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Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
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| Billboard |
| Our favorite shock rocker returns to the conceptual realm on his 25th album, with a tale of a serial killer who wraps his victims in silk (that's the color of their eyes, no less) and cuts off one leg to use in creating his own arachnoid appendage. "Spider" might not make you forget "Welcome to My Nightmare," but it's nevertheless a cheerfully twisted yarn delivered with a full-on dose of guitar rockers ("I Know Where You Live," "Catch Me If You Can," "Wrapped in Silk"), the requisite ballad ("Killed by Love"), a soaring anthem ("Salvation"), a bit of Beck-flavored groovery ("Wake the Dead," co-written by Ozzy Osbourne), some sly humor—see "(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side"—and nods to Cooper's glam rock past in "I'm Hungry" and "The One That Got Away....full text |
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| Courant |
| A July album release by Alice Cooper is as comparably early as a mall's hanging wreaths and tinsel before trees shed their leaves, but at least in Cooper's case there is a reasonable justification for issuing greetings out of season. Rock's most enduring horror showman gives listeners time to get familiar with his latest batch of Halloween rock before his annual fall tour (which stops Oct. 31 at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Casino) and spins a typically dark fantasy built around exaggerated characters and a backdrop of grinding, throwback-style rock....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Golf addict Alice Cooper has dragged himself away from the fairway just long enough to make his 25th album and re-establish his shock rock roots. Revolving around the comic book crimes of a serial killer called Spider, who cuts off one leg from each of his female victims then binds their bodies in silk, it's as close to his 70s heyday as Cooper has come in decades, the metal guitars glinting against a wash of soaring pop choruses. His snarl and sneer intact, Cooper stalks the streets for prey in I Know Where You Live and The One That Got Away, though power ballads Killed By Love and Salvation are infinitely more scary....full text |
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