Alice Cooper (band) vs Alice Cooper (solo)

I tend to myself gravitate my interest towards the band, more interesting musical interplay, the band cooked out some really cool and eclectic rock gems in the beginning of the 70s with four gems of rock in a row, from Love it to Death to Billion Dollar Babies, there is no bad songs.

albums that are under Alice Cooper (band)

• Pretties for You (1969)
• Easy Action (1970)
• Love It to Death (1971)
• Killer (1971)
• School's Out (1972)
• Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
• Muscle of Love (1973)

albums that are with Alice Cooper (solo)

• Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
• Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)
• Lace and Whiskey (1977)
• From the Inside (1978)
• Flush the Fashion (1980)
• Special Forces (1981)
• Zipper Catches Skin (1982)
• DaDa (1983)
• Constrictor (1986)
• Raise Your Fist and Yell (1987)
• Trash (1989)
• Hey Stoopid (1991)
• The Last Temptation (1994)
• Brutal Planet (2000)
• Dragontown (2001)
• The Eyes of Alice Cooper (2003)
• Dirty Diamonds (2005)
• Along Came a Spider (2008)
• Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011)

The original band was where it was at, and they did great even without Alice as the Billion Dollar Babies with the album Battle Axe, which was better than any of Alice's solo efforts.

Edited by presdoug - February 25 2013 at 17:42

This is tough. There's plenty of solo albums I don't particularly care for, but my favorite stuff probably lies in his solo period. The band era was more consistent, but then again they weren't together very long. I like Alice the entertainer overall more than Alice the rocker. Voting for solo.

Edit: on reflection, I prob shoulda said Both

Edited by HolyMoly - February 25 2013 at 18:01

HolyMoly wrote: This is tough. There's plenty of solo albums I don't particularly care for, but my favorite stuff probably lies in his solo period. The band era was more consistent, but then again they weren't together very long. I like Alice the entertainer overall more than Alice the rocker. Voting for solo. Edit: on reflection, I prob shoulda said Both

WTMN is great but overall the band stuff trounces the solo stuff.

The band. Most of their singles were excellent and they created Halo of Flies (released as a single in the Netherlands) which stands tall among prog masterpieces.