"School's been blown to pieces" is definitely a hyperbole since it was most kids fantasy that school was blown up so we didn't have to go to school and we could just play all day long.
Yep, and it was a different time back then. We actually had students and teachers have guns in their cars during school and no school shootings. Different time, different mindset
Sung this at the top of my lungs when the school year ended in the spring of 1972!! Song was released April 26, 1972, prior to the album release of the same name. Still have the 45 rpm record.
The 'blown to pieces' was a figurative 'joke' line. It's like the "Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" song from Julie Brown. They were not meant to be serious, and there weren't the rampant issues w/school violence of the last 2 decades.
Ha! I forgot about that song. In a similar vein, go back and listen to "Valley Girl" by Frank and Moon Unit Zappa. There's a homophobic rant in the middle of that song that definitely would not pass today.
@@andyfletcher3561 The high school I went to in the late 70's if you went to the principal's office you knew you wouldn't be sitting for a long time!!!
IMO, this is Alice's best. So good! :) It really captures the feeling of being young and wanting OUT. As for the school being blown to pieces ... it was taken as figurative back then. Nowadays, people are so sensitized to school violence, and immediately think this is calling for schools to be bombed. That's NOT how it was taken way back when. We weren't blowing up schools. It is about getting school entirely out of your mind and daily routine, and being free.
Thanks.... Well said. Took the words right out of my mouth. The world would be a much better place if people didnt complain and take offense to everything!!!!!Just enjoy the music.✌❤
Yup, entirely sarcastic and metaphorical, nothing whatsoever to do with reality. I went to high school up in the desert north of LA. Come hunting season, half the vehicles in the student parking lot, including cars, had gun racks with multiple rifles and ammunition in the glove box. Some kids just kept them there year round. Funny...NOBODY was shot.
Dude! This came out in 1972 when I was 4 and we were still blasting this in 1986 when I got out of High School. I remember dancing on the hood of my 1976 Chevy Impala with my best friend. Man I wish I still had that car.
@@joemachine4714, Heh - it was a Land Yacht. Fully loaded, rode like you were floating on a cloud and hauled some major ass. Best road tripping car I ever had.
49 years from now this song will still be played in HS the last day of school. That will mark the freaking 100th anniversary of the release of the song. No one will be alive who will remember its release, but the kids yet unborn for decades yet will know this song and sing it!!!! Alice Cooper created a cultural musical iynchpin!!!!
With the line being " schools been blown to pieces" wasn't even considered as a threat because back in the 70's that wasn't an issue as it is today! Rock on Alice, Brad & Lex!!!
I'm a retired middle school art teacher. Each year on the last day of school, we teachers would line up alongside the bus ramp doing the can-can and singing this song to the kids as the busses pulled away. We loved the last day of school just as much as the kids, if not more!
There was actually a rash of bomb threats to elementary and high schools in 1970-1972, so the reference might have been topical. My elementary school had many days off until the school district just started ignoring the bomb threats, then the next weird fad that started up was streaking. Weird times.
@@Roikat We had bomb threats at my high school in the 90's, too. It was to get out of class. It was pre-Columbine, so they took it seriously enough to evacuate us, but not expel the guilty students.
@@Roikat The bowling alley/restaurant I worked at in the mid 70's got several bomb threats. Went into a "Sambo's" coffee shop one night with my girlfriend her mom being a waitress there that had worked at the restaurant I worked at, one of my life mentors in fact, stoned out our gourds, and wound up right in the middle of a bomb threat. ROFL, one of my HS classmates decided to streak through the coffee shop(the establishment was a coffee shop, bowling alley, bar and dinner house-shared kitchen) to then go along the bowling lanes and exit the other end. It was right at closing time and I had already pulled the gate across the entrance to the lanes. It was hilarious, especially since we knew each other.
Vince "Alice" is from Detroit. The band was formed in Phoenix. He changed his name to Alice Cooper. Still tours and has an amazing show. The Ballad of Dwight Fry. Desperado. Be my lover. Elected and so many more.
"I'm 18," "Is It My Body," and "Under My Wheels" are some other classic Alice Cooper songs from '70s that you should listen to; however, my absolute favorite song by him is "Public Animal #9."
When I graduated from high school, I got up the next morning (hung over)went to Tower of Records, bought Alice Cooper’s greatest hits cassette and BLASTED this song all the way home then went back to bed. Plus Alice Cooper was my first concert in 1975
I'm an elementary teacher, and every year on the last day of school, as soon as all the kids are gone, we play this over the intercoms. We are as happy as the students for school to be out for summer! Lol!
Yup classic car memories for sure. High school senior 1978, 73 Olds Vista Cruiser, chrome wheels, gas guzzling four barrel carburetor, and Alice Cooper rockin it on the 8 track player.
Back in the day you could say “the school’s been blown to pieces” and it would be understood as a figure of speech and an exaggeration and not like a threat or warning. Society has degenerated and gotten so out of control that it hits much differently than it did back in the day. I had a couple of cool teachers that would play it in class the last day before Christmas or Spring Break or on the last day of school. Of course a bunch of us would blast it in our cars out in the parking lot.
