Alice Cooper - Trash

Trash

I have not listened Alice Cooper very much, but this record I found very interesting, especially "Poison" which theme, I feel, is slightly copied by the Finnish band Lordi in their Eurovison 2006 contest winner song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". As a whole I a agree with Alice Cooper himself, as he writes in his book "Golf Monster", this album to be the one of his bests "yet?". I sincerely recommend this record also to a little bit older enthusiasts.

A Midnight Golfer from Finland:-) August 29, 2008

Definetly a Album for the Casual Alice Fan.

Trash was the album that got me interested in Alice Cooper back in the late 80's. Tracks such as Poison , Bed of Nails and House of fire (one of my fave songs from Alice so far)where big hits back in the MTV rock era.As well as collaborations from Jon Bon Jovi and Steven Tyler any fanatic of late 80's music would get a kick out of Trash.You ask almost any casual Alice fan which song sticks in their mind and Poison would be their answer.My advice to anyone contemplating buying Trash......... Purchase Trash ,it is a fantastic rocker, but it is really not what Alice Cooper the solo artist is all about. Hey Stoopid and The last temptation showcase Alice at his best. February 13, 2008

Big break through

TRASH was a huge break through album for Alice Cooper. Poison alone made this CD worth owning. Thanks to some creative help from his friends Cooper was on top where he belongs. January 10, 2008

Return to the limelight - 3.5 stars

Old skool heavy rock fans hate this album. They hate the whiff of sellout, the guest appearances like the co-writing with Desmond Child, Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi. They hate the fact that people as varies as Stiv Bator, Steve Lukather and a whole heap of Aerosmith and girlie faves like Kane Roberts and Kip Winger were also features. Particularly in relation to the latter two mentioned, they take umbrage that such third tier types were in posession of bigger profiles than their teenage shock rock idol circa '89.

The simple fact is that this sort of collaboration is exactly what Alice needed to bring him up to date. To bring his legacy to a new generation and the plain truth is that since this album the Coop has never fallen off the radar as badly as he had with dross such as Special Forces and Da.

The worst things that could be said of this album are that it's a cop out with all the extra writers and that it's a shameless sellout. But even a sellout is better than what we'd put up with prior to this release.

But just cos I'm not someone who was 18 when Billion Dollar Babies came out and therefore feel obliged to hate everything that came after doesn't mean I find this album faultess. Far from it. So, IMHO;

- Poison is a great song and a great way to start an album. Other highlights would be Bed of Nails in a cheesy sort of way and Spark in the Dark and House of Fire scoot along quickly enough that you almost don't notice the shaky musical premises their built on. Nicely flowing chorus' on tunes such as This Maniacs in Love With You and the visceral vocal performance of Why Trust You (a little out of place on a disc so smoothly produced by Desmond Child) lift these tunes to at least bog standard level.

- However despite Alice trying to talk it up at the time, Only My Heart Talkin' was never gonna have much impact on the charts. And Hell is Living Without You is filler while I'm Your Gun - well they probably figured that if they tacked it onto the end of the album nobody would notice it. And given the calibre of the songwriters here it's pretty scary they couldn't come upwith at least ten decent tunes.

- Alice Cooper still has something about him on pretty much any release he touches. And his brand of shock rock that at times delved into art rock is here fairly streamlined into mainstream late 80's hard rock. The riffs are clean, the production nice and when it does work it works pretty darn well. For heavens sake even Barry Manilow loving housewives like my mother liked Poison the thing was so darn catchy!

This slice of corporate rock ain't the best Coop product by a fair margin. But it gave him back the commercial impetus to relaunch his career and he subsequently grabbed that chance with both hands so regardless of what the purists may think this is an important album in the mans cataluge, but not always for the music itself. March 16, 2007

HIs Worst

This was Alice's big comeback album. The single "Poison" got him back on top 40 radio for the first time in years, and the album was a huge success. Cooper was back to playing big arenas in front of sold out crowds. But......I think the album stinks. The music is cliche ridden hair metal and most of the lyrics are just plain stupid. Compared to most of the Coop's other work this dreck just does not hold up. December 15, 2006

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