@@bjmombo I dont think there really is a out and out Bad Alice album but as you said those early solo years I absolutely love. Adore the Blackout period to the moon and back! Dada is a top 5 AC album for me and the others are pretty close to the top 5 too!
"Goes to hell" is an 8/10 for me too. It was a top 5 album in Australia. Even album tracks like "Guilty" and "Go to hell" got played on radio. I love the album and it as good as "Welcome to my nightmare".
I’m a huge Alice Cooper fan, and I’d say 6/10 for me. If Billion Dollar Babies is a 10, and Welcome to my Nightmare is a 9, I’d give Goes to Hell a 6. I really appreciated Andrew’s take on this album. He really encapsulated the thoughts I have with this one very well. Also, great shout out for “My God” off of Lace and Whiskey. If you haven’t heard that song, it’s a masterpiece.
Tim and Dan are correct...8 out of 10. Love Goes To Hell! As far as ranking those 3 albums mentioned 1 Goes To Hell 2 Lace And Whiskey (Could be the most underrated album in his catalog) 3 From The Inside (Has some good songs but the album as a whole is a flop)
From the Inside is my favorite of all his solo albums - ever - but LaW is pretty damn good too underrated for sure and quite bizarre almost schizo in its concept, it must've had some people thinking what the hell is going on with Alice... In fact, I like it more than GtH because he's so vaudeville by now or that should maybe read vaudevile in Alice's world. They all kind of go together in weird way, both are fitting in nicely with WtMN.
I consider "From the Inside" to be Alice's best overall album. To me, it all fits together like a collection of stories from that dark period in his life. A more personal than usual album from Alice (and yes, I know that Taupin wrote the kyrics, but based on conversations he had with Alice.)
My favorite Alice Cooper album and in my top ten records of all time. It also holds a lot of sentimental value for me. Go To Hell , Guilty , You Gotta Dance , Didn't We Meet & I Never Cry are the songs I like most. I give it 9/10 , a classic Alice Cooper album.
Great discussion! I love this album. I give it a strong 7/10. The surrounding albums I give as follows; "Nightmare" 10/10, "Lace…" 6/10 and "Inside" 9/10.
Glad you picked this less relevant Alice album, it doesn't get the credit it may or may not deserve...but being the first Cooper album I bought back in 1977, it holds a special place for me, 7 points worth, and giving it a spin to confirm! Good episode guys! 👍
Even if this album sucked, it would still be noteworthy for a title that no one in their right mind would turn down. It's up there with "Live Dead" and "The Real Macaw."
To me, the music variety is so all over the map in GOES TO HELL, it reminds me of Rock Horror Picture Show for some reason. It's like Alice Cooper Picture Show.
I am biased as I like everything up through DaDa. Not a huge fan of Pretties For You, and Constrictor was ok, but I didn’t like the oodly doodle style of guitar on the later stuff that was prevalent in the 1980s. I thought he said something about not liking the humor? Flush The Fashion and Zipper Catches skin are chock full of humor. Just not the eerie off kilter Alice Cooper style of humor.
This is definitely an outlier album for sure but to me it's his most lighthearted and definitely gone Hollywood album I love didn't we meet, the title track and wish you were here I'm the coolest and give the kid a break are hilarious and definitely show tunes for sure you gotta dance Alice gone totally disco and in a strange way I kind of it it's a fun less serious album from Alice
Absolutely, this album more than most proved to any doubters that Alice could actually sing... ;-] By that I mean, crooning out old show tunes that easily could've made him the next Sinatra had he gone down that route, quite frankly. I think Ezrin's greatest achievement as a producer, is that he recognized this vocal talent in Alice and encouraged it it's just unfortunate that it became such a rare thing going forward, in my opinion anyway.