Awesome reaction by *Lex* ... she has so many, but this is one of my all-time favorites! Her passion and giddyness are so infectious, one can't help but adore her. (Bradley, you are one lucky fella.)
This was the anthem of the 70’s getting out of school! Blown to pieces is what every kid wanted. Alas it was only a dream 😂 Such great memories this evokes!
Watch the movie "Dazed and Confused" and you'll see this song used in perfect context in a movie that takes place in 1976 when this song was a staple among teens especially on the last day of the school year which is also what the movie is also all about, the last day of school in 1976. The entire film is a perfect lens to view life among 15-20 y/o's living in the 70's. The soundtrack to the movie is top notch, as well as the cars people drive in it. There are some things in the movie that I found strange, like high school seniors hazing incoming freshman, that wasn't a big thing in the Northeast where I grew up,. I think it was a more regional thing and this movie takes place in a Texas town.
Yeah, the hazing thing I never saw in two west coast high schools. I mean, maybe the sports teams among themselves or the cheerleaders amongst themselves, but for the rest of us it really wasn't a thing.
I live near Alice in Arizona and we always used to go to his restaurant Alice Cooperstown and see him and his family there. He is a super nice guy and does a lot of charity work in Phoenix. He does a radio show on the local classic rock station at night.
The DJs in NY used to play this for years every late June when school was over. I loved it cause I hated school so much and felt like I escaped prison at least till September. The 70s ,what a time!!
An anthem for most school children. Also check out I'm Eighteen, Billion Dollar Babies, Under My Wheels, Welcome to My Nightmare, Teenage Frankenstein, Only Woman Bleed, and Elected
This song was played on the last day of school every year of my school career. I started 1st grade in 1972 & graduated in 1984. It was a staple each year. The local radio stations would play it every few songs that day before summer break. We loved it!!!!! i still do!
Oh hell yeah! The anthem for us kids stuck in a junior high school classroom in the early 70s! Alice did a live appearance at tower records in Rockville Md, in the late 80s. Everyone of us singing along. Secretary's, Cops, Construction workers, everyone singing along. Alice was the son of a minister, he wrote so many great tunes, one of the first shock rockers with a crazy live show. He turned into a bad alcoholic, went into treatment. Later wrote an album about it. He's religious now but open minded, a really good guy. Been married for a long time. Check out "I'm 18", "Be my lover" , "Elected", "generation landslide", "only women bleed". Countless others. It's more in fun like a camp old horror movie. Catch an interview if you can, he's a really nice dude.
Last day of school, 1987..........with Alice Cooper makeup on, I blasted this on my radio between classes and then at maximum volume after last period while people cleaned out their lockers and about 78% of the contents ended up out in the hallways and spilled into the parking lot..........it was chaos.
We used to play this song on the last day of school EVERY YEAR even when I was in elementary school in the early 70s! Great song. I'm 57 years old now and still love it!
Everyone hated school back then, even in the 90s. For some reason all the students were so complaining when they got all those extra days off due to corona the past two years :D I would have loved that!
Me too and I was a smart kid. The only thing I would have missed was gym, I lived for gym class. Back in the day I was happy to stay home and watch kid school classes on TV (it was the only thing on in the morning back then, 70s)
Frank Zappa attended one of Alice's concerts when the band was still polishing their act. The show bombed with the crowd and the band was booed off the stage. Frank went to the dressing room and said to the band "Wow! They really hated you! How soon could you be ready to record an album?"
True Alice Cooper Story # 2 The first time I saw the band under the Alice Cooper name was on 2/16/1972 (with Redbone as the opener) at the Tucson Community Center Arena. I had seats at center floor about 8 rows back from the stage, and during the days before the show I was constantly giving my good friend shit because his were another 20 rows back. I visited him before the show began and chuckled to myself because he was seated next to a couple that were older than his parents. Well, those old fogies were Alice's mom and dad, and they filled my friend with Alice facts that were unknown to the general public at that time, including his real name. They even spelled out Furnier for him. Fortunately for me, my friend was gracious and told me everything he remembered.
One of the original shock rockers. He says "School's been blown, to pieces", as a poke at the establishment, and authoritarian attitudes. Rock and Roll, is about being free. He was, one of the main ones, keeping Rock and Roll alive. He, now, has a radio show. "Nights: With Alice Cooper".
I've seen Alice in concert over 60 times. I have tix for 3 shows this year and planning on one or two more. His current band is AMAZINGLY talented - Ryan Roxie, Nita Strauss, Tommy Henriksen, Glen Sobel, and Chuck Garric. At 74 years old, Alice can still run circles around acts half of his age. Alice Cooper shows are part rock concert and part theater. Catch him live!
