Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American … Read Full Bio ↴Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences.

Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, "Alice Cooper" was originally a band with roots extending back to a band called the Earwigs, consisting of Furnier on lead vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, and Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar and backing vocals. By 1966, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar joined the three and Neal Smith was added on drums in 1967. The five named the band "Alice Cooper", and Furnier eventually adopted it as his stage pseudonym. They released their 1969 debut studio album with limited chart success. Breaking out with the 1970 single "I'm Eighteen" and the third studio album Love It to Death, the band reached their commercial peak in 1973 with their sixth studio album, Billion Dollar Babies. After the band broke up, Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and began a solo career in 1975 with the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. Over his career, Cooper has sold well over 50 million records.

Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, mainly hard rock, glam rock, heavy metal, and glam metal, but also new wave (1980–1983), art rock on DaDa (1983), and industrial rock on Brutal Planet (2000) and Dragontown (2001). He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock 'n' roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". He is also known for his wit offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a radio disc jockey (DJ) with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.

Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper

Band studio albums
Pretties for You (1969)
Easy Action (1970)
Love It to Death (1971)
Killer (1971)
School's Out (1972)
Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
Muscle of Love (1973)

Solo studio albums
Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)
Lace and Whiskey (1977)
From the Inside (1978)
Flush the Fashion (1980)
Special Forces (1981)
Zipper Catches Skin (1982)
DaDa (1983)
Constrictor (1986)
Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987)
Trash (1989)
Hey Stoopid (1991)
The Last Temptation (1994)
Brutal Planet (2000)
Dragontown (2001)
The Eyes of Alice Cooper (2003)
Dirty Diamonds (2005)
Along Came a Spider (2008)
Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011)
Paranormal (2017)
Detroit Stories (2021)
Road (2023)

Clones
Alice Cooper Lyrics

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I'm a clone
I know it and I'm fine
I'm one and more are on the way
I'm two, doctor
Three's on the line
He'll take incubation another day

I'm all alone, so are we all

We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
We destroyed the government
We're destroying time
No more problems on the way

I'm through doctor
We don't need your kind
The other ones
Ugly ones
Stupid boys
Wrong ones

I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
We destroyed the government
We're destroying time
No more problems on the way

Six is having problems
Adjusting to his clone status
Have to put him on a shelf
(Please don't put me on the shelf)
All day long we hear him crying so loud
I just want to be myself
I just want to be myself
I just want to be myself
Be myself
Be myself

I'm all alone, so are we all
We destroyed the government
We're destroyed time
No more problems on the way

I'm through doctor
We don't need your kind
The other ones
Ugly ones
Stupid boys
Wrong ones

I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
We destroyed the government
We're destroying time
No more problems on the way

I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones

All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all

Overall Meaning

The song "Clones" by Alice Cooper is a commentary on the fear of conformity and the dangers of scientific advancements. The singer sings about being a clone and accepting his fate, but also recognizing that there are more clones on the way. The repetition of "all are one and one are all" emphasizes the loss of individuality in a world where everyone is the same. The clone revolution has destroyed the government and time itself, but it has not solved all problems. The singer rejects the doctor who created him and the other "ugly ones, stupid boys, wrong ones." In the end, one of the clones, number Six, struggles with his clone status and cries out for individuality.

The song was released in 1980 as part of the album "Flush the Fashion." It was written by Alice Cooper and David Carron. The music is a blend of punk rock and new wave, and features heavy use of synthesizers. The lyrics are provocative and satirical, poking fun at concepts like obedience, conformity, and the threat of cloning.

