Who do you think we are? Special Forces in an armoured Car!? (Special Forces - Alice Cooper)

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Special Forces - Alice Cooper
Date:	10/11/08 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: New style yet again

Disadvantages: The tracks are fun rather than containing any lyrical meaning!

This album Special Forces released in 1981 was produced by Richard Podolor, Alice Cooper back on the booze again had cut his hair short and was wearing more colourful make-up than usual as well and had a sort of punk look to himself - his music was also shook up and gained a new wave/punk edge to it.

This album starts off with the fun "Who Do You Think We Are" (Special Forces in an Armoured Car?) , before moving on to a sublime cover of Love's 7&7 is, then moving on to the cheesy yet fun "Prettiest Cop on the Block" a track about a pretty boy policeman. The dark "Skeletons in the Closet", a perfect track for Haloween and then a number of punkier numbers like Vicious Things which sounds like a clearer new wave version of the Misfits and and You Look Good in Rags. The track "Generation Landslide 81" is pretty much the same as the original Generation Landslide with a verse or two extra of lyrics thrown on to it.

Additionally there is a track "Look at you, over there ripping the sawdust from my teddybear" credited on the album but it is not included as Alice Cooper thought that it didn't really fit in with the rest of the album's theme. I can't remember where but I have heard this track, so it might have appeared on the B-side of a single or maybe just on a live album.

This would be Alice Cooper's best album of the early 80s as the sales of his next albums would slump to an all-time low.

1. "Who Do You Think We Are" (Alice Cooper, Duane Hitchings) - 4:21
2. "Seven & Seven Is" (Arthur Lee) - 2:41
3. "Prettiest Cop on the Block" - 3:13
4. "Don't Talk Old to Me" - 2:54
5. "Generation Landslide '81 (live)" (Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) - 3:50
6. "Skeletons in the Closet" - 3:42
7. "You Want It, You Got It" - 3:15
8. "You Look Good in Rags" - 3:35
9. "You're a Movie" - 3:37
10. "Vicious Rumours" - 3:43

Summary: A jolly affair