I had a friend in 8th grade who was obsessed with Alice Cooper. When we had to do a public speaking exercise in front the whole school, he did his speech on Alice Cooper. At the end he put on this song and lit one of those Little Red Schoolhouse fireworks. The whole auditorium filled with smoke, the school had to be evacuated, and the fire department was called. My friend considered it a great success.
I was at school in the 70s when this came out and yes it was sung at the end of terms. Teachers eventually tried to ban us singing it. Caned if we were caught. Those were the days.
With Tatiana now a refugee in the US and the rest of the band organizing aid and fighting in Kyiv, please react to Jinjer's "Home Back" (OMV). It shows what the band and their families are struggling through at this moment. 💙💛🌻
Me too, class of '73. Came out during my junior year. This song has become a cultural end of school year touchstone in the US. Wonder if Cooper ever envisioned this would happen, that 52 years later kids in numerous locations across the US would hear this song leaving High School their sophomore and junior years.
In Jr. High last day of school this was played on the intercom the moment the bell rang. Like many schools Lincoln Jr. High is no more, but the memories are still there. Bring on the summer!🥳✨🌞
I first heard this song when I was 12 in 1972. Listening to this song with my child's mind, I felt the song was just a way to celebrate the beginning of Summer with full expectation of going back in the Fall. The song is just an exaggeration of feelings many kids have toward the lovely freedom Summer has to offer.
He's also in movies. Wayne's World ofcourse. Dark Shadows remake w. J.Depp. On Netflix now. 1st song I remember of his : I'm 18. When I was 14. Can't go wrong with. Vincent! He's a d.j. Nights With Alice Cooper his show is called. A dramatic rock icon...Still at 70 plus!!
Wow this takes me back. We would get together at the local Krystal (it is where most of us with "modified" cars would hang out) and when that song came on everyone would sing along, we all knew the lyrics. As for the school being blown up, we all knew is just a saying. We knew who it came from because Cooper was always out there and we loved it.
I remember leaving school after my last Regent's exam... I was done, got in my 1979 Malibu Classic Coupe, rolled the windows down (yeah, no power windows back then) and cranking this as I peeled out of the parking lot.
I cannot recommend too highly the triple shot of classic albums from Coop -- Love It To Death, School's Out, and Billion Dollar Babies. Among must-have albums, they are three of the mustiest-haviest.
I was in High School when this came out , Alice is 7 years older than myself! I saw him 2 times and I have a drum stick from his drummer. Thank you ! Texas here.🎸😎 Great channel y’all .
My dad was born in '76. I was born in '01 Since I was in kindergarten he played this song to me and my brother on our last day of class. Even today (Senior year of college) And this summer he took us to an alice cooper concert. It's crazy how music can change your life!
This song came out in 1971. It was pre-shooting up schools, and yes, it was about everything about school being out of your head, out of your thoughts, out of your life.
Alice Cooper put out three flawless albums in a row... Love It To Death, Killer and School's Out... every song on each of these albums is fantastic..... try a song called "Under My Wheels" from Killer
@@RamseyHaddadWZ The band Alice Cooper had broken up by then... so it is not an Alice Cooper (the band) album.... it is an Alice Cooper solo album... I know, it's confusing.. I prefer Alice cooper the band
You guys got it right that was just a dramatic way of looking forward to the last day of school. Nobody was blowing up or shooting up schools back then, not to be taken literally! One of the greatest riff rockers of all time!
So this song came out in the 70's when I was a teenager but when my kids were in elementary and it was the last day of school before summer, l would drive up to pick them up blasting this song. Needless to say, they were so embarrassed 🤣🤣✌good memories!
Alice Cooper's songs were often social commentary/reflection, holding the mirror to society. This is one of their best. Huge hit in the summer of 1972. You'll want to check out "I'm Eighteen," too.
10 to 15 years was school in your head, going to, learning, listen to, and now at last you can blast the school out of your head, blow it out of your mind. When i left school in the mid 70’s i’l played this song to, it’s a sort of freedom song. [you think at that age].
This song reminds me of the movie "Dazed and Confused", if you haven't seen the movie, you're missing out on one of the coolest stoner movies ever. Lots of young famous actors you will recognize too :)
True Alice Cooper Story # 1 On Saturday 3/18/1967 I saw the popular Phoenix band "The Spiders" at a dance at the school I was attending in Tucson, Canyon del Oro Jr High. Less than a month later they moved to LA and changed their name to The Nazz. It wasn't long before they discovered that some guy named Todd Rundgren also had a band named "Nazz", so they changed their name again...to Alice Cooper.
This song was on Alice's Billion Dollar Babies Album. I was still in the Navy, stationed in Mayport, Florida when the album came out. I saw the Billion Dollars Babies concert at the Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, FL. Let me tell you something. Alice did some crazy stuff on stage, lot of theatrics, but don't get fooled. These guys can rock!!!
Grade 5 , 10 , 11 yrs old , last day of school , and we had a field trip to the Oasis , a local swimming hole , they had a pinball arcade , and a jukebox, which happened to have " School s Out " , on it. We played it non -stop , over , and over , so that our teachers could enjoy it.
