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Alice Cooper: The Eyes of Alice Cooper

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Label: Spitfire Records
Released: 2003.09.23
Time:
 44:12
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Alice Cooper, Mudrock
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.alicecooper.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2011
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] What Do You Want From Me? (A.Cooper/E.Dover/M.Reid) – 3:24
[2] Between High School & Old School (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:01
[3] Man of the Year (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 2:51
[4] Novocaine (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:07
[5] Bye Bye, Baby (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:27
[6] Be With You Awhile (A.Cooper/E.Dover) – 4:17
[7] Detroit City (A.Cooper/R.Roxie/Ch.Garric) – 3:58
[8] Spirits Rebellious (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:35
[9] This House Is Haunted (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:30
[10] Love Should Never Feel Like This (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:32
[11] The Song That Didn't Rhyme (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:17
[12] I'm So Angry (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 3:36
[13] Backyard Brawl (A.Cooper/E.Dover/R.Roxie) – 2:36

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Alice Cooper - Vocals, Producer

Eric Dover - Guitar, Voclas
Ryan Roxie - Guitar, vocals on "What Do You Want From Me?"
Chuck Garric - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Eric Singer - Drums

Wayne Kramer - Guest guitar on "Detroit City"
Teddy "ZigZag" Andreadis - Keyboards, Accordion, Percussion
Scott Gilman - Saxophones, Clarinet & Other Instruments
Calico Cooper - Theremin, Backing Vocals

Mudrock - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Andrew Murdock - Engineer, Producer
Fred Archambault - Engineer
Al Fujisaki - Assistant Engineer
Tom Baker - Mastering
Ward Boult - Photography
Adam Day - Technician
Curtis Evans - Packaging
Mike Fasano - Technician
Jeff Morose - Technician
Brian Nelson - Assistant

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


2003 Digi Eagle Rock
2003 CD Eagle Records
2003 CD Spitfire Records
2003 LP Spitfire Records
2004 LP Divine Recordings
2005 LP Simply Vinyl
2008 Digi Eagle Rock
2010 CD Armoury Records
2011 LP Rock Classics

The Eyes of Alice Cooper is the 23rd album by Alice Cooper, that was released in 2003. Although it has been said that the title is a reference to the 2000 documentary known as The Eyes of Tammy Faye, in October 2007, Alice said that was not the case. With this album, Cooper returned to his earlier hard rock sound, in the vein of The Last Temptation, and left the heavy industrial metal sound found in his last two studio albums. Of note is the album cover, which was released in four different versions, featuring alternate colours in Cooper's eyes and the crescent around the 'A' in the title. It was available in blue, green, purple and red. In the 2010 Behind the Music Remastered on Alice Cooper, "Between High School & Old School" was described as "a modern Alice Cooper classic" for its return to the topic of school (a reference to "School's Out").



Give him points for persistence: Alice Cooper just won't quit. He's seen it all from the bottom to the top -- and done the trip more than once -- but still continues on his merry-morbid way, punching out albums like a spry young'un. The first thing one has to say about The Eyes of Alice Cooper is thank Jehovah and all his witnesses that the Mascara'd One has grown out of his metal/industrial phase. That look just never took. Discs like Brutal Planet (2000) and the somewhat better Dragontown (2001) offered little to his legacy or his legion of fans - aside from nascent headbangers discovering the Coop for the first time. Eyes harks back to Alice's overly maligned early-'80s discs Special Forces and Flush the Fashion - albums that suffered by comparison with his landmark '70s releases but remain far more musically appealing than the aforementioned new-millennium fare. It takes a couple of listens to "get it," but there is some very good material here: largely derivative, yes, but energetic and entertaining nonetheless. And the old sneer-and-wink is back and comes through in lyrics that, unlike the sonics, are distinctive. The punkish "Man of the Year" is a tragicomedy rip on button-down-collar types who climb life's ladder only to end up putting a gun in their mouths. "Novocaine" (the very word brings back memories of Billion Dollar Babies and "Unfinished Sweet") has, believe it, a Bruce Springsteen guitar sound. The best rocker of the pack is "Detroit City," a quasi-anthemic, mid-tempo grunter fuelled by a slapping, tom-tom beat and a fist-pumping chorus. (MC5's Wayne Kramer adds an extra axe on this one.) The classically Cooper-esque ballad "Be With You a While" is another scene-stealer ("I wish I could tell you/Something you didn't know/I wish I could give you/Something you didn't own") and shows that the ol' snake-twirler still has a sensitive side. The most autobiographical moment comes with the second track, "Between High School and Old School." To wit: "I'm stuck somewhere between high school and old school." Ah, but was it not always thus? For more than three decades Alice has been everyone's favorite grown-up in teens' clothing. And that's why he's loved. Alice being Alice. It's tried and true and it works again here. Not exceptionally, but more than acceptably. In the sweeping context of his legendary career, one could say that The Eyes of Alice Cooper is far from his best album and just as far from his worst.

