Welcome to My Nightmare

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  The Music Slut Committee

  Steve

  "Alice Cooper is a theatrical mastermind. The scenes he creates with his lyrics and music on this album for me is unmatched. We have a number of different types of songs that keep the album interesting and the songs so not blend together. I feel the album is very well paced. One thing I love about Alice is his sense of humor, it is very much showcased on his early records with the Alice Cooper Band, but in a song like Cold Ethyl, he uses that dark humor to make a very fun song that is very disturbing if you took it at face Value. Not sure if you caught it, Ethyl’s dead. But even the little Donnie Osmond joke at the end of Department of Youth, just adds to his charm. One the other hand his lyrics get you deeply into the story that is being presented. You feel this horror and wickedness in The Black Widow. The eeriness was of Years Ago and The Awakening. The desperation in Only Women Bleed.

  Bob Ezrin, who worked with the Alice Cooper band and later KISS, and Pink Floyd. Really adds to this dream like atmosphere with his arrangement of songs like Nightmare, Steven and Only Women Bleed. But there is something about of this album was mixed and engineered that just never sat right with him. The early Alice Stuff has all the instruments sit very well into the mix, even on a bombastic song like Elected on Billion Dollar Babies. And there is a very smooth production and mix on The Wall, and The Division Bell. I feel the mix is very rough and unpolished, this is also how I feel about Kiss’ Destroyer (Detroit Rock City excluded, that sounds mega) but the production elements in Beth and Only women Bleed def are DATED and feel like they focus on the wrong placements. All that aside, I think a remix / remaster would really help with record shine, all the parts are there, it’s just having them sit right. I am not sure if you guys have felt that with other albums you love." - Zach