Yes, I remember reading something about that a long time ago (the history of the songwriting on “Clones”), and I remember learning a little about David Carron, who as I recall had something to do with Arlo Guthrie. Apparently he wrote this after watching the movie “The Boys From Brazil”, which was a film about ex-nazis attempting to clone a new third reich. Gregory Peck was the lead actor. Anyway, Alice changed the lyrics a bit to make it a little less specific and more about conformity in general, or at least that’s what I remember from reading up on that.
@@sophiecooper1824 saw him that Summer in Grand Rapids, MI. Didn't recall it on his setlist, was keeping an eye on five friends, after Bachman and Turner opened the show. (PS-Clones is there to be verified online) He's a great guy, met Alice in 2007 in another GR show.
Definitely Numan-influenced. That was the very first thing I thought of the first time I heard this song. In fact, it almost borders on plagiarism, but it’s so damn catchy that it’s easy to overlook. It was a big relief after all the loungey, sappy stuff he’d been cranking out in the late 70’s (Lace and Whiskey, From The Inside).
@@mikeguerin4535 I really love this Alice Cooper…clearly Molly Meldrum did not, hence I had no idea that this incarnation exists until now. I know he clearly very unwell, but he was *interesting*, and the music is great. I’m am glad he survived the insanity of the times tho. I recently learned something new about Bowie too. He certainly got caught up in the LA madness and mayhem, but now I understand why The Hollywood Vampires pay him so much homage…because Bowie broke free and flew away. Also, Johnny, after putting himself on the line for truth deserves to sing Heroes now, because he is one person, who single-handedly took on the Justice System armed only with facts while also dealing with a bevy of local and international news media outlets accusing a presumably innocent man before a trial with endless character assassinating hit pieces..put his faith in truth, justice and the American Way..and I don’t think that anyone was more surprised than Johnny that he won that court case. Seeing Heard had all the media, bank-rollers like Musk, Murdoch and his cronies, bought and paid for ‘expert’ witnesses and some much other crookedness on her side.
I love this song Clones. I love the album from which it came, Flush the Fashion. I love the video for its subtle theatrics. Those expressive eyes. All are one and one are all.
thank you for good reviews instead of bickering over influences. Whatever his whole history, this song & video would be the envy of certain artists today (guess who?) hahahahaha it's all good either way and I'd love for Alice and his clones to crash the "party" in charge LOL.
This isn’t the actual video for the song though. There was an official video, but for whatever reasons it’s damn near impossible to find anymore, not just on UA-cam but on the internet in general. I’m guessing there must have been some licensing issues (???). Who knows, but what you’re seeing here is taken from an episode of a short-lived TV variety show called “Pink Lady & Jeff”, that only aired for a few months in 1980.
As you said he was issues at the time... I think it's worth noting that while the backing track is the studio version, he is singing along to it live. His vocal track is not the studio one... even though it sounds almost exactly like it. All that to say in the early 80's when a lot of performers made videos or appearances on tv shows they'd just lip synch to the studio track. He's not doing that here. Also, Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catchs Skin and DaDa are my favorite post-70's AC albums... maybe I'm biased, and I know it was a bad period for him personally, but still...!
@@RunLikeAVillainThat run of albums in the early 80’s, or also known as his “blackout era” was the last truly interesting phase of his career in my opinion. I like all of those albums except for Zipper (which, from what I understand was basically just an excuse to have a big coke party in the studio while fulfilling contractual obligations. Not a lot of inspiration went into that album). I mean yeah, that period of his career almost killed him, and he’s damn lucky to have survived it with his brain still intact… but it was still far more interesting and enjoyable than the heavy metal bandwagon hopping that came a few years later, if far less commercially successful.
Alice was in the midst of his latest addiction, drugs, at this time. That's why he looks so thin. He'd kicked the alcohol, as chronicled on his previous album, "From The Inside", and the "Flush The Fashion" album, from which "Clones (We're All)" was taken, was a new(er) wave for him, both musically, and with his health. Roy Thomas Baker, known for producing Queen and The Cars, among others, took over where David Foster had left off on "From The Inside", and gave Alice a hard-edged modernization of his sound. The comparison to Gary Numan is apt - Alice's stage act here was similar to what Gary was doing at the time. Also as someone else noted, Alice was singing live along with the recording, and wasn't sure of some of the lyrics in parts of the song. Thankfully, Alice turned in a great album in spite of his condition at the time.
Someone once gave Alice a hard time about him sometimes getting the lyrics wrong during live performances, his reply was "Hey I got it right on the album didn't I?" Like - What more do you want?
And Alice had already been a pretty slim guy to begin with! In fact, I was always amazed that he never became bloated and fat during his DRINKING period of the late seventies (must've been all that performing preventing it). Another interesting thing to note is that he wasn't a big druggie during the EARLY DAYS (late 60s / early 70s) when it was REALLY IN-FASHION. Strangely him and the rest of his group were pretty CLEAN at THAT time.
