Alice Cooper

Brutal Planet

It Doesn't Get Much More Brutal Than This!

Review Score:

(10/10)
Alice has never rocked harder! The thumping bass and pounding drums in the title track contribute to, in my opinion, truly his first entry into the "heavy metal" genre. This is the Master at his finest, illustrating the sorry state of the world today. With no apologies he launches into the "Wicked Young Man" of Columbine who reads Mein Kampf daily to feed his hatred addiction ("I got a pocket full of bullets and a blueprint of the school.") In "Sanctuary," an ode to modern day paranoia, Alice tells of his struggle to escape a conformist society where Everyman wears "the same gray suit," takes "the same headache pills," then "goes home, thinks about suicide (but he's got his diploma, ya gotta give him that!") My personal favorite is the explosively postal "It's the Little Things," wherein we are warned that AC is a "psychopathic mad dog on a short leash." He doesn't care if you burn down his house, steal his car and drive it into the lake, or throw a brick thru his window pane--"but if you talk in the movies I'll kill you right there." (And don't you DARE ask him how he got his name!) We truly are spinning 'round on this ball of hate... An absolute MUST for anyone who's into Alice Cooper!

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