Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (1975) (DVD-Audio ISO) [2001]

With the 1974 disintegration of the original Alice Cooper group, Alice was free to launch a solo career. He wisely decided to re-enlist the services of Bob Ezrin for his solo debut, Welcome to My Nightmare, which was a concept album tied into the story line of the highly theatrical concert tour he launched soon after the album's release. While the music lost most of the gritty edge of the original AC lineup, Welcome to My Nightmare remains Alice's best solo effort – while some tracks stray from his expected hard rock direction, there's plenty of fist-pumping rock to go around. The disco-flavored, album-opening title track would be reworked on the stage as more of a hard rock tune, while "Some Folks" dips into cabaret territory, and "Only Women Bleed" is a sensitive ballad that became a Top Ten hit. But the rockers serve as the album's foundation – "Devil's Food," "The Black Widow," "Department of Youth," and "Cold Ethyl" are all standouts, as is the more tranquil yet eerie epic "Steven." Despite this promising start to Cooper's solo career, the majority of his subsequent releases were often not as focused and were of varying quality.


Track listing

1. "Welcome to My Nightmare" (Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner) – 5:19
2. "Devil's Food" (Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Kelley Jay) – 3:38
3. "The Black Widow" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 3:37
4. "Some Folks" (Cooper, Ezrin, Alan Gordon) – 4:19
5. "Only Women Bleed" (Cooper, Wagner) – 5:49
6. "Department of Youth" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 3:18
7. "Cold Ethyl" (Cooper, Ezrin) – 2:51
8. "Years Ago" (Cooper, Wagner) – 2:51
9. "Steven" (Cooper, Ezrin) – 5:52
10. "The Awakening" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 2:25
11. "Escape" (Cooper, Mark Anthony, Kim Fowley) – 3:20




Personnel:

Alice Cooper - Vocals
Bob Ezrin - Synthesizer, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Fender Rhodes, Remixing, Mixing, Remix Producer
Vincent Price - Special Effects, Vocals
Dick Wagner - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Steve Hunter - Electric and Acoustic Guitar
Josef Chirowski - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Clavinet, Fender Rhodes
Prakash John - Bass
Tony Levin - Bass
Pentti "Whitey" Glan - Drums
Johnny "Bee" Badanjek - Drums



Special Features:

Video Interview with Alice Cooper & Producer Bob Ezrin on the making of the album
Lyrics
Photo Gallery