Along Came A Spider [Digipak] - Alice Cooper

'''Along Came A Spider''' _Alice Cooper_ the legend of rock has released his 25th studio album 'Along Came a Spider'. This is his highest charting album since his album 'Hey Stoopid' charting at #31 in the UK. This album as with most of _Alice's_ does have a couple of guest appearances on it firstly _Slash_ ex _Guns n' Roses_ and _Velvet Revolver_ guitarist who plays on track 2 "Vengeance Is Mine" , and _Ozzy Osbourne_ who believe it or not does ...
...on track 3 "Wake the Dead" . Both of these artists are also featured on _Alice's_ album "Hey Stoopid" where they appeared on the title track. Being a huge _Alice Cooper_ fan for some years now and having all of his albums to date, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this album. Despite his age _Alice_ is still able to out rock the best of them. The album is a concept style album with a strong theme running throughout the song lyrics. It tells the ...

Autarkis 15.12.2008 (06.02.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Along Came A Spider [Digipak] - Alice Cooper

Along Came A Spider is Alice Cooper's 25th studio album, released some 39 years after his first album "Pretties for You", I'm a big Alice Cooper fan and have every one of his albums and the fact that he experiments with different sounds occasionally means that they're not that good or are completely different to what you expect but most of them grown on you within time. So far this millenium has been a bit of a mixed bags - whilst I thought it started ...
...and no stand out tracks. Along Came A Spider was not only well-received by critics but also seemingly the public, giving Alice his best chart positions in the UK and US since 1991's Hey Stoopid, an album which produced a fair amount of well known songs - Hey Stoopid, Feed my Frankenstein and Love's A Loaded Gun to name but a few. At first listen, I thought "oh no" when listening to this album, it's a continuation of Dirty Diamonds but on second ...

dangaroo 21.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Along Came A Spider [Digipak] - Alice Cooper