Trash - Alice Cooper

Trash represents some classic 80's Cooper; rolling out the guitar anthems as if they were going out fashion (which sadly they did soon after). Poison and House of Fire are both top notch Cooper rockers - the former one of his greatest hits, while Only My Heart Talking provides the essential power ballad (Aerosmith's Steven Tyler provides expert vocal backing). One of my favourite Alice tracks of all time, Hell is Living Without You graces the back end of the album - this is certainly one of his most underrated tracks along with This Maniacs' in Love With You - both are epics in their own right. Strangely enough the title track disappoints which is a ...  Read the complete review

Alice Cooper is the original shock rocker and we're not just talking about his stageshow either - he has a tendency to switch styles or topics just when you wouldn't expect it. This was slightly the case with Trash, whilst there was no great change in sound of the music - the lyrical content and subject matter for the tracks was completely different to that of the previous aggression filled album Raise Your Fist and Yell. Trash generally focuses on relationships of some kind, whether it be discussing his break up with alcohol (Poison) or the catchy ones geared more at relationships with women (This Maniacs in Love With You, Hell is Living Without You, Only My ...  Read the complete review