Line by Line Meaning

I'm a clone
I am a genetically identical copy of someone else

I know it and I'm fine
I am aware of my clone status and it doesn't bother me

I'm one and more are on the way
I am the first of many clones to come

I'm two, doctor
There is another clone besides me

Three's on the line
Another clone is currently in incubation

He'll take incubation another day
The doctor will continue to create more clones in the future

We're all clones
All of us are genetically identical copies

All are one and one are all
We are all equal and the same

We destroyed the government
The clones have overthrown and removed the ruling government

We're destroying time
Our actions are changing history

No more problems on the way
We believe our clone society will be problem-free

We don't need your kind
The clones are rejecting the authority of the doctor who created them

The other ones
The doctor may have created other clones besides us

Ugly ones
The clones have negative opinions about the appearance of potential other clones

Stupid boys
The clones have negative opinions about the intelligence and gender of potential other clones

Wrong ones
The clones may have concerns about possible defects or issues with potential other clones

Six is having problems
Another clone named Six is experiencing difficulty or distress

Adjusting to his clone status
Six is having trouble coming to terms with his identical genetic makeup

Have to put him on a shelf
Six is being removed from society, possibly for observation or to be discarded

(Please don't put me on the shelf)
Six is pleading to be allowed to stay with the rest of the clones

All day long we hear him crying so loud
Six is constantly and loudly expressing his distress

I just want to be myself
Six desires individuality and to not be a clone

Be myself
Six repeats his desire to have autonomy and uniqueness

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: ADAM JAN NARKIEWICZ, DAVID MAURICE CARRON

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Comments from YouTube:

@christopherbingham5092

35w↑15

This is a really catchy song. I wasn't expecting Alice Cooper to do new wave. He did it well

@123maxxeatskids666

1y↑70

One of the most underrated cooper jams

@sophiecooper1824

1y↑4

Wish he would do this live again ( i think last time was 2011)

@fergi10ful

51w↑3

Agreed! I used to listen to this song on my way to work wishing I had a clone...still do😂

@Shikta-poobah67

39w↑1

Who was doing the rating?

@mrmeerkat6055

23w↑1

One of my favourite Alice songs.

@JohnSmith-op1tc

@@sophiecooper1824 saw him that Summer in Grand Rapids, MI. Didn't recall it on his setlist, was keeping an eye on five friends, after Bachman and Turner opened the show. (PS-Clones is there to be verified online) He's a great guy, met Alice in 2007 in another GR show.

@virginiaviola5097

3y↑48

Alice going all Gary Numan on us here...yes! friends are electric!! I think this is my favourite Alice Cooper moment..keep coming back and back to it.

@Shikta-poobah67

39w↑4

Definitely Numan-influenced. That was the very first thing I thought of the first time I heard this song. In fact, it almost borders on plagiarism, but it’s so damn catchy that it’s easy to overlook. It was a big relief after all the loungey, sappy stuff he’d been cranking out in the late 70’s (Lace and Whiskey, From The Inside).

@mikeguerin4535

17w↑2

I swear I thought of this song and could have sworn it was a Gary Numan song until I searched.

@virginiaviola5097

16w

@@mikeguerin4535 I really love this Alice Cooper…clearly Molly Meldrum did not, hence I had no idea that this incarnation exists until now. I know he clearly very unwell, but he was *interesting*, and the music is great. I’m am glad he survived the insanity of the times tho. I recently learned something new about Bowie too. He certainly got caught up in the LA madness and mayhem, but now I understand why The Hollywood Vampires pay him so much homage…because Bowie broke free and flew away. Also, Johnny, after putting himself on the line for truth deserves to sing Heroes now, because he is one person, who single-handedly took on the Justice System armed only with facts while also dealing with a bevy of local and international news media outlets accusing a presumably innocent man before a trial with endless character assassinating hit pieces..put his faith in truth, justice and the American Way..and I don’t think that anyone was more surprised than Johnny that he won that court case. Seeing Heard had all the media, bank-rollers like Musk, Murdoch and his cronies, bought and paid for ‘expert’ witnesses and some much other crookedness on her side.

@marcoantonioibarra9572

21w↑3

All that album (Flush The Fashion) is a real gem!

@Aff3ct000

36w↑5

The Smashing Pumpkins cover of this is out of this world. The original though...incredible.

