{"id":3423,"date":"2010-05-05T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T08:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2011-08-10T22:53:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T20:53:27","slug":"album-review-alice-cooper-thrash-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/album-review-alice-cooper-thrash-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Alice Cooper, Trash (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alice Cooper, Trash album cover. Released in 1989. Image via images.uulyrics.com\/cover\/a\/alice-cooper\/album-trash.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I knew about and liked Alice Cooper for a long time before I found the album Thrash. When something is really fun, I remember everything about it. That’s the way my memory works. I bought Trash in 2005, in Norway. As much as I enjoy all of Alice’s songs, this album was made for me- with its perfect guitar riffs and solos and the fun lyrics, with the right cool vocals to match.\u00a0 You can dance to this album and if you can catch up with the songs, I guarantee you’ll be down at least a couple of pounds down once the tracks finish playing. Since I love each and every one of the songs, I described evewry one of them seperately and included a part of the lyrics. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

1) Poison:<\/strong> Any rock fan has to know the song Poison surely? \u00a0It is how us late rock boomers (meaning those who were born in the late 80s and had to discover rock on their own. Thanks to VH1 and later the internet) Cooper. Great Karaoke song and a great way to see how long that breath of yours can last.<\/p>\n

“One look could kill
\nMy pain, your thrill
\nI want to love you, but I better not touch (Don’t touch)
\nI want to hold you but my senses tell me to stop
\nI want to kiss you but I want it too much (Too much)
\nI want to taste you but your lips are venomous poison
\nYou’re poison runnin’thru my veins
\nYou’re poison, I don’t want to break these chains”<\/em><\/p>\n

2) Spark in the Dark:<\/strong> This is just sexy, saucy, naughty and just fun.<\/p>\n

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\n“Come around midnight
\nWe’ll be crawlin’on the floor
\nBurnin’with the fever
\nAnd yellin’out for more
\nBut don’t you write it in your diary, baby
\nDon’t blab it on the phone
\nCuz if your mom and dad find out
\nThey’ll skin me to the bone
\nNow we don’t need instructions, baby
\nDon’t you be afraid
\nIt takes a little friction
\nThat’s how our love is made
\nFrom a little spark in the dark”<\/em><\/p>\n

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3) House of Fire: <\/strong>passion, passion and more passion. Hell, yeah!<\/em><\/p>\n


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“House of fire
\nHouse of fire, yeah
\nLet’s build a house of fire, baby
\nNot one of wood or stone
\nWalk thru my door of desire, baby
\nCome on in and make it your home
\nDon’t need a window to watch you, baby
\nDon’t need no roof overhead
\nDon’t need no key to unlock ya, baby
\nI’ll use my lovin’instead
\nI won’t tire
\nTake me higher
\nBuilding a house of fire, baby
\nBuildin’it with our love
\nWe are buildin’a house of fire every time we touch
\nHouse of fire”<\/em><\/p>\n

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4) Why Trust You: <\/strong>mistrust, spite and anger. They have never been more entertaining. Boy, Alice Cooper rocks. More than ever.<\/p>\n

“You come to me all teary-eyed
\nWith your big tall tale way up to the sky
\nBegging on your knees for another chance
\nBut everybody knows that’s a song and a dance
\nThere used to be a time when you were the best
\nYou had the fastest tongue in the west
\nYa gave a look and a line like nobody else
\nYou’d try to sell the Bible to the devil, Himself
\nYou sadistic little liar
\nYou’re walking on the wire you’re bluffin’up with nothin’
\nAnd the bills are gettin’higher
\nWhy trust you”<\/em><\/p>\n

5) Only<\/strong> <\/strong>My Hart Talkin’<\/strong>: <\/strong>Funny how our groupie-loving bad boys can go romantic better than other genre singers. Screw pop. I mean really. Why would you need a supposedly tear-jerking song when Alice can sing you an electric ballad? Slow in the right places. And faster in all the right ones too.
\n“Anybody’s dream can fall apart
\nAnybody’s mask can break
\nCouldn’t tell you how I wanted you
\nEnough to make you want to stay
\nI never said the words out loud
\nI guess I couldn’t get’em straight
\nBaby, give me one more chance
\nBefore you walk away
\nIt’s only, only, only my heart talkin’ “<\/em><\/p>\n

