Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

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Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by herseydenvar » Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:45 pm

I think this is excellent list , What do you think guys?

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by pitkin88 » Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:46 pm

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Si » Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:11 pm

BML at #2 is silly, and not including My Stars at all is just stoopid.

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Spiner202 » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:29 am

I'm probably in the minority on this, but my top 20 wouldn't include anything from Muscle of Love and only the title track from School's Out.

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Post by mr.barlow » Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:24 am

Here are my Top 10.

#1 My Stars
#2 Public Animal #9
#3 Halo Of Flies
#4 Caught In A Dream
#5 Gutter Cat Vs. The Jets
#6-Elected
#7 The Ballad Of Dwight Fry
#8 Dead Babies
#9 Killer
#10 Muscle Of Love

Best group album: School's Out

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Toronto Bob » Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:22 am

Top 10 Hits

1. I'm Eighteen
2. School's Out
3. Desperado
4. Be My Lover
5. Muscle of Love
6. Hello Hooray
7. Billion Dollar Babies
8. No More Mr. Nice Guy
9. Is It My Body
10.Hard Hearted Alice

Top Ten Deep Cuts
1. Halo of Flies
2. My Stars
3. Generation Landslide
4. You Drive Me Nervous
5. Black Juju
6. Blue Turk
7. Return of the Spiders
8. Killer
9. Looney Tune
10.Big Apple Dreamin'

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by A_MichaelUK » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:44 am

From Toronto Bob:
"Top 10 Hits"

I don't think all of those were 'A sides' though.

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by guttertrash » Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:07 am

I don't think any of those songs are bad, but not his top 20 in my opinion. More from Muscle Of Love than School's Out and an equal amount with Love It To Death doesn't make sense to me.

My top 20 is:


20. Working Up A Sweat
19. Caught In A Dream
18. Public Animal #9
17. No More Mr. Nice Guy
16. Be My Lover
15. Muscle Of Love
14. Long Way To Go
13. Hello Hooray
12. Elected
11. Black Juju
10. I'm Eighteen
09. Under My Wheels
08. School's Out
07. Dead Babies
06. Second Coming/Ballad Of Dwight Frye
05. My Stars
04. Halo Of Flies
03. Is It My Body
02. Luney Tune
01. Billion Dollar Babies

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Ted Sallis » Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:13 pm

Si wrote:BML at #2 is silly, and not including My Stars at all is just stoopid.
I agree. Halo of Flies should be #1 and My Stars should be in the top 10 at least.

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by recoop » Mon Jul 03, 2017 5:53 pm

Its amazing that they produced so many good tracks from albums 3 to 7 (LITD to MOL) that we can even argue about a top 20- I could argue with myself on this! For me Luney Tune is so original it has to be in the 20 somewhere (there I go)...I couldn't do without Hello Hurray, KIller, Hard Hearted Alice, Halo of Flies, Generation Landslide, No More Mr Nice Guy, Elected, Schools Out, Eighteen, Dwight Fry- how many have I got left to pick from lol
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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by darkmenace » Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:19 am

Haven't seen them mentioned but Second Coming and Levity Ball would make my top 20 list.

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Model Citizen » Tue Jul 04, 2017 6:15 am

No particular order:

Halo Of Flies
Beautiful Flyaway
Laughing At Me
Gutter Cat vs The Jets
Shoe Salesman
Blue Turk
Public Animal #9
Second Coming
Apple Bush
Generation Landslide
Desperado
You Drive Me Nervous
Hallowed Be My Name
Muscle Of Love
Caught In A Dream
Refrigerator Heaven
Workin' Up A Sweat
I Love The Dead
Changing Arranging
No More Mr Nice Guy

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by nurserozetta » Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:37 am

OK I'll play this game

1 Schools Out
2 Halo of flies
3 Luney Tune
4 Hard Hearted Alice
5 Teenage Lament 74
6 Public Animal
7 My Stars
8 Hallowed be Thy Name
9 Second Coming
10 Raped and Freezin'
11 Return of the Spiders
12 Desperado
13 Blue Turk
14 Alma Mater
15 Working Up a Sweat
16 No More Mr Nice Guy
17 Never Been Sold Before
18 Levity Ball
19 Caught in a Dream
20 Dead Babies

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by tuneylune » Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:32 pm

My Top 20:
Caught in a Dream
Halo of Flies
Luney Tune
Unfinished Suite
Never Been Sold Before
Public Animal #9
Return of The Spiders
School's Out
Long Way To Go
Sick Things
Levity Ball
Elected
Hard Hearted Alice
Killer
You Drive Me Nervous
Is It My Body
Second Coming
Gutter Cats VS The Jets
Be My Lover
Below Your Means

Of course, a lot of this can change. Like just about everything they recorded...very few clunkers in my opinion.
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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Ted Sallis » Sat Jul 08, 2017 1:37 pm

A_MichaelUK wrote:From Toronto Bob:
"Top 10 Hits"

I don't think all of those were 'A sides' though.
According to this website, Desperado, Is It My Body and Hard Hearted Alice were not A sides.

Ted

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by revinkevin » Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:58 pm

It's subjective. To each his own. The best thing about it is that one band has those songs in it's resume and you still could add a whole bunch more to a best list. That's impressive.

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by A_MichaelUK » Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:26 pm

From Ted Sallis:
"According to this website, Desperado, Is It My Body and Hard Hearted Alice were not A sides."

Yes. I was trying to avoid any exaggerating.

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Daggers & Contracts » Sun Jul 09, 2017 1:38 am

A_MichaelUK wrote:From Ted Sallis:
"According to this website, Desperado, Is It My Body and Hard Hearted Alice were not A sides."

Yes. I was trying to avoid any exaggerating.
HHA was the "B" side to Teenage Lament '74,
at least in the States - 1st A.C. 45 purchased!
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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by PFOLGORE » Tue Jul 11, 2017 5:52 am

1) Second Coming, Ballad of Dwight Fry & Sun Arise played as a suite.
2) My Stars-- Alice's first unofficial solo song. Wangners guitar is sublime.
3) Hello Hurray
4) Return of the Spiders. -- Like Halo of Flies this song really show cases the bands. Alice takes ownership of his vocal style in this song. Glen and Michael are dueling leads, and Neal and Dennis are given it all on rhythm. It ashamed they stopped playing this song live. It is the greatest live song the band has written.
5) Teenage Lament- the Pointer Sisters get old though. Alices's lyrics make the song.
6) Muscle of Love -- captued the true teen spirit before Nirvana ever did
7) No More Mister Nice Guy--kind of a theme song for me.
8) Billion Dollar Babies -- Donnovan nailed it. Best song of his career and he does not know it.
9) Blue Turk- Other than Take Five the only jazz music that has held my interest as a teen.
10) Halo of Flies--never gets old.

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Re: Top 20 Alice Cooper Songs by the Original Lineup

Post by Ted Sallis » Tue Jul 11, 2017 2:06 pm

PFOLGORE wrote:2) My Stars-- Alice's first unofficial solo song. Wangners guitar is sublime.
I consider I Love the Dead to be Alice's first unofficial solo song.

Ted

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