My top ten would be
1. School's Out
2. Killer
3. Love it to Death
4. Welcome to my Nightmare
5. The Last Temptation
6. Dada
7. Brutal Planet
8. Muscle of Love
9. Billion Dollar Babies
10. From the Inside

The relative rankin of 5-10 tends to vary from time to time...

concolz wrote:For 'Midnight Crawler' https://soundcloud.com/sheila-lussier/tracks (4th track choice down.) I think it's terrible.

Thanks a lot for the link - I have to agree with your assessment! Still good to have heard it...Spider is one of the few albums that gets worse every time you listen to it.

Hi,

How can I listen to If 4th Street Could Talk and Midnight Crawler?

Never heard either of those songs.

Thank you

Well...3-4 songs written with Michael and Neal, 3 songs with Dennis...here's hoping they write one or two more together and make it a reunion album!

Pearl Jam

How is that "condescending"? I was attacking Facebook, not the person I was replying to. I was referring to this but quoted the wrong part "You can get that from Twitter or his site though or even (and here's a shocking concept) this site as well." Well, as you know, Alice himself is not active onl...

"Who cares about Facebook anyway? The whole case for it (and social media in general) is exaggerated. The fact that you don't Facebook doesn't mean that a board user asking a valid question should receive condescending replies (perhaps another shocking concept). You can get that from Twitter Some p...

I am not too excited. The players manage but that's about it. Compared to the current touring band they sound sloppy and amateurish. I don't have the history of following the original band so obviously I have no sentimental feelings. I do understand that they wrote many of the songs. But Nita 10/10...

"Yes but again, you can look at any of the cover songs Alice has done and they're all, for the most part, very faithful to the originals. I don't remember people whining about his version of "Pretty Ballerina" for example and that was very close to the original. Perhaps because that was just one co...

The way I remember it from interviews is that Michael Bruce wrote the bass part for My Stars while Dennis was sick and then Dennis played the same thing on the recording.

Agreed - would have expected some comments about NMMNG and Elected.


With respect to SO....I think his best bass work is on that album (Gutter Cat, Blue Turk, My Stars)!

I really enjoyed thuis book. He does seem to race through the LTD to MOL period like à tornado, but maybe that's what it felt like at the time. One of the best rock biogs i've read so far. Well doen Dennis! When is Neal's out? :p In various interviwes prior to the release Dennis had said that his b...

Nightmare for me....FTI is one of the best solo albums lyrically but I prefer the musical style of Nightmare....there are more songs on FTI that I'm not too fond of (Millie & Billie, HYGSMN, Jacknife Johnny and Inmates) than there are on WTMN.

It is indeed a great book. I think it's the most reliable account of the band years. I've always felt that the absence of Dennis' style and creativity is one of the biggest problems with the solo years. The only minor complaint I have is I would have loved more detail about the songs; there is hardl...

My problem with TLT is that I feel it gets quite weak in the second half...never been too fond of Unholy War and Lullaby. I used to like It's Me, but not much anymore, and Cleansed by Fire is OK but not stellar. I think the first half of the album is really strong, though. BP is more consistent - Pe...

>The aura of danger, outrage, and rebellion was nearly gone. That is probably because Michael and Dennis didn't want to be tethered to a theatrical concept (as Michael more or less put it) or be perceived as being Alice's backing band. Dennis always disagrees with the argument that the band wanted ...

But then Last Temptation and Brutal Planet are two of his best and both are 'dark' at least in terms of the concept/lyrics.

>I think it's a good attempt to step up and bring back the old dark Alice. That is a really important point. For all its faults, the album did indeed "bring back the old dark Alice" which highlights a possible dilemma. Does he concentrate on making the best album that he can, or does he concentrate...

I think the biggest problem with ACAS is that there was so much promise surrounding it - the artwork was really good, the concept (as originally announced) sounded very intriguing, the promo videos were great....and then the actual music just fell flat. Vengeance is Mine and I am the Spider are the ...

ACG
Favourite: School's Out
Least Favourite: PFY

Solo
Favourite: WTMN
Least favourite: tie between L&W and Constrictor
Biggest disappointment: ACAS - the idea sounded real good, the promo video was awesome...the album just left so much to be desired.