"Ballad of Dwight Fry", because I always imagine that a good idea for a music video for the second half of the song would be Alice Cooper, dressed as Napolean, arriving in an elevator at the office block, going to see his old boss, piercing him with a sword and then blasting him through the window, he falls screaming and lands in the street below. Second place: "Is It My Body?"
― snoball, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta go with "..Dwight Fry" on this one.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn, my post should read:
arriving in an elevator at the office block, going to see his old boss, piercing him with a sword and then blasting him through the floor to ceiling plate glass window with a sawn off shotgun, he falls screaming and lands in the street below. Cut to a shot of the body at street level, with passers-by stepping over it like it isn't there, like people do with the homeless.
― snoball, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Dwight Fry runs away with this one...
― henry s, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Ballad of Dwight Fry", great vocal, hilarious lyric, and coupled with Samantha Fox's "Touch Me" everything the perpetual 8th grader could want.
― Euler, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"sure like to see that little children she's only four years old I'd, I'd give her back, all of her playthings even, even the ones I stole..."
― henry s, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Voted "I'm Eighteen", but I see this as the weakest album of his 1971-76 heyday. Bit too straightforward rock'n'roll album, really.
He never got better than "Welcome To My Nightmare". Particularly side 2.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
the triptych of "Years Ago"/"Steven"/"The Awakening" has to be considered among the most uncanny music ever to surface on a rock album...and to follow all that with "Escape"?...man, somebody better poll this one, fast...
― henry s, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
(I think Muscle Of Love is his/their weakest LP of that period..."Hard Hearted Alice" and "Man With The Golden Gun" are pure sleepwalkers...this is the LP that Bob Greene "sang" on in preparation for his Billion Dollar Baby behind-the-scenes book)...
― henry s, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
such an awesome album....
sun arise is sort of awesome in a beach boys/hoe-down sense
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I must confess that I always stop this record before "Sun Arise." It bugs me.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Not a patch on Rolf's version, for sure.
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
or The Godfathers!
"Caught In A Dream" gets my vote.
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"Caught In A Dream" gets my vote"
otm
dwight fry comes 2nd.
"Bit too straightforward rock'n'roll album, really"
that is exactly why i like this album BETTER than the rest. the sound is more power pop glamy and less polished classic heavy metal.and it's not pretentious. in fact, i can't listen to anything but.
― Zeno, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i think flaming lips did a nice cover of "sun arise".great tune.
― Zeno, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Caught In A Dream" gets my vote
not a patch on the Gibson Bros' version, for sure...
― henry s, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
the sound is more power pop glamy and less polished classic heavy metal
I hear no polished heavy metal in Alice Cooper's music until "Thrash", by which time he had long since jumped the shark.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Zeno, not tryin' to start shit seriously, but are there Alice Cooper albums that are too pretentious for you to listen to? If so, which ones and what makes 'em pretentious? And what is it about pretense in music that turns you off it?
I know, vague questions.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the best track on "Welcome To My Nightmare"?
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe i chose the wrong word. as a matter of fact, i can't remember if they were pretentious (it's been like 5 years since i listend to them), but i do remember the sound of them turned me off,esp. compared to "love it to death".
sometiems i like "pretentious" albums (rundgren,some sparks,tv on the radio..) sometimes i don't (arcade fire,zappa,bauhaus...(
and yeah, trying to put the finger on what exactly is pretentious is a vauge thing, and of course kind of subjective.
― Zeno, Thursday, 6 December 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
but I see this as the weakest album of his 1971-76 heyday
Bollocks. The 2nd side of this album is almost perfect, one of the sequences ever! "Sun Arise" = genius, genius for covering a Rolf Harris song at all and genius for being great. "Ballad of Dwight Fry" wins however.
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 December 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
one of the sequences ever = one of the greatest sequences ever
I love how the militaristic drumming of "Second Coming" fades into the girl's voice on "Dwight Fry"...I'm always a bit miffed when "Second Coming" turns up on my iPod (in shuffle mode), and I'm denied that moment...
― henry s, Thursday, 6 December 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 8 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 9 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread shoulda got more responses. I certainly should have responded to it.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 9 December 2007 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Wha'? "Caught in a Dream" is easily the worst track on this album.
― Tom D., Monday, 10 December 2007 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Wha'? "Caught in a Dream" is easily the worst track on this album."
you are not real
― Zeno, Monday, 10 December 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Boring song. Far too conventional.
― Tom D., Monday, 10 December 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
conventional yes boring no. it is very catchy and simple but thats the whole point of it's greatness. just a great pop rock song.
― Zeno, Monday, 10 December 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Would have voted for 'Second Coming'
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 28 July 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link