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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 89808
Released: October 25, 1990 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Alice Cooper Show Track Listing:
1. Under My Wheels
2. I'm Eighteen
3. Only Women Bleed
4. Sick Things
5. Is It My Body
6. I Never Cry
7. Billion Dollar Babies
8. Devil's Food/The Black Widow
9. You and Me
10. I Love the Dead/Go to Hell/Wish You Were Here
11. School's Out
The Alice Cooper Show Reviews:
the alice cooper show 
2009-08-13 - even after 35 years die-hard alice fans are still upset over the break-up of the original alice cooper group. while we all hold our breath for a long overdue reunion, we can take comfort in the fact that @61, alice still performs most of his classics on tour and with each new studio release proves that he at least still has a sense of humor.
in the 70's, an alice cooper live show was the ultimate concert experience. it was also the decade of the live double album, which is what makes this live offering from alice such a major disappointment. it's simply too damn short and too many classics are missing. recorded in response to pressure from warner brothers, this album actually came from two shows performed in las vegas after the "lace and whiskey" tour, billed as "the king of the silver screen" had essentially wrapped. if you held a special two evening event to record from, why in the world would you not perform two sets of mixed material to make sure you had enough for a double album? or at the very least include the entire show.
"the king of the silver screen" set list: under my wheels/billion dollar babies/i'm eighteen/sick things/is it my body/devil's food/the black widow/you and me/only women bleed/unfinished sweet/escape/i love the dead/go to hell/wish you were here/i never cry/it's hot tonight/lace and whiskey/king of the silver screen/school's out - 19 songs w/medley (i attended this tour and still count it as one of the best concerts i have ever seen)
"the alice cooper show" set list: under my wheels/i'm eighteen/only women bleed/sick things/is it my body/i never cry/billion dollar babies/devil's food/the black widow/you and me/i love the dead/go to hell/wish you were here/school's out - 14 songs w/medley
despite the mixed feelings about kiss "alive" once the studio overdubs became public knowledge, it was a great live album. clearly alice's main competition at the time, his live album should have at least matched, if not exceeded theirs. even rush had a better live album than alice. adding insult to injury, the artwork for the album was severely lacking considering what it could have been.
alice's first official live album should have been released with the alice cooper group, same as black sabbath's first should have been released with ozzy instead of dio. since it wasn't, be sure to check out the live disc of the original band released with the re-mastered "billion dollar babies" album, as well as, the far superior "a fistful of alice" from 1996. of course the best way to experience alice live is in concert. ***music / ** artwork
espectacular 
2009-05-09 - hay algo mejor que un concierto de alice? me hubiera gustado algo mas agresivo, pero para comprender los 70's es verdaderamente un testimonio agradable...recomendable para el que quiera olvidarse de sus sufrimientos
More fluff then filler 
2008-12-22 - The problem with this album is: 1) it's way to short. Most of the songs were cut, and/or edited for the recording of this album. It seems like they were trying to get as many songs in as they could, without having to make this a double length album, which is what it should have been. and 2) the sound quality is minimal. it is very thin with virtually little range. Reminds me of listening to online stations at 56k.
This album could have been so much more but it seems to have been either hastly put together or very little was spent on the engineering of it. I've had this album it came out, and I still am very disappointed every time I revisit it.
What a rip off 
2008-05-24 - This might be one of the more unusual reviews you'll read. I don't have this CD, but a friend of mine let me borrow it because he was impressed by the guitar work. Well, it wasn't anything that great to me--not bad--but not something you would purchase the CD for. The sound quality, for one, isn't that good at all. What's especially annoying, though, is that half of these songs are, well, half of these songs!
I mean, the medley of I Love the Dead/Go to Hell/Wish You Were Here clocks in at 6:31, as opposed to playing all three songs in full, which would be about 15 minutes. Fine, lots of bands do medleys on live albums this way, but what about "I Never Cry" chopped down to under three minutes?
Or, even worse, "School's Out" missing a verse and chorus, bringing a 3:30 song to 2:19! "You and Me", a five minute song in its entirety, also 2:19.
Again, this is probably something you won't see in many reviews, but it's significant, because it makes it seem like he's just trying to rush through these songs and just get them overwith. It's like those K-Tel albums from the mid 70s where all the songs were edited into bite-size 2-minute bits.
The other problem is that the album as a whole is only about 40 minutes. Come on, even if you don't want to put a double live out there, you could at least release something that's 45-50 minutes and, even on vinyl, the sound quality would not really suffer. I think most fans would have preferred a double album, though. Who goes to a concert that's 40 minutes long? And how many classics are missing from this album, too?
This reeks of contractual obligation.
Alice's best band
2007-09-05 - If you're like me, this album appeals to you because of The twin lead guitars of Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter. The standout number is EIGHTEEN, the definitive version thanks to the soaring, dramatic guitar solos of the previously mentioned virtuosos. If you really want to experience Alice Cooper with this, his best band, buy the DVD of WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE recorded live in England back in '75. Hunter and Wagner get to stretch their legs more plus you get the whole visual aspect of Alice's theatrical performance.
