Happy Friday!🥶❤

@sandymiller3577

Жыл бұрын

Happy Friday to you too!

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

*Juluka* sang *Woza Friday* (which is an idiom meaning "Come On Friday" (or Come Here, Friday/ Hurry Up, Friday) ). I don't know a lot of the lyrics. Should fix that, I suppose. There's some English in there, too. kzread.info/dash/bejne/i6Zq19NtZsvFmKw.html

Great album. Years Ago, Steven and The Awakening should be played consecutively.

@aimeecavallaro8373

Жыл бұрын

I was just going to say that.

@sandymiller3577

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely 👍

@edgervais7981

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

By far my favorite track on the album !!! It's very reminiscent of the Alice Cooper Band and Alice is never more convincing than when he gives pure rock 'n' roll and cold humor. All the lyrics are based on the ambiguity between a chilled bottle of alcohol and a chilled body. it can deal as much with necrophilia (cold) as with alcoholism (ethyl).

@markmaxwell1013

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is well known that he had an alcohol problem that almost killed him. Interesting how he weaves it into some of his songs.

@a.k.1740

Жыл бұрын

@@markmaxwell1013 Exactly, but he alluded to it intelligently and humorously. It's good for him that he got away with it.

@markmaxwell1013

Жыл бұрын

@@a.k.1740 I must add that he was the artist who first got me obsessed with music. Forever grateful to him for that and also grateful he escaped his particular "Poison." Stay cool and stay patient. Maybe BDB in a month or two😎

Death was always on the menu in Cooperland. And, this down & dirty rocker is so tongue-in-cheek daft that it’s positively poetic. Vocally & lyrically Alice is on top form, whilst the guitars are on fire. It’s the yin to Only Women Bleed’s yang. One of my favourite songs on the album. It's hilariously OTT.

@ChrisSmith-bz1gl

Жыл бұрын

Not a single radio station in the '80s would play this on request hour.

@bigs1546

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely the song to pick you up off the floor after Only Women Bleed !! Alice was and still is a trip !

There's an element of humour in most Alice tracks, and this track is a prime example. Looking forward to the next reaction.

Probably my favorite track on this album - I’m glad you took it as it was intended, all in fun, and not with a shocked expression! This song really rocks! I always imagined that the refrigerator light was the one in the morgue.

Hands up everyone who thought Dead Babies was in the worst possible taste. Not so sure now, are you? (The bad taste is probably the formaldehyde actually. Have something sugary afterwards is my advice) This is clever witty stuff from Alice. The interesting thing is that the name Ethel is usually spelled thus whereas Ethyl is usually ethyl alcohol (which is the stuff in booze) so he is probably going for the double entendre. Nice one, Alice.

@rog2224

Жыл бұрын

The only perople who 'thought' Dead Babies was in poor taste hadn't listened to the damned lyrics. It's about child neglect. For actual 'bad taste' is the legendary stadium sing along 'I Love the Dead'.

@themessenger2948

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, he's the only person who can make the lyrics of a song less tame than the double meaning.

Alice Cooper…been seeing him play live since ‘75. He’ll be in Dallas this Thursday…outdoors…107 degrees out. I can’t take the heat. Anyone seeing him for the first time, enjoy!!

Not the first song about necrophilia! On the album, "Billion Dollar Babies", the closing track on side 2 is, "I Love The Dead"!, which, btw, is actually an awesome track. Fear not though, Alice and the rest of the band do not have any sinister secrets, it's just the horror movie type leanings they would employ for some of their work. As you said, it's not dark and disturbing, it is tongue - in - cheek humour. Fantastic guitar on this, that opening lead always gives me a chill, no pun, etc. Also, "Refrigerator Heaven", is a song off their second album, "Easy Action", though that deals with cryogenics. Good reaction though JP. 😊

@frugalseverin2282

Жыл бұрын

I really like the live version on "The Alice Cooper Show", very creepy.

