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Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Alice CooperAudio CD
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Every great production deserves a sequel – even if comes 35-plus years after the original.

In 1975, Alice Cooper joined forces with longtime collaborator and producer Bob Ezrin to record his first solo album Welcome to My Nightmare, a theatrical concept album about the nightmares of a young boy named Steven. Now, he’s followed Steven into adulthood and presents Welcome 2 My ... Read more in Amazon's Alice Cooper Store

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  • Audio CD (September 13, 2011)
  • Original Release Date: 2011
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal Music Enterprises
  • ASIN: B005F6NA4W
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (144 customer reviews)
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"This is Alice's nightmare 35 years later," explains Alice, "Bob and I created this character and we know how to write for him. I play the part but we're not writing for me, we're writing for Alice. We kept the first 'Nightmare' album very personal to us, on this one we found more humor and we were more open. This was our world and we want to present it to the fans. The original album was my first solo album after all those huge hit records with the original band and now that nightmare is exposed, this one can be a little bit more open. The music crosses all sorts of boundaries; we went where the lyrics took us."

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2011 release from the veteran shock rocker, the much-anticipated sequel to his 1975 masterpiece Welcome To My Nightmare. The album was produced by the legendary Bob Ezrin (who suggested that it was time for Alice to finally create this much talked about sequel) and features a stellar array of collaborators including three tracks performed with members of the original Alice Cooper band. Universal.

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Mad Carnival Ride September 13, 2011
By Norm
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Welcome 2 My Nightmare is a train careening off the tracks in music styles, a great ride through the minds of sick things. The standout ballads I Am Made of You and Something to Remember Me By hold their own with Cooper's classics. And there is plenty of gritty, old-school rock and roll. After a couple listens, some of my early favorites are The Congregation, I'll Bite Your Face Off, and When Hell Comes Home. The album is an adventure and, like the best albums, gets better with repeated plays.
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45 of 53 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars More of a companion to the `Nightmare' than a sequel September 13, 2011
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It's been more than 35 years since Alice Cooper's first `Nightmare' and, in that time, the music landscape has gone through some drastic changes. But Steven, the main character from the original LP, has stuck with Alice through thick and thin, making sporadic return appearances over the decades, culminating with his last album, Along Came A Spider, in which Steven evolved into the title character, a vicious serial killer... who was merely a figment of the demented lad's imagination.

With the long-belated return of Bob Ezrin to oversee the proceedings, "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" is a departure from the mostly-hard-edged sounds that musical chameleon Cooper's been churning out for a little over a decade. Like the original album, there are numerous radio-friendly pop songs as well as musical and lyrical oddities that only Alice could get away with. But does it work as a follow-up to his first solo album? Yes and no. But in my humble opinion, this is his best studio album since 1994's "Last Temptation," an album which was sort of a prequel to the original "Nightmare" and has never been recognized as the masterpiece that it is (thanks to the record company's complete and total mishandling of the release). Doesn't quite match the brilliance of either album, but it tags close behind.

"Welcome 2 My Nightmare" opens strong with the slow, haunting "I Am Made of You," which samples piano riffs from the original album. Unfortunately the song features an inordinate amount of Auto-Tune, which is a bit off-putting upon first listen. (Memo to record label: Give us a non-Auto Tuned version!) The pace immediately picks up on the bouncy rock song "Caffeine," which is basically a retread of "Can't Sleep, the Clowns Will Eat Me," a bonus track that appeared on various releases of "Brutal Planet" and "Dragontown." It drops down about 75 notches for "The Nightmare Returns," a brief transitional piece featuring Steven reluctantly drifting off to sleep which, again, samples the piano riffs from the old album. Quickly rolling along, Alice jumps on The Nightmare Express, otherwise known as "A Runaway Train," for an odd melding of hard rock and country guitar riffs.

Next, the train crashes and Alice discovers he's the "Last Man on Earth" (or IS he?) in a show-tunesy song with a New Orleans flair that's more than a little reminiscent of "Some Folks." Again the pace picks up as Alice welcomes us to "The Congregation," a fun rock number which incorporates a chorus who seem to think they're singing background on The Ramones' "Blitzkreig Bop." Next up is "I'll Bite Your Face Off," the first single, which is kind of a throwback to the Rolling Stones-ish early garage-band sound. This is a track that would've been better suited for his "Eyes of Alice Cooper" or "Dirty Diamonds" albums. But the next song juts off in a completely new direction for the shock-rocker (and it is a shock!)...

"Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever" is a bizarre techno-disco song in which Alice raps while the chorus sings "The Winkies Chant" from "The Wizard of Oz." Odd, but it grows on you. Next, he hits the beach to check out the zombie chicks in "Ghouls Gone Wild," an annoyingly catchy song derived from "Summertime Blues." The pace drops for the obligatory ballad, "Something to Remember Me By," which isn't a bad song, but there's no bite (musically or lyrically) and it feels wildly out of place on this disc. Alice has said that he's singing this to one of the corpses on the beach, but without a punchline ending, it just comes off as a ballad.

