Dirty Diamonds

Alice Cooper | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: August 2, 2005
• Label: New West Records
• Total Length: 46:40
• Genres: Hard Rock & Metal/Hard Rock, Pop/Pop Rock
• ASIN: B000UOMRH0
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,716 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Try and Get it Out of Your Head....I Dare ya!, August 8, 2005

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Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dirty Diamonds (Dig) (Audio CD)

Alice Cooper is just amazing. Think for a minute about all of the musical styles the Coop has gone through, whether it's the 70's guitar rock of the original band, disco with "Goes to Hell", new age with "Special Forces", hair metal with "Trash", nu-metal with "Brutal Planet", Alice Cooper's catalog is just amazing. And "Dirty Diamonds" incorporates all of those styles and more. There are tunes on "Diamonds" that you would swear Cooper wrote 30 years ago, the title song "Dirty Diamonds" could easily find a place on "Muscle of Love". "Perfect" sounds like a stripped down song from his "Zipper Catches Skin" era, while "Run Down the Devil" sounds as though it could have come from the "Dragontown" songwriting sessions. I really like the path Cooper started going down with "The Eyes" album, and continues following with "Diamonds". That's not to say that this is Cooper's best album, there are a few clunkers sprinkled here and there, "The Ballad of Jesse Jane" and "Steal that Car", but overall the album is everything you could want from Alice and company. And just a quick note; speaking of versatility, Ryan Roxie's guitar work on here is amazing. At times cranking it up to a blistering pace, while on tracks like "Zombie Dance" he just plays some great blues riffs, and tones everything down nicely on "Pretty Ballerina". I have seen Cooper live on a couple occasions and Roxie's work is just as impressive live. I have listened to this album several times now and keep going back, it really is addictive.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LISTEN TO THE FANS. YES, ALICE RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS!!, October 4, 2006

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Unlucky Frank (Lalaland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dirty Diamonds (Dig) (Audio CD)

True ALICE fans know. This feels like OLD ALICE, man!! Take my word for it. I've been a fan since 1973. Or, don't take my word. Sample it for yourself. ALICE COOPER hasn't made music this good since his days with the ALICE COOPER BAND. At the start of the new millennium(how I hate that term), ALICE COOPER turned out 2 hot and wicked metal albums!! BRUTAL PLANET and DRAGONTOWN. Then he goes way back and makes THE EYES OF ALICE COOPER. What a great album!! COOPER continues to discover his roots one more time with DIRTY DIAMONDS. I swear it's like he's been REBORN with these records. Even though these songs are completely new, I swear I hear strains from the KILLER and the LOVE IT TO DEATH lp's. The song YOU MAKE ME WANNA feels like YEAH, YEAH, YEAH from KILLER, for sure. And listen to THE BALLAD OF JESSE JANE(hilarious). It's the DWIGHT FRY melody!! Wow!! One of the best new songs is the blues ballad SIX HOURS. Incredible!! His voice just gets better with age. Read the rave reviews and sample the album. Make sure you sample all the albums I mention in this review. Those of you, like me, who have been away from The COOP for a while, here's your chance to discover his music again. You won't be sorry. ALICE IS GREAT AGAIN!!

WELCOME BACK, COOP!!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Will the Real Vince Furnier Please Keep on Doing Whatever it Is He's Doing?, August 30, 2005

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Kelly L. Norman "li'l rock & roller" (Plymouth, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dirty Diamonds (Dig) (Audio CD)

I have a confession to make. I (Shock! Horror!) had abandoned Alice for many years after the Welcome To My Nightmare days, seeking out more "rrrrefined" music. When I returned, it was out of curiousity to find out what the Dragontown-Brutal Planet-Last Temptation trilogy stuff was all about. I loved every note and lyric. This CD is great too, but it sounds very different. It seems as though there are two or three "characters" singing on the CD, which should be right up Alice's spookey alley, given his penchant for theatrical performances onstage. The hee-haw delivery of the sad tale of Jesse Jane is hilarious, if politically incorrect (somebody badly needs to request that one on Dr. Demento). "Woman of Mass Destraction" and "Sunset Babies" are good old fashioned rockers, the latter with the Cooper trademark freakshow brand. "Run Down the Devil"'s lyrics remind me of some of the old country gospel songs---"Drive on down to lonely street/He's always waiting there for me/Run down the devil/Run the devil down/Run down the devil/ Run him down down down."

What sounds totally un-Cooper to me...and maybe that's because of my long, inexcusable absence from Cooper fan-dom...is his cover of the Left Banke's "Pretty Ballerina." What a beautiful voice! I do think it is perfect though. And I do have to smile when I think of former Joffrey ballerina, now dance company owner Cheryl Cooper, as well as ballet student Sonora Rose Cooper. I'm sure the decision to record this had nothing to do with them though. Ohhh no.