ALICE COOPER
WINNIPEG STREET TEAM

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Alice Cooper
Dirty Diamonds
Release date: August 2, 2005
After 30 albums and some of the most famous rock songs ever recorded, you'd think Alice Coopers demons would've been conquered by nowone maybe locked in a cage and fed undercooked meat. But the man who changed the course of rock music in the 70s with bloody guillotines, sparking electric chairs, slimy boa constrictors, and a little blood and eyeliner still has more to slay in 2005. Alice Cooper is master at re-inventing himself, shedding his skin like one of his snakes to become everything from a mascaraed grave robber to a leather-wrapped street hooligan, a film nor detective, insane asylum honor student, and nihilistic dada-ist. 2003s Eyes of Alice Cooper saw another of these shape-shifts, grinding musical gears with back-to-basics garage rock. Wrapping his famous sneer/snarl around a fistful of power chords, Alicelean and meanpumped the adrenaline to toxic levels. With the release of Dirty Diamonds, Coop is back in even finer form, promising more thrills, chills and doctor bills.
Dirty Diamonds sounds like Eyes of Alice Cooper with more polish on it, says Alice. On Eyes I wouldn't allow the band to do overdubs. We did everything in the studio: write, record it and put it to bed. I don't want a Queen album or a Def Leppard album thats perfectly recorded. They're terrific, you cant knock those albums, but thats not the sound I'm looking for. I'd much rather have the sound of an early Stones album. And thats exactly what Dirty Diamonds is a nod to the British Invasion past while acknowledging the Nu-rock White Stripes/Jet present. Guitars and solos are strip-searched of effects, giving sharp bite to songs like Woman of Mass Distraction, a smokers cough sheen to Your Own Worst Enemy and testosterone feistiness of Steal That Car. This whole album takes you in a lot of different directions, he says, yet it still really sounds like an Alice album. His road map this time takes you through glam-trash [Dirty Diamonds], last call blues [Six Hours], all-purpose punk [Steal That Car], country & western [Saga of Jesse Jane], New Orleans swampy mugginess [Zombie Dance], and undiluted south-of-the-belt-buckle, Stones hard rock [Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)].
And theres no shortage of razor-tongued, phrase twisting like his famous black eyes, another Alice plot device. In Run Down The Devil, when he catches Satan (the ultimate road kill) in his headlights, he promises to take him to the Mercury grill and kick his future up his past. He even punks Chihuahua-toting Paris Hilton types in Sunset Babies with the line, I'd buy her a diamond collar, if shed only throw me a bone. The art of the lyric is something I spend all my time on, says Alice. I love the idea that a song will throw a lyrical curve at you or at least make you go, thats an Alice lyric. I learned to write lyrics from listening to Chuck Berry who is maybe the best rock lyricist. I always said an Alice lyric should always be a cut above everyone else when it comes to clever. If I can make myself laugh, then I know its a good lyric. A prime example comes in the form of a country western ballad, The Saga of Jesse Jane, whose cross-dressing main character finds himself jailed in a Texas town in my sisters wedding gown. The song asks, Are you just a normal guy who dresses like a butterfly? I say we should release that to country & western radio and not tell anybody who its from. [laughs] I tried to make it sound like Johnny Cash. I can hear this playing in a truck stop jukebox. The idea that it has clever lyrics shouldn't take away from the fact that the song is actually a catchy number.
Of the many standout tracks, Alice professes fondness for the song, Perfect. While its middle-finger guitar riff and lyrical swagger points a straight line back to Love It To Death and Be My Lover, Alice says it has more in common with Meet The Beatles. I just absolutely pride myself on that song. Wouldn't it be great to be able to write I Saw Her Standing There or You're Gonna Lose That Girl? Any three-minute Beatles song. I finally wrote something I feel could've been a Beatles song at one point, even if it was a Beatles song they would've thrown away.
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