Alice Copper you saved my life do to my job and personal life i had to hear that song from the movie frozen [let it go ] several times a day for 2 years. To keep from losing my mind I started to pretend it was sung by Alice Cooper. Now I'd like to hear a cover by Alice Cooper. If your out there Alice Copper please cover that song from Frozen❤
The same year this came out The Tubes released 'White Punks on Dope' in which near the end of the song the singer asks where they got (their drugs) from, the answer comes back "You gave it to us!"
There are 2 sequels to this album. Along Came A Spider shows us Steven several years in the future from this album, and Welcome 2 My Nightmare, which is another journey through a nightmare world, with a twist. Check them both out!
There both great. Not a fan of much of his 80,'s material but late 90's through present there has been some brilliant material including this 05! ua-cam.com/video/Sevvz9locV4/v-deo.html
You could also consider "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" kind of a sequal. The original liner notes begin, "Listen, Stephen, and I will tell you a bedtime story".
@@dennispope1355 Just listened to "Goes to Hell" Then Listened to " Lace and Whisky" (which came out director sfter) Damn one of the least talked about! Honestly better than Nightmare and Goes to Hell. Though " From the Inside" I would say is his best period !!
In 1975 Donny Osmond was the teen pop idol (less hip than young Michael Jacksson) on the cover of every tiger beat mag etc so humor yes, but not so random at the time. On another note the Osmonds actually wanted to play Rock and put out a Rock soul album which is surprisingly not bad, Ha. Check " Crazy Horses" !!! Heavy guitar 🎸! ua-cam.com/video/6z9D2PJmz_k/v-deo.html
Hey bro, I know I’m a little late to the party, but I watch a lot of these reaction videos, most reactors usually know nothing about the difference between a organ and a saxophone but you know your stuff so congratulations your the only one I’ve subscribed to, quick story of my experience with Welcome to my nightmare, it was my first concert (I was 14) it was shortly after he fell off the stage and broke his ribs, my most vivid memory was a giant spider web were Alice was stuck in and a giant robotic spider was approaching. But you broke the whole album beautifully, even enlightening me on some things. As a travel UA-cam blogger I can’t understand why you don’t have more views as your miles ahead of most reactors. Anyway keep spreading my generations music to the younger generation, who aren’t aware of what real music is ❤
It's fair to call this the weaker track off the album but at the time it was just the opener to side 2, lol. I still like it though. Donny Osmond's music was the antithesis of Alice's, ie. teenybop -as it was called then - and he was the wholesome pin-up boy in the early 70's, so Alice was having fun with that here.
He really found a formula for writing songs that would naturally get a response from a younger audience who were, after all, the pop singles buying market. Pretty brilliant from simply a commercial/sales standpoint. It was fun and rebellious, easily and predictably like candy to a sweet toothed kid. He made a living and a handsome one at that, based on this formula. By this record he was, I feel, milking the formula a bit with the material being slightly less edgy and creative and perhaps more deliberate and market friendly as a primary focus, if that makes sense.
I like every song on this album including this fairly "normal" rocker, but fear not, the album is about to get crazy (in a good way). By the way "Years Ago" "Stephen" and The Awakening" all run together very interesting track. I like the demented "Cold Ethyl" a lot too. Enjoy!
This was Alice's attempt at a Top 40 hit single in the USA, being the first 45 released off the record, however it only peaked at #67.. It got some radio airplay when I was 15, and it was kind of a teenage rock anthem of sorts.. compared to Donny Osmond or the Bay City Rollers.. and then later "Only Women" became the Hit.
Having a childrens chorus on the track is one of Bob Ezrin's go-to tricks. I always thought this song was a nice little break from the nightmare. The remaining songs suck you right back in though.
"Department of Youth" (as "Cold Ethyl" and "Escape") is reminiscent of the Alice Cooper Band and could easily have found its way onto the band's final album, Muscle of Love. I prefer when Cooper does basic rock than his bombastic stuff with arrangements all over the place nor his 80s AOR Glam rock.
