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Rating: It's 1970 when Vincent Furnier, leader of Alice Cooper (Vincent will dissolve the group only after "Muscle Of Love," retaining the name and thus embarking on a solo career), moves the group to Detroit.
The band has two albums under their belt produced by Frank Zappa, "Pretties For You" and "Easy Action," hybrids of horror rock and late '60s psychedelia that weren't very successful, labeling the group as "the worst band in Los Angeles." The albums would be partially re-evaluated only later, but several years would have to pass. In this context, Alice decides to unmask and dedicate himself to raw and unadulterated rock, in which he manages to maneuver with great skill.
The result is "Love It To Death," produced by Warner. Thanks to a simple and immediate musical formula and the single "I'm Eighteen," the album forcefully reaches the higher echelons of the charts. A significant contribution was also made by the "Alice Cooper Show," a temple of musical irreverence, the favorite dish of the most polemical critics, and daily bread for the youth audience. Thanks to his irreverent lyrics that address the most "taboo" subjects (sex, drugs, politics, religion), ambiguous declarations on transvestitism, boas wandering the stage, and various mutilations, Vincent/Alice becomes the symbol of nonconformity. The few traces of the psychedelic past can be found in the lengthy "Black Juju" and in the guitar lines of "Hallowed By My Name," but it's in songs like "Caught In A Dream" that Cooper/Furnier will find his space, making that simple formula his trademark. Passing through "Long Way To Go" and "Is It My Body," we find the baptism of this extravagant character who would soon explode in all his "horror."
And despite the talk of compositions often simple (and to many, predictable), one cannot help but be enchanted by Vincent's great theatricality. Not for nothing, the phrase by Waters "Nobody in our band can play the guitar like Eric Clapton or hold the stage like Alice Cooper" will remain famous. One of the best (if not the best) albums of Alice Cooper "group," as the true masterpiece would come years later with "Welcome To My Nightmare," the best album of Alice Cooper "solo." "Ballad Of Dwight Fry" teaches.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 I'm Eighteen (03:00)
Lines form on my face and hands
Lines form from the ups and downs
I'm in the middle without any plans
I'm a boy and I'm a man
I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want
Eighteen, I just don't know what I want
Eighteen, I gotta get away
I've gotta get out of this place
I'll go runnin' in outer space, oh yeah
I've got a baby's brain and an old man's heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don't always know what I'm talkin' about
Feels like I'm livin' in the middle of doubt
'Cause I'm eighteen, I get confused every day
Eighteen, I just don't know what to say
Eighteen, I gotta get away
Woah, lines form on my face and my hands
Lines form on the left and right
I'm in the middle, the middle of life
I'm a boy and I'm a man
I'm eighteen and I like it
Yes, I like it
Oh, I like it, love it, like it, love it
Eighteen, eighteen, eighteen
Eighteen and I like it
05 Is It My Body (02:39)
What have I got
That makes you want to love me
Is it my body
Or someone I might be
Or somethin' inside me
You better tell me
Tell me
It's really up to you
Have you got the time to find out
Who I really am
What does it take
To get inside of your mind
Give me a break
And take a chance for the very first time
You better tell me
Tell me
It's really up to you
Have you got the time to find out
Who I really am
What have I got
That makes you want to love me
Now is it my body
Or someone I might be
Or somethin' inside me
You better tell me
Tell me
It's really up to you
Have you got the time to find out
Who I really am
08 Ballad of Dwight Fry (06:33)
Mommy where's daddy?
He's been gone for so long.
Do you think he'll ever come home?
I was gone for fourteen days
I coulda been gone for more
Held up in the intensive care ward lyin on the floor
I was gone for all those days but I, was not all alone
I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone
See my lonely life unfold
I see it every day
See my only mind explode
Since I've gone away
I think I lost some weight there and I'm sure I need some rest
Sleepin don't come very easy in a straight white vest
Should like to see that little children
She's only four years old--- old
I'd give her back all of her play things
even, even the ones I stole
See my lonely life unfold
I see it everyday
See my lonely mind explode
when I've gone insane
I wanna get out of here
I wanna, I wanna get out of here
I gotta get out of here
I gotta get out of here
Igotta get out of here I gotta get out of here I gotta get out a'here
Ya gotta let me out of here
Let me outta here
I gotta get outta here
Let me outta here
I gotta get outta here
Let me outta here
I gotta get outta here
See my lonely life unfold
I see it everyday
See my only mind explode
Blow up in my face
I grabbed my hat and I got my coat and I, I ran into the street
I saw a man that was choking there
I guess he couldn't breathe
Said to myself this is very strange
I'm glad it wasn't me
But now I hear those sirens callin' and so I am not free
I DIDN'T WANNA BE
I DIDN'T WANNA BE
I DIDN'T WANNA BE
(See my lonely life unfold)
I DIDN'T WANNA BE
(I see it every day)
LEAVE ME ALONE I DIDN'T WANNA BE
DON'T TOUCH ME!!!!
See my lonely mind explode
when I've gone INSANE!!!
09 Sun Arise (03:50)
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Sun Arise come every mornin'
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise, she come every mornin'
Sun Arise, each and every day
Sun Arise, she come every mornin'
Sun Arise ever-y ever-y ever-y ever-y
She drive away the darkness everyday
She drive away the darkness everyday
She drive away your darkness everyday
Bringin' back the warmth to the ground
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
Sun Arise
Whoa-oh-oh
Ever-y ever-y ever-y ever-y
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