The pace increases but the mood darkens for "When Hell Comes Home," a gritty song about child/spousal abuse which takes an even nastier turn as it nears the conclusion. Hard, heavy early Black Sabbath sorta sound on that track. Then he turns the beat around for "What Baby Wants," a very polished, `80s-ish sounding pop-rock song that features Ke$ha as the devil. Appropriate. As with the original album (as well as "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell," "The Last Temptation" and others), Alice decides it's time to go home with "I Gotta Get Outta Here," a likable light rock number with an amusing(ly) twist(ed) ending. It all culminates with the "The Underture" (which owes a huge debt to The Who's "Tommy"), a beautiful orchestral tune that incorporates bits of every song from the two "Nightmare" albums.

There's a handful of bonus tracks which vary from release to release -- and that's a total annoyance for those of us who are completionists. From a storytelling perspective, only releasing "Under the Bed" as a bonus track was a huge disservice to this album. Clearly it was the bridge between "Caffeine" and "The Nightmare Returns," depicting the crash before fading to sleep. The song managed to recapture some of the eerie mood of the original album, melded with Desmond Child-heavy, "Hey Stoopid" type of ballads, and it flows beautifully between the two tracks. So they cut it. The bonus that's on the majority of releases is his cover of The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of This Place." It's unquestionably one his best covers (right up there with "Talk Talk" and "I Got a Line on You") but it's such a well-known song that it doesn't really fit on W2MN -- plus it seems redundant after "I Gotta Get Outta Here." And the live tracks are decent, but basically throwaway performances of classic tunes.

The biggest sin is that, for a concept album, the songs don't flow all that well. The pacing teeter-totters from track to track, and the transitions aren't as fluid as they were on the first "Nightmare." The original LP also had a trio of songs that were really creepy ("Years Ago," "Steven," "The Awakening") and nothing here really matches the style or intensity of those tunes (excluding bonus "Under the Bed;" "The Nightmare Returns" initially seems promising, but the track is only like only a minute long, and the bulk of it is lifted straight from the first album). And there's a little too much humor and lots of moments that verge on parody. Plus there's way too many rip-offs of other songs (Stones, Beach Boys, Alice himself) for this to be in the same league as the first album, which was wildly original.

When you think "sequel," you think something that brings back original characters, tells a new story and evokes the feel of the first. Two out of three. So much time has passed that I don't think it would be possible to replicate the feeling of the first nightmare. Hence the 4 stars instead of 5. All in all, it's a fun, memorable album (and it's GREAT to have Ezrin's influence and classic band members back) but it doesn't sound as much like a sequel as "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" does. W2MN is just another companion, much like "Da Da," "Last Temptation," "Brutal Planet," "Dragontown" and "Along Came a Spider." And a great companion it is.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Full Experience... September 14, 2011
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Right off the bat, I'd like to say that I am in love with this album and have listened to it non-stop for the past 24 hours. However, like some other reviews I've read, I had two minor problems with it to which I've found what some of you may agree to be a fine solution. First of all, the various editions and the bonus tracks. Of the seven additional tracks available, 3 are live versions and bare no real interest or impact on the album ("Poison," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," and "The Black Widow" live from Download Festival); 1 is a cover that is out of place on the album and pretty much redundant due to the fact that one of the closing originals is almost identical in title and intention ("We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"); leaving 3 original studio tracks that are the most essential ("Under The Bed," "A Bad Situation," and "Flatline.") The last of these selections is, to my knowledge, only available on LP so for now, it's a dead issue and will be left out from the following review and recommendation.

The second problem is arrangement of the songs and the fact that, at times, the album lacks the necessary progression of a concept album. After purchasing the album on iTunes (which not only gets you the bonus tracks for "A Bad Situation" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place," but also a very informative and entertaining 25 minute audio interview with Alice on the stories behind the tracks and the video for "I'll Bite Your Face Off") as well as purchasing the physical disc at Best Buy (whose exclusive version contains 4 bonus tracks, "Under The Bed" and all three live performances!), I had spent just over $20 and had every available tune sans "Flatline." Not too shabby. Now it was time to set the story straight. After listening to a few key tracks over and over and listening to how they musically and lyrically intertwine... not that I'm insane or anything!... I came up with the following track listening that I feel best represents the full vision of the new Nightmare.

1.Caffeine 2.A Bad Situation 3.Under The Bed 4.The Nightmare Returns 5.I Am Made Of You 6.A Runaway Train 7.Last Man On Earth 8.The Congregation 9.I'll Bite Your Face Off 10.Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever 11.Ghouls Gone Wild 12.Something To Remember Me By 13.When Hell Comes Home 14.What Baby Wants 15.I Gotta Get Outta Here 16.The Underture ***End of the story*** 17.We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 18.Poison (Live) 19.No More Mr. Nice Guy (Live) 20.The Black Widow (Live) Final running time: 1 hour 17 minutes

