Hey stoopid

Hey stoopid
Alice Cooper studio album
Publication (s)	2nd July 1991
Label (s)	Epic Records
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Hard rock
Title (number)	12
running time	56:05
production	Peter Collins
Studio (s)	Bearsville Studio
chronology Trash (1989) Hey stoopid The Last Temptation (1994)

Hey Stoopid is Alice Cooper's 19th studio album and was released on July 2, 1991.

After the success of the Trash album , Alice Cooper wanted to continue seamlessly with Hey Stoopid . He pursued the involvement of guest musicians and was able to a. Win Ozzy Osbourne , Vinnie Moore , Steve Vai , Nikki Sixx , Mick Mars and Slash for the album. In addition to Vic Pepe and Jack Ponti, Desmond Child , Al Pitrelli , Ian Richardson and Zodiac Mindwarp were also involved in the lyrics .

Success and reception

Hey Stoopid was able to reach number 7 in the German charts and was the third top 10 position for an Alice Cooper album in Germany after Billion Dollar Babies from 1973. The album lasted a total of 12 weeks in Austria and also reached 7th place there. In Switzerland, the only top 10 ranking so far was achieved.

For Allmusic's Alex Henderson , the album is mostly good and far from bad, but he also describes it as not essential. Overall, the album is only suitable for devoted Cooper fans for him. Alex Straka from Powermetal.de was much more positive . For him, Hey Stoopid is an album that " excelled in terms of richness of melodies, dynamics, harmony and unearthly arrangements that had any place in melodic rock". He even sees the song Might as Well Be on Mars as “one of the most epic ballads in all of rock history”.

Track list

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Hey stoopid   DE 7th 07/15/1991 (21 weeks)   AT 5 07/21/1991 (12 weeks)   CH 7th 07/14/1991 (16 weeks)   UK 4th 07/13/1991 (7 weeks)   US 47 07/20/1991 (13 weeks)

Singles

Hey stoopid   UK 21st 06/22/1991 (6 weeks)   US 78 08/03/1991 (5 weeks) Love's a Loaded Gun   UK 38 05/10/1991 (3 weeks) Feed My Frankenstein   UK 27 06/06/1992 (3 weeks)

1. Hey Stoopid (Alice Cooper, Vic Pepe, Jack Ponti, Bob Pfeifer) - 4:34
2. Love's a Loaded Gun (Cooper, Pepe, Ponti) - 4:11
3. Snakebite (Cooper, Pepe, Ponti, Pfeifer, Lance Bulen, Kelly Keeling) - 4:33
4. Burning Our Bed (Cooper, Al Pitrelli, Pfeifer, S. West) - 4:34
5. Dangerous Tonight (Cooper, Desmond Child) - 4:41
6. Might as Well Be on Mars (Cooper, Dick Wagner, Child) - 7:09
7. Feed My Frankenstein (Cooper, Zodiac Mindwarp, Ian Richardson, Nick Coler) - 4:44
8. Hurricane Years (Cooper, Pepe, Ponti, Pfeifer) - 3:58
9. Little by Little (Cooper, Pepe, Ponti, Pfeifer) - 4:35
10. Die for You (Cooper, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Jim Vallance) - 4:16
11. Dirty Dreams (Cooper, Pfeifer, Vallance) - 3:29
12. Wind-Up Toy (Cooper, Pepe, Ponti, Pfeifer) - 5:27

occupation

• Alice Cooper: vocals
• Mickey Curry: drums
• Stef Burns: electric guitar
• Hugh McDonald : Bass
• Joe Satriani : Guitar with Hey Stoopid , Burning Our Bed , Feed My Frankenstein , Little by Little and Wind-Up Toy
• Vinnie Moore : Guitar on Hurricane Years and Dirty Dreams
• Steve Vai : Guitar on Feed My Frankenstein
• Slash : Guitar on Hey Stoopid
• Nikki Sixx : Bass at Feed My Frankenstein
• Mick Mars : Guitar on Die for You
• Ozzy Osbourne : Backing vocals for Hey Stoopid

Web links

• Hey Stoopid at Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 20, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ allmusic.com: Review by Alex Henderson
2. ^ Powermetal.de: Review by Alex Straka
3. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US