Man, i totally agree with the guy in the middle bottom row. He gave it a 3. Everything he said was spot on. And, agree that Kane Roberts era is 100 times better then this one. Hate the slow tunes off it, hate im the coolest, the disco song, rainbows, ect. 3 good songs. Go to hell, guilty, wish u were here. I remember my mom buying me this when it came out 76. I was so fired up after hearing the title cut, and so disappointed with the rest of it .
Alas, I can't quite agree there. The late '80s metal days of Alice may have signaled and instigated the big comeback for him looming just around the corner but musically to me at least, it featured mostly rather uninspired cliche filled headbanger tunes and his stage persona here became like a biker type. For my money, there's more wisdom put into the varieté stuff from the mid-70s even his so-called 'blackout' period in the early '80s displayed more thought provoking lyrics and interesting (then) new musical styles, than the three-chord rawness of a Kane et al lacking the finesse and soul anyway of a Bruce and Buxton. Alice never had as good players as Hunter and Wagner ever again these may have been his Hollywood years working with Ezrin, I think it challenged the listeners more though than what came later on going into the '90s and beyond. This goes for most famous classic heavy rock acts, lyrically these artists just wrote and performed differently back in the '70s and I think overall finer.
Bob Ezrin seems to have a love for show tunes or something. He constantly injects this into the bands he works with. Kiss and Alice Cooper come to mind. I can't stand Ezrin.
@LarryFleetwood8675 for some reason I find myself listening to that one alot more than his others. His true og greats Killer and Love It To Death are classic. But damn to say I listen to L A W alot more haha🤔🤔🫡🫡
I love Alice Cooper, but except for the great title track and Guilty, i dont like much else on this one. Glad he didnt keep on this path. Welcome to my nightmare is way better.
Bought the vinyl for 50 cents at a garage sale. Threw it away a week later. Title track is great, Wish You Were Here is OK, rest of it blows chunks. What a huge disappointment.
@@tomjulian7226 yes, I do, I will correct myself and say I meant when Alice tuned into a solo act, dumped his band and Ezrin started touse an arsenal of studio musicians is when they lost personality.
Not of fan of this one at all. From Pretties For You to Flush The Fashion only the debut keeps this from the bottom of my list. 2 possibly 3 good songs the rest are terrible imo 3/10
Alice maybe at his most cabaret, I love it.
Now here is an album I LOVE and play regularly!
Same Mike it's a stone cold classic
Yeeees! I really think its super under rated. I love Alice's voice 76-83. Some of my favorite Alice
@@logancollins7097 agree! What other ones are you into?
@@bjmombo I dont think there really is a out and out Bad Alice album but as you said those early solo years I absolutely love. Adore the Blackout period to the moon and back! Dada is a top 5 AC album for me and the others are pretty close to the top 5 too!
Me too
"Goes to hell" is an 8/10 for me too. It was a top 5 album in Australia. Even album tracks like "Guilty" and "Go to hell" got played on radio. I love the album and it as good as "Welcome to my nightmare".
I’m a huge Alice Cooper fan, and I’d say 6/10 for me. If Billion Dollar Babies is a 10, and Welcome to my Nightmare is a 9, I’d give Goes to Hell a 6. I really appreciated Andrew’s take on this album. He really encapsulated the thoughts I have with this one very well. Also, great shout out for “My God” off of Lace and Whiskey. If you haven’t heard that song, it’s a masterpiece.
Tim and Dan are correct...8 out of 10. Love Goes To Hell! As far as ranking those 3 albums mentioned
1 Goes To Hell
2 Lace And Whiskey (Could be the most underrated album in his catalog)
3 From The Inside (Has some good songs but the album as a whole is a flop)
From the Inside is my favorite of all his solo albums - ever - but LaW is pretty damn good too underrated for sure and quite bizarre almost schizo in its concept, it must've had some people thinking what the hell is going on with Alice... In fact, I like it more than GtH because he's so vaudeville by now or that should maybe read vaudevile in Alice's world. They all kind of go together in weird way, both are fitting in nicely with WtMN.