@@creepyskulldini581 Not so sure about that. Glen was probably the biggest consistent indulger, then either Neil and Mike. Dennis and Alice are nerds from the get go, so sampled more than indulged. If I'm right, Alice was 20 before he'd ever had a beer. How someone so straight became the icon he is today is amusing and bewildering, but that's alcohol for ya.
@@creepyskulldini581 Alice was railing a lot of cocaine at the time, which was probably what was keeping him so scarily skinny. If you ever saw the music video for Pain, he looks like a corpse in that one.
Many mainstream artists began cutting their hair and jumping onto the new-wave bandwagon back then: Billy Joel, Wings, Kim Carnes, The Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Rod Stewart, Heart, The Tubes, Olivia Newton-John, The Who, etc. Even some of Led Zep trimmed their hair and put on the odd skinny tie/suit.
Just my two pennies, but with Alice I think a lot of it was him trying to establish credibility in a scene that he had indirectly helped to create. The original AC band are often cited as being ‘proto-punk’ (not my term so hold your fire). In 1980, the term “new wave” was frequently used to present punk in a more ‘socially acceptable’ context, since in those days it was still kind of a 4-letter word and carried a lot of negative connotations. Anyway, I’m sure Alice must have seen how this thing that he had inspired and helped create was becoming wildly popular and commercially viable, so he must’ve realized how futile his last couple of easy listening flavored albums were, dropped those trappings, and went full on new wave synth-rock. On a commercial level it wasn’t exactly a smash success or a ‘comeback’, but it was definitely a whole new direction, and it opened up new possibilities. Thanks to a heavy and well hidden cocaine addiction, no real commercial success came from it, but I’d say it was an improvement on the muppet rock he’d been mired in on the last couple of albums.
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I saw this "allied forces tour" 43 years ago. The Flush the Fashion album had just come out and the band was still wearing those paramilitary jumpers and berets. Alice was shockingly skinny from booze and drugs. But it was still a great show with all the effects. Not long after this, Sheryl had him committed for psychiatric care. After that he finally entered his sober life...
I was in high school when this came out. This new wave punky synth-pop rock genre was the huge "flavor of the week" from from about 1978 to 1983. Everyone had to look and sound like Bowie, The Cars, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, DEVO, Talking Heads, Missing Persons, Ultravox, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.....Even 'ole Alice wasn't above jumping on the band wagon.
I much preferred this particular bandwagon to the hair metal bandwagon he jumped on afterwards, from roughly 1986 to 1993. Also, I wouldn’t really categorize his ‘83 album DaDa as “new wave punky synth-pop rock”. That one kind of defies categorization altogether. It’s definitely Alice’s weirdest and most unique solo album, bar none.
Alice didn’t write it. It was written by a guy named David Carron, who supposedly wrote it after watching the movie “Boys From Brazil”, which was about ex nazis cloning a new third reich. Apparently Alice tweaked the lyrics a bit to make it more about conformity in general.
New Wave was just like any other genre - there was good/great stuff, and there was also a lot of stylized garbage. It was just an umbrella term that the stuffed suits in the record industry glommed on to in the late 70’s, in order to distance themselves from that dirty four-letter word: PUNK. It ended up being used to label any band that featured keyboards and skinny ties, or angular hairstyles and pointy shoes. By the mid 80’s it really didn’t mean much. Kind of like what happened to the term “Alternative” in the 90’s, or “Emo” in the 2000’s… or “Indie” in the 2010’s… or….
Weird. It must’ve been one of those internet radio stations. This song barely even got played at all on the radio when it first came out in 1980, much less later on. I don’t even think it ever entered the charts. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great song… but it just didn’t do very well when it was released.
@@Shikta-poobah67 I think it just touched the top 40 for a week or two in May or June of 1980, and, no, it wasn't an internet radio station- it was a classic 70s-80s station- they actually played it a couple of times that I caught it that month, but I haven't heard it aired since.
@@yanceyward3689 Interesting. I remember hearing once or twice (on the radio) back then in 1980, but I mainly just heard it at the roller rink I used to hang out at. The DJ there would play it frequently. I just seem to remember Alice wasn’t very popular at that time, except in a retro context. Another factor is that was back in the days when station playlists weren’t enforced and DJ’s could still get away with playing whatever they wanted, as long as it fell within FCC guidelines. Certain stations in certain areas were probably playing it more than others were.
@@Shikta-poobah67 I don't think I heard a lot in 1980 either (I turned 14 that Summer), but I heard enough on the radio to remember it after about a minute 40 years later. I did like it quite a bit at the time, so I probably heard more than 10 times. Of course, I wrote the comment at the top 3 years ago- it shows up in my playlist about 1 or 2 times month on UA-cam, so I have heard it a lot more in the last 3 years.
Love this song, and Alice Cooper’s vocals on the LP. On this Official Video he is singing to a TV track but they kept his vocal in and he is singing with it...a bit strange for Alice. I loved this tour and saw him at “The Greek Theatre” thanks to my Dad in 1980 or 81 Bram Tchosky was the opener the month was June! Thanks to Bernie TAUPIN for “hooking” Alice to Cocaine, later it proved to be almost the “death” of such an iconic performer. There is only one ALICE COOPER..accept no imitations !