@Adulteducation8

10w

Such a great song, and it surprisingly (I think) snuck into the Top 40 for a week or two

@1atomicblond1

3y↑30

I love the vocal over-dub. Long live The Coop.

@iMakeThinkingFUN

18w↑1

Talk about a great prediction of society... for some anyway... Great jam ... so different from his other songs and just love this song.

@michaelcascio8587

12w

Alice Cooper meets the Cars meets early 1980s new wave; just a fun overlooked Coop song. Great video!

@bowiefreak1

6y↑57

I love this song Clones. I love the album from which it came, Flush the Fashion. I love the video for its subtle theatrics.

Those expressive eyes.

All are one and one are all.

@paulyabe

try listening to LITD & Killer

@Polacerbic

4y↑2

thank you for good reviews instead of bickering over influences. Whatever his whole history, this song & video would be the envy of certain artists today (guess who?) hahahahaha it's all good either way and I'd love for Alice and his clones to crash the "party" in charge LOL.

@jamesedwardford589

Like love you

@Shikta-poobah67

38w

This isn’t the actual video for the song though. There was an official video, but for whatever reasons it’s damn near impossible to find anymore, not just on YouTube but on the internet in general. I’m guessing there must have been some licensing issues (???). Who knows, but what you’re seeing here is taken from an episode of a short-lived TV variety show called “Pink Lady & Jeff”, that only aired for a few months in 1980.

@jam1701

12w↑1

Looking at this, I’m glad he got the help he needed.

@mikecarbone828

The Smashing Pumpkins recorded a cover of this song, I was unaware that Alice Cooper had recorded this many years earlier, their cover is nearly identical.
This represents a completely different style of music from Alice Cooper’s earlier recordings from the seventies, and it is also a very different style visually for him as well. New wave music was just gaining popularity about the time this video was originally released.
Thank you for posting this video!
Please have an excellent and awesome day!
☀️✨🎸

@perryfan49

4y↑18

Happy 40th Birthday "Flush The Fashion"!!

@jamesedwardford589

🍱🍱

@WendyOWilbury

1y↑13

Coop may have been having some issues at the time, but he DELIVERED RIGHT ON TIME and he NAILED IT 🖤

@RunLikeAVillain

46w↑1

As you said he was issues at the time... I think it's worth noting that while the backing track is the studio version, he is singing along to it live. His vocal track is not the studio one... even though it sounds almost exactly like it.

All that to say in the early 80's when a lot of performers made videos or appearances on tv shows they'd just lip synch to the studio track. He's not doing that here.

Also, Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catchs Skin and DaDa are my favorite post-70's AC albums... maybe I'm biased, and I know it was a bad period for him personally, but still...!

@Shikta-poobah67

39w↑2

@@RunLikeAVillainThat run of albums in the early 80’s, or also known as his “blackout era” was the last truly interesting phase of his career in my opinion. I like all of those albums except for Zipper (which, from what I understand was basically just an excuse to have a big coke party in the studio while fulfilling contractual obligations. Not a lot of inspiration went into that album). I mean yeah, that period of his career almost killed him, and he’s damn lucky to have survived it with his brain still intact… but it was still far more interesting and enjoyable than the heavy metal bandwagon hopping that came a few years later, if far less commercially successful.

@Shikta-poobah67

39w↑2

I have a weird history with this song. As a little kid I grew up loving Alice (though mainly just the original band), but I wasn’t much of a fan of the solo albums he was putting out at the time (mid to late 70’s). Then this one came out and it was a new direction for him. I was only 12 but it was obvious to me that he was attempting to cash in on new wave synth-rock, which was all the rage at that time. Still, I couldn’t help but love the song. It was so damn catchy. I went out and bought the 7” single immediately and listened to it daily. It was the first time I had ever done that with a ‘new’ Alice Cooper release. Then later on that same year I saw Black Flag on their very first gig in my hometown. This was just before Christmas in 1980. It was truly a life changing experience, to say the least. After that gig I listened to and looked at music very differently, and my “Clones” single and FTF record went straight to the back of the stack for a few years, along with nearly all of my old records. Truth told, I kind of hated it for a while, as stupid as it sounds today. Until roughly late ‘83 I hated anything with synths in it, as a rule. Ah, youth… when being a narrow-minded idiot is a badge of honor. 🤣

