The Essential Alice Cooper - The Epic Years

Alice Cooper

Lançado em 15/06/2009 por Epic - Legacy
Artistas principais: Alice Cooper
Género: Rock

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The question that everyone is asking obviously is: who needs a new compilation from the master of shock rock? Even if more have been released since the first Greatest Hits in 1974 than any of us can count, statistically, there is still a huge majority of people on this planet that doesn’t own a single one of his albums or even never once listened to him. So the question should rather be: can one start their initiation with this new double album? The answer is both yes and no. As indicated by the “Epic Years” label, this best-of only covers the era during which Alice Cooper was under contract with the powerful American label. It was a highly prosperous period that started in 1989 with the monumental Trash, with its procession of hits that were perfectly calibrated for FM radios (Poison, Bed of Nails House on Fire, Only My Heart Talkin) and a handful of others that belong to the category of Cooperian classics (Spark in the Dark, Trash, Hell Is Living Without You, I’m Your Gun). This album, which sold more than 2 million copies, completely relaunched Cooper’s career, a fact that surprised even the artist: “There are kids who come up to me on the street who think Trash is my first album.” But it also owed its popularity to the presence of guest stars, including almost all the members of Aerosmith (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer), Jon Bon Jovi and his former accomplice Richie Sambora and Steve Lukather (Toto)… But eight tracks out of ten taken from Trash is either excessive or petty.

Without being a failure, far from it, the following album didn’t enjoy the same success, despite using the same formula—if only more ambitious—with even more prestigious guests (Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and two members from Mötley Crüe, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars…). And yet, the entirety of its content was kept here. One track was put aside from the excellent The Last Temptation, but the collaborations with Chris Cornell were fortunately kept (Stolen Prayer and Unholly War). To justify despite all of that the “essential” label that could have seemed a bit excessive, three classics have been taken from the live A Fistful of Alice, and pretty great at that: No More Mr. Nice Guy, Billion Dollar Babies and School’s Out, but only the latter benefits from a true guest, Sammy Hagar, while Rob Zombie and Slash had also come to play with Cooper on stage for other tracks. A few less studio tracks in favor of more pieces coming from this well-made live would probably have been a more judicious choice. But if we had to give a clear answer to the question asked above, we would lean toward the affirmative. You can absolutely start with this album, since it corresponds to the years during which there was not much to throw away in Cooper’s production. But you will quickly need to explore further if you want to really know the artist… © Jean-Pierre Sabouret/Qobuz

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