A_MichaelUK wrote:From guttertrash:
"At the end of the day, Alice Cooper's solo albums have always chased trends of the moment."
That really is an exaggeration.
I feel like it is a lot more true than not.
FTF to Dada heavy shift to a punk/new wave/synth sound.
Constrictor and RYFAY shift to hair metal
Trash and Hey Stoopid shift to pop/metal particularly Bon Jovi influenced.
TLT mix between pop/metal and Seattle scene.
BP and Dragontown shift to a detuned/nu-metal style.
Eyes and DD shift to the neo-garage rock style.
It's not a bad thing, but the point that I was making is that the ACG albums all had the same major elements. Alice's solo years have taken many shifts that make it less cohesive, and it kept touch of the current trend at that moment. I'm not saying the ACG would not have done such. Considering Deadringer in the 80s, we could have seen AOR Alice Cooper. Ugh. for me though, ACG and solo Alice marks a major difference. I still really love songs from all of it, but for instance when I make a playlist, I do not put solo era songs in it except for more rocking songs from the first three solos albums (i.e. Cold Ethyl, Dept. of Youth, Escape Guilty, It's Hot Tonight), because the rest takes wind out of the playlist for me just as Poison does in a setlist for a concert for me. I understand the necessity of it for his career and love some of the shifts (i.e. Dada), but my preference leans to the pure rock asthetics of the ACG.