Adrian Zupp - All Music Guide

 

 L y r i c s


Detroit City

Me and Iggy were giggin' with Ziggy and kickin' with the MC5
Ted and Seger were burnin' with fever
And let the Silver bullets fly
The Kid was in his crib, shady wore a bib
And the posse wasn`t even alive
Shock rock choppin' block, sort to make your heart stop
Shovin' in to overdrive
Playing loud and fast
Make that guitar blast
Playing like today will be your last...
Well I was born there
Gonna die there
With all my long hair
Detroit City
You feel your heart beat
You hit the concrete
To get to mean street
Detroit City
There`s a riot raging downtown
Tryin' to burn the place down
Skies glowing; red and grey
But the Riff kept a Rockin'
The Greek kept a-talkin'
And the streets still smokin' today
Playing loud and fast
Make that guitar blast
Playing like today will be your last...
Well I was born there
Probably die there
With all my long hair
Detroit City
You feel your heart beat
You hit the concrete
Dance the mean streets
Detroit City
Six mile seven mile eight mile nine mile
Ten mile eleven mile Detroit city
Louder
Faster
Louder
Detroit City
Well I was born there
Gonna die there
We don`t belong here
Detroit City
You feel your heart beat
Hit the concrete
Dance the mean street
Detroit City
Well I was born there
Probably die there
With all my long hair
Detroit City
You feel your heart beat
You hit the concrete
Dance the mean street
Detroit City


What Do You Want From Me?

I call you every hour on the telephone
I work my fingers right down to the bone
I even got you a chihuahua so you wouldn`t be alone
Got you you a trailer 'bout the size of Maine
Bought a mile of interstate in your name

I`ve given you everything
Baby what do you want from me!

I burned all my porno - 'cause you were PMS'n
You say it offends you - All that talking it never ends
Disconnected my X-Box and ditched all my friends
So you can go to the opera.
Dumped all my girlfriends - Even the dirty ones
You think they annoy you - they wanna destroy you
I`m givin` you everything
Baby what do you want from me!

Got you a picture you can put in a frame
Wearing a suit all check and lame
I even signed it at the bottom so you`d 'member my name
Took you to Target for your birthday meal
Got you an autographed buns of steel
So what a deal!
I`m givin` you everything
Baby what do you want from me!

I burned all my porno - 'cause you were PMS'n
You say it offends you - All that talking it never ends
Disconnected my X-Box and ditched all my friends
So you can go to the opera.
Dumped all my girlfriends - even the dirty ones
You say they annoy you - they wanna destroy you
I`m givin` you everything
Baby what do you want from me!


I give you everything
Zirconium diamond rings
I Gotcha LoJack for your pontiac
And some decals on your finger nails
And a a bass master, a Singing trout
And a TV and a CD
And a DVD from QVC
And baby what ya think of me!