I remember how the vinyl was sold. The cover folded into a school desk and on the inside the record was in underwear made of Handi-Wipes. My mother had a royal fit!
"69 Pontiac" gave me a good smile. This song is played exactly in this context in the movie Dazed and Confused. You need to watch that if you haven't already
Alice Cooper emulated this character that was a fictional villain on stage... so the lyrics "School's been blown to pieces..." fit right in w/ the nature of the 'evil Alice' persona... Alice would perform the song 'The ballad of Dwight Fry" in a straightjacket on stage, and he'd be going "I've gotta get outta here! Let me out!" in a demented voice... He's an excellent performer and he's still doing it at 70+
Alice Copper concerts in the 80s were beyond crazy. On stage where 15 foot monsters terrorizing band members and mock decapitations. I was a young 18-year-old Canadian leaving an Alice show covered head-to-toe in fake blood, it's my onion dwarfed KISS shows back then.
There is no one like Alice!! The make-up, the shows, the longevity!! I saw him perform in 1973 n N.Y.C. for the "Kiiller" album. He is also a good person and a family man!! You should listen to " The Ballad of Dwight Frye", definitely a unique song!!
'Billion Dollar Babies' is their best album. All great tracks. "Unfinished Sweet", "No more Mr Nice Guy" and the title track are excellent. Alice has a hint of horror and a splatter of humor in so many of the tracks.
This song has become an anthem during the last day of the academic year, this song will be played on loudspeakers after the last ringing of the school bell.
"School's Out" was even a thing for kids in elementary school in the seventies, at least among kids in the higher grades. When you're ready for more from Alice Cooper, check out some of these bangers: "I'm Eighteen", "Billion Dollar Babies", "Be My Lover", and "Under My Wheels" along with many others.
"School's been blown to pieces" is definitely a hyperbole since it was most kids fantasy that school was blown up so we didn't have to go to school and we could just play all day long.
Yup, no different than wishing for a snow day...
Unfortunately since those days there's actually been too many tragedies associated in schools that it has a different meaning.. lol
or they just couldn't come up with anything else that rhymes.
How an innocent line can be so ironic.
Yep, and it was a different time back then. We actually had students and teachers have guns in their cars during school and no school shootings. Different time, different mindset
Sung this at the top of my lungs when the school year ended in the spring of 1972!! Song was released April 26, 1972, prior to the album release of the same name. Still have the 45 rpm record.
Same for 1981!
We did that in the 90’s too. This song is forever timeless!
@@wyomarine6341 high school, grade school, its all good LOL!
Same here in 72! Best summer of my life. Off to the Army in September. Was lucky and went to Turkey instead of Vietnam.
And for years you could always count on hearing this song at the end of a school year on every rock radio station!
"No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers dirty looks." Was a childhood rhyme back in the day.
What an iconic riff.
This song was sung at the top of our lungs at the end of each term during school.
Will be an anthem for generations 👍
He knew what he was doing, "Alice" is genius level, I think
Now they can appreciate Alice’s Staples ad. 🥸
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A true classic. Best line "We can't even think of a word that rhymes." Alice Cooper and band are in the RandR Hall Of Fame. For a reason.
Nah, "We've got no class... And we've got no principles" best line... Love the double meaning.
Alice Cooper was the band, and then later just the lead singer, strange days indeed.
@@alanfriesen9837 Lead singer's real name Vincent Furnier, who's father and grandfathers were both ministers.
@@SnKKS Another good one.
The 'blown to pieces' was a figurative 'joke' line. It's like the "Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" song from Julie Brown. They were not meant to be serious, and there weren't the rampant issues w/school violence of the last 2 decades.
Ha! I forgot about that song. In a similar vein, go back and listen to "Valley Girl" by Frank and Moon Unit Zappa. There's a homophobic rant in the middle of that song that definitely would not pass today.
Nor were they drugging up "problem children". Their misbehavior was punished, not coddled...
@@andyfletcher3561 The high school I went to in the late 70's if you went to the principal's office you knew you wouldn't be sitting for a long time!!!
Back when there were Less g restrictions.
IMO, this is Alice's best. So good! :)
It really captures the feeling of being young and wanting OUT.
As for the school being blown to pieces ... it was taken as figurative back then. Nowadays, people are so sensitized to school violence, and immediately think this is calling for schools to be bombed. That's NOT how it was taken way back when. We weren't blowing up schools. It is about getting school entirely out of your mind and daily routine, and being free.
Thanks.... Well said. Took the words right out of my mouth. The world would be a much better place if people didnt complain and take offense to everything!!!!!Just enjoy the music.✌❤
Yup, entirely sarcastic and metaphorical, nothing whatsoever to do with reality. I went to high school up in the desert north of LA. Come hunting season, half the vehicles in the student parking lot, including cars, had gun racks with multiple rifles and ammunition in the glove box. Some kids just kept them there year round. Funny...NOBODY was shot.
