{"id":13858,"date":"2014-11-07T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13858"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:42:18","slug":"content-needed-the-album-by-album-challenge-alice-cooper-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13858","title":{"rendered":"The Album by Album Challenge: Alice Cooper (Part IV)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to another \u201cAlbum by Album Challenge.\u201d For those that are new here, the \u201cAlbum by Album Challenge\u201d is where I take a band\u2019s entire discography and listen to every album in order of release from front to back. With my unforgiving and well-aged ear, I call it how I hear it. In some cases, I find that what I once thought was good is actually pretty crappy and sometimes crap manages to age into something pretty kick ass. And in some cases, face melting is still just good ol\u2019 face melting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to Part IV of the Alice Cooper Album by Album Challenge. After taking a break after 1994’s Last Temptation, Alice would once again make a comeback of sorts with 2000’s Brutal Planet.\u00a0 This album saw Alice dipping into the more modern side of heavy music with an almost at times industrial sound and down tuned guitars.\u00a0 This was an area of Alice’s career that I pretty much ignored so I was really hearing these albums for the first time in doing this challenge.\u00a0 Read on to see how they held up (if they did indeed do so).
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A2K \u2013 Alice Cooper: 2000 – Present<\/p>\n

Brutal Planet
\nRelease Date: June 6, 2000
\nThe Good:
\nThe Bad:
\nThe Indifferent: Brutal Planet, Wicked Young Man, Sanctuary, Blow Me A Kiss, Eat Some More, Pick Up the Bones, Pessi-Mystic, Gimme, It\u2019s the Little Things, Take it Like A Woman, Cold Machines<\/p>\n

Six years after The Last Temptation, Alice made another return with an even more modern, heavy sound that in all honesty just didn\u2019t do anything for me. The songs aren\u2019t bad and in all honesty, he does this kind of music really well but the whole down tuned modern metal sound just went right by me and left me with a big ass feeling of \u201cmeh\u201d. There are a few instances such as \u201cBlow Me A Kiss\u201d and \u201cPick Up The Bones\u201d where it sounds like he\u2019s onto something but then all of the sudden he just loses me once it all kicks in. <\/p>\n

The title track has become a staple of Alice\u2019s live shows and I totally enjoy this song in a live setting way more than hearing it on this album. For the most part, the album doesn\u2019t suck but it\u2019s just not what I wanted to hear from Alice Cooper. This was Alice trying to be relevant for the times and I feel like he totally did it and did it well. It sounds honest and sounds really well thought out but again, I just didn\u2019t dig it as this isn\u2019t the Alice Cooper I love. <\/p>\n

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Dragontown
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> September 18, 2001
\nThe Good:
\nThe Bad:
\nThe Indifferent:<\/strong> Triggerman, Deeper, Dragontown, Sex Death and Money, Fantasy Man, Somewhere in the Jungle, Disgraceland, Sister Sara, Every Woman Has a Name, I Just Wanna Be God, It\u2019s Much Too Late, The Sentinel<\/p>\n

So this was the first Alice album I didn\u2019t buy when it was released. As a matter of fact, I wouldn\u2019t buy another Alice album until Welcome to My Nightmare 2. My thoughts on this album are much like they were for Brutal Planet. Dragontown isn\u2019t as overly \u201cmodernly heavy\u201d and the songs are a bit more dialed down. I just don\u2019t feel that the songs are all that strong. I didn\u2019t feel that natural pull or connection that I felt with all those early Alice albums. <\/p>\n