Burned all my porno
You say it offends you
Disconnected my X-Box
Baby what do you want from me!
What do you want from me!
What do you want from me!


Love Should Never Feel

Somebody told me love`s a beautiful thing
And when I found it all the bells would just ring
The sun would shine and all the birds would sing
Then I met you
I searched the planet for that magical girl
I walked a million miles all over the world
I found the oysters, but never the pearls.
Then I met you...
I can`t eat
I can`t sleep
I feel sick
I`m so weak
Love should never feel like this
I must be doing something wrong
I`ve never felt this way before
Walk in the bathroom and I take a deep breath
Look in the mirror and it scares me to death
Look like a junkie that`s been strung out on meth
Since I met you
I can`t eat
I can`t sleep
I feel sick
I`m so weak
Love should never feel like this
I must be doing something wrong
I`ve never felt this way before
Love should never feel like this
I must be doing something wrong
I never felt this way before
Oh, ignorance was always bliss
Love should never feel like this
Love should never, ever feel like this
I`ve never felt this way before
I must be doing something wrong
No, Love should never, ever feel like this
I must be doing something wrong
I`ve never, ever felt this way before
What`s wrong with me!


Spirits Rebellious

I can`t do right when all I wanna do is wrong
My conscience sounds aloud like the waning on a Chinese gong(?)
I know about the punishment, I know about the law
My sins cut deeper then the teeth on a saw
My attitude is bad and my nerves are raw
I`m a shotgun snake, I`m a jackal with claws
I was born with a chip on my shoulder on a stormy night
Alright
My spirits rebellious, you tell us everything OK
No way
Spirits rebellious, we won`t do anything you say
It`s a hard, hard world with a black corroded heart
There`s a livin', breathin' devil trying to tear my soul apart
In a cold, cold grave on a dark, dark night
Eternity is black, I'll never see the light
Never listen to advice, I was never that bright
Couldn`t walk away, I was lookin' to fight
I was born with a chip on my shoulder on a stormy night
Alright
My spirits rebellious, you tell us everything OK
No way
My spirits rebellious, we won`t do anything you say
No Way
My spirits rebellious, you tell us everything alright
Tonight
Spirits rebellious, all we gonna hear is lies, lies, lies
Lies......
My Spirits rebellious
My Spirits rebellious
My Spirits rebellious
My Spirits rebellious


Novocaine

When I was 10, fell out of bed
Got three stitches in my head
It hurt like hell
I saw the blood, I felt the pain
I'd like to feel it once again
'Cause I don't feel it
Then I got stung, right on the face
I screamed and ran around the place
It hurt like hell
I swoll right up, I burned for days
I'd like to feel it once again
Cause when you touch me
When you hold me
When you kiss me
I don't feel anything
When you touch me
When you hold me
When you kiss me
It's just like Novocaine
I remember every cut and scrape
I'm alone so long
Something's wrong
So I'll take anything
I slap my face, I pull my hair
Just to see if something's there
It should hurt like hell
I miss the pinch, I miss the pain
That shock sensation in my brain
Cause when you touch me
When you hold me
When you kiss me
I don't feel anything
When you touch me
When you hold me
When you kiss me
I don't feel anything
When you touch me (when you touch me)
When you hold me (when you hold me)
When you kiss me
I don't feel it
When you touch me (when you touch me)
When you hold me (when you hold me)
When you kiss me
It's just like Novocaine
I don't feel anything
I don't feel it
I don't feel it
I don't feel it
Well, I don't feel it
No, I don't feel it
I don't feel it


