00-alice_cooper-brutal_planet-2000-iro.nfo
album: Brutal Planet
genre: Rock
rip date: 10/24/2002
rel date: 06/06/2000
# tracks: 11
size: 65MB
time: 47:58
ripper: Hellvin
AMG:
For the Alice Cooper fans who feel his output was spotty
before and after the 1989 classic Trash on Epic, Brutal
Planet is a cause to rejoice. It is a solid hard rock
offering. Cooper is in great voice, and he sounds mean and
spirited. The title track would be a blessing on radio
today. It has great bottom, sizzling guitars, and wonderful
backing vocalists. The most impressive thing about this
album is Cooper's lyrics. "Sanctuary" could be Lou Reed
meets Deep Purple in their heyday. Back in 1987 Cooper
performed with an unruly band all over the map. It was very
uncomfortable and a far cry from his heyday of "I'm 18" and
"Under My Wheels": guitars too loud, and an artist obviously
struggling with his personal demons.
This disc rocks hard with hooks galore and is delivered with
the intensity of a Mike Tyson punch, double entendre fully
intended. "Wicked Young Men" continues the thump thump
brigade of this fine album. Cooper is now being a bad boy
with sophisticated lyrics. "I am a vicious young man" sounds
like the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange II: the
aforementioned street lingo of Reed and Springsteen turned
up a notch. "I've got every kind of chemical pumping through
my head/I read Mein Kempf daily just to keep my hatred fed/I
never ever sleep, I just lay in my bed/dreaming of the day
when everyone is dead."
Cooper is ready to exterminate everyone and everything. And
though listeners who love Alice Cooper know it's all tongue
in cheek, the bigger picture is that a known artist has
created a very studied, very calculated, and very electric
compact disc. It works on so many levels, and how many
listeners had written Cooper off? There may be no song here
that will brand itself into the consciousness as "School's
Out" or "Elected" did, but those were different times. This
is more powerful than most rap. It is direct. It is hard
hitting. It is Alice Cooper at his most absolute sinister.
Burt Reynolds said that "nothing plays as good as an old
Stradivarius" and Alice Cooper proves that saying true. He
has created a splash of cold water that could rip radio wide
open if given the chance. In "Blow Me a Kiss," Alice sings
"blow me away... I'm in my room... I'm Dr. Doom... I'm not
me, I'm someone else." Where has Cooper been hiding these
lyrics all these years?
- Joe Viglione
01 Brutal Planet 4:40
02 Wicked Young Man 3:50
03 Sanctuary 4:00
04 Blow Me A Kiss 3:18
05 Eat Some More 4:37
06 Pick Up The Bones 5:14
07 Pessi-Mystic 4:56
08 Gimme 4:46
09 It's The Little Things 4:11
10 Take It Like A Woman 4:12
11 Cold Machines 4:14
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