Agree with 80's material, though some of what he's done late 90's through present has been brilliant. In fact " Welcome 2 My Nightmare " is worth checking out! Not sure if your familiar but this album (2005) is my favorite post 70's ua-cam.com/video/Sevvz9locV4/v-deo.html
@@jgsrhythm100 I actually really like his early 80s material, Flush the Fashion, Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin but avoided the rest of the decade and the 90s. Apart from that, I like The Eyes of Alice Cooper and Dirty Diamonds which are good albums.
@@a.k.1740 Oh most definitely. I actually have a connection to the writer of Clones Dsvid Carron. I went to school in West Stockbridge Ma and David was in Arlo Guthrie's touring band of which members were my bsnds teachers.
@@jgsrhythm100 Interesting. David Carron who was part of the short lived band Gulliver ! 😉 I always wondered how one of his songs could have been on Flush The Fashion! Do you know the reason? was there any connection between Alice Cooper and David Carron?
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Interestingly enough, Lizzy Borden, in 1989, released his Master of Disguise album which is a very good album and though not the best track on it, he made a song called We Got the Power and it sounds a bit like Department of Youth. Lizzy’s vocals are very different from Cooper’s but there’s definitely influence.
A big hit here in Australia & only here I believe. I think it's the only country he plays it in concert. When I saw him he used Kylie Minogue instead of Donny Osmond :)
JUSTJP where do you live? Alice is currently on tour and is the only artist who seems to getter better with old age. I just saw him and it was mind blowing ! Jpmust experience live!!
Never been crazy about this one. My favorites are coming up...years ago, Steven and the Awakening. Can't all be winners...this one isn't IMHO. Have a great rest of your day 👍
Wow, a lot of negativity in these comments. I think this song is great and one of the catchier ones on the album. Don’t understand the dislike for it. It’s a very finely crafted pop/rock single and leads nicely into the next track, building the energy before the big closing suite.
Agreed as well. Is this the best song Alice has ever written? Obviously no. But it's still a good song. Fun (in Alice's trademark unhinged way), funny, catchy. I don't get the hate.
It’s got nothing to do with the concept - however ‘loose’ - and was basically shoehorned in with a view to having another School’s Out-type international smash. That failed, as this was only ever a big hit single in Australia. *DOY* has some glam stomp, but essentially it’s a lumbering pale imitation of School's Out. Cooper still includes it in his setlist to this day.
That was okay, rather simple, a little bit catchy (it's still ringing in my head as I type this a few minutes after the track ending), but nothing I would actively go out of my way to listen to again. Oh, and thankfully it was short, coming in, getting it on, and finishing when it had run its course.
Wait until you hear the next track!! It's is both a Banger ans disturbing! This whole album waa made into a TV Special and done live has accompanying theatrics. It has to be though as a rock musical of sorts, not to be over analyzed track by track.
*Jon Lajoie* has a nice *Radio Friendly Song* (really catchy). It's called *Radio Friendly Song* (sort of like how his more famous _I Don't Give a Flock_ is called something similar to that). ua-cam.com/video/A0Gs4xGw1Eg/v-deo.html I think the older-younger-generation thing (which looks to me like it was invented sometime in the 50's, and didn't exist before someone started selling it and making money out of it about then) has changed in nature. Certainly by the 50's it was possible to rile up your elders (bite the hand that feeds often) with the disgusting newfangled music - and there's a feedback loop, here, because the way it could rile up the lame old ducks who save the world in the 40's was a selling point, so musicians making product would provide this rile-up feature. It's no longer possible to rile the elders up like that. The elders grew up with pictures of someone vomitting across the record cover, with satanic-suggestive musics that became routinely so, of all the devices one could come up to shock grannies and make money out of the rebellious - so independent - feeling the "shocker" might get out of imagining the "shockee's " shock. It's all been done. Nobody even cares if you say fuck for no good reason any more. Fuck fuck fuck fuck. Who cares? Some old git just said fuck four times. Is that news? So what's happened now is the old gits go on about how "boring" the kids music is. (And a part of me feels it's a bit of a pity that so much of that music really is boring. Here we are in the Boring Twenties, but I wish it wasn't possible to say so with a straight face. I wish it was possible to rile up the old gits who laugh off the efforts of the new generation. I mean with good reason.) Anyway, maybe the way forward is to return to the way things were before the War? (And for the many hundreds of years before that?) The youth could have its revenge by insightfully slicing through the "rebellions" sold to the vanity of all the old farts who bought into this in their callow years, and even today still flatter themselves in a similar manner. How would the kids get shocking? Only way I can think of would be for them to all become rampant, rabid Jesus Kids. Or, better still, convert to Islam in vast numbers. (It's quite a popular political trick, this Islam thing, so that might fall a bit flat. Probably better to stick to being loudly, rebelliously Jesus-praising. Or refuse to participate in another round of the comfy sofa rebellions. Ah! Spleen. That's what we need more of. Like calling these years *The Boring 20's* . Thanks be to Jon (and We Will Praise Him) forever, for that.