Anyway, around my junior year in HS I finally yanked my head out of my butt and started listening to it again, but by the mid 80’s I was taking a lot of acid and listening mainly to the noisiest, weirdest, most extreme music I could find… and though I no longer hated it, Clones just sounded ‘cutesy’ and simple to me by then… but I held on to the records.

Long story short, it wasn’t until roughly the late 90’s that I started appreciating this stuff again. I’m just glad I managed to hang on to those records throughout all my various ’lifestyle jags’ that I went through. I still occasionally slap it down on the turntable and enjoy it for what it is - the sound of Alice trading in the yacht rock for new wave, and the booze for coke.

@thinkaboutit3366

5y↑77

It shows how powerful New Wave music was, when Alice Cooper makes a special album for it. I’m glad they did not Flush the Fashion.

@NoizyInSeattle

3y↑10

That synth hook is pretty catchy.

@jamesedwardford589

3y↑1

🙈🙈🙈🙈

@duffbaker9554

39w↑2

Many mainstream artists began cutting their hair and jumping onto the new-wave bandwagon back then: Billy Joel, Wings, Kim Carnes, The Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Rod Stewart, Heart, The Tubes, Olivia Newton-John, The Who, etc. Even some of Led Zep trimmed their hair and put on the odd skinny tie/suit.

@Shikta-poobah67

38w↑1

Just my two pennies, but with Alice I think a lot of it was him trying to establish credibility in a scene that he had indirectly helped to create. The original AC band are often cited as being ‘proto-punk’ (not my term so hold your fire). In 1980, the term “new wave” was frequently used to present punk in a more ‘socially acceptable’ context, since in those days it was still kind of a 4-letter word and carried a lot of negative connotations. Anyway, I’m sure Alice must have seen how this thing that he had inspired and helped create was becoming wildly popular and commercially viable, so he must’ve realized how futile his last couple of easy listening flavored albums were, dropped those trappings, and went full on new wave synth-rock. On a commercial level it wasn’t exactly a smash success or a ‘comeback’, but it was definitely a whole new direction, and it opened up new possibilities. Thanks to a heavy and well hidden cocaine addiction, no real commercial success came from it, but I’d say it was an improvement on the muppet rock he’d been mired in on the last couple of albums.

@markm2408

3y↑10

Awesome jam!....I remember when this song was first released,it always captures me .It grabs you....Awesome.

@roymatthews2754

14w

This song was written by David Carron from my hometown of Pittsfield ma. He died to young at 36. Alice does an incredible job on it

@setpunks13

32w↑2

great song with ominous, prophetic lyrics

@Mitschfibre

5y↑66

Alice was in the midst of his latest addiction, drugs, at this time. That's why he looks so thin. He'd kicked the alcohol, as chronicled on his previous album, "From The Inside", and the "Flush The Fashion" album, from which "Clones (We're All)" was taken, was a new(er) wave for him, both musically, and with his health. Roy Thomas Baker, known for producing Queen and The Cars, among others, took over where David Foster had left off on "From The Inside", and gave Alice a hard-edged modernization of his sound. The comparison to Gary Numan is apt - Alice's stage act here was similar to what Gary was doing at the time. Also as someone else noted, Alice was singing live along with the recording, and wasn't sure of some of the lyrics in parts of the song. Thankfully, Alice turned in a great album in spite of his condition at the time.

@Polacerbic

4y↑1

and so far he reminds those who bother to comment of Gary Numan..still laughing..

@ceejay960

4y↑10

Someone once gave Alice a hard time about him sometimes getting the lyrics wrong during live performances, his reply was "Hey I got it right on the album didn't I?" Like - What more do you want?