I'm a clone I know it and I'm fine I'm one and more are on the way I'm two, doctor Three's on the line He'll take incubation another day I'm all alone, so are we all We're all clones All are one and one are all All are one and one are all We destroyed the government We're destroying time No more problems on the way I'm through doctor We don't need your kind The other ones Ugly ones Stupid boys Wrong ones I'm all alone, so are we all We're all clones All are one and one are all All are one and one are all We destroyed the government We're destroying time No more problems on the way Six is having problems Adjusting to his clone status Have to put him on a shelf (Please don't put me on the shelf) All day long we hear him crying so loud I just want to be myself I just want to be myself I just want to be myself Be myself Be myself I'm all alone, so are we all We destroyed the government We're destroyed time No more problems on the way I'm through doctor We don't need your kind The other ones Ugly ones Stupid boys Wrong ones I'm all alone, so are we all We're all clones All are one and one are all All are one and one are all We destroyed the government We're destroying time No more problems on the way I'm all alone, so are we all We're all clones All are one and one are all All are one and one are all
One of my favorite obscure tunes from 1980. The bridge section starts with "Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status". Could this be a reference to "The Prisoner" TV series?
Actually, the guy who originally wrote this, David Carron, supposedly wrote it after watching the movie “Boys From Brazil”, which is about ex nazis living in the jungle in South America secretly cloning a new third reich. Alice changed the lyrics a bit to make it more about conformity in general. I would have liked to have seen the original lyrics.
to me it seems like a quote from Brave New World by aldous huxley, in which they are essentially all clones. 6 is the highest type of clone and like 2s and 3s are semi-retarded who do the janitorial work etc
Retro? That’s funny, considering that at the time, he was trying desperately to sound more contemporary by adopting this sound (new wave synths). “Retro” was exactly what he was trying to get away from. Gotta love the irony. 😄
The Smashing Pumpkins recorded a cover of this song, I was unaware that Alice Cooper had recorded this many years earlier, their cover is nearly identical. This represents a completely different style of music from Alice Cooper’s earlier recordings from the seventies, and it is also a very different style visually for him as well. New wave music was just gaining popularity about the time this video was originally released. Thank you for posting this video! Please have an excellent and awesome day! ☀️✨🎸
I saw him on the following tour (Special Forces) in fall ‘81. It was the first time Alice wasn’t playing an arena gig (in my hometown). He played a large nightclub called Cardi’s, and everyone was able to get much closer to the stage than they were previously able to at the big arena gigs. At one point I was close enough to Alice for his sweat to hit me. He was absolutely terrifying to look at. Just looked like a reanimated corpse with hooker makeup and kabuki hair, and was a coked out jittery mess. People in the crowd were looking at each other like “Is he gonna live through this gig?”. It was pretty bad, but at the same time a great show.
The first time I heard it was over the p.a. at the Carousel roller rink in Southwest Houston, and I thought it was a new Gary Numan song, until the DJ announced that it was actually a new Alice Cooper song. It was a bit confusing.
This is a TV appearance - the performance is certainly live. RHINO - do you have the other video where Alice is dancing like a scarecrow in a junkyard - that's great. Love this tune!
@@barriobarristerYep. Pink Lady and Jeff. That one came and went like a fart in a hurricane. As it turns out, the full episode with this Alice footage, not to mention Jerry Lewis and Red Buttons is up on the youtoobs.
Alice did Flush....Pink Floyd did the Wall. Always felt the wall was supposed to be a Cooper project. My buddies and I use to argue about it back in 1980.....so glad we grew up in that era. Good times, great music.
Sometimes you should hide your influences, and sometimes you should unapologetically pin them to your shirt. Song’s great and The Cars and Gary Numan would both be proud.
I’m a massive Alice Cooper fan, and have been since I first listened to the Billion Dollar Babies album when I was 6 years old (I’m now 55)… but that doesn’t mean I like everything he’s done. There are entire segments of his career that I ignore completely (the ‘86-‘93 metal era being one of them), but Alice is pretty much 50% responsible for establishing my musical tastes as a kid, along with David Bowie. Having said that, your comment brought back a memory of when the album “DaDa” came out, back in 1983. At the time I thought it was the weirdest thing Alice had ever released (this was before I had thoroughly listened to “Pretties For You”), and since I was getting into stuff like Butthole Surfers and Throbbing Gristle at that particular time, it was perfect (not that DaDa sounded anything like those bands, but the ‘weird factor’ was a good match). Anyway, I was expecting the next album to go even further ‘out there’, but what happened instead was 3 years without a peep out of Alice, and then suddenly “He’s back!”… only he’s been remade as an 80’s hair metal bore. Huge let down in my book.
Just so you guys know, the early 80s was known as Alice Cooper's blackout era from 1980-1983 and A.C. even admitted that he remembered performing none of this music. That was why he was admitted to the NA to get clean and kill those demons for a few years up until 1986 when the CONSTRICTOR album debuted. True story.