I consider "From the Inside" to be Alice's best overall album. To me, it all fits together like a collection of stories from that dark period in his life. A more personal than usual album from Alice (and yes, I know that Taupin wrote the kyrics, but based on conversations he had with Alice.)
A very good record 10/10
Love that score! Favorite tracks off album?
Go to hell, Give the kid a break, Guilty
@@bjmombo Go to hell, Give the kid a break, Guilty
@@bjmombo Go to hell, Give the kid a break, Guilty
My favorite Alice Cooper album and in my top ten records of all time. It also holds a lot of sentimental value for me. Go To Hell , Guilty , You Gotta Dance , Didn't We Meet & I Never Cry are the songs I like most. I give it 9/10 , a classic Alice Cooper album.
Great discussion!
I love this album. I give it a strong 7/10. The surrounding albums I give as follows; "Nightmare" 10/10, "Lace…" 6/10 and "Inside" 9/10.
in that documentary about Cooper's long-time manager, Groucho Marx saw Cooper's live show and thought it was very vaudevillian
Amazing!
it was
I'm the coolest is my favorite Alice song because it's jazz music
That bass in that track. 👌
I like this album a lot but I think it should of been called Alice Cooper Goes To Hollywood, only the cover looks like he's going to hell.
That bit with the hair on the cover, could be like a forked snake tongue...
Glad you picked this less relevant Alice album, it doesn't get the credit it may or may not deserve...but being the first Cooper album I bought back in 1977, it holds a special place for me, 7 points worth, and giving it a spin to confirm! Good episode guys! 👍
Even if this album sucked, it would still be noteworthy for a title that no one in their right mind would turn down. It's up there with "Live Dead" and "The Real Macaw."
To me, the music variety is so all over the map in GOES TO HELL, it reminds me of Rock Horror Picture Show for some reason. It's like Alice Cooper Picture Show.
Favorite 70s Alice Cooper album
It’s good but for me for solo I have to go with From the Inside.
The guy in the bottom middle would hate Flush The Fashion and Zipper Catches Skin.
I think he said he liked that output more than this, I personally love those new wave-ish albums.
I am biased as I like everything up through DaDa. Not a huge fan of Pretties For You, and Constrictor was ok, but I didn’t like the oodly doodle style of guitar on the later stuff that was prevalent in the 1980s. I thought he said something about not liking the humor? Flush The Fashion and Zipper Catches skin are chock full of humor. Just not the eerie off kilter Alice Cooper style of humor.
This was my first album with Alice Cooper and I still like it today
This is definitely an outlier album for sure but to me it's his most lighthearted and definitely gone Hollywood album I love didn't we meet, the title track and wish you were here I'm the coolest and give the kid a break are hilarious and definitely show tunes for sure you gotta dance Alice gone totally disco and in a strange way I kind of it it's a fun less serious album from Alice
Absolutely, this album more than most proved to any doubters that Alice could actually sing... ;-] By that I mean, crooning out old show tunes that easily could've made him the next Sinatra had he gone down that route, quite frankly. I think Ezrin's greatest achievement as a producer, is that he recognized this vocal talent in Alice and encouraged it it's just unfortunate that it became such a rare thing going forward, in my opinion anyway.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 so well said
If the Muppets had done a performance piece based on "Cold Ethel", just think of how many fetishes that would have kicked off in the internet era.
Got this in the early 80’s. Didn’t like it much then. Now it’s pretty good. I give it
6/10
I love this album. My vinyl has a plain inner sleeve. Sad face.
Absolute masterpiece.
I was given this on 8-track when I was 10.
Back in 1976 I was 16 years old
This album got me through some very dark times.
And Martin turns up at the end with the most intelligent and accurate comments of the video. Great stuff. I give it a 7
Banging album. Gigantic sounding and hooky as hell.
I do actually enjoy this album from time to time , I like the variety 🤘
Love this album, but my favourite Alice album besides "Billion Dollar Babies" is "Flush the fashion". New wave Alice Cooper was great.
