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My ideal Alice Cooper Setlist

posted 3 years ago by MovieChatUser497 (18943)
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01) Sun Arise
02) Under My Wheels
03) Loves A Loaded Gun
04) Raped And Freezin'
05) Department Of Youth
06) Lock Me Up
07) Eighteen
08) Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets
09) Never Been Sold Before
10) House Of Fire
11) Unfinished Sweet
12) No More Mr. Nice Guy
13) Teenage Lament '74
14) Go To Hell
15) Poison
16) Might As Well Be On Mars
17) Black Juju
18) Devils Food
19) The Black Widow
20) Roses On White Lace
21) Escape
22) Teenage Frankenstein
23) School's Out

[–] Jones70 (6644) 3 years ago

You and Me
Hello Horray
Be My Lover
The Ballad of Dwight Fry

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 3 years ago

Wow. In my eyes, that is a horrible list as an Alice Cooper fan. I mean, you like what you like and that's cool, just from my perspective, my list would be mighty different. I think I'm Eighteen and Devil's Food/The Black Widow and maybe Poison would be on my list of favorites from there. (If I was going for classics and not just his songs that I like the best, School's Out, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Go To Hell and Under My Wheels would be on it). But not Sun Arise. I always assumed he made that one as sort of a joke like Nobody Likes Me. I would have these ones on mine:

I'm Eighteen
Devil's Food/The Black Widow
Desperado
Billion Dollar Babies
Steven
Wind up Toy
Dangerous Tonight
Halo of Flies
Prince of Darkness
Lace & Whiskey
Pain
Who Do You Think We Are
I am the Future
He's Back
Run Down the Devil
Poison
Sick Things

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

I guess we have different tastes, I am more of a fan of the harder edged Alice Cooper while you seem to be more of a fan of the softer, more theatrical Alice Cooper.

I mean shit you have songs from Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin which are horrible albums. I'm actually kind of surprised you didn't include the DaDa album in its entirety.

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 3 years ago

Lol, Special Forces and Zipper weren't great albums, but the two songs I listed were good. And here I was thinking that you like more of the wussy sensitive Alice Cooper music since you have Sun Arise, Might As Well Be on Mars, Love's a Loaded Gun, Never Been Sold Before.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

Sun Arise is a great song despite being silly it’s very catchy.

Might As Well Be On Mars while may be slow is still hard rock as was the remainder of the Hey Stoopid album

Loves A Loaded Gun see above

I don’t know where you get the idea that Never Been Sold Before is a soft song, it’s just as hard edged as any of his previous hits such as Schools Out, Hello Hooray, Under My Wheels, etc.

Nothing on this planet is as bad as DaDa, it makes me feel unclean to listen to it

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 3 years ago

Yeah, Dada is pretty bad. Was never too keen on From the Inside either.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

Honestly for me Alice Cooper Goes To Hell gets a pass because it has some good songs (Go To Hell, Wish You Were Here, You Gotta Dance), but after that from Lace and Whiskey through Dada I thought they were all varying levels of crap. Constrictor was better but not great but I really love Raise Your Fist And Yell. In fact outside of the 5 classic albums (Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome To My Nightmare) that one is my favorite.

[–] CrabgrassWilly (1616) 3 years ago

I'd say that Raise Your Fist and Yell is also my favorite after the classic albums. Actually, I think I rate it above School's Out (School's Out, Luney Tune and Gutter Cats vs. The Jets are the only really good songs to me on that album).

See, we're not so different after all!

[–] Jones70 (6644) 3 years ago

I actually like the Zipper Catches Skin album and even like a few songs on the DaDa album.

[–] Jones70 (6644) 3 years ago

I like the Special Forces album quite a bit too.

[–] Jones70 (6644) 3 years ago

I really like the albums he did called Killer, Welcome to my Nightmare, Love it to Death, From the Inside, School’s Out and Lace and Whiskey.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

You should check out Billion Dollar Babies and Raise Your Fist and Yell. They are both amazing.

[–] Jones70 (6644) 3 years ago

Billion Dollar Babies is amazing, Raise Your Fist and Yell is just pretty good imo.

[–] sut6432 (2910) 3 years ago

I can’t argue much with any of the set lists on here, but one song I think is brilliant and really underrated, from the album that everyone seems to hate but me, Brutal Planet (Nu Metal Alice, haha), is the song “Gimme”. Love that tune! That would be on my personal set list with the more classic tunes.

Also would have his cheesy 80’s horror song from Friday The 13th:Part VI, called “He’s Back (Man Behind The Mask)” on my set list. The original has the synthesizers and general 80’s stuff, but they did a live version at Wacken Festival with guitars playing the synth parts, and it was bad ass and so much better in my opinion.

Here are both the songs:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieb4nIjZEc8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flR48hA19jo

I saw Alice Cooper back in 2016, and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen! So much fun! Great band, and Alice still sounds really good! Don’t pass it up if you get the chance to see him!

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

Decent songs but they were never my favorite. The title track from Brutal Planet is freaking epic though.

[–] Mustang (5520) 3 years ago

(In no particular order)
1/ Welcome to my nightmare
2/ I'm Eighteen
3/ Poison
4/ Bed of Nails
5/ Roses on White Lace (My all time A.C fave)
6/ Elected
7/ Go to hell
8/ Pain
9/ Hell is living without you (cheesy, but I like the idea of a really schmaltzy sing along with guest backing vocalists appearing on stage)
10/ Brutal Planet
11/ Freedom
12/ School's Out
13/ Dept of Youth
14/ Under my wheels
15/ Hey Stoopid
16/ No More Mr Nice Guy

[–] Wuchak (8832) 3 years ago

How could you skip classics like "Billion Dollar Babies," "Dead Babies" and "Halo of Flies"?

A few newer ones also need to be included:

Brutal Planet
Pick Up the Bones
Dragontown

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

He has so many classics , you can’t play them all in one night