@@andyfletcher3561 true
I’ll argue that Eighteen or Feed my Frankenstein is better
Dude! This came out in 1972 when I was 4 and we were still blasting this in 1986 when I got out of High School. I remember dancing on the hood of my 1976 Chevy Impala with my best friend. Man I wish I still had that car.
i had a 72 impala. What a boat :)
@@joemachine4714, Heh - it was a Land Yacht. Fully loaded, rode like you were floating on a cloud and hauled some major ass. Best road tripping car I ever had.
49 years from now this song will still be played in HS the last day of school.
That will mark the freaking 100th anniversary of the release of the song.
No one will be alive who will remember its release, but the kids yet unborn for decades yet will know this song and sing it!!!!
Alice Cooper created a cultural musical iynchpin!!!!
"I'm 18" is Alice's best, IMO.
With the line being " schools been blown to pieces" wasn't even considered as a threat because back in the 70's that wasn't an issue as it is today! Rock on Alice, Brad & Lex!!!
I lived right across from my high school and every year last day of school I would run home and put my speakers in the window and blast this song!
This one never gets old, especially for the youngins
We "oldins" still like it too. This song hit the charts while I was in Boot Camp.
This was popular even in the hood. It was blaring in passing cars. Summer was so exciting and dangerous!
@@glassontherocks Nice ,Dave...I was about to start ninth grade when it charted..I'm an "Olden" as well.
I'm a retired middle school art teacher. Each year on the last day of school, we teachers would line up alongside the bus ramp doing the can-can and singing this song to the kids as the busses pulled away. We loved the last day of school just as much as the kids, if not more!
"Blown to pieces" was a joke "back in the day" that nobody, even ALICE would have considered a REAL THING ... you guys nailed it.
Thanks I was just gonna say the same. It's one of those things that hadn't happened.....yet.
There was actually a rash of bomb threats to elementary and high schools in 1970-1972, so the reference might have been topical. My elementary school had many days off until the school district just started ignoring the bomb threats, then the next weird fad that started up was streaking. Weird times.
@@Roikat We had bomb threats at my high school in the 90's, too. It was to get out of class. It was pre-Columbine, so they took it seriously enough to evacuate us, but not expel the guilty students.
@@Roikat The bowling alley/restaurant I worked at in the mid 70's got several bomb threats. Went into a "Sambo's" coffee shop one night with my girlfriend her mom being a waitress there that had worked at the restaurant I worked at, one of my life mentors in fact, stoned out our gourds, and wound up right in the middle of a bomb threat. ROFL, one of my HS classmates decided to streak through the coffee shop(the establishment was a coffee shop, bowling alley, bar and dinner house-shared kitchen) to then go along the bowling lanes and exit the other end. It was right at closing time and I had already pulled the gate across the entrance to the lanes. It was hilarious, especially since we knew each other.
@@tahliasgoddaddy It had.
Vince "Alice" is from Detroit. The band was formed in Phoenix. He changed his name to Alice Cooper. Still tours and has an amazing show. The Ballad of Dwight Fry. Desperado. Be my lover. Elected and so many more.
everything off the killer album is a blast
"I'm 18," "Is It My Body," and "Under My Wheels" are some other classic Alice Cooper songs from '70s that you should listen to; however, my absolute favorite song by him is "Public Animal #9."
Department of Youth, and the full albums ''From the inside', and 'Welcome to my nightmare' are brilliant from beginning to end
'Elected" - holds up after nearly 50 years"!!
When I graduated from high school, I got up the next morning (hung over)went to Tower of Records, bought Alice Cooper’s greatest hits cassette and BLASTED this song all the way home then went back to bed. Plus Alice Cooper was my first concert in 1975
I'm an elementary teacher, and every year on the last day of school, as soon as all the kids are gone, we play this over the intercoms. We are as happy as the students for school to be out for summer! Lol!
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I have been blasting this on my bus without fail for 3 years at the end of school and people hate it but I couldn't care less
Yup classic car memories for sure. High school senior 1978, 73 Olds Vista Cruiser, chrome wheels, gas guzzling four barrel carburetor, and Alice Cooper rockin it on the 8 track player.
Back in the day you could say “the school’s been blown to pieces” and it would be understood as a figure of speech and an exaggeration and not like a threat or warning. Society has degenerated and gotten so out of control that it hits much differently than it did back in the day.
I had a couple of cool teachers that would play it in class the last day before Christmas or Spring Break or on the last day of school. Of course a bunch of us would blast it in our cars out in the parking lot.
Awesome reaction by *Lex* ... she has so many, but this is one of my all-time favorites! Her passion and giddyness are so infectious, one can't help but adore her. (Bradley, you are one lucky fella.)
Isn't he though...Lex would have been right at home with my bunch in high school...
back in the day no one took it as a threat, in a time when most people could leave there doors unlocked
This was the anthem of the 70’s getting out of school! Blown to pieces is what every kid wanted. Alas it was only a dream 😂 Such great memories this evokes!
