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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Bros UK
Salesrank: 70544
Released: January 1, 1992 |
| Our Price: $6.56 |
| Used Price: $6.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Dada Track Listing:
1. DaDa
2. Enough's Enough
3. Former Lee Warmer
4. No Man's Land
5. Dyslexia
6. Scarlet And Sheba
7. I Love America
8. Fresh Blood
9. Pass The Gun Around
Editorial Review:
Cooper's 1983 album for Warner Brothers. Contains nine tracks, including 'Da Da', 'Enough's Enough' and 'No Man's Land'.
Dada Reviews:
The last album from the lost weekend of Alice. 
2009-07-04 - After completing "Dada," Alice finally confronted his demon of alcoholism and stayed sober for almost 26 years. Alice has admitted that "Dada" is his darkest album and that he does not listen to it at night, alone in a home. "Along Came a Spider" mimics the opening of "Dada." The music was more computer generated and rather jazzy, undermining "Dada's" serious tone.
Surprisngly awesome. 
2009-04-28 - I've been a casual fan of Alice Cooper's since the early/mid '80's. I've had some of his more well known albums on cassette for years, and have heard pretty much all of his albums someway or another. Except this one. I recently went hog-wild and bought all 22 Alice Cooper studio albums that I did not have, and this one surprised me more than any of them. For one, you hardly ever hear this album mentioned at all, which made me think it wasn't good. Also, I saw that no drums were on the album, that most of the percussion was done with a computer, I immediately thought it would suck. Man, was I wrong! This is one of the best Cooper albums out there. Full of his twisted lyrics, but also sentimental and touching ones as well. The album literally blew me away, and I recommend it to any of Alice's fans who haven;t took the plunge yet.
Good but not his best 
2009-03-09 - Anyone else notice the subliminal optical illusion in the artwork on the front cover of this album? If you look/stare at it closely enough, you`ll notice that the artwork is actually a picture of a face. Alice`s 2 heads in the artwork are the eyes of the face and the white bit on the bottom left corner is the person`s shoulder.
alice entering the mid 80's
2008-12-28 - This is where some obvious signs Alice Cooper was starting to slip truly begin. The songwriting, while mostly good, has some obvious points where the writing feels a bit lazy, and gives off a feeling Alice didn't have enough ideas at the time so he just stretched out some songs longer than they should have been and hope it worked. There are also some straight up goofy moments, such as "I Love America". What is THAT?
The title song has a creepy atmosphere, but it's not really THAT great. At least, not as good as the stuff Iron Maiden was doing at the time. It's alright though. A really good pop song is "Enough's Enough". I love that one, and I also really like the eerie vocals in "Former Lee Warmer". That song has a vibe similar to the closing song called "Pass the Gun Around", and both songs are really excellent to me. "No Man's Land" is another good one.
I think the biggest problem with the album is how it just sounds stuck in the mid 80's. That is one of the things that has come back to haunt many musicians because now many 80's albums sound artificial. The songwriting on Dada is pretty good though, and honestly a step above most other hard rock bands at the time, so the album is still worth a purchase. Just don't expect perfection.
One of the strangest,
2008-10-09 - if not the strangest album I've ever heard. DaDa came around during Alice's second alcohol addiction. So from 1980-1983, he released 4 albums he doesn't even remember making. Flush the Fashion (80) Zipper Catches Skin (81) Special Forces (82) and DaDa(83). Out of that bunch he decided DaDa was his favorite. This being the late 80's of course, after DaDa, he finally quit drinking and has to this day. It's a strange story, with some funny interludes. The main story is about Former Lee Warner, an old cannibal. He's forced to stay in the house attic, but the brother must get him food-"Fresh Blood". "All the neighbors, never see me, but they wonder why I walk around at night. He gets hungry, I go hunting, down the moonlit streets for somebody that's right." Now the short side stories, Enough's Enough, Dyslexia, I love America, are some of the funniest tunes ever to be recorded. Especially those last two, I can't stop laughing. Then there's "Pass the Gun Around" a very upbeat, screwed up song about Russian Rouillete (is that how you spell it?) Well, this is a great album nonetheless, and you should get it now, despite the price-you can get it for almost $12 from other Amazon merchants. They're the only ones who have it, DaDa in my opinion, is the hardest to get.
