Alice Cooper
Constrictor

The nightmare returns! After nearly three years of silence, the king of shock rock Alice Cooper returns in his new incarnation. Having thought hard about his future, on this long vacation, Alice decided to radically change his style and image. So, "DaDa" turned out to be the last hard fatal release of Cooper, now he plays terry and a little glam heavy metal! The reason for these changes is quite clear, since from the mid-70s, Alice had neither really good albums nor, accordingly, much success. And in the mid-80s glam was at the peak of popularity, and it was a sin not to join this trend. Of course, some admirers of Cooper's creativity turned away from him, unable to hear uncomplicated songs, in which there was not even a little bit of any nightmares, but then there were a lot of new fans. Personally, I like Alice in any form, and I consider this album an extremely successful return of the king to the big stage. As I already mentioned, the album is composed in the style of heavy Glam, with powerful choral backings and songs that are fairly simple in arrangements. The most successful turned out powerful action movies "Teenage Frankenstein", "Thrill My Gorilla" (cool name, is not it?) And the hurricane anthem "The World Need Guts". It is also very pleasant to listen to calmer numbers, like a through pop "Trick Bag" or melodic "Life And Death Of The Party". But at the very end of the album, a true masterpiece of "He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)" lurked - a rhythmic disco (!!!) with a terrible text about a maniac killer. That's really true, he's back! In my opinion, "Constrictor" turned out to be just the perfect return, no exploitation of old ideas, only fresh musical trends of that time. And what surprises the most is the quality of the material presented, on the first album on the virgin soil not plowed for itself, Alice did not allow a single weak song. Net hit in the top ten. Well, or more precisely in the nine, so that there is a place for evaluations of subsequent works.