Man Of The Year

I wake up every morning, Six o'clock, I`m right on time
I eat a low fat breakfast, I tie a perfect tie
I kiss the wife, I hug the kids, I pat the dogs and cats
I never lose anything, my car keys or my hat
'Cause I`m the man of the year
I`m the man of the year
I never cheat at finals, or miss a day at school
My urine tests are perfect, my prostate is a jewel
'Cause I`m the man of the year
I`m the man of the year
'Cause I`m the man of the year
I`m never, ever jealous
Never, ever cruel
I`m a graduate of Harvard
Where I never broke the rules
The queen made me a knight
The pope made me a saint
The president plays golf with me
I make Madonna faint
So why am I so lonely
Depressed and in despair
If I pull this trigger in my mouth will anybody care
It was the greatest funeral, I laid in perfect state
And later I will meet the lord, I bet he just can`t wait
To meet the man of the year
I`m the man of the year
Stand in line to meet the man
I`m the man, I`m the man, I`m the man


Bye Bye Baby

What`s wrong with you today
I could never tell
Got something drastic on your mind
I can smell the small
Honey what`s your trip today
Can`t look me in the eye
A couple thousand miles away
You took me by surprise
You left a message on the telephone
From New York City, your new home
You didn`t like the neighbourhood
You really hated Hollywood
You said
Bye bye baby
Bye bye girl
Bye bye baby
You`re in another world
You said my friends are boring
You said my house is small
You like it fifty stories high
You like livin' tall
You hate the L.A. freeways
You hate the L.A. smog
You hate the west coast phonies
You like the city doors (?)
I`m confused but I`m not mad
Said I`m the worst you`ve ever had
I ain`t delusional, or institutional
But I`m pretty sure I ain't that bad
I said
Bye bye baby
Bye bye girl
Bye bye baby
You`re in another world
I tried to reach you on your private line
You sure ain't calling mine
Now I`m sittin' here all alone
With a broken heart in three tine zones
(Bye bye baby) Bye bye baby
(Bye bye girl) paging your phone (?)
(Bye bye baby) please check your email (?)
(Bye bye girl) Why not your beeper (?)
(Bye bye baby) Stick your head out the window
Oh... I`m mad as hell
Bye bye baby
Anyone at home?
Hello? Hello?
Anybody there?
Hello? Pick up?


Be With You Awhile

I wish I could tell you something you didn`t know
I wish I could give you something you didn`t owe
I wish I could tell you a joke to make you smile
And I could be with you awhile
Just wanna be that someone you weren`t looking for
Some nameless fascination that showed up at your door
And when you`re sad and blue my jokes still make you smile
And I could be with you awhile
I just want to take you somewhere you haven`t been
Find an old time movie where we don`t know the end
Lost in the radio, drive another mile
So I could be with you awhile
Just wanna be that someone you weren`t looking for
Some nameless fascination that showed up at your door
And when you`re sad and blue my jokes still make you smile
And I could be with you awhile
Tired of serious conversation
Tangled up in situations
I feel so free 'cause you want nothing from me
Just wanna be that someone you weren`t looking for
Some hopeless vagabond asleep there on your floor
And when you`re old and gray my jokes still make you smile
And I could be with you awhile
Just wanna be that someone you weren`t looking for
Some nameless fascination that showed up at your door
And when you`re old and gray my jokes still make you smile
And I could be with you awhile
I just want to be with you awhile
I just want to be with you awhile
I just want to be with you....


I'm So Angry

I`m so angry
I`m so angry
Something that you said burnin' in my head
I`m so angry
I`m so angry
Everything you do makes me furious with you
It`s like you're pointing at me
It`s like you put me in shock
You stick a needle in me
Every time that you talk
I`m so angry
I`m so stupid
Everything you say, I believe it anyway
I`m so stupid
I`m so angry
Running after you, that`s what I gotta do
It`s like you're pointing at me
It`s like you put me in shock
You stick a needle in me
Every time that you talk
Is there any one at all
Any one you didn`t call
Is there any one you didn`t deny
Is there any one you missed
Any one you didn`t kiss
Is there any law you didn`t defy
I`m so crazy
I`m so crazy
I used to be so cool, now I`m just your little fool
I`m so crazy
I`m so crazy
Talking in my sleep like a scary little creep
It`s like you're pointing at me
It`s like you put me in shock
You stick a needle in me
Every time that you talk
Is there any one at all
Anyone you didn`t call
Is there any one you didn`t deny
Is there any one you missed
Anyone you didn`t kiss
Is there any law you didn`t defy
I`m so angry
I`m so angry
Always chewing nails, it never, ever fails
I`m so angry
I`m so angry
Better hide my knife, better run for your life
So Angry
So Angry
I`m so angry
Angry, angry, angry etc.