I loved it back in the day. Now I think it has 3 good tracks and the rest range from barely listenable to downright awful. 4/10 for me.
Love this album,at least an 8 out 10 for me! Love the variety on this album. I think the close is great, very fitting
Better than Muscles of Love? Come on, no way.
My favourite cooper LP.
I'm with Andee on this one. maybe I'll listen to it again, but time is precious, so maybe I'll check out some of those weird early 80's albums instead
Man, i totally agree with the guy in the middle bottom row. He gave it a 3. Everything he said was spot on. And, agree that Kane Roberts era is 100 times better then this one. Hate the slow tunes off it, hate im the coolest, the disco song, rainbows, ect. 3 good songs. Go to hell, guilty, wish u were here. I remember my mom buying me this when it came out 76. I was so fired up after hearing the title cut, and so disappointed with the rest of it .
Alas, I can't quite agree there. The late '80s metal days of Alice may have signaled and instigated the big comeback for him looming just around the corner but musically to me at least, it featured mostly rather uninspired cliche filled headbanger tunes and his stage persona here became like a biker type. For my money, there's more wisdom put into the varieté stuff from the mid-70s even his so-called 'blackout' period in the early '80s displayed more thought provoking lyrics and interesting (then) new musical styles, than the three-chord rawness of a Kane et al lacking the finesse and soul anyway of a Bruce and Buxton. Alice never had as good players as Hunter and Wagner ever again these may have been his Hollywood years working with Ezrin, I think it challenged the listeners more though than what came later on going into the '90s and beyond. This goes for most famous classic heavy rock acts, lyrically these artists just wrote and performed differently back in the '70s and I think overall finer.
Bob Ezrin seems to have a love for show tunes or something. He constantly injects this into the bands he works with. Kiss and Alice Cooper come to mind. I can't stand Ezrin.
I think he comes from classical music originally so he loved to use horns and strings, he brought all that to the mix.
@@reclaimerReclaimerI think it works well
Love all eras of Alice, but this one is near the bottom.
I think I agree. His next album Lace and Whiskey I like alot more
@@bjmombo Same here, LaW is awesome the forgotten gem in his '70s catalog.
@LarryFleetwood8675 for some reason I find myself listening to that one alot more than his others. His true og greats Killer and Love It To Death are classic. But damn to say I listen to L A W alot more haha🤔🤔🫡🫡
I give it a 7 of 10.
Excellent album 🤟
I always liked the Alice Cooper group records better than his solo stuff.
I don’t get why Goes To Hell is considered the dark horse of Alice’s Career, what about Lace and Whiskey? That album is virtually ignored
I love Alice Cooper, but except for the great title track and Guilty, i dont like much else on this one. Glad he didnt keep on this path. Welcome to my nightmare is way better.
whereas i give " welcome " a 10 . this one an 8 it is good. i always hated the cover. just a stock shot touched up.
Goes to hell is an 8
It's a ten
Bought the vinyl for 50 cents at a garage sale. Threw it away a week later. Title track is great, Wish You Were Here is OK, rest of it blows chunks. What a huge disappointment.
Really uneven album and like Martin said, the band has no personality, all through the Erin period of albums it feels like that.
You do realize Ezrin was the producer from Love it To Death onward. Almost all of the albums.
@@tomjulian7226 yes, I do, I will correct myself and say I meant when Alice tuned into a solo act, dumped his band and Ezrin started touse an arsenal of studio musicians is when they lost personality.
😄👍
Title song apart, I can't stand this album. It's awful. After Welcome, it's a terrible disappointment, in my opinion.
Not of fan of this one at all. From Pretties For You to Flush The Fashion only the debut keeps this from the bottom of my list. 2 possibly 3 good songs the rest are terrible imo 3/10
Not into much cooper after billion dollar babies.
I love trash and hey stoopid though..
I love this album. I was also at that Raise Your Fist & Yell concert in Ottawa. It was on Valentine's Day.