I saw this video when it came out, and I just about lost it when I heard the line, "Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status." That line came from a T.V. movie called _Clone Master,_ about a scientist who cloned himself several times over (I forget why). That's when I knew that Alice was a geek like me!
Interesting. I’ve always heard the story that the idea for this song came from the movie “Boys From Brazil”, a 1978 film with Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier about a bunch of ex nazis hiding out in the jungles of South America who attempt to clone a new third reich. The guy who originally wrote the song is a guy named David Carron. I’m not sure what his connection to Alice was/is, but the story goes that he wrote it after watching the film, and then Alice tweaked the lyrics a bit and made it more about rebelling against conformity. I don’t know how much of that is the actual truth, but that was what I was told by someone I know who was close to Alice at the time, so I tend to trust the source. However, your description makes more sense, so… who knows? 🤷♂️
I'm here after loving the Smashing Pumpkins cover for years and haven't heard this original before! Not a huge fan of Alice, but this really is a great song!
This song was written by David Carron from my hometown of Pittsfield ma. He died to young at 36. Alice does an incredible job on it
Yes, I remember reading something about that a long time ago (the history of the songwriting on “Clones”), and I remember learning a little about David Carron, who as I recall had something to do with Arlo Guthrie. Apparently he wrote this after watching the movie “The Boys From Brazil”, which was a film about ex-nazis attempting to clone a new third reich. Gregory Peck was the lead actor. Anyway, Alice changed the lyrics a bit to make it a little less specific and more about conformity in general, or at least that’s what I remember from reading up on that.
One of the most underrated cooper jams
Wish he would do this live again ( i think last time was 2011)
Agreed! I used to listen to this song on my way to work wishing I had a clone...still do😂
Who was doing the rating?
One of my favourite Alice songs.
@@sophiecooper1824 saw him that Summer in Grand Rapids, MI. Didn't recall it on his setlist, was keeping an eye on five friends, after Bachman and Turner opened the show. (PS-Clones is there to be verified online) He's a great guy, met Alice in 2007 in another GR show.
Although they weren't hit albums, I always loved his early 80s stuff.
Clones was a top 40 hit though funnily enough.
@@mr.brenman2132 His LAST hit - for another nine years anyway. It pretty much closed the first era of his career.
Alice going all Gary Numan on us here...yes! friends are electric!! I think this is my favourite Alice Cooper moment..keep coming back and back to it.
Definitely Numan-influenced. That was the very first thing I thought of the first time I heard this song. In fact, it almost borders on plagiarism, but it’s so damn catchy that it’s easy to overlook. It was a big relief after all the loungey, sappy stuff he’d been cranking out in the late 70’s (Lace and Whiskey, From The Inside).
I swear I thought of this song and could have sworn it was a Gary Numan song until I searched.
@@mikeguerin4535 I really love this Alice Cooper…clearly Molly Meldrum did not, hence I had no idea that this incarnation exists until now. I know he clearly very unwell, but he was *interesting*, and the music is great. I’m am glad he survived the insanity of the times tho. I recently learned something new about Bowie too. He certainly got caught up in the LA madness and mayhem, but now I understand why The Hollywood Vampires pay him so much homage…because Bowie broke free and flew away. Also, Johnny, after putting himself on the line for truth deserves to sing Heroes now, because he is one person, who single-handedly took on the Justice System armed only with facts while also dealing with a bevy of local and international news media outlets accusing a presumably innocent man before a trial with endless character assassinating hit pieces..put his faith in truth, justice and the American Way..and I don’t think that anyone was more surprised than Johnny that he won that court case. Seeing Heard had all the media, bank-rollers like Musk, Murdoch and his cronies, bought and paid for ‘expert’ witnesses and some much other crookedness on her side.
I still have the 45 single of this back from the day...
All that album (Flush The Fashion) is a real gem!
MY only complaint about it was that it was too short.
I love the vocal over-dub. Long live The Coop.
1980 in my mind; I'm from 1972. Great memories. Greetings from Monterrey, México. 👋🏽 5-4
Flush the Fashion Is Absolutely my Favorite Alice Cooper album 🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜🤘💜
The Smashing Pumpkins cover of this is out of this world. The original though...incredible.
I love this song Clones. I love the album from which it came, Flush the Fashion. I love the video for its subtle theatrics.
Those expressive eyes.
All are one and one are all.
try listening to LITD & Killer
thank you for good reviews instead of bickering over influences. Whatever his whole history, this song & video would be the envy of certain artists today (guess who?) hahahahaha it's all good either way and I'd love for Alice and his clones to crash the "party" in charge LOL.
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This isn’t the actual video for the song though. There was an official video, but for whatever reasons it’s damn near impossible to find anymore, not just on UA-cam but on the internet in general. I’m guessing there must have been some licensing issues (???). Who knows, but what you’re seeing here is taken from an episode of a short-lived TV variety show called “Pink Lady & Jeff”, that only aired for a few months in 1980.
