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Along Came A Spider | 
 enlarge | Artist: Alice Cooper
Label: RSK
Category: Music
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 339
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 90602
UPC: 693723906027
EAN: 0693723906027
ASIN: B001ASVAM8
Release Date: July 28, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Prologue/I Know Where You Live | | • | Vengeance Is Mine | | • | Wake The Dead | | • | Catch Me If You Can | | • | (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side | | • | Wrapped In Silk | | • | Killed By Love | | • | Hungry | | • | The One That Got Away | | • | Salvation | | • | I Am The Spider/Epilogue |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Coopers returns with vengence!!! July 8, 2008
Oh dear! (Bath)
35 out of 37 found this review helpful
After two garage albums it seemed inevitable that Alice would have another crack at the concept album.The problem for Cooper is that his output has been so vastly varied over his career that one persons poison is another's delight.
A serial killer named Spider is the focus of the album and seems to be sung in a first person perspective.
Musically the album dips into Alice's past.
1. Prologue/I Know Where You Live: Great guitar riff and seventies style lead.I believe there is even some tambourine in there!!!
2. Vengeance Is Mine: This could belong on Dragontown, great melody
3. Wake The Dead: Sixties psychedelic feel with vocals that match, good guitar riff and nice bass work.
4. Catch Me If You Can:Pretty straight rock song, good chorus with intelligent guitar breaks.
5. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side:Good chorus and another seventies groove!
6. Wrapped In Silk:Excellent bass work and great guitar interplay.
7. Killed By Love:The ballad!!! Actually works well and is helped by nice backing vocals and a great Alice vocal.
8.I am Hungry:To my ears, a definite nod to the original ACG,nice Bruce type riff. A good measured lead solo.
9. The One That Got Away:Good melodies and a fine arrangement, a seventies feel again!
10. Salvation: This sounds as though it could of sat quite happily on the Go to Hell album, nice drum work, mixed with inventive bass playing and a big chorus!
11. I Am The Spider/Epilogue:A zombie feel and a deliberate plodding and down beat(what do you expect, its about a serial killer),with another great guitar riff!
This album demands many listen to fully appreciate all its wonders, to me this is the most satisfying Alice album in years, and like any truly great album it makes you work to fully explore its brilliance.
There is a real retro feel that is offset by clean and modern production.If you listen through head phones it brings another dimension to the sound!
a return to form July 24, 2008
spike (united kingdom)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Alice continues his 21st century revival as a the father of shock rock with a vengeance with his latest album that reflects the work he had done with with welcome to my nightmare while the distorted heavy guitar riffs and Alices spooky singing are similar to that of Marylin Mansons "Antichrist superstar" album but with a much darker, tougher edge that harks back to the Love it to death/Schools out era without the special effects that a lot of the elder statesmen of rock use to hide the fact there vocals are not what they have used to be when they where young.
The Guitars on the album are raw and unbridled especially on the Song like "Vengeance is mine" which features an eviscerating solo from Slash who would feature very comfortably alongside into this energised outfit which includes guitarists Keri Kellis and Jason Hook, Bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Eric Singer which makes the album atually feel its more of a band effort when Alice Cooper was actually a band when he first started out.
Other tracks like (In touch) with your feminine side and the one that got away still has plenty of shock value proving Alice's advancing years has not diminished his menacing alter ego after all these years!
To cap it all of this abum is even up for a classic rock nomination for best album of the year 2008.
The god of shock rock is back with a vengeance!
 ...back to the 70's as Alice returns with a killer concept... July 17, 2008
Mr. H (Embra)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Well, it looks like the garage rock years are over, as Alice returns to his old stomping ground - the concept album! This time it tells the charming tale of a serial killer named Spider, whose trademark is wrapping his victims in silk. Hurrah! But don't worry, this is cuddly 21st century Alice, so he gets his comeuppance when he goes all girly and falls in love with one of his victims. Boo!
He's stuck to his road band for this trip to the studio, so Kiss drummer Eric Singer, bassist Chuck Garric and guitarists Keri Kelli and Jason Hook handle the majority of the work on the album. And all that time spent touring has paid off. They sound like a proper band, not just a bunch of session guys who've popped in to pay the bills. There is room for some guests, though, and Guns n' Roses / Velvet Revolver fella Slash lays down an excellent solo on "Vengeance Is Mine", one of the highlights on the album. In a novel twist Ozzy Osborne whips out his mouth organ for some, well, pedestrian harmonica work on "Wake The Dead", where he also gets a co-writing credit.
It's a surprisingly heavy album, especially considering that for studio album number 25, Alice has brought in a new production team in the shape of Danny Saber, formerly of Black Grape, and Greg Hampton who's been working on an album project teaming up ex Guns n' Roses guitarist Buckethead and Bootsy Collins. But any fears that this would end up a dance crossover are firmly dashed, despite some heavy synth work on "Catch Me If You Can", which I'm sure will get pushed as a single.
Despite the return to the concept album, the sound is more similar to his Brutal Planet and Dragontown albums than it is to the seventies sounds of Welcome To My Nightmare or From The Inside, especially the large amounts of riffing laid down by Keri Kelli and Jason Hook. The one track that totally fails is the big ballad, "Salvation", which just pales besides older material like "How You Gonna See Me Now". Luckily, there is an array of material that rocks out and will, doubtless, slot happily into his never-ending tour. "Wrapped In Silk" and "I'm Hungry", for example, are custom built for audience sing-a-longs. Finally, things come full circle in the closing track "I Am The Spider / Epilogue", when an old, old friend pops in for a cameo.
He may have turned 60 this year but there's no sign of him fading away, as this really is a good Alice Cooper album, one that tries to tie in the various musical strands he's pursued over his career, and will be a delight for anyone whose followed him on the way.
The album that grows on you! August 2, 2008
Neal Parkinson (Lancashire, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to admit I'm a big Alice Cooper fan - I have all his albums spanning nearly 40 years and was lucky enough to see the guy in concert a few years ago. So how does this album rate?
Well - I have to admit the first time I played Along Came A Spider, I wasn't that impressed. Don't get me wrong, there are some A1 Cooper material on the album like "Vengeance Is Mine" and "Catch Me If You Can" but there also some other songs on the album I didn't really care for like "Killed By Love" and "Salvation" which are the typical Alice ballads that he likes to put on every album.
A few weeks ago I probably would have given the album 3 stars but after listening to it a few times now, I would say it merit's 4 stars.
The key to the album is that the sum of the album is greater than the individual songs. The songs do compliment themselves overall but individually some are a little weak ("I'm Hungry" being the case in point).
Overall, this is a solid album. The fact that this is Alice's most succesfull album chartwise since his early 90's work suggest that maybe finally he is getting the credit he deserves. It was criminal that his previous albums (Brutal Planet, Eyes Of Alice Cooper) were overlooked by many as these were some of Cooper's best work. I'm hoping that "Vengeance is Mine" or "Catch Me If You Can" are released as a single as these are great songs that I think would do well in the singles chart.
So my final appraisal would be that yes this is a good Alice Cooper album but it can take a few plays to fully appreciate just how good it is. This album really does grow on you!
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