I've mentioned this one before. I just mention it before because it's the first lyrical use of the term *The Boring 20's* ua-cam.com/video/CuOfZfhN-24/v-deo.html ( by Jon Ivar Kollbotn - of *Major Parkinson* ) It's also a nice instance of Making Music Great Again, though. (I've managed to score a copy of the real thing from my dealer, actually, so that speaks of sincerity beyond my usual intense levels of sincerity.)
I can also give you some nice *We Will Praise Him* lyrics to help you give your dear old Dad a heart attack with (well not quite, since there's probably not enough Jesus in it to upset him enough for that) ua-cam.com/video/9Sq0nTW6RpE/v-deo.html
I bought this album when it came out and played it quite a lot at the time. However, unlike most of the music I still have from that era (a lot of which is featured on this channel) it hasn't aged well to my ears. But listening to it again on here makes me appreciate his earlier stuff, which I infinitely prefer to this album.
It's a fun song and catchy but a bit out of place on the album. But it is HIS album, so who am I to criticize? The album is just a good listen front to back.
Sure it's the weakest track on the album, but put it in context; it's the weakest track on THIS album. There were a lot of bands from that time (and today) who would've sacrificed their drummer to have a tune like this. It's a really good song on an album of really great songs.
Competing with "Escape" for the lamest-song-on-the-album medal. Doesn't fit in with the overall theme either. Feels more like a failed attempt at rehashing "I'm eighteen". (Oooh, I'm so much the representative of the halfwit kids.) Sure, I can enjoy it once in a while, but it doesn't fit on here. Production is ok though, and far from stupid. (And I totally agree it feels random. A typical get-the-side-two-of-the-album-kickstarted track. But kinda cheap.)
If this was a single, I never heard it… thank you Jesus. It just doesn’t jell with me. Too generic, too produced. Can’t wait for Halloween to be over, this is taxing.
the donny osmond reference cracks me up every time
Me too! Just another point in the lyrics showing that Cooper doesn't take himself too seriously.
Alice Copper you saved my life do to my job and personal life i had to hear that song from the movie frozen [let it go ] several times a day for 2 years. To keep from losing my mind I started to pretend it was sung by Alice Cooper. Now I'd like to hear a cover by Alice Cooper. If your out there Alice Copper please cover that song from Frozen❤
I'm envisioning a young Jim Steinman listening to this and thinking, "It's good, but it could be BIGGER!"
The same year this came out The Tubes released 'White Punks on Dope' in which near the end of the song the singer asks where they got (their drugs) from, the answer comes back "You gave it to us!"
There are 2 sequels to this album. Along Came A Spider shows us Steven several years in the future from this album, and Welcome 2 My Nightmare, which is another journey through a nightmare world, with a twist. Check them both out!
There both great. Not a fan of much of his 80,'s material but late 90's through present there has been some brilliant material including this 05!
