Wow, way to over-analyze.

I wasn't implying (nor do I think Alice was) that he readily dislikes his early '80s output. I guess the quote above might seem slightly out of context: he was telling Behar that hard drinking led to a period of his life which he simply has no memory of. He's discussed how he likes songs such as "Fo...

I had the exact same experience as everyone else when I got into Cooper in '91. "Lace and Whiskey" and "From the Inside" were fairly easy to find on vinyl, but I couldn't find either on CD (despite the then-recent Metal Blade release of FTI). "The Alice Cooper Show" was easily found through mail-ord...

The thing about Brian is he was a walking, talking encyclopedia and knew WAY more about Alice than Alice himself remembers. Alice's interviews were always richer when Brian was sitting beside him, prodding him along and correcting his mistakes. And it's Brian's insight that's sorely missing from the...

Prime Cuts was about the ONLY major new thing I could find at that time. Hit Parader or Circus ran a b/w Wayne's World spread and Metal Edge almost always had a throw-away one-liner in their Rockin Roundup q&a, but interviews and other press were extremely sparse post- "Trash." I checked all the mus...

To add my voice to the masses, I'd like to see em online too! The music video for "Hey Stoopid" is what turned me into a fan as a teenager, cuz it was really odd and in heavy rotation on MTV for about a month before abruptly vanishing into oblivion. From that point on, I tried finding everything I c...

I would absolutely reinvest in a new vinyl pressing of "DaDa." Until I got the CD, I thought the album sucked. Once I got the CD, I discovered it was the vinyl itself that sucked. For reasons I can neither explain nor thoroughly understand, that flimsy '80s vinyl stock wrecked the synth sound on tha...

"Millie and Billy" is creepy on the same level as "Mary Ann" and "Only Women Bleed." All are very commercial-sounding tunes with totally warped punchlines. And it's funny how almost all of the rest that've been cited in this thread are Steven's songs. Add to that list "Wind-Up Toy," with its broken ...

To this day, I still don't like "Pretties for You" as a whole (though I do like "Changing, Arranging"). It's TOO experimental and noisy, just like "Freak Out." But I liked "Easy Action" from my very first listen. Every song has a distinctive melody and, though it's neither as polished or focused as ...

According to all sources, the concert film was released in Nov. '75, but I'm curious if anyone's got proof of that release date. I was looking at the magazine that came with the W2MN fan pack (which I'm very late in getting since the US amazon dropped it long after I preordered) and there's a reprin...

Uh, have you actually listened to "I Am Made of You," Goat Herder? The entire first verse is UNMISTAKABLY Auto-Tuned. His voice sounds electronic and it unnaturally changes pitch. The Auto-Tune drops off at the chorus, but most of his subsequent "In the beginning" verses have been ever-so slightly t...

"Along Came a Spider" had to grow on me, and after hearing "I'll Bite Your Face Off" (which I'm still not enchanted by), I feared this was gonna be more of the same -- since Alice generally releases albums in pairs. Thankfully, I was pretty captivated in a way I haven't been since I first heard TLT....

Did anyone happen to catch the whole marathon? I surmise he had a big intro and outro but I saw neither. They took WGN off my basic cable, so I had to order the channel and get a special cable box just to see it. The box was locked up for the first five minutes, then the channel inexplicably went bl...

Thanks for leaving this on the top news, I hit the forum so infrequently (and haven't emailed him in so long) that I didn't realize Ren had passed away... six months ago. In the early days of the Sick Things online community he was a constant and I'm certain a great deal of information about Alice n...

The December 4,2009 issue of Entertainment Weekly has a coverstory on "The Late Greats of 2009." Surprisingly, Soupy Sales is mentioned (they overlooked a lot of recently deceased celebrities) and even more surprisingly, Alice is the one who wrote the sidebar on him: Pie-Hurdling Comedian Soupy Sale...

I've read the rough manuscript from the revised edition and many of the mistakes from the first edition should be corrected when it hits shelves. I don't know who (if anyone) saw it before the first edition was published, but this time around Dale sought the help of some of us sick things whom he tr...

I'm very confused by not only the delay (which is typical of an Alice Cooper release), but also by the other comments in this thread. If you search amazon (US) for the LP, it's still listed. And here's an excerpt of the email that I got from amazon: "Unfortunately, we are unable to ship the item(s) ...

Baz wrote:Is there a chance this album was written by Aaron Spelling ?

That'd be quite an accomplishment, considering he's dead!

I was happy the day the pinball game went up -- I got a high score of 3 million-something pretty quickly and was ranked #101. I've spent countless hours playing since (addictive; now I remember why I gave up gaming) and can't seem to come close that score again... and other people keep getting highe...

Frustrating that the CD's dropped in price but the ridiculously overpriced vinyl version (which I've now pre-ordered two copies of) hasn't.