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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Bros UK
Salesrank: 13838
Released: January 1, 1992 |
| Our Price: $6.69 |
| Used Price: $7.47 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Zipper Catches Skin Track Listing:
1. Zorro's Ascent
2. Make That Money (Scrooge's Song)
3. I Am the Future [From Class of '84]
4. No Baloney Homosapiens
5. Adaptable (Anything for You)
6. I Like Girls
7. Remarkably Insincere
8. Tag, You're It
9. I Better Be Good
10. I'm Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned to Save My Life)
Editorial Review:
1982 album for Warner Brothers. 10 tracks, including 'Zorro's Ascent', 'Tag, You're It' and 'I Like Girls'.
Zipper Catches Skin Reviews:
Perfect Cooper. 
2009-04-27 - In my opinion, Alice has always been at his best when he injects huge amounts of dark humor into his songs. Also, I tend to like the songs that tell full stories instead of the songs that are more written like poems. This album is beginning to end both funny and full of Alice being a sort of bard weaving one insane story after another. A must own.
Great Album! 
2009-01-10 - I first heard some of these songs on the movie Class of 1984(i think thats the name of it).Cool 80's movie,and I was a fan of Alice Cooper.I think this is great album.Alice is always about having fun with his music.A must have for any Alice fan.
Zipper Catches Skin 
2008-10-16 - Alice Cooper-Zipper Catches Skin **1/2
The way I look at most of Alice Coopers releases from the early to mid 1980's is the same way I look at Iggy Pop's work form the same time period. None of it is really horrible (at least not completely) but none of it is really great. They both seem to have like the whole new wave thing and wanted to join in on it. It didn't work out well for either of them. But what blows my mind is they were maybe the two most original front men in the history of rock n' roll and yet they wanted to do something...bad..? because lets be honest they must have been the only ones who thought the genre was going to last because once it stopped they both kept making new wave music.
'Zorro's Ascent' 'No Baloney Homosapiens' 'I Like Girls' and 'Tag, Your It' are all decent rock tracks. They have typical Cooper charm in the lyrics. Especially 'No Baloney...' but none of them are worthy of the Alice Cooper name. Though 'Remarkably Insencire' is a real gem.
The rest of the album feels trite and boring, not to mention that Cooper sounds like he is bored with the music. The production for one thing is horrendous.
While not too bad and not a total waste of your money, Zipper Catches Skin is not an album worth hunting down. IF you happen to come across it yeah it makes a cool snag, but ditch the high hopes for this one.
Misunderstood = Underrated & Hated
2007-11-30 - I own nearly all of Alice Cooper's 30 or so albums, and I don't regret a single purchase. That said, I don't see where this album is more inconsistent than "Goes To Hell", "Lace and Whiskey", "Dada", "Raise Your Fist and Yell" or the variety-show type albums that "Eyes" and "Dirty Diamonds" are. Furthermore, I don't see where consistency is necessary in an album. We're talking about art, which in its truest form is something that comes from inside the artist - not the excrement of "J. Evans Pritchard PhD." teachings talked about in "Dead Poet's Society", a movie I highly recommend. It should be understood that this album is not only a rock and roll album, which makes it part of a realm that innately ignores rules and convention anyway, but it is also definitely NOT a mainstream album even in the rock realm - especially considering how unconventional the artist is and always has been to begin with. Therefore, freaks of following the mainstream need not buy. However, those of you that are more adventurous, value artistic unconventionality (in other words - true creativity), enjoy humorous story-telling music, and/or appreciate Alice Cooper's unique singing style or lyrics regardless of whether they're about horror or not, should give this a listen.
Musically, "Zipper Catches Skin" is all rock, not that hard and not that soft, and most of the songs generally carry a fast-paced, high-energy rhythm. Then add to that what I think should be considered to be the most expressive, mischievous voice ever heard in rock and great lyrics that are some of Alice's most novel. (You can, of course, check them out by googling and going to lyrics sites.)
"Zipper Catches Skin" is one of my top favorites of all of Alice's albums, and I've heard them all. This one stands out to me because it not only projects a witty, teasing playfulness in about all of its songs, but some of it gets daringly personal with Alice just good-humoredly recreating the humiliation that we all inevitably face at times when we do things that we know or believe aren't accepted by others. With this album, Alice has brought a bumbling sort of Casanova character to my mind, which I've found very sexy as well as humorous. The one serious song on this early 80's album employs a "power ballad" music format that seemed to be a forerunner of many of its kind. It's the introspective "I Am the Future". Though this song is sobering compared to the rest of the album, I find it very admirable as well. Like he personified pain in a song on his "Flush the Fashion" album, Alice embodies the future in this song. In both cases, he attempts to help us consider and deal with those things that we often fear but must invariably confront. However, with "I Am the Future", as with a number of his other songs on various albums including this album's "Tag, You're It", Alice uses his wonderful talent of creating a dual impression (like the faces or vase image) and gives even this scary song an amusing side. This can be seen when reversing his embodiment of the future with regards to Alice's often impishly arrogant, endearing character, who would sing such things about himself - "I am the future. How do you like what you see? Take a look at my face. . . The world belongs to me. It's all mine!" But what a truthful statement of how we have all at least partly felt, deep inside, at one time or another.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM!
2007-09-06 - If you are an Alice Cooper fan this album is a MUST have. The stand out track other people are talking about "I Am The Future" I don't beleive was written by Alice, just performed by. It's the theme song for the movie "Class Of 1984." It's a great track for an really cool cult film (Featuring Michael Fox, before he put the J. in his name). The rest of the album pretty much rocks. If you get Alice's sense of humor, you'll really love the wordplay on this entire album. If your not such an Alice fan, or looking for something that sounds more like the original Alice Cooper Band, then maybe you should pass.