@creepyskulldini581

3y↑1

And Alice had already been a pretty slim guy to begin with! In fact, I was always amazed that he never became bloated and fat during his DRINKING period of the late seventies (must've been all that performing preventing it). Another interesting thing to note is that he wasn't a big druggie during the EARLY DAYS (late 60s / early 70s) when it was REALLY IN-FASHION. Strangely him and the rest of his group were pretty CLEAN at THAT time.

@kknbk5133

3y↑4

@@creepyskulldini581 Not so sure about that. Glen was probably the biggest consistent indulger, then either Neil and Mike. Dennis and Alice are nerds from the get go, so sampled more than indulged. If I'm right, Alice was 20 before he'd ever had a beer. How someone so straight became the icon he is today is amusing and bewildering, but that's alcohol for ya.

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

3y↑4

@@creepyskulldini581 Alice was railing a lot of cocaine at the time, which was probably what was keeping him so scarily skinny. If you ever saw the music video for Pain, he looks like a corpse in that one.

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@andycountryboy9407

3y↑7

FTF is my fave of his albums. All songs are so catchy! Espessially Aspirin!

@andycuthbert2763

10w

A lesser known song but this n Model citizen are great!

@janicepatillo6917

16w

Alice does it all

@maryann1531

5y↑11

Love Alice! Still going strong! An awesome entertainer!

@crapple009

3y↑3

In which Alice Cooper out-new waves the new-wave. Brilliant!

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

😳

@shabeth7773

5y↑11

Love Clones!!! Great AC song...FTF is a killer album too!!!

@ImInLoveWithBulla

17w

A legend. An icon. An official Muppet. The Loretta Lynn of heavy metal. He would casually dabble in new wave and be as good as The Cars. He made Johnny Depp a rock star. Alice Cooper for president. Of course, running for the Porto Party.

@SwimminWitDaFishies

3y↑4

The 80s were my high school and college days ... How did I miss this song?

@WendyOWilbury

1y↑1

too much homework? 😏

@musiccollector

2y↑2

Next to I'm Eighteen and I Never Cry, this is his best.

@noahbawdy3395

39w

That and only women bleed...

@StacyL.

3y↑12

Wow... What an appropriate song for today!!! Cooper was ahead of his time here!!!

@WendyOWilbury

1y↑1

Someone mentioned "social media beauties" and it came on in my head like someone flipped a switch LOL

@stephen3763

@@WendyOWilburyone month later, it's even worse 😢 Get prepared

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

Alice didn’t write it. It was written by a guy named David Carron, who supposedly wrote it after watching the movie “Boys From Brazil”, which was about ex nazis cloning a new third reich. Apparently Alice tweaked the lyrics a bit to make it more about conformity in general.

@mellogee7861

2y↑3

I was in high school when this came out. This new wave punky synth-pop rock genre was the huge "flavor of the week" from from about 1978 to 1983. Everyone had to look and sound like Bowie, The Cars, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, DEVO, Talking Heads, Missing Persons, Ultravox, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.....Even 'ole Alice wasn't above jumping on the band wagon.

@johnherne8489

1y↑1

I still listen to Spring Session M quite a bit. That's a great album.

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

I much preferred this particular bandwagon to the hair metal bandwagon he jumped on afterwards, from roughly 1986 to 1993. Also, I wouldn’t really categorize his ‘83 album DaDa as “new wave punky synth-pop rock”. That one kind of defies categorization altogether. It’s definitely Alice’s weirdest and most unique solo album, bar none.

@andxx0r_the_second671

10w

Sometimes you should hide your influences, and sometimes you should unapologetically pin them to your shirt.

Song’s great and The Cars and Gary Numan would both be proud.

@mercenairy1

4y↑1

Classic...be glad you were hrre to see it

@carlamoore3474

4y↑2

Had this song stuck in my head! Couldn't remember for a few months! Been driving me crazy. It was samples in a commercial.

