Alice Cooper
Constrictor
Album · Hard Rock · 1986 · Geffen*
By 1986, rock and pop music had completely changed since Cooper’s heyday in the '70s—and even since his last album, 1983’s wholly overlooked DaDa. Here, with the help of muscleman guitar-shredder and co-songwriter Kane Roberts and metal producer Beau Hill (Ratt), Cooper made an album timed perfectly for the era. “Give It Up,” “Teenage Frankenstein,” “Simple Disobedience,” “Crawlin’," and the self-prophesizing “Great American Success Story” are the shout-outs that really highlight. The synth-popping single “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” was tellingly (and symbolically) featured in the film Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part Six.
Constrictor
Alice Cooper
By 1986, rock and pop music had completely changed since Cooper’s heyday in the '70s—and even since his last album, 1983’s wholly overlooked DaDa. Here, with the help of muscleman guitar-shredder and co-songwriter Kane Roberts and metal producer Beau Hill (Ratt), Cooper made an album timed perfectly for the era. “Give It Up,” “Teenage Frankenstein,” “Simple Disobedience,” “Crawlin’," and the self-prophesizing “Great American Success Story” are the shout-outs that really highlight. The synth-popping single “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” was tellingly (and symbolically) featured in the film Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part Six.
