Product Description

Legendary rock n roll genius Alice Cooper has joined forces with SPV to unleash the master s latest dark, conceptual masterpiece Along Came A Spider . With a full-scale North American tour in place for 2008, an aggressive marketing team ready to go, and a household name icon steering the ship, the sky is truly the limit. The time for a full blown revival has arrived and 2008 will be the year of Alice Cooper - an artist who has had immeasurable impact upon rock music and every facet of pop culture.

And in this special vinyl edition, Along Came A Spider is even scarier!!

Track Listing

1. Prologue/I Know Where You Live
2. Vengeance Is Mine
3. Wake The Dead
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
6. Wrapped In Silk
7. Killed By Love
8. I m Hungry
9. The One That Got Away
10. Salvation
11. I Am The Spider/Epilogue

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110247 in Music
• Released on: 2008-08-05
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Misses Bob Ezrin's Touch
Don't get me wrong, this is a good Alice Cooper album and the packaging by Piggy D is top notch on the LP. I even got a little weak in the knees when I saw the silk colored wax (man I miss artwork like this).

Lyrically, it is all Alice. If not even more twisted and mean than ever before. Musically, it sounds like a Hampton and Saber album (except for Vengence - easily the best track). It doesn't sound like how Bob Ezrin would have left things, and this is basically what keeps it from being an awesome record.

Remember how when Jeff Lynne was producing Roy Orbison, Jeff Harrison, Tom Petty, everybody sounded like an ELO record? Not the marks of a good producer. Same thing here. This disk had the potential to be a monster smash, but the production killed it.

Along Came A CLassic !!!
This is the best collection of songs / stories Alice has released since "Brutal Planet"....and the most fully realised "concept" since "From The Inside". There are hints of Alice's back catalogue: The opening riff of "Im Hungry" is reminiscent of "Is It My Body" while "I Know Where You Live" would sit nicely on "Flush The Fashion" or "Special Forces". And of course, our favourite, all time anti-hero Steven makes a welcome (to my nightmare) return. Alice's voice is razor sharp and his lyrics, typically tongue in cheek / Hammer Horror style are among the best he's written. "You look like you'd fit in the trunk of my car" from "The One That Got Away" is an instant "Cooper Classick". The band / assembled musicians are right on the money (cant wait to hear this material live and loud !!).And...here..my prize...the artwork. Absolutely gorgeous !!! Especially on the vinyl version. Gotta love big 12" x !2" covers..with a gatefold. Presentation is right up there with the LP versions of "Billion Dollar Babies", "Schools Out", "Killer" and "The Last Temptation".
Get it before it gets you !!!
Best wishes...MAC

Loved the album in general, but the LP is something a little extra
It was slightly unfortunate about the delay on this one. It was originally supposed to be put out on July 29th, but was set back about seven days. Well worth the wait though! My opinion about the music is the same as the CD version - all I don't care for as much is the title track and certain portions of "I Know Where You Live" and "Catch Me If You Can." But that only has to do with preferences of style.

Otherwise... this is a beautifully made LP record! It has a gatefold cover with different art than the front of the cd version, and the inside photos are essentially the same but in blocks (made to look like posted photos) on top of a metal chest-looking-background with hinges. The vinyl is a transparent white color, like a SPIDERWEB :), and comes inside of a sleeve where the lyrics are printed.

And, regardless of what you've heard, this isn't a double record. The only extras I know of are several bonus tracks on the iTunes version of the album.