@geoffreymerrifield5666

Жыл бұрын

Some ppl think it's a double meaning song about his alcohol addiction alcohol=ethyl...

Alice invented "Shock Rock" with some advice from Frank Zappa and a lot of Budweiser!

@LordEriolTolkien

10 ай бұрын

decades before Manson

So many great 70's and 80' and 90's Cooper albums

Told you this would be fun!

One of the best necrophilia songs ever

ethyl is also ethyl alcohol which at the time Alice drank alot. so double meaning.

Thank you, Justin. I needed a good laugh today and your reaction delivered!

You have to admit it might be the rockingest song on the album!

@christopherrichardson5352

Жыл бұрын

It's a good one for sure. Escape and Department of Youth are pretty good little rockers as well.

Remember the "blue lady" from Some Folks, Justin? 😉

I’m going to see Alice cooper tomorrow night an im so hyped all these years later an he’s still touring like a mad man

@pauldenby878

Жыл бұрын

Wow - That'll be great he still puts on a show!

@sophiecooper1824

Жыл бұрын

Hope you had great time , he's amazing live

I like the line where Ethyl will be waiting in refrigerator heaven. On Easy Action, his 2nd album with the original band, Alice had a song called Refrigerator Heaven. Conceptual continuity, as FZ would say.

Just delightfully twisted

I've always thought of this track as a companion piece to I Love The Dead on Billion Dollar Babies.

Has there ever been a catchier tune about... well, Ethyl? I think not. Alice Cooper: Often imitated, never equaled or surpassed.

"Cold Ethyl" is a great track (best on the album imo), and it's a double entendre ... is it Ethel the woman or Ethyl the bottle of vodka? Having said that, Alice has a bit of a history with songs about necrophilia. Check out "I Love the Dead" from Billion Dollar Babies. Now THAT's an album to review!!!

@markmaxwell1013

Жыл бұрын

Billion Dollar Babies was the song and album that got me obsessed with music when I was 13. Hello Hooray is absolutely majestic!

Boy maggot says to girl maggot, "I love you", as he lied in dead Ernest. And cow tipping is a thing! Udderly amazing fun! Peace & Love to those below and above.

Many moons and a couple minutes ago, when I introduced my wife to Alice. This was the first album I played her. I thought about skipping Cold Ethyl. I didn't, and in the end it turned out to be her favorite track from this album. 33 years later it's still one of hers and my favorites of his. Vincent Furnier's got a fantastic sense of humor!

I think you handled that particularly well.

It would have been shocking at the time. The music sounds very much of it's time.

Ethyl was also once the term for premium gasoline.

@Drummingvulture

Жыл бұрын

Old joke - "Did you hear about the rape at the gas station? Somebody pumped Ethyl." I figure if you're anything of an Alice Cooper fan, then you don't have an issue with using the term rape in a joke, because that's all it is . . . a joke. I hate political correctness. LOL!

Just remember "Some Folks crave a blue lady"!

The entire album is excellent and should be listened to in its entirety

Only Alice Cooper could get away with this.

Good one. Great party song.

Amazing that Alice has put out some brilliant material in the 2,000's . "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" circa 2011 Obviously not as good as the original but some fantastic moments 1) The Last Man On Earth 2) Gouls Gone Wild Other post 2,000 Alice gems 1) Sunset Babies All got Rabies (banger) 2) The Song That Didn't Rhyme

@neonspec

Жыл бұрын

The Song That Didn’t Rhyme is fantastic haha. Cracks me up every time 😂

@sophiecooper1824

Жыл бұрын

@@neonspec thanks for the 12,99 🤣

Yes, quintessential shock rock. This song was a big part of my childhood.

Probably one of the first shock rockers out there, but yes always a dark themed comedy, especially live on stage.

lol I figured you'd get a kick out of that one.

Great album, great reactions! WTMN is one of my favorite albums. Check out 2 of my other favorite albums-Muscle of Love and Billion Dollar Babies.