Watch the movie "Dazed and Confused" and you'll see this song used in perfect context in a movie that takes place in 1976 when this song was a staple among teens especially on the last day of the school year which is also what the movie is also all about, the last day of school in 1976. The entire film is a perfect lens to view life among 15-20 y/o's living in the 70's. The soundtrack to the movie is top notch, as well as the cars people drive in it. There are some things in the movie that I found strange, like high school seniors hazing incoming freshman, that wasn't a big thing in the Northeast where I grew up,. I think it was a more regional thing and this movie takes place in a Texas town.
Yeah, the hazing thing I never saw in two west coast high schools. I mean, maybe the sports teams among themselves or the cheerleaders amongst themselves, but for the rest of us it really wasn't a thing.
I live near Alice in Arizona and we always used to go to his restaurant Alice Cooperstown and see him and his family there. He is a super nice guy and does a lot of charity work in Phoenix. He does a radio show on the local classic rock station at night.
Alice always dope…”I’m Eighteen” “Welcome to My Nightmare” big hits back in the day.
The DJs in NY used to play this for years every late June when school was over. I loved it cause I hated school so much and felt like I escaped prison at least till September. The 70s ,what a time!!
An anthem for most school children. Also check out I'm Eighteen, Billion Dollar Babies, Under My Wheels, Welcome to My Nightmare, Teenage Frankenstein, Only Woman Bleed, and Elected
This song come out in 1972 and it was the song we loved to listen to the last day of school every year
This song was played on the last day of school every year of my school career. I started 1st grade in 1972 & graduated in 1984. It was a staple each year. The local radio stations would play it every few songs that day before summer break. We loved it!!!!! i still do!
The song is a fantasy... about never going back to school... key is a fantasy.
Yes! This was the end of the school year theme song in the 70s.
Radio stations would play this song especially during those summers!
Oh hell yeah! The anthem for us kids stuck in a junior high school classroom in the early 70s! Alice did a live appearance at tower records in Rockville Md, in the late 80s. Everyone of us singing along. Secretary's, Cops, Construction workers, everyone singing along. Alice was the son of a minister, he wrote so many great tunes, one of the first shock rockers with a crazy live show. He turned into a bad alcoholic, went into treatment. Later wrote an album about it. He's religious now but open minded, a really good guy. Been married for a long time. Check out "I'm 18", "Be my lover" , "Elected", "generation landslide", "only women bleed". Countless others. It's more in fun like a camp old horror movie. Catch an interview if you can, he's a really nice dude.
Last day of school, 1987..........with Alice Cooper makeup on, I blasted this on my radio between classes and then at maximum volume after last period while people cleaned out their lockers and about 78% of the contents ended up out in the hallways and spilled into the parking lot..........it was chaos.
We used to play this song on the last day of school EVERY YEAR even when I was in elementary school in the early 70s! Great song. I'm 57 years old now and still love it!
Class of ‘88:here even though this came out in 1972 you could still hear this blasted on the last day of school
"We can't even think of a word that rhymes!" My favorite line.
Class of '72, my personal "Graduating Class Song", saw him later on, and he's been doing till now, 2022, fifty freaking yrs later, timeless!
When I was in high school in the 2000's this song was played over the P.A. system every year on the last day of school. Loved it.
"You just gotta keep livin' man, L. I. V. I. N."
This song is iconic in "Dazed and Confused" (1993)
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Yeah with a 1970 Pontiac (GTO Judge) - Lex was close with '69 Pontiac
Everyone hated school back then, even in the 90s. For some reason all the students were so complaining when they got all those extra days off due to corona the past two years :D I would have loved that!
Me too and I was a smart kid. The only thing I would have missed was gym, I lived for gym class. Back in the day I was happy to stay home and watch kid school classes on TV (it was the only thing on in the morning back then, 70s)
Frank Zappa attended one of Alice's concerts when the band was still polishing their act. The show bombed with the crowd and the band was booed off the stage. Frank went to the dressing room and said to the band "Wow! They really hated you! How soon could you be ready to record an album?"
True Alice Cooper Story # 2
The first time I saw the band under the Alice Cooper name was on 2/16/1972 (with Redbone as the opener) at the Tucson Community Center Arena. I had seats at center floor about 8 rows back from the stage, and during the days before the show I was constantly giving my good friend shit because his were another 20 rows back. I visited him before the show began and chuckled to myself because he was seated next to a couple that were older than his parents. Well, those old fogies were Alice's mom and dad, and they filled my friend with Alice facts that were unknown to the general public at that time, including his real name. They even spelled out Furnier for him. Fortunately for me, my friend was gracious and told me everything he remembered.
One of the original shock rockers. He says "School's been blown, to pieces", as a poke at the establishment, and authoritarian attitudes.
Rock and Roll, is about being free. He was, one of the main ones, keeping Rock and Roll alive.
He, now, has a radio show.
"Nights: With Alice Cooper".