In which Alice Cooper out-new waves the new-wave. Brilliant!
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Coop may have been having some issues at the time, but he DELIVERED RIGHT ON TIME and he NAILED IT 🖤
As you said he was issues at the time... I think it's worth noting that while the backing track is the studio version, he is singing along to it live. His vocal track is not the studio one... even though it sounds almost exactly like it.
All that to say in the early 80's when a lot of performers made videos or appearances on tv shows they'd just lip synch to the studio track. He's not doing that here.
Also, Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catchs Skin and DaDa are my favorite post-70's AC albums... maybe I'm biased, and I know it was a bad period for him personally, but still...!
@@RunLikeAVillainThat run of albums in the early 80’s, or also known as his “blackout era” was the last truly interesting phase of his career in my opinion. I like all of those albums except for Zipper (which, from what I understand was basically just an excuse to have a big coke party in the studio while fulfilling contractual obligations. Not a lot of inspiration went into that album). I mean yeah, that period of his career almost killed him, and he’s damn lucky to have survived it with his brain still intact… but it was still far more interesting and enjoyable than the heavy metal bandwagon hopping that came a few years later, if far less commercially successful.
Happy 40th Birthday "Flush The Fashion"!!
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Alice was in the midst of his latest addiction, drugs, at this time. That's why he looks so thin. He'd kicked the alcohol, as chronicled on his previous album, "From The Inside", and the "Flush The Fashion" album, from which "Clones (We're All)" was taken, was a new(er) wave for him, both musically, and with his health. Roy Thomas Baker, known for producing Queen and The Cars, among others, took over where David Foster had left off on "From The Inside", and gave Alice a hard-edged modernization of his sound. The comparison to Gary Numan is apt - Alice's stage act here was similar to what Gary was doing at the time. Also as someone else noted, Alice was singing live along with the recording, and wasn't sure of some of the lyrics in parts of the song. Thankfully, Alice turned in a great album in spite of his condition at the time.
and so far he reminds those who bother to comment of Gary Numan..still laughing..
Someone once gave Alice a hard time about him sometimes getting the lyrics wrong during live performances, his reply was "Hey I got it right on the album didn't I?" Like - What more do you want?
And Alice had already been a pretty slim guy to begin with! In fact, I was always amazed that he never became bloated and fat during his DRINKING period of the late seventies (must've been all that performing preventing it). Another interesting thing to note is that he wasn't a big druggie during the EARLY DAYS (late 60s / early 70s) when it was REALLY IN-FASHION. Strangely him and the rest of his group were pretty CLEAN at THAT time.
@@creepyskulldini581 Not so sure about that. Glen was probably the biggest consistent indulger, then either Neil and Mike. Dennis and Alice are nerds from the get go, so sampled more than indulged. If I'm right, Alice was 20 before he'd ever had a beer. How someone so straight became the icon he is today is amusing and bewildering, but that's alcohol for ya.
@@creepyskulldini581 Alice was railing a lot of cocaine at the time, which was probably what was keeping him so scarily skinny. If you ever saw the music video for Pain, he looks like a corpse in that one.
It shows how powerful New Wave music was, when Alice Cooper makes a special album for it. I’m glad they did not Flush the Fashion.
That synth hook is pretty catchy.
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Many mainstream artists began cutting their hair and jumping onto the new-wave bandwagon back then: Billy Joel, Wings, Kim Carnes, The Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Rod Stewart, Heart, The Tubes, Olivia Newton-John, The Who, etc. Even some of Led Zep trimmed their hair and put on the odd skinny tie/suit.
Just my two pennies, but with Alice I think a lot of it was him trying to establish credibility in a scene that he had indirectly helped to create. The original AC band are often cited as being ‘proto-punk’ (not my term so hold your fire). In 1980, the term “new wave” was frequently used to present punk in a more ‘socially acceptable’ context, since in those days it was still kind of a 4-letter word and carried a lot of negative connotations. Anyway, I’m sure Alice must have seen how this thing that he had inspired and helped create was becoming wildly popular and commercially viable, so he must’ve realized how futile his last couple of easy listening flavored albums were, dropped those trappings, and went full on new wave synth-rock. On a commercial level it wasn’t exactly a smash success or a ‘comeback’, but it was definitely a whole new direction, and it opened up new possibilities. Thanks to a heavy and well hidden cocaine addiction, no real commercial success came from it, but I’d say it was an improvement on the muppet rock he’d been mired in on the last couple of albums.
Love Alice! Still going strong! An awesome entertainer!
Love Clones!!! Great AC song...FTF is a killer album too!!!
great song with ominous, prophetic lyrics
Awesome jam!....I remember when this song was first released,it always captures me .It grabs you....Awesome.
Most, definitely, one of the best songs by Alice Cooper !!! Enough Said 🙂
FTF is my fave of his albums. All songs are so catchy! Espessially Aspirin!
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TERMINABA UN LADO Y LE DABA VUELTA...
Y DESPUÉS OTRA VEZ...
HOY LO ESCUCHE DESPUÉS DE, FÁCIL, 20 AÑOS; Y ME SIGUE ENCANTANDO, TODO!!! ...
