Yup, that’s exactly what this album is, trash.<\/p>\n
My rating for this album will probably surprise a few people,
\nbut to me this is the worst album of Alice Cooper’s career. I
\nassume that after panicking due to a lacklustre commercial response
\nto the previous two comeback albums (the woeful
\nConstrictor<\/i> and the laughable
\nRaise Your Fist And Yell<\/i>), he decided to get a who’s-who of
\nrecord industry big shots to meticulously craft a “perfect”
\ncomeback album which could not fail to ignite sales.<\/p>\n
Oh,
\nTrash<\/i> was very successful in that sense…upon its release
\nin 1989, I believe it became one of the best selling Alice Cooper
\nrecords ever, if not the best, but not because of superb
\nsongwriting…almost all of the songs are soul-less, middle of the
\nroad obvious attempts at commercial success rather than trying to
\nsay something interesting. Except for “Poison”, which admittedly is
\na good song, the rest of the material is utter lowest common
\ndenominator, safe, gut wrenchingly nauseating, standard 80’s
\nmainstream pop metal shlock. A completely overproduced turd.<\/p>\n
Ironically, after many lyrical tales and stories on excellent
\npast albums about going to hell, selling your soul, and other stuff
\nalong those lines, Alice sold himself out to get a big hit again.
\nThe whole thing sounds like Alice told renowned predictable
\ncorporate rock hit-maker extraordinaire Desmond Child (who also
\nproduced the album into the slickly polished quagmire that it is)
\nand his fellow pencil pushing big wigs to give him a hit album,
\nwhich they created, and then had him come in and sing what they
\ntold him to.<\/p>\n
It feels like Alice had very little input in the creative
\nprocess at all…during his classic period, he never stooped to the
\ntotal low brow lyrics and subject matter, like stupid infatuations,
\nsex and mindless sleaze from the perspective of a twelve year old,
\nand even had the gall to try to sound serious doing it in a slew of
\nhorrible Bon Jovi\/80’s Aerosmith style power ballads and tame rock
\nsongs that this album is awash in…the style doesn’t suit Alice
\none iota. He sounds completely out of place. And guess what boys
\nand girls! Take one guess as to who makes a guest appearance on
\nthis album! Vincent Price? Oh no, now that would be much too
\nfrightening and might hurt potential sales…no no, it’s none other
\nthan Bon Jovi and Aerosmith! *applause*….yah right, this
\nabomination sounds more like a Bon Jovi or Aerosmith album with
\nAlice doing guest vocals, than as an Alice Cooper album.<\/p>\n
What a triumph for marketing though…but then again, people in
\ngeneral are stupid sheep who will buy anything that is considered
\n“in” or “trendy”, which are things that are totally determined by
\nlarge record companys’ in-your-face propaganda… like mindless
\ncattle they will flock to whatever they see advertised or what they
\nmight hear things about, especially if they think that owning the
\nparticular album in question will make them popular. How sick.<\/p>\n
So, after that bitter little tangent, my summary is this:
\n“Poison” is the only good song contained on the fittingly titled
\nTrash<\/i>, and the rest is complete filler that doesn’t have,
\neven for a second, not even a hint of any of the qualities which
\nmade Alice Cooper the genius that he was with his endless talent
\nfor being insightful, intelligent, humourous, and scary, often at
\nthe same time, in the past.<\/p>\n
Who is this guy? I don’t know this Alice, and I don’t even think<\/p>\n
Alice<\/i> knows the Alice on here, because the only recognition
\nhe ever gives this disc during his live shows these days is by
\nplaying “Poison” and nothing else, while he still perfoms virtually
\nall of the material from albums that are almost twenty years older
\nthan
\nTrash<\/i>. Believe me, that speaks volumes in itself.<\/p>\n
When I listen to this, I have a vision of an assembly line of
\npop metal cd’s flying past on a factory conveyor belt in 1989, with
\neach disc containing the identical music, but the manufacturer
\nwould get labels randomly alternating between Bon Jovi, Aerosmith,
\nAlice Cooper, etc.<\/p>\n
The album is completely devoid of soul from one of rock’s most
\nsoulful songwriters. This is not Alice Cooper in my opinion…this
\nis disposable pop metal that hilariously enough sounds more dated
\nthan anything he recorded in the 70’s. So, it may have sold several
\nmillion trendy copies, but it sure as hell didn’t yield any
\nclassics or fan favourites for his glorious resume. Hands down the
\nworst album of his illustrious career, and along with
\nConstrictor<\/i> perhaps the only one I would be embarrassed to
\nplay in front of anybody.<\/p>\n
However, I admit that I don’t really blame him for going this
\nroute because he hadn’t had a successful album in over a decade by
\n1989, and I’m sure he didn’t want to wind up trying to make ends
\nmeet at age 65 by playing dingy bars in Topeka to five drunks and a
\npoodle. That having been said, the album was clearly designed in a
\nvery shrewd and calculating manner as a one shot gimmick with its
\novertly dumbed-down approach and radio friendly syrupy pop hooks to
\nappeal to horny teenagers in the late 80’s…so, unless you were
\none of those horny airheaded teens in the late 80’s who subscribed
\nto this tripe, chances are you won’t find much to like about this
\nlyrically vapid, bottom-of-the-barrel scraping joke. Man, at least
\nRaise Your Fist And Yell<\/i> was funny. Fans of Alice’s harder,
\nedgier, intelligent work will loathe this conforming empty
\nschlock.<\/p>\n
At the risk of sounding redundant, I’m just so carried away that
\nI feel I must recap my thoughts in order to effectively hammer home
\nthe point: This is Alice Cooper’s worst album hands down because
\nit’s simply not an Alice Cooper album; it’s an album crafted from a
\ncookie cutter mold by a big corporation according to the purely
\ncurrent trend of that time. I can totally understand why this
\nshitlog was so popular at the time, but it’s also painfully obvious
\nwhy real Cooper fans have disowned it. Gives a totally false
\nimpression of an otherwise brilliant artist. An insult to all Coop
\nfans. Offensively bad.<\/p>\n
There, I believe the record is set straight that this is his
\ndarkest hour and that nobody should own it. I start to tremble and
\nbreak out in sweat everytime I think what a shocking amount of
\npeople not just consider this to be a good album, but actually have
\nthat magical level of stupidity that they think this is one of his
\nbest works.<\/p>\n
Sheesh…welcome to MY nightmare indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":26014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5676],"rating":[5620],"class_list":["post-37224","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-alice-cooper","rating-rating-f"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37224"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37224"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}