My Top 10 Alice Cooper Halloween Songs
I have changed the list many times but have to decide before Halloween is over.
Of course Alice is The Godfather of Halloween and a very clever lyricist.
Have a Happy Halloween
10. Former Lee Warmer from 1983, Dada
Former Lee Warmer is the brother who's locked
in his room and peers out behind the curtain windows in his room. This album is more like Alfred Hitchcock than Steven King which sometimes implying makes it more scary.
9. Ballad of Dwight Fry from 1971, Love It To Death
Ballad of Dwight Fry from one of the RKO horror characters
who plays Igor or Renfield in Dracula and Frankenstein movies
appeared to Alice as more frightening than the monsters.
8. Millie And Billie from 1978, From The Inside
It starts off sounding like a love song only to get more demented
as they talk about slicing and sealing Millie's husband Donald in
baggies.
7. Killer from 1971, Killer
I think the priest praying in Latin as his walking down the hall
with the convicted killer to his execution and the organ music
along with that final swirl of death ends the song.
6. Tag, You're It from 1982, Zipper Catches Skin
I like the way narrates this sort of bedtime or campfire story.
5. He's Back (Man Behind The Mask) from 1986, Constrictor
Soundtrack to Friday's The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives.
4. Gail from 1987, Raise Your Fist And Yell
This could be a trilogy w/
Chop, Chop, Chop/Gail/Roses On White Lace
but the Gail lyrics are very creepy.
3. Years Ago/Steven from 1975, Welcome To My Nightmare
Year Ago the spooky carnival music sort of like Carnival of Souls movie that leads into Steven as Alice sings in a little boy's voice. Many stories of who is he singing too and why are they dead.
2. Dead Babies from 1971, Killer
When I first heard that baby cry it gave me chills. Of course
the song is about child neglect but the music makes it spookier.
1. I Love The Dead from 1973, Billion Dollar Babies
The title itself is scary and only gets eerie as Alice sings
"...cadaver eyes upon me see... nothing"
That pause before he says "nothing" just builds up the terror.
This song reminds me of an old horror film w/ Bela Lugosi
roaming the cemetery.
Some of the runner ups were:
Wind-Up Toy - Hey Stoopid, 1991
The One That Got Away - Along Came A Spider, 2008
Pick Up The Bones - Brutal Planet, 2000
