The Niagara show was my 11th Alice show (and amazingly, the 8th different city I've seen him in; he loves to play places near Toronto rather than Toronto itself!). I really enjoyed it. The set was pretty similar to last year's tour that did go to Toronto, but I was happy that He's Back, Bed of Nails...

I jammed this album a lot when it came out, but admittedly hadn't touched it in quite a few months before this last week. With the excitement of seeing Alice again, I gave it another listen, and it still holds up well. I said a couple pages ago that The Big Goodbye was the best song by a wide margin...

I guess there's still no hope for ACAS or W2MN?

I've never really understood why it matters that Alice has a fully-booked tour schedule when it comes to releasing albums. It's probably been since ACAS, maybe even Dirty Diamonds when Alice had a tour that intentionally coincided with a new release that promoted it. He barely plays any new songs, a...

His Malmsteen one is the video that got me hooked on Metal Mythos. I will always watch them once, but he's objectively a pretty terrible person, so I try not to revisit them.

I always enjoy the Metal Mythos series as it's incredibly well researched, and I saw plenty of clips I'd never seen before. That said, Razorfist has always had awful politics, and he usually does an ok job of leaving them at the door in the Mythos series, but he failed in that regard here, so unlike...

Just doing studio records: 70s: Best - Killer - tough call between this and WTMN though Worst - Easy Action - this record is probably more consistent than Goes To Hell, but the good songs on that album are way better, so I can't put it at the bottom 80s: Best - Trash - easy choice for me. Every sing...

mr.barlow wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:16 pm

Both are light-years ahead of Nita in abilities

Ryan and Tommy are great players, but this simply isn't true.

I can't really think of anything that would be better than a heavy Alice Cooper album. Alice is probably the least heavy artist I listen to, so I'd take another RYFAY or Brutal Planet.

I've seen him 10 times: 2007 - Hamilton 2008 - Oshawa 2011 - Quebec City 2011 - Buffalo 2011 - Kitchener 2012 - Toronto 2016 - Rama 2017 - Toronto 2022 - Toronto 2023 - Toronto He seemed to skip Toronto a bunch of times, which is why I ended up seeing him in so many random places. I also didn't real...

One thing I'd like to bring up about Canadian chart numbers (acknowledging that I don't think any of us actually understand how they come up with these numbers) - it is very difficult to actually obtain physical copies of anything in Canada. We had one major music chain (HMV) that shut down many yea...

I saw this last night in Toronto for my 10th Alice show. I'm sure most on this board have seen him even more times than I have, but I'd say it's 100% worth going solely for Snakebite and Lock Me Up. The whole set was pretty fun, and although I agree it was way too short, it didn't feel disappointing.

concolz wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:01 pm

hasn't made Canadian chart at all!

I did my best . Bought the CD and vinyl, and usually I only get CD.

Am I crazy or is this the first time everyone is referring to a new Alice studio album based on the number of solo albums, rather than total? I keep seeing that this is his 22nd solo album everywhere, rather than his 29th total album. It doesn't really matter at all, as both are true, but I just fin...

Trash Killer Brutal Planet Welcome To My Nightmare Hey Stoopid Love It To Death Raise Your Fist and Yell Billion Dollar Babies Welcome 2 My Nightmare Paranormal Constrictor Dragontown The Last Temptation DaDa School's Out Road Along Came A Spider Zipper Catches Skin Dirty Diamonds Lace and Whiskey M...

I'm just finishing my 3rd listen and this album is fantastic. A huge step up from Detroit Stories, though perhaps not quite as good as Paranormal. The best song is, without question, The Big Goodbye. It's super heavy, but better than that, it's got some great hooks. It reminds me of Hanging On By A ...

My Road - RED BLACK Marbled 2-Vinyl + DVD is send it yesterday from Napalm Records Shop, so no delay for release date !! Got a report that AmazonUS has emailing to say it's delayed the CD/DVD set until Sept 19th....? If it's anything like Amazon Canada, they just don't deliver pre-orders on time un...

Pitta wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:26 pm

https://youtu.be/kk4r40rwhBA


Official pre-listening

Sounds wicked! I think this is going to be his most "samey" album since TEOAC, but I think the songs will really click after a few listens. There was one song (The Big Goodbye) that sounded pretty heavy too.

cooperrocks wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:09 pm

You want to bring in a thrash song, do it.

You have my attention

Thrash is my favourite style of music and Alice is my favourite singer so combining the two sounds like a good idea in my head

Wicked track. I have no idea why people are hearing metal in this - I'm probably the biggest metal fan on this board and this is just a rock song. As for the Cherry Pie comparisons, the rhythm and syllables might be the same, but the melody is totally different. I don't really hear it. In any case, ...