Great reaction and one I hoped for, coz I love this song too, yes, those guitar solos!!!.A great song all round. As far as the blue lady is concerned, I think it might be a sensual woman [being polite here], who will satisfy desires. Moving on, Alice has said that this album is really about the seven year old boy - or girl - in all of us, that imagines monsters in the closet and under the bed, boogey man type stuff. He puts this in the context of the kind of nightmares we may continue to have as adults because that child is still there inside us all in the darkened bedroom at night. When you get to side 2, you will have to react to the tracks, "Years Ago", "Steven" and "The Awakening" all together - it's essential! This is where our 7 yr old Steven comes into the story, proper. Till then...😺

@papalaz4444244

Жыл бұрын

"Cosmic Cat" 1 subscriber This channel doesn't have any content - posting spoilers ruining the rest of the album. What a surprise.

@Drummingvulture

Жыл бұрын

This is probably the best explanation of this album I've ever heard. Very cool. Thank you.

@cosmiccat6708

Жыл бұрын

@@Drummingvulture You're welcome, Drumming Vulture.😊

Whenever I hear this song, I see Alice in his white tux (complete with tails, top hat and walking stick) dancing with the skeletons in their own white top hats. One of these dancers became his wife of more than forty-five years. Both of their fathers were pastors. They both performed their wedding ceremony. How cool is that?

@AlBowlly2316

Жыл бұрын

I recorded the music from the tv special on my portable cassette recorder back in the late 70’s.

@hays9008

Жыл бұрын

Me too

Fred Astaire-meets-Busby Berkeley; especially on the Nightmare TV special. It's Alice on Broadway. Top hats, tails, & dancing skeletons. A song for finger-clicking hoofers. Vaudeville Cooper.

I met him once at the airport, we chatted a delightful kind man love him.

Alice Cooper also did an album called "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" in 2011. Kind of like a part two of "Welcome to My Nightmare",

when I saw Alice in concert, the next song "only women bleed" was starting, there was a white screen with a ballerina behind it, so all you could see was her silhouette dancing ballet. Dancing beautifully, throughout the entire song. I later learned, that's Alice's wife... I didn't know it at the time. They've been married forever... I noticed another guy said 45 years... I agree with that. I appreciate you doing this album. I haven't heard it in years, but I remember it like it was yesterday. It gets even better, and better... You're doing a great job, love the analysis and breakdowns of the songs... Great reaction 👍

Cold Ethyl....Department of Youth....Escape......so rocking.......but, his progressive side.....Steven, Years Ago, The Awakening....FN incredible!!! Great album!!!

Justin, "seeing red" and "blue lady" are going to get explained in The Awakening and Cold Ethyl, respectively. 😉😉

Cabaret is a great descriptor, JP! Alice touches on Detroit-style rock, jazz, Broadway and drama. If you see Alice live, it is truly a “show” and not necessarily a concert per se. Every song is written with consideration to how to perform/present it live. Peace from Toronto

If you look at the lyrics to this song after you have heard the whole album, you will see that this songs refers to a lot of the topics covered in other songs on the album. (The blue lady is probably referring to Cold Ethyl...)

Hey Justin! A shout out to Master Jon Anderson on his 78th birthday❗🎈🎈🎈😎

If you do more, you have to listen to years ago, steven, and the awakening all together. So awesome seeing someone hear this for the first time! 😆

It's obvious that you're getting the tongue-in-cheek humor of the album and the dark humor behind the sheer absurdity. When I saw Alice live in 2018, he was still performing a couple of songs from this record. Re: the blue lady reference might possibly become more apparent later in the record with the song Cold Ethyl ;-)

@brittybee6615

5 ай бұрын

Oooooooooooh! 😨

This has been my favorite album since high school. It's great to see somebody hearing it for the first time.

Cold Ethel is another really fun track!

I saw the Nightmare show live back in 75. When they did Some Folks with the dancing skeletons it was in a word "AMAZING". BTW this song is about some of the worst sexual fetishes some folks have and how some folks just can't believe it. Blue Lady means dead. She's blue

@Alan-vs9bc

Жыл бұрын

It's Cooper's Broadwayesque update of I Love The Dead.

