WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
| Alice Cooper
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
Welcome to My Nightmare is the eighth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in March 1975. It is Alice Cooper's first solo album (all previous Alice Cooper releases were band efforts), and his only album for the Atlantic Records label. Welcome to My Nightmare is a concept album. Played in sequence, the songs form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven. The album inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special, a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and the Welcome to My Nightmare concert film in 1976. A sequel concept album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, was released in 2011-Wikipedia
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All Music
Welcome to My Nightmare remains Alice's best solo effort -- while some tracks stray from his expected hard rock direction, there's plenty of fist-pumping rock to go around
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Classic Rock
2018 - A devilish combination of shock-rock and Broadway pizzazz spawns a theatrical classic
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Rolling Stone
1975 - He is making statements. That is what he seems to be doing on this album as well. But the statement is by now so trite, even (or especially) in his own context, that it is hardly worth making.
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Mike Ladano
The result was a collection of remarkably timeless and classic songs: “Only Women Bleed”, “Black Widow”, and “Escape” for example. ... The rest is often more complex, arrangement-wise and lyrically.
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Riff Relevant
the perfect libretto to a career's worth of aural mayhem and delight
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Rebeat
2015 - you just can’t beat the original Nightmare. It proved that Cooper could go it alone, elevating him to the status of international rock icon, and opened up further musical and theatrical possibilities
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Maximum Volume
2015 - The production skills of the great Bob Ezrin once again play more than their part is ensuring that this will be remembered for another 40 years and more.
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Don Ignacio
fully deserves its status as one of Alice Cooper's most celebrated albums
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Only Solitaire
Easily the culmination of the whole Glam Vegas B Movie Oriented Schtick - and a lot of campy (and occasionally witty) fun, too.
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Rough Edge
If you've never added this record to your collection, I would suggest adding this edition to your CD library. Alice Cooper fans will want to go with this near perfect re-master as well.
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Louder Sound
the grooviest, creepiest, most absurd song-and-dance show of his or anyone else’s career ... a wonderfully loony piece of 70s excessive mock’n’roll musical theatre
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Mark's Record Reviews
side two is a masterpiece
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