I've seen Alice in concert over 60 times. I have tix for 3 shows this year and planning on one or two more. His current band is AMAZINGLY talented - Ryan Roxie, Nita Strauss, Tommy Henriksen, Glen Sobel, and Chuck Garric. At 74 years old, Alice can still run circles around acts half of his age. Alice Cooper shows are part rock concert and part theater. Catch him live!
Two Alice Cooper songs, this one and 18, were the jam of every teen-ager back in the day.
I had a friend in 8th grade who was obsessed with Alice Cooper. When we had to do a public speaking exercise in front the whole school, he did his speech on Alice Cooper. At the end he put on this song and lit one of those Little Red Schoolhouse fireworks. The whole auditorium filled with smoke, the school had to be evacuated, and the fire department was called. My friend considered it a great success.
Hm, sounds like he was also a "Great White" fan 🔥🔥🔥
Lol.... that sounds like some of the crazy stuff that went on in our school back then.
Love Lex so much in this one. She gets the same vibe we all got in the 70's. One of the most iconic rock songs of all time
I was at school in the 70s when this came out and yes it was sung at the end of terms. Teachers eventually tried to ban us singing it. Caned if we were caught. Those were the days.
Alice is a true legend in every sense of the word. One of the greatest and most influential artists in the history of rock music.
With Tatiana now a refugee in the US and the rest of the band organizing aid and fighting in Kyiv, please react to Jinjer's "Home Back" (OMV). It shows what the band and their families are struggling through at this moment. 💙💛🌻
This was the song that we played every single summer, right before school let out for vacation. I'm a 70's-80's kid.
Me too, class of '73. Came out during my junior year.
This song has become a cultural end of school year touchstone in the US.
Wonder if Cooper ever envisioned this would happen, that 52 years later kids in numerous locations across the US would hear this song leaving High School their sophomore and junior years.
In Jr. High last day of school this was played on the intercom the moment the bell rang. Like many schools Lincoln Jr. High is no more, but the memories are still there. Bring on the summer!🥳✨🌞
I first heard this song when I was 12 in 1972. Listening to this song with my child's mind, I felt the song was just a way to celebrate the beginning of Summer with full expectation of going back in the Fall. The song is just an exaggeration of feelings many kids have toward the lovely freedom Summer has to offer.
He's also in movies. Wayne's World ofcourse. Dark Shadows remake w. J.Depp. On Netflix now. 1st song I remember of his : I'm 18. When I was 14. Can't go wrong with. Vincent! He's a d.j. Nights With Alice Cooper his show is called. A dramatic rock icon...Still at 70 plus!!
Wow this takes me back. We would get together at the local Krystal (it is where most of us with "modified" cars would hang out) and when that song came on everyone would sing along, we all knew the lyrics. As for the school being blown up, we all knew is just a saying. We knew who it came from because Cooper was always out there and we loved it.
I remember leaving school after my last Regent's exam... I was done, got in my 1979 Malibu Classic Coupe, rolled the windows down (yeah, no power windows back then) and cranking this as I peeled out of the parking lot.
I cannot recommend too highly the triple shot of classic albums from Coop -- Love It To Death, School's Out, and Billion Dollar Babies. Among must-have albums, they are three of the mustiest-haviest.
I was in High School when this came out , Alice is 7 years older than myself! I saw him 2 times and I have a drum stick from his drummer. Thank you ! Texas here.🎸😎 Great channel y’all .
My dad was born in '76. I was born in '01 Since I was in kindergarten he played this song to me and my brother on our last day of class. Even today (Senior year of college) And this summer he took us to an alice cooper concert. It's crazy how music can change your life!
My favorite line is "We got no class and we got no principles". Cool song. I could of listened to it every year of my life while on that journey.
This was the jam on the last day of school from when it came out in 72 till I graduated , still a great jam . . . it was a happy song in the day .
Blasted this on my last day of high school ever in 1977. I couldn't have been happier.
This song came out in 1971. It was pre-shooting up schools, and yes, it was about everything about school being out of your head, out of your thoughts, out of your life.
Alice Cooper put out three flawless albums in a row... Love It To Death, Killer and School's Out... every song on each of these albums is fantastic..... try a song called "Under My Wheels" from Killer
Does that mean you think there is a flaw in Welcome To My Nightmare?
@@RamseyHaddadWZ The band Alice Cooper had broken up by then... so it is not an Alice Cooper (the band) album.... it is an Alice Cooper solo album... I know, it's confusing.. I prefer Alice cooper the band
They should try the Ballad of Dwight Fry from that golden era in Alice's career. The original band forever!
I think Billion Dollar Babies has to be added to.
His band in the early days kicked ass
You guys got it right that was just a dramatic way of looking forward to the last day of school. Nobody was blowing up or shooting up schools back then, not to be taken literally! One of the greatest riff rockers of all time!
Love how much Lex was really digging this song and getting into it.
