On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:28:39 -0800, The Space Boss
<drsmith666@[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]
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>> >On Nov 4, 3:39 am, "FormerLeeWarmer" <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> Well look what the cat dragged in...
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>> >> 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
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>> >> "The Space Boss" <drsmith...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
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>> 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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>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.
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Hang in there Schmitty. The world's a more interesting place with you
in it.
>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...)
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>Then I saw the MTV special in 1985 on Halloween, and remember
>thinking... yawn.. tired act, a trite attempt at making a comeback,
>etc..
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>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.
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>Then THE LAST TEMPTATION was released, and it was a huge
>disappointment. This album was nowhere NEAR the quality of Constrictor
>or RYFAY.
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TLT was a good record in my eyes and set the table for BP
>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???
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BP, IMO is one of Alice's very best post ACG records. It's a niche
record and may sound dated 15 to 20 years from now but it kicked ass
during it's time and still does today. Dragontown to me sounded like
leftovers from BP but it is still a good record.
>So....... I got Brutal Planet and it just BLEW ME THE **** AWAY. Wow,
>what a great, great record. Dragontown I liked too.
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>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
>ALICE!!!
Not a huge step down, just a different staircase Schmitty...
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