Dragontown
Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Dragontown is the fifteenth solo and twenty-second studio album overall by American rock musician Alice Cooper. It was released in 2001 on Spitfire Records. Like Brutal Planet, the album displays a heavier metal style than many of his previous releases. It peaked on Billboard's "Top Independent Albums" Chart at #12, and the Billboard 200 at #197, his lowest album chart performance since 1983’s DaDa, which did not chart at all.
This is the first Alice Cooper studio album to contain no singles. Although Cooper toured the album with his Descent into Dragontown tour in 2001 and 2002, only four Dragontown songs – "Sex, Death and Money", "Fantasy Man", "Every Woman Has a Name", and "Triggerman" – were performed at all during this supporting tour, with only "Sex, Death and Money" and "Fantasy Man" remaining in the setlist to the end. With the exception of five performances of "Disgraceland" in July 2003 during the Bare Bones Tour, nothing from Dragontown has ever been performed live subsequent to the end of the album's supporting tour.
Story and themes
Doug Van Pelt, editor of the Christian music oriented HM Magazine, likened Cooper to C.S. Lewis, stating that he "grabs the devil's microphone and attempts to spill his guts and reveal his wicked schemes."[1] Van Pelt further states that "It's Much Too Late" exposes "unrestrained truth" in stating that "The road to hell is littered with nice guys and good intentions..." and likens "Sex, Death and Money" to Proverbs 5 and isn't really about 'Sex, Death, and Money, but talks against it, as the Bible states.[1]
"Somewhere in the Jungle" addresses the issue of genocide and tribal warfare in Africa.
The track Disgraceland sees Cooper deliver verses while impersonating Elvis Presley.[2] The song relates to Presley's final years and subsequent death and of the track, Cooper has said: "I'm sort of doing a commentary on the absurdity of it, the fact that the greatest rock 'n' roll hero of all time died on a toilet."[3]
Track listing
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Personnel
- Alice Cooper - Vocals
- Ryan Roxie - Guitar
- Greg Smith - Bass
Session musicians
- Tim Pierce - Guitar
- Wayne Swinny - Guitar
- Bob Marlette - Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Keyboards and programming, String arrangement
- Sid Riggs - Keyboards and programming
- Teddy Andreadis - Backing vocals
- Eric Dover - Backing vocals
- Calico Cooper - Backing vocals
- Gionvanna Morana - Backing vocals
- Kenny Aronoff - Drums
Charts
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| Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] | 182 |
References
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- ↑ Alice Cooper - Dragontown (CD). Metal Temple. 25 January 2002. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ↑ Flying the coup. Las Vegas Sun. 1 August 2003. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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External links
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