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You could also consider "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" kind of a sequal. The original liner notes begin, "Listen, Stephen, and I will tell you a bedtime story".
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Just listened to "Goes to Hell"
Then Listened to " Lace and Whisky"
(which came out director sfter)
Damn one of the least talked about!
Honestly better than Nightmare and Goes to Hell.
Though " From the Inside" I would say is his best period !!
In 1975 Donny Osmond was the teen pop idol (less hip than young Michael Jacksson) on the cover of every tiger beat mag etc so humor yes,
but not so random at the time.
On another note the Osmonds actually wanted to play Rock and put out a Rock soul album which is surprisingly not bad, Ha. Check " Crazy Horses" !!!
Heavy guitar 🎸!
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And now Donny Osmond and Alice Cooper are actually pretty good friends, thanks in part to this song
@@toddymac True
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Hey bro, I know I’m a little late to the party, but I watch a lot of these reaction videos, most reactors usually know nothing about the difference between a organ and a saxophone but you know your stuff so congratulations your the only one I’ve subscribed to, quick story of my experience with Welcome to my nightmare, it was my first concert (I was 14) it was shortly after he fell off the stage and broke his ribs, my most vivid memory was a giant spider web were Alice was stuck in and a giant robotic spider was approaching. But you broke the whole album beautifully, even enlightening me on some things. As a travel UA-cam blogger I can’t understand why you don’t have more views as your miles ahead of most reactors. Anyway keep spreading my generations music to the younger generation, who aren’t aware of what real music is ❤
So many Alice Cooper videos and he hasn't done 'School's Out' yet?? Mind = Blown 🤯 😄
Still get a chuckle from the "And who gave it to you?" gag at the end. Always saw this as a no-sequel to "school's Out"
It's fair to call this the weaker track off the album but at the time it was just the opener to side 2, lol. I still like it though. Donny Osmond's music was the antithesis of Alice's, ie. teenybop -as it was called then - and he was the wholesome pin-up boy in the early 70's, so Alice was having fun with that here.
He really found a formula for writing songs that would naturally get a response from a younger audience who were, after all, the pop singles buying market. Pretty brilliant from simply a commercial/sales standpoint. It was fun and rebellious, easily and predictably like candy to a sweet toothed kid. He made a living and a handsome one at that, based on this formula. By this record he was, I feel, milking the formula a bit with the material being slightly less edgy and creative and perhaps more deliberate and market friendly as a primary focus, if that makes sense.
An anthem like Schools out.
I like every song on this album including this fairly "normal" rocker, but fear not, the album is about to get crazy (in a good way). By the way "Years Ago" "Stephen" and The Awakening" all run together very interesting track. I like the demented "Cold Ethyl" a lot too. Enjoy!
This was Alice's attempt at a Top 40 hit single in the USA, being the first 45 released off the record, however it only peaked at #67.. It got some radio airplay when I was 15, and it was kind of a teenage rock anthem of sorts.. compared to Donny Osmond or the Bay City Rollers.. and then later "Only Women" became the Hit.
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Having a childrens chorus on the track is one of Bob Ezrin's go-to tricks. I always thought this song was a nice little break from the nightmare. The remaining songs suck you right back in though.
"Department of Youth" (as "Cold Ethyl" and "Escape") is reminiscent of the Alice Cooper Band and could easily have found its way onto the band's final album, Muscle of Love. I prefer when Cooper does basic rock than his bombastic stuff with arrangements all over the place nor his 80s AOR Glam rock.
Great and accurate description. 👍
Can't wait for his Cold Ethyl response.
Agree with 80's material, though some of what he's done late 90's through present has been brilliant. In fact
" Welcome 2 My Nightmare " is worth checking out! Not sure if your familiar but this album (2005) is my favorite post 70's ua-cam.com/video/Sevvz9locV4/v-deo.html
@@jgsrhythm100 I actually really like his early 80s material, Flush the Fashion, Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin but avoided the rest of the decade and the 90s. Apart from that, I like The Eyes of Alice Cooper and Dirty Diamonds which are good albums.
