Along Came A Spider - Alice Cooper

'Along Came A Spider' When I first heard that Alice Cooper's 25th studio offering was going to be a concept album I was instinctively jubilant. Connotations of classics yore invaded my spinning mind forcing my heart to dance around and try to beat its way out of my ribcage. I convinced myself for a moment it was going to be 'Welcome to my Nightmare' all over again - one of my favourite albums of all time. I was almost rabid, tongue lolling to one side and deliriously dreaming away, dusting down the old electric chair, giving the old guillotine a rub with a bit of Brasso, Ronsealing the flaking gallows. When the straightjacket was fitted, the injection ...  Read the complete review

Along Came A Spider Alice Cooper the legend of rock has released his 25th studio album 'Along Came a Spider'. This is his highest charting album since his album 'Hey Stoopid' charting at #31 in the UK. This album as with most of Alice's does have a couple of guest appearances on it firstly 'Slash' ex Guns n' Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist who plays on track 2 "Vengeance Is Mine" , and 'Ozzy Osbourne' who believe it or not does not sing on the album but instead plays the harmonica on track 3 "Wake the Dead" . Both of these artists are also featured on Alice's album "Hey Stoopid" where they appeared on the title ...  Read the complete review

Along Came A Spider is Alice Cooper's 25th studio album, released some 39 years after his first album "Pretties for You", I'm a big Alice Cooper fan and have every one of his albums and the fact that he experiments with different sounds occasionally means that they're not that good or are completely different to what you expect but most of them grown on you within time. So far this millenium has been a bit of a mixed bags - whilst I thought it started off strong with the harder sounding Brutal Planet and Dragontown, The Eyes of Alice Cooper was hit and miss and had one or two stinkers but also some good tracks as he aimed for a garagey sound, Dirty ...  Read the complete review

After having received a recommendation from a well respected friend, combined with the slew of excellent promo posters and videos which we were treated to, one could have forgiven me for being expectant especially after the previously disappointing ''Dogey' Diamonds' record. Sadly Along Came a Spider, despite having a dark 'dairy of a serial killer' concept musically lacks the power and darkness which I craved. Although it is perhaps a bit of a throwback to some of his earlier work, including an opening prologue and closing epilogue which is reminiscent of the classic 'Welcome To My Nightmare' period, and an excellent ballad to boot the album on the whole ...  Read the complete review