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| Alice Cooper - Freak Out Band: Alice Cooper Tracks: - Painting a Picture - Freak Out Song - Nobody Likes Me - I've Written Home to Mother - C Instrumental - Science Fiction - Goin' to the River - Ain't That Just Like a Woman The "Plan 9 From Outter Space" of rock This is a recording of a 1969 concert in Toronto, and has been (and continues to be) frequently released under different names: "Science Fiction", "Ladies Man", "Nobody LIKE Me", "Nobody LIKES" Me", "Snorting Anthrax", and the list goes on. There are also two studio songs, which are NOT by Alice (as for how they ended up there, that's been a big subject of debate). So when you see a cheap Alice Cooper CD, check the track list because it may very well be another clone of "Freak Out". Alice said that when he and his Band played shows in the early days (sometimes opening up for The Doors), people would walk out before the show was over. Alice's Band was also called "the ones who droke the stake through the Heart of the Love generation." One listen to this album, and you'll see why both are true. It's almost pure noise with just a splash of melody and beat. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that they were completely drunk when they recorded it. Now there is, I suppose, some twisted avant-garde significance to that, which is why I give it 2 stars instead of 1. Frank Zappa (who signed AC to his label) said that there was something special about a Band who could clear a room in 10 minutes. Don't get me wrong -- I am a die-hard Alice Cooper fan, and have every single one of his albums. And yes, I even listen to "Freak Out" once in a while. I Love songs like "Nobody Likes Me", but I would only recommend this album to 1) fans who already have most of his other albums or 2) fans of complete noise. Playing this CD would make the average person run out of the room, covering their ears. I was talking with a friend once about Alice Cooper, and he said he didn't really like him. The reason was he bought this album to check him out, but he "had to return it the next day, because it was so bad." So please, by no means take this CD as being a representation of all Alice is capable of. If you're looking for "School's Out" or "Poison", you'll be totally disappointed. You'll greatly appreciate putting aside a few more dollars to get a CD like "Greatest Hits". Early Cooper I am a distinguished Alice Cooper fan-I have every album ever recorded by Cooper, a substantial amount of merchandise and much more. I enjoy this CD, but I don't recommend it to anybody but Cooper diehards like myself; any general listener will not like it, but any general listener does not realize what this recording is-many of the song titles are wrong. "Freak Out Song" is actually a muddled Live version of the early Cooper song, with his group the Spiders, "Don't Blow Your Mind"! Although this album has admittedly been over-released-an astronomical amount of releases all over the world-it is most likely because the material is in public domain, is inexpensive to release, or something of that nature. These recordings may be difficult to listen to, but they are valuable. I do wish, though, that release of this recording would stop-people buy this album and then Spread a biased opinon of Cooper based on just one recording-from 1969, before Cooper had even released an album, recorded over thirty years ago with minimal sound quality in a large Canadian stadium-people should take the many elements of this recording into consideration before dissing it. If you are a Cooper collector/completist, do not get a CD or cassette of this album-I reccomend a vinyl release of it. I hope some people will read this review and think differently. A Bad Bootleg This is a bootleg recording of a 1969 show in Toronto. This collection is available under many, many different names including, Science Fiction, Freak Out, Freak Out Song, Painting a Picture, etc., all of which are available from Amazon. The last two songs "Going to the River" and "Ain't That Just Like A Woman" ARE NOT Alice Cooper songs, nor are they performed by Alice Cooper. (You can confirm that with Alice's assistent, Brian "Renfield" Nelson.) This is a very poor album. Save your money. Buy Alice Cooper Freak Out at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