I saw this "allied forces tour" 43 years ago. The Flush the Fashion album had just come out and the band was still wearing those paramilitary jumpers and berets. Alice was shockingly skinny from booze and drugs. But it was still a great show with all the effects. Not long after this, Sheryl had him committed for psychiatric care. After that he finally entered his sober life...
The 80s were my high school and college days ... How did I miss this song?
too much homework? 😏
It's ok your clone heard it. 1:52 1:53 ❤
Looking at this, I’m glad he got the help he needed.
Talk about a great prediction of society... for some anyway... Great jam ... so different from his other songs and just love this song.
Bring back memories, great song
This song and album started my rock and roll preference! He still kicks a$$ at 76, great show last night!
I was in high school when this came out. This new wave punky synth-pop rock genre was the huge "flavor of the week" from from about 1978 to 1983. Everyone had to look and sound like Bowie, The Cars, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, DEVO, Talking Heads, Missing Persons, Ultravox, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.....Even 'ole Alice wasn't above jumping on the band wagon.
I still listen to Spring Session M quite a bit. That's a great album.
I much preferred this particular bandwagon to the hair metal bandwagon he jumped on afterwards, from roughly 1986 to 1993. Also, I wouldn’t really categorize his ‘83 album DaDa as “new wave punky synth-pop rock”. That one kind of defies categorization altogether. It’s definitely Alice’s weirdest and most unique solo album, bar none.
Such a great song, and it surprisingly (I think) snuck into the Top 40 for a week or two
Wow... What an appropriate song for today!!! Cooper was ahead of his time here!!!
Someone mentioned "social media beauties" and it came on in my head like someone flipped a switch LOL
@@WendyOWilburyone month later, it's even worse 😢 Get prepared
Alice didn’t write it. It was written by a guy named David Carron, who supposedly wrote it after watching the movie “Boys From Brazil”, which was about ex nazis cloning a new third reich. Apparently Alice tweaked the lyrics a bit to make it more about conformity in general.
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@@Shikta-poobah67That may be true, and i believe they are doing just that in Unkraine!
All are one and one are all !!, great !!
This track is still so relevent 40 plus years later even more so in 2024.
Great song...never heard it before...Alice mixed with Cars/Numan sound very well
Had this song stuck in my head! Couldn't remember for a few months! Been driving me crazy. It was samples in a commercial.
I had this record love the song and it's the first time I seen Alice
Coop looks fantastic, I love the song, they both deserved a bigger budget for this video.
awsome times, awsome music...new wave music was cool...chill man ! lol ;)
New Wave was just like any other genre - there was good/great stuff, and there was also a lot of stylized garbage. It was just an umbrella term that the stuffed suits in the record industry glommed on to in the late 70’s, in order to distance themselves from that dirty four-letter word: PUNK. It ended up being used to label any band that featured keyboards and skinny ties, or angular hairstyles and pointy shoes. By the mid 80’s it really didn’t mean much. Kind of like what happened to the term “Alternative” in the 90’s, or “Emo” in the 2000’s… or “Indie” in the 2010’s… or….
Amo muito essas músicas, seja Rock, flashbacks, antigas ou MPB antigo!! Essa do Alice Cooper é muito da hora!!!😍
Oh yeah! Delicious and surprising flavoring for heart hearted Alice! Fell in love with this track the first time I heard it!
I heard this song on the radio this afternoon for the first time since 1980. Took me about a minute to remember it was Alice Cooper.
Weird. It must’ve been one of those internet radio stations. This song barely even got played at all on the radio when it first came out in 1980, much less later on. I don’t even think it ever entered the charts. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great song… but it just didn’t do very well when it was released.
@@Shikta-poobah67 I think it just touched the top 40 for a week or two in May or June of 1980, and, no, it wasn't an internet radio station- it was a classic 70s-80s station- they actually played it a couple of times that I caught it that month, but I haven't heard it aired since.
@@Shikta-poobah67 I was right- it peaked right at #40 on July 4th 1980- spent 1 week there and then fell out of the Hot 100 two weeks later.
@@yanceyward3689 Interesting. I remember hearing once or twice (on the radio) back then in 1980, but I mainly just heard it at the roller rink I used to hang out at. The DJ there would play it frequently. I just seem to remember Alice wasn’t very popular at that time, except in a retro context. Another factor is that was back in the days when station playlists weren’t enforced and DJ’s could still get away with playing whatever they wanted, as long as it fell within FCC guidelines. Certain stations in certain areas were probably playing it more than others were.
@@Shikta-poobah67 I don't think I heard a lot in 1980 either (I turned 14 that Summer), but I heard enough on the radio to remember it after about a minute 40 years later. I did like it quite a bit at the time, so I probably heard more than 10 times. Of course, I wrote the comment at the top 3 years ago- it shows up in my playlist about 1 or 2 times month on UA-cam, so I have heard it a lot more in the last 3 years.
