The Eyes of Alice Cooper

The Eyes of Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper studio album
Publication (s)	September 23, 2003
admission	2003
Label (s)	Sony Music
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Hard rock , heavy metal
Title (number)	13
running time	44:11
occupation	Singing : Alice Cooper Bass : Chuck Garric Guitars : Eric Dover , Ryan Roxie Keyboards : Teddy Andreadis Drums : Eric Singer
production	Andrew Murdock
Studio (s)	Mates Studios
chronology Dragontown (2001) The Eyes of Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds (2005)

The Eyes of Alice Cooper is the 24th studio album by the American rock musician Alice Cooper , released on September 23, 2003 .

background

With Brutal Planet and Dragontown, Alice Cooper had released his hardest albums in 1999 and 2001, some of which were New Metal- heavy guitar sounds. Cooper himself had emphasized the need to provide it with a “powerful, threatening sound” because of its “sociopolitical and rebellious content”, which “beyond that can be undoubtedly identified as a product of the new millennium”. Both albums are “apocalyptic dramas with sound - action films with dark science fiction visions, flanked by an elaborate soundtrack.” In terms of sound, Cooper was therefore based on bands such as Rage Against the Machine , Korn or Limp Bizkit .

With The Eyes of Alice Cooper he then turned around to the sounds of the seventies. In addition to his bandmates, which in addition to guitarist Ryan Roxy and Eric Dover and bassist Chuck Garric , keyboardist Teddy "ZigZag" Andreadis and drummer Eric Singer belonged, joined for the song Detroit City of MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer as a guest musician added. Saxophones , clarinets and "other instruments" (indicated in the credits ) used in individual songs were played by Scott Gilman, and Cooper's daughter Calico contributed theremin sounds and backing vocals .

Track list

The Eyes of Alice Cooper
No.	title	Songwriter	length
1.	What Do You Want From Me?	Alice Cooper / Eric Dover / Ryan Roxy	3:24
2.	Between high school & old school	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:01
3.	Man of the Year	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	2:51
4th	Novocaine	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:07
5.	Bye bye baby	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:27
6th	Be With You Awhile	Cooper / Dover	4:17
7th	Detroit City	Cooper / Roxy / Chuck Garric	3:58
8th.	Spirits Rebellious	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:35
9.	This House is Haunted	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:30
10.	Love Should Never Feel Like This	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:32
11.	The Song That Didn't Rhyme	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:17
12.	I'm so angry	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	3:36
13.	Backyard Brawl	Cooper / Dover / Roxy	2:36
Overall length:			44:11

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

The Eyes of Alice Cooper   US 184 10/18/2003 (1 week)   DE 78 10/06/2003 (1 week)

In contrast to the relatively successful previous albums, The Eyes of Alice Cooper fell off commercially. In Germany it reached number 78 on the album charts, in Great Britain it was not listed at all, and in the USA it only reached number 184 on the Billboard 200 .

Rolling Stone wrote: Hearing Alice Cooper without seeing his show is "like roast beef without tartar sauce" - something is simply missing. You want to "marvel at the straitjackets and guillotines, laugh at Alice's comments" - you want "everything." At The Eyes of Alice Cooper you get "after all wonderfully old-fashioned, catchy rock songs, sung badly as usual." In Between High School & Old School take “the old man once again poking fun at himself,” in order to then explain in Detroit City what rank he ascribes himself to himself. “No false modesty, the man belongs next to the really big ones” “The hearty ballads” are of course also repeated, but Be With You Awhile save “any sarcasm - that is new, in contrast to the rest.” It is “simply good even if you have to think about the show.

Rock Hard said that after the last hammer albums co-composed by Bob Marlette and "extremely modern and bombastically produced" Brutal Planet and Dragontown, Cooper shifted down a gear. The Eyes Of Alice Cooper sounds "amazingly natural" and reminds "with its impetuous snot-rock vibes of the seventies albums of the old horror master." Immerse Alice in “his own past” and prove that his “usual intelligent and entertaining song lyrics (highlights: the bitter evil Man Of The Year and the tragicomic The Song That Didn't Rhyme ) were still in a simple heavy blues in 2003 Environment ”worked. The reviewer described the problem as the fact that Cooper's guitarists Eric Dover and Ryan Roxie “could not replace Bob Marlette as a songwriting partner”. The Eyes Of Alice Cooper liked “with a robust rock elemental force” and produced “consistently good compositions,” but the “absolute tongue-cracking creamy bonnets of the last discs” were missing. The fact remains: Alice Cooper "always sounds best when he lets outside composers help him".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Look into my eyes, little one - interview on The Eyes of Alice Cooper in Metal Hammer, issue 11.2003
2. ↑ Bad old man - Interview on Brutal Planet , Metal Hammer, issue 06.2000
3. ↑ Booklet of the CD edition
4. ↑ Charts DE Charts US
5. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US US 2
6. ↑ Rolling Stone, issue 10/2003
7. ^ Rock Hard, Issue 197 (2003)