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3.0 out of 5 stars
Only a Couple Keepers on This One,
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This review is from: Zipper Catches Skin (Audio CD)
Alice Cooper's 1982 "Zipper Catches Skin" is more straight-ahead rock and less New Wave than his two previous albums, but contains some material that seems like leftovers from "Flush the Fashion" and "Special Forces".It's an average Alice album at best, and if you skip this one you're not missing that much. The best cuts are the galloping opener "Zorro's Ascent"; The fiery, clever "Tag, You're It" has Alice assuming the role of horror-movie director and the entire song is made up of his direction to the terrified leading lady hiding from a psycho-killer. It alone makes this album worth getting. Though the militant "I Better Be Good" sounds like a leftover from "Special Forces", it's still one of the best tracks here lyrically and musically. Patty Donahue of The Waitresses appears to take Alice to task on "I Like Girls" and her asides are typically amusing and make the song ("What happened? Run out of gas?" etc). Among the rest: "Make That Money (Scrooge's Song)" is nothing special except the instrumental finale sounds like something straight out of the "Killer" era, which should please fans of the original ACG. In the slower "I Am the Future", Alice forgoes the sap of earlier shamaltz for a ballad with bite--exactly like a slow Coop song should be. Some of the lyrics get a little silly, as on "No Baloney Homosapiens" but it's a decent sing-a-long cut nontheless, the showy chorus reminiscent of "Hello Hurray". The rocking "I'm Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned)" also sounds like something from B$B updated for 1982. "Adaptable (Anything For You)", "Remarkably Insincere" are actually both UNremarkable. Although "Zipper Catches Skin" is not a bad album--and would be decent for any other artist, Alice is capable of much more than what's here. Three Stars--an average Coop effort.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The best CD I have ever heard,
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This review is from: Zipper Catches Skin (Audio CD)
Zipper Catches Skin is my biggest guilty pleasure ever! I can listen to it at anytime, well unless other people are around who just don't understand the album. If you're familiar with 70s Cooper and maybe 90s and onward, you have got to check this out because you will have no idea what Alice Cooper was thinking but you will find yourself loving the tunes! Zorro's Ascent, I Like Girls, That Was the Day My Dead Returned to Save My Life... all hysterically funny and damn catchy! The album even spawned the greatest swear phrase ever... "Boink Off!" Yes it's actually used on the album and how no one laughed on the recording is beyond me!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Coop's best,
By Mr.Vengeance (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zipper Catches Skin (Audio CD)
Zipper Catches Skin was far better than many of the reviewers here seem to think. If you're stuck in the early 70's-or bust mentality of Cooper-fandom, then this album isn't for you. But ZCS is strong from beggining to end, with catchy tunes and interesting lyrics which at times border on the hilarious. "Adaptable", "I Like Girls", "Remarkably Insincere", all rock and stay in your head long after you listen to them, mainly because of the lyrics. This was the third of a strong trilogy of Alice's "80's" albums, the others being Flush the Fashion and Special Forces. All three, while they don't match most of his 70's albums, deliver the hard rock goods, while drifting away from Alice's horror personae in favour of Alice the stand-up comic. It works. The one weak moment for me is the painful Theme from the Class of 1984, "I am the Future", which should have tipped us off to what was to come- namely the dreadful DaDa album.
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