2017 three CD collection. In the early 70's, Alice Cooper was a five-member band that became one of the biggest exponents of glam rock and whose fame reached global proportions, with gold and platinum albums around the world. In 1975, the band broke up and Alice Cooper became a solo artist. The Many Faces Of Alice Cooper digs deep into the band's story and compiles for the first time in one single album, the works of the members of Alice Cooper after the breakup, in addition to paying homage to their impressive repertoire. We started with Michael Bruce.
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell is the ninth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1976. A sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare, this concept album was written almost exclusively by Cooper with guitar player Dick Wagner and producer Bob Ezrin.
One of the most enigmatic albums of all time and the very epitome of "acid folk," Dreaming With Alice is firmly established as one of the world's most sought-after records. Recorded when Mark Fry was still a teenager, and only released in Italy in 1972, Dreaming With Alice is a beguilingly strange and melodic song cycle echo, with fuzzed wah wah guitar and backwards tapes that has been much bootlegged but never officially reissued… until now. Complete with two bonus tracks, rare photographs and liner notes by Fry himself, this is an essential purchase for all fans of psychedelic singer/songwriting.
The Alice Cooper Fan Pack includes Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his brilliant new studio album, plus a 132-page magazine dedicated to the original shock rock legend. Fans who buy the Alice Cooper Fan Pack be able to hear Welcome 2 My Nightmare weeks before it hits the shelves in record stores. What s more, the Fan Pack version of Welcome 2 My Nightmare comes with two exclusive bonus tracks that won t appear on the record store version of the album.
Weighing in at 15 CDs, The Studio Albums 1969-1983 is a hefty box set but, at $85, it is relatively affordable considering that it contains everything Alice Cooper – both the band and the man – recorded at Straight and Warner. Whatever bonus material attached to CD reissues over the years has been stripped away – nothing from the 2001 deluxe edition of Billion Dollar Babies, then – and there are no new remasters of the albums, but this set isn't bare bones. The mini-LP replicas contain a few inserts carried over from the vinyl and, more importantly, those early Straight Records are present, which is good because they were out of print for a while. Not everything here is great – he did have a rough patch in the late '70s and early '80s – but it's all interesting, and it's especially nice to be able to get the entire catalog so easily and cheaply.
No one would begrudge Alice Cooper a quiet retirement, playing away his twilight years on the golf course fairways he loves almost as much as the concert hall stage. Alice, thankfully, shows no signs of slowing down and continues to play sold out shows around the globe.
“Alice” is the soundtrack for the film with the same title by young Portuguese director Marco Martins. A winter film demanded a winter music, and that’s what composer and jazz pianist Bernardo Sassetti conceived – the music of a cloudy, raining Lisbon, with people walking fast in the streets, under their umbrellas, hurrying to arrive home safe and dry. A solitary, melancholic, colour deprived Lisbon, the one you can’t find in postcards and where you can be lost.
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A very simple melody is repeated with subtle variations, and when it seems to go somewhere, the theme is introduced again and the composition returns to the point of departure. A clarinet (Rui Rosa) symbolizes the voice of Alice and a double bass (Yuri Daniel) represents the city as a constant menace. We hear the sounds of the traffic, voices, unidentified noises, the rain, and above all the breathing of Alice’s father in his quest. This is indeed cinematic music, full of inner images, just like a bad dream, and the best work Bernardo Sassetti ever wrote and recorded for the big screen. Highly recommended. (Source: cleanfeed-records.com)