Several people (myself included) have talked about Alice Cooper on other boards, so I figured he deserved one of his own!

The only Alice Cooper album I own is "Constrictor". I got it on cassette for $3.95 about two years after it was released. Its the one with the theme from "Friday the Thirteenth pt. VI Jason Lives" on it, but my favorite track are "Teenage Frankenstein" & "Life And Death of The Party".

Two quick questions:

1. Was "I Got A Line On You" on one of his albums, or was it just done for a movie soundtrack? (One of the "Iron Eagle" movies, I believe)

2. Has anyone ever done a cover version of "Welcome To My Nightmare"? I know someone did a cover of "Eighteen" back in the late `80's. I don't remember who, though, because it STUNK!

My three favorite songs are "Welcome To My Nightmare", "Teenage Frankenstein" & "Poison".

"I Got A Line on You" was done just for the movie and doesn't appear on any of his albums, although it is on the Life and Crimes box set. It is a cover of a Spirit song.

I'll repeat what I posted on another topic, now that the Alice Cooper berth is opened ...

I've had a nagging feeling for years that Alice Cooper and Tiny Tim (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips) are the same person. Perhaps someone can shed light on this strange attraction ...

Look, Tiny Tim is dead; Alice only loves the dead. See the difference?

I've got Alice's box set, From The Inside, Constrictor and Trash.

Favorite Coop songs are "School's Out", "Elected", "No More Mr. Nice Guy", "Department of Youth", (I love how that song ends: Alice - "And who gave you the power?" Kids - "Donny Osmond!" Alice - "What!?"), "I Never Cry", "Nurse Rozetta", "Millie and Billie", "Serious", "For Veronica's Sake", "Inmates (We're All Crazy)", "Clones (We're All)", "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)", "Poison", and "Is Anyone Home?"

I saw Alice back in '87 on the Constrictor tour. It was a great show.

By the by, I guess y'all know that Coop's now a born again Christian?

(Derf, Alice was never as fat as Tiny Tim. Ever.} (Besides, Tiptoe through the tulips? Alice'd crush 'em!)

Kewl ... I was getting a rash thinking about Alice in a business suit with a ukelele ...

Yeah, I knew about him being a born-again Christian. He's also an avid golfer (He pretty much OWNS VH1's annual charity golf tournament, Fairway To Heaven. I don't think he won it last year, though).

I like "No More Mister Nice Guy". I have it on my PC's Liquid Audio Player. But, I actually prefer Megadeth's version from the movie "Shocker". (Please don't kill me)

I have the soundtrack to a documentary Penelope Spheeris did about Heavy Metal\Hard Rock back in the `80's. It has a killer version of "Under My Wheels" by Coop and Axl Rose.

Here are my 25 favorite Alice songs, in chronological order:

Is It My Body, The Ballad of Dwight Fry, Be My Lover, Desperado, Elected, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Teenage Lament '74, Escape, Didn't We Meet, I Never Cry, You and Me, The Quiet Room, How You Gonna See Me Now, Clones, I Am The Future, Pass The Gun Around, Teenage Frankenstein, Crawlin', Lock Me Up, Step On You, Only My Heart Talkin', Might As Well Be On Mars, Die For You, It's Me, Stolen Prayer.

Alice has had a very prolific career even considering the time he's been around. Unfortunately, most of the albums he's released have been inconsistent, but he always has one or two good songs on even his worst albums. The five most consistent albums are Love It To Death, Killer, Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, From The Inside and Hey Stoopid.
One thing that Coop has always been a master of is self-parody. I think it is this brilliant touch for self-parody that many of his imitators, such as Marilyn Manson, have lacked in comparison.
I still haven't heard the Brutal Planet album yet, mainly because of my boycott of anything released on the Spitfire label.

Excuse my ignorance, but what's wrong with the Spitfire label? (Which I don't think I've ever heard of)

To make a long story short, they've screwed over some of the artists on their label . . .

Well, you could always buy a used copy. I guess it depends on how strictly you want to maintain your boycott.

True. I just haven't gotten around to it. I've heard that Brutal Planet isn't one of his better efforts.

BF-Wasn't the title to that flick "The Decline Of Western Civilization Part I?" I also think they did a "Part II". Penelope Spheeris went on to work on the "Roseanne" show, as a story editor or something.

There was a Part II.

The one I have is from "The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years". I'm not sure, but I think Part I was about the Punk movement.

Penelope Spheeris directed a few normal movies after that. I think she directed "Clueless", if I'm not mistaken. I may have her confused with someone else on that one, but I know for a fact she did some normal movies.

Incidentally, that tape has one f**ked-up version of "Born To Be Wild" by Lizzie Borden on it. (Of course, in my opinion everything Lizzie Borden did was f'ed up!)

Penelope Spheeris directed a few normal movies after that. I think she directed "Clueless", if I'm not mistaken. I may have her confused with someone else on that one, but I know for a fact she did some normal movies.

Amy Heckerling of Fast Times at Ridgemont High fame did Clueless. Spheeris did Wayne's World and after its succuss she followed it with a string of ill conceved comedys The Beverly Hillbillys, The Little Raskels, Black Sheep (A.K.A. Tommy Boy revisited). She once said that she does not like being pidgen-holed as a director of bland comedys. If she does not like that might I suggust that she should stop directing so many bland commedys. Although Senseless did have a few big laughs in it.

There's an Alice Cooper trivia question I put on the Nuggets box set board that is still unanswered . . .