If I remember the next track is called years ago this needs to be a double play as parts 1and 2 of the Steven trilogy part 3 follows but 1 and 2 flows into each other.

After just watching the Dahmer Netflix series this is especially disturbing. Has anyone else seen it? Refrigerator heaven indeed. Yes Shock Rock and yes with a sense of humor.

I Love The Dead from Billion Dollar Babies covers the same subject..(and likely my fave Cooper tune)...as others have pointed out,..Years Ago/ Steven/ The Awakening should run together,,,Cheers!

Q: what has never seemed so fun? ;)

Not sure if you caught that the "Refrigerator Heaven" lyric was a callback to the song by that name on the Easy Action album, from very early in his career. And yes, Alice was very much about dark humor, rather than shock to scare or offend.

How can one not like this sound? Cowbell mr Christopher Walken😅

Years Ago, Steven and The Awakening should be played concurrently.

For me this was only ever about Ethyl Alcohol I.e about the booze to which Alice was dangerously addicted at this time. See Billion Dollar Babies for graphic necrophilia.

@markmaxwell1013

Жыл бұрын

Same with the song Poison!

You can fit a whole body in a refrigerator if it's an all fridge with no freezer. Or at least, that's what I've heard lol

I was laughing watching you laugh, Justin!

Fun! Love going through the album. Track by track with you. The best is yet to come... You'll see what shock rock is all about when you hear Years ago, Steven and The Awakening. As always, appreciate the time and effort you put into this 👍

Ethylene glycol is antifreeze for car radiators Ethel is a girls name Ethylene is is petrol

BILLION DOLLAR BABY'S next album 👍 say no more

@cobrasys

Жыл бұрын

@@Katehowe3010 Why? I hope he goes straight into it, honestly. And then moves on to Muscle of Love, also straight away. And then maybe even listen to Goes to Hell.

@cobrasys

Жыл бұрын

@@Katehowe3010 You can just, you know, not watch these.

Saw Alice at the Greek in LA back in 2018 and this was part of the setlist featuring Alice dancing with a rag-doll Ethyl mannequin while the amazing Nita Strauss jammed on guitar. Loved it! Personally, I wouldn't consider this Shock Rock but more like a parody of Shock Rock.

@jgsrhythm100

Жыл бұрын

One of the only artsts getting better into his 70's!!

THIS JUST IN!!! KZreadR JP CLAIMS: "NECROPHILIA NEVER SOUNDED SO FUN"!!! LOL just kidding of course. Also, I've long thought that "Ethyl" was a substitute for methylene oxide, commonly known as formaldehyde, used in embalming fluid.

I lived down the road (in a rural kind of way) from a guy who couldn't accept his wife's death, so he preserved her, kept the house just the way she liked it, and would bring her out for things like dinner time (and dress her up in her favourite dresses, etc.). He was just a bit more romantic than the rest of us, not someone at risk of getting fired from his job at the morgue. I doubt he'd have done necrophilia on her. It was her company he just couldn't accept he'd lost forever. Hmm ... I have a cousin who worked for undertakers for a few years. Really a lot of what they do there is just what my neighbour was doing, but for a shorter time. Help people who're not really ready to face the horrible fact that they're never going to talk to Uncle Eric again feel like he's almost still alive. The thing my cousin was apparently really good at was sewing the lips closed. Makes the deceased look a bit less dead when you do that. (He was quite the wild hedonist when he was young, but I don't think he was a necrophiliac. Just decided he had better prospects learning how to get a lot of water into chicken carcasses at a butchery. If you suspect that the reason there's so much ice in that chicken is that someone is trying to sell you water at chicken prices, you're right. It wasn't for fiddling with the dead that he got fired.) Ethel is the name, and ethyl is the name of the alkyl group (to be unreasonably pedantic about this). These days a mafia group called the IUPAC sends round thugs to drill holes in your kneecaps if you talk of "ethyl alcohol". They want you to please call it ethanol. Or else. Unless you're a scary rock star. A similar thing, but with a methyl group on it is called methanol. And so on. I think I've suggested *Code Blue - by TSOL* for personal punk listening before? Just in case, here's another necrophilia song.kzread.info/dash/bejne/gaSOrK6josWaprg.html