It's like a metaphor man. It's still there we just left it behind us for the summer
So this song came out in the 70's when I was a teenager but when my kids were in elementary and it was the last day of school before summer, l would drive up to pick them up blasting this song. Needless to say, they were so embarrassed 🤣🤣✌good memories!
Alice Cooper's songs were often social commentary/reflection, holding the mirror to society. This is one of their best. Huge hit in the summer of 1972. You'll want to check out "I'm Eighteen," too.
10 to 15 years was school in your head, going to, learning, listen to, and now at last you can blast the school out of your head, blow it out of your mind.
When i left school in the mid 70’s i’l played this song to, it’s a sort of freedom song. [you think at that age].
It sounds like pop now, but he was so out there in the 70's. A guy called Alice shocked our parents, so we loved it
well done Lex - you captured in words exactly the feeling Alice Cooper said the song was trying to evoke :):):)
This song reminds me of the movie "Dazed and Confused", if you haven't seen the movie, you're missing out on one of the coolest stoner movies ever. Lots of young famous actors you will recognize too :)
True Alice Cooper Story # 1
On Saturday 3/18/1967 I saw the popular Phoenix band "The Spiders" at a dance at the school I was attending in Tucson, Canyon del Oro Jr High. Less than a month later they moved to LA and changed their name to The Nazz. It wasn't long before they discovered that some guy named Todd Rundgren also had a band named "Nazz", so they changed their name again...to Alice Cooper.
This song was on Alice's Billion Dollar Babies Album. I was still in the Navy, stationed in Mayport, Florida when the album came out. I saw the Billion Dollars Babies concert at the Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, FL. Let me tell you something. Alice did some crazy stuff on stage, lot of theatrics, but don't get fooled. These guys can rock!!!
This song was a long while before any shootings had actually occurred, so this was just the usual teen-angst anger, not a killing anger.
I think the 'blown to pieces' line refers to the chaos of the last day, where lockers and classrooms are being cleaned out creating a big mess
I remember in elementary school on the last day before the end of the day they would play this song on the PA system throughout the whole school.
Poor Brad....even this song baffles him.....Blown to pieces , doesn't exist in their minds. Brad Blows my mind
I remember listening to this song on the 1st day of summer break in 6th grade back in 73. What a feeling of freedom.
Grade 5 , 10 , 11 yrs old , last day of school , and we had a field trip to the Oasis , a local swimming hole , they had a pinball arcade , and a jukebox, which happened to have " School s Out " , on it. We played it non -stop , over , and over , so that our teachers could enjoy it.
As a kid in the mid 70s.. this song rocked.
I remember how the vinyl was sold. The cover folded into a school desk and on the inside the record was in underwear made of Handi-Wipes. My mother had a royal fit!
My dad used to wake me up to this song every year on the last day of school. Good memories.
You have a cool dad.
The 70's and 80's were awesome.
"69 Pontiac" gave me a good smile. This song is played exactly in this context in the movie Dazed and Confused. You need to watch that if you haven't already
Alice Cooper emulated this character that was a fictional villain on stage... so the lyrics "School's been blown to pieces..." fit right in w/ the nature of the 'evil Alice' persona... Alice would perform the song 'The ballad of Dwight Fry" in a straightjacket on stage, and he'd be going "I've gotta get outta here! Let me out!" in a demented voice... He's an excellent performer and he's still doing it at 70+
Alice Copper concerts in the 80s were beyond crazy. On stage where 15 foot monsters terrorizing band members and mock decapitations. I was a young 18-year-old Canadian leaving an Alice show covered head-to-toe in fake blood, it's my onion dwarfed KISS shows back then.
This was huge back in the day. The LP packaging even include ladies underpants. How cool is that when you're 17?
I’ve met alice cooper twice and every time i’ve met him has always been breathtaking
The gentleman who plays guitar on this song is buried in Clarion Iowa, and the opening riff for this song is on his headstone in musical notes
There is no one like Alice!! The make-up, the shows, the longevity!! I saw him perform in 1973 n N.Y.C. for the "Kiiller" album. He is also a good person and a family man!! You should listen to " The Ballad of Dwight Frye", definitely a unique song!!
'Billion Dollar Babies' is their best album. All great tracks. "Unfinished Sweet", "No more Mr Nice Guy" and the title track are excellent. Alice has a hint of horror and a splatter of humor in so many of the tracks.
Alice Cooper had some talented musicians backing him. Always loved his guitarists from the '70s.
I was in 9th grade when this song came out and believe me, we was tokin' and yelling this at the top of our young long haired self's.
This song has become an anthem during the last day of the academic year, this song will be played on loudspeakers after the last ringing of the school bell.
Its become a US cultural Summer touchstone.
"School's Out" was even a thing for kids in elementary school in the seventies, at least among kids in the higher grades. When you're ready for more from Alice Cooper, check out some of these bangers: "I'm Eighteen", "Billion Dollar Babies", "Be My Lover", and "Under My Wheels" along with many others.
the most "blowing to pieces back then" was maybe a toilet with an M80. We hadn't started killing each other too much yet.