Welcome to Our Nightmare: A Tribute to Alice Cooper

Welcome To our Nightmare: A Tribute To Alice Cooper is a tribute album to Alice Cooper. Released in 1993 on Triple X Records, the album features covers of various Alice Cooper songs from a variety of rock artists.

Welcome To our Nightmare: A Tribute To Alice Cooper
Compilation album by
Various artists
Released1993
Genre
Length110:25
LabelTriple X
Producer
  • Peter Heur
  • Dean Naleway

Liner notes

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The album features liner notes by Wayne Kramer,[1] MC5 guitar player and founder.[2] It reads:

So I'm sitting in the dressing room of this club in Philadelphia back in '69 waiting for show time, and somebody sticks a head in the door and asks, "is the MC5 gonna wear their sparkly clothes tonight?" "Who wants to know?" I ask. "Alice Cooper," is the response. So I'm wondering why this woman from the other band is interested in what my band is wearing. Sure, we had some flashy stage outfits, sorta James Brown meets the Who. It wasn't until later that night I discovered Alice Cooper was no girl singer, but a guy with a very weird bunch of other guys with some very strange ideas of their own.

Soon after this gig they moved their base of operations from L.A. to Detroit, and we began seeing more and more of them. Since we shared booking agents, we often appeared on the same bill together. And for a moment, there may have been a friendly rivalry over which band would be the most outrageous.

As for the MC5, outrageousness got us fired for unprofessional conduct. Outrageousness got us arrested, beaten, jailed, and ultimately dissed by a system that didn't want to hear what we were saying.

The good news is that Alice Cooper got over. Like a big dog. Their brand of gothic horror camp entertainment found its audience in the disconnected youth of the Seventies. It was a time when local detroit area gigs at teen clubs and mini-pop festivals were turning into arena-rock on a grand scale. It's to Alice's credit that his vision helped make this happen. This wasn't the Partridge Family or Saturday Night Fever. More like the Addams Family with electric guitars at the Saturday Night Massacre. Great fun. Very healthy.

These CDs represent a body of work of which Alice and his bandmates can be justifiably proud. The groups that covered the material have all done an exceptional job of being true to the spirit of the originals while putting some Nineties energy on it. Twenty-three songs by twenty-three bands is a big order. Musically, Alice (and the bands here) always seemd [sic] to find a slightly skewed way of playing, of avoiding the commonplace chord changes or guitar melodies. Shows that thinking can be fun. You don't have to dig very deep to hear the influence of Alice had on the current crop of metal bands.

It's not a pretty job to explore the dark side. Good thing Alice Cooper has this way come.

Track listing

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Disc One
No.TitleMusicPerformer(s)Length
1."Reflected"Alice CooperDramarama3:07
2."Levity Ball"Alice CooperWallison Ladmoh4:52
3."Refrigerator Heaven"Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway and Neal SmithJohn Trubee & The Ugly Janitors Of America1:59
4."Lay Down and Die, Goodbye"Alice CooperOf Cabbages and Kings5:21
5."Caught in a Dream"Michael BruceRubber City Rebels2:58
6."Black Juju"Dennis DunawayLydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard9:22
7."Second Coming/Ballad of Dwight Fry"Alice Cooper and Michael BruceBug Lamp9:40
8."Sun Arise"Harry Butler and Rolf HarrisFlaming Lips5:21
9."Under My Wheels"Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Bob EzrinBulimia Banquet4:03
10."Halo of Flies"Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Glen BuxtonHaunted Garage7:31
11."Desperado"Alice Cooper and Michael BruceChris Connelly3:26
Disc Two
No.TitleMusicPerformer(s)Length
1."Dead Babies/Killer"Alice Cooper, Neal Smith, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis DunawayShadow Project9:09
2."School's Out"Alice Cooper and Michael BruceReverb Motherfuckers3:33
3."Generation Landslide"Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael BruceClaw Hammer5:00
4."Working Up a Sweat"Alice Cooper and Michael BruceRoyal Court of China3:58
5."Teenage Lament"Alice Cooper and Michael BruceTyla2:26
6."Welcome To My Nightmare"Alice Cooper and Dick WagnerCold Ethyl5:14
7."Cold Ethyl"Alice Cooper and Robert EzrinCarnival Art2:43
8."Only Women Bleed"Alice Cooper and Dick WagnerThe Hangmen7:26
9."Serious"Alice Cooper, Steve Lukather, David Foster and Bernie TaupinSloppy Seconds2:17
10."Clones"David CarronThey Eat Their Own3:51
11."Pain"Alice Cooper, Fred Mandel and David JohnstoneDutchess de Sade4:19
12."Poison"Alice Cooper, Desmond Child and John McCurryThe Vandals2:49

Personnel

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  • Bruce S. L. Duff — Project Coordinator (Tapes & Phones)
  • Peter Heur — Executive Producer
  • Dean Naleway — Executive Producer
  • Dan Hirsch — Mastering
  • Lisa Sutton — Art direction
  • David Griffith - Cover Photo
  • Alex Leon, Jr. (Shark) - Inside Photos

References

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  1. ^ Wayne Kramer (1993). Untitled (CD booklet). Los Angeles, California: Triple X Records. p. 02.
  2. ^ Jason Ankeny. "MC5 - Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 January 2016.