The most dramatic changes are at the beginning, prior to "A Runaway Train." I absolutely love "I Am Made Of You" and think it is honestly one of Alice's best songs ever, but it was completely misused as an opener. It's slow and haunting build and inspired use of Steven's theme felt thrown away at the beginning. The Nightmare hadn't even begun. Even Alice said it wasn't intended to be used as the opener, but they felt (rightfully so) that it was the album's masterpiece in the vein of "Hello Hooray." Although I agree with that statement in reference to its grandness and majesty, I disagree with it's placement due to thematic content. So... unless you're intentions are to depress your audience (and clearly an album called "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" isn't) you need to kick off your record with a raging shot of adrenaline. "Caffeine" certainly delivers. Musically it jolts you up and gets you twitching the same way "Nervous" did "From The Inside," and lyrically it lets you now from the onset what you're in for. This is Steven, the little boy now in his 30s or 40s, fighting to stay awake because he knows what lies ahead of him. Next up, "A Bad Situation" fleshes out who Steven is 35 years later. It's a nice little rocker in the vein of "Elected" about an adult Steven whose life is as dreary and repressed as every other working class everyman. Visually, I see a man pacing his apartment trying to stay awake to stave off the demons and begins to reflect on his life. I don't think I've ever heard Alice swear before, but as he weaves the story of a man who's become a shadow of a human being with "one foot in the grave cause I work like a slave," who's way underpaid and never gets laid, I was knocked out on the line, "all the things that I missed, all the ass that I kiss to survive." I'm sure we can all relate to your dilemma, my good man.

With "Under The Bed," we now come full circle. We know it's coming as panic sets in. Elements from the original nightmare creep in via "The Black Widow" and the opening riff to "WTMN" as Steven proclaims, "I've had this nightmare before and I know how it ends." Finally, he loses the fight against sleep and "The Nightmare Returns."

There has been speculation about the meaning behind "I Am Made Of You." Some believe it's about Cheryl, others believe it is about God. It could be both. Without getting overly philosophical, my interpretation is that its about the relationship between creator and creation. In the context of this story, it's the relationship between Steven and his creation, the Nightmare. As the Spirit of the Nightmare, the Curator (Vincent Price) told Steven upon their first encounter, "You created me. Nightmares aren't from indigestion or tension or discomfort. They come from the blackness of your mind. This is all a part of your imagination." For me, the song is almost a love letter from the Nightmare to Steven. It's the first words spoken after all these years once Steven accepts that the Nightmare is a part of him. Philosophically speaking, by outwardly fighting to turn away the darkness he never found peace and balance between it and "the light" and therefore never fully accepted himself to become whole. Which is probably why he had such a sh***y life.

I don't know. Maybe I'm overanalyzing it a bit, but that's my interpretation and I'm sticking to it.

P.S. It's growing on me, by not that big a fan of "Disco Bloodbath." It sounds more techno New Wave than Donna Summer. Just saying. And the Wizard of Oz chant was a little out of place and didn't make much sense. I find listening to it a little unnerving, but that's more because I have childhood issues with that movie. I still can't look at the Lollipop Kids.

P.P.S. The rest of the album kicked huge ass. I was a little distracted during the first ten listens or so, but on the 11th I finally caught on. Killing off your main character during the first act? Genius. Very "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey"-ish. We truly aren't worthy, sir. Remember the Coop iiiI ;}
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2.0 out of 5 stars MICHAEL BRUCE
There would NOT be an Alice Cooper if not for MICHAEL BRUCE. Look at the credits on "Love It To Death", "Killer", "Schools Out", "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Muscle Of Love. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Lou
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bought this cd for my boyfriend, he likes their type of music and he liked receiving the cd and listening to music,
Published 4 days ago by C. Dunlap
5.0 out of 5 stars More Great Alice!
I really like the concept and music of this album. It is a good follow up to "Welcome to My Nightmare" which is, of course, one of the all-time classics. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Dale Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars well done
this one has all the ear marks of his early works and a welcome addition to the Cooper library for fans
Published 8 days ago by Cosmic Joe
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome.
Fantastic album from start to finish. Classic Alice Cooper at his finest. If you're a fan, I highly recommend this.
Published 16 days ago by Eric
5.0 out of 5 stars a great new alice album
I have been a fan of the coop since the 70's and have most of his music and concert videos. I was a bit hesitant about buying this since the original nightmare album isn't one of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Eric Hotaling
5.0 out of 5 stars ONE EPIC ALBUM
BEING A FAN OF ALICE COOPER AND THE BOYS FOR 35 YEARS..THIS ALBUM IS SO WELL PUT TOGETHER..I WISH I WROTE IT GREAT SONGS CATCHY ONE AFTER ANOTHER.....BUY THIS DONT DOWNLOAD IT.. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Matthew Gray
5.0 out of 5 stars Great album
No complaints I really love the CD. It is good quality music and it's Alice Cooper! What more can I ask for?
Published 3 months ago by Marc Vigil
5.0 out of 5 stars Alice is back!
This CD is Alice, great music and if your a long time fan you most certainly will love it. It does have a connection the the original Nightmare but you don't have to like or even... Read more
Published 4 months ago by LoveshopVA
4.0 out of 5 stars Still good!
This cs is a big reminder of the orivinal Nightmare. Alices voice is still strong and the songs flow nicely.
Published 4 months ago by Mr. Scott M. Waleska
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