{"id":525,"date":"2011-09-17T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T10:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=525"},"modified":"2014-02-12T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:05:23","slug":"welcome-2-my-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Welcome 2 My Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Alice Cooper 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/media.musicfeeds.com.au\/files\/6384e2b2184bcbf58eccf10ca7a6563c2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alice is going back to the future with his latest album a sequel to his 1975 concept album <a title=\"Welcome to My Nightmare\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welcome_to_My_Nightmare\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to My Nightmare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A lot has changed in the last 35 years, Alice as much as anything. Constantly evolving as musical tastes change, so a reprise of an earlier album was going to be interesting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xSfedfuVATE\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alice&#8217;s alter-ego Steven gets another outing, with his haunting piano theme introducing the album and his rythmic muttering on &#8220;The Nightmare returns&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caffine&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll Bite Your Face Off&#8221; are typical Alice crowd pleasers, I&#8217;m guessing the latter will become a staple of the live shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Last Man On Earth&#8221;, is a strutting top hat and cane song in the same ilk as &#8220;Some Things&#8221; whilst &#8220;The Congregation&#8221; has a touch of Ozzy Osbourne vocal and Marilyn Manson beat about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever&#8221; somehow reminds me of Lordi while also managing to be completely different from anything that they&#8217;ve done, followed by &#8220;Ghouls Gone Wild&#8221; a Lordi song title if ever I heard one which turns out to be homage to Alice&#8217;s surf-song origins (With maybe a touch of <a title=\"Weird Al\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weirdal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weird Al<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, this album is &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221; of songs he&#8217;s never written before. Each song somehow harkening back to an earlier incarnation of everybody&#8217;s favourite anti-hero, whilst still being new and fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, all the elements are there but it just doesn&#8217;t quite gel with me yet. Not to say that this won&#8217;t become a favourite, but like quite a few of Alice&#8217;s albums it takes a while for them to mature like a fine wine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=randomjottings-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B005F908W6\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice is going back to the future with his latest album a sequel to his 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. 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