Genres: Hard Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Born: February 4, 1948 in Detroit, MI
The Doors, Frank Zappa, MC5, The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Amboy Dukes, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Kinks, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Jimi Hendrix, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Pretty Things, Bob Dylan, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Kiss, Twisted Sister, Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, New York Dolls, Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Iggy Pop, Megadeth, The Ramones, Metallica, The Misfits, The Sex Pistols, Motörhead, Quiet Riot, Soundgarden, David Bowie, ZZ Top, W.A.S.P. David Lee Roth, The Misfits, Bent Wind, Marilyn Manson, Ratt, Cycle Sluts from Hell, GWAR, Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Peter Criss, V. Majestic, Twisted Sister, The Fluid, Dead Boys, Gregory's Funhouse, Stiv Bators, Sid Vicious, Layne Staley, Plasmatics |  |
Originally, there was a band called Alice Cooper led by a singer named Vincent Damon Furnier. Under his direction, Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood, and huge boa constrictors, all coordinated by the heavily made-up Furnier. By that time, Furnier had adopted the name for his androgynous on-stage personality. While the visuals were extremely important to the group's impact, the band's music was nearly as distinctive. Driven by raw, simple riffs and melodies that derived from '60s guitar pop as well as show tunes, it was rock & roll at its most basic and catchy, even when the band ventured into psychedelia and art rock.
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Release: November 17, 2009
Label: Sony/BMG
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Release: August 11, 2009
Label: IMV Blueline
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