ALICE COOPER Goes To Hell hails from 2018 and is
a SEALED limited edition Orange Vinyl LP issued for Rocktober (blackened UPC). Following the success of his first solo
album, Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper followed it up with another
concept album, Goes to Hell, similar in style to its predecessor. Again,
longtime Alice producer Bob Ezrin was on board, and
while there are a few highlights, Goes to Hell signaled an Alice era
where he pretty much forsook the raw garage rock of his early days (Killer, School's Out) in favor of polished
studio glitz. That said, the title track is worthy of any headbanger's time
(and remains one of Cooper's most overlooked rock tunes), while "I Never Cry"
was another Alice ballad that found a place near the top of the charts. Other
highlights include such tracks as the disco-rock-boogie of "You Gotta
Dance" and the laid-back yet sinister funk groove of "I'm the
Coolest." Elsewhere, the musical experiments aren't as successful -- the
old-time sounds of "Give the Kid a Break," "I'm Always Chasing
Rainbows," and the album-closing "Going Home" are about as far
removed from the expected hard-rocking AC direction as you can get. And while
the rocker "Wish You Were Here" would become a late-'70s concert
standard for the Coop, the original studio version lacks the firepower the song
achieved on the stage. Alice was supposed to follow up the album's release with
another highly theatrical stage show (following the cue of his first solo tour
in 1975), but an illness squashed the tour altogether. Despite its missteps,
the gold-certified Goes to Hell would prove to be
Alice's most commercially successful solo album for quite some time.
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