On Nov 8, 2:46 am, "FormerLeeWarmer" <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> How can something be good and yet "a huge step down" at the same time?
TEoAC
> and DD sound like Alice doing what Alice does best. BP (and to a lesser
> extent Dragontown) sound like Alice trying to be something else.
Something
> that's beyond him at this point IMO.....it ain't 1988 anymore.
>
> Speaking of your creativity I was wondering if you'd had come up with
> anything as good as your classic work "She was only 16 but her life was
> woa-ver"?
>
> --
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> FormerLeeWarmer
>
> "The Space Boss" <drsmith...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Nov 6, 9:12 am, Spinal Kiss wrote:
> >> On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:34:45 -0800, The Space Boss
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> >> <drsmith...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >On Nov 4, 3:39 am, "FormerLeeWarmer" <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >> Well look what the cat dragged in...
>
> >> >> I seem to remeber you postin' some time back how EOAC and DD were
> >> >> "damn fine
> >> >> music". Changed your mind?
> >> >> --
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> >> >> FormerLeeWarmer
>
> >> >> "The Space Boss" <drsmith...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >>
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> >> >> > In my opinion, "CONSTRICTOR" is better than either of them, even
> >> >> > though it has weak points. The reason I say this is that there
is
> >> >> > nothing on "EYES" or "DIAMONDS" that is even as REMOTELY good as
> >> >> > "Give
> >> >> > it up". Now you gotta agree with this..- Hide quoted text -
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> >> >YES AND I JUST REITERATED THAT WITH THIS POST.
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> >> >That you obviously didn't even ready. Yes, they are GREAT albums,
but
> >> >I like Constrictor better.
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> >> Actually I'm impressed that you're at least past the debacles that
> >> were Flush The Fa****on and Zipper Catches Skin. Constrictor took an
> >> Alice Cooper that was all but dead an buried and put him back on the
> >> map. For that alone it is an im****tant record in his career.
>
> >> TEOAC and DD are garage rock records, which are indeed extremely good
> >> recordings that while not capturing the glory years of the ACG,
> >> certainly pay homage, in a rather nice fa****on.
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> >> Who woke you up BTW????- Hide quoted text -
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> > My life has gone through some very serious changes in the last few
> > months (you wouldn't even belive it), sorry I haven't had the time to
> > post. If you're interested I'll talk about it privately but not here.
> > I feel like I am more awake than every before now, BTW - either that
> > or I am seriously asleep. Sometimes I don't know what to think
> > anymore. I'm still doing music, I have lots of new songs and I have
> > met someone who is also a musican who has inspired me to be more
> > creative than I have ever been beofre.
>
> > Ummmmm.. agreed about Constrictor, in no small part due to the Friday
> > the 13th plug........ Um... I remember when CONSTRICTOR first came
> > out, I was listening to the *** Pistols and Black Flag, and I was over
> > at my friends house and he brought Constrictor over and I remember my
> > impression of it (not musically, I don't think we listened to it, but
> > just the album art, etc), was that it was a shallow album, like
> > Unmasked or something. I remember thinking "WHY doesn't this guy just
> > HANG IT UP already?????" (you know.. the punk rock "dethrone" the
> > dinosaurs thing...)
>
> > Then I saw the MTV special in 1985 on Halloween, and remember
> > thinking... yawn.. tired act, a trite attempt at making a comeback,
> > etc..
>
> > Then in 1994, I found PRINCE OF DARKNESS on CD for like $1.99, so I
> > bought it and was BLOWN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I of course got
> > Constrictor and realized then how great it was, as well as EVERY OTHER
> > Alice Cooper CD... I got them all, driving all over to track them
> > down.
>
> > Then THE LAST TEMPTATION was released, and it was a huge
> > disappointment. This album was nowhere NEAR the quality of Constrictor
> > or RYFAY.
>
> > Then I didn't listen to Alice for a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time until I heard
> > some people on the Kiss NG talking about "Brutal Planet" and
> > "Dragontown"???? WTF was this? Alice trying to come back... AGAIN?? I
> > thought he hung it up in 94???
>
> > So....... I got Brutal Planet and it just BLEW ME THE **** AWAY. Wow,
> > what a great, great record. Dragontown I liked too.
>
> > IMO, "EYES" and "DIAMONDS", while good, were a HUGE step down from
> > Brutal Planet. Alice should move foreward, but he moved back instead.
> > Too bad. It's all good though, I have made peace with ALL THINGS
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HA HA HA you so funnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyy Dude, I have so many great,
great new songs, I'm not posting them anymore, I am doing all my songs
for one person in this world now.
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