses On White Lace
Pass The Gun Around
The Quiet Room
Dangerous Tonight
Wind Up Toy
Why Trust You



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Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 10:06:35 AM
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Quote from: bl5150 on August 18, 2015, 06:28:52 AM
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
Quote from: Buddyhunter1 on April 22, 2023, 06:54:45 PM
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2018, 02:21:37 PM »
Quote from: Architeuthis on October 10, 2018, 05:47:16 PM
Schools out
My Frankenstein
NM Mr Nice Guy.


basically what I would choose too.  School's Out, in particular, has one of the best verses in the entire history of rock.

Well we got no class
And we got no principals
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes

two brilliant plays on words, plus a thematic non-rhyme if there ever was one.  fucking brilliant.
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2018, 02:25:32 PM »
The original Alice Cooper band was light years ahead of its time. So underrated in Classic Rock circles for the true genius they were. Bob Ezrin too.
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Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 10:06:35 AM
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Quote from: bl5150 on August 18, 2015, 06:28:52 AM
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
Quote from: Buddyhunter1 on April 22, 2023, 06:54:45 PM
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2018, 03:22:41 PM »
Quote from: TAC on October 10, 2018, 07:53:19 PM
Pass The Gun Around
The Quiet Room
Dangerous Tonight
Wind Up Toy

Nice mention for Dada!

Quiet Room is indeed great, From the Inside is an overlooked but awesome album.

Dangerous Tonight is quite kickass too, more generally Hey Stoopid is WAY better than Trash and should have been the big hit album, but Desmond Child and Poison had other plans.

Which brings us to Wind Up Toy which is indeed a fantastic song and he should really bring it back live.
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2018, 04:58:21 PM »
Quote from: MirrorMask on October 14, 2018, 03:22:41 PM
Which brings us to Wind Up Toy which is indeed a fantastic song and he should really bring it back live.

We never got Wind Up Toy here on that tour. He only did the Operation Rock And Roll Tour where he coheadlined with Judas Priest. We never really got the full show. I remember trading for VHS bootlegs from the European tour to see it.

He had a great band for that tour:


Vinnie Moore
Stef Burns
Eric Singer
Derek Sherinian
Greg Smith

Took these shots at the show:

Alice Cooper
August 14, 1991
Great Woods
Mansfield, Ma





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Quote from: wkiml on June 08, 2012, 10:06:35 AM
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Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
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Re: Your top 3 songs by Alice Cooper?
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2018, 07:28:55 AM »
Quote from: TAC on October 14, 2018, 02:25:32 PM
The original Alice Cooper band was light years ahead of its time. So underrated in Classic Rock circles for the true genius they were. Bob Ezrin too.

I want to second this; at TAC's suggestion, I went back to the early Cooper, and I got lucky that there were two sets on sale:  The Original Album Series, Vol. 1 and the TOAS, Vol. 2, which are basically the first five records and the second five records in a set.   So I listened to them chronologically through.  The first two - which TAC told me sucked, but I didn't listen and checked out, then found out they sucked - had different producers (Frank Zappa and some guy) but the third one - the one TAC said to start with - was the first with Ezrin, and the difference was like night and day.  I was familiar with Ezrin through Peter Gabriel (the first album), Floyd (The Wall), Gilmour, and Kiss (Destroyer, The Elder, Revenge) - there are others - and Fr my money, only Mutt Lange has a more recognizable production style.  He brings so much to that music and I think it fits Alice's stuff just perfectly.   
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