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6) Bed of Nails:<\/strong> And romance is over and passion,lust and mischief are back. \u201c<\/strong>No one else gets that deep inside you, As I do, baby\u201d. \u00a0 I am just quoting. Love this song.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, we’re gonna fight
\nWe do it every night
\nBaby, when you scratch
\nYou know I’m gonna bite
\nYou can make me die
\nI can make you cry
\nOpposites attract
\nThat’s the reason why
\nNo one else could make you feel
\nLike I do, I do, I do
\nNo one else gets that deep inside you
\nAs I do, baby
\nOur love is a bed of nails
\nLove hurts good on a bed of nails
\nI’ll lay you down and when all else fails
\nI’ll drive you like hammer on the bed of nails”<\/em><\/p>\n

7) This Maniac’s In Love With You<\/strong>: <\/strong>I am totally in love with this album. I adore every single track in it. But I just adore some songs more than the other. This is one of them. Perfect for dancing your butt off to and so cute too. It is so much better when a guy knows what an s.o.b. he is. I am just kidding. But if he is calling himself a maniac, he probably is.<\/p>\n

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“I used to be so in control
\nBut reality is losing its hold
\nNow I don’t know where to begin
\nJust look at the state that I’m in
\nMy mind is in total decay
\nI’m coming to take you away
\nThere’s nothing more that I can do
\nThis maniac’s in love with you
\nYour biggest fear has just come true
\nThis maniac’s in love with you
\nThis maniac’s in love with you”<\/em><\/p>\n

8 ) Trash<\/strong>: And the cute guy is again replaced by the dirty-chick loving regular Joe. Trash is the girl that all guys fantasize about. I wouldn\u2019t get all thrash for Cooper but for some specific rockers, I just might. Below is the audio track.<\/p>\n

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” It ain’t the way you crawl across the Cathouse floor
\nIt ain’t the way you curse me when you slam the bedroom door
\nIt ain’t the way you sweat me for a handful of easy cash
\nIt’s just the way you love me when you turn to trash
\nTrash
\nIt’s not the way you dress when you socialize, oh those eyes
\nIt ain’t the diamond rock or that Rolls you drive
\nYou can walk the streets with all your uptown flash
\nBut when you hit the sheets you just turn trash
\nYou’re such trash”<\/em><\/p>\n

9) Hell Is Living Without You<\/strong>: <\/strong>It was time we got romantic once again. One of my favorite slowish rock songs. Well, it is slower than the other songs\u2026right until Alice feels the need to express himself more loudly and passionately. Just terrific. Who gives a crap about Always (Bon Jovi- I love that band-my favorite band actually- but Always is The most overrated Bon Jovi song ever) when there is this song?<\/p>\n

“Hell is living without your love
\nAin’t nothing without your
\nTouch me
\nHeaven would be like hell
\nIs living without you
\nNights get longer and colder
\nI’m down begging to hold ya
\nOn my own and I feel like hell”<\/em><\/p>\n

10) I am your gun: <\/strong>And the naughty rocker is back. Another hard-rock song to boogie to. Love this song. Yeah, if any of you is a teenager, don\u2019t listen to this song while your parents are around.<\/p>\n

“And if you see me on the street
\nAnd you’re burnin’from the heat
\nThere’s a fire down below
\nYou be the target on the bed
\nI’ll be shooting hot lead
\nLet me take control
\nYou’re scared little girl in this big, bad town
\nSo easy to sink, so easy to drown
\nPull my trigger, I get bigger
\nThen I’m lots of fun
\nI’m your gun
\nI’m your gun, gun, gun
\nBite my bullet
\nPush and pull it
\nTell me I’m the one
\nI’m your gun
\nI’m your gun, gun, gun”<\/p>\n

10 \/10. As perfect as glam+hard rock get. If you are a fan of great electric riffs and an ultra-energizing 10-song-album with only 2 songs that barely give you a time to rest, this album is THE ONE. Long live Alice Cooper!<\/p>\n

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