@papalaz4444244

Жыл бұрын

were you also 5yos old, to complete this meme

@waynehawk4747

Жыл бұрын

@@papalaz4444244 16 actually

@mikeshelogowski434

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I was 7. Thanks mom!!

it's been awesome reliving this album with you. this is easily in my top 5 all time favorite albums. can't wait for the rest. I love Steven. lots of love my friend

The songs I like best on "Welcome To My Nightmare" are three songs that need to be played together because they form a small trilogy. It's "Years Ago", "Steven" and "Awakening". Never saw the release as a concept album, by the way. A 'themed' album, maybe, yes, but not a concept album. Cheerio.

@papalaz4444244

Жыл бұрын

People have called it a concept album since the 70s mate

@JimmyRJump

Жыл бұрын

@@papalaz4444244 I, along with a whole bunch of others, wasn't among them and I bought the album when it was released... mate...

@Drummingvulture

Жыл бұрын

@@JimmyRJump It's a total concept album IMO. The songs are all related and tell a story about a boy (man, actually) and the nightmares he's having. The definition of a concept album can be very subjective, though.

Awesome reactions.. you should check out Goes to Hell and From the Inside after this album.. both albums are awesome

@mikeshelogowski434

Жыл бұрын

A trilogy of perfection imho.

"Some Folks" think he's crude. "Some Folks" don't get the attitude. But behold this rude, dude, dancing in the skeleton suit. He takes 'camp' to another level, waiting on his bride, 'Cold Ethyl'. Peace & Love, till the full moon shines above,(then things get hairy, my little canary!)

Alice / Vince is really good at playing insane.

Only women bleed next up...deserving of this kind of analysis.

I always thought the "crave a blue lady" was a reference to Cold Ethyl

Hey Justin! Only Women Bleed next. Great song. 😎

When this album came out my best friend, and fellow Alice Cooper fan, was working as a DJ at one of the AM radio stations here in central Vermont. He got fired for playing the next track on the album, Only Women Bleed. They felt it was obscene. The management obviously never listened to or read the lyrics because they thought it was about menstruation when it obviously is not. Silly conservative adults. They weren't willing to admit that they were wrong and the song remained banned.

you should have just done the whole album. So great!!!

It's fun and theatric. I am not likely to run out and buy it but I am enjoying listening to these tracks. I am surprised it wasn't made into a musical but I suspect they were making enough touring with it already. For some reason it got me started thinking of the movie "Jesus Christ Superstar". I had seen Carl Anderson, who plays Judas, perform at The Cave in Vancouver a couple of times in 1974. He was great. That was a good year for music as I also saw Focus, Joe Cocker and, iirc, Ohio Players in Vancouver.

If you didn’t know it was a concept album you certainly would have figured it out by the end!

If you watch the live performance of this song, Alice is dancing with a chorus line who are wearing glow in the dark skeleton costumes. I always thought blue lady referred to Cold Ethyl, who appears later in the album/show.

@davidbarker77

Жыл бұрын

Or blue as in pornographic. Could be either.

the radical outlier on the great album. Still good....but so different.

I thought blue lady was another necrophilia song. Blue/ dead lady

You're killing it brother!

I recently watched the Dahmer series a d there seems to be a parallel with this song " Some Folks, like to see red" " I just can't live without it".

where is his rock songs?

"Some Folks" is Alice playing cabaret but it's not very exciting. this album is fully a musical but the problem is that I don't like this genre😉

@a.k.1740

Жыл бұрын

@@Katehowe3010 I hope Justin doesn't also do the Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Lace and Whiskey albums, otherwise we're not out of trouble !!! ☹

Sorry not a good album but a great album get it right next time

probably the weakest track on a fantastic album, but it still has its charms.

what's with all the alice cooper ?!?!?!?!?!?

@a.k.1740

Жыл бұрын

Maybe a sudden whim from Justin... who knows !🤔 Fortunately there is "Only Women Bleed" which follows, because there at least it is a good piece ! 😉

@jeffschielka7845

Жыл бұрын

@@a.k.1740 OWB is a great song!😎

@a.k.1740

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffschielka7845 Yes great piece ! I also like the three more basic rock "Department Of Youth", "Cold Ethyl" and "Escape" which evoke a bit the Alice Cooper Band, but that's it.

@maruad7577

Жыл бұрын

Because it fits the Halloween theme Justin is following these week.

@jfergs.3302

Жыл бұрын

@@a.k.1740 Re OWB, it probably works better in the flow of the story, album. A little schmaltzy on its own. That said the title makes me smile. I can't hear that phrase without seeing Eddie Hitler shouting those word, just prior to punching Ritchie in the face in Bottom 😂