@paveljohnvasquezsaavedra8889

13w

Amo éste tema

@citizendick6087

40w

truth thrown right in our faces....

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

What? That conformity is lame? That’s essentially what the song is about. That truth is nothing new.

@juanmoreno1298

4y↑9

RECUERDO QUE TENÍA CÓMO 20 AÑOS Y ESCUCHABA EL DISCO COMPLETO...
TERMINABA UN LADO Y LE DABA VUELTA...
Y DESPUÉS OTRA VEZ...
HOY LO ESCUCHE DESPUÉS DE, FÁCIL, 20 AÑOS; Y ME SIGUE ENCANTANDO, TODO!!! ...

@pjstotyuitrfh

46w

My first concert. 1980 Cobo Hall or Joe Louis

@Polacerbic

4y↑1

Thank you Alice! ages very well.

@alfonsovazcorra1450

6y↑5

All are one and one are all !!, great !!

@toddbyrnes2199

5y↑5

I had this record love the song and it's the first time I seen Alice

@ralphfiligenzi6180

17w

Alice said he did not even remember recording this album because he was so wasted on drugs and alcohol. Jesus Christ REALLY did save him and changed his life. Praise God for his true love for each and every one of us!

@williamcollins8098

13w

A favorite the day it hit the air wave's

@TerminalOverdrive

3y↑15

its like they say "the only thing you need to make a great album is a mountain of cocaine and the first 3 Tubeway Army albums to use as a reference"

@clayjames8934

Shut up idiot

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

😂

@soniascarpitta9944

4y↑5

Amo muito essas músicas, seja Rock, flashbacks, antigas ou MPB antigo!! Essa do Alice Cooper é muito da hora!!!😍

@glennpagemusic

6y↑22

This song used to play at Trader Joes sometimes, like once every few days. Then it suddenly stopped.

Spotify referred me, so I remembered that I love this song. I listened to it a lot in my teens.😍

@alzibert9785

4y↑1

Brings me back to 1977 , when I was 10 , a great time and music !!!!

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

This is from 1980.

@violet.senderhauf2187

2y↑2

I think it would be really cool if we took the best Alice Cooper tribute singers and Got them together to do this song.

@eamonstafford2056

6y↑52

Looks like he graduated from the Keith Richard school of Nutrition

@stevenclubb7718

5y↑1

I'm not sure if we're into his Crack Years, but he spent most of this period strung out and depressed. He was not happy with the move toward a "punk" sound... yeah, I wouldn't call it punk.

@damndirtyape63

4y↑4

@@stevenclubb7718 Those 3 early eighties albums, Flush The Fashion, Special Forces, and Zipper Catches Skin, when he was at the height of his coke addiction were all really good albums. Pretty New Wave-ish, but great songs and always with Alice's dark humor.

@stevenclubb7718

@@damndirtyape63 I enjoy them, but I think that's the first time Alice wasn't doing what he wanted to do and chasing trends which didn't really suit him. He got a lot of crap for the ballads, but he had a sincere love of Burt Bacharach and other crooners. Punk & New Wave seems like a trend he chased only to remain relevant.

@gdavew63

This was when he was a full blown alcoholic too. I met him in Chicago during the summer of 1980, when he played Chicago Fest at Navy Pier. I was 17, and was lucky to get his autograph then. 5 years later, I ran into him and his family at the Adler Planetarium. He was a much different person then, he had gone through rehab since the first time I met him...

@jamesedwardford589

🤗🙈🙈🙈🙈🏵🏵

@JunkerDesigns

5y↑1

One of my Favs

@greggardner2042

31w

Alice in his Mick Mars lookalike status! Great song and album. Highly underrated.

@Rodentrockproductionsmscott

3y↑1

This was the breakthrough for Special Forces. What a great tour that was

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

This is from Flush The Fashion, not Special Forces.

