Along Came a Spider (Album)

Along Came a Spider
Alice Cooper studio album
Publication (s)	July 29, 2008
admission	2007-2008
Label (s)	Steamhammer
Format (s)	CD , LP , online music services
Genre (s)	Hard rock
Title (number)	11 (+3)
running time	44:17
production	Alice Cooper , Greg Hampton , Danny Saber
Studio (s)	Wonderland Studios, Hampton Hacienda Lab, Undercity Recordings
chronology Dirty Diamonds (2005) Along Came a Spider Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011)

Along Came a Spider is Alice Cooper's 25th studio album, released on July 29, 2008 .

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Illustration of the album cover (CD edition)
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Illustration of the album cover (LP edition)
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Alice Cooper slips into the role of the serial killer Spider, who wraps his exclusively female victims in spider silk. Spider wants to create his own spider, which is why he cuts off a leg from each of his victims. After he has already severed a leg from seven victims, complications arise with the eighth, as Spider falls in love with his last victim.

Cooper said of the style of the album:

"I like to work like this: Telling a story in individual songs, which together result in a coherent concept, but also work on their own."

- Alice Cooper: Poet, Golfer, Rampensau in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 04.2008, page 32

Cooper won over Greg Hampton and Danny Saber for songwriting and production , while his band's bassist, Chuck Garric , guitarist Keri Kelli , Ozzy Osbourne and Warrant singer Jani Lane contributed to the creation of individual songs. Lane and Osbourne were not involved in the recordings, however. Slash took over the lead guitar for Vengeance is Mine .

Along Came a Spider was released on CD and online music services on July 29, 2008, and the album was also available on record in Germany . The album cover of the record edition differed from that of the CD edition.

Track list

Along Came a Spider (first edition, 2008)
No.	title	Songwriter	Guest musician	length
1.	I know where you live	Alice Cooper, Danny Saber, Greg Hampton		4:21
2.	Vengeance Is Mine	Cooper, Saber, Hampton	Slash	4:26
3.	Wake the Dead	Cooper, Saber, Ozzy Osbourne		3:53
4th	Catch Me If You Can	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		3:15
5.	(In Touch with) Your Feminine Side	Cooper, Chuck Garric , Keri Kelli , Damon Johnson		3:16
6th	Wrapped in silk	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		4:17
7th	Killed by love	Cooper, Garrick, Kelli, James Bacchi		3:34
8th.	I'm hungry	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		3:58
9.	The One That Got Away	Cooper, Kelli, Jani Lane		3:21
10.	Salvation	Cooper, Saber, Hampton, Bernard Fowler		4:36
11.	I am the spider	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		5:21

In 2010 the album was re-released with additional songs.

Along Came a Spider (reissue, 2010)
No.	title	Songwriter	Guest musician	length
1.	I know where you live	Alice Cooper, Danny Saber, Greg Hampton		4:21
2.	Vengeance Is Mine	Cooper, Saber, Hampton	Slash	4:26
3.	Wake the Dead	Cooper, Saber, Ozzy Osbourne		3:53
4th	Catch Me If You Can	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		3:15
5.	(In Touch with) Your Feminine Side	Cooper, Chuck Garrick, Keri Kelli , Damon Johnson		3:16
6th	Wrapped in silk	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		4:17
7th	Killed by love	Cooper, Garrick, Kelli, James Bacchi		3:34
8th.	I'm hungry	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		3:58
9.	The One That Got Away	Cooper, Kelli, Jani Lane		3:21
10.	Salvation	Cooper, Saber, Hampton, Bernard Fowler		4:36
11.	I am the spider	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		5:21
12.	Shadow of Yourself	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		3:29
13.	I'll still be there	Cooper, Saber, Hampton		3:50
14th	Salvation (Unplugged)	Cooper, Saber, Hampton, Fowler		4:46

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Along Came a Spider   DE 26th 08/08/2008 (4 weeks)   AT 37 08/08/2008 (5 weeks)   CH 37 08/10/2008 (3 weeks)   UK 31 08/09/2008 (1 week)   US 53 08/16/2008 (3 weeks)

Chris Steffen from Rolling Stone awarded 3/5 stars for Along Came a Spider . He emphasizes the album lyrically, but complains that the musical influences of Cooper's longtime producer Bob Ezrin are missing. Cooper got Greg Hampton and Danny Saber for the album, both of whom were also involved in the songwriting. Musically, the album moves between healthy retro and ultra-modern. The drum sound is criticized because it “comes across as a bit too smooth”.

Frank Thiessies from Metal Hammer sees the album in the tradition of its predecessors Welcome to My Nightmare and The Last Temptation , "garnished with a dash of zeitgeist". The song Wake the Dead is reminiscent of Beck's Devil’s haircut and "with its extremely distorted guitars and the somewhat idiosyncratic hookline with dominant bass of a bastard from industrial Danzig and psychedelic Ozzy ". Wrapped in Silk is comparable to David Bowie in terms of rhythm .

Alexander Cordas from laut.de also draws a comparison with Bowie : “The morbid ballad" Killed By Love "and the theatrical" Salvation "have an unconcealed Ziggy Stardust flair. But the two songs are among the best Bowie rip-offs in recent years. ”The songs Vengeance is Mine and Killed by Love , which is seen as an homage to the Beatles (“ pays homage musically to the Beatles '” Don' t Let Me Down "").

The music breaks with the "handy song format of the previous records," Along Came a Spider is "a wonderful chunk of an album," it rocks "dark, oppressive and nasty," wrote Daniel Böhm for Rocks and wondered who had ever thought that such a rough and theatrical mixture of Killers, Welcome to My Nightmare , The Eyes of Alice Cooper and Brutal Planet could work so well.

Web links

• Along Came a Spider at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Album information at discogs.com , accessed March 3, 2020
2. ↑ Booklet of the CD
3. ↑ discogs.com , accessed March 3, 2020
4. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
5. ↑ ^{a b} rollingstone.com: Review by Chis Steffen
6. ↑ ^{a b} laut.de: Review by Alexander Cordas
7. ^ Metal-hammer.de: Review by Frank Thiessies
8. ↑ hardharderheavy.de: Review ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 04.2008, page 105