Love this song, and Alice Cooper’s vocals on the LP. On this Official Video he is singing to a TV track but they kept his vocal in and he is singing with it...a bit strange for Alice. I loved this tour and saw him at “The Greek Theatre” thanks to my Dad in 1980 or 81 Bram Tchosky was the opener the month was June!
Thanks to Bernie TAUPIN for “hooking” Alice to Cocaine, later it proved to be almost the “death” of such an iconic performer. There is only one ALICE COOPER..accept no imitations !
Classic...be glad you were hrre to see it
Anyone else loves the visuals from this video? Very Numan-esque
Dizzy Dizzy I thought Numan but Numan borrowed from the German Industrial / electronic styles at one time known as Kraut Rock.
anyone else get any other impressions of his look? still? haha.
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@@johnscottyward4588 As well as from Bowie via Ultravox.
@@crapple009 Ultravox as well as Depeche Mode also borrowed from the Germans as did OMD!
Brings me back to 1977 , when I was 10 , a great time and music !!!!
This is from 1980.
1:27 best part
Thank you Alice! ages very well.
This song used to play at Trader Joes sometimes, like once every few days. Then it suddenly stopped.
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Mysterious! Sinister!
I'm a clone
I know it and I'm fine
I'm one and more are on the way
I'm two, doctor
Three's on the line
He'll take incubation another day
I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
We destroyed the government
We're destroying time
No more problems on the way
I'm through doctor
We don't need your kind
The other ones
Ugly ones
Stupid boys
Wrong ones
I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
We destroyed the government
We're destroying time
No more problems on the way
Six is having problems
Adjusting to his clone status
Have to put him on a shelf
(Please don't put me on the shelf)
All day long we hear him crying so loud
I just want to be myself
I just want to be myself
I just want to be myself
Be myself
Be myself
I'm all alone, so are we all
We destroyed the government
We're destroyed time
No more problems on the way
I'm through doctor
We don't need your kind
The other ones
Ugly ones
Stupid boys
Wrong ones
I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
We destroyed the government
We're destroying time
No more problems on the way
I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all
Great album, I bought this as a 16 year old when it came out!
I bought the single. I was 15.
So long ago!
Flush the Fashion was the best showcase of Alice Cooper's real singing skills.
More so than the original Alice Cooper band? I dunno…
Alice cooper le King tu rock macabre !!! On n'a dort toujours !!!
This song turned me onto the wild wonderful we call ALICE COOPER!!!
I never noticed before that he’s actually singing along to the recording as the video is being made.
A 43yr old ageless song that stood the test of time
Alice in his Mick Mars lookalike status! Great song and album. Highly underrated.
Next to I'm Eighteen and I Never Cry, this is his best.
That and only women bleed...
No.
This was the breakthrough for Special Forces. What a great tour that was
This is from Flush The Fashion, not Special Forces.
One of my favorite obscure tunes from 1980. The bridge section starts with "Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status". Could this be a reference to "The Prisoner" TV series?
Actually, the guy who originally wrote this, David Carron, supposedly wrote it after watching the movie “Boys From Brazil”, which is about ex nazis living in the jungle in South America secretly cloning a new third reich. Alice changed the lyrics a bit to make it more about conformity in general. I would have liked to have seen the original lyrics.
to me it seems like a quote from Brave New World by aldous huxley, in which they are essentially all clones. 6 is the highest type of clone and like 2s and 3s are semi-retarded who do the janitorial work etc
I had this on a 45 growing up, played it all the time, just killer.\¥/
Alice Cooper meets the Cars meets early 1980s new wave; just a fun overlooked Coop song. Great video!
This song was written by my eldest daughter's father, David Carron
I STILL ♥️ THIS ALBUM! GOOD VIBES! 👍
Love this. Never heard before. So retro!!!
Retro? That’s funny, considering that at the time, he was trying desperately to sound more contemporary by adopting this sound (new wave synths). “Retro” was exactly what he was trying to get away from. Gotta love the irony. 😄
It’s retro now in 2024
Alice on drugs was better than 90% of us without them.
its like they say "the only thing you need to make a great album is a mountain of cocaine and the first 3 Tubeway Army albums to use as a reference"
Shut up idiot
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The Smashing Pumpkins recorded a cover of this song, I was unaware that Alice Cooper had recorded this many years earlier, their cover is nearly identical.
This represents a completely different style of music from Alice Cooper’s earlier recordings from the seventies, and it is also a very different style visually for him as well. New wave music was just gaining popularity about the time this video was originally released.
Thank you for posting this video!
Please have an excellent and awesome day!
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What a great song!!!
Is
I saw him on this tour. He commanded the stage. Very fun, kinda scary, show.
I saw him on the following tour (Special Forces) in fall ‘81. It was the first time Alice wasn’t playing an arena gig (in my hometown). He played a large nightclub called Cardi’s, and everyone was able to get much closer to the stage than they were previously able to at the big arena gigs. At one point I was close enough to Alice for his sweat to hit me. He was absolutely terrifying to look at. Just looked like a reanimated corpse with hooker makeup and kabuki hair, and was a coked out jittery mess. People in the crowd were looking at each other like “Is he gonna live through this gig?”. It was pretty bad, but at the same time a great show.