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

Progressive pop is under construction at this very moment, in Norway, and there's an interview that allows you to get inside the heads of the perpetrators of all that pop (and mischief - and darkness, actually, now they mention it). Might be of some interest even to those who don't find the music of this band resonates with them at all. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q46gu9CGntGrcrw.html

@sicko_the_ew

Жыл бұрын

The nice thing is that you have no idea what *Valesa - Chaper 2* is going to be. Could be an homage to the best 70's pop. Could also be death metal. It's that much of a mystery. (I think there might be some connections to the songs that seem to be "less finished" in Chapter 1. And there's a Chapter 3. They're saying they're never going to record it, but it's there already - to some extent, anyway. (I've heard people with insider information getting very excited about Chapter 2, but nobody is talking about Chapter 3 - except to say it doesn't exist, and is unlikely to ever be completed.)

Great to see you having a fun time with this album. Definitely play the next three songs together! Glad you got the humor too. Alice has said multiple times that horror and comedy have always been in bed together.

Nothing subtle about this one. Necrophellia is a recurring theme in Alice's canon. Interestingly there's a song on their 2nd album Easy Action called Refridgerator Heaven

Hilarious!!!!

To me "Cold Ethyl" has always sounded like The Muppet Show on steroids...

"Ethyl" Alcohol...Duh....During this time when he made this song Alice was at his height of Alcoholism....but double meaning im sure...fits his Alice character

Baby's so cold! This guy is the master of the macabre!

There MIGHT even be a better song about necrophilia. But that is also from Alice Cooper :)

And this wasn’t even Alice’s first song about necrophilia…..which never sounded so fun lol. If I’m not mistaken, I think Ann Landers wrote a letter to Alice about this song being disgusting and a bad influence on kids. I may be wrong but I swear I heard Alice talk about that.

@cobrasys

Жыл бұрын

"I Love The Dead" is a shock rock masterpiece.

My favourite necrophilia track

@outernothingness1177

Жыл бұрын

Out of how many?

No

How can you do so much crappy Alice cooper and so little KGLW?

@jgsrhythm100

Жыл бұрын

The likes of Alice Cooper, the Stooges, Black Sabbath invented the style KGLW are doing in 1970!!! They would not exist without Alice paving the way. I appreciate them and understand frustration of not having your suggestion acted upon but it is Alice who is the groundbreaking artsts changing music forever and hugely influential. If anyone deserves the reaction it is Alice.

@barbarjinx3802

Жыл бұрын

@@jgsrhythm100 no I’m cool with him taking his time between bands I like. It’s just so much Alice in a row. Stretch it out. But maybe he’s doing it so quickly just to get this album over with. If that’s the case then keep ‘me coming! The metal stuff KGLW does is the stuff I generally skip over. I like the stooges and some sabbath. I really dislike Alice and all the guys and bands like him. Makeup faux horror tough guy weirdo bs. KISS is hands down the worst most successful band of all time. They are spectacularly terrible and succeed despite their mediocrity, simply because of their theatrics and nonsense.

@jgsrhythm100

Жыл бұрын

@@barbarjinx3802 Check this track co written by Bernie Taupin (79) kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4yIx6x9fdjTp7w.html

@cobrasys

Жыл бұрын

​@@barbarjinx3802 KISS isn't great, but Alice definitely is. Musically, lyrically and theatrically great.

@ReubenAotearoa_

Жыл бұрын

JP is doing this full album this week along with other spooky themed songs for some reason. I can’t quite put my finger on it. It is possible to love Alice and Gizz though. They’re both in my top 5 most played artists at the moment in fact.