@hiridavidfeign

3y↑11

I saw him on this tour. He commanded the stage. Very fun, kinda scary, show.

@Shikta-poobah67

39w↑1

I saw him on the following tour (Special Forces) in fall ‘81. It was the first time Alice wasn’t playing an arena gig (in my hometown). He played a large nightclub called Cardi’s, and everyone was able to get much closer to the stage than they were previously able to at the big arena gigs. At one point I was close enough to Alice for his sweat to hit me. He was absolutely terrifying to look at. Just looked like a reanimated corpse with hooker makeup and kabuki hair, and was a coked out jittery mess. People in the crowd were looking at each other like “Is he gonna live through this gig?”. It was pretty bad, but at the same time a great show.

@shawnwright5332

Loved flush the fashion album

@BIGROCKER620

6y↑2

Love this. Never heard before. So retro!!!

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

Retro? That’s funny, considering that at the time, he was trying desperately to sound more contemporary by adopting this sound (new wave synths). “Retro” was exactly what he was trying to get away from. Gotta love the irony. 😄

@lolirocket

6y↑25

Anyone else loves the visuals from this video? Very Numan-esque

@johnscottyward4588

6y↑1

Dizzy Dizzy I thought Numan but Numan borrowed from the German Industrial / electronic styles at one time known as Kraut Rock.

@Polacerbic

anyone else get any other impressions of his look? still? haha.

@jamesedwardford589

🤝🤝🤝🙋‍♀️

38w

@@Shikta-poobah67 I don't think I heard a lot in 1980 either (I turned 14 that Summer), but I heard enough on the radio to remember it after about a minute 40 years later. I did like it quite a bit at the time, so I probably heard more than 10 times. Of course, I wrote the comment at the top 3 years ago- it shows up in my playlist about 1 or 2 times month on Youtube, so I have heard it a lot more in the last 3 years.

@kurtrunte

great song from a cool album

@pflick13

So prophetic!

@stzmon

49w

Loved it from the first time I heard on the radio on its release.

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

The first time I heard it was over the p.a. at the Carousel roller rink in Southwest Houston, and I thought it was a new Gary Numan song, until the DJ announced that it was actually a new Alice Cooper song. It was a bit confusing.

@kenni123064

4y↑1

Love this song, and Alice Cooper’s vocals on the LP. On this Official Video he is singing to a TV track but they kept his vocal in and he is singing with it...a bit strange for Alice. I loved this tour and saw him at “The Greek Theatre” thanks to my Dad in 1980 or 81 Bram Tchosky was the opener the month was June!
Thanks to Bernie TAUPIN for “hooking” Alice to Cocaine, later it proved to be almost the “death” of such an iconic performer. There is only one ALICE COOPER..accept no imitations !

@DM-sg3cj

2y↑1

Where did the original video go with the hot closes? Did AC go all PC and remove it?

@timleachman7915

Great song!!!!!!!

@SOBIBORUIDOPRIMITIVOSUDAMERICA

BRUTAL!!!

@andytrail6587

4y↑1

I'm not worthy, love you Alice

@samspina9134

50w

Absolutely love it😊

@Miyano2409

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@Mlotshaw1

He says he doesn't remember recording this , despite being on another planet he nailed some great tracks.

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

Actually it was the album after this one (Special Forces) that he claims to not remember recording, plus the two albums that came after that one.

@rodsmolter5046

such a cool song

@franckjourdan7655

6y↑1

Alice cooper le King tu rock macabre !!! On n'a dort toujours !!!

@TECHNOIR

6y↑11

This is a TV appearance - the performance is certainly live. RHINO - do you have the other video where Alice is dancing like a scarecrow in a junkyard - that's great. Love this tune!

@TECHNOIR

39w

Kind of like how it’s best to forget your empty comment.

@j.r.allencook9007

My go to for Alice Cooper

@haroldfridkis9657

Agreed 👍

@franckjourdan7655

Alice cooper j'adore !!! Une légende du rock macabre !!!! Le King !!!

