So I didn’t con my way into a gig working with an animator. All I could do was get out my Acme catalog and cook up another scheme, preferably something involving rocket […]
Deep Cuts: Cartoon Songs
From Robbo’s Stacks: Alice Cooper – Love It to Death
“No filler.” If not for these two words Alice Cooper may have just disappeared. After striking out with two unsuccessful albums, their third attempt was their last chance at bat. The Beatles […]
Alice Cooper, Jacksonville, 10/29/13
By: Robbo Halloween came two days early. Just after 8pm the lights went down at the Florida Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida, and then through a rain of fire emerged the master. This […]
From Robbo’s Stacks: Alice Cooper — Easy Action
Easy Action is the second album by the original Alice Cooper band on Frank Zappa’s Straight Records label. It was released just over seven months after their first, Pretties for You. Not […]
Deep Cuts: Alice Cooper’s Halloween Candy
This week’s “Deep Cuts” brought to you by resident WIM Alice Cooper historian Robbo, who in his day won many a Halloween contest with his Alice costume. It was a great costume, […]
From Robbo’s Stacks: Alice Cooper — Pretties for You
I hope that this becomes becomes a regular WIM feature. Robbo is a good friend from my art school and record store days, and he has a killer record collection. He’s also […]
From the Stacks: Alice Cooper – School’s Out
Another classic Alice Cooper package, this one from 1972. You all know the title tune, but the one that really weirded me out as a kid was “Gutter Cat vs. the Jets,” […]
From the Stacks: Alice Cooper – From the Inside
I know I’m going to get grief on this one, but Alice Cooper’s 1978 From the Inside is my vote for Cooper’s masterpiece.
Return of From the Stacks: More Alice Cooper – Muscle of Love
This is a first for me, but Robbo left a comment that was so much better than what I had to say about the original Alice Cooper band’s last album that I […]
From the Stacks: Alice Cooper – Muscle of Love
This was my very first Alice Cooper album, purchased around age ten or so at the Record Bar in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Two very simple considerations factored into this purchase:
Why It Matters 