@@a.k.1740 Oh most definitely.
I actually have a connection to the writer of Clones Dsvid Carron. I went to school in West Stockbridge Ma and David was in Arlo Guthrie's touring band of which members were my bsnds teachers.
@@jgsrhythm100 Interesting. David Carron who was part of the short lived band Gulliver ! 😉 I always wondered how one of his songs could have been on Flush The Fashion! Do you know the reason? was there any connection between Alice Cooper and David Carron?
This song always reminded me as a sequel to 'School's Out'.
Just an FYI, you need to play Years Ago, Steven and The Awakening together for full and proper effect.
Yes Yes Yes!!!! I was going to say the same thing. This is a must..
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Interestingly enough, Lizzy Borden, in 1989, released his Master of Disguise album which is a very good album and though not the best track on it, he made a song called We Got the Power and it sounds a bit like Department of Youth. Lizzy’s vocals are very different from Cooper’s but there’s definitely influence.
A big hit here in Australia & only here I believe. I think it's the only country he plays it in concert. When I saw him he used Kylie Minogue instead of Donny Osmond :)
JUSTJP where do you live?
Alice is currently on tour and is the only artist who seems to getter better with old age. I just saw him and it was mind blowing ! Jpmust experience live!!
Please make sure to do "Years Ago, Steven and The Awakening all together. They need to be listened to this way.
Never been crazy about this one. My favorites are coming up...years ago, Steven and the Awakening. Can't all be winners...this one isn't IMHO. Have a great rest of your day 👍
Yes Sandy. I am with you all the way! All right!
Wow, a lot of negativity in these comments. I think this song is great and one of the catchier ones on the album. Don’t understand the dislike for it. It’s a very finely crafted pop/rock single and leads nicely into the next track, building the energy before the big closing suite.
Agreed as well. Is this the best song Alice has ever written? Obviously no. But it's still a good song. Fun (in Alice's trademark unhinged way), funny, catchy. I don't get the hate.
It’s got nothing to do with the concept - however ‘loose’ - and was basically shoehorned in with a view to having another School’s Out-type international smash. That failed, as this was only ever a big hit single in Australia. *DOY* has some glam stomp, but essentially it’s a lumbering pale imitation of School's Out. Cooper still includes it in his setlist to this day.
That was okay, rather simple, a little bit catchy (it's still ringing in my head as I type this a few minutes after the track ending), but nothing I would actively go out of my way to listen to again.
Oh, and thankfully it was short, coming in, getting it on, and finishing when it had run its course.
Wait until you hear the next track!!
It's is both a Banger ans disturbing!
This whole album waa made into a TV Special and done live has accompanying theatrics. It has to be though as a rock musical of sorts, not to be over analyzed track by track.
It's always cracked me up much Alice Cooper sounds like Bugs Bunny on this track.
*Jon Lajoie* has a nice *Radio Friendly Song* (really catchy). It's called *Radio Friendly Song* (sort of like how his more famous _I Don't Give a Flock_ is called something similar to that). ua-cam.com/video/A0Gs4xGw1Eg/v-deo.html
I think the older-younger-generation thing (which looks to me like it was invented sometime in the 50's, and didn't exist before someone started selling it and making money out of it about then) has changed in nature. Certainly by the 50's it was possible to rile up your elders (bite the hand that feeds often) with the disgusting newfangled music - and there's a feedback loop, here, because the way it could rile up the lame old ducks who save the world in the 40's was a selling point, so musicians making product would provide this rile-up feature.
It's no longer possible to rile the elders up like that. The elders grew up with pictures of someone vomitting across the record cover, with satanic-suggestive musics that became routinely so, of all the devices one could come up to shock grannies and make money out of the rebellious - so independent - feeling the "shocker" might get out of imagining the "shockee's " shock. It's all been done. Nobody even cares if you say fuck for no good reason any more.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck. Who cares? Some old git just said fuck four times. Is that news?
