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Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987)

Where the lyrics of Raise Your Fist and Yell take you, and where it was really made.

Alice Cooper plays a murderous vagrant in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, and the album's song of the same name is heard on a victim's Walkman in that film.

Key places

Recorded at Amigo Studios (1987)

Recording site Amigo Studios — The album was recorded at Amigo Studios in North Hollywood. The point marks the building coordinates of the studio. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Raise Your Fist and Yell: tenth solo album and seventeenth studio album overall by American rock singer Alice Cooper
• Released in 1987 by MCA Records
• Produced, recorded and mixed by Michael Wagener
• Only Alice Cooper album with Ken K. Mary on drums
• Second and last Alice Cooper album with Kip Winger on bass
• Features 'Prince of Darkness', which is heard very briefly in John Carpenter's film of the same name
• Sole single: 'Freedom'

Background

• Continues the slasher film trend created by the previous album Constrictor
• Follows Cooper's renewed success after a rehabilitation and a break
• 'Lock Me Up' features Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street

Cover

• Cover painted by artist Jim Warren

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Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Alice Cooper originated in Phoenix, Arizona in 1964 as a band formed by Vincent Damon Furnier, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith.
• The group first performed as the Earwigs and later renamed themselves the Spiders and then Nazz.
• In 1968 the band adopted the name Alice Cooper, which was later also the new legal name of Furnier.

Members

• The classic lineup consisted of Furnier (lead vocals), Buxton (lead guitar), Bruce (rhythm guitar), Dunaway (bass) and Smith (drums).
• Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper after the band disbanded in 1975.

Career

• The band released seven studio albums from 1969 to 1973, including Love It to Death, Killer, School's Out and Billion Dollar Babies.
• The band is known as a pioneer of shock rock, using theatrical stage shows with props and illusions.
• As a solo artist he released Welcome to My Nightmare in 1975 and has released 30 studio albums in total.
• The original band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
• Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers to be 'The Godfather of Shock Rock'.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The tour for the album, called Live in the Flesh, was notorious in Europe in 1988 for graphic violence and theatricality
• The show was seen to be so violent that the German government forced Cooper to remove some of the more graphic parts of the show
• UK MP David Blunkett appealed to have the show banned from the country, but the attempt failed
• Most of the violent acts were heavily inspired by the horror movies of the time, with graphic onstage deaths and large amounts of stage blood

Reappraisal

• Reviews and rankings beyond the tour reception are not given in the source, so the album's standing rests on the tour reaction and chart results

Records

• Billboard 200 peak: 73rd
• Charted in several other countries around the world after release

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The song 'Prince of Darkness' is heard on the Walkman of one of the victims in John Carpenter's film, where Cooper plays a vagrant.
• The album was provisionally titled Summer Blood before its release.
• Robert Englund, famous for playing Freddy Krueger, guests on 'Lock Me Up'.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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