I think it would be really cool if we took the best Alice Cooper tribute singers and Got them together to do this song.
Loved it from the first time I heard on the radio on its release.
The first time I heard it was over the p.a. at the Carousel roller rink in Southwest Houston, and I thought it was a new Gary Numan song, until the DJ announced that it was actually a new Alice Cooper song. It was a bit confusing.
This is a TV appearance - the performance is certainly live. RHINO - do you have the other video where Alice is dancing like a scarecrow in a junkyard - that's great. Love this tune!
Yes! thanks so much, you are a star!
Saw this on the short lived "Pink Lady" variety show '79ish/80
@@barriobarrister yes this is definately from Pink Lady and Jeff.
Yes the mix on that one is much better, not singing on the top of the track.
@@barriobarristerYep. Pink Lady and Jeff. That one came and went like a fart in a hurricane. As it turns out, the full episode with this Alice footage, not to mention Jerry Lewis and Red Buttons is up on the youtoobs.
Alice does it all
Alice did Flush....Pink Floyd did the Wall. Always felt the wall was supposed to be a Cooper project. My buddies and I use to argue about it back in 1980.....so glad we grew up in that era. Good times, great music.
I grew up in the same era you did, but that’s a new one on me.
@@Shikta-poobah67 The point that Bob Ezrin produced the wall.
Lyrics...🔥🤯
great song from a cool album
Spotify referred me, so I remembered that I love this song. I listened to it a lot in my teens.😍
A lesser known song but this n Model citizen are great!
Sobervio y unico Alice Cooper.😂❤🎉😊
Alice cooper j'adore !!! Une légende du rock macabre !!!! Le King !!!
My favorite ❤
He says he doesn't remember recording this , despite being on another planet he nailed some great tracks.
Actually it was the album after this one (Special Forces) that he claims to not remember recording, plus the two albums that came after that one.
i love this song so much... 2021
Sometimes you should hide your influences, and sometimes you should unapologetically pin them to your shirt.
Song’s great and The Cars and Gary Numan would both be proud.
Loved flush the fashion album
One of my Favs
Never an Alice Cooper fan, but might have been if he had kept his music going in this direction. I like it a lot!
I’m a massive Alice Cooper fan, and have been since I first listened to the Billion Dollar Babies album when I was 6 years old (I’m now 55)… but that doesn’t mean I like everything he’s done. There are entire segments of his career that I ignore completely (the ‘86-‘93 metal era being one of them), but Alice is pretty much 50% responsible for establishing my musical tastes as a kid, along with David Bowie.
Having said that, your comment brought back a memory of when the album “DaDa” came out, back in 1983. At the time I thought it was the weirdest thing Alice had ever released (this was before I had thoroughly listened to “Pretties For You”), and since I was getting into stuff like Butthole Surfers and Throbbing Gristle at that particular time, it was perfect (not that DaDa sounded anything like those bands, but the ‘weird factor’ was a good match). Anyway, I was expecting the next album to go even further ‘out there’, but what happened instead was 3 years without a peep out of Alice, and then suddenly “He’s back!”… only he’s been remade as an 80’s hair metal bore. Huge let down in my book.
Great song!!!!!!!
👾👾grande mistura de clones de ACs (somos todos)👾👾
I'm not worthy, love you Alice
Coop FTW!
Just so you guys know, the early 80s was known as Alice Cooper's blackout era from 1980-1983 and A.C. even admitted that he remembered performing none of this music. That was why he was admitted to the NA to get clean and kill those demons for a few years up until 1986 when the CONSTRICTOR album debuted. True story.
So prophetic!
Awesome song
I saw this video when it came out, and I just about lost it when I heard the line, "Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status." That line came from a T.V. movie called _Clone Master,_ about a scientist who cloned himself several times over (I forget why). That's when I knew that Alice was a geek like me!
Interesting. I’ve always heard the story that the idea for this song came from the movie “Boys From Brazil”, a 1978 film with Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier about a bunch of ex nazis hiding out in the jungles of South America who attempt to clone a new third reich. The guy who originally wrote the song is a guy named David Carron. I’m not sure what his connection to Alice was/is, but the story goes that he wrote it after watching the film, and then Alice tweaked the lyrics a bit and made it more about rebelling against conformity.
I don’t know how much of that is the actual truth, but that was what I was told by someone I know who was close to Alice at the time, so I tend to trust the source. However, your description makes more sense, so… who knows? 🤷♂️
BRUTAL!!!
02:15 MARILYN MANSON GHOST!
I'm here after loving the Smashing Pumpkins cover for years and haven't heard this original before! Not a huge fan of Alice, but this really is a great song!
There are a lot of really great Alice Cooper tunes. 😎 imho
@@WendyOWilburyyou're right, and I've recently started to listen to more and more of it!
Absolutely love it😊
Never knew , have to check it out
My go to for Alice Cooper
Agreed 👍