Zipper Catches Skin [Import]

Alice Cooper | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B00000G5VR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,883 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Zorro's Ascent

2. Make That Money Scrooge's

3. I Am The Future

4. No Baloney Homosapiens

5. Adaptable Anything For Yo

6. I Like Girls

7. Remarkably Insincere

8. Tag, You're It

9. I Better Be Good

10. I'm Alive

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Part 3 of the "weird" period, March 9, 2003

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Stanley Runk "Runkdapunk" (Camp North Pines) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zipper Catches Skin (Audio CD)

Around the time this album came out, most people were probably thinking, "What has happened to Alice Cooper?" or "What is Alice Cooper thinking?" After he tried to reinvent himself for the 80s with Flush The Fashion, I think many people abandoned him for the cruddy new bands that started popping up. The punk sound that he hinted at with Flush The Fashion and carried on with on Special Forces is still in play here. This could actually be part 2 to Special Forces minus the ... attitude. Alice uses this album to totally let loose his humor side with mixed results. It's really not as funny as Alice thinks it is. That's not to say I don't enjoy it, I do. I actually like this album quite a bit. I think it's great that he tried something different regardless of what people think. The only flaw in my eyes is that it seems as though Alice Cooper-the man was taking a vacation from Alice Cooper-the character. All of us fans fell in love with the creepy character of Alice Cooper, and this album comes across as an album by the man and not the character. Look at his picture on the cover. Yes, it is funny, but "Alice Cooper" wouldn't do something like that, or make an album of songs like that either. Same can be said for Special Forces(though I can see the outfit working, but not the lyrics), or Flush The Fashion(where I can see the songs working but not the image). This may sound like I'm putting these three albums down, but I really like and listen to them quite a bit. This little known "weird" period of Alice's(Flush, Forces, Zipper, Dada) is very underrated if you ask me, and should be given alot more credit and attention than it does. It's sad that the "Trash" period is more well known and favored. I know this review won't be read by many because of that, and it's only hardcore Alice Cooper fans that will take any interest in this album at all. And since that's the case, you already own it or you're eventually gonna get it and were curious about it....It'll be one step closer to having the whole collection, and you just may be surprised that it's actually a good album. Different(it's no Love It To Death), but good nonetheless. ...

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of Alice's funniest-a classic!, November 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Zipper Catches Skin (Audio CD)

While banal pop was taking over the radio...those of us lucky to discover this poor selling album (I got it for the sublime "I am the Future" from "Class of 1984) were treated to our favorite madman battling aliens, girlfriends, summoning dead pets to save his life and even taking on the persona of Zorro! Alice always manages to dig beneath the surface of America's fears and neuroses and still manages to be entertaining. It's silly at times, but a must for fans!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Really 'Fun' Album, May 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Zipper Catches Skin (Audio CD)

'Coop's songs 'Adaptable','I Like Girls', and ''Remarkably Insincere' can be viewed as a kind of weard response to Meatloaf's 'Paradise By the Dashboard Light'. 'I am the Future' could be the anthem for the youth in the year 2000 (even though it was written for the movie 'Class of '84'). My favorite song is 'I'm Alive' (That Was The Day My Dead Pet Returned To Save My Life) because everytime I hear it, I think of those stupid supermarket tabloid newspapers with their goofy stories and the little old grey-haired ladies who read that stuff. It's really a shame that the don't carry all of 'Coop's albums like this one at the local CD store. If it was available at my local store today, I would have bought it. Instead, they have these 'new' Coop music CD's that contain the same old music. They think if it's packaged and arranged differently, we're gonna buy it anyway just to add to our collections. From my point of view, this album is as creative as 'From the Inside', 'Lace and Whiskey', and 'Go to Hell' were. It's a 'fun' album without all of that heavy subject matter in some of his other albums.