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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Eagle Music Europe
Salesrank: 249803
Released: July 18, 2000 |
| Our Price: $13.23 |
| Used Price: $9.66 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Brutal Planet Track Listing:
1. Brutal Planet
2. Wicked Young Man
3. Sanctuary
4. Blow Me a Kiss
5. Eat Some More
6. Pick up the Bones
7. Pessi-Mystic
8. Gimme
9. It's the Little Things
10. Take It Like a Woman
11. Cold Machines
Editorial Review:
Limited edition version of the original shock rocker's 2000 album with an enhanceed screensaver. Produced by Bob Ma rlette (Union, Alice In Chains) and executive produced by Bob Ezrin (the Wall, Dark Side Of The Moon, Kiss Destroyer, and Welcome To My Nightmare). Tracks include 'Blow Me A Kiss', 'Pick Up The Bones', and 'Take It Like A Woman'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Brutal Planet Reviews:
Alice Cooper 
2007-05-31 - Alice Cooper's Brutal Planet is cutting edge Cooper. My son and I both bought a copy and we listen to it ALOT!! It is probably my favorite Cooper, I like it better than Dirty Diamonds, which was newer, but not so much the Cooper style that I enjoy so much. For the all-time Cooper fan, no collection is complete without Brutal Planet.
Raw, right between the eyes 
2007-03-10 - What on earth did this come from. Like some sort of cheese off dinosaur of heavy rock, AC comes out of the 90's and into the new century like some sort of Jurassic Park denizen eating the little bands for breakfast.
While some may decry the nu-metal tinge to this album I can only applaud the desire to stay current, to take the desired pieces of modern metal and weld them to the AC shock rock template. This Bob Marlotte produced album uses lots of shiny technology to take pummeling riffery circa '00 and allowing it full partnership with Alices' vocals in the mix. And the vox here match the music, taut and delivered with real punch. Just take a listen to the title track or it's follow up - Wicked Young Man. It will give you a very good idea of what this album is about. And the lyrics are as cold as the battle hardened music, Alice really showing the young pups like Jonathon Davis how your supposed to write shock rock lyrics.
A few tunes don't quite achieve total success - Eat Some More and Pick Up the Bones may not float your boat, but such is the single mided drive of the album as a whole you can forgive the odd bit of clunkiness.
This album is Alice rejuvenated, like a guy kickstarted by a lightning bolt and he's evidently decided (as of 2000) that he has no interest in becoming a heritage act just yet and wants to continue expanding his catalogue in a meaningful way as a working rock act.
Recommended.
Classic Alice album
2001-04-23 - The sequel to The Last Temptaiton took a long time getting here. It's sci-fi theme is reflected very much in it's metalish sound. But make no mistake, it's the same music Alice has always done, just heavier. The album starts off bleak and depressing, rather typical of Alice's earlier works, but rather than the nightmares of fantasy he used to delve into, this new nightmare is all the more real. Songs about nazism and killing your school pals are just as dark as songs from Welcome To My Nightmare about deflowering the children and having sex with dead bodies. The difference being on those albums, the songs weren't nasty until you really thought about them. Here however, I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable singing along to a song about reading 'meine kampf daily just to keep my hatred fead'. Thing is, where most bands moan about the state of the world, Alice doesn't. He doesn't try to change your mind about things, or provoke a reaction, he just tells it like it is, which is what makes it so disturbing. He accepts it, never for a minute moaning about the dead children in Pick Up The Bones. It shows almost a complaicancy for death and the apocalyse, why oh why do we enjoy this stuff so much? lol. Perhaps the fact that the riffs here are more solid than anything he's done of late, and the concept of the album shines through brilliantly keeping the whole album sounding pretty much the same throughout. The only bad part I'd say is Cold Machines where Alice does foray into nu-metal territory a little and there is not one guitar solo. I think thats the only album you could describe as filler though. Other than that, every song is great, not lettin down for a second. It's just a...cool album, classic Alice has finally returned ! Top cuts - Brutal Planet, Wicked Young Man, Pick Up The Bones, Blow Me A Kiss, Take It Like A Woman, Pessi-mystic
Alice's best CD for ages!
2000-06-25 - I ordered this CD purely due to withdrawal symptoms - I had not heard a decent Alice Cooper for nearly a decade (i.e. Hey Stoopid, or maybe Trash. Classicks doesn't count). Acutally, I first heard it on Alice's official website - they have the whole title track to download in mp3 format. I was just blown away the first time I heard it! So quickly, I bought the CD, hoping that the other tracks were just as good. I put it in my stereo, and put it on, starting with track 2 as I had allready heard the first one. I could tell from the very first guitar notes that this song was going to be a good one. However, nothing could prepare me for what was to come - a thoughtful, violent song about nazis (or nazi followers, anyway), with a strong rhythm and excellent chord changes.
It seems that Cooper is tending towards more british-sounding songs. Anyone who has heard some of his latest songs (e.g. the one that was on the X-files soundtrack CD) will know what I mean. This is not a bad thing as it brings a more hard, gritty edge to the music, and makes it seem more fresh and new.
Cooper even throws in a couple of ballads, with "take it like a woman" being one of my favourite Alice Cooper songs YET. These sound great, and compliment the harder, more loud songs brilliantly.
I have introduced 2 people to Alice Cooper just by letting them listen to the title mp3 (before I bought the album) and both of them loved it. That's how good it is!
If this is the european import ( i'm not sure if it is or not) then it comes with a limited edition poster and screensaver. That is the reason I have not given it 5 stars - the screen saver is utterly pathetic, as it is just a slideshow of 3 different pictures. The poster is excellent, though.
All in all an essential purchase for Alice fans, and even for people who are interested in this type of music and want to start a decent CD collection.
Well done Alice!
Alice Cooper Brutal Planet
2000-06-25 - I loved this CD not only becasuse I am a big Alice Cooper fan, But because it is truly a work of art. Alice shows that it dosen't matter how old you are you can still rock! On this CD he dosen't have the typical Horror movie lyrics most people know him for. Instead he has made songs that talk about world hunger and everyday life. With some Alice Cooper twists of course. It has some of the same type of rock he used on the CD Hey Stoopid with a more 90's approach. A great CD that any Alice fan should own and any fan of good rock music.