Between High School and the Old School

Hey Hey
Hey Hey
I guess I`m a loner and I don`t fit in (No...)
I ain`t too comfortable in my skin (oh...)
An' I don`t play well with the others

I`m stuck somewhere between high school and old school
I can`t decide between my rules and your rules

Hey Hey
Hey Hey
Nobody wants me hanging round
Unless it`s from a tree in the middle of town
And I'm out of step with the others

I`m stuck somewhere between high school and old school
I can`t decide between my rules and your rules
I`m stuck somewhere between high school and old school
So I defy maybe all rules maybe no rules

My clothes don`t make me
My hair ain't cut right
And I don`t care much
No I don`t care at all

I guess my brain is out of synch, I think

I`m stuck somewhere between high school and old school
I can`t decide between my rules and your rules
I`m stuck somewhere between high school and old school
I can`t decide, I just can`t decide

Hey hey hey
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
Aw...


This House is Haunted

I was sitting in my room, dark and gray and crying
Someone in my life I fear was at the point of dying
A cold wind blew right up my spine, it was the break of dawn
A little voice way deep inside told me she was gone

Oh... This house is haunted
Oh... That`s how I want it to be
Oh... This house is haunted
You can always stay here with me...

No more singing, no more laughing, no more sunny days
She left and took the colours with her, buried in her grave
This is where we climbed the tower, this is where she fell
Then when her young heart stopped beating, I went to hell

Oh... This house is haunted
Oh... Ha....
Oh... This house is haunted
Ho.. . Oh...

You float through the living room, I watch my TV
I feel you sit down on the couch right here next to me
The I feel you lips touch mine just like we used to do
I`m so happy all alone being here with you...


Backyard Brawl

Got a cut on my thigh, got a nail in my eye
And I`m bleedin' all over the wall
Got a barbed wire bat and a dude on the matt
Ain`t getting up soon at all
Got a head full of rage and a belly full of hate
I'm the neighbourhood legend that just can`t wait
For the backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Don`t matter who you are, don`t matter what colour
Brown or white'll do
But if you`re yellow you`ll be covered in red
A whole lotta black and blue
Atop of a trailer in a pile full o' guys
Scratching and kicking and pulverised
For the backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Only got six teeth but three of those
Are sharp enough to bite off your nose
At the backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard Brawl
Another backyard brawl
Backyard Brawl
[Dialogue]
You think you`re so [beep] tough
You talkin' to me?
You`re mine
Come on, let's go
Come on stitches...


The Song That Didn't Rhyme

Wrote a song, it was wrong from it`s very first conception,
Seemed I struggled on every line.
It wasn`t fast, wasn`t pretty, wasn`t serious or witty,
The song that didn`t rhyme.

The band couldn`t wing it, the singer couldn`t sing it,
The Drummer's always out of time.
The DJ`s were offended, my union card suspended,
Billboard declared it a crime.

The melody blows in a key that no one can find
The lyrics don`t flow but I can`t get it out of my mind
A three minute waste of your time,
On a song that didn`t rhyme.

It was bland, it was boring, all the groupies there were snoring,
The first time we played it live.
All the record guys got fired, the president retired,
But somehow the song survived.

The melody blows in a key that no one can find
The lyrics don`t flow but I can`t get it out of my mind
The melody blows in a key that no one can find
The lyrics don`t flow but I can`t get it out of my mind
A three minute waste of your time
No redeeming value of any kind
But thanks for the $12.99
On a song that didn`t rhyme.

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