Year : 1994 (Bad Reputation Records Edition 2021)
Style : Glam Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 157 mb
Bio:
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, crutch and dueling sword , considered by fans and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock"; Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and macabre brand of rock designed to shock.Originating in Phoenix in the late 1960s after Furnier moved from Detroit, Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.Furnier adopted the band's name as his own name in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2011 he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his 19th album as a solo artist, and his 26th album in total. Expanding from his Detroit rock roots, in his career Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, new wave, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock.Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage; The Rolling Stone Album Guide has called him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer".He is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre".Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Album:
While the Hear No Evil / Cherry Red 20th Anniversary Edition remastered version of ALICE COOPER 1994’s ”The Last Temptation” is really well done, you need to check out as well this Bad Reputation Records remaster, including 4 bonus tracks and housed into a digipak.After the more hair metal, mainstream “Hey Stoopid” album in 1991, which followed the worldwide smash “Trash” in 1989, the conceptual nature of “The Last Temptation” was a major departure from the two more commercially orientated predecessors, whilst resurrecting some of the darker, macabre themes from earlier in Alice’s career.The story of the album centers on a boy named Steven (also the name of the protagonist in Cooper’s earlier work, Welcome To My Nightmare), and a mysterious showman. The showman, with apparent supernatural abilities, attempted with the use of twisted versions of morality plays to persuade Steven to join his traveling show, “The Theater of the Real”, where he would “never grow up”.Steven takes a ticket and watches the show on a dare, but getting out of the performance will be harder than he ever imagined. And then Steven learns what it is to be truly afraid…The songs themselves were composed with the help of several key players, specifically awesome guitarist Dan Wexler (Icon) and Bud Saylor, who would contribute to the writing of four of the ten songs.Other collaborators would inclue Jim Vallance, best known as the long-time writing partner of Bryan Adams, and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who would also lend his vocal talents to the tracks ‘Stolen Prayer’ and ‘Unholy War’.Both ‘Trash’ and ‘Hey Stoopid’ had been dominated by a slew of guest musicians, which included members of Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe, along with Ozzy Osbourne and guitar legends Joe Satriani and Slash. But with “The Last Temptation”, Cooper decided to work with the same small group of musicians throughout the album.Returning from his duties on Hey Stoopid was skilled guitarist Stef Burns (Y&T), while the bass was handled by Greg Smith, who had previously worked with Wendy O. Williams during the mid-Eighties.Keyboards were performed by Derek Sherinian who, following completion of the album, would join Dream Theater for the remainder of the decade. The new member of Cooper’s band was David Uosikkinen, a founding member and drummer from The Hooters, who had enjoyed success a few years earlier.Among my favorite tracks there’s ‘Sideshow’ whick makes you swing, and ‘Lost In America’ grabs you by the throat and demands to be considered a standout, while ‘Nothing’s Free’ rocks. The album feature slower tracks too like ‘Stolen Prayer’ (great one), the acoustically based and sinister ‘Lullaby’, or ‘It’s Me’, a protoypical Eighties ballad with a huge chorus.But this is an ‘album’, and should be listened to from start to finish.“The Last Temptation” remains one of the most overlooked and underrated albums of Alice Cooper’s long and prolific career. Following on from the phenomenal success of ‘Trash’ and the impressive performance of its successor, ‘Hey Stoopid’, “The Last Temptation” faced a near-impossible task of meeting the expectations of both fans and critics.Intelligent, elaborated and refusing to repeat the formula that had served him well a few years earlier, the album is one of the bravest and most accomplished of his career.In a true Cooper horror-fashion, “The Last Temptation” is one of Alice’s most captivating albums.
Line Up:
Alice Cooper – vocals
Stef Burns – guitar, background vocals
Greg Smith – bass, background vocals
Derek Sherinian – keyboards, background vocals
David Uosikkinen – drums
guests:
Chris Cornell – vocals on “Stolen Prayer” and “Unholy War”
Dan Wexler – guitar on “Lost In America”
John Purdell – keyboards on “You’re My Temptation”, “Lullaby” and “It’s Me”
Lou Merlino – background vocals
Mark Hudson – background vocals
Craig Copeland – background vocals
Brett Hudson – background vocals
Tracklist:
01. Sideshow
02. Nothing's Free
03. Lost in America
04. Bad Place Alone
05. You're My Temptation
06. Stolen Prayer
07. Unholy War
08. Lullaby
09. It's Me
10. Cleansed by Fire
11. No More Mister Nice Guy (Live Birmingham 1989) (Bonus Track)
12. Ballad Of Dwight Fry (Live Birmingham 1989) (Bonus Track)
13. Welcome To My Nightmare (Live Birmingham 1989) (Bonus Track)
14. Cold Ethyl (Live Cincinnati 1987) (Bonus Track)
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