@billkasperdotcom

Coop FTW!

@chrisarmstrong8210

1y↑1

I'm here after loving the Smashing Pumpkins cover for years and haven't heard this original before! Not a huge fan of Alice, but this really is a great song!

@WendyOWilbury

1y↑1

There are a lot of really great Alice Cooper tunes. 😎 imho

@chrisarmstrong8210

@@WendyOWilburyyou're right, and I've recently started to listen to more and more of it!

@mikeskoog6689

4y↑1

Alice did Flush....Pink Floyd did the Wall. Always felt the wall was supposed to be a Cooper project. My buddies and I use to argue about it back in 1980.....so glad we grew up in that era. Good times, great music.

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

I grew up in the same era you did, but that’s a new one on me.

@mikeskoog6689

38w

@@Shikta-poobah67 The point that Bob Ezrin produced the wall.

@frenchgemini6686

6y↑3

Thank you Alice Cooper. I had a test tube baby all grown up police officer who couldn't answer my question, " Why are you here?" Poor guy. Badge number 211

@andrewoliver3725

4y↑8

"We destroy the government, we destroy time" That is a very good day at the office lyrics wise.

@jason.martin

Alice Coopers new wave phase!

@elliemm557

Forgot about this song until I was visiting 80' alternate new wave site.
I swear, I thought Bowie did this!

@kennethnorman8079

24w

I love when established artists make a "Hail Mary" attempt to reclaim chart success. It may not ever work, but it makes for some interesting listening. And in the case of Neil Young's 'new wave' records, he actually got sued by his record label for doing it.

@JoeyP322

5y↑25

This is what happens when you stop drinking and replace it with cocaine

@jamesedwardford589

🙈🙈🤗🤗

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

Yep. You stop making sappy, loungey, yacht-rock albums that mainly only appeal to Lawrence Welk’s target audience… and ride Gary Numan’s coattails into the next phase (ah, but what a catchy, albeit unoriginal little tune it is).

It’s still light years better than the hair metal bandwagon he jumped on after this.

@68hoffman

those vocals were live :)

@spiderjerusalem8284

6y↑147

Sounds like he took some inspiration from Gary Numan.

@glennpagemusic

6y↑19

Spider Jerusalem Yes, definitely influenced by Numan and the new wave movement.

@cooperminion825

6y↑3

Spider Jerusalem who?

@ronaldfondello3722

6y↑24

also sounds like the Cars!

@gumborific

6y↑19

Bowie, Eno, etc. came first, in all fairness to Gary Numan.

@l.salisbury1253

6y↑24

At this point in his career (1980) Alice was ca$hing on the punk/New Wave scene... which could NOT have existed without him... and Iggy... and Lou Reed... and the NY Dolls...

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@zethraelofteldrassil3149

4y↑9

Never an Alice Cooper fan, but might have been if he had kept his music going in this direction. I like it a lot!

@Shikta-poobah67

39w

I’m a massive Alice Cooper fan, and have been since I first listened to the Billion Dollar Babies album when I was 6 years old (I’m now 55)… but that doesn’t mean I like everything he’s done. There are entire segments of his career that I ignore completely (the ‘86-‘93 metal era being one of them), but Alice is pretty much 50% responsible for establishing my musical tastes as a kid, along with David Bowie.

Having said that, your comment brought back a memory of when the album “DaDa” came out, back in 1983. At the time I thought it was the weirdest thing Alice had ever released (this was before I had thoroughly listened to “Pretties For You”), and since I was getting into stuff like Butthole Surfers and Throbbing Gristle at that particular time, it was perfect (not that DaDa sounded anything like those bands, but the ‘weird factor’ was a good match). Anyway, I was expecting the next album to go even further ‘out there’, but what happened instead was 3 years without a peep out of Alice, and then suddenly “He’s back!”… only he’s been remade as an 80’s hair metal bore. Huge let down in my book.

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