{"id":29118,"date":"2025-04-26T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=29118"},"modified":"2025-02-27T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:51:44","slug":"five-alice-cooper-solo-tracks-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/five-alice-cooper-solo-tracks-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Alice Cooper Solo Tracks You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning in Phoenix in 1968, Alice Cooper was a band. Though the group would come to represent the vanguard of glam- and shock-rock, in its earliest days Alice Cooper was a psychedelic, hard-rocking band. By the time of 1971\u2019s <em>Love it to Death<\/em>, the band had altered its approach, and scored a hit single with \u201cI\u2019m Eighteen.\u201d Many more hits would follow.<\/p>\n<p>But by 1974, Lead singer Vincent Furnier \u2013 who had long since taken on the name Alice Cooper for himself \u2013 broke up the band and embarked on a solo career, one that continues to this day. Cooper\u2019s theatrical approach to music would come to the fore even more in that solo work, inaugurated with the February 1975 release of his debut, <em>Welcome to My Nightmare<\/em>. In celebration of that album\u2019s 50th anniversary, here are five Top 40 singles from the king of shock rock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOnly Women Bleed\u201d from <em>Welcome to My Nightmare<\/em> (1975)<\/strong><br \/>\nCooper\u2019s first hit single as a solo artist, \u201cOnly Women Bleed\u201d featured the talents of guitarist and co-writer Dick Wagner. The song itself had been rattling around in Wagner\u2019s desk drawer since his time with \u201860s hard rockers Frost; he and Cooper freshened it up with new lyrics and scored a #12 hit (and #1 in Canada). The song is about domestic abuse, not menstruation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dTx6S4kXbXc?si=iUD-w7_hXZwCKw7V\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI Never Cry\u201d from <\/strong>Alice Cooper Goes to Hell<strong> (1976)<\/strong><br \/>\nBy this point in Cooper\u2019s career, he was struggling in the depths of untreated alcoholism. He wrote this soft-rock ballad as a cry for help, and listeners responded positively, giving him another #12 hit single. Thought it earned a Gold record and charted in three countries, today \u201cI Never Cry\u201d is largely forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mvXO1WPJOjI?si=Rcqyz-O1dlyDky_n\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou and Me\u201d from <em>Lace and Whiskey<\/em> (1977)<\/strong><br \/>\nFor his 1977 album, Alice Cooper dove even deeper into his alcoholism, making it part of his stage persona. He had also moved \u2013 for a time, at least \u2013 away from hard rock and toward a melodramatic, balladeering style. That approach would be exemplified by this single, a U.S. #9 hit and a charting release in three other countries.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_0J6PWG0hok?si=y2KpMzQV0XvyKSla\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHow You Gonna See Me Now\u201d from<em> From the Inside<\/em> (1978)<\/strong><br \/>\nCooper\u2019s last single entry of the \u201870s to reach the Top 20, \u201cHow You Gonna See Me Now\u201d was co-composed with longtime collaborator Dick Wagner plus Elton John\u2019s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin. The soft rock tune reached that familiar #12 spot yet again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_Bv8UkzW7g?si=yWCg38cAQYo2y2Gw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cClones (We\u2019re All)\u201d from <em>Flush the Fashion<\/em> (1980)<\/strong><br \/>\nAmong the most unexpected and mystifying stylistic detours in Cooper\u2019s catalog, this tune saw him adopting the electronic trappings of new wave. Both in lyric and in musical style, \u201cClones (We\u2019re All)\u201d evoked comparisons to Gary Numan\u2019s hit single, \u201cCars.\u201d Cooper scored a hit nonetheless; \u201cClones\u201d briefly edged into the bottom spot on the U.S. Top 40.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1h38gC23bw?si=q_qFGH2C-m4Q71PU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Alice Cooper would score one more Top 40 single as a solo artist. Fully eight years after his major hit-making era ended with \u201cClones (We\u2019re All),\u201d he returned with \u201cPoison\u201d from his 1989 album <em>Trash<\/em>. The single reached the Top 40 in ten countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning in Phoenix in 1968, Alice Cooper was a band. 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