So what's happened now is the old gits go on about how "boring" the kids music is. (And a part of me feels it's a bit of a pity that so much of that music really is boring. Here we are in the Boring Twenties, but I wish it wasn't possible to say so with a straight face. I wish it was possible to rile up the old gits who laugh off the efforts of the new generation. I mean with good reason.)
Anyway, maybe the way forward is to return to the way things were before the War? (And for the many hundreds of years before that?) The youth could have its revenge by insightfully slicing through the "rebellions" sold to the vanity of all the old farts who bought into this in their callow years, and even today still flatter themselves in a similar manner.
How would the kids get shocking? Only way I can think of would be for them to all become rampant, rabid Jesus Kids. Or, better still, convert to Islam in vast numbers. (It's quite a popular political trick, this Islam thing, so that might fall a bit flat. Probably better to stick to being loudly, rebelliously Jesus-praising. Or refuse to participate in another round of the comfy sofa rebellions.
Ah! Spleen. That's what we need more of.
Like calling these years *The Boring 20's* . Thanks be to Jon (and We Will Praise Him) forever, for that.
I've mentioned this one before. I just mention it before because it's the first lyrical use of the term *The Boring 20's* ua-cam.com/video/CuOfZfhN-24/v-deo.html ( by Jon Ivar Kollbotn - of *Major Parkinson* )
It's also a nice instance of Making Music Great Again, though. (I've managed to score a copy of the real thing from my dealer, actually, so that speaks of sincerity beyond my usual intense levels of sincerity.)
I can also give you some nice *We Will Praise Him* lyrics to help you give your dear old Dad a heart attack with (well not quite, since there's probably not enough Jesus in it to upset him enough for that) ua-cam.com/video/9Sq0nTW6RpE/v-deo.html
Ahhh, Mr Cooper, I've been expecting you. Sadly, i'm otherwise engaged at present.....
Oh no what shame Jfergs.
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This was a single in the UK
it wasnt planned the donny osmond reference that is
I bought this album when it came out and played it quite a lot at the time. However, unlike most of the music I still have from that era (a lot of which is featured on this channel) it hasn't aged well to my ears. But listening to it again on here makes me appreciate his earlier stuff, which I infinitely prefer to this album.
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@@papalaz4444244 what's the problem with that?
just one thing. You should try the video's of these songs. the act is interesting also
I`m with you Bryan. Alice Cooper did a TV film called "Alice Cooper, The Nightmare". I would like to see a reaction to this.
@@kennethgardner3090 I've seen it very good flick. plus the welcome to my nightmare movie also.
It's a fun song and catchy but a bit out of place on the album. But it is HIS album, so who am I to criticize? The album is just a good listen front to back.
This song always seemed to go along with 'Elected' in my mind.
Sure it's the weakest track on the album, but put it in context; it's the weakest track on THIS album. There were a lot of bands from that time (and today) who would've sacrificed their drummer to have a tune like this. It's a really good song on an album of really great songs.
Donny Osmond isn't random. Osmond was the safe, christian singer that your parents would approve of. Alice Cooper was regarded as the devil lol
Probably the weakest track so far on this album. It didn't have anything about it that would bring me back.
Competing with "Escape" for the lamest-song-on-the-album medal. Doesn't fit in with the overall theme either. Feels more like a failed attempt at rehashing "I'm eighteen". (Oooh, I'm so much the representative of the halfwit kids.) Sure, I can enjoy it once in a while, but it doesn't fit on here. Production is ok though, and far from stupid. (And I totally agree it feels random. A typical get-the-side-two-of-the-album-kickstarted track. But kinda cheap.)
Kicking off one of the worst sides of any Alice Cooper album to date.
If this was a single, I never heard it… thank you Jesus. It just doesn’t jell with me. Too generic, too produced.
Can’t wait for Halloween to be over, this is taxing.
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No problem, see ya suckers.
Can’t wait till you’re done with Alice! Not a fan of his music.
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@@barbarjinx3802 LOL and you literally copied and reflected the statement like tourettes, just like all sad trolls
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