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| Alice Cooper - Lace and Whiskey Band: Alice Cooper Tracks: - It's Hot Tonight - Lace and Whiskey - Road Rats - Damned If You Do - You and Me - King of the Silver Screen - Ubangi Stomp - (No More) Love at Your Convenience - I Never Wrote Those Songs - My God Watching the Detectives...Don't get Cute Something went very wrong after "Welcome To My Nightmare." After the story of Steven and his trips into Bad Dream Land, Alice came up with a new character, Detective Maurice Escargot. The joke is partly ironic, since the album is something of a slug. "Lace And Whiskey" kicks off with Promise and deteriorates fast. "Road Rats" deserves its place in the canon of great Alice songs, but "No More Love At Your Convenience" was a bad Call in the period when "disco sucks" was a rally cry for dissatisfied rockers. "You and Me" was Alice's biggest ballad hit single to date, but "Ubangi Stomp" was atrocious rockabilly. It was like he was trying so hard to be a diferent person that the album loses continuity, and ultimately, focus. Somehow, Alice forgot that the most important character in any Alice Cooper album was Alice Cooper. He bounced back from this album, but it's really the least notable disc of his seventies output. Detective - Alice First of all I must say that this album is NOT the best album of his solo-era in the 70's (75-78)-quite the opposite. It's more near 3 stars than 5 stars but it's still a really good album with a lot of great songs. The sound is actually stangly heavy and rough on this for an alice album. The guitar-sound on "It's hot tonight" sounds almost like the guitarsound of Black Sabbath. There are a few songs that's kind of weak and just pass you by but there are also a lot of interesting songs like always from the albums of this era. The slow songs "You and Me" and "I never wrote these songs" are really great. "My God" is a great last-song with a huge sounding organ. A bit under-rated and forgotten Alice record that most of his fans, at least here, seems to consider just Fair and ok, but not more than that. But Lace & Whiskey has the great variation, adventures music-landscapes and different moods that marks out a master alice record even if he doesn't pull it off quite as well here as on "From the Inside" and "Welcome to my nightmare". But this is a must for hardcore Alice-fan. Alice Cooper is: Maurice Escargot. Proof that no matter how drunk Alice Cooper got, he was still capable of putting out a better album than most bands at the time. There are a few songs I frequenty skip, but there a plenty I can't Live without. "It's Hot Tonight," "Lace and Whiskey," "You and Me," "(No More) Love At Your Convenience," and "I Never Wrote Those Songs" are Alice items that shouldn't be missed. The worst thing about this disc is the poor quality. "Road Rats" on the box set sounds like a different song. Every track should be given the same justice. Especially "My God," one of Alice's all time forgotten gems. Not regarded as one of Alice's best, but it's so much more than an interesting find. It's too bad the stage will never see Alice as private eye Maurice Escargot again... Buy Alice Cooper Lace And Whiskey at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
